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There's too much focus on getting players unbelievably fit instead of focusing on improving the skills like foot-passing, shooting, blocking and fielding etc. I know fitness is a vital part of being a top team but I think it's starting to take too much of an emphasis of actually playing a bit of football.

well its true mate the economics don't lie. for the record pints we've no fear of Tyrone, looking forward to doing  a number on them. simply looking for fair play in the fixtures where cork and the rest appear to set the agenda.

every county has sunshine supporters - I wouldnt like the gaa to be relying on the pissed up soccer fans who gather on the hill 4 or 5 times a year.

Spot on - how many of the dubs that pack croke park for the big matches would travel upto clones or casement or down to Kerry if they didnt have the use of Croke park for every game?

What's the general opinion of him? Personally everytime I see him on Sunday game or read him in the Sunday World he seems to be getting smugger and more of a pr**k.

All-Ireland SFC quarter-final draw:
Saturday, 9 August

ALL MATCHES TO BE PLAYED IN CROKE PARK

Armagh -v- Wexford, 2.00pm

Galway -v- Kerry, 4.00pm

Sunday, 10 August

Cork -v- Kildare, 2.00pm

Saturday, 16 August

Dublin -v- Tyrone, 4.00pm

Good to see the sensible decision being made. Nobody was going to get everything they wanted but this is the best compromise.

Typical Dublin getting f*cked over...

Dry your eyes, a sensible decision was made. If Dublin are so confident of victory what difference does it make if its the 9th or 16th, it will be a 70 minute game involving the same 30 players on the same pitch no matter what. Maybe you's have researched the long term weather forecast and thats whats bothering you's? The fixtures were never set in stone and were merely a guideline. In the past they have been shifted about eg Armagh v Laois in 05. How do teams prepare for qualifiers or replays with 1 weeeks notice?

How are they guidelines? The Qtr-finals were set out in the Master Planner for the 9th August end of story...and Dublin have been planning to play on that date...so now have a 5 week break between matched which is too long, Tyrone get an extra weeks break and our rest period before the semi-final is cut or if its a draw there is none...

You's are getting your way with your standalone match - an extra week will hardly make a huge difference if Dublin really think they're the best team in Ireland. You's have a home match in pretty much every championship match that you's play so get over it. If the Dubs are good enough they'l beat Tyrone.

I don't know...it just says on rte teletext that the 4 quarter finals have been all announced for croke park. Doesn't mention minors or anything.

When is the game? Coming weekend or the one after?

I'm busy the weekend after, but free this....

match is on 16th as a stand-alone. throw in at 4

galway/kerry and armagh/wexford is this coming saturday

cork/kildare is on before the hurling semi nxt sunday

Down's 'for' tally bodes well for the match against wexford.

I was talking bout the fact its 666  wasn't suggesting they have a bad defence.....apologies for any misunderstanding 

Oh and roadworks being done at rush hour when they're not immediately necessary.

Sometimes I borrow the tractor from home and just drive around Armagh.

People who race up the inside lane only to realise that the reason the other lane is blocked up is because other drivers have had the foresight to look ahead and see an obstruction, then proceed to feel hard done by when nobody lets them cut in.

Also really annoys me when people do give in and allow above mentioned dicks to cut in.

Spot on....couldn't agree more.

Also hate it when your drivin along at the top of the speed limit and some p***k in a bmw.merc.audi rides up your hole. I always just slow way down to piss them off. Shower of tools.

Downs 'against' tally doesn't bode well for the match against wexford!

At least one of this weekend's All Ireland qualifiers to be a draw     6/4    

what's the deal with draw's at this stage. With the quarters next week what happens if one of the matches finishes level after extra time? I'm sure this has probably been asked before but just thought of it when I saw the very low odds on a draw in any of the matches.

one of todays papers said that the county board didn't look for more than the 7000 tickets they orignally got

Also read that. But also heard from a couple of sources that they expect an awful crowd of tyrone people heading - unless everyones been doing their ticket searching on ticketmaster like myself.

Whats the predictions now that the match is nearly upon us? I've seen a prediction of Tyrone win by 5 and a couple of Mayo by 2 r 3 points. I think Tyrone will hit top form in the open space and Brian McGuigan will be man of the match. Tyrone by 7!!!

When was the last team we'v been able to name an unchanged team for 3 matches in a row?

The bench looks very strong aswell with the likes of mugsy, mulgrew, mccaul, mcmahon etc. If we can get past Mayo on saturday and if mugsy gets another 20-25 minute runout I could see him taking the place of Penrose whose shooting has been woeful so far this year.

Can't wait til 4 on Sat 

Bale is a terrible batman though. His voice like some sort of Clint Eastwood Dirty Harry thing gets annoying and just sounds stupid. Not a bad Bruce Wayne in saying that. For me Michael Keaton has been by far the best batman.

Anyone else notice its number 1 on IMDB ousting the Godfather from top spot!? For me its 8/10.

Bale is a brilliant Batman. I know the voice is annoying but it has to be done or else everyone would just figure out it was him.

Nd yes I noticed its number 1 on IMDB!but it's been dropping down a little bit from last wk. Checked earlier on and its 9.3 but it was 9.5 a couple of days ago so I think it will fall below the Godfather and Shawshank but will stay in the top 5.