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

Unbelievable. Really disagree with penalties as a way to decide GAA games but I thought the standard of place kicking was high. Delighted for Monaghan, thought they were marginally the better team. And absolutely thrilled for McManus. He is a special player.

Sure if they had replays there would be accusations of the typical ‘grab all association’ - delayed fixtures - player burn out etc.

Would you prefer free taking instead of penalties?

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The analysis lads on GAA were taking frees there at the end.

Exactly saying hardluck McGeeney for another penalty shootout loss completely glosses over the dirt that Armagh tried on Galway last year etc.

Armagh no loss to the championship, great forwards not used properly. I will be really interested to see what Monaghan can do in the SF's.

Deffo. That was terrible for yer man. Poor f**ker.

The potential SF draw and possible permutations is explained here

'The four Quarter-Final winners from this weekend's games will be drawn to two Semi-Finals - subject to avoidance of repeat pairings from the overall championship, where possible. The Semi-Finals are due to take place on Saturday, July 15th & Sunday, July 16th at Páirc an Chrócaigh.

Possible Repeat Pairings.

Kerry v Cork, Kerry v Mayo, Cork v Mayo, Tyrone v Armagh, Tyrone v Monaghan, Armagh v Derry & Monaghan v Derry.'

·'If Kerry, Cork & Mayo win, a repeat pairing can’t be avoided, so all four teams would be drawn from the same bowl, 1st team out will play the 2nd team. The 3rd team will play the 4th team drawn.'

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I actually would. It’s a skills used more in our game.

How you would go about it is up for debate big time obviously.

Frees from the 45 would be very tough on most sides.

Did they try free taking competitions years ago as an experiment but abandoned it?

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Edit - yeah they did 6 years ago they have freetaking competitions in hurling and football in the league to settle draws

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I am not sure how exciting it would be in hurling as it could go on forever - maybe sideline cuts would be better?

But in football I wouldn't have a problem with it, especially as it would force other players to take frees.

Well it was the correct amount to add the 4 after the 3 because the Armagh man was down for 4.

Ref got it spot on to give Monaghan one last go.

The avoidance of repeat pairings is nonsense once it gets to semi final stage. If Kerry and Mayo were pulled out of a bowl tomorrow so what? It's not like they met 7 days before the semi final.

He was a Crossmaglen player, if you are going to issue him a death threat then you should make sure that your Internet account really is anonymous!

Mod Edit

Warning issued.

No.

There's a draw for sure tomorrow after the Mayo/Dublin game. The only scenario that avoided the draw was Tyrone & Derry both winning, forcing the winners of Armagh/Monaghan and Dublin/Mayo to face each other (as both Tyrone and Derry had already played against whichever of Armagh and Monaghan made it through). That didn't pan out with Kerry's win so we'll have a draw for sure once the last two teams are known from Cork/Derry and Mayo/Dublin.

If Cork & Mayo win: Repeat pairings can't be avoided for Cork/Kerry/Mayo so it's a fully open draw.

If Cork & Dublin win: Kerry/Cork go one side of the draw (to avoid the repeat) drawn against one of Dublin/Monaghan on the other side.

If Derry & Mayo win: Kerry/Mayo go on one side of the draw (to avoid repeat) drawn against one of Derry/Monaghan (to avoid repeat) on the other side.

If Derry & Dublin win: Dublin/Kerry go on one side of the draw drawn against one of Derry/Monaghan (to avoid repeat) on the other side.

Maybe free taking or 45s. Or just throw the ball in one last time and next score wins. Idk penalties is very soccer imo, doesn't sit right. The whinging about fouls and playing for frees and the standard of refereeing is already soccer enough imo. Don't need penalties on top of it.

McGeeney isn’t that nice. Armagh players do a lot of diving these days. Also, late hits, dropping on players on the ground with their knees….McGeeney himself was a fine player but every time he got beat a man he’d foul him. He had a brilliant set of forwards there and what does he do? Play so defensively that he only scores 14 points in almost 100 mins of football. He’s holding them back. Keep him there.