All Ireland Championship 2025.

[AnDúnAbú94]

The refs for the quarter finals

Monaghan v Donegal - Paddy Neilan (Roscommon)

Tyrone v Dublin - David Goldrick (Meath)

Meath v Galway- Martin McNally (Monaghan)

Armagh v Kerry - Brendan Cawley (Kildare)

Hurson and Faloon waiting for bigger days out?
Or McQuillan and Cassidy?

And Gough?
Whilst not a huge fan of Hurson I'd say that has to be right.

McQuillan and Cassidy wouldn't be considered at this stage surely.

Gough injured himself in the Down Louth game, hasn't done a game since. Looked like he pulled something so he might be done for the year.

[AustinPowers]

If there's one thing you can't knock the GAA for it's the accommodation of kids. A fiver into the second or third biggest occasion of the year. No other sport does that to my knowledge, and when they do have family sections they're by and large stuck in a corner. Entire Cusack and Davin stand available for kids if you can get the decent tiks quick enough. Having the Hogan set aside is like having an adults only hotel and is very much appreciated also

Aye I suppose you're right. Availed of the €5 tickets many a time. We used to bring  the  nieces and nephews to big games for  a €5 ticket,  even when some of them  were 19 or 20.  Just  put your hair in pigtails or whatever , I says 

[SaffronSports]

If there's one thing you can't knock the GAA for it's the accommodation of kids. A fiver into the second or third biggest occasion of the year. No other sport does that to my knowledge, and when they do have family sections they're by and large stuck in a corner. Entire Cusack and Davin stand available for kids if you can get the decent tiks quick enough. Having the Hogan set aside is like having an adults only hotel and is very much appreciated also

Aye I suppose you're right. Availed of the €5 tickets many a time. We used to bring  the  nieces and nephews to big games for  a €5 ticket,  even when some of them  were 19 or 20.  Just  put your hair in pigtails or whatever , I says 

I'm sure your nephew loved that...

[Blowitupref]

The refs for the quarter finals

Monaghan v Donegal - Paddy Neilan (Roscommon)

Tyrone v Dublin - David Goldrick (Meath)

Meath v Galway- Martin McNally (Monaghan)

Armagh v Kerry - Brendan Cawley (Kildare)

Hurson and Faloon waiting for bigger days out?
Or McQuillan and Cassidy?

Retiring after this year so probably one last big game pencilled in for him?

[Solo_run]

The refs for the quarter finals

Monaghan v Donegal - Paddy Neilan (Roscommon)

Tyrone v Dublin - David Goldrick (Meath)

Meath v Galway- Martin McNally (Monaghan)

Armagh v Kerry - Brendan Cawley (Kildare)

Hurson and Faloon waiting for bigger days out?
Or McQuillan and Cassidy?

Retiring after this year so probably one last big game pencilled in for him?

Coldrick not far behind 

[Milltown Row2]

Galway must be close to empty at this stage. Miles and years on the clock is a tough combination.
Always better to avoid that preliminary round.

Can Galway take anything away from their form in the second half of games this year? Armagh, Derry and the first half against Down they hit that purple patch..

Beating Meath would give them a period to get back at it again

[AustinPowers]

If there's one thing you can't knock the GAA for it's the accommodation of kids. A fiver into the second or third biggest occasion of the year. No other sport does that to my knowledge, and when they do have family sections they're by and large stuck in a corner. Entire Cusack and Davin stand available for kids if you can get the decent tiks quick enough. Having the Hogan set aside is like having an adults only hotel and is very much appreciated also

Aye I suppose you're right. Availed of the €5 tickets many a time. We used to bring  the  nieces and nephews to big games for  a €5 ticket,  even when some of them  were 19 or 20.  Just  put your hair in pigtails or whatever , I says 

I'm sure your nephew loved that...

I set that   up for you nicely there 

[Blowitupref]

Galway must be close to empty at this stage. Miles and years on the clock is a tough combination.
Always better to avoid that preliminary round.

Can Galway take anything away from their form in the second half of games this year? Armagh, Derry and the first half against Down they hit that purple patch..

Beating Meath would give them a period to get back at it again

Galway can take plenty out of it. Shows their fitness is among the best with finishing games strongly and good strength in depth with big impact off the bench. I'm expecting Galway to beat Meath in a similar way this weekend.

Also worth noting they came through preliminary round last year and took out a rested Dublin in Croke Park with again a strong finish to the game.

[galwayman]

Galway must be close to empty at this stage. Miles and years on the clock is a tough combination.
Always better to avoid that preliminary round.

Can Galway take anything away from their form in the second half of games this year? Armagh, Derry and the first half against Down they hit that purple patch..

Beating Meath would give them a period to get back at it again

The biggest issue I see for Galway at the moment is that we are absolutely haemorrhaging scores. Teams are opening us up at will.
This could be exposed even further in Croker.
I was at the league game against Dublin there earlier in the year and they waltzed through us time and again.
They could have had another 3 or 4 goals that night.
That's the biggest problem we have right now.

[trileacman]

Galway must be close to empty at this stage. Miles and years on the clock is a tough combination.
Always better to avoid that preliminary round.

Can Galway take anything away from their form in the second half of games this year? Armagh, Derry and the first half against Down they hit that purple patch..

Beating Meath would give them a period to get back at it again

The biggest issue I see for Galway at the moment is that we are absolutely haemorrhaging scores. Teams are opening us up at will.
This could be exposed even further in Croker.
I was at the league game against Dublin there earlier in the year and they waltzed through us time and again.
They could have had another 3 or 4 goals that night.
That's the biggest problem we have right now.

Why is this? Kelly, McHugh and Johnny McGrath are top players. Is that just that McDaid, Maher, Conroy and Tierney are too lumbersome in defence?

[SouthOfThe Bann]

This weekends predictions:

Donegal v Monaghan: I have been seriously impressed with Monaghan so far this championship and believe that if they get through his game they have as good a chance as anybody in winning a maiden All Ireland Title; If Donegal dont get going quickly in this game doubts may begin to set in about tiredness and fatigue etc but Jim will have them tuned in you would imagine. They were impressive in the second half last week though and I believe they may just have enough to get through; Donegal by 2

Dublin v Tyrone: Hard to know what your going to get with either side here both very unpredictable; alot will depend on Con's fitness and whether Brian Kennedy will be fit to play for Tyrone; Ive a feeling this is not a good matchiup for Tyrone and Dublin may be too phycial for them; On this basis Dublin by 2

Galway v Meath: Meath are an unknown quantitiy in this game; havenet seen any of them in the group stages so hard to know how impressive they have been; could go either way this game but i expect Galway to sneak it; Galway by 2

Kerry v Armagh: Alot of talk that Armagh are strong favourites for this game and rightly so they have been the best team in the championship so far. All logic points towards an Armagh win but writing Kerry off is a dangerous game and i've a sneaking suspicion they may just pull through. Kerry by 4.

Anyone else give it a rattle?

[Manning18]

Galway must be close to empty at this stage. Miles and years on the clock is a tough combination.
Always better to avoid that preliminary round.

Can Galway take anything away from their form in the second half of games this year? Armagh, Derry and the first half against Down they hit that purple patch..

Beating Meath would give them a period to get back at it again

The biggest issue I see for Galway at the moment is that we are absolutely haemorrhaging scores. Teams are opening us up at will.
This could be exposed even further in Croker.
I was at the league game against Dublin there earlier in the year and they waltzed through us time and again.
They could have had another 3 or 4 goals that night.
That's the biggest problem we have right now.

Why is this? Kelly, McHugh and Johnny McGrath are top players. Is that just that McDaid, Maher, Conroy and Tierney are too lumbersome in defence?

Lots going on. Spent 3 years perfecting a Cian O'Neill largely zonal system only for him to leave and the rules to change simultaneously. Seems in flux now between zonal and man to man and would suspect the coaching has taken a step down. Players who excelled in that system such as McHugh and Silke perhaps not being as good man to man. Lack of a stable and stationary center back (Kelly is all action around the pitch). And probably a couple of the large midfielders are slow on the transition the other way

I don't think any team is happy defensively really, just Galway seem a bit more unstable than most left. They had issues this time last year to a lesser extent and really turned it around with a fantastic display v Dublin in Croker so perhaps there's hope yet

[greatpoint]

Campbell one was the correct decision, jumping into 3 defenders and falling on his arse

It was a fking foul and cost Armagh an Ulster

And here was me thinking Armagh lost the Ulster Final because they were outscored in extra time

[thejuice]

I can make arguments for every game going one way or the other.

Don't see Kerry beating Armagh. They need to be at 100% and haven't done that yet and haven't really needed to be either.

Donegal might just survive a tough battle with Monaghan but them losing wouldn't be a shock either. Donegal won't get through this unscathed any way but they'll get a break after this.

Which version of Dublin or Tyrone will we get. Both on form you'd say Tyrone slightly but you just don't know. Dublin have home advantage though.

It could be my optimism but Meath might be about to make a statement this weekend. We'll be rested, there's a hunger and an ambition in this team. It won't be easy by any means but I feel like the Kerry game has us nicely positioned to put together a complete performance. Of course that could be all b0ll0x come Sunday evening.

[Blowitupref]