Gaa 2012

I'm glad Dublin wont be in the final, nothing personal but they are ugly and without the elegance of the Brogans in evidence, they are short of class.
It should also be mentioned that Mayo were cynical in the extreme, deliberately dragging down players with rugby tackles, with absolutely no connection the game of gaelic football, how that type of thing is not a red card is beyond me. In the end it wasn't football that got Mayo through, it was crude cynicism that kept the Dubs from steamrolling them.

That game was a far cry away from the football spectacle of the Donegal Cork semi final which was played to the end in the best spirit of the game. I just don't see anything other than a resounding win for Donegal in the final.

Mayo being the better team for the first 55 minutes was what won em the game Geysir.

I'm delighted Mayo have finally dropped the nice guy image and are cynical when they have to be. Kerry were the masters at it and nobody ever said anything.

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Originally Posted by shakermaker1982

Mayo being the better team for the first 55 minutes was what won em the game Geysir.

I'm delighted Mayo have finally dropped the nice guy image and are cynical when they have to be. Kerry were the masters at it and nobody ever said anything.

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If Kerry were Cynical in the last 10 mins of the All Ireland last year, Dublin would not be all ireland champions now - simple as - Mac would never have score that goal last year - Marc O'Shea say as much last Sunday night!

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Originally Posted by swinfordfc

If Kerry were Cynical in the last 10 mins of the All Ireland last year, Dublin would not be all ireland champions now - simple as - Mac would never have score that goal last year - Marc O'Shea say as much last Sunday night!

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Well those last 10 minutes were surreal. Kerry had the game in the bag. 99 times out of 100 a Kerry team from the last 10 years would eat up time on the clock by stopping other teams taking frees quickly, kicking balls away slyly on the touchline and halting the oppositions momentum by fouling players. Why they didn't do that in the final is a mystery to me.

Ah the fabled scramble for tickets for the Hurling is all over the radio. It's the one thing that annoys me about some GAA supporters how there's always this crap going on every year.

I remember last year when I got my tickets for the football final and people were at me about looking out for spares and how did I get them etc.
If you don't know how to get tickets for games you obviously don't go.

I had a Mayo friend onto me about looking out for a ticket for the final... The lad has been to one match in the last 15 years and it was this years replayed league game in McHale against Dublin. And I gave him my tickets for it.

I have my fingers in pies out there for a ticket. And if I get it... It's mine. :-)

Tír Connail abú!

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Originally Posted by BonnieShels

Ah the fabled scramble for tickets for the Hurling is all over the radio. It's the one thing that annoys me about some GAA supporters how there's always this crap going on every year.

I remember last year when I got my tickets for the football final and people were at me about looking out for spares and how did I get them etc.
If you don't know how to get tickets for games you obviously don't go.

I had a Mayo friend onto me about looking out for a ticket for the final... The lad has been to one match in the last 15 years and it was this years replayed league game in McHale against Dublin. And I gave him my tickets for it.

I have my fingers in pies out there for a ticket. And if I get it... It's mine. :-)

Tír Connail abú!

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As a Donegal man living where I am, I don't fully agree with that bit above. Was at most of the championship matches this year, buying our tickets on ticketmaster. Now I am pretty much stuck entering stupid facebook competitions and buying raffle tickets from all the clubs round and about me here, to try and source tickets. I am asking anyone I know involved in clubs but getting nowhere concrete.
There's no point trying people up at home/clubs up at home. Being away for ten years I wouldnt even expect anything from them.
So its a bit unfair to say that if you dont know how to get tickets (for an AI final) you don't go to matches.

PS any spare tickets on foot.ie will be greatly appreciated!!

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Originally Posted by EAFC_rdfl

As a Donegal man living where I am, I don't fully agree with that bit above. Was at most of the championship matches this year, buying our tickets on ticketmaster. Now I am pretty much stuck entering stupid facebook competitions and buying raffle tickets from all the clubs round and about me here, to try and source tickets. I am asking anyone I know involved in clubs but getting nowhere concrete.
There's no point trying people up at home/clubs up at home. Being away for ten years I wouldnt even expect anything from them.
So its a bit unfair to say that if you dont know how to get tickets (for an AI final) you don't go to matches.

PS any spare tickets on foot.ie will be greatly appreciated!!

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For starters as a man who was going to Championship games this year you could have invested in a season ticket?

My jibes at people not knowing where to get tickets is not at the likes of you, it's at those tossers who weasel out of the woodwork every September.

Its' the big one! Come on Galway!

I just can't bet at all. I lay and still lost! AH!!!!

KK for the replay!

Great Match ..... shame we have to wait 3 weeks though for replay!

Well at least there's some football match in the middle.

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Originally Posted by BonnieShels

Well a least there's some football match in the middle.

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You wouldn't think so down here but i'm glad - its the way it should be - hopefully it be quiet till next week!

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You wouldn't think so down here but i'm glad - its the way it should be - hopefully it be quiet till next week!

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In Swinford?

I was trying to work in some smart-ass comment about Julians of Midfield but failed.

have you bagged a ticket yet?

Was onto the GAA today about tickets for the Hurling Replay and they are going through the clubs for the replay. Silly.

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In Swinford?

I was trying to work in some smart-ass comment about Julians of Midfield but failed.

have you bagged a ticket yet?

Was onto the GAA today about tickets for the Hurling Replay and they are going through the clubs for the replay. Silly.

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In Mayo generally ..... Ah Julians ... now that's a blast from the past :)

No ticket yet but early doors!

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In Mayo generally ..... Ah Julians ... now that's a blast from the past :)

No ticket yet but early doors!

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I'll never forget the time driving to Midfield from Galway with a lad from the "town" and being pursued by bikers from just outside Tuam to Midfield. I had no idea there was a bikers festival held in Julian's car park! Mad ****!

It got funnier as I had to break into yer man's gaff as he forgot his keys in Galway!

That went on for a couple of years but doesnt happen now i think!

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Originally Posted by Real ale Madrid

Ye will get more tickets if its Mayo obviously - the ticket distribution is determined by the number of clubs in each county, the more clubs the opponents have the less tickets ye will get. They will be like hen's teeth if the dubs win next Sunday.

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What I tell ya? 14,000 tickets. Donegal county board have been refused more too. Demand is very high in the county, and the GAA won't budge from 14,000.

Doesn't surprise me really. Considering there seems to be about 40,000 tickets being given away over facebook....

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Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954

What I tell ya? 14,000 tickets. Donegal county board have been refused more too. Demand is very high in the county, and the GAA won't budge from 14,000.

Doesn't surprise me really. Considering there seems to be about 40,000 tickets being given away over facebook....

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Demand is always high.

It's the tooth. I would love to know how many we were allocated last year... Alls I know is I got 2! :)

Not sure, but as far as I know, there's something like 20,000 tickets allocated to non-competing counties.

The disgusting thing is, there's tickets being sold online for upwards of 200 and 300 euro.

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Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954

Not sure, but as far as I know, there's something like 20,000 tickets allocated to non-competing counties.

The disgusting thing is, there's tickets being sold online for upwards of 200 and 300 euro.

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Well I've always personally had a face-value or give-away principle when it comes to tickets and I can never condone scalping. EVER!
If I came across a ticket for Sunday (still praying I will) and I couldn't go I would be selling it for what I paid for it which would be no more than 80 bills.
I could have made a killing last year for 2 Lower Cusack tickets. But for what? I would have missed out on my favourite sporting moment of my life. Priceless.

If the tickets have serial numbers or seat numbers, email the GAA and they will be cancelled.

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Well I've always personally had a face-value or give-away principle when it comes to tickets and I can never condone scalping. EVER!
If I came across a ticket for Sunday (still praying I will) and I couldn't go I would be selling it for what I paid for it which would be no more than 80 bills.
I could have made a killing last year for 2 Lower Cusack tickets. But for what? I would have missed out on my favourite sporting moment of my life. Priceless.

If the tickets have serial numbers or seat numbers, email the GAA and they will be cancelled.

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Well if you are selling one on sunday - i gladly buy it off you - i'm not having much luck getting one for final :(

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Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954

The disgusting thing is, there's tickets being sold online for upwards of 200 and 300 euro.

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If you think that's disgusting......

http://www.independent.ie/sport/gael...x-3233312.html

Seen that alright. Absolute disgrace. Makes me glad I haven't bothered my hole going to watch a GAA match in about 5 years. For once, I'll gladly sit and watch on TV rather than pay that sort of money to watch a match.

They don't have to go to the game. Not really much to complain about.
If they had an expensive summer it's up to them to go or not... It's not essential to life.

I wonder would you have a different view if Da Dubs didn't get to play the majority of games at home?

You are right though, they don't have to go but they are fully entitled to complain. The GAA,an amateur association, will take in approx €6m euro's in gate receipts Sunday, yet the board of one of the participants feels the only way they can raise another €60k is through what basically amounts to extortion.

There won't be ticket to be had I know, but there's no harm in highlighting it anyway.

What gets me, is that this 5 euro extra for each ticket is for the Donegal team 'training fund'. Seems they've been raising thousands upon thousands of euro all summer on the team training fund.
How much exactly does it cost to train a team one might ask? There must be over 100,000 euro raised toward the team training fund.

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I wonder would you have a different view if Da Dubs didn't get to play the majority of games at home?

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Oddly, you could not be more wrong there (though I do have some empathy with your statement). I have a pain in my gooch with constantly playing in Croker. I miss my away championship trips.

So Lads,

Who is it going to be? Donegal or Mayo

Strangely hope in one way that it's Mayo so people here will get over themselves.

On the other hand, I do hope it's Donegal so there's actually something to cheer about in the county.

I've yet to see a DL car in Derry that doesn't have a window flag on it, most Donegal shops seem to be selling out of the GAA stuff as soon as they get delivered. It's shocking how expensive the tickets are selling for on fleabay aswell. Bloody chancers! I'm hoping for a Donegal win, think they have a slight edge over Mayo.

Donegal. without a doubt. I thought that this year's performance would be next year for them but I didn't reckon on the run they went on in Ulster.

For football, Donegal. Plus I plain don't like Mayo as a team.

Sunday won't come quick enough.

I'm quite looking forward to this on Sunday. Being a Donegal-man, I think I might just have to hop on the bandwagon and go with Donegal. :)

My mother's from Ballaghaderreen, mind. It's in Roscommon, although the town's GAA team play in the Mayo league as a legacy from pre-Local Government Act 1898 times, so there'll be divided loyalties in the family.

Christ, this town is absolutely mental all day today. Walked out my front door, a mile walk to the town centre, and you'd swear there was a music festival or something on in the town. Crazy.

Something came up yesterday meaning I had to miss the match, had to spend the day going around trying to dodge any word on the score so just after watching it this morning. Great game, Donegal deserved the win. Now, off to bed:D

There were times when I managed to dodge the result for a week in an Ireland qualifier while waiting for the VHS tape to arrive in the post.

That was an awful start by Mayo, criminal to do that in an AI final. It was a thoroughly deserved victory by Donegal, not just on the day but over the whole championship where they consistently put together a string of top level performances. Mayo worked hard in defense (after the 2 goals) and managed to give Donegal their toughest game this year. The considered pre-match opinion was that if Donegal were about level at ht, then the game was theirs. Donegal's 2nd half offensive blitz has blown away every team this year, yesterday was no different, even if Mayo's resistance and fitness was a near match.

What a weekend what a turnaround by Jim taking a side on the decline 19 months ago to the all Ireland!

Donegal v Tyrone

I'll say no more about the draw for 2013.

Jim McGuinness took on a role today within Celtic Football Club as sports psychologist with primarily the younger sides from u-20 down.


He also confirmed he's staying on as Donegal manager.