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

[Orior]

Can't see a way back for Galway here, Kelly gone off and Walsh looks injured now and yer man the rookie Dub McMahon has Comer marshalled

There's always a way.

[Captain Obvious]

Great for Armagh to finally reach All-Ireland semi final however today's performance against a wasteful and 14 man Roscommon will need to improve a lot to win and reach the final.

Fair play to Galway serious fitness to first stick with Dublin and then have the belief and determination to see out the win. Looks like the group Armagh topped was the strongest and Derry might just fancy themselves against Kerry tomorrow?

[jcpen]

Armaghs All Ireland to lose.

[Armamike]

Armaghs All Ireland to lose.

Absolutely. Nailed on.

[Norm-Peterson]

People are viewing it as an end of an era but Dublin will still win more All Irelands this decade. I said the same after they lost to Mayo in 2021.
I think it will be a Donegal Kerry final.

[Mario]

People are viewing it as an end of an era but Dublin will still win more All Irelands this decade. I said the same after they lost to Mayo in 2021.
I think it will be a Donegal Kerry final.

An end of an era in the sense that there will no longer be total domination of the AI I hope. A period like the 90s would be nice.

[JoG2]

Armaghs All Ireland to lose.

You're about 8 weeks late to the party!

[thewobbler]

People are viewing it as an end of an era but Dublin will still win more All Irelands this decade. I said the same after they lost to Mayo in 2021.
I think it will be a Donegal Kerry final.

I remember thinking that the dwindling of the Connolly-Brogan-Flynn axis of freescoring evil would bring the Dubs back to earth.

But as it turned out, Kilkenny, Mannion, Rock, O'Callaghan, Costello was an even more evil axis of free scoring, and they had Fenton providing the engine.

This time though I'm certain the Dubs are being reeled into the pack. The next generation after these guys are athletic, talented and well drilled, but they don't bring the same scoring power. And for now they don't appear either to have a generation coming behind to phase them out.

Indeed they might even lose a Leinster game in the next 5 years.

(Watch now whilst Dublin unearth 2 free scoring gems).

[bennydorano]

You wouldn't think Armagh are 2/5 or 1/3 shots listening to some of the pods/ twitter. Uncertainty over Armagh is very understandable, not sure what I think yet!

I've a sneaky feeling Galway could upset the applecart this weekend. Unfortunately for Derry, I think Kerry really have something to prove to themselves and to everyone else, think they'll come out with all guns blazing and no complacency. Hard to see past a comfortable Donegal win.

I'd more faith in Galway than the Galwegians and than in Armagh. So glad I stayed fo the end after a half time discussion about heading on, Galway were great in the second half and the noise and scenes around us at the end were really great to see, I believe Pauric Joyce's 2 sisters were behind us and Jesus they roared.

As for Armagh, I said to a mate a neutral watching that probably thought we were in cruise control in the 2nd half but I thought it was very nervy for a long long time. We played pretty poorly and still won comfortably enough which is both heartening & worrying. Some pretty poor performances seemed to go totally under the radar, 5 subs made and not to good effect, there were boys left on the pitch who were terrible imo. Good to get it over the line.

Conditions were pretty bad, the pitch did take some battering.

[Mario]

Why is Saturday game not on

[AustinPowers]

Why is Saturday game not on

Euro coverage running late

[armaghniac]

Why is Saturday game not on

Euro coverage running late

Owing to earlier storm in Germany.

[thewobbler]

Can't believe someone above was making claims for a foot block.

Simple rule of thumb folks: if you place your foot (or leg) in the kicking path of the attacker, then it's a foot block. Otherwise it's not.

The purpose of the rule is to protect the kicker from injury. Nothing more, nothing less.

[gallsman]

Can't believe someone above was making claims for a foot block.

People are twats. Nothing more to it. It was night and day compared to McKinless last week.

[Captain Obvious]

Armaghs All Ireland to lose.

Stick to thoughts about your own Laois with a big Tailteann cup final coming up and chance to gain revenge for that embarrassing defeat to Down last year.