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According Eamon Fitzmaurice has any player ever committed a foul?
I doubt it?

Kerry will shit the togs at the site of the tyrone jerseys as usual

Kerry have won 4 of the last 5 Championship meetings between the sides, but don't let facts get in the way of anything.

Anyone who doesn't know the difference between site and sight cannot be taken seriously.

Can't believe I forgot Jimmy Barry.
Would I be right in saying he won football and hurling All Ireland's?

Also I had a vague idea Sean O'Neill had a relative played for Down. Didn't know it was a brother.

The Connie Murphy one is a quiz question I'll use at some point. Brilliant stat.

To he person who raised the O'Sullivans great call.

Let me start by saying...do not take seriously, just a wee bit of fun.

To take my mind off the upcoming 1/4 final I started thinking about how many great players there were called O'Shea and if any other surname could compete.
The only other name I could come up with was ONeill. If anyone has another feel absolutely free to say so. THIS IS JUST FOR A BIT OF CRACK.

For the O'Sheas I have ( in no order)

Paudi ( for youngsters..a legend)
Jack ( for youngsters, as good a midfielder as ever put on a pair of boots)
Darragh
Marc
Thomas
Seanie
Aidan

Who have I missed?
Older Kerry fans...please step up!

For the O'Neills, again no order than a pure Armagh bias!

Rian
Oisin
Gareth
Stephen
Sean ( for benefit of youngsters on GAA team of century...wobbler can tell you more) My 90 year old dad described him as " take the best of Clifford, Matt Connor, Linden and  that would be him)
Dr. Pat ( again for youngsters a key part of Heffos brilliant Dublin team of the seventies).

So who have I missed?
Is there an O'Neill or an O'Shea who played on an All Ireland winning club team?

Is there another surname that could be added. You'd think Murphy would be a cert. but after Michael and Vinny ( Dublin) I'm struggling.

Over to you.

Donegal will no longer be using
Las Vegas in the hills of Donegal as their song.

Jim has changed it to this

https://youtube.com/shorts/ul7X0NVAHkQ?si=oLpuFGi7LE6I5eeU

Is anyone genuinely surprised?

How many more have to die?

Anyone care to predict the combined winning margin.

I'm going for 35 points.

The all Ireland championship hasn't even reached the quarter final stage yet and every team have lost at least one game.

I think that is what makes it so good this year. Dublin Kerry Armagh Donegal all will have something to prove. It's a pity that the quarter draw isn't been done same time as the prelims.

Good idea in principle but not feasible. Too many fixtures not permissable that you have to wait for the prelims to be Iver before you make the quarter final draw.

Will all the quarter finals be in Croke Park?

Yes. Debate to be had that the same should be done as the Tailteann cup whereby the group winners gets home advantage for the Quarter finals.

Nice idea but not really one for debate. Too many county grounds simply aren't big enough.
Our own ground has a capacity of 18000. You'd have that many Armagh ones looking to be there.
Imagine Louth had a home  quarter final, or Meath.

When is the draw made?

Tomorrow at 8:30am. 

Thanks

When is the draw made?

The time to drive from each counties main ground to the selected venue

Kerry - Killarney to O'Connor Park 2hr 51 minutes   
Meath  -  Navan to O'Connor Park  1hr 5 minutes

Roscommon - Hyde Park to O'Moore Park  1 hr 21 minutes   
Cork  - Pairc Ui Chaoimh to O'Moore park 1 hr 42 minutes

Armagh - Athletic grounds to Breffni park 1hr 7 minutes
Galway,  Pearse Stadium to Breffni park  2hrs

Derry  Celtic Park  to Páirc Esler 1hr 55 minutes
Dublin Croke Park to Pairc Esler  1hr 5 minutes

Donegal ballybofey to Hyde park 2hr 17 minutes
Mayo, HacHale Park to Hyde Park  1hr  14 minutes

Tyrone Healy Park to Brewster Park  40 minutes
Cavan, Breffni park to Brewster park  44 minutes

Louth Drogheda to O'Moore park  1hr 26 minutes
Clare, Cusack Park to O'Moore Park, 1hr 34 minutes

Monaghan Clones to Athletic Grounds 41 minutes
Down, Newry to Athletic Grounds  26 minutes

Thanks for putting that up.

Don't understand why the Kerry v Meath game couldn't have been in Limerick or Thurles. Have played Meath in both those venues in the past. No direct public transport to Tullamore from Killarney or Tralee either.

And no chance of either county having the balls to stream the game either I'm guessing.

Half of the Kerry supporters travelling to the game are up in arms about it, but the other 3 seem to be OK with it!!

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Dead rubber time for Longford today in Tullamore v Carlow.

I will head like it matters. Hope to see an open game with Longford starting or bringing on some new lads.

Carlow will be eager to put us to the sword, again! The league meeting was a massacre and this was WITH Cake in charge.

The only way is up.

Fair play to you.
A true supporter.
Can't be many days in the sun following Longford

We had that and weren't happy. One reason was Dublin and Kerry in effect getting automatic entry to last 8.
 
51% voted for a "flawed concept"
Large cohort of the 49% said they wanted change but not that change.
Then the present system was voted in by over 90%.

Jeopardy Jarlath came along and said that had to go.
The new "sigerson" system for 2026 was voted in by over 90%.

Maybe like the hurley crowd we might one day hit on an excellent system by accident.

In other words those in charge are throwing mud at the wall to see what sticks. 

No. Those in charge won't address the elephant in the room.
The provincial championships need to go.
Or if they don't go they need to have no bearing on the All-Ireland.
Top 16 teams from Division 1 and 2 in All-Ireland.

Those Armagh odds shows how open a championship would be most seasons if we can keep the Dublin juggernaut under control.

Still can't rule out Tyrone, Mayo or even Meath, even those daft bastards in Cork if they ever got focused. Those teams just need a few of the firmer favourites to wipe each other and out and they'll start to believe.

Tyrone could do it, you just never know with those huers. Mayo will never win it at this stage.

 Meath are definitely going the right way but lets see how they back up that performance before we start talking about them as contenders. Cork have a lot of the tools but I'd say they'd need a McGuinness type figure to come in.

We played Cork in Cork last game of the league last year and stole a draw.
They absolutely cut us apart several times and looked dangerous every time they attacked. Frightening pace everywhere but conceded a goal to Rory Grugan that an under 12 team would have been disappointed to concede.
On their day could beat anyone but also could lose to anyone.