2025 All Ireland Football Championship

[Cheasty]

@binkybarnes

Who would of thought a lad called McFadden Ferry would turn out to be a hit of a bollox?

If he gets suspended it’ll be a case of Don’t Play The Ferryman for Donegal.

[Spidey]

Is this the same Joe that blew kisses to the Tyrone crowd and sledged the keeper after scoring a goal in the 97 Ulster semi final?

[Fat_Pox]

An unbelievably awkward cunt in any brief dealings I had with him.

[Fat_Pox]

@Pirlo

In Fagan’s then for the first time

Bad move, Kennedy’s should be your only port of call up there.

[Watchthepost]

There’s a good reply on that of the full item in normal time, Soupy in his man’s face and Grugan at McHugh as well. Akin to their antics agin Galway in ‘22. And that’s only with ET on the way.

They don’t like it up ‘em when Donegal lad did it back to them.

[glenshane]

@Spidey

Is this the same Joe that blew kisses to the Tyrone crowd and sledged the keeper after scoring a goal in the 97 Ulster semi final?

Too good for the bastards

[mikehunt]

Excuse me, I haven’t shut up about it since I’ve seen it.

[Pirlo]

Wouldn’t know him but if he’s anything like his brother Touchie (nickname) he’s an odd fucker.

[Pirlo]

I thought of that when I was sitting there and seeing pictures of Bertie with the Clinton’s. Thought of Na Fianna’s sponsorship with Kennedy’s. But sure missus’ pals were in Fagan’s, no other choice, go with the flow.

[Fat_Pox]

You’re going to have to elaborate on that nickname.

The only fellas i ever met with the nickname “Touchie” had the surname Feely

[Pirlo]

Ha! I’m genuinely not sure. I’d hope for his sake its nothing more sinister

[Bisto]

@peddlerscross

It used to absolutely iconic about an hour before games when he’d come out the tunnel under the Hogan Stand and walk around the perimeter of the pitch to the referees room under the corner of the Canal End/Cusack Stand to hand in the team sheet - it was like Dublin’s haka in their pomp.

I’d say most Dublin fans have never seen this man in action

[Fat_Pox]

He was a great man to make sure he was close to Jim Gavin as the ref blew full time on all Ireland wins.

I seem to recall Dalo had him chucked away from his Dublin team after Jim cheered a Wexford goal in the dugout in a game against them.

[Domhnach_Cearnach]

Most Dublin fans would know Jimmy Roche surely

Jimmy was also centre stage on the pitch trying to escort. Jimmy Rooney off the pitch when he blew up 5 mins early in the Clare Offaly semi final

Sportsfile - Clare v Offaly - Guinness All-Ireland Hurling All-Ireland Senior...

[Bisto]

Jaysus I never seen the man before in my life and I would have played adult football and some hurling on and off in Dublin for nearly 20 years

[peddlerscross]

Its a vitally important job.

Where Jim has come unstuck though is on the only two occasions (i can recall anyway), when the Dublin Football team went to Extra Time (v Mayo in 2021 & Derry in 2024), Jim looked flustered trying to get the new teamsheet into the ref before ET and Dublin lost both games.

The sense of panic seemed to seep into the team on both occasions and they lost their discipline.

Interesting he says in the article that Costello prepared the team sheet normally for the game itself.

[Domhnach_Cearnach]

He was never more than 3 feet away from John Costello, once it was clear that his star was on the rise

[flutehook]

@Domhnach_Cearnach

Most Dublin fans would know Jimmy Roche surely

Sent me off totally in the wrong against Vinnies one morning - another lad had thrown a sneaky dig while I was shielding the burrowing prick of a defender.

I went ape at Jim who told me not to be too upset as I wasn’t playing that well anyway - the little bollix! Probably wasn’t totally wrong either that morning.

[onthebench]

Great post. Living in Meath a long time now and involved in football for many years. Great people who love the game but long suffering since the Boylan era. And that’s the problem when there’s a faint smell of success; the good times are back. Only they’re not back. I couldn’t see the logic in people proclaiming a Meath victory when Louth have had the measure of them over the past few years. The Louth setup is a year or two ahead of Meath current squad, and while that’s not to say the gap is big but it was big enough to see Louth over the line on Sunday. That’s hard to accept for Meath stalwarts but I’ve been trying to tell that for a while! To be fair most (but certainly not all) don’t begrudge Louth their day in the sun, and no right thinking GAA person here got any real joy out of 2010; Louth were rode and that’s that.

For me Sam Mulroy is the real deal. He started poor enough but never wavered from his leadership role and responsibility in winning that title. Not many teams have individuals like that and the Royals certainly don’t yet. Meath have turned a corner, but there are plenty more corners to turn before Sean Boylan country brings home any silverware.

[Little_Lord_Fauntleroy]

@onthebench

Great post. Living in Meath a long time now and involved in football for many years. Great people who love the game but long suffering since the Boylan era. And that’s the problem when there’s a faint smell of success; the good times are back. Only they’re not back. I couldn’t see the logic in people proclaiming a Meath victory when Louth have had the measure of them over the past few years. The Louth setup is a year or two ahead of Meath current squad, and while that’s not to say the gap is big but it was big enough to see Louth over the line on Sunday. That’s hard to accept for Meath stalwarts but I’ve been trying to tell that for a while! To be fair most (but certainly not all) don’t begrudge Louth their day in the sun, and no right thinking GAA person here got any real joy out of 2010; Louth were rode and that’s that.

For me Sam Mulroy is the real deal. He started poor enough but never wavered from his leadership role and responsibility in winning that title. Not many teams have individuals like that and the Royals certainly don’t yet. Meath have turned a corner, but there are plenty more corners to turn before Sean Boylan country brings home any silverware.

anything to say about the great people that love the game meath fans punching a teenage girl in the face or the Louth fans singing racist songs?