All-Ireland QFs: Armagh/Roscommon, Dublin/Galway, Donegal/Louth, Kerry/Derry

[nrico2006]

No disrespect to Derry but I'm glad they're out.  It would have made a mockery of the competition that a team beat 3 times could go on and win it. 

They didn't lose 3 times in this competition, they lost twice! The amount of times I've read this sh1te, it would make your eyes melt.
Lost in Ulster, out of Ulster. Into the group stages of Sam based on the league (different competition) . You finish third blah blah.... . By your same train of thought, was winning the Sam via the back door a mockery? Absolutely not as you're playing within the competitions structures

Hard lines to the players and management today, just wasn't our day. Was only going to be a kick of a ball in it. McKaigue played Clifford very well.

Will be interesting to see what / if there's any changes re management for next year

Brilliant! 🤣😅 have now lost 4 championship games this season.

Jesus, I'm delighted.  Always thought Tyrone lost once on their way to winning Sam in 05 and 08.  I am now content we went through unbeaten in those years as we were in a different competition

Never lost 4! Last time won it lost none : )

How many All Ireland senior club championships have Tyrone GAA won?

Any true Tyrone fan would support their northern neighbours over southerners. If anyone knows Irish history they would know that the kingdom of Tir Eoghain didn't have could relations with Munster. I bet you would even support Dublin (The Pale) over Derry.

What the heck? Lol, white flag raised there.

[Captain Obvious]

Derry's last Croke Park visit was the league final win and scoring 3-18 against Dublin.  Both out now at the last eight stage and in the end league form counted for nothing for this years championship. 

[Armagh18]

Boyle Sports odds and I don't recall last four odds that close before.  Kerry's history,tradition and winning it in 2022 has them ahead of the rest but nothing between the final four in truth.

Kerry 4/5
Galway 9/2
Donegal 9/2
Armagh 9/2

Would give Galway more respect than this. They look better than Donegal and ARE better than Armagh.

Galway havent proven they are better than Armagh in the last 3 championship meetings as they failed to win any of them.

That said I think they are better than Donegal and I'd give them a good chance of beating Kerry or Armagh in the final as well. I think Croke Park suits them and if I was a betting man I'd be putting a few quid on Galway at those odds. Kerry must be living off their reputation because no way are they that much better than the rest.

Think in all 3 games Galway could certainly have won them all but we dug in, rode our luck at times and could have won 2 of them and did win won and I don't think we played particularly well in any of the 3 for a lot of the games. A final between us would be totally 50/50 and would be a serious step up in stakes of our mini rivalry thats been going the last few years.

2 semi finals that are too close to call and hopefully there is a bit more from a neutral perspective as this weekend was largely poor bar second half of Dublin Galway.

[tonto1888]

No disrespect to Derry but I'm glad they're out.  It would have made a mockery of the competition that a team beat 3 times could go on and win it. 

They didn't lose 3 times in this competition, they lost twice! The amount of times I've read this sh1te, it would make your eyes melt.
Lost in Ulster, out of Ulster. Into the group stages of Sam based on the league (different competition) . You finish third blah blah.... . By your same train of thought, was winning the Sam via the back door a mockery? Absolutely not as you're playing within the competitions structures

Hard lines to the players and management today, just wasn't our day. Was only going to be a kick of a ball in it. McKaigue played Clifford very well.

Will be interesting to see what / if there's any changes re management for next year

LOL. What were the 2 losses if we go with your theory? Which loss didnt count? Galway, Armagh or Kerry?

[naka]

Good for Cora and Jamesie o donoghue fearing for Armagh, if it was Galway or Donegal playing Kerry it would be too close to call.
Armagh will be fine for the Kerry match, it's a one off and we will back ourselves to win.
Wouldn't bet against an Armagh Donegal final.

[NAG1]

Think we are going to need a couple of huge semi-finals to save this football season.

It has been abject in the main.

[snoopdog]

A very poor championship. Cant think of one game that was standout. Some close games but nothing great. Ulster final had moments but pedestrian at times. Pensive football would sum up this years championship.

[Armagh18]

Think we were in a similar position last year being disappointed with the quarter finals-3 were one sided and the other was a snooze fest.

At least all 3 this year were reasonably competitive although 3 of the winners were comfortable in the but Dublin Galway went down to the wire.

Think there will be a kick of the ball in both semi finals.

[NotedObserver]

A very poor championship. Cant think of one game that was standout. Some close games but nothing great. Ulster final had moments but pedestrian at times. Pensive football would sum up this years championship.

V poor, Derry shipping 2 hammerings v Donegal and Armagh has been the main talking point. From a Tyrone point of view they went to extra time twice in the Ulster championship but you wouldnt call the 2 games exciting.

The semis and finals hopefully can make up for it.

[APM]

A very poor championship. Cant think of one game that was standout. Some close games but nothing great. Ulster final had moments but pedestrian at times. Pensive football would sum up this years championship.

Ulster Final was a cracking game. Apart from that, not much to write home about

[Mario]

Derry looked like they went out to stop kerry rather than to win.

Had some brilliant individual performances from Glass and Rogers in particular. Mcguigan in the first half too.
Mcevoy mostly did a job on O'Se and Chrissy did much better on Clifford this year than he did last year.

But, we were toothless.
Ball too slow to get forward, and not enough off the shoulder runs. Final 3rd passes went to kerry unforced. Then rash shots too.

Kerry were far from impressive and only pulled away a bit when we had to chase a 3pt lead.

Derry subs were made too late, and took off the wrong players.

Disappointed, but not that unexpected.
Championship to forget.
Harte....hasn't brought much.
We look like the team that had just come out of div 3 a few years ago.

You are looking at it this morning thinking we got so much right in terms of match ups. If someone told you before that Clifford wouldn't be seen after the first 10 min, Paudie would barely get a kick from Conor Doherty, Seanie oshea would be wrapped up by McEvoy and McGuigan would be the best player on the pitch you'd think we'd have a great chance but then the performance was just so flat when we needed to kick on. We needed a few things to go our way in the last 20 min but once Kerry got that 2 or 3 point lead it was over. We didn't get anything from our defenders in an attacking sense which is unusual but I suppose we had to go back to basics after the championship hammerings. It definitely feels like we've went back during this championship.

Armagh are better than us right now and have the ability to beat Kerry but I will always question their ability to get over the line until they do it. Expect a very close game.

[NotedObserver]

Derry looked like they went out to stop kerry rather than to win.

Had some brilliant individual performances from Glass and Rogers in particular. Mcguigan in the first half too.
Mcevoy mostly did a job on O'Se and Chrissy did much better on Clifford this year than he did last year.

But, we were toothless.
Ball too slow to get forward, and not enough off the shoulder runs. Final 3rd passes went to kerry unforced. Then rash shots too.

Kerry were far from impressive and only pulled away a bit when we had to chase a 3pt lead.

Derry subs were made too late, and took off the wrong players.

Disappointed, but not that unexpected.
Championship to forget.
Harte....hasn't brought much.
We look like the team that had just come out of div 3 a few years ago.

You are looking at it this morning thinking we got so much right in terms of match ups. If someone told you before that Clifford wouldn't be seen after the first 10 min, Paudie would barely get a kick from Conor Doherty, Seanie oshea would be wrapped up by McEvoy and McGuigan would be the best player on the pitch you'd think we'd have a great chance but then the performance was just so flat when we needed to kick on. We needed a few things to go our way in the last 20 min but once Kerry got that 2 or 3 point lead it was over. We didn't get anything from our defenders in an attacking sense which is unusual but I suppose we had to go back to basics after the championship hammerings. It definitely feels like we've went back during this championship.

Armagh are better than us right now and have the ability to beat Kerry but I will always question their ability to get over the line until they do it. Expect a very close game.

This sounds v like Tyrone defeats in the 2010s to Kerry

[JoG2]

No disrespect to Derry but I'm glad they're out.  It would have made a mockery of the competition that a team beat 3 times could go on and win it. 

They didn't lose 3 times in this competition, they lost twice! The amount of times I've read this sh1te, it would make your eyes melt.
Lost in Ulster, out of Ulster. Into the group stages of Sam based on the league (different competition) . You finish third blah blah.... . By your same train of thought, was winning the Sam via the back door a mockery? Absolutely not as you're playing within the competitions structures

Hard lines to the players and management today, just wasn't our day. Was only going to be a kick of a ball in it. McKaigue played Clifford very well.

Will be interesting to see what / if there's any changes re management for next year

LOL. What were the 2 losses if we go with your theory? Which loss didnt count? Galway, Armagh or Kerry?

No theory, just pointing out the structures of the provincials / All Ireland (the 3 losses in the initial post were pre Kerry)

[Rossfan]

There are 6 Senior Inter Co Championships.
"Gahman" hasn't got his head around that yet, he's  still in 1 Championship mode.

[tonto1888]

No disrespect to Derry but I'm glad they're out.  It would have made a mockery of the competition that a team beat 3 times could go on and win it. 

They didn't lose 3 times in this competition, they lost twice! The amount of times I've read this sh1te, it would make your eyes melt.
Lost in Ulster, out of Ulster. Into the group stages of Sam based on the league (different competition) . You finish third blah blah.... . By your same train of thought, was winning the Sam via the back door a mockery? Absolutely not as you're playing within the competitions structures

Hard lines to the players and management today, just wasn't our day. Was only going to be a kick of a ball in it. McKaigue played Clifford very well.

Will be interesting to see what / if there's any changes re management for next year

LOL. What were the 2 losses if we go with your theory? Which loss didnt count? Galway, Armagh or Kerry?

No theory, just pointing out the structures of the provincials / All Ireland (the 3 losses in the initial post were pre Kerry)

the initial post was at 830 yesterday evening mate, so not pre Kerry