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It might not br far away from a sell out. Dublin and mayo have the two biggest support bases in the country. Derry cork match probably attract 15-20,000 on its own. They sold all the tickets for last years quarter final double bill on the Sunday.

Jayas the bitterness is hanging out of of that boy yellowcard, Donegal and Tyrone have done their counties proud and won their all Ireland Titles in style. Maybe its time for the weaker counties of ulster to stop the thrash talk and get their act together.

He's on another thread saying Armagh only got relegated because Mayo put out a weak team v Monaghan. And Armagh only lost to Tyrone because they missed chances. He doesn't seem to get how sport actually works.

No matter about the live shows surely there is no excuse for not having a highlights show this Saturday night? Doesn't look to be one in their schedule. Two of the biggest games of the year surely deserve some sort of coverage that day/evening?

The tickets available to ticketmaster will have all sold out, it's not to do with them being released in batches.

But the gaa will have held so many back for season ticket holders, sponsors, officials and a small allocation for all clubs in the counties. Good chance most people will have bought online and some of the club tickets make there way back onto ticketmaster later in the week.

Circa 57k attendances at the 4 Pre QF games.
Will the QFs exceed 100k next weekend?

Yeah they should easily enough. I'd imagine Sunday will get over 70,000 (may even close to sell out). Saturday could well hit 50,000 plus.

[But they've produced nothing since then to back it up]

Nine times out of ten Kerry would have won that match in 2021 but everything fell Tyrone's way on the day and fair play to them for capitalising. But they've produced nothing since then to back it up. Man for man Kerry are much superior to Tyrone and I actually think they will win this very comfortably as Tyrone are not great in defence.

Have beaten Kerry twice in the league since that 2021 championship meeting. In March against a full strength Kerry 1-15 to 2-8
And last year in Killarney 1-15 to 2-11 the only league or championship defeat Kerry had in 2022.

The game that was a dead rubber for Kerry where they rested lots of players and had the league final the following week, and that's somehow supposed to play a factor?

It'll play no factor but that's not exactly right about resting lots of players. They were happy to relegate Tyrone and 9 outfield starters from the All Ireland final started the match (including Clifford) and another three came of the bench.

Nine times out of ten Kerry would have won that match in 2021 but everything fell Tyrone's way on the day and fair play to them for capitalising. But they've produced nothing since then to back it up. Man for man Kerry are much superior to Tyrone and I actually think they will win this very comfortably as Tyrone are not great in defence.

Yeah two men black carded and a month of disrupted training leading up to it  (nights with only 14/15 training) - everything really went their way to fluke the win. Bit of ignorance round Armagh as to how things work at the business end of the season.

Massive massive match for this group of players. There's been a lot of talk about winning a lucky All Ireland and only beating Kerry because of covid (still haven't got my head round the logic) over the last 18 months. Tyrone for long spells since the All Ireland win have struggled badly for form. This is by far and away the biggest game in two years. As usual going in as underdogs against the current All Ireland champions. I don't think there'll be any issues what so ever getting up for it.

Going to need massive work rate around the middle area and get them on the back foot. I've no doubt we have players good enough to win this game if they play to their potential. Roll on Saturday.

How to fk is Tyrone  v Kerry the first game?
Makes no sense. Surely the Mon & Armagh support would stay to watch such a game
Can't see the same interest in the second one - most neutrals in Ireland would have no massive  interest in Mon v Armagh on tv - but most of Ireland would want to watch a tyrone v Kerry 6pm game

I'd say Kerry requested the earlier time due to the travel involved. You could have parts of Kerry with 4/5 hours drive home. If the game went to extra time they'd have a very late finish. Armagh/Monaghan lot closer so suit the later throw in time.

Back to my mckenna point earlier in the week and the Meyler MOTM. I think that's why football is not as enjoyable anymore
.mangers and supporters seem to back the mundane reliable player as opposed to the maverick.

Give me the moment of genius from mckenna as opposed to the meyler talking about sleeping patterns any day of the week.

Anyway think we go to a semi now.

Strange comment given Tyrone have a forward line with two canavans and McCurry. Plenty of excitement there. The likes of mattie, Harte etc aren't bad either. There's a lot more all round skill and flair to the team than the 95 team for example.

I don't care what meyler talks about either, he's a brilliant player. Can take s key opposition player out of the game while putting in huge shifts himself.

Conor mckenna a big miss.

Would you switch him for Darragh Canavan who has effectively took his place?

Forgot about that - was thinking the super 8 was the only knockout game.

Your just hoping that they can get through this week and the sight of a big team next week in Croke Park really draws the best out of them. Our record in Ballybofey this last decade has been miserable, can't face another defeat there again this week. Though we're undefeated in knockout championship games there.

Canavan has stepped up arguably giving us a greater threat up front than two years ago. It's legs around that middle zone that has been a big issue. Even the likes of Hampsey and McNamee aren't getting forward as regularly either.

It's great to see 4 close knockout matches coming up. The longest odds on any one team is 7/4 giving a good indication of how competitive they should be. I don't think the quarter finals will be as competitive with a couple of games likely to have clear favourites. This should be one of the best weekends of the championship.

Very hard to make a call on any of the games. Before last week you'd have expected the second seeds to be Kerry, Tyrone Roscommon and Monaghan and for them all to be clear favourites. But things have changed drastically since then and the new second seeds have all picked up valuable momentum and a home draw (or close to home for Kildare).

Won't get many more "real" and drama weekends in this championship than last weekend.   Mayo v Cork,Kildare v Roscommon,Donegal v Monaghan, Westmeath v Tyrone and Galway v Armagh producing unexpected results according by the bookie odds and their pundits.

Did any of the teams on the wrong side of each result, get knocked out of the Championship?

Did the winning teams have more to play for?

Do you consider that real championship?

They didn't get knocked out but in hindsight the Mayo and Galway games were huge at the weekend. Winnable games that should have saw them progress to the quarter finals.

Now they are faced with a really difficult knockout game and a tough quarter final the week after.  They've both significantly reduced their All Ireland chances.

There has been plenty of meaningless games during the year, the ones on Sunday were far from it.