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

Why were New York able to travel to Ireland this year, and never before, has something changed?

like, I also wonder what happens if they reached the final. Would they stay in Ireland for a few weeks or travel over and back. I presume many of them have jobs and families in NY.

Very little credit going to Clare here after their win. They are a decent side, operating consistently at D2 level for several years, and I fancied them to beat a Meath team, coming as they do from the wasteland that is Leinster football (sans Dublin obviously.)

Collins has a well drilled, organised side there, Munster's second team for years, and they deserve great credit imho. The discussion on the sh1t show in Meath can wait

The talk of Galway making a final is fanciful imho.

Defensively they are poor, poor tacklers, that constantly grab in and pull. I saw them 3 times against roscommon this year, and this was the case in the first 2 games especially. Last week, a combination of a more tolerant referee and a roscommon side playing on their heels and afraid to commit to attack, let them off the hook, but I think a team that gets lads running at them at pace will get a lot of joy, as well as them having an unproven goalkeeper and GB line that is susseptible to a hopeful long ball.

Whenever Galway win one game, they are suddenly All Ireland contenders.

I always think if Galway and Mayo merge would be some side. Historically Mayo produce great backs and Galway produce great forwards.

At least Galway play to their strengths now. Before under previous management they used to try the Donegal McGuinness style- didn’t suit them at all. I Remember a div 2 final between Kildare and Galway. Both playing defensively no one wanting the ball. Or moving it fast. Yet both having great sets of forwards. Was frustrating to watch as a neutral.

For some reason in Gaelic football in general teams seem to struggle to find balance.

Either all out attack or safety first defensive stuff with side to side stuff. I can never understand why teams cannot vary styles within a match itself, depending on necessity. Or the way a game is going.

Maybe Gaelic Football players can only be ‘programmed’ to one style? And don’t have the wherewithal to show nous and independent thought on the field of play? Haven’t the football brains to do it? So things have to be kept extremely simple??

Tyrone 1-00 Armagh 0-00 3 minutes gone.

Unable to watch, can anyone recommend a live score app with push notifications?

enjoyable match so far still difficult to call

Armagh are hugely frustrating to watch...so many promising attacks come to nothing due to dreadful decision making.

The longer it continues, the more you can just see Tyrone picking it up and edging them out.

Eamon Fitzmaurice's voice reminds me of...

Tyrone will settle for being just a point down at half-time, could have been much worse. Armagh could have had a few more goals than the one they have.

Indeed. Tyrone are obsessed with fouls, when they are not committing one they are trying to buy one

One of the big differences is that there is football being played in this game, unlike last week's horror show

I actually thought Mayo v Monaghan was a worse game than Derry-Donegal the previous week, and lower scoring.

but last week RTE would have you believe is the worst game of all time. Let the viewer judge for themselves, if they’re not enjoying it they can turn the TV off.

sky sports just commented on the match as it unfolded