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I think they should ban Galway this year and just let Derry through to the final.

O'Neill deserves the Sam Maguire given to him for kicking that point under that pressure.

I never knew I had a distant cousin in the Galway team. McGlinchey is grandson of the well known Dominic McGlinchey. My mother is 2nd cousins with his wife who was killed.

His mother grew up in the same housing estate as my father in South Derry. Damian Barton also grew up in that housing estate.

I've watched around 200 films the past 18 months. The 2 favourites that come to mind are the 2019 film 'The Boat', there wasn't any dialogue in this, just a man trying to survive in a boat that was being controlled by a hidden force.

The other film is 'A perfect world' from 1993 with Kevin Costner. In the early 90s there seemed to be a trend of making films set in the 50s and 60s. This was about a boy forming a friendship with his kidnapper on a road trip.
The reason why this film isn't well known is because it was released the same week as Mrs Doubtfire which took the shine off it

You know a game isn't too important when they get the TV cameras set up on the Cusack stand. It reminds me of what they do at Stamford Bridge, when the U-18's play they record from the opposite stand.

Derry will win by 10 points I think. The people here talk about being loyal Derry fans yet they don't seem to have much faith in their team who are Ulster Champions playing against a team who were lucky to win the last game. I will be watching in Cusack upper, the same place I was at in the last QF in 2007.
It will be interested to see what the semi final crowd is like, the last Derry semi final in 2004 the crowd was only around 35,000.

Is this new system of buying tickets through Ticketmaster going to be in place for the AI final? This first come first served basis is fine when its not a sell out but I imagine that some genuine GAA people will miss out on tickets and that bandwagon supporters and touts will benefit. Hopefully they will distribute tickets through the participating counties when it gets to AI final day.

How do you really define bandwagon though? Is someone who attends the championship games every year but not league a bandwagoner? Is someone who is heavily involved in club GAA but doesn't attend the county games a bandwagoner? It is difficult to define.

I don't know how any northerner can support that team with its blue shirt fanbase. I couldn't look at them since O'Neill left. Their fan base is mainly middle and upper class Dubliners.

Who's that panelist on RTE with O'Rourke and Cavanagh?  A complete one trick pony. Hopeless

11All Star Awards and 4 All Ireland Winners medals and you don't know her, Jesus wept.

From what I've seen the only people who care about ladies football are men who have daughters. If you slag it they actually get personally offended and accuse you of misogyny. I don't care about ladies football but noone can acuse me of misogyny because I listen to female musicians.

Tbf there's no men on the ladies football games so I've no idea why we have them on the mens

Ladies Gaelic football shouldn't even be considered the same sport as men's given how much less physical it is. How can a female player comment on the men's game when she actually has no experience of what it is like on the field of a men's football match? I have watched some of my clubs ladies games on video and the football looks so much easier than the men's hard hitting game.

I assume ladies football is softer because of women not wanting to damage their bodies because of future pregnancy but in the men's game someone could kick you in the balls and there is no protection there.

Be nice to leave the buckfast brigade at home nxt day.

A lot of drunken bandwagon eggits follow Armagh.

I was behind a group of drunken young Derry fans at the Ulster final. I can't be sure but I think they were from Glenullin.
I doubt they were bandwagoners though, they seemed to know their stuff about football.

The worst things I heard from them were calling a Derry minor player the R word (another word for disabled) and one of them talking about his sexual exploits with a girl in graphic detail.

Mayo had their chance last year to win the All Ireland and blew it. They won't get a chance like that again. I'll never forgive them for that performance last year.

I was caught going 37mph in 30 zone last summer. The course was online, I imagined it would have been a very socially awkward experience to engage in a zoom discussion so I just took the penalty points and I try to drive like a pensioner now. A bonus with driving at the speed limits is how it annoys the people behind you, it is my way to express my misanthropy. You can just sense the rage in them when you drive at the speed limit and they tail gate you until they can pass.

My grandfather was in it back around the 1930's/40's in Loup, South Derry. I've never had anything to do with my AOH band nor do I know anyone who does.