All Ireland Final Armagh v Galway 28 July 2024

[Orior]

All this chit chat and no one's mentioned the former Gaaboard legend Tony Fearon 🤣🤣, quick look at his fb and he was at match anyway

As you were 🤝

He of booking the wrong weekend in the City West fame?

That's the one 🤓 he deffo made the match, whether he sorted the hotel correctly is another matter lol

I met Tony on Jones' Road and he's doing well.

When I see him again I'll tell him you're all asking about him.

[Orior]

For those that want to re-live the whole day. Great video by Killian.

[Armagh18]

Anyone sober enough to watch that?

[Captain Obvious]

For those that want to re-live the whole day. Great video by Killian.

All it's missing is another good pitch celebration. At Least Armagh have those 2002 memories!

[Orior]

How did the flasher woman get a ticket?

She was either Upper Hogan or Upper Cusack.

[Mario]

For those that want to re-live the whole day. Great video by Killian.

All it's missing is another good pitch celebration. At Least Armagh have those 2002 memories!

I was surprised there wasn't one. Was hoping for it tbh

[Mourne Red]

I do miss the pitch invasions myself - however I can understand why they don't happen. (Outside of health & safety) The panel/coaches/backroom team won it together and should have a chance to celebrate together and soak it all in. Do however think that players/staff Family should be allowed on the pitch as they've been there with them through good times/bad times of that season.

[David McKeown]

O'Neill's role has changed greatly - he sits very deep. He was very good yesterday and Silke maybe didn't have a huge influence which he can sometimes have. His role wouldn't really be comparable to Walsh's.

On the frees thing Armagh had one scoreable free and one scoreable mark. Rare you'd see a team with so little. (Grimley could have had a mark for his point too).

Hurson was playing advantage for the free at that stage. Don't know if Grimley knew that.

[Wildweasel74]

Tell Tony we didnt know how lucky we were, to have him, when u see the shit posed on the America politics thread, it's been awhile lol.

[Eamonnca1]

Just catching up on this thread now. Some criticism of the match is a bit harsh. From what I saw it looked like Armagh were much more direct in their play. After the first ten minutes I was starting to believe Armagh would win it because they were taking less than a minute to get a score, as opposed to Galway taking several minutes to footer their way up the field and passing back-and-forth for ages before finally trying a shot.

Armagh would occasionally take their time to build up, but once the forwards were in a scoring formation then it was usually full steam ahead and not as much dithering about as on the Galway side.

I don't think it's fair to compare football to hurling, or any sport to each other for that matter. Each sport has its own selling points. Soccer doesn't have rapid-fire scoring, but it gets its excitement from the suspense and the high value of each score. Even Cricket can be exciting if you know what's going on. Gaelic football is exciting in its own way when it's played properly, it's just a different kind of excitement from hurling. Yes a lot of games this year have been in slow motion, but yesterday the slow stuff looked to me like it was mostly on the Galway side, it cost them as a result, and it showed that "puke football" doesn't always win games.

All this talk about changing the rules is misguided IMHO. I've seen Armagh innovate their way out of dour football before. Remember the blanket defence where whoever caught the ball would be swarmed and surrounded? Before the mark was introduced, Armagh found a way around it by going up for the high ball and deflecting it down to a loose teammate. Yesterday they showed the value of the kind of high-paced game that the people want to watch.

I agree that the commentary over the top of everything is annoying. You've got plenty of time to build up the match, but let the TV viewers get some sense of the pomp and ceremony of the occasion. Let's see the teams bursting onto the field (which the GAA does better than any other sport including soccer IMHO - nothing as dull as a pair of teams walking onto the field together). Let's hear the names of the jubilee team. Let's hear all the speeches.

Someone says Jarlath "likes the sound of his own voice." Seems like he's bate both ways there. If he were a bad orator then you'd be complaining about that too. There was nothing wrong with his speeches yesterday or last week. He's an inspirational speaker, fair play to him, and to hell with the begrudgers.

Up Armagh.

[Armagh18]

Eamon I'm sure thats a great post but I will read it on Thursday or so

[quit yo jibbajabba]

How did the flasher woman get a ticket?

She was either Upper Hogan or Upper Cusack.

Disgusted. Absolutely disgusted. She hadn't shaved the pits

[Milltown Row2]

How did the flasher woman get a ticket?

She was either Upper Hogan or Upper Cusack.

Disgusted. Absolutely disgusted. She hadn't shaved the pits

Is it the same orange woman who was at the 12th?

I checked a few times and can't make my mind up

[brokencrossbar1]

How did the flasher woman get a ticket?

She was either Upper Hogan or Upper Cusack.

Disgusted. Absolutely disgusted. She hadn't shaved the pits

Is it the same orange woman who was at the 12th?

I checked a few times and can't make my mind up

Yeah it's her. Is she an attention seeker or someone with mental health issues?  Who knows but she should have been no where near the game.

[Milltown Row2]

How did the flasher woman get a ticket?

She was either Upper Hogan or Upper Cusack.

Disgusted. Absolutely disgusted. She hadn't shaved the pits

Is it the same orange woman who was at the 12th?

I checked a few times and can't make my mind up

Yeah it's her. Is she an attention seeker or someone with mental health issues?  Who knows but she should have been no where near the game.

Apparently there's a site she's on. A social over 18's site