2017 All Ireland Senior Football Championship

[gaillimhmick]

London would be more your thing no doubt

[Sidney]

@gaillimhmick

London would be more your thing no doubt

Yes, pal, London would be more most people’s thing.

London is one of the great cities of the world.

If you’re tired of London, you’re tired of life.

Galway is not one of the great cities of the world.

Galway is a town in the west of Ireland.

Nevertheless, I’d like to go there some time to see what it’s like.

[Mac]

@Chucks_Nwoko

Farney Army will be making the trek to the sunny SE.

A perfect time for @bandage to pop the question with both families in attendance

[gaillimhmick]

@maroonandwhite

@anon7035031

The Dub and @Sidney embarrassing themselves here.

Real dublin gaa fans want nothing to do with their hurling all irelands, i think out of all the hurlers that won medals maybe 2 iirc were from dublin. But do we have any real dublin gaa fans on here, not just jumped up bandwagoners? spidey, anyone else?

Dublin have won six All-Ireland senior hurling titles throughout their history but, remarkably, only one true Blue Dub featured in any of those successes.

He was Jim Byrne, who lined out at left half back when the Liam MacCarthy Cup last came to the capital in 1938. All of Dublin’s previous All-Ireland winning teams were made up exclusively of players from other parts of the country who came to work and live in the capital at a time when a trip down the country took much longer than it does nowadays.

[mikehunt]

@Sidney

Is it? Never been there, mate.

u haven’t lived.

[Horsebox]

He lives in Galway, mike.

[maroonandwhite]

Ooooft

[Matty_Hislop]

@gaillimhmick

Dublin have won six All-Ireland senior hurling titles

How many have Galway won?

[Sidney]

@Matty_Hislop

How many have Galway won?

Have Galway ever played Dublin in a final, I wonder?

[anon7035031]

Dublin, inspired by the great Mick Gill from Ballinderreen, defeated Galway in the 1924 final, a few months after Galway, inspired by the great Mick Gill from Ballindeerreen, defeated Limerick in the delayed 1923 final.

[Sidney]

@anon7035031

Dublin, inspired by the great Mick Gill from Ballinderreen, defeated Galway in the 1924 final, a few months after Galway, inspired by the great Mick Gill from Ballindeerreen, defeated Limerick in the delayed 1923 final.

So Dublin beat Galway in that final, eh?

[mikehunt]

He should know why we don’t travel in numbers then.

[Sidney]

@mikehunt

He should know why we don’t travel in numbers then.

I certainly do. It’s because there are very few real supporters in Galway. The paltry attendances at their league matches bear this fact out.

Lucky there’s a Dub here to bump up your attendances a bit.

[mikehunt]

There’s a lot to be doing in Galway. Can’t fit everything in.

[Bandage]

Did you see Louth’s Ryan Burns got a 12-week ban for his sending off in the qualifiers against Longford?

It was on The Sunday Game the weekend before last. He was chasing the ball but it ran out over the endline about 10 yards in from the corner. He let fly on the ball on the ground in frustration (or “soccered it” as Kevin McStay might say) back over in the direction of the goal. But he drilled it into the umpire’s shin - he’d moved away from the post and over along the endline a bit presumably to get a better view of the ball going out over the endline in the first place. He was still around 15/20 yards from Burns who didn’t mean to hit him and it was even harmless at that. It reminded me of the time a young Tim Henman inadvertently smashed a tennis ball into a ball child’s face by accident when playing doubles with Jeremy Bates at the Championships (cc @GeoffreyBoycott). A 12-week ban for Burns is ludicrous.

[gilgamboa]

I assume the suspension only came about as a result of pat Spillane going ape on the Sunday game?

[Blake]

The ball was well out of play and he leathered it towards the umpire after he didn’t get the 45 he was seeking. Given it was the umpire he was frustrated with and that was who he hit it towards, the optics aren’t great at all. He may not have intended on hitting the umpire, but he was reckless in whether he did or not and that’s enough.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N552pnpQGiU

[Bandage]

Shit. I’ve been caught telling lies again today.

[myboyblue]

Puts the Connolly incident into a harsher light, ‘Dermo’ can count himself lucky he only got the 12 weeks it seem so

[Julio_Geordio]

@myboyblue

Puts the Connolly incident into a harsher light, ‘Dermo’ can count himself lucky he only got the 12 weeks it seem so

Former All Star cleared of assaulting old Dublin teammate who feared he would...

A long line of thugs have lined out for the duds