2023 All Ireland Senior Football Championship

[Cheasty]

Wasn’t expecting Pairc Sean for Galway v Armagh.

John Fogarty

John Fogarty

[blackjack]

Informative rating. Maith thu.

[Watchthepost]

This may have been established here already - for the groups is it H2H or points difference if teams end up on same points?

[Raylan]

H2H first, score difference if a 3-way tie

[Batigol]

@Batigol

We need to get back to the great Kerry vs Waterford battles of yore

It’s actually 2013 since they played in the championship, a great occasion marked by a 26 point victory for Kerry.

[myboyblue]

A lot of attractive fixtures there. The football season is about to really kick off now

[mikehunt]

I had to google where Sean’s park was. Never knew the name. Lovely ground, shame they have to let Armagh in to it.

[Mullach_Ide]

@ChairmanDan

Large swathes of Tipperary, a lot of the south and good chunks of the west would be Football country. You go through Tipperary All Ireland Hurling winning teams pre 1971 ‘famine years’ and they were mostly all drawn from from a 10 mile radius of Thurles. Weren’t Babs and Mick Roche the first All Ireland winners from clubs from the south, and even at that Mick Roche was a Waterford man.

Off the top of my head
Jimmy Cooney - Carrick Davins
Willie Wall - Carrick Swan
Tom Wall - Carrick Swan
Tom Larkin - Kilsheelan
Liam Connolly - Fethard
Tom Ryan - Killenaule
Theo English - Marlfield

All won All Irelands before Babs and Mick Roche.

[StoneCold]

Ooooft

[myboyblue]

@Mullach_Ide

@ChairmanDan

Large swathes of Tipperary, a lot of the south and good chunks of the west would be Football country. You go through Tipperary All Ireland Hurling winning teams pre 1971 ‘famine years’ and they were mostly all drawn from from a 10 mile radius of Thurles. Weren’t Babs and Mick Roche the first All Ireland winners from clubs from the south, and even at that Mick Roche was a Waterford man.

Off the top of my head
Jimmy Cooney - Carrick Davins
Willie Wall - Carrick Swan
Tom Wall - Carrick Swan
Tom Larkin - Kilsheelan
Liam Connolly - Fethard
Tom Ryan - Killenaule
Theo English - Marlfield

All won All Irelands before Babs and Mick Roche.

Another rebrand incoming…

[gaillimhmick]

All-Ireland SFC Round 3 Fixtures

Saturday 17 June

Group 4

Clare v Derry, Glennon Brothers Pearse Park, 6pm
Donegal v Monaghan, O’Neills Healy Park, 6pm

Sunday 18 June

Group 1

Kerry v Louth, O’Moore Park, 2pm
Mayo v Cork, TUS Gaelic Grounds, 2pm

Group 2

Galway v Armagh, Avantcard Páirc Sean MacDiarmada, 4pm
Westmeath v Tyrone, Kingspan Breffni Park, 4pm

Group 3

Dublin v Sligo, Kingspan Breffni Park, 1.45pm
Kildare v Roscommon, Glenisk O’Connor Park, 1.45pm

[myboyblue]

Some lovely novelty fixtures there in novelty venues. If there was a bit more peril they’d be even better.

[TheUlteriorMotive]

@myboyblue

If there was a bit more peril they’d be even better.

jeopardy is this year’s buzz word

[Batigol]

@myboyblue

If there was a bit more peril they’d be even better.

Meaningless games should be played by a cliff edge or something, for PERIL

[myboyblue]

2 coming out of each group would be a massive step forward.

[Batigol]

Imagine the pressure on Kerry last week had it been two? Would have been savage

[myboyblue]

If you’re not fit to finish in the top 2 of a 4 team group, you shouldnt be advancing.

[Batigol]

Of course not. Three games is enough to sort the teams.

[BruidheanChaorthainn]

@Batigol

Of course not. Three games is enough to sort the teams.

Issue with two is it leads to a lot dead rubbers and instances where teams don’t have anything to play for up against sides who need a win.

Realistically group stages aren’t a good idea. The World Cup group stage is crap. The champions league group stage is crap. The Heineken cup group stage is crap. The rugby World Cup group stage is shite.

There’s a trend with group stages.

[Batigol]

@BruidheanChaorthainn

The World Cup group stage is crap

No it isn’t