Super 8s

[larryin89]

It's a load of bollix is what it is , why bother anyway , why is the all Ireland so early , what club championship has benefited?

[moysider]

It's a load of bollix is what it is , why bother anyway , why is the all Ireland so early , what club championship has benefited?

Ssssh Larry. You will get in trouble for saying things like that! You can think things like that but you can't say them.

[Hound]

It's a load of bollix is what it is , why bother anyway , why is the all Ireland so early , what club championship has benefited?

Why did McLoughlin kick it wide?

Surely, if anyone has benefited from the new system, it's Mayo. Shite all championship, but finally looking like having a near enough first team, and still just one win away from the semi final. It's amazing really.
You might be scared of your life of Dublin, but Keegan, Higgins, O'Connor, Boyle, Durkan, etc aren't.

[From the Bunker]

It's a load of bollix is what it is , why bother anyway , why is the all Ireland so early , what club championship has benefited?

Why did McLoughlin kick it wide?

Surely, if anyone has benefited from the new system, it's Mayo. Shite all championship, but finally looking like having a near enough first team, and still just one win away from the semi final. It's amazing really.
You might be scared of your life of Dublin, but Keegan, Higgins, O'Connor, Boyle, Durkan, etc aren't.

Well I would be scared. At our peak from 2013 to 2017 we never crossed that bridge! We are two years on from that now. If anything Dublin must know at this stage they have Dads Army's number no matter how bad they play. Which is not the end of the world because they have everybody's number.

[larryin89]

It's a load of bollix is what it is , why bother anyway , why is the all Ireland so early , what club championship has benefited?

Why did McLoughlin kick it wide?

Surely, if anyone has benefited from the new system, it's Mayo. Shite all championship, but finally looking like having a near enough first team, and still just one win away from the semi final. It's amazing really.
You might be scared of your life of Dublin, but Keegan, Higgins, O'Connor, Boyle, Durkan, etc aren't.

Haha you sound like you have a biteen of fear of little old Mayo

[Hound]

It's a load of bollix is what it is , why bother anyway , why is the all Ireland so early , what club championship has benefited?

Why did McLoughlin kick it wide?

Surely, if anyone has benefited from the new system, it's Mayo. Shite all championship, but finally looking like having a near enough first team, and still just one win away from the semi final. It's amazing really.
You might be scared of your life of Dublin, but Keegan, Higgins, O'Connor, Boyle, Durkan, etc aren't.

Haha you sound like you have a biteen of fear of little old Mayo

Fear, no.

Respect, for sure.

As all my posts down through the years would testify.

More respect for them than you, if your posts are a true reflection.

[larryin89]

Respect them all ya want they are not within an asses roar of putting it up to Dublin , won't even beat donegal anyway .

[Armagh18]

He should have said Dublin & Tyrone.

Should have said it benefits any team who wins their first 2 games.

There are many Dublin advantages. Population, everyone living in the county, no distance to training, great sponsorship deals, etc etc.

But saying the one week break between last game of S8 and AI semi is designed to advantage Dublin is moronic

Its not designed to be an advantage to anyone specifically, its just stupid fixture planning. Should definitely be a 2 week gap til the semi.

[Farrandeelin]

Respect them all ya want they are not within an asses roar of putting it up to Dublin , won't even beat donegal anyway .

Yea, but no but yea but no etc.

[Halfquarter]

Halfquarter hits the nail on the head 100%. Whoever decided that a turnaround time of 6 days is sufficient for players in the modern game should hold their head in shame. They obviously have no idea what it takes to mentally or physically prepare a team. This 6 day turnaround is singularly the biggest flaw in the structure of the "super 8's" and hands Dublin yet another massive psychological advantage...on top of home advantage and all the others.

Twoweeksornothing!

Otherwise it will be like going in like lambs to the slaughter.

Are Dublin not set to have a 6 day turnaround themselves if they beat Tyrone?

I think the point is that the Tyrone v Dublin game is a dead rubber which allows both teams to rest players, play the B team or whatever.
The games in the other group are do or die.

So what you're saying is that Tyrone have the very same advantage Dublin have and that Bannside is talking through his hole?

No,Tyrone do not have the same advantages as Dublin.

Tyrone did not have two home games against Cork and Roscommon to qualify for the Semi's .

Tyrone had to negotiate the minefield of the Ulster Championship and the quagmire of the backdoor
System.

All Dublin had to do was sail through the wasteland of the Leinster Championship.

Yes ,both Dublin and Tyrone are lucky enough to have a dead rubber next weekend but it was always
likely  to happen for Dublin as they started with two home matches anyway.

[imtommygunn]

Dublin would have sailed through Ulster though...

[BennyCake]

Which games are on RTE this weekend?

[under the bar]

Dublin would have sailed through Ulster though...

Dublin could probably sail through the Tour de France..

[Cunny Funt]

Which games are on RTE this weekend?

Matches on Sunday.

Tyrone v Dublin on RTE 2
Cork v Roscommon on RTE player.

[BennyCake]

Mayo Donegal on Sky then? FFS!