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Highlight of the match was Omagh bench giving the Conroy a load of abuse led by Ciaran McDaid...Conroy roared over to Daidso saying sit down McDaid,you're just the secretary 🤣🤣 then booked Justy McMahon when he hardly said a word

after the weekends games, anyone any suggestions who could get game time come mckenna cup stages? thoughtnthe county men have been overall poor.

Callum Daly - Omagh
Matthew Quinn - Dungannon
Dara Curran - Loughmacrory

On board with Matthew Quinn, big lad, excellent on the ball and very fast. What age is he?

Yesterday highlighted the most under appreciated of the new rules, no pass back to the goal keeper. It's radically changed the defensive/safety first structure of football. I have a feeling we're gonna see a lot more teams have the balls to really push up on teams short kick outs.

This is turn will influence more long contested kick outs and increase the jeopardy and chaos that makes for the most entertaining games imo.

They keep on coming...

https://x.com/i/status/2081421723321393627

Too early to break it down but do yourselves a favour and listen to this...would bring a tear to a stone...Martin Carney making noises only dogs could hear he's that high pitched and emotional.

https://x.com/i/status/2081422845989507419

How would non award of Dublin goal have been changed? As has been said many times, the replays DO NOT show the ball crossing the line.

Do we want referees to look at a replay and go "ah yeah, sure this is probably what happened, I'll change my mind"?

I get that, would need a dedicated goal line camera that I'm sure wouldn't be most challenging thing to overcome. It's not a perfect system but this year has had so many big calls gone wrong that is costing teams a fair shot.

Still don't see why there's not more interest in the video review.

- Each team has 3 reviews
- a replay or two shown to the ref on big screen
- keep it reserved for QFs onwards when it is knockout football in Croke park

This alone would have allowed the ref a second chance to call the following with a lot more certainty:

- Louth red card
- Kerry wrongly awarded 45 v Tyrone
- Kerry penalty v Dublin
- Kerry clear square ball goal
- Dublin non award of goal

Each of these would have taken 30 seconds to review on big screen.

I think there's merit in it but any form of video review gets a lot of bad press.

Don't think that would solve anything. In fact probably cause more rows. Of those three you've listed I don't think you'd get unanimous agreement on any of them other than maybe the square ball.

Think that's harsh...the Tyrone 45 was blatantly obvious when seen just once...the Kerry goal would clearly have been shown on replay...the Dublin goal was the only debatable one as no conclusive camera angle available. A goal line camera would be an easy solution.

As discussed, Kerry have got the absolute gifts from the gods against Tyrone and Dublin today.

Is this season following last season? An absolute classic up til the semi finals then it completely petered out. That wasnt a great game added to yesterday's cake wake...good chance final could be a blowout as well.

Anyway, after the Tyrone v Kerry game and now this game I feel strongly that there should be a review style system in place for all games in Croke park from QF onwards. My thoughts are:

- each team gets 3 reviews, captain or management can call for them.
- basically the big screens could be used by the ref for definite calls on huge decisions.
- wouldn't take long to fire up the required incident on big screen for 2 or 3 run throughs for the ref to make his decision.
- could have reviewed Kerry's over the line goal and Dubs wrong decision very quickly.
- the Tyrone non award of 45 would have taken a review of no more than 10 seconds.

It wouldn't be VAR and only applied from QFs onwards as the technology is there and replays are usually shown after the ref makes his call anyway.

There's so much riding on the game and it's moving so fast that it's nearly impossible for refs to see everything. Plus to have mainly aul boys who are friends of the refs is pretty ridiculous in this day and age.

Qfs onwards should also have experienced refs on the posts as well.

Dubs not being clinical enough, they'd wanna be a few ahead at half time as the hill 16 end doesnt look like the 2 pointers are on. Have Kerry even went for one?

Fair play to Mayo but they'll get a rude awakening in the final when they play a decent team. Has a team ever had such a handy run to a final?

Louth absolutely shite the togs here, constantly running into traffic, shooting horrendous and gifting Mayo the game. Big Grimes is some unit but not much football in him.

Too many greedy lads in that 2nd half doing their own thing. Amount of times they ran into traffic was crazy.

16-17 year olds, hopefully a good learning experience.

Exactly this... numerous times they had other, better, options and went for glory. One lad in particular was incredibly greedy imo.

The ref was ridiculously harsh on us I felt...reffed it to give the team getting well beat a chance...very similar tackles not given as frees for us...very frustrating.

Big Meenan obv wasn't right, he clearly stepped back when in open play and didn't get involved. Real shame for the fella.

Some quite selfish play from the Tyrone forwards in that last quarter...a couple of goals attempts taken on when there was a man or two in much better positions to score.

Is Meenan carrying an injury? He hardly moved from the No 6 position during open play. Usually at the heart of everything running through the middle, can't think of one occasion he had a run with the ball.

Fair play to Cork lads for sticking at it and enjoy the celebrations, I'm sure these teams will lock horns again in the next few years at u20

Big wind in second half for Cork so it'll be tight if they can get a few early 2 pointers. Our lads playing well and the intensity in the tackle is fantastic. Hopefully big Meenan can get his running game moving in the second half as he's been relatively quiet so far.