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Good Luck to Tyrone minors.   Hopefully they won't get undone by partizan free state refereeing

Ros won't need crooked refeeing to beat the Tymoanies.

Only the best get to play ball in September. I expect an all mighty battle and I hope we can just edge it.

Ye have already made us enormously proud, lads, so go out there and enjoy the big stage.

(And thanks to the Rhus for the vote of confidence, though the ceasefire will end at 3pm if we have our way )

Pearcey looks great in primrose and blue.

Flying the flag for Ballagh, County Roscommon. Our second favourite son, after Andy.

Ok, third favourite after Seanin Kilbride.

Does Gerry even age? Are vampires even eligible to be Taoiseach?

Pretty sure Dev put a stipulation against them holding high office in the constitution when he was writing it.

I don't know if we can just pull a Pilate on this one and wash our hands anymore. It's clear the West would like nothing more than not bombing Syria given how slow they've been to respond to what has essentially amounted to continued genocide for over two years so the old reliable of war-mongering Yanks doesn't cut mustard here.

It's a brave decision and if it helps the rebels over-throw Assad the Middle East will be a little better and a little nearer to peace.

Only a fool would use weapons that would provoke an international response.

When reasons were needed in the past.....WMD or Gulf of Tonkin ... they were found.

Are you really trying to apply logical thinking to a despot dictator? Have a look at what chubby in North Korea has been at recently. This is in their wheel-house.

I haven't made up my mind yet.

Serious question:

So you go in and remove Assad from power - what is the exit strategy?

More Libya lite than Iraq. I don't see an end-game with Western boots on the ground unless they're UN peacekeepers.

More influences at play in Syria than Libya.

There is very little appetite for that after the past decade. Drones have been the front-line troops in a lot of engagements recently and are quite effective at doing most of what GI Joe can do in terms of waging war.

Russia and China are invested in keeping Assad there so there's no way they're going to agree to ceasefire ultimatums. If they couldn't agree on Libya there isn't much point trying to even attempt to on a key power in the Middle East. Putin is enjoying sticking it to Obama on Syria, think Grimley having a swipe at Brolly after pasting Leitrim.

I haven't made up my mind yet.

Serious question:

So you go in and remove Assad from power - what is the exit strategy?

More Libya lite than Iraq. I don't see an end-game with Western boots on the ground unless they're UN peacekeepers.

I see the Graham Geraghty-headed one reckons the poor Rossies might be flusterated by Tyrone's cynical play.

Hope the referees keep an eye on that, we don't want any of our lambs slaughtered by Mickey's men.

Tyrone will be pretty confident, they rarely lose All Ireland semi finals at this level and Mayo awaiting who rarely win finals at any level.

If ever there is a grade were previous form matters for feck all it's minor.

You can't ignore Tyrones record at this level and Ulster sides have won nine out of the last fifteen minor All Irelands.

The most important Ulster-focussed result right now is the Ulster champions being kicked around like a play-thing by Mayo and even that has little bearing on the rest of the championship.

You can give Monaghan the benefit of the doubt, first Ulster minor football title since 1945 and probably over celebrated it.

Given they beat Tipp in the intervening period that's one hell of a delayed reaction to celebrating.

Tyrone will be pretty confident, they rarely lose All Ireland semi finals at this level and Mayo awaiting who rarely win finals at any level.

If ever there is a grade were previous form matters for feck all it's minor.

You can't ignore Tyrones record at this level and Ulster sides have won nine out of the last fifteen minor All Irelands.

The most important Ulster-focussed result right now is the Ulster champions being kicked around like a play-thing by Mayo and even that has little bearing on the rest of the championship.

Tyrone will be pretty confident, they rarely lose All Ireland semi finals at this level and Mayo awaiting who rarely win finals at any level.

If ever there is a grade were previous form matters for feck all it's minor.

[When did that happen last ?]

Full house tomorrow for the semi final ?

When did that happen last ? It takes the Dubs to bring the crowds.

Err, last year? That was a pre-match sell-out too. I don't remember if they removed the netting for Mayo-Dublin last year but if they did or didn't 81,350+ is a sell-out for all practical purposes as nearly all other tickets would have been bought but not used.

If you can't act when a dictator is slaughtering his people en masse for years for daring to oppose him then gasses one of own cities within ear-shot of a UN mission then you might as well give up the rhetoric about being world leaders. How Syria react will probably be in the form of some sort of proxy attack against Israel but you can't simply sit on the sidelines any longer.

From rte.ie, Dublin team shows one change - Andrews for Cullen

Dublin: S Cluxton, K O'Brien, R O'Carroll, J Cooper, J McCarthy, G Brennan, J McCaffrey, M D MacAuley, C O'Sullivan, P Flynn, C Kilkenny, D Connolly, P Mannion, P Andrews, B Brogan

Very, very strong team. Kerry will need all to go their way to beat that outfit.

Is is not the same very,very strong team that was forced to dig out a win against Meath? Dublin will need to call upon McManamon,Bastick,Rock to win this game.

It'll probably be in the bag before Rock gets his usual 6-10 minutes.

Dublin just need to let the Kerry bluster fade and then ease past them.