All Ireland Championship 2025.

[Dunneroyal]

Meath won't be winning the all ire this year. However they might be next year but I'd say more like 27 is when the eyes on the prize will be strong.

[Easttyrone23]

The all Ireland championship hasn't even reached the quarter final stage yet and every team have lost at least one game.

[Dunneroyal]

The all Ireland championship hasn't even reached the quarter final stage yet and every team have lost at least one game.

I think that is what makes it so good this year. Dublin Kerry Armagh Donegal all will have something to prove. It's a pity that the quarter draw isn't been done same time as the prelims.

[Armaghtothebone]

Will all the quarter finals be in Croke Park?

Yes. Debate to be had that the same should be done as the Tailteann cup whereby the group winners gets home advantage for the Quarter finals.

Nice idea but not really one for debate. Too many county grounds simply aren't big enough.
Our own ground has a capacity of 18000. You'd have that many Armagh ones looking to be there.
Imagine Louth had a home  quarter final, or Meath.

[Armaghtothebone]

The all Ireland championship hasn't even reached the quarter final stage yet and every team have lost at least one game.

I think that is what makes it so good this year. Dublin Kerry Armagh Donegal all will have something to prove. It's a pity that the quarter draw isn't been done same time as the prelims.

Good idea in principle but not feasible. Too many fixtures not permissable that you have to wait for the prelims to be Iver before you make the quarter final draw.

[The Boy Wonder]

Like a lot of neutrals I was disappointed to see Mayo exit the championship - they bring so much to the competition.

Fair play to Donegal with the last play leading to the winner.
They could have kicked the play out of play after the hooter knowing they were through.
Had they taken that option it would have left a very sour taste in the Breffni County.

They've been by far the most turgid of the big teams to watch this year. Every one of their championship games has had under the average number of points this year, some of them significantly so.

The only common denominator there is Mayo. The new rules reward clever and classy forward play and that's something they've always struggled with, even back when they were good

My bitter taste comment referred to the choice that the Donegal player had after the hooter sounded :
- kick the ball over sideline and Mayo qualify
- kick the ball over bar and Cavan qualify.

[Angus MacGyver]

RTE practically had a wake for Mayo yesterday, such was the outpouring of sympathy, veering to a sense of injustice. They are operating under a misapprehension that Mayo command wide popularity across the country and are 'everyone's favourite second team'. They are far from it.

They got what they deserved yesterday. They didn't take the Cavan game seriously and paid the price.
Cavan have won more All Irelands than Mayo, and have won the All Ireland more recently than Mayo. It was more than the training session Mayo treated it as.

[gallsman]

It was evident yesterday. Lads absolutely terrified to shoot and completely over complicating things. That's why they're out. Completely over reliant on O'Donoghue, who has to be everywhere for them. He was lining up as the second midfielder for the second half throw in yesterday, I think.

Does anyone know what it's supposed to mean when Ruane puts his arm up to call some sort of set play? He's been doing it a while now and I'm yet to see it produce anything.

[imtommygunn]

Draw not the most exciting- can't see too many surprises in it.

[Truthsayer]

All-Ireland SFC preliminary quarter-finals
Donegal v Louth
Down v Galway
Dublin v Cork
Kerry v Cavan

4 walk overs...

[statto]

Draw not the most exciting- can't see too many surprises in it.

Presuming all the favourites win (can't see anything bar that) mean that Kerry v Armagh quarter final. 

[galwayman]

All-Ireland SFC preliminary quarter-finals
Donegal v Louth
Down v Galway
Dublin v Cork
Kerry v Cavan

4 walk overs...

We certainly will not walk all over Down the way we have been motoring this year.

[Tubberman]

RTE practically had a wake for Mayo yesterday, such was the outpouring of sympathy, veering to a sense of injustice. They are operating under a misapprehension that Mayo command wide popularity across the country and are 'everyone's favourite second team'. They are far from it.

They got what they deserved yesterday. They didn't take the Cavan game seriously and paid the price.
Cavan have won more All Irelands than Mayo, and have won the All Ireland more recently than Mayo. It was more than the training session Mayo treated it as.

There's no wake in Mayo. Only themselves to blame, the well of sympathy ran dry in 2021.

[Aristo 60]

All-Ireland SFC preliminary quarter-finals
Donegal v Louth
Down v Galway
Dublin v Cork
Kerry v Cavan

4 walk overs...

We certainly will not walk all over Down the way we have been motoring this year.

Thank you for your support, Sir.

[LC]

All-Ireland SFC preliminary quarter-finals
Donegal v Louth
Down v Galway
Dublin v Cork
Kerry v Cavan

4 walk overs...

+1