The 2024 All Ireland Senior Football Championship (Sam Maguire Cup)

Roscommon are dire, going nowhere with Davy Burke. Mayo a bit better, but once again no All Ireland, they are not good enough.

Two teams if they lose have only themselves to blame. Iffy teams in comparison to Donegal or Derry but a great game all the same

Cavan are poor if they slow the play. Lethal when they move the ball quickly. Far to ponderous over getting the equaliser. Tyrone lucky today

Are the All Ireland series group fixtures the same as last year?

Week 1 - Seed 1 at home to 3, 2 at home to 4

Week 2 - Seed 3 at home to 2, 4 at home to 1

Week 3 - Neutral venues

Even looks like a spoofer. Can't stand listening to his interviews either. No idea how he got that gig.

Roscommon have regressed a lot since last year. It's a poor reflection on Davy when 2 of his backroom coaches left after one year, and they are not performing as well with the replacements.

Cavan.....what a chance to win it at the end!! 2 v 1 and he fists the ball over the bar to equalize, huge mistake. Score the goal and game is over, take the point and Tyrone should have won in normal time, and did win in extra time.

If you can see the white of the goalies eyes, you gotta go for the goal!

13k for Mayo v Roscommon in the championship on a sunny day?

It was half full.

I was there myself.

Sideline terrace was full as you'd expect, behind the goals less than half capacity and there were plenty of the new seats below the stand available too.

Lovely day out in Hyde Park with the weather, was a throw back to old school championship days.They really need to sort out the toilet situation but I believe that's next on the list.

Not too interesting for posters to read but anyway!

I'd say there was more there, I had a ticket and it wasn't even scanned going in.

so if you do well in the league you’ll probably do well in the championship at some point in the same 3 year cycle 😂. There is no correlation between league and championship form other than the fact the best 2 teams in the country will do the league and championship double every now and again and teams that get hammered in every game in the league are probably going to struggle in the championship. Certainly teams like Donegal Derry and Mayo have followed up league wins with disappointing championships

Bearing in mind that I've been in the Hyde when there were 30k crowds and nobody was crushed or injured, the whole capacity reduction thing that happened at least 10 years ago now, is still a bit of a mystery. I haven't heard of the 18k capacity number being increased, though I cannot for the life of me see why not. The Health & Safety jobs-for-the-boys industry has a lot to answer for.

I'm from Roscommon but I can't agree here.

There was next to zero investment in the Hyde for the guts of 30 years, or worse still, we built a new stand halfway to the county home that's a real bags of a job, and did nothing else. The Hyde is still a shadow of a good ground, even in Sunday last a man would have to pick his steps through urine and dirt to go for a slash, and you have to wade through puddles in the concourse on a wet day.

Re crowd, capacity, it's set not by how many people you can get into a ground, but by how many you can get out in a fast and controlled manner. This is the limiting factor in the Hyde, the turnstiles and gates etc.

History is full of grounds that there was no problem at u til there was a problem, eg. Hillsborough, Obrox, Bradford etc. She'll we wait until there is a disaster here in a sport ground before we take on best practice.

One thing the poor souls who were unlawfully killed in the Stardust left is is a legacy of awareness around fire safety and The importance of exits etc in public spaces. They have helped save countless lives in my lifetime I have no doubt. We should not let their memory be lost by cutting corners around crowd control in public spaces.

I'm sorry, but dragging Stardust into this discussion is a real cheap shot.

There is no possible scenario in the Hyde that could ever end up like Stardust. None.

You have way more room behind the stand than there is in McHale, Pearse, Tullamore, Portlaoise, etc. and on the other side there's a training pitch. To say there isn't ample room for people to disperse shows you've been brainwashed by the H&S industry. There's loads of room. Loads.

The concourse as you call it, is freshly tarmacced, the muddy puddles are gone

You're the one spouting complete and utter nonsense!

"Let them burn". Oh really? What exactly is there in the Hyde to burn? Concrete? Steel? Very short green grass? Yup, all highly flammable in the world of those who see danger everywhere.

As for a crush, where and why would a crush occur, with all that space to disperse in?

Only somebody with a vested interest could come out with such emotive scare-mongoring in order to make a point.

And with the week that's in it, to bring the Stardust tragedy into this is an absolute disgrace! You should be ashamed of yourself.