All Ireland Club Championships 2024

[Tubberman]

keep going lads and ye will have yourselves convinced it's all part of the southern conspiracy

[Armagh18]

If Dara had been on the field all day it would have made for some finish. Anyway, hope the 2 lads are alright, read they'd both been taken to hospital.

[JoG2]

keep going lads and ye will have yourselves convinced it's all part of the southern conspiracy

Heart ruling the head with some. Turned out to be some game, was hoping EC would win, but that was never deliberate / red. Diving across a man can often be the dangerous move, but both were 100% battling for the ball. Peter Harte has put in some shift for club and county. Missed the incident at the end.
I'd would say EC will be back next year, BUT, they'll have traverse the Tyrone championship and you wouldn't wish that on your own worst enemy

[tyroneStatto]

At first it didn't look deliberate but the more it's watched I think Darragh Canavan has been taken out.

Drink is a curse for that.

Drink? Wtf are you talking about.

[Christmas Lights]

At first it didn't look deliberate but the more it's watched I think Darragh Canavan has been taken out.

Drink is a curse for that.

Drink? Wtf are you talking about.

He thinks you are fulla drink

[tyroneStatto]

At first it didn't look deliberate but the more it's watched I think Darragh Canavan has been taken out.

Drink is a curse for that.

Drink? Wtf are you talking about.

He thinks you are fulla drink

Actually doing Dry January.

[ONeill]

Are ye really?

[phpearse]

Shocking first half from Errigal. They seemed a bag of nerves and Cuala took full advantage. Cuala were so good in the first half but looked very average in the second half but only needed to add a few points to stay ahead. Cuala pressed all the EC kick outs and EC couldn't get a ball. Peter Harte fouled in the build up to one of Cuala's goals in the first half. Some refs will blow for the foul on the arm when trying for a hand pass. That said Errigal allowed Cuala the whole way up the field to score.

Harte had some second half. If they had Darragh on the park, maybe just maybe. Anyway Errigal did save a bit of face with the fight back in the second half. Only the defender knows if he intentionally hit Darragh. I don't think he did, it is just a split second timing.

Errigal will probably get knocked out in the first round of Tyrone this year!

[skeog]

Sneaky knee in the head red card all day long.

[Milltown Row2]

Sneaky knee in the head red card all day long.

Watch it in real time, there is no way he was intentionally looking down and dipped his knee into his head, just a accident and had he not moved his head forward into the path of it he'd be celebrating a huge win for EC today

[Mario]

Sneaky knee in the head red card all day long.

Watch it in real time, there is no way he was intentionally looking down and dipped his knee into his head, just a accident and had he not moved his head forward into the path of it he'd be celebrating a huge win for EC today

I don't think you can say that. He wasn't in the game at all and they were 11 points down when he got the knee to head. The closest EC got was 3 points and at that stage there was only a few minutes left. It felt closer as the margin was so big at HT. Cuala went into that second half thinking they had the game won and obviously their performance levels dropped but they still pushed the lead out to 4 points the first time they really had to react.

[DownFanatic]

We always look for reasons to justify a poor start from a team in a game. But yesterday there was a marked difference in the warm up regimes from both teams. That being the 20 minute slot from about 3:10pm to 3:30pm that they did on the pitch. Cuala's, whilst simple and straightforward, flowed a lot better and looked regimented and energetic. Errigal's didn't and looked for the most part way too laid back and lethargic at times. Just really an observation but I can't help think that it played into that disastrous first half for EC.

[Armamike]

Very impressed with Cuala.  Was that their first Dublin county championship they won? If so, to win an AI after just winning their first ever county championship is unbelievable.

Very unlucky for EC to lose probably their best player but would he have been the difference in winning and losing? I'm not sure about that. They were down 9 or 10 points when he was on the pitch.  Great comeback in the second half but it's very very rare for any team to come back from that deficit at half time.  Can get close and make it interesting, but usually fall short due to being goosed and the other side just tapping over a point or 2.

[imtommygunn]

The two Cuala midfielders were immense with 2-2 between them in midfield. When you look at the score sheet there weren't that many forwards scored. (3 was it?). Though they worked incredibly hard as EC couldn't get the ball out.

[Milltown Row2]

We always look for reasons to justify a poor start from a team in a game. But yesterday there was a marked difference in the warm up regimes from both teams. That being the 20 minute slot from about 3:10pm to 3:30pm that they did on the pitch. Cuala's, whilst simple and straightforward, flowed a lot better and looked regimented and energetic. Errigal's didn't and looked for the most part way too laid back and lethargic at times. Just really an observation but I can't help think that it played into that disastrous first half for EC.

Their proper warm up would have been in some local pitch, before heading to Croke, there is also a small training court besides their changing rooms, so plenty of opportunity to get ready.

They just looked too pumped, all heading over to the squad for the national anthem and then having to move because the band was there was not needed, Cuala were more relaxed stood as a team and a few things just broke for them and they went clear after that.