All Ireland club football championships 2023/24

Started by Blowitupref, January 06, 2023, 09:18:03 PM

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Blowitupref

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
Is the ref going to finally blow his whistle?... No, he's going to blow his nose

Gold

Predictions:

Junior: Fossa and Stewartstown

Intermediate: Rathmore and Galbally

Senior: K Crokes and Glen (tightest 1 to call of the lot)
"Cheeky Charlie McKenna..."

From the Bunker

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

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

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

Is there commentary going on at the ground as well?
None of us are getting out of here alive, so please stop treating yourself like an after thought. Ea

Blowitupref

Stewartstown Harps and Clifden finished level 1-6 to 0-9. Extra time to be played.
Is the ref going to finally blow his whistle?... No, he's going to blow his nose

Milltown Row2

This game could be going to a draw also, serious amount of wides for the Tyrone team
None of us are getting out of here alive, so please stop treating yourself like an after thought. Ea

Blowitupref

Galbally Pearses with a strong finish 1-2 to no score. FT 4-4 to 1-9
Is the ref going to finally blow his whistle?... No, he's going to blow his nose

Milltown Row2

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.

None of us are getting out of here alive, so please stop treating yourself like an after thought. Ea

Blowitupref

#10
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

Is the ref going to finally blow his whistle?... No, he's going to blow his nose

clarshack

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

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

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

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