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Galway,Cork & Kerry have won All Irelands coming in the back door & Down almost did it last year

Tyrone aswell

Yes how did i forget those bearded Tyrone men.

If Mayo can win an AI by going in any door I'd be a happy man :), however in my opinion, front door will always be no 1 with me.

Front door ,back door, in the window, down the chimney , a bye to the Final .... Who gives a tuppent **** if Sam is coming home on the 3rd Monday of September   8) 8)

I'm a traditionalist so front door>unbeaten>All Ireland champions. though saying that.. I'm with the last two poster & won't complain if we won it through the back door.

Jesus, any Mayo person would go through any door or wall you want if it meant Sam Maguire would be brought back to Castlebar.
Traditionally (well, since the back door came in), we do much better when we win Connacht, so I'd say the front door.
Ideally, you'd like to go unbeaten so the front door would be anyone's preference.

Unbeaten is the only way.

Quote from: Blowitupref on May 11, 2011, 06:58:00 PM
Galway,Cork & Kerry have won All Irelands coming in the back door & Down almost did it last year

It doesn't matter if we got to the final we didn't win it. However since qualifiers began there have been ten finals. Six have been won by back-door teams. Starkly, this includes the last three finals in a row!

I have sampled both doors, the front door has a much better view, the back door can take you to all sorts of god forsaken places that you might never get to see but thats interesting too.

But however you get to the 3rd Sunday in September and when you have that big Silver Bucket in your grasp around 5.30 that evening you won't give one continental fiddler's shite, no one will be talking about doors, only getting into a pub that won't close their doors that night !!

Lads I couldn't give a shite if we staged a holdup in Moneygall and robbed Sam off the Kerry lads on the way home. If Sam or Liam comes to Offaly, I couldn't care less whether it's through the front door, back door, side door or service entrance.

I don't think the provincial winners medals have any bearing on the 3rd Sunday in September. 
Sometimes getting knocked out early is a wonderful wake up call. Galway lost to Roscommon in June 01 and by early August  they wiped the floor with them.   Which prepared the way for the putting of Meath to the sword. 

I'm a purest, front door or nothing for me.  A back door all Ireland is one that will forever have an * over it.

QuoteLads I couldn't give a shite if we staged a holdup in Moneygall and robbed Sam off the Kerry lads on the way home

The last time ye fecking pulled that stunt, getting as far as Moneygall would have been a fine thing !!

Better be carefull of using the words "Moneygall" and "Hold Up" in the same thread, you never know what Big Brother USA might be looking at for the next few weeks  ;)

People who wish for front door success only must realise that whilst the back door aint perfect, the front door with some counties playing less games than others is equally if not more imperfect (or less perfect).  There is a strong arguement to suggest that since the backdoor came in, the teams who have won the ai regardless of route have been the best team that year, having overcome the best that others could come up with, at least once and sometimes twice.  Armagh and Derry people tend to think that a front door win is the only show in town, well it is for them i suppose.

Quotethe teams who have won the ai regardless of route have been the best team that year, having overcome the best that others could come up with, at least once and sometimes twice. 

Agreed but we still get the "Easy" All Ireland tag thrown at us every now and again ;)

Quote from: AZOffaly on May 12, 2011, 11:08:59 AM
Lads I couldn't give a shite if we staged a holdup in Moneygall and robbed Sam off the Kerry lads on the way home. If Sam or Liam comes home to Offaly, I couldn't care less whether it's through the front door, back door, side door or service entrance.

AZ, I've fixed that for you*. Your open flouting of cliché tradition is disturbing. Don't you know our GAA clichés are sacred and not to be abandoned lightly. Who knows where it could lead?

(* Note how easy it is to use a well-worn cliché if you're willing to try.)

I think everyone would like to win the championship through the front door but 2010,09,08 and I think 07 the AI champions came through the back door.I don't think it matters to most teams in September after winning an All Ireland how they got there.

It's about time we closed all these fancy doors and went back to the old system of tunneling up through the floor with a spoon.

Quote from: Greenabovethered on May 12, 2011, 11:36:37 AM
I'm a purest, front door or nothing for me.  A back door all Ireland is one that will forever have an * over it.

Until Mayo win the back-door route it will anyway. :P

Out of 280 back door teams, 6 have won Sam. That's 2.2% success.
Out of 40 front door teams, 4 have won Sam. That's 10% success.
Front door teams are almost 5 times more successful than back door.

9 provincial quarter final winners (or byes) have won Sam
1 quarter final (or preliminary) loser has won.

6 prov semi final winners have won Sam.
3 semi final losers have won.

4 prov final winners have won Sam.
2 final losers have won.

Winning provincial championship matches has been a big advantage in the race for Sam.

Quote from: Tommy58 on May 21, 2011, 07:31:05 PM

Winning championship matches has been a big advantage in the race for Sam.

fixed for you buckeen  :)