All Ireland Final Armagh v Galway 28 July 2024

[clarshack]

A Donegal fan said on BBC that she would be supporting Galway. Well that is no surprise from them supporting a southern team. A good reminder why you shouldn't support an ROI county.

I couldn't care less who they support in the final, I don't expect we'll have much support from Tyrone or Down fans in the final either and that's what you would expect.

100%. I had Loais and Kerry supporters  on either side of me yesterday and the Loais supporter was a lot more boisterous in his support for 'the kingdom'. He left at HT,  unfortunately 😔

Laois seem to be one of the worst for the anti nordie stuff for some reason. 

Glad to see Donegal out after the way that Donegal fan behaved during Hampsey's acceptance speech in 2021. It was disgusting behaviour and that's what most Donegal supporters think of Tyrone.

On the morning of the 2018 final at Portadown train station there were plenty of Armagh folk heading down to Dublin wearing Dublin jerseys. At Connolly station after the Mayo defeat in 2016 I had an Armagh fan ask me who won the big game while trying to keep a straight face so things like those mean I can never support Armagh.

I've never had an issue with Galway or their supporters so Come on Galway!

[Turf]

What I'm getting from this is it's ok for Ulster counties to want other Ulster counties to do well but if anyone outside of Ulster wants other counties outside of Ulster to do well then they are anti Nordie...
Jesus lads get over that chip on your shoulder and look forward to the All Ireland Final. This is all nonsense talk.

[Armagh18]

A Donegal fan said on BBC that she would be supporting Galway. Well that is no surprise from them supporting a southern team. A good reminder why you shouldn't support an ROI county.

Sensible girl. I'm sure she knows how hateful the Armagh crowd are.

f**k off

[Armagh4sam2024]

Glad we got Kerry in the semis. They will not have want to play another northern county. Beating them will give us a boost that neither Dgal or Galway will be able to live with in the final.

Guess who knows his sh1t?? 😄

[snoopdog]

A Donegal fan said on BBC that she would be supporting Galway. Well that is no surprise from them supporting a southern team. A good reminder why you shouldn't support an ROI county.

I couldn't care less who they support in the final, I don't expect we'll have much support from Tyrone or Down fans in the final either and that's what you would expect.

Were you in croke pk sat night? A lot of Down supporters for our neighbours.

[tonto1888]

A Donegal fan said on BBC that she would be supporting Galway. Well that is no surprise from them supporting a southern team. A good reminder why you shouldn't support an ROI county.

I couldn't care less who they support in the final, I don't expect we'll have much support from Tyrone or Down fans in the final either and that's what you would expect.

Were you in croke pk sat night? A lot of Down supporters for our neighbours.

I was pleasantly surprised by the amount of down ones round me supporting us

[snoopdog]

A Donegal fan said on BBC that she would be supporting Galway. Well that is no surprise from them supporting a southern team. A good reminder why you shouldn't support an ROI county.

I couldn't care less who they support in the final, I don't expect we'll have much support from Tyrone or Down fans in the final either and that's what you would expect.

Were you in croke pk sat night? A lot of Down supporters for our neighbours.

I was pleasantly surprised by the amount of down ones round me supporting us

A Donegal fan said on BBC that she would be supporting Galway. Well that is no surprise from them supporting a southern team. A good reminder why you shouldn't support an ROI county.

I couldn't care less who they support in the final, I don't expect we'll have much support from Tyrone or Down fans in the final either and that's what you would expect.

Were you in croke pk sat night? A lot of Down supporters for our neighbours.

I was pleasantly surprised by the amount of down ones round me supporting us

Sadly I didn't see many Armagh shouting for Down in the earlier game.

[general_lee]

Who cares if Tyrone, Donegal or Down people want to support Galway? Armagh have a bigger support than any of them counties. I usually just go for the underdog if I'm neutral, but at the same time wouldn't begrudge whoever wins regardless of their pedigree.

[StephenC]

A Donegal fan said on BBC that she would be supporting Galway. Well that is no surprise from them supporting a southern team. A good reminder why you shouldn't support an ROI county.

Wouldn't expect anything less. Jimmy isn't winning matches anymore this year.

Yeah, one Donegal supporter clearly represents the general views of all Donegal people. 

Who do you think the majority of Donegal fans will support? Thomas niblock tweeted he was in a bar in Donegal for the Derry Mayo game and I was surprised to hear the majority of locals were supporting Mayo. I had similar experiences from Donegal fans when Derry played Galway 2022

Seriously though why would anyone care who someone else supports. Support your own county and don't be worried about anyone else. It's a bizarre thing to be getting annoyed about.

I don't care but curious if Donegal fans would support the Ulster counties the way other Ulster counties do

The short answer is yes. Of course when you have a county of 160k people you are going to get a wide variety of perspectives, however my 40 years of experience would say that Donegal would general support an Ulster county. I'll certainly be hoping Armagh do it.

[illdecide]

Anyway lets not get into childish crap about who's gonna support what other County in the final. Who gives a sh1t.

On the game...If i'm honest, Galway have been the better team the last few times we've played them and should have beaten us comfortably but they didn't. I don't know how that will work on them physiologically?. It will either be "we're the better team and our performances have shown that" or it'll be "No matter what we throw at these hoors we can't seem to put them away". I suppose the same thinking can be in the Armagh heads too, what i do know is if this Galway have everyone fit they're a serious team. They are really hard to break down and run through for scores and from 8-15 they have serious talent.
Armagh have a great team too and have a good strong bench, the have pace and power all over the team, If Armagh are in front, level or only a point behind with 10 mins to go I'll fancy them to get the job done but this is going to be a real battle and tough game. Surely we can't get another draw from these two teams?.

[clarshack]

Is there extra time in the final if required or replay then ET and pens?

[Armagh4sam2024]

Is there extra time in the final if required or replay then ET and pens?

Replay first then ET and pens.  Imagine we won the AIF on pens after all the peno heartache

[yellowcard]

It's the proverbial 50/50 game as matches between the 2 sides over the last 2 years have shown. It will come down to which side finishes its chances better than the other and a bit of luck might decide the result.

Galway were the best side Armagh have faced this year and they probably should have beaten us in Sligo but we hung in there for long enough and got our reward for pressing up on the Galway kick out in the latter stages. I think this is the area we need to target in the final. Push up on Gleesons kick out as he has made mistakes in the past when put under pressure. Both sides will feel it is a great opportunity to win an AI title and it would take a brave man to predict the result with any degree of certainty.   

[armaghniac]

It's the proverbial 50/50 game as matches between the 2 sides over the last 2 years have shown. It will come down to which side finishes its chances better than the other and a bit of luck might decide the result.

Galway were the best side Armagh have faced this year and they probably should have beaten us in Sligo but we hung in there for long enough and got our reward for pressing up on the Galway kick out in the latter stages. I think this is the area we need to target in the final. Push up on Gleesons kick out as he has made mistakes in the past when put under pressure. Both sides will feel it is a great opportunity to win an AI title and it would take a brave man to predict the result with any degree of certainty.   

Against Galway and Kerry both, Armagh were very tentative in the first half, and let them build a lead, we got away with that twice, but perhaps we should aim to in the game from the start this time. When Donegal pushed up yesterday, they were not tight enough in midfield and Galway got several good long kickouts off successfully. We'd need to watch out for that.

But, as someone noted, three teams over the weekend scored 1-14 in the 70 minutes, one did not score a goal and was out as a consequence. A goal, flukey or otherwise, could be the difference. Both Kerry and Armagh had goals that originated in attempted points that went wrong, there was an element of luck in these, but also the players were there to take advantage. As the Sunday Game noted last night, there was nothing accidental about McCambridge being there, he was pushing up when we had the ball and Clifford was not following him.

While Kerry were not at their shooting best, their defence was tenacious and they had a substantial "Tally" of turnovers. Armagh should learn from these and where things went wrong and reduce these issues for the next day.

[tbrick18]

Very close game to call.
Perhaps Galway's recent experience and heartache of losing an AI final and playing in Div1 will stand to them.
Or perhaps Armagh will shake of the fear and just play to their strengths - fitness being the main one.
From a Galway pov, they won't want extra time as Armagh will have the legs.
Tactically Armagh can play the same way the did against Kerry, stifling the Galway attack.

Will be an interesting game, too close to call.

AI there for the taking for both sides.

Dublin and Kerry have definately slipped back too and hopefully the next few years will have less of a sense of inevitability about it. Makes for a much better championship if 5/6 teams have a real chance of winning.