1998 worse again. Peter Barry and Philly Larkin in midfield.
If they double header the Football QFâs then the GAA should be disbanded.
The only way a double header could ever make sense is if the same counties footballers and hurlers were playing the same day, and even at that. Most people wouldnât go to both.
Kerry v Monaghan and Limerick v Waterford in 2007 was absolutely mental stuff.
@Cheasty how the fuck did that come about?
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Was it possible the three games v tipp held things up ?
Cork v Waterford draw in the quarters held things up. I was at the Wexford v Kilkenny semi-final in 2007 which was actually on before the Cork v Waterford quarter-final replay.
The following year then a Kerry v Cork semi-final replay was on before the Wexford v Tyrone semi in a very attractive double header in Croker. The Tyrone crowd were giving it the big un once they hit a couple of late insurance scores.
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Wexford fans had an incredibly attractive provincial Croke Park triple header back in 2008. Minor hurling against Dublin (I think), senior football v Laois and senior hurling replay v Dublin. That ended up being John Meylerâs last year and, although we overcame Dublin, we got mauled by Kilkenny in the Leinster Final. I think we scored 1-1 in the first half of the drawn game the week previously down in Kilkenny. That was around the time we were regressing and Dublin were improving, and they beat us the next year under Anthony Daly when Colm Bonnar had taken over with Wexford.
Tell me this, have you ever been involved in an attractive triple header (cross code, all senior games) where your county is involved in the first and third games? I thought Wexford might have been but I canât pinpoint it. I must have imagined it. We did have a hurling qualifier game in Thurles one year (possibly against Cork) when we lost to Tipp in a football qualifier before it and there was another hurling game on after it.
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In 2012 myself and @Fat_Pox had a great day in Thurles watching Tipp v Wexford (football), Cork v Wexford (Hurling) and Clare v Limerick (Hurling).
Halcyon days.
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Limerick v Clare hurling qualifier was on afterwards yeah. I left after the Wexford v Cork game I think. A disappointing day in Thurles. The football result was the beginning of the end for that little Golden Period.
2016
Cork vs Limerick football
Cork vs Wexford hurling
Limerick vs Clare hurling
3, 5, 7 in Thurles.
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In the Pillar Caffrey years Dublin used to get stand alone quarter-finals.
That meant the All-Ireland football quarter-finals had one double header, a stand alone Dublin game, with one game left over.
The left over game would be put on the same bill as the first All-Ireland hurling semi-final to make a very attractive double header.
In 2006 this was Laois v Mayo (football quarter-final)/Kilkenny v Clare (hurling semi-final).
2007: Kerry v Monaghan/Waterford v Limerick
2008: Cork v Kildare/Kilkenny v Cork
2009: Meath v Mayo/Kilkenny v Waterford
When Dublin got disembowelled by Kerry in 2009 in a stand alone Bank Holiday Monday quarter-final this practice stopped.
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Good God almighty, thatâs totally insane.
Three fairly woeful standard games too from what I remember
Remember Cork were absolutely useless and thinking they were gone for years, only for them to win the next two Munster championships.
But also, Davyâs greatest win as Clare manager following the 2013 All-Ireland.
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Riddle me this one.
The 2011 Football Quarter finals.
From what i recall, Dublin v Tyrone and Donegal v Kildare were standalone Saturday night lights games?
Yeah, Clare beat Limerick in the hurling but it was a very poor standard. Limerick had a mini fightback to close the gap, Byrnes scored a few nice points from distance but Clare were always comfortable. But were no great shakes.
Limerick didnât really get close to Cork in the football but, again, were unimpressive in victory.
Wexford-Cork was a bit more exciting if still a poor standard. Lee Chin was excellent.
Chin played football that day, if I recall correctly. We werenât up to much in either hurling or football back thenâŚand not much has changed in truth.
Join CĂĄirde Loch Garman. 
Open to correction on this but I think there may have been a replay in the qualifiers which pushed one of the pathways back.
Saturday July 30th saw an attractive double bill of Tyrone pulverising Roscommon in a Round 4 qualifier followed by Donegal squeaking past Kildare in that appallingly epic quarter-final.
Sunday July 31st had an enticing double header in which Kerry strolled past Limerick and no hopers Mayo stunned Cork.
Saturday August 6th was the stand alone Dublin v Tyrone quarter-final.
I must have a check on this.
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The West Limerick double header. That was a cracker of a day. The Monaghan crowd were baying for blood they nearly had them. Place was electric and then Limerick v Waterford was one of the greatest most mental games of all time
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And we should have won the AI that year ffs!
@peddlerscross it was an Armagh v Wicklow replay in Round 2 of the qualifiers on July 9th which pushed the whole schedule back. The qualifiers from Round 2 up as far as the All-Ireland quarter-finals were played on successive weekends.
Armagh came through in the replay against Wicklow, then lost to Tyrone who beat Roscommon before losing to Dublin.
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