2025 All Ireland Football Championship

[Bisto]

@Bisto

Great striker of a ball and fielder but Murphy hasn’t the legs and teams are copping on to it. He was left for dead once or twice yesterday

From May

[peddlerscross]

2025 All Ireland Football Championship

It would be like Tipp bringing Seamus Callanan back after two years out and expecting him to play the full 70 and lead the forward line. You’d think McGuinness would try use him as sparingly as possible and just have him there when it counts in the last fifteen minutes.

[Bisto]

@Aertel220

Brilliant info from the 1975 match programme. You can even see the rest of that great Kerry team coming with that minor team listed above.

Classic . Only second to the dubs minor team in 2011 that went on to create history with the 6 in a row at senior ?

[blackjack]

Nostradamus here telling us a 36 year old hasn’t the legs

[TreatyStones]

The GAA (@officialgaa) on X

[Bisto]

And yet up today he was in running for FOTY. Go figure .

[myboyblue]

@blackjack

Nostradamus here telling us a 36 year old hasn’t the legs

I couldn’t get over lads talking him up. He died in Croker the last day

[Tassotti]

C’,MMMONNNN Kerry

[Arthur]

There were tyrone teams with more future all Ireland winners id say. Kerry u21 team that lost 99 all Ireland final to Westmeath had a ridiculous amount of future stars.

Edit:
Kerry: Kieran Cremin; Stephen O’Sullivan, Tom O’Sullivan, Michael McCarthy; Sean Hegarty, Tomás Ó Sé, Enda Galvin; Tommy Griffin, John Sugrue; Noel Kennelly, Aodán Mac Gearailt, Tadhg Kennelly; Paul Galvin, Liam Murphy, Ian Twiss. Subs used: Sean O’Sullivan for P Galvin; Michael D Cahill for Twiss.

9 future senior medallists?

[myboyblue]

11 if you count Sugrue coaching them to one

[Cheasty]

Eight future All-Ireland senior medallist starters and a future Connacht rugby coach here.

[blackjack]

They’d easily pass for a senior team. Most of them look mid to late 20s

[Bandage]

@Bandage

Donegal look like a team playing the old rules.

My sole mistake (similar to concluding that Limerick hurlers were absolutely done) was my astute observation not becoming fully apparent until a couple of games later.

Persisting with zonal defence on the edge of the 45/arc like it’s 2014 bar the designated man marker on David Clifford, thus allowing Paudie Clifford the freedom of the park to pick them apart - NO lads.

Barely attempting a 2-pointer all game & doing a lot of inefficient running & lateral kick & hand passing - NO lads.

[Fagan_ODowd]

@Alphakrul1

I’d be surprised if he scores 1-09 off him anyway. McCole is a beast. Stickiest I’ve seen in a long time and if we beat Kerry, a decent shout for POTY.

You got that spot on, anyway.

[Alphakrul1]

Did he score 0-7 off him in the 1st, and 0-2 in the second? He’ll definitely or hopefully learn a bit from yesterday on how to better contain him in the future. To be fair, if you asked me before the match if we could win if we kept David to 9pts, I’d have thought so, but not dissimilar to Tyrone v Kerry, the other end of the field didn’t make that count. Did I read that Armagh kept him the quietest this year with an 8pt tally?

[Aertel220]

@Alphakrul1

Did I read that Armagh kept him the quietest this year with an 8pt tally?

Meath surely?

[Chancer]

I’d assume McGuinness will remain a while yet, at least until the Amorim job comes up.
They need to re jig their approach and develop a few lads who aren’t afraid to have a shot. Murphy and McBrearty are done essentially with Thompson not far behind.
I know nothing of their underage talent but both O’Donnels and Gallen have bright futures if given more latitude. O’Baoill could also be in contention next year but essentially they need braver forwards and ease back on the practise of fannying around the edge of the arc.
Twice at least they knifed through before inevitably taking the step/bounce/solo too many and getting subsumed by ravenous Yerras.

[Alphakrul1]

You’re right. 5pts. I was criminally underslept when Cheasty posted his individual game tallies yesterday.

[Onthesod]

@Chancer

They need to re jig their approach and develop a few lads who aren’t afraid to have a shot

I think that could be the crux of it… thought Donegal seemed to be always searching for their ‘shooters’ but the Kerry lads had the confidence & self belief to have a pop themselves.

[myboyblue]

One or two Kerry lads took pops in the first half and I’d say they had a talking to at half time as a result