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

What about O'Callaghan's miss?

What about all those Galway forwards strolling through the middle of the park and shooting over and over again from in front of the posts?

Was that his fault too?

If you are going to pick one moment like that and say that was what decided it, sorry but no thats not how it is.

Bear in mind Dublin were pushed hard by Louth, beaten by Monaghan in the league, beaten by Derry in league final, drew with an average enough Mayo team.. maybe thats their level.

Kerry will have to play 3 proper matches to win the Ai. Derry, probably Donegal and Armagh or Galway. Probably the first time in their history they will have to play such hard games to win one . Will be interesting

Haven't seen it back but what about Bugler's drilling the ball in low late on!?

It is this year but I think any criticism (not that you were criticising) should be tempered by the realisation that Dublin are reigning champions. Let us not forgot that it is difficult to back it up the following year. If you are 1 or 2 per cent less committed than your opposite number you lose. That second half performance reeked of that small complacency. I'd give Dublin every chance to bounce back next year, even though it's obvious some of their greats are coming to the end.

Was just part the panic. Something we just wouldn't of seen In previous years. There was signs the older heads where starting to drop early in the year. As soon as the injury's started coming in we didn't look same team. I still maintain with Gannon and Murphy in that team we have better balance. Starting the impact players was a case of playing your cards to early. And now I fear that's it Cluxton Fitzer James and maybe Jack are done.

Why would you want a team who have lost 3 games already and have a bitter **** of manger to win? Only team left in it I hope does well is Louth with a Dublin man in charge.

I really dont want Derry to win. If Derry win it from here then it makes a mockery of the championship that a team can lose 3 times and win the AI

They always seem soft when Kerry win 😄

I think this is one of the most open championships in years now…the team that have been hoovering them up is out.

Most will feel they have a realistic chance now…Louth aside probably

Personally I think you're safe enough regarding Armagh though!

If you make that big of a mistake in such a major moment the game the criticism is justified. It would be so much easier to forgive a player if he actually did something in previous games.

warning issued for what … Is this not an open forum ?

Highlights on rte2 now

I would have thought it was the other way round. Anyway looking at the pairings again I see both Derry & Armagh would have played the three other teams, so 'unless I'm very much mistaken', whether Derry & Donegal or Kerry & Donegal win tomorrow, one of the semis will have to be Galway V Donegal

People are saying the end of an era for Dublin and the players of the same level just aren't coming through. That's not true, the competition has just gotten harder.

That Dublin golden generation were ten years ahead in structures and development, which was put in place in the early 00s, and we seen the benefits ten year's later. Teams could often compete with Dublin, but couldn't go a full 70 minutes with them, they'd be burned and picked off.

It was circa 2010, teams like Mayo and others started to put structures in, and we seen the results nearly a decade later. Mayo took Dublin to extra time one year, and beat them in extra time.

I don't think people realise how pivotal a game that was. It was the first time team could go 70+ minutes with Dublin and live with them. It was the end of their dominance as we know it, a new generation had come through in other counties, conditioned to be able to live with Dublin

The reality is, in all those Dublin All Ireland wins, many of Dublin's players were made look better than they were. James McCarthy looked deadly at times, his pace scary, but usually when the other team was out on their feet etc. Kerry and a few others put it up to Dublin for 60 minutes during their glory years, but were always picked off.

Dublin are still producing the players, it's just other teams are now better conditioned to deal with them. Dublin will still be the best on any given year, but the gap has closed, and they've lost their advantage where conditioning is concerned.

In many ways, Dublin's free ride is over!

It is annoying how people forget how good some previous teams actually were.

The Tyrone and Kerry teams of the 2000's would stand toe to toe with any Dublin team of the 2010's.

Gameplan, intensity, talent, whatever, those teams would have stopped that Dublin run, no question about it.

Mayo nearly did it with Andy Moran as their only forward, your telling me the Gooch Kerry teams couldn't beat them? Jog on.

This repeat pairing nonsense has to stop for the likes of semi finals. Probably shouldn't be there for quarter finals either.

As a Galway supporter the best semi final opponent to get is Armagh. But because we'll have played them 4 weeks previously we can't meet them, it's nonsense.