Brilliant game in Munster 2 weeks ago, great game in Leinster last week, and a cracker in Connacht today. The 2025 AI championship could be the best in a very long time.
Brilliant to see the individual battles all over the field, some amount of possession won back in the opposition half and then heroic blocks by McHugh and Molloy. And despite all the rubbish talk of how much running the lads in the middle third would have to do with the new rules, a fella 36 this month wins man of the match. Another great day for football.
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Even worse than that was forecast. We were going to be picking up corpses on a weekly basis according to some of the pseudo-sports-science fraternity
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The standard of GAA discussion in general is so low that what often happens is somebody says something that sounds smart and “progressive” (to a stupid person at least) and then a load of sheep run with it not having thought it through to any extent within the overall sociological framework these discussions need to be placed in.
This is a result of the Irish public discussion space being so tiny. An opinionated but vacuous idiot can gain serious currency just through having a platform and constantly repeating a vacuity which is crafted into a slogan.
Munster has always been Cork and Kerry and always will. Munster should be seeded to ensure Cork v Kerry finals going forward. Cork would have brought a crowd to Killarney today because the day out, the occasion, the tradition of Cork supporters going to Killarney on sunny days. You’d have got 25-30k anyway with the weather being good.
A lot of these round robin games will be zombie zone clashes. Even a traditional rivalry which occurs in the round robin like Armagh v Tyrone or Cork v Kerry is shorn of its traditional provincial context and shorn of the trophy and the title at stake in the provinces, and falls flat.
Even on a May bank holiday weekend and despite there being no material advantage accruing to the winner of the game other than confidence - the winner even gets a tougher round robin group - Galway v Mayo today had that traditional provincial final context this rivalry has thrived on throughout the GAA’s history. It had the Nestor Cup and year long bragging rights for a whole county as the prize. That’s the only reason it mattered.
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Askeatons finest
This was some despicable misinformation. Not unlike the ones trying to undermine the magnificence of the kick out contest.
We have them well and truly on the run
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Anything from the Twitter coaches today I wonder?
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Is Dessie Shane’s father?
Uncle.
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what is the nature of Shane Walsh, Damien Comer injuries, timelines for recovery etc?
Walsh has put in for a transfer. Comer picked up a thorn in one of his paws.
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Of course it does yeah 
. Everything means more in Ulster sure.
That should have only been given as a one pointer. Unless the ball goes directly over its not a two pointer.
We’re into the really exciting phase of the Championship now next. Five weekends set aside for the Super Sweet Sixteen. The reduction of 16 to 12 and 24 matches to process the elimination of most likely Clare, Cavan, Roscommon and Derry.
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Outrageous stat
Mayo and Galway have now played 96 times in Championship.
6 draws.
Mayo have won 45.
Galway have won 45.
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From the GAA’s own explainer:
“A ball cleanly kicked from play or a free over the bar from on or outside this arc, and without touching another player on either team (it may bounce over) is worth two points.”
https://www.gaa.ie/article/football-review-committee-rule-enhancements-explainer
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Jesus. I stand humbly corrected. That makes absolutely no sense. If a ball bounces the kick is obviously too short to be a 2 pointer yet a ball touched as its going over the bar a la Gleeson yesterday its a 1 pointer. Go figure.
The FRC remind me of NPHET.
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Lads, it’s not like there’s a hape of fucking points bouncing over the fucking bar 
Big Jim = Holohan.
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