The All Ireland Senior Football Championship 2012

Does this bullshit of wristbands and writing words like ‘ruthless’ and ‘set’ on t shirts go on in any other sports?

Cue words would be fairly common I’d say.

http://www.vipbox.tv/watch/62130/1/gaa—donegal-vs-down—ulster-gaa-football-senior-championship-live-stream-online.html

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Cue words would be fairly common I’d say.[/quote]

I’ve never seen them on soccer or rugby teams warming up. I’m sure they must go on in other sports but GAA teams seem to love being really overt about them.

Cork are due to play the winners of this in the semi should both teams get through their quarters, so I’ll be hoping Down pull off the win today.

Benny Coulter bullying the Donegal lad there, literally! :lol:

I wonder if Martin McHugh will have anything to say about his son’s simulation/cheating there. :rolleyes:

Hate seeing lads going down like that after mixing it up. Two of them at it and one decided to “play smart” and go down to win a card.

That was some miss from Thompson. Shocking effort.

Ulster football is an abomination.

This is a very engaging game.

The white foot bit of the referee’s socks extends far too high up the ankle. It’s a common problem among GAA referees and something that should be looked at because it annoys me hugely.

At this pace there’ll be ~13 points.
Bookies still giving 19.5 as over under.

Alot of goal chances being squandered here. Forwards taking the safe option

Jim McGuiness will be outraged at that bout of open end to end football towards the end of the second half.

Half Time: Donegal 1-5 Down 0-7. A flurry of scores in the last 10 minutes and it’s a fairly fascinating game.

That was so strange. 5 points in 30 minutes.
Then 1-3 to 0-4 in 8 minutes.

Do they just get wrecked at the end of the half and chances open up?

Great to see the biggest stage in the GGA serving up a thrilling game.

We’ve played well so far and the scoreline doesn’t reflect our dominance. This is disappointing. Big Ambrose is having a stormer.

I agree. After years of everyone playing the same tactics it’s a completely different game now. It still needs getting used to for those of us who’ve watched and played all our lives but it can be enjoyable too if you just accept the changes. In games like this one every score has to be worked hard for.
It seems everyone’s playing the same tactics now but that will change as the game develops and teams work out how to counter them. Suppose the fact the game is amateur meant it took so long to happen in comparison to the likes of soccer