No?
Weather forecast for tomorrow is for RAIN.
The last 10 All Ireland Football Finals almost all very close affairs and plenty of high quality matches. 5 of the 10 won by just 1 point - 2010, 11, 13, 16 (and that in a replay) & 17, 3 won by 3 points - 2008, 14 & 15. The remaining two - 2009 & 12 both had 4 point winning margins.
As with any All Ireland Final, incumbent on both teams to do the occasion justice tomorrow. Nothing as bad on All Ireland Final day as the realization that thereâs a team in it who really shouldnât be there and are just not up to it.
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The supposed âgolden eraâ of Gaelic football, the 2000s, gave us final margins of 4, 9, 1, 3, 8, 3, 13, 10, 4 and 4.
Yes those results somewhat skewed by a Mayo side in 2004 & 06 who unlike the Mayo sides of 1996-97 and 2012-17 really had no business been in a final and benefited as well from favorable draws and other circumstances. Cork got a clipping as well in 2007 but that was somewhat out of sync with the close outcomes on most of the Kerry v Cork matches in the 2005-10 era.
Mayo won their places in those finals as fairly as anybody else. They comprehensively beat reigning champions Tyrone in 2004 and beat Dublin in arguably the best game of the decade in 2006.
Four of the 10 finals had margins of 8 or more and only three were decided by one score or less.
Cork didnât get close to Kerry in a knockout game until 2008.
Kerry beat them at their ease in Croke Park in 2002, 2005, 2006 and 2007.
Lots of people struggling for tickets for this. Nowhere near as freely available as some were suspecting.
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yeah? I was lucky to get 1 for the hurling. I have got 3 for the football without hardly making an effort, gave them to a few dubs I know
Very scarce on the ground, big scramble back home for them. Looks like thereâs going to plenty of disappointed people regarding tickets.
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Must be hard for loyal supporters to watch fair weather fans like yourself going to their first game of the year
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Huh.
I was at the semi final. Why are you lying?
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2nd?
Yes.
I assumed you hadnât even seen the monaghan hame on television
You shouldnât assume.
Youâre rightâŚI overestimated you.
If youâre anyway clued in, a ticket will be picked up. Youâd do well to leave the Kilmacud 7âs on the Saturday empty handed without a ticket for the Sunday. If youâre still empty handed on Sunday, a pub crawl up through Dorset Street to Gillâs Corner should see one picked up.
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Never in my life gave I come across someone who genuinely deserved and wanted a ticket not to get one.
Never.
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Exactly. I struggled to get rid of two earlier in the week couldnât find one person locally who wanted them. Ended up giving them away to a friend of a friend from the UK who was in dublin for the weekend
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A lot of blowhards who have never been to an All Ireland here.
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