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The 2021 All Ireland Senior Football Championship

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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https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117877214#Comment_117877214

You can change it with the "audio description" button on your remote

What a point off the outside of the boot by Hamsy.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117877222#Comment_117877222

Oh I don’t know why it’s doing that but on the rte player when you use chrome cast it switches to Irish commentary.

Mayo seem to be getting frees a lot easier.

Not sure about Mayo here. At the moment anyway not looking great.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117877242#Comment_117877242

I retract this. Pure dive there from McCurry.

The hype and bias towards Mayo in the media is ridiculous. The hype will get to Mayo once more and Tyrone to win comfortably.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117877253#Comment_117877253

What hype? There's been zero hype behind Mayo as far as I can see, the majority of pundits saying that it's 50/50.

Gilt edged opportunity for a goal.

What a huge chance missed by Mayo for goal.

Oh that was a good chance of a goal for Mayo.

Bit of a crap game. Slow pace more like a league match. Atmosphere seems a bit muted too.

Mayo's forwards seem happy to spread the ball around and take their men on but Tyrone are more direct.

Nice point fron O'Donoghue there. He's been a great find for Mayo after Cillian O'Connor was ruled out for the year.

Another good point by Tyrone.

good start to the game would be slightly happier in Mayo camp

Atmosphere is very muted for some reason.

Aidan O'Shea has had three touches of the ball since he caught the throw in.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117877253#Comment_117877253

Nonsense.

Again they fail to show the kickout. So frustrating.

"Brilliant game to watch" What game is Tomas watching ?

Aiden O Shea is the Dealz version of Michael Murphy

Mayo should be ahead ,Tyrone getting scores a lot easier

Tyrone seem to be finding it easier to get scores when they're attacking.

Pundits and commentary team talking about how it's a fantastic and brilliant game. I must be missing something as it's been only ok so far.

BonnieSituation

Some first 20. And no marks. It's almost like they're not needed.

Mayo need to wake up

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117877312#Comment_117877312

Scrappy enough

Nice dive from aidany

Up the Red Hand!