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HT Corofin 2-9 Nemo 0-5. Great for Corofin and their supporters but as neutral i would prefer to see a competitive club AI final.

2-6 to 0-2 now! Very impressive by Corofin but Nemo are so flat, look like a side that emptied their tank in the semi final.

A bit of lottery predicting results in this division but here goes...

Down v Tipp - Tipp by 3
Cork v Clare - Cork by 4
Roscommon v Cavan - a draw
Louth v Meath - Meath by 8

Going into the final round of games still all to play for at the top and bottom.

Cavan 10
Tipp 9
Roscommon 8
Cork 8
Meath 5
Clare 4
Down 4
Louth 0

Is there anything to be said about the actual matches on this weekend lads?

I don't see Kevin making wholesale changes for this one, I think he'll probably do that in the Kildare game and try to keep a few key lads fresh for the league final.  Need to start much better than we did last weekend, that first 35 mins were our poorest to date in the league.  The Dubs are blowing away teams at there ease right now so it will require a big effort to even get within a few points of them.

Out of interest in the 5 NFL games how many same starters have Galway had so far?

For this weekend games

Galway v Dublin - Dublin by 4 or 5 points
Mayo v Tyrone - a Draw
Monaghan v Donegal - Monaghan by 1 or 2 points
Kerry v Kildare - Kerry by 3 or 4 points

I think those set of results would mean that Donegal and Kildare would be relegated with one round of games to play.

Hope its a good enjoyable football game to watch and may the best team win.

Cavan a decent price for this?

Good value odds when you consider the rossies only drew with Meath and lost to Down in Hyde Park two sides that Cavan beat this year.

Have the Chelsea lads all quit?

A lot of errors tonight and punished every time.

Comments made little sense was he clutching at straws after that defeat? His Porto side went on to win the Champions League,Real Madrid were one of the best in Europe. Sevilla in comparison will likely be knocked out in the next round.

Senseless comments from a man that was probably trying his best to find an excuse for a earlier than expected Champions league exit.

No need to sugar coat it. The current Sevilla side are not at the level of their Europa league cup winning teams. That defeat last night said more about Man United and how poor they played on and off the field and remember United have lost to plenty of teams even worse than Sevilla this season in Huddersfield,Newcastle United and Bristol City to name but a few.

Man City,Barcelona,Juventus,Bayern Munich,Real Madrid if they draw them will likely have Sevilla beaten by the first leg in the Quarter final.

[Will a Super 8 game be allowed go ahead in Newbridge or the grassy, grassy banks of Pairc Tailteann?]

Everyone will get *at least* one game in Croke Park.

1 home,
1 away
1 in Croke Park (neutral).

But for the purposes of this, Dublin's home venue is Croke Park.

I also am interested to see what happens when the last 8 includes Kildare or Meath for example. Will a Super 8 game be allowed go ahead in Newbridge or the grassy, grassy banks of Pairc Tailteann?

More than likely won't be allowed to play at home instead given the choice what neutral venue they want to play their "home" game in.

Yeah, would agree on all that attendance wise.  Anyway, really looking forward to the probable 2 tilts at the Dubs.  We all know our deficiencies at this stage but the present management and squad should learn a lot from playing easily the best team we have seen in quite a while  - its a relatively young squad so I dont see us carrying too much scar tissue into the championship even if the results go the way most pundits expect.

Our manager hasn't always shown himself to be a particularly good or rapid learner; maybe this will be turn for the different.

Kevin Walsh is having a very odd career managing Galway. You sense a lot of people including Galway supporters are still not sure about him. On the face of it he's won a Connacht title, won a division 2 title, gone 5 out of 5 games unbeaten up in divison 1 and beaten Mayo 4 times on the trot. Yet he just can't wash the stink of the complete non-performances against Tipp in 2016 and Roscommon in 2017 off himself.

The heartless display against what proved to be a limited Kerry side last year was worse than either of those performances. Galway looked afraid of their shadows that day.

They were worse than Ros in the second Mayo match.

Galway to be fair were long off that woeful Ros performance. Galway created a number of goal scoring chances against Kerry in that game and if they took half of them it would have been a very different game. The Kerry back line showed loads of weakness in that quarter final and Mayo unlike Galway exploited those weaknesses in the semi final to get a long overdue championship win against the Kingdom.

ah no. That's sad. Bully's special prize. Keep out of the black and in to the red, There's nothing in this game for two in a bed.

He made the show watchable. I still watch re runs of it on challenge TV. Rip.

Juve gave a masterclass the previous week of how to soak up pressure and hit on the counter, that's the style Jose likes and tries to replicate at Manu.
Problem is Smalling, Lindelof, Bailly, Jones, Roho aren't Chiellini or even close to it and Jose hasn't really made an effort to buy a high end defender.
He then spunks big money on Sanchez and Pogba (A) because he can and (B) the fans initially think its great and it appeases them when the see what the Arabs are buying next door.

Jose is caught between two stools and is making a mess of it.

But.. but... but I thought Shaw was going to be the next great English defender when he was signed, the media told us so. When it turned out he was an unfit crock, Lindelof, who must have been world class because MU had been pursuing him for several seasons, was brought in. Looks like he's a dud now too. Pogba is a world class midfielder, but not at OT. Where's it gone wrong?

Last night was reminiscent of some of the great OT nights under SAF, after the latest mid-tier continental outfit had passed his team silly. A usually puce and almost-incoherent Ferguson would serve up more entertainment at the post-match interviews than what had been witnessed on the field.

World class midfielders are all team players, ones that work as hard off the ball than on it. Teams that performs poorly get knocked out of cup competitions and managers will use every excuse under the sun why they lost.

They say 5000 dubs will be in Pearse stadium Sunday along with 4000 Galway supporters and that's being optimistic!
Personally have  never seen  this Dublin team up close so will go out of curiosity,not expecting a Galway win and hope we don't get destroyed it will be some experience and I think Monahan showed in the first half the chinks that may exist in the system.Galway have the forwards to stay in the game but I think our problem is getting possession.Anyway looking forward to it a loss of 7 pts or under would not be so bad.

Why would so many turn up for what is more or less a dead rubber and where both will be giving a run out to players that haven't started a game so far this year?

Meanwhile for the less than Super

https://www.rte.ie/sport/gaa/2018/0314/947271-horan-wants-intermediate-football-championship-by-2021/

Turlough O'Brien talked the most sense there.

Jose started with the wrong team and tactics used especially in that 1st half was bizarre. Few if any of the players performed on the night it was one big mess from United. Credit where credit is due to Sevilla over the two legs they fully deserved to go through. The quarters finals was always as far as I could see United going this year and on the evidence of tonight at least they have now avoided a trimming from one of the better sides in this competition.