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

The Indo is some rag though, facilitating this type of BS.

This is what you said in a post which I called a conspiracy theory.

It's inevitable that Dublin and Kerry when you factor in they always get the majority of close calls in close games. At this point the GAA look worse then FIFA. At least they pretend they want minnow's to make finals. If the gaa could have a Dublin v Kerry final every year for eternity they'd be delighted.

Ok but what has that got to do with the GAA taking a hit to favour Kerry? Are you referring to my post about putting tailteann final on the wrong day? Because that decision most certainly cost them revenue.

The Kerry thing was explained to you before, did you forget that as well?

If you think the Tailteann final was on the wrong day, you should have challenged it back in December 2022, when it was set in the Master Fixtures Plan. The GAA are as bad as FIFA for sticking to schedules.

Final 15.07.2023 (Sat) (One Game) The winners of the All-Ireland Semi-Finals shall meet in the All-Ireland Final.

I never claimed what you think. I agree with you. It never makes sense to me why the GAA are so obsessed with kk, Kerry and Dublin getting to finals. I get why they wanted Dublin but they helped Dublin so much their support levels actually dropped which is insane why so much of Ireland lives there.

They publicly stated which refs definitely heard that they needed and wanted Dublin to win in the past. I don't understand why they don't publicly tell the current referees that we need Armagh, Tyrone, Galway, Derry, mayo, Roscommon etc to win.

It's like the GAA are trying to prove they're not the grab all association. Puting the tailteann final with the Dublin final clearly proved they hate money.

As a GAA club man I hate these trends as less money for the GAA means less for the clubs.

Nobody knew last December which teams would be competing. There was this same sort of nonsense earlier in the year when Mayo had play the first round in Connaught a week after the League final. People wanted to abandon the Fixtures list just to accommodate them.

It is all set out months in advance, and if it didn't suit Meath, they should have avoided being in the Tailteann.

He is one strange man.

I'm going to predict a close match at the weekend. Looking forward to a good, intense game, played honestly by two pure footballing teams, followed by several weeks of bickering on here over a 50/50 decision that was given or not given.

Will aim to duck out before the still frames start to appear

It's nothing to do with Meath. It could be Cavan, Westmeath or anyone else who would be making a tailteann final.

Why does the fixture have to be set in stone? It's literally a 1 Day difference. Just fix it for the weekend and decide the exact date later.

Dublin fans missed out aswell you know. As it sold out early many dubs couldn't get tickets not to mention there were about a thousand Meath and down fans on the hill where dubs prefer. So that's another loss for Dublin fans.

Not sure what your problem is here.

It all depends on the management and if no bias or politics are involved when picking the correct players.

I believe they have accommodation booked in the Burlington hotel so the answer is yes.

In fairness that LK team were hailed as legends, they enjoyed the celebrity status, and there were mgmt issues integrating the younger guys with the old legends - all covered in Unlimited Heartache book, written around a decade ago, massive infighting

Good podcast here by two of the lads from that great game a decade ago -

Paddy Andrews and James O'Donoghue

Both lads finding it a tough final to call.

James thinking Kerry have the edge on freetaking for most of the game. Hard to argue with that point.

Paddy thinks that the the game will be won in midfield Howard preventing ball into Clifford, which tied into James point that Kerry have to get ball into Clifford and Dublin have to try and prevent the ball going in.

Was Stacks quota cut as they are now an Intermediate side?

Haven't heard this episode of the pod yet, but I've been pleasantly surprised with O'Donohue as a contributer on this show during the summer. Has interesting enough views and isn't trying too hard to be controversial or to be out there with a hot take as others, including Andrews, can be.

Fair play to him, I was never particularly fond of him as a player but he's a good contributer in this.