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

There is no rivalry between Mayo and Kildare, if you think anyone gives a toss about Newbridge or nowhere, you are very much mistaken, Mayo V Ross would have drawn twice the crowd.

Re 2004, ive already said my piece, easy draws happen, and anyway if there's one thing i learned during the pandemic its not to waste time arguing with idiots and their baseless conspiracy theories. Not that im calling you an idiot btw, im sure you are not but on this issue i'm done

Whatever the case it's an awful pity that it worked out that Limerick had no championship games at home this year.

limerick and Cork tossed a coin for home advantage. Other games in Croke Park because of SKY sports pulling power it seems.

Just going back to this post, as a Cork man i'm always delighted when ye beat Kerry, and i was a fan of that early to mid noughties Tyrone team as well. Down are my favourite Ulster county, so i didn't want to see Tyrone go level with them on the role of honour.

I suppose i probably am bitter towards the current Tyrone team for last years all Ireland final, but Mayo have had more than enough chances to win the all Ireland at this stage. Mayo have played in thirteen all Ireland finals since 1989 and the lost eleven of them and drew the other two. I would prefer anyone but Kerry and Dublin to win the all Ireland really, but that probably ain't happening.

4 or 5 Ulster teams in the last 8 of the All Ireland each year if it wasn't for all this draw fixing? That's based on league form or representations is it? And because the league can't be fixed?

Cork have been in a league final more recently than any Ulster team.

Ridiculous point when there were no League finals in 2021 (and 2020 perhaps) and given Cork have spent the last few years in either Division 2 or 3. My own county Cavan were Div 1 in 17 and 19. Cork haven’t been up there since that.

Speaking of which, there were that many Ulster teams in Division 1 in 2021 that the League was like a mini Ulster championship for them with the geographical split.

This thread has taken a turn towards madness.

Do the provincial champions have home advantage in the QFs? Or will they be neutral venues?

In 2009 Kerry got Longford, Sligo and Antrim in their 3 qualifiers. 2 teams from division 4 and the other finished last in Divison 3.

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Anybody in my group were fully behind kildare and their right to play the game in Newbridge. As Mayo fans we would have preferred the novelty of going there anyway.We had a guaranteed amount of tickets through the season tickets which was more than half the capacity of the ground so no issues there either.

The GAA PR guy Alan Milton has had some clangers over the years and is a genuinely dislikeable person but nothing compared to his "there could be blood in the streets " comment,ffs.I think he might have been watching Green Street or something the night before.

I had bought 10 extra tickets because it was going to be a sell out,I sold some and ended up giving some of them away (to kildare fans as everyone who travelled from Mayo was already sorted) I travelled home with 3 or 4 still in my pocket.

There was no blood in the streets.

It was a stunning day right at the end of the 2018 heatwave and Newbridge (where most of us had never been before was hopping) a real throwback day in GAA terms.It was a great game and played a in a good spirit,a famous day and even though we lost it was a privilege to be there.

Good synopsis. From Mayo as well, and it was a great day out. Great weather, great atmosphere. It was a tense match.

Mayo lost that day cause they could go to the well no more. I cannot remember the specifics but I think they had a massive run of games, I think they had injuries mounting, and they had lost the All-Ireland the year before. The bodies just couldn't take any more. I remember looking at Keith Higgins near the end. He went to make a run, but the legs just didn't have it in them to do so.

Sorry, don't mean to take anything away from Kildare; they were really up for the match that day, and played well. They had a point to prove. But that point wasn't against Mayo - it was against the GAA hierarchy in general.

Looking forward to the match on Saturday. Should be fairly open game anyway. May end up being the highlight of a pretty dismal year so far for GAA football. Mayo need to keep about 5 of the main Kildare lads quiet - Flynn, Hyland, Feeley, Cribbin, Brophy etc. Assuming no injuries picked up last Saturday, I think Mayo have the defensive powers to do so with Mullen, Durkan, Keegan, O'Hora (if playing), Hession. Not sure about Stephen Coen.

Antrim made the Ulster final in 2009.

There is widespread anger down here, i am quite surprised tbh, and it's not just on social media, never heard anything like it before and this is from genuine fans, people are really pissed off, i think we could see one of the smallest Mayo crowds in years. Mayo chairman then came out and said Mayo fans love travelling to Croke Park and he expects a big crowd. Talk about delusion. I dont think i'll be going, it's not the price or anything like that, and i actually had a hotel room booked for €180 for the night as id attended going to the soccer match but ill stay home and watch both instead of sitting in a 3/4 souless empty stadium with zero atmosphere. It's going to be an embarrassment for the GAA, why oh why do they insisit on so many games in a half empty Croker