2018 All Ireland Senior Football Championship

[Cicero_Dandi]

Kerry are shit.

[mickee321]

@carryharry

Never thought to check that far back, passed that way yesterday. Bleak enough area but that place was very busy.

ah most of those places are in the country really so i suppose it can appear bleak
clonfert is a nice one also in north kildare - great place for u-5s

[Sidney]

@mickee321

the rushed nature of the thing also, the GAA is part of the routine of irish life- we’re still only in AISHC semi final mode really - all your memories as a kid if ure into GAA are formed around these weekends in august before back to school with the hurling final, its as if they are trying to rush the thing to get it done so joe public can just get on with the EPL that is been forced upon the population like a cheap porno by sky sports- the EPL starts after the october bank holiday for me anyway
sentimental and twee - absolutely - but that’s what makes the gah and that is what defines a lot of irish life

That’s exactly when the EPL starts. I hate watching it in August, September and most of October.

The sporting calendar has a sort of eco-system and moving the All-Ireland finals forward disturbs that.

January has the darts, the Most Reverend Dr. McKenna Cup, NFL play-offs and Heino Cup rugby.

February has the Six Nations and the GAA leagues and the Champions League stuttering back into life.

March is the Six Nations, the club finals and the GAA leagues and the Champions League beginning to come to the boil.

April is the Grand National, the US Masters, the Heino knockout games, and then later in the month the snooker from the Crucible. It used to be glorious FA Cup semi-final Sundays, RIP. Now it’s glorious Champions League Wednesdays from Anfield or the Nou Camp in that spine-tingling hazy, dusky April air.

May is a first round Ulster Championship tie with three red cards and a final score of 0-10 to 0-8. It used to be the FA Cup final, RIP.

June is Munster hurling and World Cups/Euros.

July is the Ulster final, the Tour, the latter stages of Wimbledon. It used to be The Open, RIP. It used to be sickeningly tense Dublin-Meath Leinster finals, RIP.

August is All-Ireland semi-finals and quarter-finals, and Olympics and World/Euro athletics.

September is All-Ireland finals, RIP and Ryder Cups (they should be held in uneven years, RIP).

October is shitty county championship finals and the odd Champions League night. It used to be the Japanese Grand Prix from Suzuka, RIP. In uneven years it’s dramatic World Cup/Euros qualification nights.

November sees the EPL begin and random provincial club classics. In uneven years it’s World Cup/Euros play-off drama time. It used to be the UK Snooker Championship, RIP, and shitty National League football games, RIP.

December is Michael Corcoran doing radio commentary from Thomond Park, the minor darts and unattractive Super Sunday “double headers”.

The ideal date for an All-Ireland football final is around September 22nd.

[mickee321]

@Sidney

@mickee321

the rushed nature of the thing also, the GAA is part of the routine of irish life- we’re still only in AISHC semi final mode really - all your memories as a kid if ure into GAA are formed around these weekends in august before back to school with the hurling final, its as if they are trying to rush the thing to get it done so joe public can just get on with the EPL that is been forced upon the population like a cheap porno by sky sports- the EPL starts after the october bank holiday for me anyway
sentimental and twee - absolutely - but that’s what makes the gah and that is what defines a lot of irish life

That’s exactly when the EPL starts. I hate watching it in August, September and most of October.

The sporting calendar has a sort of eco-system and moving the All-Ireland finals forward disturbs that.

January has the darts, the Most Reverend Dr. McKenna Cup, NFL play-offs and Heino Cup rugby.

February has the Six Nations and the GAA leagues and the Champions League stuttering back into life.

March is the Six Nations, the club finals and the GAA leagues and the Champions League beginning to come to the boil.

April is the Grand National, the US Masters, the Heino knockout games, and then later in the month the snooker from the Crucible. It used to be glorious FA Cup semi-final Sundays, RIP. Now it’s glorious Champions League Wednesdays from Anfield or the Nou Camp in that spine-tingling hazy, dusky April air.

May is a first round Ulster Championship tie with three red cards and a final score of 0-10 to 0-8. It used to be the FA Cup final, RIP.

June is Munster hurling and World Cups/Euros.

July is the Ulster final, the Tour, the latter stages of Wimbledon. It used to be The Open, RIP. It used to be sickeningly tense Dublin-Meath Leinster finals, RIP.

August is All-Ireland semi-finals and quarter-finals, and Olympics and World/Euro athletics.

September is All-Ireland finals, RIP and Ryder Cups (they should be held in uneven years, RIP).

October is shitty county championship finals and the odd Champions League night. It used to be the Japanese Grand Prix from Suzuka, RIP. In uneven years it’s dramatic World Cup/Euros qualification nights.

November sees the EPL begin and random provincial club classics. In uneven years it’s World Cup/Euros play-off drama time. It used to be the UK Snooker Championship, RIP, and shitty National League football games, RIP.

December is Michael Corcoran doing radio commentary from Thomond Park, the minor darts and unattractive Super Sunday “double headers”.

The ideal date for an All-Ireland football final is around September 22nd.

excellent sid
lovely post
re: november you’d have to factor in the winter rugby internationals and from 1998 onwards the early rounds of the european football are becoming a real good tradition on wednesday evenings in July.
The GAA really need to revert to type next season
The october bank holiday weekend is when the cork county senior football final is played in the gloom, the last sunday in september also is one of the great county final sundays with our comrades on Sunday Sport giving us the result from the Wicklow SHC final and about 15 more.
Interprovincal club hurling can never commence until November

Gone, all gone

[Sidney]

@Halfpipe

All that is true and I’d also add into the mix the fact that almost all sides now are managed by incredibly dour individuals who will tell you that they are there to win, not to entertain. This makes it hard for fans of the competing counties to maintain interest, and almost impossible for the neutral. The charismatic managers like Micko, Paidi, Tommy Lyons, Boylan are gone from the game replaced by men who are either dislikeable or of no interest. If the style of play is boring and the characters involved come across as boring then why would there be much interest in the games.

The hurling teams who reached the semis this year are hardly overflowing with people who make everybody in the room stop and take notice.

A dinner party with Micheal Donoghue, John Kiely,@Big_Dan_Campbell, Gerry O’Connor and John Meyler sounds like a pretty boring evening.

An evening with Davy, Daly, Cody and Tessio might be a bit more interesting, to be fair.

[mickee321]

oh
and @Sidney
they’ve even gone and taken the qualification for Euro 2020 that should be commencing on the second wednesday of september 2018 away from us this time round…

[Sidney]

@mickee321

The ideal date for an All-Ireland football final is around September 22nd.

excellent sid
lovely post
re: november you’d have to factor in the winter rugby internationals and from 1998 onwards the early rounds of the european football are becoming a real good tradition on wednesday evenings in July.
The GAA really need to revert to type next season
The october bank holiday weekend is when the cork county senior football final is played, the last sunday in september also is one of the great county final sundays with our comrades on Sunday Sport giving us the result from the Wicklow SHC final and about 15 more.

Gone, all gone

Early season Bohs-Rovers derbies at Dalymount in March-May have become a nice little tradition. The LOI seems more interesting in those months compared to later in the season.

The Dublin club final on October Bank Holiday Monday is a lovely little modern tradition too.

[Sidney]

@mickee321

oh
and @Sidney
they’ve even gone and taken the qualification for Euro 2020 that should be commencing on the second wednesday of september 2018 away from us this time round…

I know. Sacrilege. Gone are precious nights and days like Ireland v Spain 2006, Eire v Czech Republic 2006, Holland v Eire 2000 and Eire v England 1990.

[Halfpipe]

Yes but their teams are playing great stuff and entertaining fans and neutrals alike. It’s when both the style of play and the characters involved are both boring you have a real problem, which is where football now stands. Are we on course for the first year ever when the hurling semi finals will have had bigger attendance figures than the football, even without the replay? I ask that without knowing if it’s ever happened before or what the attendance will be in Dublin this weekend.

[anon7035031]

Heaney, Duggan and Armstrong start for Galway.

[anon7035031]

O’Rourke is a sickening gobshite.

[backinatracksuit]

Gwaaaaan Gaaaawlway
I’d love to see those Dublin cunts bate

[Little_Lord_Fauntleroy]

Edit,good post

[Appendage]

Clashes with premier league. That’s why no one at it.

[tazdedub]

You can see the fear in the Galway players faces.

[maroonandwhite]

Good edit

[PhattPike]

Jesus the place is empty.

[myboyblue]

Gaelic football is dead

[Cicero_Dandi]

Dublin by 12.

[tazdedub]

Mannion just destroyed the corner back. Barely a minute gone.