It’s going to be off the hook, off the chain.
The likes of fingal raven can go on all they like about Eircom League attendances but soccer in Ireland pales into insignificance when two counties like Wexford and Louth can combine to attract nearly 82,000 people to a sold out Croke Park.
The Dublin/Meath replay will hopefully live up to the first day too.
Tyrone’s injury jinx has struck yet again with Tommy McGuigan and Niall Gormley both getting bad injuries in recent club games.
I also think it’s a disgrace that the Cork and Clare players who tangled before the game in Thurles 15 days ago still don’t know their fate. It’s totally unfair to the players themselves, the management team who have to devise tactics for the Waterford game next Sunday without knowing what players will be available or not and their supporters. It seems the GAA has learned nothing from the Matty Forde affair last season.
How difficult would it be to have a ‘Citing Commissioner’ who reports on the previous weekend’s game by Monday lunchtime and announces what players have a case to answer? A disciplinary meeting should be arranged for the Tuesday/Wednesday night and the player would then know their fate within a maximum of 72 hours leaving their manager to go ahead and plan for the next game. The system is a joke as it stands.