2018 All Ireland Senior Football Championship

Tassotti · August 24, 2018, 6:00pm

I’m making it my business to go to this All Ireland football final, I haven’t been at one since 2002

the_man_himself · August 24, 2018, 6:01pm

8/1 for Jack McCaffrey FOTY is surely decent value vs. Kilkenny at evens and Fenton 11/4?

myboyblue · August 24, 2018, 6:01pm

Electric Picnic

Cicero_Dandi · August 24, 2018, 7:51pm

Conor McKenna to line out for Tyrone?

OMG!!!

croppy_boy · August 24, 2018, 7:59pm

Sure he was promoting a documentary funded by the British State.

I think we have to speculate that he may be a double agent.

Tank · August 24, 2018, 8:29pm

I’m against it. Do you not think it’s offensive to the players who got you there? Could be Micky Harte’s Asprilla moment.

Also, is this lad not a professional sportsman? I respect Tyrone because they’re one of the counties where people really believe in amateurism.

Gman · August 24, 2018, 8:35pm

He played this morning for Essendon in their final game win against Port Adelaide. Essendon won’t be playing finals so his season is over

Sidney · August 24, 2018, 8:45pm

He did it ten years ago when Stephen O’Neill came back before the final.

O’Neill would have had a very long-running relationship with nearly all of the players on that panel, however, which McKenna doesn’t have.

Tank · August 24, 2018, 8:53pm

I don’t think O’Neill is a fair comparison.

myboyblue · August 24, 2018, 9:06pm

Quare desperation.

Sidney · August 24, 2018, 9:12pm

It’s a very fair comparison in one way in that it’s somebody who hasn’t been involved at all in that year being parachuted in. For example, had, hypothetically, Gavin O’Mahony come into the Limerick squad before the hurling final it would have been pretty much an identical scenario to O’Neill returning in 2008, ie. a player who has a close relationship with the squad having been a stalwart member of it until a short time before, yet I highly doubt him being parachuted in would have gone down too well.

However, McKenna is a different scenario again in another way in that he is basically a stranger to the team. The most comparable case to this rumoured one is Tadhg Kennelly in 2002. If I remember rightly, he togged out and was in the matchday squad for the final against Armagh, but never came on. But even in that case, I’m pretty sure he’d played in an All-Ireland under-21 semi-final two weeks before that.

Paidi O’Se got a lot of criticism in Kerry for not bringing him on. Personally, I wouldn’t have had him near the squad in the first place.

kerry1891 · August 24, 2018, 9:19pm

Sidney:

Tank:

I don’t think O’Neill is a fair comparison.

It’s a very fair comparison in one way in that it’s somebody who hasn’t been involved at all in that year being parachuted in. For example, had, hypothetically, Gavin O’Mahony come into the Limerick squad before the hurling final it would have been pretty much an identical scenario to O’Neill returning in 2008, ie. a player who has a close relationship with the squad having been a stalwart member of it until a short time before, yet I highly doubt him being parachuted in would have gone down too well.

However, McKenna is a different scenario again in another way in that he is basically a stranger to the team. The most comparable case to this rumoured one is Tadhg Kennelly in 2002. If I remember rightly, he togged out and was in the matchday squad for the final against Armagh, but never came on. But even in that case, I’m pretty sure he’d played in an All-Ireland under-21 semi-final two weeks before that.

Paidi O’Se got a lot of criticism in Kerry for not bringing him on. Personally, I wouldn’t have had him near the squad in the first place.

Sidney:

Tank:

I don’t think O’Neill is a fair comparison.

It’s a very fair comparison in one way in that it’s somebody who hasn’t been involved at all in that year being parachuted in. For example, had, hypothetically, Gavin O’Mahony come into the Limerick squad before the hurling final it would have been pretty much an identical scenario to O’Neill returning in 2008, ie. a player who has a close relationship with the squad having been a stalwart member of it until a short time before, yet I highly doubt him being parachuted in would have gone down too well.

However, McKenna is a different scenario again in another way in that he is basically a stranger to the team. The most comparable case to this rumoured one is Tadhg Kennelly in 2002. If I remember rightly, he togged out and was in the matchday squad for the final against Armagh, but never came on. But even in that case, I’m pretty sure he’d played in an All-Ireland under-21 semi-final two weeks before that.p
Paidi O’Se got a lot of criticism in Kerry for not bringing him on. Personally, I wouldn’t have had him near the squad in the first place.

Kenneally was training with them in the lead up to final, in the end Paidi didn’t tog him the day of the final despite the speculation and temptation

Special_Olympiakos · August 24, 2018, 9:32pm

Paul Mcgrane ran the show in that second half around midfield. Maybe Tadgh should have been brought on to do what he did to Nicholas Murphy?

Sidney · August 24, 2018, 9:40pm

If Kennelly had ever tried anything with McGrane he’d have ended up seeing a load of leprechauns doing Irish jigs around his brain.

anon61956325 · August 24, 2018, 9:45pm

When are the Super 8s kicking off?

anon61956325 · August 24, 2018, 9:46pm

myboyblue · August 24, 2018, 9:53pm

I suspect they see this headline as a compliment, but…

Gman · August 24, 2018, 10:03pm

anon61956325 · August 25, 2018, 9:57pm

Is the final tomorrow?

Chucks_Nwoko · August 25, 2018, 10:21pm

Super 8s start tomorrow.