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

Cantwell is more of mediator/drawing out pulling up analysts depending on her humour. She played at County level back in the day, still plays junior for the craic, so at least she has a grá for the game.

However, I can understand how she winds some viewers up because she can pull the rug from under someone all of a sudden if she thinks they are bluffing/or wants to play devils advocate. She was well able for Brolly when he was there!

Comer doesn't need to be effective for 70mins, if he's effective for 10 he can bury you.

Gleeson was a disaster under the high ball in the quarter final 2 years ago, he's cleaned that up significantly.

You shouldn't let your hate for Galway influence the way you view games.

The safer bet was to run down the clock!
Still, maybe the extra game will stand to us in the end!

The AI Final is a one-off. It really doesn't matter what happened before. It's all on the day now.

Unless you're Mayo obviously

Yes he was all over the place in the Euros but he was actually good on Sunday for the final.

I would have preferred George Hamilton for the Euro Final. Maloney would have been brilliant on commentary for Armagh-Kerry.

Martys tiresome spiel nearly writes itself at this stage

McCambridge left Clifford and went in to score the Armagh goal, nobody from Kerry was really watching him when Clifford did not follow.

And was Clifford just left unmarked up the other end?

George, who doesn't have many big games left in him should have done the final. He's iconic.

Him and Houghton are so much better than Maloney and Whelan. Whelan is absolutely gash.

Danger here.…

I nearly always forget about BBC they always seem to have a very different "slant" on the Ulster teams than RTE. There was one time I switched over and it was like each channel were watching different games. BBC said it was the best match ever. RTE said the standard was poor.

I have found myself watching matches on "RTE NEWS Now" Channel instead of RTE if I can. It is as Gaeilge. But the Irish is not that complicated.

Pat Fluery does the commentary in the hurlung with some other fella. can't think of his name. Pat loves calling everything "dochreidte" (unbelievable). Dochreidte this, dochreidte that.

The commentary is nothing if not enthusiastic and has the advantage of not being Marty/Ger Canning. I can't even think who do the football on RTE NEWS channel as gaeilge, but again I would find it preferable to Marty/Ger no matter who it is.

Is it not because the minors are as young as 15/16 since the move to U17s and it might be too much pressure for them?

Was there any plans announced for the pre match event this year

Yeah it wouldn't take much, five minutes or so, to actually show the jubilee presentation during the live broadcast. Far more interesting than some of the slow-mo promos they are fond of at the start of every segment. Or feckin Marty talking to randomers on Jones Road.

As an aside, should Armagh prevail, McGeeney will enter an exclusive club of people who won the All-Ireland as a captain and a manager, having also won POTY in his career. To date, only Kevin Heffernan and Billy Morgan have done so.

Other sports more tuned into PR/Marketing would make a big thing of the jubilee team. There would be programmes in the week leading up to it, interviews etc. A big do, loads of build up.

Yet the GAA just have lads out on the pitch raising their hand to a less than half interested crowd (unless one of the teams happens to be playing the day, there might be more of a cheer then)

he's on about winning it as captain/manager

Maybe it was on the thread already? Sean Hurson from Tyrone is the ref for the final.

https://www.gaa.ie/article/sean-hurson-to-referee-all-ireland-sfc-final-x2914

Yes Handball finals used to be the night before the Hurling final, I think Senior Doubles was night before football and Senior singles the night before Hurling. Often you'd have the same counites in both, like lads from Tipp or Kilkenny playing the handball, and then same county in hurling final the next day; would be a great atmosphere in Croke Park old glass courts for these games.

Mick Dunne in RTE was a great champion of the handball and put together the Top Ace competition, but its a long time since I've seen a live game on RTE, wouldnt say its happened for 30 years or more.