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Come on Derry, finish strong.

Credit to both teams, an example of how Gaelic football should be played.
The ref who I am usually very critical of more for his mannerism also having a very good game, letting them play.

[300k along sideline]

Armagh are some bunch of bottlers.

Have they ever come out on winning side of a tight game?

300k along sideline to start a defensive team vs Donegal who had their 3 best players missing.

When they did show the sideline, I did actually wonder, how much are these guys getting paid, and what tactical value are they adding. Donegal were better pretty much all over the field, and they were missing two or three starters.

You have to laugh at Elected talk of toxicity in Politics.

Of course there is. What do these people expect when they only answer to their superiors.

The Media give them a free pass.

There is no respect for them because they have no respect for a vast majority of their electorate.

Varadkar was a vile individual. The kind who'd look down his nose at most. He served his higher masters well the last decade or so.

He won't be remembered for anything. Correction -  he won't be remembered for anything good.

+1

He should be forced to drive around 10 towns (under 1000 population)in each county in the west of Ireland, and have someone point out to him, the number of businesses that have shut shop in the last decade.

[As someone mentioned the club Championships are only kicking into gear around late Aug and September anyway and by that stage there are only 2 teams left in the Championship so it has minimal effect on the Club scene.]

I think the GAA season is too condensed and needs to go back to the old format of September finals, this leaves enough time between games and allows for replays etc. As someone mentioned the club Championships are only kicking into gear around late Aug and September anyway and by that stage there are only 2 teams left in the Championship so it has minimal effect on the Club scene.
Regarding the League finals this will allow the finals to be played leaving 3-4 weeks before Championship time and giving teams a good quality game leading into Championship, some years the league will go the wire and some years it can be wrapped up with a game or 2 to spare but I suppose that's the luck of the draw...we got relegated last year because  of that which was a bit unfair but if we'd taken care of business earlier then it wouldn't have mattered.
Ohh...and while you are at it Jarleth can you please dump that stupid "Mark" rule, we have a good product so stop ruining it.

I doubt if anyone in Croke Park can argue with this reality.
just stupid.
Make the all-Ireland third sunday in August, they will still have time for concerts in Late August/September

Rural Ireland will be upset,
I mean whatever is left of it.

[Move the All-ireland final to third Sunday in August.]

I'd agree with Canavan here particularly on division 2,3 & 4 finals. It would free up an extra week for the calendar. However I don't see the GAA foregoing the gate receipts and scrapping them.

It is a bit of an embarrassment that teams are trying to avoid playing in the final.
Wonder what the sponsor is thinking about it.
simple answer,
Move the All-ireland final to third Sunday in August.

You could count on one hand the amount of club championships that begin before September,
Why, because all the young fellas who are on their county panels or are on the fringes of it have spent 5,6 or 7 months living like monks, and then decide to travel for a month or two. Good for them.

Davy Burke is thinking ahead
https://twitter.com/offtheball/status/1769413387094458851

Thought it was a candid and insightful interview compared to some of the nonsense that is dished out by county managers.

How can Derry be so much more tactically astute versus Mayo.
it is embarrassing. Now I know that Derry have five or six footballers who are better man for man, but Mayo absolutely woeful. I think Only one forward kicked a point from play in the first half, same in second half

Derry are some outfit, beat 2022 All Ireland Champions Kerry in their own backyard, hammered Tyrone and destroyed Monaghan. Won the McKenna cup at a canter and back to back Ulster titles. Very hard to look past them for major silverware this year especially with Harte in charge.

What month is it again ?

Seafoid, why take the bait.
that twit will now use one of his other 8 alias to continue this asinine conversation.

Well done to both teams in crappy conditions.
Thank God Glen did not blow it.
I was having my worst Mayo nightmares for the last ten minutes.

Jesus, red all day long

Elbow to the head, a yellow card.
An incompetent referee who over the years seems to enjoy his power and often putting his fingers to his lips seemingly telling players to stop talking, rather than making critical decisions

Red card and he's lapped that one the other part of your post? WTF

Maybe he's telling players to keep quiet?

And now because he's a cop it's normal 

I did not know nor comment on what he does for a living.
I was alluding to how annoying it has to be as an adult player to have an official do that.
you might consider doing it to an under 8 or 10 player.

Jesus, red all day long

Elbow to the head, a yellow card.
An incompetent referee who over the years seems to enjoy his power and often putting his fingers to his lips seemingly telling players to stop talking, rather than making critical decisions

Showing my age, but was in the canal end that day.
It was absolutely bananas.
The surge of the crowd forward was unreal.
One of those you were lucky to witness in person.
RIP I am sure he was a true legend in Offaly.

Not at all.
It was his boyhood dream to play for Kilmacud...... 

it was his boyhood dream to be a great footballer. He probably spent hours on end practicing to be better.
He achieved that, he should be proud.
As for the Kilmacud club, F them.
They will probably continue to do it.
bigger Q, with a more complex answer, what dont politicians in rural counties, put more emphasis in decentralization, so that less Mayo Roscommon, Sligo Leitrim Lonford, etc next generation are not being
forced to live up there and therby see another round of young fellas with parents from said counties playing for Dublin.
That is the end game IMO.
simple partial solution to this, Knock Aiport, imagine how many thousands of people it would keep in the west and mid west if it got half them money Shannon Got.
digressed a bit too much there. My bad