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Is Blaine Hughes as good as niall Morgan?

Probably not but you don't win all stars unless you get to a qf

Everyone said it would be a very tight game and Galway would just shade it but they wouldn't be surprised if Armagh won. Fair enough analysis before the game given how Galway performed in the group game. They also eliminated the AI champs.

I don't know why Armagh fans seem annoyed at this. Heard Mcgeeney reference it last night as well. It was all very logical analysis.

There's no romance in Galway
At least Mayo had the good grace to die with their boots on

Fair to say neither of them teams will make the semi final next year

Galway with Kelly Walsh comer finnerty fully fit will be hard beat the hurt of yesterday should drive them on as well.

Walsh and Comer are another year older next year. I'd have no confidence they will be fully fit consistently. This year is actually the year they've played together the most probably and how many top performances have they had between the two of them. 1 each maybe.

Thiugh Hurson was poor, did Walsh not kick Barry at one stage?

As a neutral I thought he was very good. Not too many contentious decisions. One that went Armaghs way at a key time was when Jarly og was bundled over the end line and he gave a free out, I thought it was a Galway 45 myself.

Definitely feels like there has been a bit of a shift in Gaelic football towards the defensive side. The old cliche of needing 20 points to win the big games in Croke park is no longer true. 16 or 17 would nearly do it. The best sides this year in Armagh, Galway and Donegal do not give up goal chances due to how well they are structured in defence.

It is bucketing down in Paris. There will be athletes catching colds hanging about in that for a few hours.

You don't get a cold from being cold

Operating at our top level we are right up there. We played better last year v Kerry last year than Armagh did over normal time but didn't finish the job.

We were below par this year in championship but we basically played a top level team every single game too. Most teams only really have to get up for 2 big games. Armagh were allowed below par performances v Down, Westmeath and maybe even Roscommon. Galway against Sligo, Westmeath, Monaghan. We never really got a breather to reset and get a bit of confidence back after the league. Westmeath maybe but the game was do or die at that stage so a lot of pressure.

A kinder draw, refreshed management, and a full squad going into championship and we'll compete with all the main contenders again. It would be nice to be on the easier side of the Ulster championship draw for a change as well.

We are too quick to write off teams in the GAA. Imagine tipping Galway or Armagh to reach the AI final after their provincial games v Sligo and Down.

The easiest way to secure an AI final ticket is to be a sponsor / in a senior position for a sponsor.

The second easiest way to secure an AI ticket is to be on the county board for a competing county.

The third easiest way is to be a referee in one of the competing counties.

The fourth easiest is to be an active member of a club from one of the competing counties.

After that, it's a lottery.

And rightly so.

All of the above are more deserving than the rest.

You've a family that has been to every single league and championship game this year (family club membership) , who will really struggle to get tickets for all 4, even for 1 or 2 in a stadium that holds 82k, surely there's a better way of doing it and rewarding loyalty while also looking after thousands of fat cat / daytrippers?

If someone is both upwardly mobile enough and financially secure enough to take a family of 4 to 18 games across Ireland in the space of 25 weeks, then they already have a great life and don't need the spoils of an AI final ticket. Or maybe they do. But I won't feel sorry for them all the same.

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In my experience there aren't that many day trippers / fat cats at an AI final.

Ha what a weird take. Only poor people should get AI tickets to offset the misery in their life.

How good has Ryan McHugh been this year. He's definitely been talking of as an all star contender but since the Derry game where he was motm he was well marshalled v Tyrone, had a quiet Ulster final, got turned over v Cork for one of the goals and didn't have his best game yesterday.

Aontu got over 1000 in that area.

Who was Aontú's candidate?

Gemma Brolly

[Galway were the better team in 2022]

Modern day rivals!

Played about 5 times already in the last 10-12 years. Last three championship games:
2022 - drawn AET - Galway win on pens
2023 - Armagh win group game
2024 - Draw in group game

Absolutely nothing between them!

Galway alight favourites presumably because they have AIF experience.

Galway were the better team in 2022 and  2024 but were sucker punched by unlucky goals against the run of play.

They still didn't win  the match .  Being the  "better team" means diddly squat  if you don't win

What do you mean. They did win

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

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

Modern day rivals!

Played about 5 times already in the last 10-12 years. Last three championship games:
2022 - drawn AET - Galway win on pens
2023 - Armagh win group game
2024 - Draw in group game

Absolutely nothing between them!

Galway alight favourites presumably because they have AIF experience.

Galway were the better team in 2022 and  2024 but were sucker punched by unlucky goals against the run of play.

Sean Cavanagh "Galway should be leading by more" will anyone tell him they aren't ahead? BBC coverage for me.

Not much better on BBC.. Harte saying defences are in top. Dont know what game he's watching

I was wondering that as well. Murphy corrected it thankfully. Maybe that explains Derry's tactics during the championship.

Fair enough more than I thought. Point still stands that they haven't had the success you'd expect from such a crop