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[Every game is a lottery.]

Why is the final between the 2 d2 teams? Hmmmn.

Because this is Ulster, where every team in the province has contested the final at least once  in the last twenty years.
Every game is a lottery.
Its why it the best championship in the land.

You might have a point but there's no need to tell lies.

There appear to be no certainties so if not a lottery its certainly unpredictable.

There are certainties. Antrim & Fermanagh are going to lose. Down extremely likely to as well.

You could have picked 4 out of 9 to win it. 2 of those are in the final.

Pedantic posts of the week go to.... 

It's a completely boring and untrue narrative though.
The Leinster final of 2023 had 2 Division 2 teams in it. They felt no need to use that fact to big themselves up. We, in Ulster, do. Our football can be fcukin dreadful too, and there's plenty of evidence this weekend.

In 2023 Leinster didnt have any Division 1 teams

Have to commend Oisin Gallen's role in first goal, he was in front of goal with McKague and his run out to right forced McKague into having to decide whether to go with him or cover the goals.

How do I know ? For a starter both are named .
Sean Kelly played last week and went off with an impact/contact injury that has came from several reports including Barry cullinane on mayo news podcast last night .
All indications are Damien comer has been rested with a view to the knockout stages , all evidence points to he was good to go last week bar a bit of a fook up with paper work .

So I larryin89 of sane mind will confidently make an assessment of all available evidence and say both will be part of the Galway team on Sunday . Now if you think that is talking shite that's your opinion which you are entitled to but I beg to differ .

Absolute bullshit. That is a complete lie re Comer

Strong words there. You should back them up with some facts .

The paperwork mess up didn't stop Comer playing last week,
it stopped Galway from replacing him in the matchday panel.
So lf he was fit he could have started or come on later.

Are the tickets out for the Round matches?

For me the biggest incorrect call was forcing armagh to retake the kick out after they won possession. Not sure why he did that but thought it gave Derry a chance to get possession back.

He spoke to someone for something off the ball, don't even think he booked them or anything ffs.

It was ridiculous to stop the play like that. He then spoke to someone for about 2 seconds.

This isn't going away and pleads of let's get back to football won't work.
TV on Sunday has to discuss this in the build up. Ignoring it makes them at best look like clowns, at worst complicit in how DV is covered up and dealt with in Ireland.

I'd love nothing more than to wind up the Armagh legion on here, believe me but this is front page news and will pull people into the discussion who wouldn't know who or what was happening on Sunday.

TV cannot touch this with a bargepole, RTE or BBC would be sued into the next millennium and they know it.

What is there too discuss on TV and to what end? RTE in particular have been sued for libel numerous times.

The baying mob on here need to get a grip

It's front page news! I can't see how they can ignore it.

The media can talk about domestic violence and how sporting organisations react to them.
The story was on the front page of THe Irish News this morning without naming him, but he has since confirmed that the alligations are about him.
As long as they do not make statements saying he is guilty what would be the case for libel.

The reality is, if he is on the line on Sunday this will be a huge PR problem for the GAA. at the minute Guilt or innocence is not the issue, it is the perception of taking accusations seriously.
The media would absolutely slaughter both Derry and the GAA in general for being seen to be soft on domestic violence.
RG is not the calmest man on the sideline so the almost certain hostile reaction of the crowd could set something off, which again would be a PR disaster.

At this stage the veracity of the allegations is irrelevant in relation to what the Derry County Board have to do, they have to stand him down simply because these allegations are out there in such a public way. There are plenty of examples of people being stood down in similar circumstances in many walks of life.
They will come under pressure from Croke Park to deal with this quickly as well.
Even from a pragmatic point of view, can you imagine how ugly the scenes could get on Sunday if he is on the line- Croke Park will simply not allow that scenario to develop and be front page headlines.

What if there is no police investigation?
Should he be removed based on social media posts? I can certainly see a case to suspend if there is an ongoing police investigation, but if it's just social media then where does it stop?
Anyone can say anything about anyone online. I could go online now and make some false accusations about the Armagh manager. Should Armagh county board suspend him until that's investigated?

In the absence of official police investigations, online posts should be ignored in all walks of life in my opinion as it could all be nonsense.
That's not taking away from what I'd expect to happen to a perpetrator of such an attack or how a victim should be treated, I simply think we can't let online social media be the source of truth that gets taken seriously.

If there is no police investigation that will cause a difficulty and I would have thought the PSNI/Garda would be pressed to justify such a decision.
On your point that anybody could post accusations- this is not just anybody, this is his ex-wife and the accusations are very specific.

At this stage the veracity of the allegations is irrelevant in relation to what the Derry County Board have to do, they have to stand him down simply because these allegations are out there in such a public way. There are plenty of examples of people being stood down in similar circumstances in many walks of life.
They will come under pressure from Croke Park to deal with this quickly as well.
Even from a pragmatic point of view, can you imagine how ugly the scenes could get on Sunday if he is on the line- Croke Park will simply not allow that scenario to develop and be front page headlines.

One thing is now for certain. Louth will get all the marginal calls in the final.

Why would it be certain that Louth will get the marginal calls in the final?

The standard of refereeing in the 2 televised matches today has been absolutely brutal

Athletic grounds is a great place for a game. Full house or near enough, and very sound Armagh crowd. There was good craic, probably helped because both teams had their patches and nobody lost!
Thought it was a soft free at the end, but that was some roar when it went over.
Both teams have to stop fading out of games, but when they were on top, they looked v good.
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Last free was perhaps a little soft but he gave a very similar one to Mayo which put them  16-11 up. Both had 2 arns round the man but with no real force.

Announced that the Armagh-Mayo game is sold out.

Surely Athletic Grounds is not sold out for a league game...what's that roughly 17-18k?. I got two tickets at the start of the week and even then i had to wait on second batch to come out...this is unheard of if true for a league game.
On the game itself...on the eye test Mayo looks to be a few weeks further down the road than Armagh if last weeks games are anything to go by and if thats the case they may just edge this one. However, if there's one thing i've learned for following Armagh for over 3 decades is always expect the unexpected and they never dissapoint. Two Monaghan guys standing beside me on Sat nite were ready to go home just after Armagh had their wee purple patch and I said don't go anywhere it's Armagh you're playing...5 mins after saying that there was 1 point in it...lol.
Armagh for me just need to find 2-3 players on top of what they have and the'd be a serious team but unfortunately the 3 players needed are in key positions...we need a serious midfielder, an imposing athletic CHB and another quality forward the first two more so than the forward. I suppose this could be the case for most of the top 10 teams in Ireland though and that's why they are where they are.

I think Des Cahill said it is expected to be a sell out rather than it is already sold out

Armagh made 12 or 13 changes at half time

Is the upper davin (section 721) too high to get any sort of good view of the game?

The upper deck is a different experience to the lower deck, it gives you a great sense of the movement of the players in comparison but not as much of an up close view of the nitty gritty of the game, So it depends on your preferences.