What was your experience like yesterday?
It had a very Quarter Final-y feel to it I thought.
The camogie final is down for 5pm on Sunday August 6th.
I know thatâs the Camogie Associationâs call, but it seems very late considering a large cohort of the crowd will be bus loads of young kids.
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Thereâs probably 3 matches on that day
The junior and intermediate finals are on as well, but the senior is the main event and 5pm seems very late imo. The 3 games were 12, 2 and 4 the past few years as far as I can remember.
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12 would be very early for a match tbf
These double headers are a cod. I spent half the second half having to turn 90 degrees to let Derry supporters past me on the stairwell. Once Dublin got the goal early in the second half the atmosphere went completely flat.
All four quarter-finals were dreadful with only Monaghan v Armagh at least being competitive.
This format is an absolute cod. Before this weekend it was being widely called the most open All-Ireland in years. Me hoop. This format, as long predicted by me, benefits Dublin and Kerry and nobody else. The semis are going to be grim spectacles reminiscent of the early 1980s. The final wonât attract much interest outside of Dublin and Kerry. This championship is a multi-pack of microwave popcorn. Full of hot air, briefly tasty yet completely unsubstantial.
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Can we get an infraction for this?
Garda traffic and security planning Iâd guess.
Please stop talking so much sense.
The less these fucking northern teams win the better
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Even supporters are completely burned out.
Yesterday was Derryâs 19th competitive game I think in less than 6 months.
I doubt the Derry fans are complaining that they are winning too much!
These arbitrary time differences make such a massive difference to traffic and crowd safety and indeed general public safety. Avoiding disaster all hinges on these arbitrary time selections.
I mean you couldnât have had the 2016 Dublin-Mayo replay at 6pm because it would have been unsafe and caused chaos in Dublin. It had to be 5pm.
Likewise the 2019 Dublin-Kerry replay had to be at 6pm. Having it at 5pm would have caused chaos.
Itâs utterly unthinkable what could have occurred had Dublin v Monaghan taken place at 6pm rather than 5:30pm. Itâs the difference between a nine euro meal and one for âŹ8.50.
Iâd love it if the Gardai insisted that the Ireland v Holland qualifier had to start at 7:15pm rather than 7:45pm, thereby flouting the UEFA convention on kick off times.
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Hopefully they donât attempt to copy his actions on the sideline at club matches.
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Youâd know the Dubs are back alright
Occasionally a run of consecutive games can benefit a team, but particular circumstances have to apply. Consecutive games can occasionally wake a misfiring team out of a slumber, as with Dublin hurlers in 2013 or Kildare in 2010. But more often than not itâs a negative, and I think particularly so with this system. I think under this system rest is everything.
Mayo had to struggle enormously to get to the semis in 2017. They were very lucky against a poor Derry team, couldnât get going at all in the first half against Clare, then Lee Keegan turned in a Tour de France and their superior conditioning told. They were out on their feet against Cork, and then against Roscommon, but both times got lucky. The second time round against Roscommon they made no mistake then had 13 days to prepare for Kerry. That put them through the gap. By the replay against Kerry they were so battle hardened they couldnât be stopped.
Yesterdayâs Mayo were like the Mayo of 2019 against Dublin. In 2019 they had a knock out game against Donegal the previous Saturday while Dublin could afford to put out the espoirs in a dead rubber in Omagh.
In 2019 Mayo gave Dublin bags of it in the first half, but as soon as the second half started they were done. It was the exact same this time, but Dublinâs football didnât have to be as good this time to pull away. Mayo were done before half-time yesterday in truth, Dublin had taken control in the last five or six minutes coming up to half time.
I think the evidence of this weekend shows the extra game the previous week is a big handicap. That said I donât think this a great Mayo team at all. I think theyâd been winging it up to now. Yesterday is the last full stop of that Showtime era of Mayo football. Really it ended with that final defeat to Tyrone. Theyâve had so many sickening defeats now that the whole county might psychologically need a bottoming out period for four or five years, to go away before dreaming it all up again under Coach Horan in 2028.
Kevin McStay needs to become John OâMahony II.
Just put down 4 years of nothingness to allow them regroup. Theyâd be better off not seeing Croke Park again until 2027 at least.
Yeah we are.
We never went away bro
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