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

Rule changes to do what exactly?

Forcing kickpasses will result in more backward kicking, forcing forward play will result in even more blanket defences as it'll be an easier way to turn over the ball. At the end of the day the good attacking football will win out more often than not. Rule changes will only have worse unexpected consequences.

Armagh could well go through, likely wont be a great Donegal crowd given the last performance, at least Armagh have momentum and a point to prove.

It won't be out of character for them to get completely jammy in a draw anyway. If there's any justice they'll be pitted in against Kerry in the QF. Somehow it's a very good chance they'll get Derry though if Donegal get through

Derry shouldn't be scared in that scenario anyway though. Not much has been made of how epically bad Monaghan were on Saturday and yet it still took a dodgy referee decision to decide it

Finally getting a normal draw after years of generally getting lucky ones? Not being rewarded with potentially the handiest route to a final of any team left in the competition after being dumped out of the province and winning a bad home qualifier (ref assisted)?

Haha! You're over the shop,how are Mayo more likely to get Derry in a possible qf? I can't wait to see your explanation for that

Do you even think before you post? Mayo could get 3 possible provincial winners in 2016, Kerry Dublin and Tyrone. Tyrone was by far the easiest of those 3 at the time. This was after the easiest qualifier run in history. And then avoided the two best teams who played each other in the semi

In 2017, again dumped into the qualifiers, again a handy run, again the handiest QF option in Roscommon and once again avoid the Dublin side of the draw.

2019, dumped into qualifiers, ref robs Armagh in a qualifier, reach super 8s and again avoid Dublin's group. There was one bogey team to avoid in the run every year and despite being put into the qualifiers Mayo avoided the Dublin side every year. Finally got a Dublin semi that year because you came second in your group to Kerry rather than win it

2020, win a bad knockout Connacht and Tipp await in the semi. Need I go on?

OK,you're entertaining and I'm laughing here but you're obviously not the sharpest and I have to point this one out to you.

Mayo weren't on Dublins side of the draw in 2017,there were on kerrys who they bet and guess who they played in the next match?

Lol!

He's going to get some land when he sees the massive Mayo support have been ridden too many times by GAA fixture committees and are voting with their feet on this one.

Mayo have reached 10 semi finals in the last 11 years. On 4 of those occasions we've had to play Dublin (won 2, lost 2), Kerry 3 times, Tipperary 2 times and Tyrone once. That doesn't strike me as an easy run of games. Kerry have only had to play Dublin in 2 semis during that time and lost both.

By all means criticize them for not finishing the job, but it's not some long run of luck that's getting Mayo to so many finals.

That is not what he said. He stated that the North South divide seemed to work from a crowd point of view.

While an open draw would be preferable you also have to factor in the viability of these fixtures. Will supporters from Antrim travel to Wexford or visa versa in any great numbers.

Give the competition 2-3 years to bed down and see what happens.

Next year there will be groups of four at prelim stage with a home ,away and neutral fixture. Give supporters a chance to start following there teams to games before expecting them to travel 150+ miles to a match

Yeah, it's a pretty bleak thing to say, although I did paraphrase his quote a little in my synopsis. But even his actual words aren't great at all.

I can kinda see some merit in @Fattybojangles comment that there's more interest in neighbouring counties meeting - that's probably correct. It doesn't necessarily mean it's the correct way to do it though. Sporting integrity has to come into somewhere. Also if Fermanagh v Waterford is considered a valid NFL Div4 tie in February then I don't see why it's a problem in the T-Cup in May.

If the Tailteann cup is supposed to improve standard of football by allowing the weaker inter county teams more games, then what logic is there in stopping them from being drawn against teams of a similar level?

There are stronger and weaker teams in the Tailteann cup, splitting them into north and south does nothing for county teams who need competitive games at similar level to themselves in order to have any hope of improving.

Hurling is split into championships of 5 and 6 and due to hurling being at it's strongest in the south most of those championships are northern teams anyway so it's not as easy or important to split.

Again true to a certain extent but you have Kerry and Carlow in a group with Derry and Antrim. Also London and Lancashire competing in the lower tiers and playing multiple matches.