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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.

"Sir Jeffrey Donaldson" only gave £20. Him on an MP salary too!

I saw a guy in the Cusack on Saturday with a back pack the size of which you would take on a global trek.Time to charge just like Ryanair

Has to have been an Armagh getting the weens in for free!

[Starting to wonder where all the money goes to be honest!]

The Gaa been a rip of for the past 15yrs; they be getting higher attendances if tickets were alot less! As for grants northern teams survived on the national lotto grants; dont know many who got croke park type grants!  Starting to wonder where all the money goes to be honest! The bags issue is down to security i presume!

It's all available online for anyone to have a look.
http://www.gaa.ie/news/gaa-annual-accounts-for-2016-published/
But there's no pleasing some people. Some will always have conspiracy theories.

Two trips to Croke Park and they're broke.

The fuel laundering business has declined these days.

That with the prospect of a hard border...

Two trips to Croke Park and they're broke.

Meanwhile Club tyrone raise a clean fortune. That's the difference. Them Armagh wans are tight hoors!

Anyone know how many tickets went on sale this morning?

Heard there were serious queues in some shops this morning for them

A friend was 8000 in the queue and got one of the last tickets (hill). They sold out shortly after that.

Each person bought an average of say 2/3 tickets could be 20k.
Add to that the season tickets and bring a friend option and it could be at 40/50k tickets accounts for already.

Doesnt leave many for the clubs

You're right there. Although I think max season tickets per county is 2500 which only Dublin and mayo actually hit. Id hazard a guess at 7-8k season tickets for saturday. Even if they all brought the max 4 friends, It's still only 30kish. And how many season ticket holders will give up golden seats to get sitting beside the Jonny come latelys up above?

Anyone know how many tickets went on sale this morning?

Heard there were serious queues in some shops this morning for them

A friend was 8000 in the queue and got one of the last tickets (hill). They sold out shortly after that.

I disagree with the notion of the Grab All Association. It's not been my experience at least.

Nor I. It's a lazy analysis to be fair. Heard another fella use the term because he wasn't getting his kids tickets (at €5 each!) in the middle of the lower Hogan for an all ireland semi final. True story.

Taylor, what county are you in? If you are not seeing benefits from the GAA you need to be kicking up hell. Grants, Coaching courses, etc etc are dispersed all across the country.

Gods Country....Tyrone.

Facilities at county level fantastic..........club level is a whole different ball game

Don't the club's get use of Garvaghey? Blitzs etc?