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There's loads more All Irelands in this Kerry team, they just need that one this year to kickstart it.
And there are no traditional counties to stop them remaining this year, Meath have some depth of tradition but they not a recently tested team in this cauldron.

Clifford & Co could/should end up with say 6 All Irelands, Kerry go way over 40 in the roll of honour.
 And then another generation comes through like the great minor players we all saw in Newbridge last Sunday.

For Clifford to get 6, Kerry would have to win 5 out of the next 8 or 9. Just can't see it with Tyrone and Meath starting to come good again. He'll probably get 3 and that won't be bad considering Kerry have only won 2 out of the last 15 titles.

Is she the one that met with Loyalists?

Some amount of crying from kerry gang pn social media over minor game Sunday. 

Kerry butchered a goal chance to go six ahead from a bad kickout which would have been enough to get them over the line. Nobody to blame but themselves.

To cut even at Croke park, they used to talk about having to get it half full.

Back in the noughties it was something like 31,000 people to break even.

Covidgate

Paidi Clifford AI Junior Final 2023

A good Tyrone crowd travelled today to Newbridge.

I'm not expecting too many to go to Croke Park next Saturday. It's never easy planning a journey on the Twelfth. Augher, Sixmilecross and Coagh have the Tyrone demonstrations, so they are towns to definitely avoid.

Yes looked liked a decent crowd which was good to see. Next week you never know but realistically a lot of Tyrone folk will probably head to the likes of the
Downings instead.

3 of those Fintona players stood out today. Along with the U20 lad Donnelly they might make a stab at Intermediate in a couple of years time.

Matthew F Daly super since coming on.

Does anyone have a list of players and clubs?

TIA

https://www.facebook.com/share/16c5eQqVSA/

No.5 Quinn MOTM, thought Mulgrew in midfield or the full back were better.

Always nice to beat Kerry.

Julian McMahon of Home and Away and Nip/Tuck fame, after a battle with cancer aged only 56.

["The Tyrone crowd, who significantly outnumbered their opposition"]

I think those who were there made plenty of noise; there just weren't enough of us.

It's worth a study.

Something happened post-2021 in terms of the supporter psyche. In the latter Harte years, there was a bit of staleness, but I don't think it's still a hangover of that.

I genuinely don't know why it is what it is.

2021? I feel like supporters haven't came out in the same numbers post 2005, definitely post 2008/2009. It is odd as it's not due to lack of interest in football as club football is so strong and I'm sure most are well informed on the county team and not indifferent.

I know the dubs have fallen off big time (understandably) and the likes of Kildare maybe, but I think those are more casual, but I can't think of similar instances of it.

The county set up probably does need to do more. Even their social media stuff is inconsistent, not even always having the team up before a game.

Interested in other theories.

The semi-final of 2015:

https://www.rte.ie/sport/gaa/2015/0823/723054-kerry-v-tyrone/

"The Tyrone crowd, who significantly outnumbered their opposition"

Attendance was 53,044

https://munster.gaa.ie/event/0all-ireland-senior-football-championship-semi-final-kerry-v-tyrone/

The attendance at same stage four years later was down to 33,848

https://www.rte.ie/sport/gaa/2019/0811/1068238-kerry-come-alive-in-second-half-to-surge-past-tyrone/

So what happened between 2015 and 2019? for me it was the 2 defeats to Dublin in 2017 and 2018, especially the hammering in 2017. These defeats seemed to do a lot of damage to supporter morale at that time. Then in 2021 a lot of supporters probably happy enough to stay at home with Covid and the 3 subsequent seasons after the football produced by Tyrone was dire. So dire in fact that Saturday's game versus Dublin was only the second time Tyrone played championship football in Croke Park since the 2021 Final.
Maybe the Dublin victory will reignite passion among the Tyrone supporters and we get a good turnout on the 12th.

Will probably give the train from Portadown a miss this time around.

12th July it is.

The minor final of 2021 was played before the senior semi v Kerry. Am I missing something? Why can't it be played beforehand?

For all of Jim's complaining, Donegal only having to beat Monaghan and Meath in the knockouts to reach an All Ireland final is extremely fortunate.

Louth, Monaghan and Meath. You forgot Louth

You forgot they had to beat Mayo virtually away also.

True, that will have been their last toughest game until they make the Final.