The 2023 All Ireland Senior Football Championship (Sam Maguire Cup)

Ragwort and Stones · 22-04-2023 11:22PM

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The Riverdance of Sport! If Cian Lynch grew up in certain parts of Kerry or Dublin he'd be a great footballer.

Likewise if James McCarthy was from the Village in Kilkenny he'd be a great hurler. A lot is where you're born, not that one code is innately superior to the other.

He annoyed me big time!

Ragwort and Stones · 22-04-2023 11:24PM

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It was a good conversation in ways. But Cusack is fast becoming a Brolly. His crack 4 years ago about resistance to sweepers being residual vestiges of colonialism really showed what BS artist he is.

gormdubhgorm · 22-04-2023 11:25PM

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You wouldn't see 'traditional football teams' being protected from relegation like the hurling set ups - which is basically mind munster at all costs.

The difference with hurling v football is hurling has what a top 8/10 teams - four very good teams. But below that 8/10 hurling standard is very weak. In football there are lots of average/decent teams - below the top teams. Much more depth in football than there is in hurling. And it has been like that for what 50 years?

Ragwort and Stones · 22-04-2023 11:28PM

I'd like to tell Cusack that Michael Donnellan, Graham Geraghty, Maurice Fitzgerald, Peter Canavan, Diarmuid Connolly etc played a proud gaelic game at a level he, and most of his teammates, could only dream of.

breezy1985 · 22-04-2023 11:39PM

Jeysus lads some hurling people especially Munster ones can get over the top when it comes to the game but ye are doing a fair job living up to the stereotype football fans the way ye are losing yere shte about what one hurling lad known for spouting said on the TV.

Ragwort and Stones · 22-04-2023 11:39PM

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The greatest hurling evangelist i met was a mad Russian poet who was fascinated with the game and wanted to promote it on a worldwide basis. Originally met me in my place of work. Her name is Mary Duniyva. She launched a High Court objection to the Dublin spire as she wanted her design used, she's a sculpture too. She wanted to paint me in a pair of shorts, no top, with a hurl in a 'Swan Lake' pose! Plagued me ringing work for 2 years and arrived in work a few times. This was 10 years ago.

If you google her you'll find more about her.

Ragwort and Stones · 22-04-2023 11:42PM

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Not at all. I'd say the same if Brolly was going on in the same way about football.

breezy1985 · 22-04-2023 11:45PM

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Ide say there has always been way more depth to football never mind 50 years.

It's funny though that Munster fans are actually really split between ones like myself who like the provincials and ones who think it is unfair on Munster teams.

The truth about all sport is that most people will play whatever it is that's the big thing in their area. Hurling in reality is a sport confined to a little corner of the country and nothing will ever change that. It's neither an indication of the sport itself being good or bad. Look at the "global game" of soccer, I love it but it's really not as great as it's popularity merits when you break the game down.

Wexford Tyro · 22-04-2023 11:49PM

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Soccer is without doubt the most skilful game. And those who reach the top do so out of colossal numbers. Not a few parishes.

Always_Running · 22-04-2023 11:51PM

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I think Galway will win by 2 to 4 points (have a very good record in Dr Hyde) but if they are to blitz Roscommon tomorrow for me it will say more about the home side and how they went about their business on the day especially defensively and getting match ups wrong. Regardless the standard in Connacht is fairly high just now the highest it's been since the early 00s.

Ragwort and Stones · 22-04-2023 11:57PM

Gooch jeans and plaid shirt looks like he's going line dancing 😅

Ragwort and Stones · 22-04-2023 11:59PM

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If it's wet I fancy Rossies. Seem to have won recent Connacht titles on wet days.

YabaDabaDooley · 23-04-2023 04:41AM

Didn't realise there was a Saturday Game now. Damn missed all the live action due to no GAA GO, now wake up Sunday scroll through here and realise i missed the Saturday Game. I'll try catch up with it later. Good that it's on though. A Saturday & Sunday Game RTE really spoiling us.

Fr Tod Umptious · 23-04-2023 10:38AM

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Louth who finished 3rd in Div 2 I think was pretty much in the All Ireland group stage. Kildare and Meath still sweating it out.

Realistically there are just two teams outside Div 1 and 2 that can still make the Sam Maguire.

Down and Offaly. I'm excluding Wicklow and Laois because they are on the same side of the draw as Dublin.

So your 16 for the Sam Maguire looks like this as of today.

Sligo

Clare

Westmeath

Mayo

Galway

Roscommon

Tyrone

Kerry

Monaghan

Armagh

Donegal

Dublin

Derry

Louth

Cork

Kildare

If anyone of Meath, Offaly or Down get to a provincial final and Kildare don't, they bump Kildare off the list.

If Meath/Offaly and Down get to a provincial final then Cork and Kildare are off the list (assuming Kildare don't get to a provincial final).

TipsyMcStagge · 23-04-2023 12:24PM

Getting ready to hit for Dr Cullen Park shortly more in hope than in anticipation all is set up for an ambush. Feels very similar to the infamous Carlow defeat in 2018.