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The fact that Donegal are at home, are well rested & are in a hugely positive frame of mind leaves me seeing them win by 6 - 10 points.

The biggest worry from a Donegal perspective is their tendency to take the foot off the gas in the second half of games. I f they do that in the Super 8's then scoring difference could get them.

Any and all podcasts/radio shows I listened to have Donegal picked to win this with the exception of yer man Conan on the GAA hour who called a draw.

Huge weight being put on the Ballybofey factor for all of them. It's kinda interesting how that's given so much importance despite our last game there being a few years ago but our wins over Donegal in 2015/16 are disregarded because this is a different Donegal team/manager. The previous wins Donegal had over us were 3 managers back so I don't really see the big issue.

I'd have Tyrone to win by 3.

Tomas O Se also picked Tyrone on RTE & The Irish Times picked Tyrone as well

The only thing is that apart from 1992 when it was a bad year...they've won fcuk all really without McGuinness.

Always good to see a man with a sense of humour....

If you were ever at a Donegal home game in the last few years you'd see how good of people they are.
The bile that comes from SOME of their mouths, even from women and men over a certain vintage is a disgrace.

Meeting SOME Tyrone GAA supporters in the flesh has that effect on a lot of people.

I think its a bit stupid for a game like this in a tiny ground that all other counties in ulster can avail of some tickets as well. You'll have people from Fermanagh and cavan etc there

I take it you were pushing for Tyrone to give up home advantage for the Dubs game and move the match to Clones to accommodate all the Cavan and Fermanagh supporters who were interested THAT day?

And in case you'd forgotten, Donegal have already played two away games.

Finally, we've had major whinging and crying for both Tyrone and Armagh supporters in the past when they had to come to Ballybofey, only for the games to fall well short of selling out.

What are you talking about you clown I never said it should be moved! I'm saying the tickets should be allocated to the 2 counties competing and in particular their club members. I know Fermanagh and cavan people who have tickets for this obtained through their county board!

Club members should have been catered for first and before general sale.

But, Ballybofey is a kip! Omagh has problems with flooding but is a good ground!

Omagh is great if looking at pools of standing water is your fetish. Nothing much else to recommend it over Ballybofey either.

I think its a bit stupid for a game like this in a tiny ground that all other counties in ulster can avail of some tickets as well. You'll have people from Fermanagh and cavan etc there

I take it you were pushing for Tyrone to give up home advantage for the Dubs game and move the match to Clones to accommodate all the Cavan and Fermanagh supporters who were interested THAT day?

And in case you'd forgotten, Donegal have already played two away games.

Finally, we've had major whinging and crying for both Tyrone and Armagh supporters in the past when they had to come to Ballybofey, only for the games to fall well short of selling out.

Agreed, the last time Tyrone came to Ballybofey they were whinging about their ticket allocation & suggesting the game be moved to Clones.  In the end they returned 1,000 tickets!

I was no more impressed with the army display than I am with the flying of Palestinian flags at games.

The GAA is about the promotion of our national games & allowing others to piggyback is not something I like.

Ballybofey is a kip of a ground

Unlike the majestic theatre that is Healy Park

I would go a step further & allow only one substitution in the last 10 minutes of a game.

This would put to an end the practise of running the bench in an effort to waste time & break up the continuity of the game.

Tyrone had the majority support. Other than behind one goal there wasn't many dubs elsewhere on the terrace. I'd say it was 10k Tyrone, 6k dubs. Still a great travelling support. It was sold out so I'm guessing capacity was 16.5k, though there seemed to be more there than that.

Well done to the 6k Dubs who gave up their Saturday to go to the match. They deserve great credit and proves once again they have the most loyal followers in the country who are not afraid to give up their free time en masse.

6k? 30k in CP last Sunday avg of 7.5k per county. Can we put to death now the myth Dublin supporters travel, I can honestly never remember being outnumbered by Dublin fans at underage games either. The bean counters have many reasons to keep Dublin at home.

2k at the Leinster Minor final Sat.

In fairness many Dubs would have been working on Saturday and Summertime is busy with family commitments! Dublin to Clones is a journey of about 1 hour 40 minutes. It is hard to expect a county to travel a round trip of 3 hours in large numbers on a Saturday evening.

They had no problem expecting Donegal fans to do twice the distance last weekend.

Probably a premature obituary - keep her in the can lad.

not dead on a life support machine    : ) 2 swallows don't make a summer neither do two good games

I would love to know when the golden age of football was that leaves present day football so bad. I watched a few of the reruns of AI finals & the standard is woeful, so woeful in fact it is funny.

Just when was it that football was uniformly fantastic?

What a game, all to play for next weekend, Galway need to win as well.

Hugely enjoyable game in a great atmosphere

The money just is not there to pay so many players a salary. Would take a serious outside investment.

Loose change to Sky, you would also have "franchises" based across the water & they would sell it big time worldwide to the Irish.

They have done it with rugby & cricket already not to mention soccer in the USA.

Too little to late for Tyrone in a game that Dublin controlled throughout and never looked like losing. Dublin have a few gears to go up yet while we have already seen the best of Tyrone and another All Ireland semi is about as far as they will likely go once again if they get that far this summer.

If you think for one minute that Dublin were in "control" of that game throughout then you need to lie down in a dark room for a while.