All Ireland Championship 2025.

[GalwayBayBoy]

Thought Bugler would be back for the Dubs this week?

[SouthOfThe Bann]

That middle 8 is serious.

Full forward not bad either.

Going to be a full house in Salthill for this game I'm hearing. Hurlers are on beforehand.

[Cunny Funt]

So Donegal, Armagh, Louth and Meath will all play on back to back weekends and will all play teams who will have had a two week break? 

I do enjoy how we continually find ways to uneven the playing field in competitions.

It's poor alright. Thry could push finals out to mid August at least and give a week or two more for teams.
Does anyone actually like the earlier championship? Does it benefit anyone.? County finals are all still in October.

And provincial club championship are still in November/December. Even moving the Al Ireland final out to the 1st or 2nd weekend of August would give some breathing room.  Those at the top are more focused in leaving Croke Park totally free for concerts in August.

[Duine Eile]

I'd have Fitzgerald or Hernon before Mulkerrins TBH but still a very strong looking team. Good to see Walsh back.

[David McKeown]

Why do the Leinster & Ulster finalists get 1 week less between games?

Galway & Mayo have 2 weeks between each game.
Donegal & Armagh Donegal have only 1 week between rd1 & rd2

That's the third year in a row that's happened

Which presumably is a function of the Ulster final being later? As it stands, two provincial finals are each weekend, but you would expect that to rotate.

The Leinster and Ulster finals were both after Connacht and Munster last year too.  I am not sure if they actually rotate although they might

The Connacht and Ulster provincials start the same weekend, straight after the league final. If you bring the Ulster final forward a week then teams are basically playing week on week through the Ulster "gauntlet"

The alternative is of course to scrap the provincials. But again Ulster are the province most vehemently against that. So what if the GAA to do?

Push out the finals to mid August obviously.

That's does strike me as a very obvious reply or scrap the league final?

The Div 1 final only?  I quite enjoyed the competitiveness and excitement of the other 3 divisions finals. I haven't looked at the fixtures forensically but don't all provincial finalists get at least 2 weeks before their first round game and thereafter all group teams get treated equally?

The Leinster and Ulster finalists play the group games over 3 weeks the other teams play them over 4. So the Ulster and Leinster finalists all play their second group or their away matches against teams with an extra weeks rest.

[Blowitupref]

Kerry with a flattering 5 point lead at half time against Roscommon. Three two pointers for Kerry (all from frees) and none for the rossies.

[Cunny Funt]

Flattering lead for Kerry indeed, it was 0-5 each after 25 minutes.  A lot of the debatable calls are going Kerry's way

[thebigfullforward]

Kerry look like such a different team when Paudie isn't playing. The amount of things he does to get this Kerry team to look like All Ireland contenders is incredible

[Harold Disgracey]

Steps obviously don't count in the kingdom!

[EoinW]

Kerry looked so flat for 45 minutes but Roscommon threw away the opportunity.  They should never have been six behind at half, however they faded the final 10 minutes.  Also lack of discipline gifted Kerry three 2-pointers.

So much for using the wind 2nd half.  I guess Roscommon are never as good as we hope they might be.

Excellent observation about Paudie Clifford.

[Blowitupref]

3 Kerry goals killed off that contest Roscommon defending poor for all of them. 

[twohands!!!]

3 Kerry goals killed off that contest Roscommon defending poor for all of them. 

Cork and Meath will both be thinking there's goals to be got there.
Rossie performancce was very similar to their performance against Galway I thought - they never really looked getting a result in either game and neither side had to get out of 3rd gear to get the win. i'll be surprised if Burke survives the winter.

Learned nothing new about Kerry.

[twohands!!!]

Just the 5 changes to the Dublin starting 15

Bugler, Costello, Alex Gavin, Sean MacMahon and Killian McGinnis all start in place of Conor Tyrrell, Cian Murphy, Tom Lahiff, Niall Scully and John Small.

One change for Galway

Cian Hernon comes in for Jack Glynn.

[Cunny Funt]

Real gift of a goal for Dublin 1-5 to 0-6 they are leading in Salthill

[twohands!!!]

Dublin were out of the traps faster but Galway have settled into the game and are 3 points up.
Bad mistake from Silke to turnover and a terrible goal to give away to go a point up and then follow it up with a quick point to go 2 points up.