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

Three teams that has reached the last 4 play cagey (Kerry,Galway,Armagh) and the most offensive team and who has conceded the most on route to the last four has been Donegal managed by Jim McGuinness who would have guessed that?

Hopefully we get good competitive semi finals and final to close out the year.

For 2025 all Div 1 teams should fancy their chances of giving the All Ireland series a right good rattle and I feel the next decade could see 4 or 5 counties getting their hands on the Sam Maguire title.

That's true and I find it ridiculous how Jim McGuinness gets blamed for today's defensive football and few good watchable contests. Even Colm Parkinson was at that the other day, then again he's not known for putting much research into anything he says.

Football badly needs new teams to win AI and more better. Only 1 year since 2013 have anyone but big two won a AI. When you dig a little deeper more teams won Scottish Cup than gaa teams win AI. New blood and new teams are needed to make game more vibrant championship.

Can't blame Kerry or Dublin for that. Its up rest to catch up.

Yeah of all the All Ireland's Mayo lost in that period, Donegal's was one of the more clear-cut: 2-11 0-13.

Rest of them were a succession of one-point losses (replays included) until the two Covid final losses to Dublin and Tyrone respectively (by 2-14 to 0-15 in both).

Not bad for a defensive team.

Dublin's dominance is unprecedented and is hopefully over. They've dominated football for 12 or 13 years. Kerry were weak for lots of that period.

Having said that, Dublin and Kerry will always be strong.

I agree though it's better for the broader game if we've different winners.

I think in the 90s there was 8 different winners from every province.

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It's up to other counties to get their houses in order to compete with multi millionaire backed Limerick.

Wrong thread.

stop will ya 😂

In regard to Sundays match in Croker, if one was to bring 2x children under 10, is it full price or are there juvenile ticket prices?

I know the best tickets are gone already etc but just wondering.

The question has already been answered, but my tuppence worth, is that I suppose it is strange that there isn't more cross over particularly between GAA football and Rugby, but its down to the demands of the modern games and maybe the €€€ at the end of the day. Soccer and Rugby and even Basketball are either semi or full professional at pretty much all senior grades... soo if you are getting paid to play, you are training like hell all the time and you can't risk getting injured in another sport (particularly an amateur one).

The days of the dual GAA star are even numbered. I think Teddy McCarthy's feat in 1990 might never be equalled again. In fact the last time the same county even appeared in both finals was Galway in 01 and they didn't win both and didn't have any dual players anyway as far as I remember.

Think Alan kerins started the hurling but only came on as a sub in football. Sean Óg came close in 1999. Dublin hurlers nearly made the final in 13 same as tipp footballers in 16. Was seamus Kennedy on both panels in 2016 for tipp?

It's amazing that it won't be near a sellout and yet they're confining kids to the Davin with much better seats available elsewhere. Typical GAA crap. Sell the tickets that are available to whomever wants to buy them and you won't have half empty stadia. Clowns.

Not sure why Gaelic football is not a professional sport because the players at county level generate a lot of revenue for the GAA. It seems to be a terrible waste of potential firepower for rugby that so many powerful athletes play an amateur sport and risk injury all the while having to hold down a full time job and juggle training sessions around free time. I can only imagine the rugby team Ireland would have if it had all this extra talent pool to pick from. I think they would be unbeatable.

Simply put because official professionalism would kill the the ethos of the GAA. Then you immediately come under the Free Movement of Workers EU law etc. The intercounty teams/clubs will hoover up all the best players from around the country. There won't be the same level of attachment to either the club/county as a result.

A friend of mine, a primary school teacher, in the past brought groups of his students to Croke Park and told me that for him the view of the games might not have been as good from the Davin, but when it came to supervising them it was more than balanced out than if they had been in the Hogan or Cusack.