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MR2 and Screenexile. You might have found the jokes funny. OK that's grand. Can you accept that a significant number of people have good reason to be offended? Yes or no

What's said on the pitch is between the players. However nasty it gets, it's rarely if ever shared with the public.

The O Se brothers abused a public platform to make tasteless jokes about Tyrone and covid. Anybody interested in the football over the weekend tuned in to hear what the experts had to say would hear that. Many people found the comments offensive.

If you can't see the difference then there's no point in trying to reason with you.

Do people seriously care what number players wear on their shirt? I thought that was left behind at the playground.

Something to keep us talking about I suppose while the oil states position themselves in the background.

One of the GAA's greatest strengths is hindsight.

This is it. Monday morning quarterbacking. Fickle fans praising players they were bemoaning the week before.

Your team progresses, the format works. They get eliminated,  it's unfair.

A game is boring, change the rules.

Drunk fans, ban them at the gates.

Hawkeye malfunctions, get rid of it.

Can we not try to be proactive rather than reactive?

I don't see how it's localised if a few different sets of fans are at it.

In life some people are bad losers. Some are bad winners. Some are just assholes.

f**k RTE. The presenter and other pundits laughing along is a disgrace too. They need to issue an apology, I know this will never happen.

I noticed an error in their so called quiz today. They said what team did Mayo beat in the All Ireland Quarter Final recently, Galway or Antrim?

It was a preliminary QF and not a QF.

Kerry and Dublin have shown this weekend to be a real level above the rest. Derry/Monaghan are going to need to do something extraordinary to prevent a Kerry v Dublin AI final

You're probably right but we should also say that both Mayo and Tyrone were really poor this weekend

3/4 teams who played last weekend were put out. 3 weeks in a row took its toll.  Definitely looked like a bit of fatigue in Mayo and Tyrone. Makes Monaghan win even more impressive.

Perfectly good goal ruled out. Umpires didn't intervene. In fairness it did look like off the ground in real time.

It would be interesting to do an experiment where you show clips to referees and members of the GAA public and ask them the decision. See what sort of agreement rate there is with the predefined "correct" decision.

IMO the rulebook needs to be scrapped and rewritten from scratch. There are too many ambiguities and grey areas, not to mention additions every couple of years to try and shape how the game is played.

Referees have a very difficult job and I think if people were to see how difficult it is from this type of experiment they would have more sympathy for them. Never going to happen though.

I noticed and Murphy on commentary mentioned also the Armagh players reacting to every penalty with fist pumps etc. Monaghan seemed a lot more measured. Surely that emotion is draining to the players and they aren't mentally set to make the right decision next time round. I'm not a sports psychologist but I wonder if that is something coached or more of a team culture that develops naturally.

Today showed what a nasty illness Long Covid is.

Hilarious. Marc O Se made a similar tasteless joke live on air after the match. Maybe it's not as funny to the Tyrone players who suffered from it in 2021. Or the millions around the world who died.

Great to see the schadenfreude. Must be doing something right to have so many haters.

Disappointed in the discipline today. We'll reassess and be back next year.

Anyone know who the Ref is for the Cork v Derry game on Sun

Joe McQuillan

[As many of us thought Shane Walsh was injured]

As many of us thought Shane Walsh was injured, got injured against Tyrone and walking around in a moon boot since; Like to think Tierney would have done better with those frees!

Hopefully lessons to be learned from playing injured players next year, a fully fit Kelly wouldn't have let that goal happen.

Has this been confirmed anywhere ?

Confirmed on joe.ie podcast.
https://youtu.be/pRe3F6eCpzo

Presenters mention they interviewed Walsh during the week and he was in a boot. They were sworn to silence on it and not allowed any photos below the waist.