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

Arn't Galway the walking wounded. Shane Walsh came off injured the last day. Sean Kelly is struggling to find fitness/form. And Damien Comer might as well have a permanent medical cert. Without those 3 in full flight, Galway haven't a chance. I hope they are good to go. I'd love to see them go at Dublin, and give a good game.

Small caveat on the Galway forwards is that all season they've always had one of Comer, Finnerty or Walsh injured.

Given that Comer came on as sub on Saturday I'd suspect he'll be back starting v Dublin.

Cillian McDaid and Sean Kelly also coming back to form after missing a lot games.

(on paper at least) the quarterfinal should be Galway's best performance of the season so far.

And also several of the Galway games have been in Salthill, that wind doesn't help with shooting. Croke Park may suit them better.

I share none of your fears. They have won a total of 3 league and championship games this year I think ?

Dublin Galway- tighter than some expect for me. But Dublin got a game against Mayo to harden them up so I think they will eventually edge it by a few points

Kerry Derry - I hope it’s a victory for playing football and Kerry beat them out the gate. That should be the end of Harte then . I think Kerry will win relatively comfortably. The only nagging doubt is that they could be caught cold .

Armagh Roscommon - Armagh

Donegal Louth - Donegal and then who knows for a McGuinness lead team two games from glory ………..

if I had a free bet and wanted to speculate to accumulate I’d back Donegal to win it out at 6/1.

Realistically based on evidence so far it’s Dublin’s to lose

Dublin will need to up their game against Galway. They were unusually sloppy v Mayo.

I think 2014 compares quite favourably: Doherty, O'Shea, Dillon, O'Connor, Moran and McLaughlin compared to Lundy, Walsh, Comer, Conroy, Hoare, Cummins.

What is the logic of this really?

Conspiracy theorists might say the GAA want the glamour Kerry Dublin final every year and this lends itself to it. They will always win their province, highly likely to win their group, thus will usually land in a SF having not met. The best of Connacht and Ulster always have a high liklihood of meeting either in a group or the provincial Championship as demonstrated this year by Donegal Derry and Armagh all have playing each other at various stages. At least with the old provincial rotation system teams knew where they stood and not every final pairing could be the same. Not sure why they got rid of that.

Have you not been following the football. Mayo threw away the game against Dublin. Mayo should have won the group. I felt that if they could get a couple of wins in the earlier matches and get Dublin to a neutral venue, then anything could happen. And it almost transpired that way. If only the Mayo lads had the sense to throw Ciaran Kilkenny to the ground in the last 30 seconds.

But Galway NEED Walsh and Comer fit and firing that is the difference. As I said overall Dublin manage their players fitness superbly. But Walsh and Comer always seem to be either half injured/injured and/or out of form THE two main men.

You would surely have to question why as a Galway fan? Both of those lads are crucial cogs to the Galway team.

When was the last time Galway had a flying fit and in form Walsh and Comer? Honestly. Has it ever happened?

Good luck against the Kingdom, hopefully a good few of Yee travel.

If Galway are all cagey and reluctant to go at Dublin they'll be beaten easily even if they have the full team out which I can't see happening. We could trouble them but our record against Dublin is woeful.

Kerry are starting to motor well, I can't see Derry being able to hold them on a fast pitch. They're not what we thought they were earlier in the year.

I think Armagh will beat Roscommon fairly easily. Roscommon fell over the line against a Tyrone team which gave them the run of the pitch for 35mins and aren't even a good team when they do get going.

Donegal will have far too much for Louth but hopefully you'd like to see them giving it a good rattle. As long as they don't take a pasting I think they'll be happy enough with their year.

It was their first win in 12 years in Castlebar, don't know how you define ages.

My point stands. Dublin occupy the headspace of the Mayo players and supporters. The celebrations were manic that evening. Of course teams and supporters should celebrate, but avoiding relegation or winning the League title are really the only reasons to go wild in a League game.

I found it strange, the level of celebration, you are free to differ, that is what opinions are for.