All Ireland Senior Football Championship 2018 thread - Mod warning post #3147

My bad. It’s the Waterford hurling tie that isn’t the home fixture.

Bonniedog wrote: »

Of course the pitch could stand up to hurling!

Used to have reverse situation here where club hurling games and county hurling training would be moved from Parnell Park or postponed in order not to discommode the aristocracy :-)

There’s no doubt football has got the bums rush here in Tipperary on many occasions in the past - and will do so again in the future - but what Kearns is giving out about now has nothing to do with the hurlers.

danganabu wrote: »

When Tipp football is being discussed it always will have something to do with the hurlers, or at least someone in Tipp football will find away of making a link to the hurlers, was actually talking to a prominent Tipp football official at the weekend and his first and main line was ''it would never happen to the hurlers'' :rolleyes:

That's very true dangan and, at least indirectly, it always has. And in many instances they are very justified with their complaints, but I think in the list of grievances Tipp football harbours, the prospect of having to play twice in 7 days shouldn't rank high up there. Shouldnt really have happened, but it seems there were alternative solutions available which, for whatever reason, weren't taken up. So i'm not sure where Kearn's ire should be targeted. The hurlers, as it happens, are out 4 weekends in a row so its not something I'd get too worked up about.

danganabu wrote: »

Exactly, if what the Munster Council are saying is true, and the fact that no one haws refuted it would suggest it is, then Kearns grievance should be with the two respective county boards and not the fixture makers. But I guess you cant criticise your bosses in public, at least not directly!

Yeah, he'd need to explain why the alternative proposed dates werent acceptable before asking us for our sympathy. This fixture anomaly was known months ago and still they couldn't come up with a satisfactory compromise. I assume the original scheduling was an oversight by the relevant parties rather than another fiendish plot to discommode Tipp football.

Liam Kearns is an honorary Tipp legend as far as I'm concerned, but I think he's a little bit guilty of crying wolf on this one.

MattressRick wrote: »

Reports that Brendan Murphy won't be around for Carlow for the summer because he's going to the States. If true it proves how meaningless the championship has become for so many counties.

Carlow achieved their most important goal this year in being promoted. They are realistically not going to win Leinster so I don't see anything wrong in Murphy heading off and enjoying his life. He's given them a good few summer's so far. Life is too short to dedicate it to playing foregone conclusion football matches.

Leitrim and Sligo both picked their teams for this weekend's matches against New York and London respectively.

Leitrim give four players their championship debuts including Domhnaill Flynn who has never played even league or FBD for the county. He has impressed in training and recent challenge games. Mark Plunkett, Diarmuid McKiernan and Jack Heslin are the others making their championship bows.

Leitrim (v New York): Diarmuid McKiernan, Paddy Maguire, Micheal McWeeney, OisMadden, James Rooney, Donal Wrynn, Shane Quinn, Mark Plunkett, Domhnaill Flynn, Jack Heslin, Emlyn Mulligan, Ryan O’Rourke, Darragh Rooney, Keith Beirne, Brendan Gallagher

Luke Nicholson and Liam Gaughan will make their first Championship appearances for Sligo in Sunday’s Connacht quarter-final against London in Ruislip.

Sligo (v London): Aidan Devaney, Ross Donavan, Luke Nicholson, Charlie Harrison, Gerard O’Kelly Lynch, Adrian McIntyre, Neil Ewing, Niall Murphy, Kevin McDonnell, Cathal Henry, Cian Breheny, Pat Hughes, Liam Gaughan, Adrian Marren, Kyle Cawley

Anyone know if either of today's games (Sligo-v-London, Leitrim-v-NY) are being broadcast anywhere? Youtube, facebook etc?

diceyreilly wrote: »

Have you seen sky’s list?

No. I don't have Sky but would go out to watch the match if they had it.

Stoner wrote: »

Looking at the pools I'm surprised at the amount of people going for Mayo in connacht when they've been late starters over the last few years, Galway going for three in a row and seem to have improved, Mayo with doubts over two key men.

Galway are going for 3 in a row???? 3 in a row what now..... because they're now Connacht champions as it stands.

As an aside, the GAA are missing a trick this weekend with the first game of the football championship in NY. There is a huge marketing opportunity here. Rather than rotating the NY trip between the 5 connacht counties, it should rotate among all 32 counties. It would give every counties supporters the chance to travel to NY once in a while, be a great novelty rather than the same teams coming every 5 years. Make live TV coverage compulsory as part of the TV contract, invite last year's winners to play an exhibition, and put on a bit of razzmatazz to launch the championship, rather than the current nonevent. I'm sure the blazers themselves wouldn't mind a trip either.

theoneeyedman wrote: »

Galway are going for 3 in a row???? 3 in a row what now..... because they're now Connacht champions as it stands.

As an aside, the GAA are missing a trick this weekend with the first game of the football championship in NY. There is a huge marketing opportunity here. Rather than rotating the NY trip between the 5 connacht counties, it should rotate among all 32 counties. It would give every counties supporters the chance to travel to NY once in a while, be a great novelty rather than the same teams coming every 5 years. Make live TV coverage compulsory as part of the TV contract, invite last year's winners to play an exhibition, and put on a bit of razzmatazz to launch the championship, rather than the current nonevent. I'm sure the blazers themselves wouldn't mind a trip either.

I'd argue the complete opposite of the NY game.

Get rid of it.

It's nothing more than a exhibition game.

NY don't play in the qualifiers so why have an actual championship level game there in the first place.

I reckon it's a good while since New York were 11/8 to win a Championship match, and this could be their day with a few new additions.

It's not the first time they've been in this situation but with a few quality former inter-county players, coupled with a woeful league campaign from Leitrim, New York genuinely do seem to have a decent chance.

What exactly would happen Leitrim as New York are rather unfairly never allowed into the qualifiers, would the same fate befall Leitrim?

TCDStudent1 wrote:

I'd imagine he meant 3 in a row over Mayo.

Correct

Mervyn Skidmore wrote: »

So the American national anthem is being sang in NYC, was "God Save the Queen" sang in Ruislip earlier?

Is this on tv?

1-2 to 0-1

On RTE radio 1 btw