All Ireland club football championships 2023/24

Blowitupref · January 06, 2023, 09:18:03 PM

All Ireland semi finals on this weekend deserves a thread of its own.

Saturday

All-Ireland club IFC semi-finals
St Mogue's Fethard (Wexford) v Rathmore (Kerry), Páirc Uí Rinn, 2pm
Dunmore MacHales (Galway) v Galbally Pearses (Tyrone), St Loman's, Mullingar, 1:30pm

All-Ireland club JFC semi-finals
Castletown (Meath) v Fossa (Kerry), Laois Hire O'Moore Park, 2pm
Clifden (Galway) v Stewartstown Harps (Tyrone), Dr Hyde Park, 1pm

Sunday

All-Ireland club SFC semi-finals
Kilmacud Crokes (Dublin) v Kerins O'Rahilly's (Kerry), Croke Park, 1.30pm - TG4
Moycullen (Galway) v Glen (Derry), Croke Park, 3.30pm - TG4

Gold · January 06, 2023, 11:34:13 PM

Predictions:

Junior: Fossa and Stewartstown

Intermediate: Rathmore and Galbally

Senior: K Crokes and Glen (tightest 1 to call of the lot)

From the Bunker · January 07, 2023, 12:38:58 AM

You'd expect Fossa and Rathmore to go all the way. They come from a naturally higher graded championship system in Kerry.

Kerins O'Rahilly's will have it tougher as they are on a more level playing field.

imtommygunn · January 07, 2023, 08:17:08 AM

Kerins o'rahillys don't look great for provincial champions. I would say they will be lucky to get within 5 or 6 of kilmacaud.

The other game is intriguing. Hard to say who will win it

general_lee · January 07, 2023, 01:00:28 PM

Quote from: imtommygunn on January 07, 2023, 08:17:08 AM
Kerins o'rahillys don't look great for provincial champions. I would say they will be lucky to get within 5 or 6 of kilmacaud.

The other game is intriguing. Hard to say who will win it

An exciting weekend of football ahead, would be good to see the two Tyrone & Kerry clubs win through to their finals.
The senior semis look exciting, think the Crokes juggernaut will win it outright but KOR could spring a shock. The other semi is intriguing with two relative unknowns going head to head. I fancy Glen but only because they defeated the reigning AI champs

Milltown Row2 · January 07, 2023, 01:46:33 PM

Is there commentary going on at the ground as well?

Blowitupref · January 07, 2023, 02:25:29 PM

Stewartstown Harps and Clifden finished level 1-6 to 0-9. Extra time to be played.

Milltown Row2 · January 07, 2023, 02:30:21 PM

This game could be going to a draw also, serious amount of wides for the Tyrone team

Blowitupref · January 07, 2023, 02:52:45 PM

Galbally Pearses with a strong finish 1-2 to no score. FT 4-4 to 1-9

Milltown Row2 · January 07, 2023, 02:57:16 PM

Quote from: Blowitupref on January 07, 2023, 02:52:45 PM
Galbally Pearses with a strong finish 1-2 to no score. FT 4-4 to 1-9

Point down with 1 of normal time remaining, but two great catches and superb goal settles it.

Blowitupref · January 07, 2023, 03:09:04 PM

AET Stewartstown Harps 1-14 Clifden 1-9. Tyrone champions kicked on after Clifden missed a penalty in the 2nd half of extra time.

Elsewhere, as expected routine wins for the Kerry champions.

Intermediate semi final
St Mogue's Fethard (Wexford) 1-10 Rathmore 2-16

Junior semi final
Castletown (Meath) 0-11 Fossa 3-14

clarshack · January 07, 2023, 03:49:45 PM

We made hard work of that game, there were a lot of errors but it's an amazing experience to reach Croke Park in which we didn't get the chance in 2005.

From the Bunker · January 07, 2023, 04:22:23 PM

Quote from: Blowitupref on January 07, 2023, 03:09:04 PM
AET Stewartstown Harps 1-14 Clifden 1-9. Tyrone champions kicked on after Clifden missed a penalty in the 2nd half of extra time.

Elsewhere, as expected routine wins for the Kerry champions.

Intermediate semi final
St Mogue's Fethard (Wexford) 1-10 Rathmore 2-16

Junior semi final
Castletown (Meath) 0-11 Fossa 3-14

One can only expect what is really a Kerry Senior B team team to sail through the AI Intermediate Club championship and a Kerry Intermediate B team team to sail through the AI Junior Club championship.

The mismatch grading makes decent championship winning clubs from their counties and Provinces look weak and not give a true reflection of their journey with embarrassing hammerings.

Kerry teams get the (false) plaudits for being of a higher standard and better coached.

clonadmad · January 07, 2023, 04:29:42 PM

Having seen Fossa in action today

They would be at a minimum top 4 in the laois senior championship and probably at least the same in half of the senior club championships in the country

Armagh18 · January 07, 2023, 05:07:45 PM

Quote from: clonadmad on January 07, 2023, 04:29:42 PM
Having seen Fossa in action today

They would be at a minimum top 4 in the laois senior championship and probably at least the same in half of the senior club championships in the country

I'd say you could put the 2 cliffords into any decent senior team in the country and all of a sudden they'd look like potential all ireland winners lol