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

Last year it was two double headers in Croke Park.

DERRY AND CLARE will play their All-Ireland SFC quarter-final in a doubleheader with Dublin-Cork at Croke Park on Saturday 25 June, the GAA have confirmed. Both fixtures will be shown live exclusively on Sky Sports, with Derry-Clare throwing in at 3:45pm and Dublin-Cork at 6pm.

The following day, Sunday 26 June, will see another doubleheader at GAA HQ: Galway will face Armagh at 1:45pm before Kerry square off with Mayo at 4pm. Both Sunday quarter-finals will be broadcast live on RTÉ.

Depressing stuff though most counties will want to play at CP i suppose, would look great to have them in small neutral venues packed out or even have home advantage to the group winners, wont happen though

With the structure, there doesn't seem to be any benefit winning your province or topping the group. Like u should have 2 home games if you win your province and then as you mentioned, a home quarter final if you top the group. But it's all about croke Park, imagine galway vs mayo in Castlebar or salthill for a semi final place, wow it would be electric or kerry and dublin in killarney

"Those teams playing in the preliminary quarter-final will then the following week play the quarter-final, and the following week play the semi-final. Ha! I'll tell you this, if I was a manager, that's tough going."

He's slightly off there.

The three games week on week for pQF teams are the final group game (17-18 June), pQF (24-25 June) and QF (1-2 July).

Every/any team will have a fortnight break to the semi-finals (15-16 July) and a fortnight to the final (30 July).

A bunch of dead rubber games hidden behind a paywall, its basically a dummies guide to destroying interest in a competition.

As noted previously, all the fears about the Tailteann cup are coming to pass.

They said it wouldn't be another Tommy Murphy cup but here we are. If the people in charge don't give a **** about it then why exactly do they expect anybody else to.

There is nothing surprising about that, the surprise is how badly they are mangling the All-Ireland competition itself. Remember when excitement used to build as a team went on a run deep into the competition? That is dead unfortunately. Now the competition disappears behind a paywall and when eventually some teams pop out the other side for the knockout stages, just why do they think neutrals are going to be invested in what happens?

A big thumbs up to the dumbass marketing graduate who pitched this as a good money maker for the GAA.

Cork 1-19 Louth 1-17. Cork should finish at least 3rd in the group now. Louth probably bottom without a win.

Both will likely concede big scores against Kerry, Mayo.

I would not be surprised to see Cork scalp Kerry or Mayo. They are virtually guaranteed a preliminary QF at the moment. On there day they can trouble any team. Decent midfield and a couple of good forwards. 1-19 is good scoring away from home against a team many taught wound trouble them

They are st home to us ( Kerry) next week and always put up a decent performance in Cork. Neither will they be afraid of Mayo in CP. They have two points in the bag (and probably qualification) so can play with abandonment with nothing to lose. Cork are never a team to be taken lightly and are fifth on the AI's table after Kerry, Dublin, Galway and Meath

I get the paywalls to an extent, but to put games like Cork v Louth behind paywalls is pure madness. Immediately puts off neutrals, doesn’t draw attention to the competition.

It is a thing that needs notice/hype to grow the thing. Someone who would casually watch it so tells someone else about it - good match on etc.

I am fairly annoyed about this to be honest. Maybe it was just a scheduling issue?

The TV stations cannot show all the football and hurling matches. There are four Sam championship football.atches this weekend, five hurling matches along with Joe McDonnagh cup matches.

Next weekend there is 8 Sam matches and the same number of Tailtain cup matches.

Is there something wrong with my app or did Armagh just lose 1-7 to 7 ?

TBH RTE pick a lot of .matches with stronger team's that are unbalanced. Last year they showed a Dublin match instead of Clare/Limerick which was the first match that went to penalties. I always taught Cork Louth would be a decent match. Dublin Roscommon county be a finger tomorrow. I think about 70% of the games will be close enough

Thought so. Was down as FT but been fixed now.

That's true but there's no denying home advantage is worth a few points. For Louth they needed a capacity close to 4,000 (why this figure i don't know) and Ardee holds approx 2,500 so it had to move to Navan.

FT Armagh 1-13 v Westmeath 1-12