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

Where did that 5 minutes of added time come from?

Will Offaly go into The All Ireland or because they relegated they go into the Tailteann Cup ?

Armagh and Mayo into the Qualifiers

Offaly were relegated from Division Two, so go into the Tailteann Cup

How did Mayo lose that match? They couldn’t score. How did Galway not win by more? All out defend puke football is why. Mayo were awful, Galway no great shakes but just about managed to win.

You could be right, hard to follow the rules and formats at this stage

Limerick and Louth are definitely Sam due to getting promoted, I was just under the impression Down and Offaly weren’t due to relegation

Ya you even get it at matches. Mostly by lads who never follow any foitbal except there county team. Any right match where they are ahead they wonder where the minutes came from.

Most teams use there full compliment of substitutes. That 5 minutes anyway.

Of the two games i watched today.

Donegal v Armagh

Hyped up to be a close game but Armagh in the Ulster championship under McGeeney a huge disappointment. Donegal full value for their 7 point win and will likely get a tougher challenge from Cavan next.

Mayo v Galway

The 1 point winning margin didn't go Galway justice, defended and attacked better than Mayo and held their own in midfield. They have a serious chance of reaching a rare AI semi final now. (rare since 2001)

Mayo only played well in patches. Scored the last 5 points of the game to give the result a flattering look. They have a long break to regroup now and would be foolish to write them off.

Added to the Sam Maguire qualifiers this year.

If 8 Division 3 and Division 4 teams got to the provincial finals, they would all be added to the Sam Maguire qualifiers.

From next year, the winners of provincial finals are the top 4 seeds and the loser of the provincial finals are the 2nd 4 seeds.

Then the teams are ranked based on league position (with the 8 provincial finalists removed) after relegation and and the promotion finals.

Roscommon, Galway, Kildare, Dublin would be the order this year

The top 4 league teams are the 3rd seeds.

The teams 5 to 8th are the 4th seeds.

If the team that won the previous year's Tailteann Cup doesn't qualify through another method, they take the place of the 8th league team as one of the 4th seeds.

It's 20 seconds per substitution.

There were 10 subs in total but one of those was at half-time so the minimum sub time is 180 seconds or 3 minutes.

There was consultation with the linesman for the McLaughlin yellow and there was a number of times the play was stopped due to injury.

The amount of injury time played in pretty much every game is nearly always way less than it should be.

[quote]

• Playing time shall be extended by the referee for incidental or deliberate delays*, by stopping the watch for each such delay.

*Examples of incidental delays:

• Play stopped due to injury.

• Melee.

• Delay due to dealing with a Disciplinary issue.

• Consultation with other Match Officials.

• Time taken for the making of substitutions (20 secs approx. per sub).

• Delay due to Hawkeye being called for in games in Páirc an Chrócaigh and Semple Stadium

*Examples of deliberate delays:

• Excessive time taken in making substitutions.

• A player with a blood injury refusing to leave the field when asked to do so. [/quote]

That draw thing has always been pure barstool nonsense.

Stopping time still doesn't solve the problem as how and when the ref stops it becomes an issue in sports like GAA ones. Rugby is very different in the pace of the game which is why soccer also doesn't have a stop clock.

O Neill threw the ball into the net so the goal definitely should have been disallowed even if there was no foul on the keeper.

No they are not.

From talking to a few lads who played under him at various levels, Sheehan seems to be the biggest spoofer going.

I'm surprised they were so bad against Wicklow- they are usually good for a win or two in the province and generally punch above their weight.

Difference between today and yesterday is that the footballers went out with an actual, identifable gameplan while it was hard to distinguish what the hurlers were at. They had a solid league and a tame championship so far. The footballers has a disappointing league, but according to reports put in hours of prep and fitness work in readiness for today.

Even if he hand passed you cannot hand pass into the goal. It did not touch a Donegal player on the way in as far as I could see. Refs should have consulted his umpires, but call.lookef correct.

I think this is the current state of things:

SFC Qualifiers:

Armagh

Mayo

Tailteann Cup:

London

NY

Antrim

Carlow

Laois

Fermanagh

Offaly

Jayus I just realised Dublin managed to make Armagh look like a top notch side in the league. If I was in the Wexford camp I would secretly thinking great chance of a shock down in the South East.

The scary thing is to beat Dublin it does not even have to be fancy or complicated. A few fast lads to run at that Dublin back line. Plus a lump to win high balls it should create havoc. Just go for the Dublin back line.

I expect Dublin to be easy enough to defend against usually going sideways and backwards solely. Very few Dublin lads are willing to break forwards. A side very dependent on frees. That is this Dublin teams lifeblood - a handy free.

I know it is a bad thing to say. But watching the Dublin football team is really frustrating at the moment. Part of me wants the misery to end quick.

It’s the worst football I have ever seen a Dublin team play. And that is including the Dublin flaky team of the 00’s. At least they ran at teams! No sideways stuff for the sake of it in those days.

It makes it all the worse that there are still 3/4 top players there from ‘the great era’ but because the organisation from management is so poor. It almost makes it irrelevant,

It will be a curious thing to see how Wexford approach it. In their mind are they going to be playing ‘the Dubs’? Or what Dublin really are = disjointed poorly run side, that can be got at?

Mickey Graham wouldn't agree with you. He has taken Cavan to an Ulster final in 2019 (first since 2001), an Ulster win in 2020, a first round loss to Tyrone in 2021 (poor year granted but it was the eventual AI winners) and has just beaten an Antrim team that some people labelled better because they were in Division 3 by 13 points. He's done that whilst getting relegated every year in the League bar this year.

Tipp won Munster football in 2020. That's a standout result too.