2017 All Ireland Senior Football Championship

Not everybody hates Ulster football, now fuck off.

Its the 1st rd lads,the back door has taken all the bit out of these early games.

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I only popped in but I might hang around now I’ve wound you up you dipshit. :grinning:

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The sub with a 20min cameo gets motm says it all really

Whatever gets you hard for the missus later

One of the good ones, some record

This Sunday, Ross Munnelly will embark upon his 15th season of inter-county football for Laois.

The Arles-Kilcruise forward made his debut in 2003 under Mick O’Dwyer and has represented the O’Moore County every year since.

And if he makes an appearance on Sunday in O’Moore Park against Longford, it will be his 66th championship game for Laois.

When you combine National League, O’Byrne Cup and championship together, the 34-year-old has pulled on the blue and white jersey almost 200 times. While the back-door system – something which wasn’t available to every generation of Laois player – has contributed to his tally of appearances, no matter what way you look at it, he has contributed an immense amount to the Laois cause. Fifteen consecutive seasons of unbroken service is some going.

Ross has played in every single one of Laois’s 65 championship games since he made his debut in 2003, starting 60 of them.

Incredibly, the only championship game which Munnelly failed to score of those 65 was in his most recent one – Laois’s second round All-Ireland qualifier defeat to Clare last year.

In that time, he has played for Laois under seven different managers – Mick O’Dwyer, Liam Kearns, Sean Dempsey, Justin McNulty, Tomas O Flatharta, Mick Lillis and Peter Creedon – and started for Laois in all six forward positions. A Leinster winner in 2003, he has played in four All-Ireland quarter finals – in 2003, 2005, 2006 and 2012.

Munnelly is also a three-time All-Star nominee having received nominations in 2003, 2005 and 2006 while he was nominated for Young Player of the Year in 2003.

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A splendid start to the world’s greatest sporting competition, the Ulster Senior Football Championship.

Thoroughly enjoyable fare.

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Sligo must easily be the oldest team in the country in either code!

Some cracking scores so far in Castlebar

The Sligo no.13 is class

Dreadful crowd in Mayo

Pleasing to see the pitch at Castlebar lined out correctly, with no 65 metre lines.

Dessie Dolan knows all about missing those type frees

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Hon Sligo!

Shocking miss by Boland

That young o shea lad is a fraud of a footballer

Black card all day…

This is woeful stuff.

Antrim 0-10 Donegal 0-3!

Jaysus.