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If this hype gets up anymore we're gonna have Des cahill clearing his Friday night schedule to present an impromptu "Up for the match" on RTE.

Anyone been to the corporate suites before? What can I expect?

Depends on who you are with.
If there's nothing organised it's dull. It doesn't have the buzz of people milling about where you could strike up a conversation with anyone.
It's isolated but comfortable.

Depends who owns the box as it's them that provide the food. Can be very nice. The atmosphere is almost non existent in fairness. I noticed people sitting on the sofa watching the match on the tv in the suite as opposed to watching it from their seat 10foot away... beggars belief.

Apparently there's work going on at the toll booths and they're down to just 3 cash lanes. With 3 of the 4 counties involved heading make sure and leave in plenty of time!
Unless you're from Armagh, Sure you's would be grand leaving at 3...

Jesus. 37 pages and it's only Thursday and we have the postmortum to come...

Proof it's the game of the championship thus far.

Any tickets going?  Been let down big style. Been to all games since o'fiach cup. Sickening

There's a thread on the armagh gaa forum with spare tickets if you want to check it out

Just be careful lads! https://tyronetribulations.com/2014/08/02/4000-armagh-fans-duped-into-buying-tickets-for-nally-stand-in-carrickmore/

That is unreal.

I mean Conall McCann at midfield not Tiernan at wing back who was Hairgate.

The thing that has surprised me the most about the Armagh fans on this thread is how times have changed and how they would much rather have an open game of football than a hard tough physical battle.
It says a lot for both teams how they've changed their style of play from the 2000s.

I'm expecting Armagh to be surprised how hard it will be for them to pick off scores in the first 35 mins but of course they'll probably score 3 goals now. 

Yeah StGallsGAA, maybe take a spare T-shirt with you for the trip home and a large set of headphones.
I hope you don't have to deny knowing Mickey Harte 3 times.

Tyrone are definitely under real pressure for this one. Tyrone supporters could just about accept losing to Dublin in the sf but they would be apoplectic with rage if they lost to a division 3 team especially Armagh. That would be the final nail in the coffin for Harte.

Zzzzzzz

Any tickets going?  Been let down big style. Been to all games since o'fiach cup. Sickening

Have a spare ticket if you want. Hill 16. Face value. Pm me

I think the excuse they used was that it didn't do enough to protect council workers. Even though it's private contractors that do the work! Go figure.

Anyone tried getting in flags/banners under the new rules? Have they clamped down on flag pole length or anything?

Nope, not last Sunday into the Cusack anyway. Had to que with my (small camera bag, did't chance my bigger one). No problem with my flag, 4ft x 4ft, though I've the pole cut to just the length of the flag, makes it a bit handier for transporting! I did notice a lot of drinks cans and bottles on the table, must have been taken off  people. Two young girls on the security check were very pleasant.

Cheers mick, was wondering what they would do with you club 51 lads at the weekend. Have a 5x5 with a telescopic pole and was wondering if it would be ok.

Anyone tried getting in flags/banners under the new rules? Have they clamped down on flag pole length or anything?

I rewatched it too. Kildare learnt nothing from the Leinster final at the back. 6/7 defenders surrounding 1 or 2 men between 21 and 45 leaving huge gaps everywhere for Clarke amongst others to run into.

[Also Season Ticket holders Seats in Croke park get poorer and poorer each year.]

Family time? For the love of Jesus. Poor Mayo playing football every week in the summer and their poor fans watching high quality sport every weekend. Why hasn't somebody organised a concert to help them in this time of tragedy?

Says the lad who has No COUNTY and goes to NO GAMES!

Your fellow countymen also dismissed your ridiculous hyperbole in posts just after me. When I did live in Ireland I attended regularly by the way and when I bring my club underage teams to tournaments it costs me hundreds of pounds per year as we usually have to travel hundreds of miles for tournaments and stay overnight so spare me your moaning about a trip to bloody Dublin.

Ah, sure we all do that! Those one off events. Great fun! But here we are having days out where in my case you are dealing with Multiples of 5 (if you bring the family). Croke Park and Dublin are not user friendly when it comes to Families. Family tickets are usually located in the Davin and Don't dare even think about buying food. If you are foolish enough to go by train it's more fun!

The GAA showed total disregard for (the loyal) Mayo supporters especially by having this game in Croke Park a day before they go back to work on a Bank Holiday Weekend. Two decent venues in Connacht that could have facilitated the game and brought a bit of Revenue to one of those towns. But you have no worries about any of these issues. It's on the TV, you'll be grand!

You don't have tournaments as costly as ours to attend so get off that high horse, I and many others abroad have to pay huge money to promote our games.

You have a choice about attending games. I was at the Cork game and while there was a great Mayo crowd there it wasn't as big as what attended last Sunday so if cost is an issue you can watch one game on TV. Now that's not to say I'm not sympathetic of the cost to families going to games and I'd have no issue if the replay was in Connacht but spare me your nonsense regarding the super 8. We want more games and this is a great time to be a Mayo supporter and I'm sure everyone is enjoying it even if the credit card is getting s bit of a hammering.

Of course I have a choice as such! But being a Season ticket holder, You are debited unless you use your Opt out option. I missed my Second Mayo Match last weekend - using the opt out. The only other game I missed was the Kerry League game. The constant Weekends of games has an effect on the kids training and chill out time. Getting to and from venues the last couple of weeks has been serious work. I am football mad! And love to go to games. But there are beginning to be to many games anymore in the Summer. The cost is another thing.  And the GAA are pumping up the prices. This I feel could be the last year of me having a Season Ticket. The Super 8 is the Big turnoff, It will add 2 more games to the year and I can see the boys in headquarters pull a few fast strokes in regards to prices and venues. I'm sure Sky will have an input into it aswell, so for the common supporter things won't get better.

Also Season Ticket holders Seats in Croke park get poorer and poorer each year. Won't be long until we are in the Davin with the Family tickets soon!

Nonsense, I know Tyrone are in 305/306 this weekend! Couldnt ask for better.

All the pressure is on Tyrone will be awful setback to their high hopes if they are knocked out at this stage of the competition for a second year in a row. Armagh can win this game, ran a better Donegal side to one point in the Quarter final three years ago but regardless of the result on Saturday reaching another Quarter final against the odds will be seen as a summer of progress for Armagh.

I would have thought not winning a game you could have won would have been a bad summer.

Never EVER had time for FG but hats off to Leo on this. Great to see Dublin finally taking a stance on this.

Sean Cavanagh on a dance floor. Jesus he'd never be upright. Think of all that light contact that would knock him off his feet.

You boys are obsessed. Obsessed.