Football Championship 2026 (Mod Note in OP)

Yep very possible. The draws from here on in will be very important for them.

I still think themselves, Donegal, Armagh and maybe Galway potentially are just playing at a level above the rest at the moment so if they can avoid those for a while they could still go deep into the series and who knows then.

Isn't there an inherent unfairness in the next round, where winning teams from rd1 get the Poisoned chalice of meeting other winning teams, whilst losing teams go in the pot with other losing teams. Therefore your reward for winning Rd 1 is getting a dirty draw when the losers get the chance to get back on the same rung of the ladder against a weaker team and have momentum going into rd3.

Surely open draw would have introduced more jeopardy and fairness.

I understand it perfectly. If you lose your 2nd game in group A you're in as bad a position as the teams in group B are now. And the chances of that are much higher as you are up against mostly the best teams. Donegal for example could draw Armagh, whilst Kerry get Cavan. So Donegals reward for a big win is to face an all ireland contender, possibly lose and get maybe a Galway or Roscommon in rd3.

Just to note, they cant get Galway in the following round, but could get a nasty draw with Roscommon or Dublin etc.

I know Mayo have a young team but that trait of unpredictability remains.

I wouldn't have much confidence in Andy Moran as a manager, hard to put it into words but he seems a bit lightweight.

The damage the Monaghan player who got injured did to their full back line doesn't bode well either. It was reminiscent of some of the defending in the 2004 and 2006 All Ireland finals.

As Robbiezero mentioned it is hard to see an All Ireland winner beyond Donegal, Armagh, Kerry and perhaps Galway. The next 4 or 5 teams can beat anyone on their day but will hardly back up the victories all the way.

It's been a really good championship so far.

The most important part of being a 2a winner is that you go directly to a quarter final and get the weekend off. Kerry for example on the losers side could be out 3 weeks running so they would have a disadvantage of playing the team with a 2 week break.

Like the new format, least all games have meaning.

Im not 11 years old so i dont hate any fellow GAA supporter.

Probably says a lot about you though. Lad.

Could a goal keeper do that to catch a potential 2 pointer away above the crossbar in other words could a defender assist the goalkeeper in his jump

It’s not Jim McGuinness so it doesn’t matter.

Only if you want to create a narrative. Fair minded people want to see consistency across the board in rules enforcement. Basically down the middle. Pun intended.

You on the other hand view the rules not as rules in itself and their inconsistencies of enforcement. But who did or didn’t get away with it.

Whereas instead you should step back and look at rules application and glaring inconsistency of it, regardless of what county the person is from. Simple as that .

You are making my point for me. That appears to be physical and verbal intimidation of a match official. Where’s the furore? Surely this incident should have been highlighted to the same extent as others.

I didn’t watch myself.

But I note you said there appears to be “physical contact” in the incident above . Was there or wasn’t there?

If there wasn’t it is more in the gaa macho culture side of things . Which also needs to be stamped out .But unfortunately that culture seems to be accepted. If there was no actual “physical interference” hence no furore and it is lower scale .

Physical interference precedence is actual contact, not intimidation.