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The 2021 All Ireland Senior Football Championship

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It starts on Saturday.

Again it's straight knockout, hopefully this will be the last year of that and we can get back to something with a bit more intrigue next year.

Leinster and Munster look straightforward

That could have been said about Munster last year also but I seriously doubt Kerry will make the same mistakes and they did in 2020, there is no way they can.
And they have been playing the league like they cannot afford to put a foot wrong.

There is no use talking about the Leinster championship.

Ulster offers a bit of intrigue, Tyrone and Donegal could meet in a SF and Monaghan and Armagh could meet in the other,
Donegal really need to step up, for the last three years we were told that they were a team to watch and in all three occasions they could not make an All Ireland SF.
One would wonder how focused Tyrone were on their trip to Kerry a few weeks ago, with little really on offer.
Monaghan on there other hand had a lot of focus on the same weekend and staying in Div 1 will do them no harm at all.
Armagh are a potential dark horse.

Connacht is a two a two and a half horse race depending on Roscommon, they have caused shocks before in Connacht previously and I'd not be willing to right them off v a Galway teams that one really has to scratch ones head about.
Mayo have an easy run to the Connacht final but could become unstuck there without Cillian O' Connor
They struggled without him a few years ago.

Anyway it will end up with Dublin beating the Connacht champions without much fuss in the SF and Kerry beating the Ulster champs with a small bit more fuss in the other one.

Barring an early sending off like we had in the first game in 2019 Dublin will cruise to the title like they did in 2019 replay and 2020 finals, regardless of what people say about Kerry getting closer to them.

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Hammer Archer

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117753750#Comment_117753750

Not really. Hard frontal charge and it sets a marker that he's not going to take any of that sort of challenge for the rest of the game.

Looking ominous for Mayo so far.

namloc1980

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117753762#Comment_117753762

Mostly from one team only though.

Strumms

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117753750#Comment_117753750

Absolutely pathetic, if that is a yellow this finishes about 10 a side, absolutely joke shop refereeing... always with Lane...

namloc1980

Mayo chasing shadows out there at the moment.

lawred2

Mayo shooting is shocking

FintanMcluskey

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117753771#Comment_117753771

We are 10 minutes into the game and Mayo don't look like registering a point yet

This could be an annihilation yet

Strumms

ridiculous again, 3 fouls on Dublin players in 10 secs, no frees awarded, Mayo go downfield and score. Lane, jesus.

lawred2

How can there be three Dubs around the ball there yet no one free for Mayo to recieve the ball

FintanMcluskey

This is some load of muck

Dublin player's are receiving the ball in midfield completely unmarked

It has the intensity of a challenge match

namloc1980

Mayo conceding massive amounts of territory to Dublin. Crazy as the Dubs are the masters of just working it into a scoring position.

threeball

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117753808#Comment_117753808

No penetration from either team. Septic stuff to watch.

ACitizenErased

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117753808#Comment_117753808

Agree. Seems like a non-contest tbh

lawred2

Look the Dubs are majestic and all that but f**k this for an all Ireland semi final

namloc1980

Pure muck at the moment.

lawred2

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117753800#Comment_117753800

Here we go with the ref stuff

C__MC

Familiar look to this

Gaelic football is septic to watch

lawred2

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117753808#Comment_117753808

Mayo very deep. Leaving it to a handful of them to take the ball upfield.

You can't contain Dublin

TheRiverman

Mayo are dire, dire, dire, pulling everyone back. It's pathetic. Dublin will just pass the ball around for as long as it takes to get a score.

vetinari

This is some shite game. Dublin are far better than Mayo but are already in time wasting mode. We need some rule changes so that teams don't just saunter all over the pitch. The irony is that it would mean Dublin would win by more but the game would be a lot more watchable.