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[Aertel220]

Jesus I didn’t realise he’s a brother of Gerry’s, uncle of Helen’s and uncle of Shane and James McEntee. Gerry is a doctor isn’t he? Did Andy exhibit the same academic brains?

[Iggy]

Baffled how Gough singled out 4 Tyrone lads there and only 1 Armagh lad. Seemed like both sides were pulling, dragging and wrestling fairly equally.

[RedHandHuns]

Hes father of Shane and made him captain for the year.
It’s a while since I seen I have seen as big a gobshite involved in management. Constantly blaming refs even when they have been bet out the gate over the years. Wouldn’t do any media duties last week or today I believe, the sore loser. Giving it the big one calling Roscommon players knackers today and when they made jokes back to him about getting sacked he lost the rag altogether and got himself a red.

[Ralphie]

In a club games 2 yellows to each side would suffice

[Aertel220]

Did he play for Meath himself? It’s staggering he wasn’t moved on politely after year 4. Maybe they’re hoping the patience approach works like it did in the Seán Boylan era.

[Tank]

Haven’t seen this yet but I can tell you now it was justified. Tyrone are scum.

[Copper_pipe]

Ah Ref!

[Cheasty]

Looked like Meyler and McGeary were the biggest Tyrone offenders plus the first Armagh guy who decided to get involved with McShane. Meyler could have gone for a tackle after the incident.

[Cheasty]

I think that clip proves the worthwhile nature of this suggestion.

@Cheasty

Television coverage of GAA matches needs to have somebody in the tunnel with a camera mounted to their forehead to catch these tunnel incidents up close for viewing consumption. It would be exhilarating to be right in the middle of one of them on your screen.

[Ashman]

Was there 1 punch thrown ???

[binkybarnes]

You’d miss @Fulvio_From_Aughnacloy around here . He’d be taking on all comers after a row like that

[the_man_himself]

He wouldn’t know which side to support is the only issue

[peddlerscross]

Was Rian O’Neill involved in the brawl?

He caused some outrageous fights in the club championship when he first came on the Crossmaglen team but seems to have matured a little in the past couple of years.

[Heyyoubehindthebushes]

Great to see Ulster football at its finest. Love it

[Lazarus]

Is there a highlights show?

[Biff_Egan]

9.30 RTE 2

[Lazarus]

[StoneCold]

Always great when this clip is rolled out.

Darragh Craig

[Tank]

Complete gimp of a ref.

[Cheasty]

@Cheasty

Association football dominates and can sustain interesting podcasts because it has soap opera.

GAA largely doesn’t. Whatever soap opera exists in GAA is largely confined to Gaelic football - as nobody recognises any hurling players anymore because they wear helmets - and it is created by chaos and absurdity, which the GAA wants to abolish in favour of bland rationality. Chaos and absurdity are much under valued qualities. They provide fodder for heated discussion, and if you don’t have fodder for heated discussion, you have nothing. People say they don’t want chaos and absurdity, but they in fact desperately desire it.

Good examples of chaos and absurdity in Gaelic football in recent years were the Tiernan McCann dive, the Dermo Connolly suspension/unsuspension/suspense saga, Brolly v CavanaghGate, the furious arguing about the venue for the 2014 Kerry v Mayo replay, the Tyrone Covid saga, and Sluddengate.

Unfair sendings off, unfair non-sendings off, illegal goals, unfairly ruled out goals, all these are discussion fodder.

These are marketing tools for a sport in and of themselves and without them you have essentially nothing to discuss.

Armagh, Tyrone and David Gough have DELIVERED the chaos and absurdity that makes for BOX OFFICE discussion fodder for any aspiring plodcasters out there and for the general public.

Tremendous marketing and promotion for the GAA.