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Replying To kerry4sam25: "Paidi Clifford, Geaney, Mike Breen back for Sunday. Barry Dan, David Shaw out. Jack Barry and Diarmauid O'Connor 50/50 Shane Ryan Dylan Casey Jason Foley Tom Sullivan Brian O'Beglaoich Mike Breen Gavin White Diarmuid O'Connor Joseph O'Connor Graham O'Sullivan Paidi Clifford Seanie O'Shea David Clifford Paul Geaney Dylan Geaney Very few Armagh lads make that team." There won't be any Armagh lads making that team. They'll be playing for the other team with orange jerseys. WanPintWin (Galway) - Posts: 2410 - 25/06/2025 12:31:30 2620934 Link
Replying To kerry4sam25: "Paidi Clifford, Geaney, Mike Breen back for Sunday. Barry Dan, David Shaw out. Jack Barry and Diarmauid O'Connor 50/50 Shane Ryan Dylan Casey Jason Foley Tom Sullivan Brian O'Beglaoich Mike Breen Gavin White Diarmuid O'Connor Joseph O'Connor Graham O'Sullivan Paidi Clifford Seanie O'Shea David Clifford Paul Geaney Dylan Geaney Very few Armagh lads make that team." I'd say a few of the backs might… Kerry's Achilles heel ForeverBlue2 (Cavan) - Posts: 4121 - 25/06/2025 12:36:25 2620941 Link
Replying To kerry4sam25: "Paidi Clifford, Geaney, Mike Breen back for Sunday. Barry Dan, David Shaw out. Jack Barry and Diarmauid O'Connor 50/50 Shane Ryan Dylan Casey Jason Foley Tom Sullivan Brian O'Beglaoich Mike Breen Gavin White Diarmuid O'Connor Joseph O'Connor Graham O'Sullivan Paidi Clifford Seanie O'Shea David Clifford Paul Geaney Dylan Geaney Very few Armagh lads make that team." "Very few Armagh lads make that team." Hopefully we dont take a really bad tanking then and can atleast give yous a game! ArmaghAndProud (Armagh) - Posts: 50 - 25/06/2025 12:43:41 2620942 Link
Replying To WanPintWin: "No. Everything is a disgrace, a disaster, a joke and a farce. There's a few more you also like to use regularly. We'll likely have 120K people in Croke Park this weekend enjoying the 4 quarter-finals in what has been one of the best and most open football championships in years. The GAA make mistakes, but they get a lot right. It's a very well run sporting organisation on the whole." Not sure about it been one of the best and most open Championships in years........ Galway, Donegal and Kerry are all expected to win this Weekend, that's the same 3 teams who won Connaught, Ulster and Munster last year and this year and All Ireland Semi Final last year and this year........that's not Open Championship that's Continuous . katser (Galway) - Posts: 2647 - 25/06/2025 13:07:07 2620952 Link
Replying To katser: "Not sure about it been one of the best and most open Championships in years........ Galway, Donegal and Kerry are all expected to win this Weekend, that's the same 3 teams who won Connaught, Ulster and Munster last year and this year and All Ireland Semi Final last year and this year........that's not Open Championship that's Continuous ." Armagh are huge favourites in lots eyes vs kerry Gaaforlife2023 (Longford) - Posts: 739 - 25/06/2025 13:40:45 2620960 Link
Replying To ArmaghAndProud: ""Very few Armagh lads make that team." Hopefully we dont take a really bad tanking then and can atleast give yous a game!" 1,2,4,5,9,10,14 and 15 would be Armagh starters Eddie the Exile (Monaghan) - Posts: 1259 - 25/06/2025 15:02:40 2620983 Link
Replying To Gaaforlife2023: "Armagh are huge favourites in lots eyes vs kerry" Not so sure tbh - kerry will have the majority of their "injured" players back.... I think the eventual winner will come from this game. It has the makings of a cracker of a game. Armagh will bring such ferocity and aggression in the tackle, but also have the speed in attack. The kerry front 3 are very formidable and on their day, will really test any defence, and can score heavily. I think this game and the Dublin v Tyrone game are the toss of a coin. Think Donegal and Galway will win their respective 1/4 finals. Probably jinxed them both now..... lol ;o) Fionn (Dublin) - Posts: 4348 - 25/06/2025 15:09:57 2620985 Link
Replying To katser: "Not sure about it been one of the best and most open Championships in years........ Galway, Donegal and Kerry are all expected to win this Weekend, that's the same 3 teams who won Connaught, Ulster and Munster last year and this year and All Ireland Semi Final last year and this year........that's not Open Championship that's Continuous ." Kerry? joeteor (Donegal) - Posts: 254 - 25/06/2025 15:25:34 2620992 Link
Replying To WanPintWin: "There won't be any Armagh lads making that team. They'll be playing for the other team with orange jerseys." Oh, that's the answer! foreveryoung (USA) - Posts: 2321 - 25/06/2025 16:27:29 2621004 Link
Replying To kerry4sam25: "Paidi Clifford, Geaney, Mike Breen back for Sunday. Barry Dan, David Shaw out. Jack Barry and Diarmauid O'Connor 50/50 Shane Ryan Dylan Casey Jason Foley Tom Sullivan Brian O'Beglaoich Mike Breen Gavin White Diarmuid O'Connor Joseph O'Connor Graham O'Sullivan Paidi Clifford Seanie O'Shea David Clifford Paul Geaney Dylan Geaney Very few Armagh lads make that team." Aren't Dylan Geaney, Dylan Casey, and Joe O'Connor three players that Jack O'Connor has blooded since coming in? Add in David Shaw and Barry Dan, and a couple of more on the bench, like the guy with the German name, and you have half a team of new players that one-eyed Jack has brought in. What in the name of God is that Darragh O'Se ranting about that Jack has failed to full-proof Kerry's footballing future, by not blooding nay new players? foreveryoung (USA) - Posts: 2321 - 25/06/2025 16:32:33 2621006 Link
Replying To PressureKick: " Replying To tirawleybaron: "[quote=CeachtPeile: "It must be wonderful to have such clarity for dealing with complex problems. Perhaps you should join a fixture making committee where your simplistic skills would no doubt be appreciated. I quote from the Irish Times which elucidates the conflicting constraints involved. Fixture making tends to look a more straightforward when you are not the one balancing those constraints. "The CCCC were left in a quandary with trying to square the circle in terms of the four fixtures because it was always going to prove difficult to facilitate requests from all eight counties. The core problem centred on the likelihood of both Dublin v Tyrone and Armagh v Kerry attracting massive numbers of spectators. With those matches possibly pushing towards selling out even if they were standalone fixtures, the demand to attend that pairing on the same bill would have left thousands of fans without tickets. Fixture makers did still consider the possibility of scheduling that double-header but after examining the expected attendance figures they determined those games should be on different days." " So tell me why it couldn't be the below Saturday Meath (average following) v Galway (average following) Tyrone (big following) v Dublin (home team) Sunday Monaghan (small county but they will all go) v Donegal (big following) Armagh (big following) v Kerry (no crowd for qfinal) Sticking Donegal and Monaghan, Tyrone and Dublin on the one day will result in a much bigger crowd than having Kerry and Armagh on with Dublin and Kerry. Lets face it - Donegal got shafted for no reason - just a misplaced idea that Kerry folks might actually travel in June -" Ticketmaster sales is proving your theory spectacularly wrong here. The Sunday is not far off sold out, only the last few rows of the Davin and the corners left basically. That's after only 3 hours. You're underestimating either the Meath or Galway following. Probably the Meath who are in serious hype mode Anyway, other than that, if you flip them like you say, Galway are the ones screwed over. Galway have traveled 50% more distances than Donegal this year (after you exclude the NY trip), and played an away game Sunday. I think both teams should've gotten the 7 day turnaround, but there is at least a logical reason why one was chosen over the other for Saturday"]i didn't make an argument to be proven wrong. I asked how does it make sense to move Kerry and Armagh to Sunday instead of Meath and Galway. Kerry don't bring a crowd, Meath and Galway do. Sunday is not far off being sold out because of Galway, Meath and Armagh - not Kerry fans. Saturdays sales are slower because Meath and Dublin generally are "walk up" crowds - they don't need to book trains/accommodation etc so tend to buy tickets much later. Galway & Meath and Donegal v Monaghan should have been on Sunday - there is no real good logic otherwise. tirawleybaron (Mayo) - Posts: 1470 - 25/06/2025 16:55:21 2621020 Link
Replying To Pope_Benedict: "Well of course you don't KNOW for a fact that the Giants would have scored with no time left. You can surmise it, but you don't KNOW it. Three years later, Seattle had first and goal at the 2, TD to almost certainly win, but instead we got the Superbowl's 'Seamus Darby moment' just seconds later. Sometimes the longer Mayo spend fluting around to setup scores, the less successful they are. This year's Connacht Final climax is a recent example." Good point about that other Super Bowl. Nothing is certain in sport. And I think it was right for Mayo to score when they did; it was just a pity they didn't force Donegal to go short afterwards and convince them to kick it out for a draw rather than risk a Mayo turnover and lose the game (although Mayo probably would have booted it out themselves if they did turn it over). But it's a certainty over time that some team that needs a score will play for the hooter and then take their chance. It's also a certainty over time that some team will make a balls of it. Tacaí Liatroma (Leitrim) - Posts: 1201 - 26/06/2025 08:25:36 2621135 Link
Could be a game changer for Sunday, if the news I am hearing is correct. I am tipping the Munster men to prevail now. I reckon: Galway v Kerry semi final. Donegal v Tyrone/Dublin in the other. Fionn (Dublin) - Posts: 4348 - 26/06/2025 08:33:27 2621136 Link
6 of the 7 All Ireland contenders remain. Meath and Monaghan seem to be written off by many despite being impressive when winning their groups. Meath with two big scalps. Monaghan are Division 2 winners from where the last two All Ireland winners have come from. I won't be writing anyone off ahead of this weekend. legendzxix (Kerry) - Posts: 8971 - 26/06/2025 09:52:46 2621147 Link
All Ireland Semi Finals Galway v Tyrone Donegal v Kerry That looks good to me. katser (Galway) - Posts: 2647 - 26/06/2025 12:06:23 2621183 Link