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A lot will depend on the fitness of Kelly, Walsh and Comer.
If they are all fit then Galway will be favourites and rightfully so. If not then Donegal have every chance.
One thing Donegal need to develop is the ability to find a full forward with a long kick pass. What they do they do very well but it is a bit one dimensional.

The Gaoith Dobhair V Cill Chathra game has all the makings of a great game, The champions of 2018 v the champions of 2017 & both teams love to play open attacking football.

[they all want to top it to avoid playing Dublin.]

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Why is it boring anyway? In one group three teams out of four can still qualify and they all want to top it to avoid playing Dublin.

You really think that Donegal want to meet us again at this juncture of this year's Championship? And it only applies to Group 1 (we can't meet them in the Semi regardless).

Absolutely delighted to meet you in the semi final.

Would you mind putting together your plan for the season? The reason the IC season is like this is because people said they want more IC games between the top teams but more time for club games. Have any IC players come out and complained about regular games? I haven't heard any but maybe there are?

I still don't get that ic link with club in the context of for example Galway are out of the championship a while now and I bet there still hasn't been any club championship played ?

It's a complete farce , clubs love to have a moan but it's just rubbish outside the top fourish . It doesn't add up

I don't know what happens elsewhere but here in Donegal the league is going strong every week, including a full programme of games for Sunday, so everyone is getting plenty of summer football.

Everybody happy here.

If that news is coming from the Donegal camp then I would put the house on him being fine & lining out.

Tit for tat.

Nothing stuff.

Murphy is a class act. I'm from Tyrone, these lads do what they do - No point crying over what someone might have said, Murphy got plenty of nasty belts from McMahons et al in the day and not a word of it.

Pisses me off this back and forth 'but he done this...'. Who cares. They are on the pitch willing to do anything to win for their counties and to be honest, it's not really any of our business.

Take county lenses off for a minute and appreciate a true giant of the game when he's at his pomp.

Well said. The only comment I made regarding him is that he gets away with a lot from refs but that's not his fault. He's an absolute beast of a player and you'd really struggle to come up with another man at the minute with as much in the locker as he has.

Sean Boylan was saying they are as close to a one man team as he's seen. I don't buy that at all, they have some other truly fantastic players but at the same time above all teams and players in the country, if you take Murphy from that Donegal team they don't look half as tough a prospect. I don't think you could say that about another single top 5/6 team and one player. That's more a testament to him than a slight on the rest of the panel.

It's a bit of a double edged sword for Donegal in that the is such a great player that he overshadows the whole team even though there are some great players there.

As for his tackling, I think half the problem is that the is so powerful that a hit from him has far more effect than from most other players. Mind you I do have to agree that he sails close to the wind at times.

Wouldn't it be a lot easier if people stopped complaining & accepted the fact that the officials are human like everyone else and will make mistakes.

It's a game at the end of the day.

We are 13/8 outsiders in a game we are playing at home . I'm not sure why people are shocked even offended when we some of us think we will be beat . On 2019 championship form I can't see how a case can even be made tbh , Roscommon beat us at home , Armagh should of beaten us , we are so poor in McHale park it's ridiculous for a start

A lot depends on how injuries will affect the line ups on the day.

Donegal to win this one handy. Mayo were bloody awful against Meath.

As a reminder Donegal and Mayo both beat Meath by 9 points. Mayo scored 2-17 while Donegal scored 2-19.


Donegal at home v Meath.  57 mins played Meath 1-12 Donegal 1-11
Mayo in Croke park v Meath. 54 mins played Meath 0-12 Mayo 0-11

It's not what you do, it's the way that you do it.

I believe the IRFU put it at 42,000 then GAA H&S brought it down to 38,000.
25,000 is ridiculous.

How can somebody just make that decision without being questioned.
Regulation gone crazy, no pushback by Mayo, Connacht council or the GAA.
or dare I say it Mayo elected politicans.

As far as I know Croke Park bags the takings for these games throwing the hosting county a few euro to cover expenses.

Doesn't matter what the capacity is, Mayo will make the same out of it, shag all.

Less people in is still less money spent in various different ways, and potentially around the town too

Very true.

I believe the IRFU put it at 42,000 then GAA H&S brought it down to 38,000.
25,000 is ridiculous.

How can somebody just make that decision without being questioned.
Regulation gone crazy, no pushback by Mayo, Connacht council or the GAA.
or dare I say it Mayo elected politicans.

As far as I know Croke Park bags the takings for these games throwing the hosting county a few euro to cover expenses.

Doesn't matter what the capacity is, Mayo will make the same out of it, shag all.

Wouldn't like to be Donegal going in to this but the incentive of losing out on a SF spot like last year should see them over the line. An uninjured Mayo v Donegal would be very interesting and I'd think Mayo would win in such a scenario but alas those key Mayo players won't be back.

Clarke/Mayo have been found out on their kick-outs and they really need to do something drastic in the next 2 weeks to get their restarts fixed. For all the "messiah" talk I heard around Horan in the run-up to his appointment I'm sorely disappointed since. I certainly couldn't see Jimmy McG be so oblivious to the major problem that is the Mayo restarts.

If you haven'yt got a good kickout strategy these days then you are toast.

I see there is a problem with our kickout strategy, but it's not all down to keeper , lack of options has to be factored in also . Losing ruane was massive this year he was the find of the last two years and was working well with aido .

Agreed but your keeper is still a good 50% factor in kickout strategy so he shoulders more of the blame proportionally.

One team is always guaranteed a home draw for the semi final, final too come to that.

I never like to see players being brought back before they asre 100% ready. Not alone do you have to fully heal but you then need to get fully up to speed after a lengthy layoff, especially at this level.

In my experience it never ends well

While I agree that he does suffer from the odd rush of blood to the head, the hit on the Cavan keeper being an example, I can't help but think it's his sheer bulk & physicallity that gets him into trouble at times.

He is a collosus & a hit from him is always going to look & feel worse than from the average player.