The 2021 All Ireland Senior Football Championship

An entertaining start to Kerry vs Derry....only downside Ref riding Derry in the first 17 minutes...not a good refereeing show.., blows for Derry players touching Kerry lads but Derry finding it hard to acquire valid frees from him.

derry should have had a goal to go in front but a seriously casual finish by their 15 who sidefooted it instead of foot through it and they trail by 1.

jesus, Henry absolutely ridiculously riding Derry here... pulling Derry for steps but ignoring the tug on the shirt 3 seconds earlier Jesus wept.

So the Munster and Ulster champions from last year will be booted out. If it's every team that's been receiving beatings then every Leinster county will be booted out, every Munster county apart from Kerry, every Connaught county apart from Mayo. All that will be left is Donegal, Tyrone, Monaghan, Kerry, Mayo and Dublin. A 6 team championship but Dublin keep hammering all of the others so won't they have to be removed also?

Now I don't know how Monaghan are doing it but all those other 5 breakaway counties have serious financial backing. Some more than others but why should other counties be punished just because they haven't got the resources available to them? It's clear that major change is needed in terms of capping spending and giving counties access to appropriate funding. Until that is done, removing counties from the real championship needs to be halted, especially because a lot of the calls for the removal of other counties comes from the big spenders.

Every game involving Tyrone is inevitably a nasty spiteful affair. Love the dig after the ball, the verbals, dropping the knees on a grounded man. Its brutal to watch.

That's totally accidental. Very very harsh. 2 fouls and he's off while we have corner backs with 6/7 fouls a game getting off scott free.

Donegal down to 14. Murphy sent off. 2 late tackles.

Anyone spot McKernan waving the imaginary card after that Murphy incident? Sickening to see on a gaelic football pitch. Should be a straight red offence, zero tolerance.

Think it was accidental as in he didn’t mean to get him but he pulled on it with pure recklessness and the ball not even on the ground. You don’t get away without a card when pulling on the ball like that. First card was softer.

Not for me lads. Dangerous? Hardly, it's not soccer. A final warning would have sufficed there.

Of course the swan lake act by the Tyrone lad and imaginery card waving is totally ignored. Let's not sanitise the sport to death.

Yes, there's a massive difference between appealing for a free and waving imaginary cards. Strange post.