It has been a very good championship this year, with alot of twists and turns.
What has been the best game of this year?
My vote would go to the Down Tyrone replay in June!
What championship where you watching it was a shit championship.
Kerry V Tyrone was prob the best game all year
Today was a contender, but Kerry-Galway for me.
Kerry-Galway
Quote from: Hardy on September 21, 2008, 10:30:16 PM
Today was a contender, but Kerry-Galway for me.
Ditto.
Was at the game and got drowned but worth every bit of it.
Quote from: Gnevin on September 21, 2008, 10:25:06 PM
What championship where you watching it was a shit championship.
Kerry V Tyrone was prob the best game all year
How was it a shit championship? I thought it was pretty good overall, there were a fair few decent games, plenty of comebacks and upsets - overall good.
Quote from: Bogball XV on September 21, 2008, 10:47:37 PM
Quote from: Gnevin on September 21, 2008, 10:25:06 PM
What championship where you watching it was a shit championship.
Kerry V Tyrone was prob the best game all year
How was it a shit championship? I thought it was pretty good overall, there were a fair few decent games, plenty of comebacks and upsets - overall good.
I thought it was pretty good too. A couple of shite matches in the quarter-finals, but apart from that it was decent enough.
Most of the Ulster games were quite good this year, apart from maybe the final replay.
Kerry v Galway.
Quote from: J70 on September 21, 2008, 10:50:29 PM
Quote from: Bogball XV on September 21, 2008, 10:47:37 PM
Quote from: Gnevin on September 21, 2008, 10:25:06 PM
What championship where you watching it was a shit championship.
Kerry V Tyrone was prob the best game all year
How was it a shit championship? I thought it was pretty good overall, there were a fair few decent games, plenty of comebacks and upsets - overall good.
I thought it was pretty good too. A couple of shite matches in the quarter-finals, but apart from that it was decent enough.
Most of the Ulster games were quite good this year, apart from maybe the final replay.
Poor Leinster and Connaught championship, poor Connaught final , Poor ulster replay . Half decent Munster final , nothing to report about the rest of the Chamionship. Some shocking performances Meath, Dublin ,Kildare ,Cavan spring to mind.
Shocking quarter finals Dublin springs to mind , Cork doing their best to lose to Kildare . Very few memorable games
Too much bullshit associated with Galvin, Moran and others .
Donegal v Derry, Wexford v Meath, Laois v Wicklow, Limerick v Cork (2 last minute goals, didn't see much of it though), Munster final, Connaught final, Ulster final, Galway v Leitrim, Down v Tyrone x2, Derry v Monaghan, Donegal v Monaghan, Kerry v Monaghan, Galway v Kerry, Armagh v Wexford, Tyrone v Dublin, Wexford v Tyrone and Cork v Kerry x2 - all finished off by our best final since 2005
Quote from: Gnevin on September 21, 2008, 10:56:50 PM
Quote from: J70 on September 21, 2008, 10:50:29 PM
Quote from: Bogball XV on September 21, 2008, 10:47:37 PM
Quote from: Gnevin on September 21, 2008, 10:25:06 PM
What championship where you watching it was a shit championship.
Kerry V Tyrone was prob the best game all year
How was it a shit championship? I thought it was pretty good overall, there were a fair few decent games, plenty of comebacks and upsets - overall good.
I thought it was pretty good too. A couple of shite matches in the quarter-finals, but apart from that it was decent enough.
Most of the Ulster games were quite good this year, apart from maybe the final replay.
Poor Leinster and Connaught championship, poor Connaught final.
Connacht final was a good game of football. Not a great first half but the second half was very good. Score for score.
wasn't a great year lads, you're clutching at straws. very good game today but the game of the year was kerry v galway in a near monsoon.
bogball - donegal v derry was average at best, laois and wicklow was like watching 2 bad club teams, armagh and wexford was poor , i could go on but i won't. a pretty average year all round. even todays final good as it was wasn't a patch on 2005.
Waterford and Tipp followed by Tyrone and Down.
Quote from: INDIANA on September 21, 2008, 11:41:33 PM
wasn't a great year lads, you're clutching at straws. very good game today but the game of the year was kerry v galway in a near monsoon.
bogball - donegal v derry was average at best, laois and wicklow was like watching 2 bad club teams, armagh and wexford was poor , i could go on but i won't. a pretty average year all round. even todays final good as it was wasn't a patch on 2005.
I enjoyed Laois v Wicklow and Armagh v Wexford - the quality may not have been great, but there's more to a game than that. I agree the final wasn't as high quality as 05 and there were a lot of mistakes, but it was a good hard, tight game of football between the two best sides in the country and we needed a decent final after the last 2.
I was at the Down Tyrone replay and while it was very exciting etc it simply wouldnt match the quality of the Kerry Galway battle. Unreal stuff in a monsoon..
Aye being from Tyrone I thought it was a poor championship, no good games, final between 2 bad teams. Soft AI for Tyrone really.
Quote from: Gnevin on September 21, 2008, 10:56:50 PM
Poor Leinster and Connaught championship, poor Connaught final , Poor ulster replay . Half decent Munster final , nothing to report about the rest of the Chamionship. Some shocking performances Meath, Dublin ,Kildare ,Cavan spring to mind.
When was Cavan's "shocking performance" this year? Beating Antrim? Losing to Armagh by 4? Or losing to Kildare by a point after conceding a 73rd minute goal?
Best games for me: Tyrone v Dublin, Cork v Kerry replay, AI Final.
Galway v Kerry overrated in my opinion, good Kerry display but how Galway managed to escape serious criticism for conceding 10 points in 20 minutes after Bergin's goal is beyond me. It was a collapse on a par with Meath v Wexford.
Quote from: cornafean on September 22, 2008, 02:34:40 PM
Quote from: Gnevin on September 21, 2008, 10:56:50 PM
Poor Leinster and Connaught championship, poor Connaught final , Poor ulster replay . Half decent Munster final , nothing to report about the rest of the Chamionship. Some shocking performances Meath, Dublin ,Kildare ,Cavan spring to mind.
When was Cavan's "shocking performance" this year? Beating Antrim? Losing to Armagh by 4? Or losing to Kildare by a point after conceding a 73rd minute goal?
Best games for me: Tyrone v Dublin, Cork v Kerry replay, AI Final.
Galway v Kerry overrated in my opinion, good Kerry display but how Galway managed to escape serious criticism for conceding 10 points in 20 minutes after Bergin's goal is beyond me. It was a collapse on a par with Meath v Wexford.
Eh? Meath had a 10 point lead and lost it. Galway got no further than 2 points up against Kerry who let's be honest are a far better team than Wexford are.
How these are similiar I don't know apart from the fact that one side came from behind to win both games but to equate one to the other is complete nonsense.
Funny the 2 lads saying it was a poor Championship are Dublin lads
Galway vs Kerry followed by Tyrone v Kerry
Quote from: dubinhell on September 22, 2008, 03:50:14 PM
Galway vs Kerry followed by Tyrone v Kerry
I'll agree with that. The final had more intensity, but the skills on display in those conditions for the Galway - Kerry game were unreal.
Quote from: Gabriel_Hurl on September 22, 2008, 03:46:45 PM
Funny the 2 lads saying it was a poor Championship are Dublin lads
To say it was poor is absolutely no slight on Tyrone.
It was an avergae Championship. Some suprb games and some dour games. There have very few stand-out Championships in the last ten years. It ranks probably in the top half of the last ten years.
Quote from: corn02 on September 22, 2008, 03:58:21 PM
Quote from: Gabriel_Hurl on September 22, 2008, 03:46:45 PM
Funny the 2 lads saying it was a poor Championship are Dublin lads
To say it was poor is absolutely no slight on Tyrone.
It was an avergae Championship. Some suprb games and some dour games. There have very few stand-out Championships in the last ten years. It ranks probably in the top half of the last ten years.
Lads, that's the way it has been every year since the GAA started. Certainly every year since I can remember watching games, and that's nigh on 30 years at this stage. There's always good games, average games and shite games. I wouldn't say this has been a great championship, or a poor championship, but there's very few 'great' championships that I can recall.
are people forgetting that championship matches will rarely be showpieces ?
footbal championship is usually trench warefare with a few bits of sublime skill to lift one team over the other.
Good championship. Might not be glitzy, but apart from the feigning inj and diving (and rubbish lack of proper discipliery procedure) the football was manly and the fast and hard fare you woul dexpect from our top football teams.
A good year undoubtedly for fans of FOOTBALL not glitzy bling.
kerry - Galway for me, it was pure footballing quality.....
For me the game of the year was the final.
Tyrone received a lot of deserved applause but Kerry haven't received near as much as they deserved. We take a lot of their quality for granted.
The to and fro intensity of the final was unreal, Kerry clawing their way back to take the lead and the Tyrone response despite hitting a number of wides was daunting. Neither team wilted though one proved more capable.
Kerry Galway was next, just.
Top Five:
1 Down V Tyrone (replay)
2 Kerry v Galway
3 All-Ireland Final
4 Tyrone v Down (R1 Ulster)
5 Kerry v Cork (Munster Final)
1. Kerry v Galway - Just an incredible display of football in horrendous conditions.
2. Kerry v Tyrone - Not a classic but still a better final than most.
3. Tyrone v Down - Only saw the extended highlights of this one but a very good game of football.
GBB top 3 for me in same order.
Quote from: GalwayBayBoy on September 22, 2008, 04:45:32 PM
1. Kerry v Galway - Just an incredible display of football in horrendous conditions.
2. Kerry v Tyrone - Not a classic but still a better final than most.
3. Tyrone v Down - Only saw the extended highlights of this one but a very good game of football.
If you only saw extended highlights you cant comment. More merit in that I attended all the games on my selection excpet Munster Final which I saw in full on TV.
Quote from: Leo on September 22, 2008, 05:16:37 PM
Quote from: GalwayBayBoy on September 22, 2008, 04:45:32 PM
1. Kerry v Galway - Just an incredible display of football in horrendous conditions.
2. Kerry v Tyrone - Not a classic but still a better final than most.
3. Tyrone v Down - Only saw the extended highlights of this one but a very good game of football.
If you only saw extended highlights you cant comment. More merit in that I attended all the games on my selection excpet Munster Final which I saw in full on TV.
Congratulations. Have a biscuit for yourself.
Quote from: Leo on September 22, 2008, 05:16:37 PM
Quote from: GalwayBayBoy on September 22, 2008, 04:45:32 PM
1. Kerry v Galway - Just an incredible display of football in horrendous conditions.
2. Kerry v Tyrone - Not a classic but still a better final than most.
3. Tyrone v Down - Only saw the extended highlights of this one but a very good game of football.
If you only saw extended highlights you cant comment. More merit in that I attended all the games on my selection excpet Munster Final which I saw in full on TV.
You can't comment? Surely it's opinion, and GBB's opinion is as valid as anybody else's. The ball is in play for an average of 35 minutes or less during a game, so extended highlights might be as much action as actually took place.
I thought there was plenty of good games this year.
Kerry and Cork gave us three classics, for pure drama and emotion though I'd have to give it to Kerry v Cork in the semi.
For footballing quality Kerry v Galway takes second spot this year imo.
That said, Tyrone and Kerry must both be applauded for giving us an entertaining final.
Quote from: his holiness nb on September 22, 2008, 05:23:14 PM
I thought there was plenty of good games this year.
Kerry and Cork gave us three classics, for pure drama and emotion though I'd have to give it to Kerry v Cork in the semi.
Not sure they'd be worthy of being called classics to be honest. First game in Munster, Kerry were walking away with it at half-time and collapsed completely in the second. First game in CP Kerry were walking away with it in a very one-sided second half until Cork scored two goals virtually in injury-time. The third game was probably the best of the three in that it was a bit more even until Kerry pulled away near the end.
Quote from: GalwayBayBoy on September 22, 2008, 05:18:15 PM
Quote from: Leo on September 22, 2008, 05:16:37 PM
Quote from: GalwayBayBoy on September 22, 2008, 04:45:32 PM
1. Kerry v Galway - Just an incredible display of football in horrendous conditions.
2. Kerry v Tyrone - Not a classic but still a better final than most.
3. Tyrone v Down - Only saw the extended highlights of this one but a very good game of football.
If you only saw extended highlights you cant comment. More merit in that I attended all the games on my selection excpet Munster Final which I saw in full on TV.
Had a digestive at the Galway Kerry game - didnt need to dunk it.
Congratulations. Have a biscuit for yourself.
Quote from: GalwayBayBoy on September 22, 2008, 05:18:15 PM
Quote from: Leo on September 22, 2008, 05:16:37 PM
Quote from: GalwayBayBoy on September 22, 2008, 04:45:32 PM
1. Kerry v Galway - Just an incredible display of football in horrendous conditions.
2. Kerry v Tyrone - Not a classic but still a better final than most.
3. Tyrone v Down - Only saw the extended highlights of this one but a very good game of football.
If you only saw extended highlights you cant comment. More merit in that I attended all the games on my selection excpet Munster Final which I saw in full on TV.
Congratulations. Have a biscuit for yourself.
Had a digestive at the Galway Kerry game - didnt need to dunk it.
For me def. has to Down v tyrone in Newry,
that game had everything! Virtually went score for score for 60mins then Down pulled away, then out of nowhere tommy mc guigan empties 3 points in about 2mins, goes to extra time tyrone then go 3 up! only for Benny to sneak in for a goal and sets up the win! some great scores in 2nd half by both teams too, and the atmosphere in a packed Marshes was lethal and was the weather all made it a cracker!
The intensity of the down tyrone replay was unbeatable, exhilerating football. kerry and galway was a joy to watch, the match displayed the fine art of football at its best
Kerry v Galway is an obvious favourite, but I really enjoyed the Donegal v Monaghan game in Ballybofey - good hard hitting and some great scoring.
I thought the Ulster championship was dire and very negative this year, although I didnt see the Tyrone/Down games.
Best game for me in terms of the quality of football played was Kerry Galway.
Performance of the year was Tyrone v Dublin, blew them away and played a great style of football that day too.
But game of the year was yesterday's final, I was nervous come the last quarter, and Im neutral. It was riveting to watch.
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Quote from: corn02 on September 22, 2008, 03:58:21 PM
Quote from: Gabriel_Hurl on September 22, 2008, 03:46:45 PM
Funny the 2 lads saying it was a poor Championship are Dublin lads
To say it was poor is absolutely no slight on Tyrone.
It was an avergae Championship. Some suprb games and some dour games. There have very few stand-out Championships in the last ten years. It ranks probably in the top half of the last ten years.
Lads, that's the way it has been every year since the GAA started. Certainly every year since I can remember watching games, and that's nigh on 30 years at this stage. There's always good games, average games and shite games. I wouldn't say this has been a great championship, or a poor championship, but there's very few 'great' championships that I can recall.
Well said. The current trend is to say "Yeah it was a good match, but there were a lot of mistakes." What the hell do people want? It's almost a sign of "ones" lack of sophistication if you say "that was a great game of football" after a game that had you on the edge of your seat. Too many Johnny Giles wannabe's out there for my liking.
Ulster championship was dire? fermanagh derry was a good saturday nights entertainment i thought. tyrone did put on the display of the year against the dubs
Enjoyed (as a neutral) the Fermanagh comeback versus Armagh in the Ulster final. Maybe no classic, but in terms of excitement pure class. A few seconds longer and Fermanagh would have been Ulster champions for the first time. Real David V Goliath stuff.