2011 was big for Kerry. First final meeting against Dublin for 26 years and Dublin’s first final for 16 years. Tyrone were the team Kerry really wanted to beat in that final but beating Dublin would have almost matched it, it would have been a much bigger victory for them than beating Cork or Mayo in a final.
Plus it was a September showdown, which made the whole thing much bigger. Today simply does not have that feeling of being the Saturday before an All-Ireland football final.
What tunes are getting played tomorrow if Dublin win?
Nothing Compares 2 U is getting blasted out around Croke Park, well it is if the GAA spinmaster has any wit. So it will probably be Sinead’s version of the Foggy Dew instead.
Obviously Crazy World is getting played.
Sinead O’Connor’s version of Molly Malone has to be the soundtrack for the RTE montage of the year.
Kerry will win though.
Derry would have an unreal soundtrack if they ever win it.
The Auld Triangle ringing out bang on the Full Time Whistle after Butsy Daly’s late block in 2016 will always be the ultimate post game Dublin song in terms of completeness.
The timing of it was superb.
I was just watching plan a on amazon prime there. It would be nothing short of karma if the plan was revisited upon the kerry lads before or after tomorrows final. The vile nazi bastards.
It has to be something different tomorrow. I’ve grown awful sick of the Auld Triangle (the song - I like the pub).
Crazy World for the immediate post-final whistle.
Then Mandinka.
The Boys Are Back In Town immediately after the presentation.
Then Nothing Compares 2 U to bring the house down.
Finishing off with The Rare Auld Times.
Luke Kelly, Phil Lynott, Christy Dignam, Sinead O’Connor. The Mount Rushmore of Dublin music.
It was instantaneous. As if to somehow even further turn the knife into the Mayo’s that little bit more. The Midwest Radio of those few minutes are iconic.
“It’s just not meant to be”.
Iconic.
You’d barely know this game was on. No auld buzz about it at all.
Zero.
The holier than thou zealots will be thrilled.
You forgot Damo. He has the music and the head for it.
This is becoming one for the Sports Clichés thread.
How would you know there was a buzz in other years. I don’t think I’ve ever heard a good answer to this question
It’s a beautiful morning here in the capital. The buzz around the St. Stephens Green area last night was very international and cosmopolitan. Seen 2 Yerras with jerseys. No Dubs, bar Leinster jerseys.
We stumbled on the comedy festival in the Iveagh Gardens. Great craic. Saw Kevin McGahern, Emma Doran and Neil Delamare. Fantastic.
Anyhow, going down for the breakfast and see what the day brings.
My gut is telling me Kerry will shade it, and that’s more from a cuter JoC on the line v Dessie. Or it could be the Babaganush I had last night. We’ll see.
Castleknock hotel was full of Kerry last night. Quietly confident was the prevailing theme.
Old fashioneds were a bad choice - staggered start for me today
Ps Dublin by 2
Signing in … h’an Kerry to fuck!
You know yourself. Buzz is where you find it hard to think of anything but the match in question for weeks in advance, where it just builds and builds and builds. Where other people want to talk about “the match” (Cc: @mickee321). Where everybody wants to talk about the match. Where you seek out and find every bit podcast material you can find about the match. Where there is extensive TFK thread fodder about the match.
2013 was the buzziest All-Ireland football final of recent years. 2017 as well obviously. The Dublin-Mayo finals were much buzzier than Dublin-Kerry (outside of 2011).
2017 was the last final in the proper September air.
2018 had no buzz at all. 2019 had surprisingly little buzz given the five in a row was on the line. The replay had more buzz than the drawn game. At least those finals were all in September, even if they weren’t on the proper weekend in September. Mayo v Tyrone 2021 was more buzzy than this, even with a half capacity crowd.
You cannot have a proper All-Ireland final buzz in the microwave era with finals in July.
Only 73k attended the Dublin v Kerry semi-final last year. The corresponding semi-finals in 2013 and 2016 were total sell outs. That’s a quantitative measure of the general buzz surrounding a rivalry. The general buzz around Dublin v Kerry in the post-Covid era is not where it was.
It’s going to widdle rain today. That’s a buzz killer. But that was the case for the Dublin-Mayo final of 2016 too, and somehow it still felt buzzy.
The below was buzz. I was in various parts of Dublin yesterday evening. There was none of this. All of the anticipation in the air that evening 10 years ago was match related. There were colours everywhere. The piper was that guy you’d occasionally see at Dublin matches going back to the 1990s.
There’s none of that this time.
Down v Meath 1991 was buzzy.
Offaly v Clare 1995 was buzzy.
Tipp v Kilkenny 2010 was buzzy.
Tipp v Kilkenny 2011 was not.
I think the buzziest games I’ve attended in my time were Dublin v Meath IV in 1991, Dublin v Armagh 2002, the Dublin v Tyrone replay of 2005, and Dublin v Kerry 2007. That semi-final was very buzzy.
The buzz is entirely in the eye of the beholder
There aren’t that many beholders for this.
I think there is massive anticipation/buzz about this match funnily enough. Loads of people I met have been talking about it. I’ve heard of two gaa clubs outside Dublin and kerry making thousands of euro this week on raffles for tickets for it. I haven’t heard a sniff of a spare ticket.