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The 2021 All Ireland Senior Football Championship

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,551 ✭✭✭SeaFields


    Northern football is after taking off altogether. All teams seem to be getting hurling scores lately. 26 scores in 45 minutes..



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,644 ✭✭✭✭Fr Tod Umptious


    But you'll never level the pitch.

    Places like Leitrim, Sligo, Fermanagh, Offaly etc will always have a small number of clubs and a small playing population.

    They might have good spells where everything comes together for a few years and they overachieve, but that's about it.

    Rather than throwing them to the lions ever year and telling them they are happy to be part of it, let them play competitive and if they are better than competitive then they will move up the ranks.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,430 ✭✭✭✭sligeach


    That's a ridiculous black card for Tyrone. I think the referee wanted to even it up for the remainder of the game.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,396 ✭✭✭TheRiverman




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 75,508 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    All to play for now.



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  • Posts: 193 ✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Donegal goal for extra time? I would not complain. It has been a decent game



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,249 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    Soft free, wasn’t a free and it leads to a Tyrone point... dive job.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,088 ✭✭✭✭BonnieSituation


    Any format that keeps provincials needs to be laughed out the door.


    The fact that you have to "even up the provincial championships" by parachuting in losing teams from other provinces is bloody ludicrous.


    Play the provincials as the early season comp. Have the league, then Championship



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,709 ✭✭✭shrewdness




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,006 ✭✭✭edgecutter


    Tyrone should see this out now. The extra man paid off



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,088 ✭✭✭✭BonnieSituation


    Sure them Kerry lads need to learn early how to play the Kerry way. Their opponents getting ridden is par for the course.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,088 ✭✭✭✭BonnieSituation




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,088 ✭✭✭✭BonnieSituation


    Happened here as well with one of the Westmeath lads doing it in the first half.

    Lest you think it was an Ulster trait.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,006 ✭✭✭edgecutter


    Extra man played a massive part in that game. Donegal hung in, but look like they fatigued in the last 10.


    Interesting to see what day the final will be played and if it's going to be in croke park.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,156 ✭✭✭✭Loafing Oaf


    He's just trying to represent the nordie accent textually!😉



  • Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 11,644 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hammer Archer


    Westmeath could have easily beaten Kildare. Some shocking misses from them. Story of their season



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,088 ✭✭✭✭BonnieSituation


    Ah would you stop.

    Funding isn't the panacea you think it is.

    Root and branch reform is required.

    When you see the state of Kildare, Wicklow and Meath you can't tell me that throwing money at them is all that's missing.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,921 ✭✭✭John Doe1


    Losing Murphy and McGee was too much of an ask. Lots of players didnt show up once more, McMenamin and McFadden-Ferry are not up to standard really.

    Bonner has to go unfortunately.

    Dublin/Kerry/Mayo/Mongahan/Armagh would have beaten us by 10/15 points.

    Monagahan V Kerry will be a tight Semi.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,430 ✭✭✭✭sligeach


    A slip of the tongue from Kieran McGeary in the MOTM interview on BBC. And that's the end of the interview.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,116 ✭✭✭Enquiring


    Or how about we stop throwing them to the lions against counties with far more resources? They are already at a disadvantage as you say, why not fund them to give them a chance? All those counties, including Leitrim have shown that they can be competitive. And Leitrim are the extreme, there's no reason any county in Ireland can't compete in Gaelic Football.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,116 ✭✭✭Enquiring


    No, they need funding and structures put in place. As I've said, we have the blueprint. The Dublin County Board were a joke, they received huge resources but most importantly, a plan was drawn up for them. Look at the difference it has made. Their hurlers went from whipping boys to competitive at the top table.

    This can happen in other counties also. Fund them and watch them improve, in fact, the counties you mention got increased funding for the past few years and have seen results improve at underage already. On the other hand, the tiered structure has been shown not to work in hurling. Let's go with the proven method.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭Swaine


    A plan can't be executed without massive funding. Dublin got it, no one else did. They also got a free 82,000 stadium.

    Money trumps everything, look at Limerick hurling.

    But "the state of Kildare" is the problem. Hilarious.



  • Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 11,644 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hammer Archer


    Guys, this is getting into the Dominance of Dublin or Changes in the GAA discussions. Can you please take it to those threads.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,429 ✭✭✭C__MC


    I see dublin cantering by meath



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 153 ✭✭ATR72


    Coming up to HT and Dublin lead by 11. Normal service has resumed.



  • Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 11,644 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hammer Archer


    Resembled a competitive game before the water break. Ridiculous decision from Lane not to award us a penalty but Dublin have gone up 2 gears since the water break and left us in their wake. Us gifting them possession and missing easy chances hasn't helped.

    It's just an utterly pointless provincial championship, like the Connacht hurling championship back in the day. Dublin will win by 10-20 points and win the final by a similar margin.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,432 ✭✭✭awaywithyou


    paud is absolutely riding Limerick



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,921 ✭✭✭John Doe1


    Meath have a population 3 times that of Monaghan yet you can be sure Monaghan would never throw in the towel so easily.

    The money and resources definitely need to spread out more evely and Dublin need to play more outside their county boundary but until then, leinster teams need to show some fight at least.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,644 ✭✭✭✭Fr Tod Umptious


    Oh I'd take it there, if I could find the feckin place in this"new and improved boards.ie" :)



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