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

No Hawk Eye this weekend. Any reason given or is this the end of it? It malfunctioned only a few weeks ago.

monaghan can be a bit hot and cold but they have a nice defensive plan that keeps them in games , they got some nice forwards likes of bannigan and young gary mohan to add to jack mccarron and conor mcmanus , a deadly free taker in rory beggin and probably the best kick out in the country this is a tricky one for dublin much more then the assignment today against an aging mayo side , they also can play a lovley brand of open attacking football too , they have the weapons in there game to push dublin all the way

derry have some fantastic footballers , today i taught brendan rodgers was outstanding , the work himself conor glass and McGuigan get through is unreal but you cant sustain that type of game plan against kerry for 70 minutes , kerry have a hell of a lot more then just clifford , yesterday david clifford kicked 1 point from play and 7 wides form play and they still won by 12 points , to me thats the swing in their favor going forward

Why was someone from Galway at the match today?

I didn’t mean to necessarily write either team off, i had Monaghan down to beat armagh (not a bet, just felt they would).

But honestly if yer given a draw against Monaghan or Derry, you’d choose to play Monaghan wouldn’t you?

And btw, i’ll be bloody delighted if Derry beat Kerry.

I just feel Kerry will be that bit too strong. Hope i’m wrong.

One other thing that I came away with today from being at the games is how much hurling is a better sport than football...I'm always fascinated why so many Dublin supporters turn up for the footballers but not for the hurling team...is it because the footballers win things?...that's the only reason I can think of cause it can't be for the entrainment.....

That missed Mayo goal that hit the post in the second half is up there with the worst misses i've ever seen. The worst as it happens was Dessie Farrell himself when he hit the crossbar with an open goal in front of him from 5 yards or so against Kerry in Thurles all those years ago. Dessie was magic that day; he did something none us could understand or believe to this day.

To be honest the last 2 weekends have been much of a muchness in both codes.

Hurling will always have the high scoring that football doesn't but its a lot easier to score from 65 yards out in Hurling than it is to score from 40 yards out in football.

The fare at the weekend was disappointing but its still a positive season for football overall.

I do find it interesting the pile on whenever football isn't thrill a minute.

Munster rugby was famed for its physical approach but it doesn't seem to be bother their fans that they scored about 3 tries in the 2 finals they won.

Same with Liverpool fans who I note were sticking the boot into Gaelic Football around 2019 when they won the worst champions league final of the modern era but didn't hold their favourite team to the same high performance standards.

As stated it wasn't a great weekend of Football, far from it but I wouldn't go over the top either.

I'd say on comparison to other field sports its still has a higher percentage of average to good over bad games

James McCarthy has to be up there as being best ever never to win Player of the Year since it was introduced.....

of course not i am doing my best to give them every chance more then anything else , 50 % of all irelands since the dawn of time have been won by kerry or dublin which is some turnover in a 32 team competition , but every now and again ..... you never know !!

I'll say it loudly that he's the best player that i've seen play for Dublin.

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Derry will park a very large red bus in the semi final, hope Kerry manage to break them down and thrash them.

He deserves to captain Dublin to an AI. A great servant and fantastic footballer.

Kerry and Dublin have a free flowing forward line that nobody can cope with.

They are the only 2 teams don't need 20 passes around the "D" before shooting.

What a fvckin player.

I'm not a Dublin fan, but this guy has been amazing. He's done it all, always turns up on the big day, and in the last couple of years while several of their established guys were slightly below their normal high standards, he was probably their best championship player even when the team was less than 100%.

There has been several all time greats involved with this Dublin era, buy this guy is among the very best to play the game. Often is in the shadow of the likes of Cluxton, Kilkenny, Fenton, Jack Mc, even Mick Fitz, but if you want someone to go I to the trenches with, he's the man.