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All Ireland Senior Football Championships 2017 - Read Mod Note Post #1

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  • #6722
    Dirty Dingus McGee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,631 ✭✭✭Dirty Dingus McGee


    PeterTheNinth wrote: »
    It will be interesting to see how many years Sky will be prepared to pay for this sort of one sided match.

    They've signed a deal to 2022.


  • #6723
    deadybai
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,477 ✭✭✭deadybai


    Jesus Monaghan really failed to push in since 13-14. Thought they would at least put it up to the Dubs today.


  • #6724
    Dr. Bre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,853 ✭✭✭Dr. Bre


    Why have a super eights when some of the last 8 teams are out of their depth!


  • #6725
    Padkir
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,291 ✭✭✭Padkir


    Monaghan should be ashamed of that first half. Terrible tactics and no intensity at all. Dublin are jogging around and cutting them open without doing all that much...


  • #6726
    robbiezero
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,792 ✭✭✭robbiezero


    Padkir wrote: »
    Monaghan should be ashamed of that first half. Terrible tactics and no intensity at all. Dublin are jogging around and cutting them open without doing all that much...

    Absolute rubbish from them. They have plenty of men back. My f**king granny would pat me on the head with more intensity than some of the Monaghan lads are putting in to the tackling.
    They could get a well deserved pasting here.


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  • #6727
    tayto lover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 54,412 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    Monaghan look very poor.
    Drew Wiley is finished. Out on his feet after 30 minutes.


  • #6728
    C__MC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,318 ✭✭✭C__MC


    What people fail to realise is monaghan are incredibly average. They have stayed in division one by playing full strength teams while other teams aren't at full tilt. This is virtually the same Monaghan who played mayo in February in the first league game. Some of their players are average nothing near the level required to beat Dublin


  • #6729
    robbiezero
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,792 ✭✭✭robbiezero


    The only good thing about the these two rancid games this games is that it really whets the appetite for the clash of the titans of the two winners today.
    Both of them playing at a far higher level than the cannon fodder they faced today.


  • #6730
    theoneeyedman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,219 ✭✭✭theoneeyedman


    tayto lover wrote: »
    Monaghan look very poor.
    Drew Wiley is finished. Out on his feet after 30 minutes.

    Writing has been on the wall for Drew and some of the other defenders since the championship began and the ground firmed up. Twice the Down forwards had a field day against them, so very unlikely they were going to fare any better against Dublin.


    You can't be too hard on monaghan though. Looking at the resources available to them in population, etc, they are doing well to be consistently featuring at the top 8 in both league and championship. There are other counties that could do with getting as much out of what they have as monaghan do.... Cork, Kildare, Meath, Galway etc, I'm looking at you guys!


    Super 8's my arse.


  • #6731
    STB.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,380 ✭✭✭STB.


    ArmaniJeanss wrote: »
    I doubt 'quality of game' is how they measure whether its a success or not.

    Your right All Sky are interested in is getting subscribers.

    The GAA management are gob****es burying this behind a paywall.

    Did they not learn anything from the Cricket and how that became so niche that most have forgotten it.

    First it was to bring it to a bigger worldwide audiance. That didnt happen.

    The Aussies got it for free and dropped it the first year.

    The viewing figures on Sky are attrocious. A tenth of what was traditionally viewed.

    But the GAA god bless them dont care about the fact that they are meant to be encouraging viewing of the games. You would think 100million per year without TV rights would be enough.


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  • #6732
    Padkir
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,291 ✭✭✭Padkir


    C__MC wrote: »
    What people fail to realise is monaghan are incredibly average. They have stayed in division one by playing full strength teams while other teams aren't at full tilt. This is virtually the same Monaghan who played mayo in February in the first league game. Some of their players are average nothing near the level required to beat Dublin

    Even if they don't have the quality of Dublin the one thing you should expect from them is intensity. There are no hits going in at all. Several times the ball went from Cluxton to over the bar without a monaghan man getting a touch on man or ball. That's not just not being good enough, that's just no passion or desire. They were pretty poor the last few weeks and I wasn't optimistic of their chances here, but this is worse than I could have imagined...


  • #6733
    The_Kew_Tour
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,769 ✭✭✭✭The_Kew_Tour


    Only Kerry and Tyrone have some chance against Dublin, but the gap between the rest seems be getting bigger and bigger each season

    EVENFLOW



  • #6734
    Slattsy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,775 ✭✭✭✭Slattsy


    Don't know why all the faux outrage is out there, it's pretty obvious every single year that there are 4* top teams in the country, and after these 4 teams there's a pretty big gulf to the rest.

    It happens in every sport until the top teams meet each in a competition. Piss and moan. Piss and moan.

    *(Mayo the exception atm but you know what I mean).


  • #6735
    robbiezero
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,792 ✭✭✭robbiezero


    Slattsy wrote: »
    Don't know why all the faux outrage is out there, it's pretty obvious every single year that there are 4* top teams in the country, and after these 4 teams there's a pretty big gulf to the rest.

    It happens in every sport until the top teams meet each in a competition. Piss and moan. Piss and moan.

    *(Mayo the exception atm but you know what I mean).

    There is not too many quarter finals in any sport that are as bad as 3 of the 4 of that we have seen e.g. Rugby world cup, soccer tournaments etc. The gulf between the top and next level seems to be exceptionally high in Gaelic Football.


  • #6736
    Dirty Dingus McGee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,631 ✭✭✭Dirty Dingus McGee


    robbiezero wrote: »
    There is not too many quarter finals in any sport that are as bad as 3 of the 4 of that we have seen e.g. Rugby world cup, soccer tournaments etc. The gulf between the top and next level seems to be exceptionally high in Gaelic Football.

    Dublin are an all time great team they make everyone look poor.

    Armagh are a division 3 team and look to have overachieved,most teams **** the bed against Kerry because it's Kerry.

    The hurling championship was like this when it had an all time great team in the 00's.

    Greatness makes everyone look worse than they really are.


  • #6737
    munster87
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,405 ✭✭✭munster87


    1-06 without even sprinting, not many can do it


  • #6738
    tayto lover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 54,412 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    Will Dublin out-do Tyrone and win by more than 17 points?


  • #6739
    munster87
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,405 ✭✭✭munster87


    Have Dublin conceded a free yet?


  • #6740
    munster87
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,405 ✭✭✭munster87


    munster87 wrote: »
    Have Dublin conceded a free yet?

    Jinxed it


  • #6741
    The Talking Bread
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,037 ✭✭✭✭The Talking Bread


    Slattsy wrote: »
    Don't know why all the faux outrage is out there, it's pretty obvious every single year that there are 4* top teams in the country, and after these 4 teams there's a pretty big gulf to the rest.

    It happens in every sport until the top teams meet each in a competition. Piss and moan. Piss and moan.

    *(Mayo the exception atm but you know what I mean).

    I enjoy it for what it is personally and I laugh at some of the moaners but, in fairness, there is a difference between moaning about some of these gaps in standard and bemoaning such a gap.

    We should have 4 very good games left after today I am sure and it has been a decent championship with some great encounters and a few shocks and some very good football


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  • #6742
    Utopia Parkway
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,029 ✭✭✭✭Utopia Parkway


    Ah well hopefully the hurling won't disappoint tomorrow.


  • #6743
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,931 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    robbiezero wrote: »
    There is not too many quarter finals in any sport that are as bad as 3 of the 4 of that we have seen e.g. Rugby world cup, soccer tournaments etc. The gulf between the top and next level seems to be exceptionally high in Gaelic Football.

    At least it is a small step forward from the days when Kerry could win an all Ireland by playing a couple of serious games. Galway won one of theirs by playing exactly three games in total.

    Any proper sport decides which is the best team by playing a home and away league, not a knockout competition based on unequal provinces.


  • #6744
    Dubh Geannain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,654 ✭✭✭Dubh Geannain


    Screw the super 8s.

    A championship: Dublin, Kerry
    A championship qualifier: Mayo V Tyrone

    B Championship: Everyone else.

    Sky can have the A championship.


  • #6745
    septictank
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 912 ✭✭✭septictank


    Score lads please.


  • #6746
    C__MC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,318 ✭✭✭C__MC


    Diarmuid Connolly to come back now to


  • #6747
    ArnoldJRimmer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,509 ✭✭✭ArnoldJRimmer


    septictank wrote: »
    Score lads please.

    1-15 to 7 and counting


  • #6748
    tayto lover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 54,412 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    septictank wrote: »
    Score lads please.
    DUBs ahead 1 - 16 to 0 - 7.


  • #6749
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,931 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    Dubh Geannain wrote: »
    Screw the super 8s.

    A championship: Dublin, Kerry
    A championship qualifier: Mayo V Tyrone

    B Championship: Everyone else.

    Sky can have the A championship.

    I think the A championship should only include teams who won an All Ireland in the last 60 years.


  • #6750
    Dubh Geannain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,654 ✭✭✭Dubh Geannain


    dxhound2005 wrote: »
    I think the A championship should only include teams who won an All Ireland in the last 60 years.

    A good point :pac:


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  • #6751
    Are Am Eye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,166 ✭✭✭Are Am Eye


    Fitzsimmons has had some game


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