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

That doesn't prove head to head is unfair though - all you've done is provide an example of where head to head comes up with a different outcome to points difference. Which is something we all know is possible.

It's appears you are starting from a viewpoint that points difference is completely fair, and that therefore any other method which can come up with a different outcome must be unfair. Whereas in truth they are both unsatisfactory artificial means of separating teams who have performed almost equally.

The split condensed season is really rearing it's head now. 2 hurling quarter finals, 4 football preliminary quarters and 2 Tailteann semis all on the same weekend. Way too much. Some big games won't be on TV...again.

Kildare used to jam Croke Park under the Micko Era? All decked out in brand new pearly white geansai's. The Kildare support are just as flaky as their team. Probably worse than Cork, because Kildare should be doing miles better.

What I meant was it didn't really matter not as much as the Leinster Final where Kildare bottled it and then Ryan came out with excises.

That is a genuinely lazy analysis of both of those incidents, but typical of general GAA supporters who literally don't know what they're watching most of the time. Stray kickouts are generally down to high presses and lack of options and space. The missed free was a last minute difficult kick with heavy legs in a replay where the game had been helter-skelter for 70 mins. James McCarthy literally said after the game that it was the toughest match he had ever played. In the drawn game, it was O'Connor who kicked a huge point from 40 yards from play to force the replay.

The only thing I would say about Derry if Glass/wine Rodgers gets injured they are fecked. Very dependent on those two lads especially Glass.

The other thing they haven't considered in a condensed season is spectators can't give up every weekend in such a short period to travel the country to see their team play. Come Monday morning and no one knows what day, time and location they will be playing the next weekend.

The jeopardy of not winning the group is a more gruelling fixture schedule.

I don't see why it's too many games in one weekend. If you'd 16 teams playing in a club championship you'd have 8 games the one weekend.

The days of one ulster championship game a week and dragging it out over months are gone thankfully.

Most of the complaining seems to be coming from those not directly involved too. Any player I've heard interviewed or chatted to privately is enjoying the more games more often instead of training.

Take your Galway Armagh example. On TV. More would have gone if it wasnt on TV. Which is what the GAA want.

Galway Mayo on Sunday and the other 3 on Saturday is the latest.

Lots of teams used to jam Croke park, and now lots of teams don't sell out grounds a quarter the size of it.

You don't need to be a rocket doctor to think of a few reasons why that is.

Sometimes heavy legs effect the kicking of the ball and sometimes you can get it over. Like I said, in the previous game, O'Connor kicked a last second point to get the replay in the first place, a similar high pressure kick. Sometimes they go over and sometimes they don't. This idea that absolutely everything is down to being a "bottler" or not is the type of shite talk you hear in pubs from people who've never kicked a ball. The team in those finals didn't lack bottle, they lacked the extra bit of quality up front really, but that's not as nifty a line to roll out.

The performance yesterday was a collective meltdown and the full exposure of the number 6 experiment as a failure. I don't expect management to change it up because they're utterly married to it now. The dogs on the street saw it wasn't working in February and they're persisting with it, so let them fall on their sword I suppose.

Galway Mayo clashing on TV overlapping with both the Tailteann Cup games. Where's the logic in that??