Gaa 2013

Already Monaghan have lost the Ulster final and are ploughing through the qualifiers :rolleyes:
I can't remember the last time Donegal beat Monaghan in the championship. I don't know what voodoo we have but Donegal are just powerless when faced with it.


Last week I listened to the last 10 minutes of Roscommon v Tyrone on Shannonside, the commentator, a Spike Milligan on acid, kept shouting that 'Roscommon are dying with their boots on' ..... 'Roscommon are dying with their boots on' ...... 'Roscommon are dying with their boots on' with the odd reference to putting the tractor pedal to the floor.
In between those shouts of defiance, I gathered that Roscommon were coughing up possession, missing point chances and giving away fouls.

The 6 "big" teams left in the last 12 and more than likely they will be in the last 8 .... season getting serious the first weekend in August!

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Originally Posted by BonnieShels

AS it stands I can see the following happen:

Galway v Armagh
Wexford v Laois
Kildare v Tyrone
Derry v Cavan

Armagh v Cork
Wexford v Monaghan
Tyrone v Meath
Derry v London

QF1: Armagh v Kerry
QF2: Wexford v Dublin
QF3: Tyrone v Donegal
QF4: Derry v Mayo

SF1: Mayo v Donegal
SF2: Dublin v Armagh

F: Dublin v Mayo

W: Dublin

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Three of the 4th round wrong Armagh, Wexford and Derry - you need lessons :)

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Originally Posted by swinfordfc

Three of the 4th round wrong Armagh, Wexford and Derry - you need lessons :)

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Unbelievable set of results yesterday. Let's re-evaluate...

EDIT: What's the point? Clearly this is a mental Championship.

I give up.

Monaghan were brilliant. Donegal look knackered.

We are the champions.
Triple crown actually, minor and ladies senior cups already in the creaky, rust infected cabinet.

This is going to be fun - should Donegal, Cork and Tyrone come through next weekend, there is going to be some Q Finals now. I have to admit the big '6' is now a 7! ...... Fair play Monaghan .... some physical strength ..... the full forward was class as was the no 7!

Was it just me or did Monaghan look a little too pumped up? Unfair ?

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Originally Posted by swinfordfc

This is going to be fun - should Donegal, Cork and Tyrone come through next weekend, there is going to be some Q Finals now. I have to admit the big '6' is now a 7! ...... Fair play Monaghan .... some physical strength ..... the full forward was class as was the no 7!

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Nr 7 ? The one and only Dessie Mone, sweeper supreme today, intelligent positioning, good blocking, smart tackling, always available to receive the pass and drive forward, he does get upset when his face is touched.

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Originally Posted by geysir

Nr 7 ? The one and only Dessie Mone, sweeper supreme today, intelligent positioning, good blocking, smart tackling, always available to receive the pass and drive forward, he does get upset when his face is touched.

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Inside knowledge there :)

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Originally Posted by Real ale Madrid

Was it just me or did Monaghan look a little too pumped up? Unfair ?

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They Donegalled donegal in fairest - fair play to them .....

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Originally Posted by geysir

Already Monaghan have lost the Ulster final and are ploughing through the qualifiers :rolleyes:
I can't remember the last time Donegal beat Monaghan in the championship. I don't know what voodoo we have but Donegal are just powerless when faced with it.

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Hope you put some money on it...
Good on the Mons. :rolleyes:
Donegal been getting too big for their boots IMO.

Triple header set for Croker next Saturday.

London v Cavan, 3pm
Cork v Galway, 5pm
Meath v Tyrone, 7pm

Cracking day out.

Meanwhile Laois and Donegal will battle it out in Carrick-on-Shannon at 5pm

Donegal were p!sh. I don't watch much GAA these days, but it was simply a superb Monaghan performance against a completely flat and terrible Donegal.

Can't see Monaghan getting much further really, but time will tell. Laois could spring a surprise against Donegal next week unless things dramatically chance for Jim and co.

The hundreds of excuses I'm hearing up here are laughable. Most people blaming the referee, even though I thought the ref handled things very well for the most part.

The big complaint now, is that Carrick-on-shannon holds little more than 9,000 people, and the Donegal county board have come out and said Donegal would fill it alone, and they should change the venue and all this crap.
Most of the bandwagoners are already complaining that Jim McGuinness has lost it..

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Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954

Donegal were p!sh. I don't watch much GAA these days, but it was simply a superb Monaghan performance against a completely flat and terrible Donegal.

Can't see Monaghan getting much further really, but time will tell. Laois could spring a surprise against Donegal next week unless things dramatically chance for Jim and co.

The hundreds of excuses I'm hearing up here are laughable. Most people blaming the referee, even though I thought the ref handled things very well for the most part.

The big complaint now, is that Carrick-on-shannon holds little more than 9,000 people, and the Donegal county board have come out and said Donegal would fill it alone, and they should change the venue and all this crap.
Most of the bandwagoners are already complaining that Jim McGuinness has lost it..

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"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown"

Sat. August 03^rd @ Croke Park:
Monaghan vs Tyrone @ 5pm
Dublin vs Cork @ 7pm.

Sun.August 04^th @ Croke Park :
Kerry vs Cavan @ 2pm.
Mayo vs Donegal @ 4pm.

Looking forward to Sunday.

Hopefully revenge is on the cards for last September.

3 tight games to call & a walkover for Kerry.

Monaghan, Dublin, Kerry, Donegal.

Tyrone, Dublin, Kerry and Mayo

I missed the Tyrone game but heard it was poor, Mayo and the Dubs were very impressive and Kerry only played for half a game again so on that performance they wont threaten Dublin . The old saying " you need to lose one before winning one" might well apply to Mayo who are now favourites to lift Sam this year.

The Dubs in particular looked pristine against a competitive Cork, they're giving good value to their Eur12m sponsors. Donegal have been fatally wounded since the Ulster final, Mayo were all over them. The Monaghan Tyrone game was by far the closest but when Tyrone went 2 points up with 5 minutes to go, you just knew it was curtains, like trying to take a bone away from a pack of hungry rotweillers. For Monaghan, Finlay an important player was way off the pace, Clerkin improved things when he came on in the first half but Tyrone had stolen about 8 points by then, it turned in a game of 'what ifs' for Monaghan.
Kerry had an easy game, they can't be judged on that game, we'll have to wait until they meet the Dubs to see what they're about this year.
Of all the semi finalists, Tyrone look the weakest.

Clearly you've probably seen this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3Ro9f5pmhM

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Originally Posted by junglegym

The old saying " you need to lose one before winning one" might well apply to Mayo who are now favourites to lift Sam this year.

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Or you need to lose six befre you win another...

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Originally Posted by ArdeeBhoy

Clearly you've probably seen this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3Ro9f5pmhM

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I'm guessing that's Mr Brolly's s**t-attack?

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Originally Posted by BonnieShels

Or you need to lose six befre you win another...

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If Mayo don't win this one, then we can say Mayo are the exception to the adage, ...... any adage.

Click on the link Bonnie, not so hard...
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Very little said about Eamon McGee's stamp - as nasty a thing as you'd ever see in GAA. Will he just miss a league match over it? Had Paul Galvin done it, they'd have cleared the schedules on the 9 o'clock news, Morning Ireland, Joe Duffy, every local paper in the country. The powers that be decided that the big talking point was Cavanagh's professional foul in a sport which doesn't have rules about professional fouls. Very cynical foul, but hardly the worst thing a Tyrone footballer ever did???

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Originally Posted by ArdeeBhoy

Click on the link Bonnie, not so hard...
;)

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Can't... In work. I maybe should have mentioned that.

Brolly apologises to Cavanagh: http://thescore.thejournal.ie/joe-br...27402-Aug2013/

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But after a week in which his comments have been dissected by the GAA world, Brolly says he made the call yesterday to apologise for ‘one line’ in the televised tirade.

“I rang Sean yesterday,” Brolly said on TV3′s Ireland AM. “I meant everything that I said, – everything that I said — and you know it is a cancer in the game and it’s destroying the spirit of the game, it’s permeating through to under-age levels and all of that.

“But I spoke to Sean yesterday and apologised to Sean for one line, which I hadn’t realised I said at the time. About ‘you can forget about him as a man’. What I meant obviously was as a man and how he conducts himself on the field. But it’s nothing to do with his private life.”

Brolly said Cavanagh accepted his apology and they moved on to discuss Tyrone’s semi-final opposition.

“We spent half and hour talking about the pros and cons of Mayo,” he said. “But that part of it… I meant everything I said but I didn’t mean to impute anything about his private life. It was most unfair and I appreciated that when I looked at it again so fair is fair and he was very gracious about accepting it.”

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMgI6Yb8_1Q

Was that a good game today or not?

The red was probably deserved but it ended it as a contest.

I love GAA, I love sports. But by god I'm beginning to lose faith in the GAA media. As bad as the football journos in Ireland are, obeying the rule of law from the motherland and all, in GAA it's becoming farcical. I listened to the match on Sunday (build up) on radio 1, watched it via Premier/Setanta on RTE and then listened to radio after. 2 thigns struck me that have been there non-stop this Summer.

1. Referee's ruin games
2. Players looking for hawkeye.

For the 1st point, it's codswallop, this crud of "soft yellow card", no, sorry, a yellow's a yellow. I'm a Dub but Liam Rushe should have gone, but the ref did what ref's are expected to do when they've already sent off a player. He copped out and gave him a yellow. Everything, everything from the media was about (before the match) "I hope the referee doesn't ruin this match and just lets it flow", it's crud and it has no place in sport.

The 2nd point, no, get rid of hawkeye, it's purely for increasing sponsorship and building "excitement", tm odd shaped ball sports. Hurling and football are exciting enough without this nonsense and it purely gives pundits and players more reason to whine.

Cork deserved to win on Sunday, they took their scores, Dublin didn't. But I am fast losing love for the sport when the pundits deliberately sit on the bandwaggon just to stick with the crowd. Groupthink wins again. No wonder FF are back in favour.

The "ref ruined the game" is a constant refrain across sport.

I love Hawkeye. Was it the Leinster final where, after a tight shot, we saw an umpire first reach for the flag, then suddenly change his mind and wave wide? Obviously hadn't a clue and guessed. Guessed wrong, as Hawkeye proved. Think the umpires were shown up twice by the tech in that match?

While Hawkeye hasn't been the difference between a victory or defeat yet, I can't wait for the day that it is. I've seen too many GAA refs and umpires make mistakes.

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Originally Posted by NeverFeltBetter

The "ref ruined the game" is a constant refrain across sport.

I love Hawkeye. Was it the Leinster final where, after a tight shot, we saw an umpire first reach for the flag, then suddenly change his mind and wave wide? Obviously hadn't a clue and guessed. Guessed wrong, as Hawkeye proved. Think the umpires were shown up twice by the tech in that match?

While Hawkeye hasn't been the difference between a victory or defeat yet, I can't wait for the day that it is. I've seen too many GAA refs and umpires make mistakes.

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It has always been a feature, however now it's gotten to an insidious level, especially GAA. They're aping the football boys and it's just so false.

I don't like hawkeye, even in tennis it's a pain and normally the tool of a loser.

In GAA, I think the majority of the time its correcting bad calls, which is unarguably a good thing. It only takes a few seconds and it removes a very irritating aspect of the sport - Umpires not being capable of making such calls. I mean that in a non-acrimonious way. I don't think any person, in that position, would be capable of deciding if a tight shot was in or outside the post, especially with something like a sliotar, which is not only tiny, but mostly the same colour as the post. Hawkeye solves the problem and makes the end result fairer.

I only wish umpires can man up and tell the ref "I don't know" rather than just guess and get shown up 10 seconds later.

I think it was never more exposed than in 2010 when the umpire dithered and tried to tell the cheat, I mean ref, that something was up. Then the ref told him to put up his flag. Hawk eye wouldn't have helped another episode of Meath's cheating DNA, only honesty and "look, it was wrong, so let's just replay it" would have helped. I agree players will push boundaries, but why put the blame on officials - like Loughnane today saying that Pat McEneaney must leave hurling alone. So if it was a hurling man heading up the refs he'd have excused Henry Shefflin's late pull or Liam Rushe's swipe?

I agree fully with you, NFB, that umpires need to take a stand.

Came across this the other day: http://balls.ie/news/international-gaa-match/

I'd never realised that Brittany and Galicia had GAA teams made up (solely?) of Breton and Galician natives (rather than second-generation Irish and ex-pats).

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You might think there’s no such thing as international GAA matches but by God it happens all right. Last weekend Galicia and Brittany faced each other in the second annual match between the two nations.

The Galician community in western Spain took to Gaelic football like ducks to water when Wences Zapata set up a club in A Coruña in 2010 after he fell in love with the sport while holidaying in Ireland. Corunna Breogan‘s popularity led to another football club, ‘Artabros de Oleireos’, being set up last year, and the pick of these two teams travelled together to the Inter-Celtic Festival of Lorient to represent the Galician nation.

The Breton region of France boasts a longer history of Gaelic games, with its first club founded in Brest in 1998. These days there are 11 clubs in Brittany and their best players were chosen to face Galicia, all hoping to avenge last year’s loss.

And that they did – beating the Galicians 3-12 to 1-8 in front of a crowd of over 400. Of course the result isn’t the main story to come out of this match; the obvious popularity of the idea makes us wonder if we might well we see a GAA World Cup in years to come?

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In light of the above discussion on Hawk-Eye, the system has been stood down for today's senior hurling semi-final after it registered a clear point in the preceding minor game as a miss: http://thescore.thejournal.ie/hawkey...facebook_short

It's a bit much to have 2 hurling weekends in a row, can't they play the semi finals on the same weekend and get it over with?

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Originally Posted by DannyInvincible

In light of the above discussion on Hawk-Eye, the system has been stood down for today's senior hurling semi-final after it registered a clear point in the preceding minor game as a miss: http://thescore.thejournal.ie/hawkey...facebook_short

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I was there, I'm not sure what happened, caused a great deal of confusion. I'll wait on the official judgement before passing my own - I would suspect it was just an image error, but who knows? If Hawk-Eye is bugged, or not as reliable as indicated, then I can't defend it.

Edit: Not that I'm outraged or anything. The Galway minors deserved the win, and the ref seemed to help Limerick get as far as ET with that last free outside of the allotted injury time.

The GAA have made a statement saying one of the Hawk-Eye cameras was incorrectly set for football instead of hurling. Human error. Irritating, but its not the systems fault.

Their statement doesn't actually mention whether that means Limerick's "point" should have been awarded or not. I read the Minor team are appealing the result.