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Fact is Donegal beat 2,3,   4th division or yo-yo teams (Kildare, Roscommon) and Bonnar "free flowing football " leaves Donegal football in pre Mc Guinness era!  Donegal have failed to beat any of top 6 teams.

Fantastic atmosphere at the game , Meath supporters really got behind team, it's a terrible pity about the toilets for men and women, disgraceful facilities

Hi Zulu
You are posting since 2007 and you have posted over 6000 times , twice a day
You have an opinion on everything


So why don't you just  cop on.

Over reaction? I think so

Over the past weekend 16 Senior Gaelic Inter County   Football matches were played,
About 6% of these matches have received over 90% of the comment in GAA sport pages this week, over reaction?

I suspect very few of those forecasting the death of Gaelic football paid in to see the matches (press passes etc),
Lest we forget: This isn't the  1st time the Dublin supporters have been booing. I have been to several matches in Croke Park and witnessed whistling and booing over many years,  as  per example .
Mickey Whelan quit just minutes after a section of Dublin fans  booed and shouted: "Out! Out! Out!" after his side were beaten by three points.
The perceived problems with Gaelic Football could be solved quite easily with a few simple tweaks to the rules, but that is for another day.

P.S. Joe Brolly comments to Mickey Harte are despicable.

I have not known any GAA manager who got rich by managing a Gaelic football club or county.
People  please--- we need to cop on about this--the reality is far from the myth-- I can assure  you, most managers struggle to get reasonable expenses and certainly do not get re reimbursed for their time commitment, ( if a club or county  are lucky enough to have a wealthy business person who loves the GAA, then that is a different perspective  as the GAA is not providing the money in this scenario and therefore  not to be confused with County Boards or Clubs paying managers.
As for Joe Brolly, well guys he is probably one of the ex players who is   extremely well paid for his commentary on all things GAA, but his views are typical  of a middle aged anxious Dad as he views  the sporting  careers  of his teenage kids coming under pressure from their genes, their birthplace, from their peers and from their environment and therefore his  perceived problems of the GAA  are a focus point of his blame game.

All the best for 2015

Did any one else the clear Black Card which O Gara should have received for a definite trip on the Monaghan defender early in the first half.

Went completely unnoticed / ignored  by Sunday game panellist.

some great pictures in papers of Armagh tactics on Saturday--catch them by the throat stuff

All forecasts are for attendances well  down at qualifiers and 1/4 final games this August Bank Holiday, yet we have several so called exponents of  Gaelic Football playing--Kerry, Galway,, Mayo, Cork, Meath , Kildare.
Can anyone explain this low interest,  Sky maybe or  Perhaps all are awaiting Donegal and Dublin next week end to see "real football" Or perhaps the games are just too expensive for the ordinary football fan. Has GAA lost touch with ordinary  GAA fans?

Attendances increase in Ulster and decline in other provinces.This is a very clear endorsement of the quality of Ulster football. Pat Spillane and his ilk  are yesterdays pundits.

Oh how times have changed :
Armagh /Meath , Monaghan/Kildare  may thwart the game  every one wants to see ( Dublin v Donegal).
Remember this was the game  nobody wanted to watch in 2011. Amazing to see the press speculation this week.

"Eoinbite" and the aplolgists

this event certainly warrants a full investigation;
allegations of  punching, kicking , biting.
is a " bite" more serious than marching behind the wrong flag.
Seems  like the Dublin PR guys are at work.
who is this Charlie Redmond guy? is that the same guy that was sent off and didn't leave the field of play many years ago.


Dublin  haven't received a black card this year because they have developed new methods of circumventing the rules.

No  point in complaining about injuries to players when Cavan ditched players like Seanie J.
Clearly the defender who went to the USA for the summer saw the writing on the wall long before the  Cavan supporters.

So the players are the scapegoats once again! Didn't we all see the "Spectator" who punched a Cavan Player in the parade bust up pre match. Just wondering what suspension he got?

Cavan are full of hot air, as was evidenced by their claims in the press last week. The Cavan lads and their supporters thought they were Ulster champs in waiting. a limited team with a  limited management. Probably the most arrogant / ignorant  Supporters around at the minute.

lets see the  pundits get their tinted glasses on and analyse Dublins tackling technique. e.g Sunday's Final , not one legal tackle from Dublin in the match-lot of pulling , dragging , head high , leading with forearm , no shoulder to shoulder. Yes Jim has his team playing on the edge and beyond and that is why they are one step ahead.

no one is defending Cluxton's right to kick.
in my view , Mc loughlin is guilty of a cynical foul--isnt this what the Black Cards is meant  to stamp out--deiberately obstructing a player from making a play or a movement.

Mc loughlin admits attempting to "obstruct"  Cluxton's quick kick out. This was  in effect blocking the man from making a play. I think Mc Loughlin should have received a Black card.

Knockmore clubman McLoughlin said to the Examiner: "I just felt a bit of a kick. It kind of hurt.

"I ran in his way to stop him kicking the ball out quickly and I think he just retaliated.

( Horan thought the ref had a bad game )