The 2015 All Ireland Senior Football Championship

seligehgit · 01-08-2015 07:25PM

Galway really can't afford to lose players like Shane Walsh,they need to tighten defensively.

Utopia Parkway · 01-08-2015 07:27PM

Dirty Dingus McGee wrote: »

I'd take Finian Hanley off if I was Kevin Walsh

Back up full-back did his cruciate during the league. Literally no other full-back in the squad.

01-08-2015 07:28PM

Donegal should be favourites next week after this game. You have to wonder did they really want to beat Monaghan and setup a meeting with Kerry.

seligehgit · 01-08-2015 07:29PM

Galway can't afford to lose quality players like Shane Walsh,they do need to tighten up defensively.
Awesome second half performance by Donegal.

DDC1990 · 01-08-2015 07:30PM

Feel bad for Galway.

They weren't 9 points worse.

Defensively naive however.

Donegal will put it up to Mayo.

ColeTrain · 01-08-2015 07:30PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Donegal should be favourites next week after this game.

Mayo will be.

Dirty Dingus McGee · 01-08-2015 07:32PM

Donegal look like a dangerous team when they go direct and that has been the way for the last few years yet I just can't work out why it is not their default game plan and why they insist on hand passing so much.

They'd be a much better team and have much more longevity in my opinion if they simply had McFadden, McBrearty and Muphy as their full forward line left them inside and hit long balls in.

Donegal seem to want to make the game more complicated than it is.

edgecutter · 01-08-2015 07:32PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Donegal should be favourites next week after this game. You have to wonder did they really want to beat Monaghan and setup a meeting with Kerry.

Not after the defeat they had against Mayo last year.

K-9 · 01-08-2015 08:03PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Donegal should be favourites next week after this game. You have to wonder did they really want to beat Monaghan and setup a meeting with Kerry.

Nice try.

Would have loved a go at Kerry though.

Fr Tod Umptious · 01-08-2015 08:21PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Donegal should be favourites next week after this game. You have to wonder did they really want to beat Monaghan and setup a meeting with Kerry.

So they would throw a game and take their chances v Mayo and Dublin in order to avoid Kerry.

Idiotic post.

Slattsy · 01-08-2015 08:33PM

Nothing between the teams. Mayo an advantage because they'll be fresher? Or Donegal an advantage because of game time?
Hard to call.

Dirty Dingus McGee · 01-08-2015 08:36PM

Hopefully Aidan O'Shea plays at full forward and Mayo launch the ball in on top of him regularly as it will be great to see a really battle between him and Neil McGee.

Nidgeweasel · 01-08-2015 08:38PM

Dirty Dingus McGee wrote: »

Hopefully Aidan O'Shea plays at full forward and Mayo launch the ball in on top of him regularly as it will be great to see a really battle between him and Neil McGee.

A McGee double team job.

That would be quite an entertaining watch to be honest.

01-08-2015 08:50PM

Fr Tod Umptious wrote: »

So they would throw a game and take their chances v Mayo and Dublin in order to avoid Kerry.

Idiotic post.

You are way too easy...:p

K-9 · 01-08-2015 08:50PM

Dirty Dingus McGee wrote: »

Hopefully Aidan O'Shea plays at full forward and Mayo launch the ball in on top of him regularly as it will be great to see a really battle between him and Neil McGee.

Murphy at FF too, would be some craic. Just a shoot out.

Hard to call who goes into the turkey shoot out against Dublin.

corny · 01-08-2015 09:22PM

Donegal played well in the second half but again in snatches over the 70. Galway wilted in the face of serious pressure too, which made it straightforward enough for a team of Donegals quality. Up the work rate, win the game was how it turned out.

I think Mayo will win but it should be a good battle.

ArmaniJeanss · 01-08-2015 11:30PM

keane2097 wrote: »

It does seem there's a general belief that teams from Ulster are better than teams from everywhere else despite any preponderance of evidence.

Disappointing stuff from Ulster again, with merely the four quarter finalists instead of the maximum five.

K-9 · 01-08-2015 11:55PM

ArmaniJeanss wrote: »

Disappointing stuff from Ulster again, with merely the four quarter finalists instead of the maximum five.

Brilliant stuf.

Us Ulster boys know to keep our whist. Crow when it matters.

Leinster anq Comnacht shoukd be ruling by mow.

job40 · 02-08-2015 12:06AM

Just a wee query. Does anyone know the gaa plans for a draw in today's games considering the quarter final is next week. I know it won't be an issue now but surely a potential problem

tanko · 02-08-2015 12:18AM

job40 wrote: »

Just a wee query. Does anyone know the gaa plans for a draw in today's games considering the quarter final is next week. I know it won't be an issue now but surely a potential problem

They'll just copy the camogie crowd and toss a coin to decide who goes through.

ArnoldJRimmer · 02-08-2015 12:21AM

job40 wrote: »

Just a wee query. Does anyone know the gaa plans for a draw in today's games considering the quarter final is next week. I know it won't be an issue now but surely a potential problem

my guess is that the relevant quarter final would be pushed out one week. in 2011, there was a draw somewhere along the way in the qualifiers resulting in Tyrone playing a qualifier against Roscommon on the same day as the Donegal-Kildare quarter. Tyrone progressed and lost their q-final to Dublin the following Saturday evening.

Stoner · 02-08-2015 12:24AM

DDC1990 wrote:

Feel bad for Galway. They weren't 9 points worse. Defensively naive however.

I thought they were worth 9 points off.
In the first half Varley was the only forward they had who could run into space.

Donegal wrapped that up at half time.

The difference in class today was significant imho. The big men in Donegals spine dominated.

In first half when Murphy drifted into full foward Donegal didn't knock it into him enough.

In the second half they got a grip of midfield , Murphy moved in and stayed in and they got it to him.

Thompson was a good sub.

Galway imho had nothing much going for them in the second half. I'm sure the experience will stand to them.

Varley seemed to hurt his ankle in the second half but I thought he was wrapped up anyway by that stage.

The first game was poor. Second game was great up until about ten minutes to go when a comprehensive Donegal win was more or less a done deal.

Niall8100 · 02-08-2015 12:40AM

job40 wrote: »

Just a wee query. Does anyone know the gaa plans for a draw in today's games considering the quarter final is next week. I know it won't be an issue now but surely a potential problem

Pretty sure a draw in either game this evening would have meant extra time. Monaghan went to extra time against Kildare last year and then played Dublin in the quarter final a week later.

Drumpot · 02-08-2015 12:52AM

Ulster has a lot of teams that compete for the Ulster championship, there is no doubt that it's competitive in this regards. However Kerry, Dublin and Mayo would be most people's probable finalists.

In fact there's a good chance that there will only be one team from each province in the semi finals and that whatever Ulster team it is will be the least fancied!

Wang King · 02-08-2015 02:13PM

Kerry not getting out of second gear here and easing away from Kildare already

ArnoldJRimmer · 02-08-2015 02:14PM

Clinical stuff from Kerry here. Kildare badly need to get a point on the board

Dirty Dingus McGee · 02-08-2015 02:14PM

Wang King wrote: »

Kerry not getting out of second gear here and easing away from Kildare already

Looks like its going to be a 15 point victory at least for Kerry.

MattB11 · 02-08-2015 02:15PM

14 minutes in and Kerry have it spot on 4 points from 5 attempts and Kildare haven't had a sniff of a score aside from a poor free

tayto lover · 02-08-2015 02:15PM

Too much slipping and poor kicking from the Kildare forwards.
They need scores asap or they're gone.

Wang King · 02-08-2015 02:16PM

I missed all the build up, did gooch start the game ? Don't see Donaghy, hurt in the warm up ?

The 2015 All Ireland Senior Football Championship

Comments