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Because league games between Tyrone and Kerry are a great indicator of Championship form🙄, especially when one team is fighting for league survival and the other is resting players in a dead rubber game for them, a week before the league final

Who were Kerry resting that day? David Moran and Seanie O'Shea were out injured and didn't play in the final either.
Kerry had a very strong team lined out that day imo. If they were going to rest anyone it would have been David Clifford but they didn't.

Comparing the team that started that day to the one last Sunday - , against Tyrone, Kerry were missing Sean O'Shea, Paudie Clifford, Shane Ryan, Gavin White, David Moran and Jack Barry.
So this includes RTÉ's Motm and Sky Sports' Motm from last Sunday.

Paudie Clifford played against Tyrone

Good riddance to the dinosaur. That's him and Brolly both away, pious sycophant O'Rourke next please followed by the brain-dead and Sam-less Whelan who should never be near any panel given his outright thuggery in a Dublin jersey. Vanity-project sit on the fence Cavanagh can do one too.

Donegal's free taking is abysmal. Have they players missing?

Just home. Some thoughts.
1. Wel done Galway. Better team. Deserved winners. It was a smash and grab raid at the end from us. We never really got going otherwise.
2. The ref. No complaints. He gave some soft frees but against both teams. I thought McCabe made a fair but hard shoulder challenge but apparently he raised his arm so had to go.
3. The melee. Sadly we are the common denominator and while it looked like Comer was the instigator we have only ourselves to blame for getting involved. Again.
4. The gouge. I do not believe for one second, and won't be convinced otherwise, that he meant to do that. However he did it. The pictures don't look good and he will have to face the consequences of his own actions and take whatever ban comes his way.
5. Penalties. What more can I say. Gutted to lose that way

Lastly, and it is with a heavy heart that I wrote this. I am ashamed to be an Armagh fan today. My nephew is 5. He was in the toilet with his dad. 5 grown men. Armagh supporters, got into a fight. One of them knocked my nephew over. The lad is traumatised. He will get over it but will he want to go back to a game again? Woukd you blame him if he didn't. The guys were wearing Armagh tops. My nephew thought they were players ffs. At this stage I am not sure I want to go back to a game.

Anyway. Best of luck to Galway against Derry in the semifinal

Tonto, I'm guessing you're either a relative or friend of the player involved but the worst possible thing anyone can do is pretend that was accidental Excuse it with a rush of the blood moment or whatever but noone associated with Armagh GAA should make an excuse for it. Just call it for what it is ffs

If it's finish on the day, I've yet to see a better answer to penalties to finish a game in any team sport in the world.

Keep playing periods of extra time maybe but players already out on their feet.

With penalties it's the exact same for both players and teams.

Some of the alternatives been suggested.......FFS.

Interesting that Galway had practiced for them and played them at end of a few challenge games. That's some preparation and the teams have accepted them. Pat Spillane just thinks that everything some be the same as the 80s when Kerry reigned supreme.

Back in the winter, I recall the Tyrone County Committee sending out a message to clubs in the county asking for suggestions other than a penalty shoot-out to ultimately decide the winner of a fixture where there had to be a "winner on the day".

They didn't get one response back.

Youse Tyrone boys love the soccer

A hard one to take for Armagh but could ultimately be the making of both teams. Galway could power on this year and when the dust settles Armagh will have a superb starting point for next year. There were lads coming on in normal time there I'd never heard tell of, so we really were stretched thin. I hope the full management team recommit. It'll be another 50/50 match in the semi.

A good weekend for Galway (& Tyrone ones by the looks of it).

Take off the orange glasses mate. We scored 2 flukey late goals courtesy of a flakey keeper. Otherwise we were miles off Galway and could've been going home bate out the gate by 8 or 9. Geezer has to go

Such biased reffing for Kerry tho. Kerry players looking to him for frees and he's obliging every time

Geezer clueless in croker again. Should resign after the match

I'm worried. We always shit the togs in Croker. Hope I'm wrong. AFS2022!

Are you from Galway. Armagh's last game in Croker in January was actually rather good.

Yep. Great league performance. Hope that stands to us.

I'm worried. We always shit the togs in Croker. Hope I'm wrong. AFS2022!

I've a bad feeling with this one. Hope I'm wrong!