Mod Note Post #1 - The 2022 All Ireland Senior Football Championship.

Xander10

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119249361#Comment_119249361

well at least he has been consistent with both teams.

doc_17

Teams that have to play Dublin in Croke Park should get discounted tickets to subsidise their travel expenses.

Xander10

The seagulls have looked more threatening than CorK!

breezy1985

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119249379#Comment_119249379

Ya they would. They would follow their hurling team any time anywhere.

Some GAA fans are such soft moaners. You wanna see the distance some soccer fans have to travel every second week and in countries bigger than Ireland.

Bleating Lamb

Two poor games....it was always going to be asking a lot of Clare to get close to Derry but Cork have being very dissappointing altogether.

PTH2009

non eventual for everyone except Derry and Dublin supporters/squad etc

Mayo beating Kerry tomorrow would be the only 'shock' of the weekend, Armagh beating Galway would not be a surprise tbh

Dr. Bre

Those Dubs lads can go up another gear

namloc1980

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119249402#Comment_119249402

No they wouldn't. Cork and Clare didn't bring big crowds to Thurles last week for a double header much closer to home. It wasn't close to a sell out, only 34,000 from 4 counties including Cork and Clare. You're dreaming thinking they'd bring more to Dublin at 6pm on a Saturday. Deluded.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119249402#Comment_119249402

Out of touch. Have you heard about the challenges that exist at the moment?

There is NO hotel accomodation in Dublin at a reasonable price. And that's before fuel considerations. People are prioritising what they need to.

These are extraordinary challenges, unlike anything in recent times.

Spread out the venues and give supporters a chance.

lawred2

Crap games because there was simply no contest in either of them. Complete mismatches.

CornerForward10286

Dubs at their ease. Will need Mc Carthy and King Con back.

UsBus

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119249371#Comment_119249371

Didn't see too many Kildare or Mayo fans there the last week either and with all due respect to those counties they wouldn't know a hurl from a Sam Maguire.

I couldn't give a shiny shot what the GAA continue to do with regard to match location or timing. The reality of costs this year is there for all to see and will continue for the foreseeable.

SKY won't be long dropping this muck from their schedule if this is what's on offer.

breezy1985

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119249427#Comment_119249427

Clare don't have a big crowd but the crowd they do have will all be in Croke Park next Saturday at 5:30pm. Don't know any Clare fan is staying home because of the time.

PeggyShippen

The Seagulls! Any chance they could hire an Eagle or at least stick up one of those fake birds of prey that flutter in the wind..Its a farce having a flock.of screaming seagulls looking for dropped battered sausage ect.

If I had my way I'd get put the over and under and thin em out abit. Hang the dead ones off the roof of the stands to frighten the rest of them. No doubt Derek from number 49 Delboy Flats in the North Inner city would be ringing in Joe Duffy Monday claiming he's mentally scarred for life

breezy1985

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119249435#Comment_119249435

I'de be all for less games in Croke Park if it doesn't suit geographically but it's not why there was a poor turn out today. And it certainly wasn't because it's Saturday evening.

Is the cost of living crisis somehow not a problem in Kerry, Galway, Mayo and Armagh who are gonna fill the place tomorrow. Some of those counties are very remote too.

blowitupref

Two very disappointing one sided quarter finals (hopefully we see better tomorrow)

First game a penny for the thoughts of Roscommon at how they allowed Clare reach the Quarter final. Don't think the rossies would have beaten Derry but it might have been a more competitive contest. Derry did what any favourite should do against underdog. Kill off any hope they may have with early goals.

2nd game Cork's lack of fitness and conditioning shown up once more. lasted about 50 minutes v Kerry and were gone by half time today. Dublin didn't have to get out of 2nd gear to be honest and still won by 11 points.

namloc1980

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119249447#Comment_119249447

Why didn't they bother going to Thurles last week? There was a very very small Clare crowd there. If that's the crowd that's going next Saturday it'll be a laughably empty Croke Park yet again.

namloc1980

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119249458#Comment_119249458

Half the crowd is coming from Armagh (35,000 tickets sold there) which is a function of being not far up the road and the first time they've had a competitive team at this stage in a long time. They'll be hardly anyone from Kerry and based on the poor crowd Galway brought to Thurles last week there won't be many of them either. Mayo will bring a decent crowd with the attraction of plsying Kerry again.

An Ciarraioch

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119249404#Comment_119249404

Seems to have been a carbon copy of the Kerry game, in terms of keeping things tight until the 50th minute before a combination of fading off the pace and their opponents moving up a gear. Kerry's midfield is the biggest concern for tomorrow, as if/when Moran runs out of gas in the second half, we've only got Okunbor or Joe O'Connor as options in that area - still hopeful, but very much in the melting pot.

Charles Babbage

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119249172#Comment_119249172

With this game one sided and a 3 hours drive to Derry, people were going to push off.

Tomorrow more Armagh people might stay as the game might be closer and it is 2 hours earlier and the journey home an hour less.

doc_17

Low turnout has to do with how boring it is as well as the cost of everything. Today’s games were awful. Not the fault of Derry and Dublin. But we need a way to get the best 8 teams to the QFs. The state of the Munster Championship and they had 3 teams in the last 8, 2 of them bate out the gate.

theoneeyedman

Today's games were awful one sided, but what do you expect? As said above, 2 Munster teams, but who else should be there? The remaining division 1 teams, Donegal, Monaghan, Tyrone and Roscommon didn't play well enough to get there, that's the problem innit? Do you just want to have the perceived top 4 teams play off each year, or go directly to a Kerry Dublin final every year?

One sided games are a reality unfortunately, especially in a knock out competition. Clare are probably at or nearby to the top 10 teams in the country, so should be around the last 8 really, they were there on merit. Cork are a basket case, have been for years.

breezy1985

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119249671#Comment_119249671

4 Munster teams in the top 2 divisions of the league doesn't say a lot about what everyone else is up to.

gormdubhgorm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119249570#Comment_119249570

Yeah in fairness to the Derry crowd long spin back as it was. Cork crowd would be back very late, bit unfair on them I think.

rolling boh

To be fair it's pretty costly now to travel far to matches especially if you in the west of these counties a long spin and understandable many will stay and watch on TV. Thought the Dublin crowd was small enough considering little travel involved .I wonder how many would have gone to Cork if the match was played there today .

gormdubhgorm

I wasn’t impressed with Dublin overall. Forwards struggled from play. Depending on frees etc.

Not winning the SF v Kerry/Mayo playing like that. Hope Con will be fit for it.

Derry were fantastic. Can’t remember if I ever saw a game with 7 goals in championship before. The CP pitch looked immaculate as well.

CornerForward10286

It’s now or never for Kerry!

Fr Tod Umptious

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119249671#Comment_119249671

Do you just want to have the perceived top 4 teams play off each year, or go directly to a Kerry Dublin final every year?

Why go straight to a Kerry Dublin final every year when we have only had two of those in the last 10 years ?

Surely it should be straight to a Mayo Dublin final which we have had 5 of in that period.

MFPM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119249953#Comment_119249953

They weren't great I agree, the loss of O Callaghan is huge. I stil think they beat Armagh, Mayo, Derry, Galway...the Kerry forwards are a different proposition though.

Downlinz

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119249671#Comment_119249671

One sided walkovers regularly in an advanced stage of any sporting competition like the quarter finals is either a damning indictment of the competition structure or the number of competitive teams in the sport. It should never be a reality.

These games should be the elite teams playing each other and attractive to the neutral. They're anything but at the moment. The league is always competitive and these kind of 15 point blowouts rarely happen. Why is the Championship different and why does it have such a difficult time finding competitive games?

The problem is the same old two factors. The inequality of the provincial system for preparation / qualification and the GAA's insistence on forcing teams and supporters to Croke Park.