Fellas genuinely believe this shite too.
When will they announce the times and dates?
Surely the tommy Rooney’s of this world should be falling over themselves to provide the info of when well get the info.
It’s a great little gaa tradition really. Nobody has any clue whatsoever when the matches will be on less than two weeks out.
You have to allow @MogwaiC86 speculate and ruminate over possible scheduling times, attendances and which matches will be televised/illegally streamed before that information is to be divulged
HERE WE GO
Dates times and venues predictions:
Saturday June 13
Londonerry v Meath 2pm Rangers Park
Monaghan v Roscommon 3pm Clones GoGoPlus
Cavan v Dublin 5pm Grenfell Tower Breffni Park TVGaaGaa
Kildare v Kerry 7pm Cedric St Conlon’s Park RTE
Sunday June 14
Tyrone v Mayo 2pm Healy Park - Paywall Plus
Galway v Westmeath 3pm Traffic Jam Wind Tunnel
Lood v Armagh 3:30pm Newry
Donegal v Cork 4pm Balla B’fey RTE
Yes a Dublin team which musters 16k in HQ for their match last week must be protected as a cash cow.
If anything the current Dublin footballers are a drag on the current championship.
The idea of Dublin as a cash cow is so 2006
Surely Derry v Meath has to be televised somewhere. The standout game of the draw for me.
Good looking game to people who follow the game but Derry have no supporters and Derry v Meath still carries a bang of an early round qualifier on a wet Saturday which is on at the same time as the Wimbledon Ladies’ final, and here’s Adrian Eames with a quick update from Celtic Park, “actually I’m at Owenbeg Podrick”.
Dublin are a certainty for the GoGo Paywall and Kerry will definitely be on too.
Tyrone v Mayo is a perceived HEAVYWEIGHT clash. Donegal are the FRONT RUNNERS for the All-Ireland in US politics parlance and Jim McGuinness is THE CANDIDATE so they’ll surely be on too.
How many games will be covered live and what’s the free to air national broacaster/Pay Laptop split?
I wouldn’t go that far. Both the Louth and Westmeath games were really good games.
16k was a poor crowd but it was still the biggest crowd of the 4 games at the weekend. Dublin are not all ireland contenders so the crowds were always going to dwindle. 20k in Killarney the week before was a poor crowd for all ireland champions vs their main rivals was a poor attendance But this was not commented upon. 15k in Clones for Monaghan v Mayo is no great shakes either.
I can envisage a louth win over armagh
I would love it if Cork sent a team of espoirs to Donegal.
“Luck of the draw”
Team in winners section plays better team than team in losers section.
The downside for Galway after beating Kildare is they’re landed with a stinker of a tie against Westmeath in the ELITE section while Kildare’s reward for losing to Galway is a leg up back onto the horse game against Kerry in the REMEDIAL section.
People do seem to be having real difficulty with this.
One is knockout and one is not.
Ah they are a bit of a drag in fairness. Them getting a home game now is a bollox as there will be a three quarter empty stadium and no atmosphere. I suppose them going away to anyone is still a bit box officey
People are ABSOLUTELY OBSESSED with trying to find flaws in the system. I think it’s called cultural cringe. The next big one will be a team losing for the first time in the quarter finals and being out.
There seems to be a lot of faffing about just for the sake of it. Dilutes the quality towards the business end with injuries/fatigue. If they spread it out a bit more…
That’s never happened before in the championship. I’d say people won’t be able to get their heads round that a tall a tall.
A two-week break now and the winners get another 2 weeks off- there has to be some reward for going through the winner’s route.
I think it’s very good tbh.
That won’t stop the Gavin pepper make Ireland great again type whingers
You mean the split season zealots?