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There's two Mayo lads consistently posting that teams are at a serious disadvantage if they have to play one game a week. What absolutely nonsense!!

Playing last week did Armagh zero harm and Derry getting an extra week off did them no good.

Derry need a reset. If I was Harte, for the Westmeath game I'd say here are my best 15, but I'm going to deliberately leave 5 of them on the bench (mostly Glas lads ), give other lads a chance, and have a mighty bench.

The preliminary quarter-finals, set for 8/9 June, will have these 4 teams at home: Leitrim, Laois, Limerick and Antrim.


The four opponents in the preliminary quarter-finals will be: London, Wicklow, Tipperary and New York. 

Teams that were in the same Group cannot meet in the preliminary-quarter-finals.

Draw will be made later today.

Laois v New York
Limerick v Tipp
Antrim v London
Leitrim v Wicklow

Great game in Breffni with Sligo and Antrim sharing 40 points. Both teams missed a chance in injury time after Antrim came from 4 behind (5 in the first half). Sligo top the group on points difference

Very good Armagh.

Very dopey tackle to make when you are on a yellow

Monaghan Louth level with 4 mins of injury time to play.

Championship football at its best according to LMFM!

Apparently Louth gave away a very poor goal late on due to a defensive mistake and Monaghan missed chances in injury time to win it.

Monaghan Louth level with 4 mins of injury time to play.

Championship football at its best according to LMFM!

Hope all the Armagh lads getting stuck into McKinless last day out recognise what Mackin just did to Glass.

Surely the Derry man pushed Mackin into Glass?

100%.

Ah,  now don't be ridiculous. The push did not force the kick.  It was 100% deliberate but didn't cause any damage. 100% technical red card offence and completely stupid act that could well have turned the game on its head. When McGeeney sees it on replay he will rip into Mackin.

Hope all the Armagh lads getting stuck into McKinless last day out recognise what Mackin just did to Glass.

Wasn't remotely as bad, Glass would barely have felt it.  But very stupid and very lucky not to be a red card.

Half time Tyrone 2-3 Clare 0-5.

The Tyrone 2 with 2-2! (Devlin)

Clare FM commentary very good

Is there any local radio coverage that covers Tyrone GAA matches?

We had Sweden in our WC qualifying under Vera Pauw and we were more than a match for them home and away. Yes, they are one of top teams in world but we definitely have gone backwards.

Had to laugh at a quote Pauw made recently in an interview with the IT; said she had to instruct her players to keep it as simple as possible, they weren't able to understand anything else.

Yep, Vera is vile. No surprise she's failed to find a job since.

Down v Offaly a dead rubber. Are many others nothing games.

It is the advantage of the current round robin system. Only 1 dead rubber out of 8 games, and a meaningful difference to top the group by going straight through to the QF and an extra week off.

Whereas if it reverted to the Top 2 only qualify, which is what the Sunday Game/RTE in particular are demanding, there would be 5 dead rubbers out of the 8 games next week.

Can anyone from Dublin tell me why Ciarán Archer who would be around 24 now hasn't made the step up to Dublin senior team and is he even on the panel at the moment?

A talented player but don't think he better than what on panel now. Quality freetaker but for me doesn't do enough from play  and without the ball. He was on senior panel in 2022 but picked up an injury and never got back in.

A few of the forwards on the Dublin panel at the moment Ross McGarry,Killian O'Gara,Lorcan O'Dell,Killian McGinnis. He must have fallen back a fair bit from his days standing out at U20 level if not better than some of them now.

He's definitely better at kicking points than any of them, but there's more to being an intercounty player than that. His club being in D3 doesn't help with being able to play himself back in.

GAAgo is decent when you are abroad and worthwhile.

But it's a shambles at home. Poor quality and poor value. I'm amazed at the people falling for the GAA/RTE propaganda and defending it on here! 

People comparing it to paying to a Sky subscription are being disingenuous (or have been misled by those being disingenuous). Sky Sports contains a massive range of different sports and price is not dependent on what you watch. GAAgo is a pay per view service more similar to Sky Box Office.

The premier league, which is pure money driven, tried to bring in a pay per view service on top of their Sky/BT offering. A 'season ticket' element similar to GAAgo was offered as well as single games. However, the English fans were tuned in enough to realize the massive difference between PPV and the general Sky Sports subscription, they complained and the premier league were forced to back track and abandon it.

There should be 4 games on TV every weekend during the season. Plenty of room in the schedule,  they've no problem finding room for 3 or 4 games every single day during world cups. Virgin/TV3 were effectively priced out of it by GAA/RTE looking to gouge us.

And there is absolutely no reason GAAgo could not be free. Could be funded by a sponsor and by adverts. And if it was free there would be considerably more people tuning in, which would increase sponsorship and advertising value.

If people have enough money to pay for this mediocre service, then I've absolutely no problem with them spending their excess cash however they wish, but the narrative that it's great value and we're lucky to have it is absolute nonsense.