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

Correct, bar the munster championship it's been a poor finish for hurling in general, kk clare the best game. Two semi finals in football very good, you would be hoping for a good final.

Joe gets far too much attention and that keeps him going .He has hunted with the fox and ran with the hounds for years yet people seem to take him seriously they should know better .

Bold prediction of a close match! Does "pure footballing teams" include numbers back in defence when not in possession? as lets not kid ourselves Dublin and Kerry will be doing plenty of that at the weekend and the majority of scores will likely come from counter attacks or turnovers when their defences aren't set.

Last year the widely held opinion was the Dublin would have beaten Kerry in the All Ireland semi final had Con O'Callaghan played, a theory that will be well tested on Sunday.

Are the Kerry team doing the Dublin banquet Sunday night or will they fly down home like the Limerick lads?

Are you sure many missed out because it looked to me anyone who really wanted a ticket got one plus despite the full house announcement there seem to be spaces around even allowing for most of the first match fans leaving .

Hailing Brolly, Spillane and O'Rourke as a golden age of punditry is nostalgic BS and is trumpeted by none other than Spillane and Brolly themselves. Spillane was God awful and resorted to spitting out mind numbing stats when analysing a team, his great tactical input was "kick it over the blanket" Brolly's party piece was personal attacks on certain players and managers and apart from talking over everyone he had very little else of impact to say. O'Rourke sat there and smirked like a wise old owl and collected his pay. None of them would hold a candle to even the worst pundit on the circuit at present.

My previous and highly confident belief that some Nally tickets would go on sale on Ticketmaster this Friday is fading… rapidly! But you never know…

Right, is that the way it works? I didn’t know that. Very interesting!

No it’s not, I just enjoy mentioning the fact that Stacks were relegated to intermediate

Beating them in the division 1 relegation play off last weekend has me on a real high going into this Sunday.

I've never experience as quiet a build up to a football final - even this thread is lagging behind the hurling one.

A good proportion of the media have spend the best part of this week dissecting the hurling final and concentrating on the women's World Cup.

Maybe the build up was as quiet last year but being from near Galway I at least could get a sense that there was some excitement towards it. Not feeling any sense of collective anticipation towards the final this time around.

Like an eejit I only copped on that there won't be a minor match on beforehand. Realised sure that has been played already.

Is there match on now pre the final at all? Even a junior match or something?

Seems a bit of shame. I got great value for a couple of years being able to see if that minor 'David Clifford' was worth the hype for Kerry.

I think Kerry used up their excitement last year as we felt we had a good chance to win after beating Dublin. Also it was first AI win since 2014. I wasn't too excited in 2015 or 2019 as I was pretty certain Dublin would win.

It's true about July schedule throwing us off. People on holidays, students away etc. Also the weather's been very poor.

I've seen people in Kerry say that there's less excitement and fewer flags out around the place.

I think in general there's been a weird energy since COVID. Cost of living, energy prices, far right protests, Ukraine war, heatwaves and wild fires across Europe, worst July weather in living memory, violent attacks in Dublin.

There's an interesting book called "The fourth turning" which predicted all this.

All right thanks - I am real creature of habit my first reaction was who was playing in the minor.