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I found Tony's quip about the hearse to be quite witty and darkly humorous.

The GAA always sells itself as being of the people. For the local community. But you have to wonder at dragging Donegal an Galway people up to Croker when McHale Park is available. There would be an atmosphere and many would make a weekend of it. Both counties have big ties with Mayo. But it looks like the Corporate boxes need to be accommodated.

Fix the match for Mayo or Roscommon/ Tullamore etc and the two counties would go berserk about not playing in CP.
Broohaha  from Mayo about having to suffer playing  a replay in Limerick last year probably fresh in the mind.

This is a qualifier game! The game in Limerick was an AI semi-final played in one of the teams province!  As a dub you know nothing about having to travel to Championship matches, so i would not expect you to understand this.

We've had three senior championship matches at provincial venues already this year and it'll be four next Sunday.

Wake up! This is the football section of Gaaboard.com Hurling has little or nothing to do with anything here! Jez, talk about throwing in a red herring!

Somebody from a county which doesn't take hurling seriously like Mayo would say that. I was under the impression that the two games were run by the one organisation, but sure what do I know.

The GAA always sells itself as being of the people. For the local community. But you have to wonder at dragging Donegal an Galway people up to Croker when McHale Park is available. There would be an atmosphere and many would make a weekend of it. Both counties have big ties with Mayo. But it looks like the Corporate boxes need to be accommodated.

Fix the match for Mayo or Roscommon/ Tullamore etc and the two counties would go berserk about not playing in CP.
Broohaha  from Mayo about having to suffer playing  a replay in Limerick last year probably fresh in the mind.

This is a qualifier game! The game in Limerick was an AI semi-final played in one of the teams province!  As a dub you know nothing about having to travel to Championship matches, so i would not expect you to understand this.

We've had three senior championship matches at provincial venues already this year and it'll be four next Sunday.

I like McStay.Seems very much on the ball with his analysis.
Comes across as a very knowledge guy.

McStay goes to the edge of an argument, states his thinking and moves on without getting personal. A thing that Brolly does not do!

Spillane today talked about poets and Einstein. Scripted lines got from a book of quotes of famous people and shoved into analysis trying to sound educated and witty.

I'm surprised Pat didn't reference Einstein's theory of evolution in an effort to go all academic on the development of tactics in Gaelic football.

Off point but did Einstein have a theory on evolution?

I can only go by what Mary Coughlan told me.

The BBC called Dunne a Brit when he was teeing up on the 17th.

OMG, I'm so outraged at this. I might go and blow up Harrogate or Leamington Spa tomorrow in revenge. We Gaels really can't be taking this lying down.

And the difference between that and posting the Nintendo president has gone to the next level is?

He's French. The other lad is a Jap. Therefore it's less acceptable as French people are more important than Japanese people.

I like McStay.Seems very much on the ball with his analysis.
Comes across as a very knowledge guy.

McStay goes to the edge of an argument, states his thinking and moves on without getting personal. A thing that Brolly does not do!

Spillane today talked about poets and Einstein. Scripted lines got from a book of quotes of famous people and shoved into analysis trying to sound educated and witty.

I'm surprised Pat didn't reference Einstein's theory of evolution in an effort to go all academic on the development of tactics in Gaelic football.

Having Niblock as commentator has transformed their coverage. He's grown up with the GAA and played a bit so he knows what he's on about.

He's no Jimmy Smyth.

Every cloud has a silver lining.
Clones looking well today.

Ulster final day in Clones should have a preservation order attached to it.

Hurling people talk about Munster hurling final day in Thurles being special. Ulster football final day in Clones is just as special and to do away with it forever in favour of moving to a soulless flat-pack cavern in Belfast would, in my view, be an act of desecration.

Did you attend any of the Ulster football finals in Casement?

I never knew you had to be 55 or over to express an opinion on this.

The area surrounding Casement has no atmosphere and nothing to recommend it for a big match.

Same as Salthill can't touch Tuam for atmosphere. At least it has the sea, though.

Five weeks ago Donegal were world beaters and lauded for their innovative style of football. Mayo were seen as being stale with no new players coming through and not in the top three. Today Mayo are seen as a team of real potential in the championship. While Donegal were seen as a tired team with no plan B. Kerry two weeks ago after being completely outplayed by a so called useless Cork team survived courtesy of a dodgy penalty and a hail Mary point! The reality is you are from here on is you are one game away from being World beaters or a game away from being useless!

Eamon Fitzmaurice is lauded as a tactical genius despite Kerry struggling hugely with Donegal's defensive system in last year's All-Ireland final and only winning due to a catastrophic goalkeeping error.

Every cloud has a silver lining.
Clones looking well today.

Ulster final day in Clones should have a preservation order attached to it.

Hurling people talk about Munster hurling final day in Thurles being special. Ulster football final day in Clones is just as special and to do away with it forever in favour of moving to a soulless flat-pack cavern in Belfast would, in my view, be an act of desecration.

useless fact but i think the 2015 provincial winners are same as those exactly 30 years ago in 1985. if i'm not mistaken monaghan took kerry to a replay in the semis that year and a mayo player scored a cracking goal against the dubs.

Another useless fact: in both 1955 and 1985 both All-Ireland semi-finals finished in draws and Kerry beat Dublin in the final. It's a Back To The Future thing, I think.

Dr. Hyde Park comes across horribly on television. There's a terrible bang of poverty, famine, coffins and stones about the place. At Croke Park and Thurles people queue for beer at half-time. You can imagine the spectators in Roscommon queueing at soup kitchens at half-time.

They really should build a car park on it, or something.

Capitalised this thread title please.

We took Galway in Castlebar and took them in Sligo. Expect we'll be back in one of those venues.

Croke Park saturday August 1st doubleheader

Great win for Monaghan but given the way they ran out of steam in the last 15-20 minutes, I'd worry a little for them if they come up against Kerry in the semi-final.

Another wonderful provincial final occasion and it just shows what madness it would be to do away with them.