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Replying To yew_tree:  "Will you ever stop with the childish replies. Dubs still more likely to win Sam than ourselves."
Lol

S1234 (Mayo) - Posts: 729 - 25/01/2026 19:12:07    2653149

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Replying To eddieSize5Balls:  "Won't be Mayo either. Spoofers"
Well only 1 team can win it.

richiepmurphy (Kilkenny) - Posts: 50 - 25/01/2026 21:18:35    2653193

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Bad loss for Cavan away to the beaten Munster semi finalists. They'll want to be getting better results than that.

legendzxix (Kerry) - Posts: 9387 - 26/01/2026 17:57:37    2653417

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Replying To legendzxix:  "Bad loss for Cavan away to the beaten Munster semi finalists. They'll want to be getting better results than that."
Why do you rate Cavan so highly? Just curious? They're a good solid team but hardly top tier material?

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 18150 - 26/01/2026 20:19:50    2653438

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Replying To legendzxix:  "Bad loss for Cavan away to the beaten Munster semi finalists. They'll want to be getting better results than that."
LOL

S1234 (Mayo) - Posts: 729 - 26/01/2026 23:05:45    2653463

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Replying To Viking66:  "Why do you rate Cavan so highly? Just curious? They're a good solid team but hardly top tier material?"
Cavan showed in Castlebar what they are capable of. They derailed Mayo's All Ireland push.

legendzxix (Kerry) - Posts: 9387 - 27/01/2026 11:13:55    2653508

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Replying To Viking66:  "Why do you rate Cavan so highly? Just curious? They're a good solid team but hardly top tier material?"
I read that post more as a jab at Cork tbh. The fact it was a semi final is completely irrelevant while Munster have the ridiculous open draw for their 6 team (2 competitive ones) championship

Sweetspot (Kildare) - Posts: 353 - 27/01/2026 11:28:44    2653510

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Replying To legendzxix:  "Cavan showed in Castlebar what they are capable of. They derailed Mayo's All Ireland push."
Cork drew with Kerry in the MS championship and Kerry won All Ireland so Cork would have a higher ranking I would think. Stop with your nonsense always making other teams favourites .Its becoming tiresome and very juvenile tbh.

gaa.88 (Kerry) - Posts: 51 - 27/01/2026 12:25:13    2653524

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Replying To legendzxix:  "Cavan showed in Castlebar what they are capable of. They derailed Mayo's All Ireland push."
Sorry but that post makes me even more curious. You thought Mayo were making an AI push last year?

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 18150 - 27/01/2026 15:52:14    2653576

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Replying To Viking66:  "Sorry but that post makes me even more curious. You thought Mayo were making an AI push last year?"
I predicted Cavan causing problems in Castlebar but I wasn't writing off Mayo. Mayo had an impressive win against Tyrone. They were only squeezed out by Donegal. There wasn't much between Galway and Mayo in the Connacht final either. All counties suffered a bad loss last year.
With the double eliminator this year - you won't be depending on the results of another game. Two of Armagh, Tyrone and Donegal will be away to a provincial finalist. Top teams could clash in Round 2B or Round 3 meaning a top 7 or 8 contender falling before the quarter finals. The "blunt instrument" championship Burns was talking about.

legendzxix (Kerry) - Posts: 9387 - 27/01/2026 16:25:41    2653585

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Replying To legendzxix:  "I predicted Cavan causing problems in Castlebar but I wasn't writing off Mayo. Mayo had an impressive win against Tyrone. They were only squeezed out by Donegal. There wasn't much between Galway and Mayo in the Connacht final either. All counties suffered a bad loss last year.
With the double eliminator this year - you won't be depending on the results of another game. Two of Armagh, Tyrone and Donegal will be away to a provincial finalist. Top teams could clash in Round 2B or Round 3 meaning a top 7 or 8 contender falling before the quarter finals. The "blunt instrument" championship Burns was talking about."
You are just pure anti mayo amd having an old dig at Cork there . We were well off it last year .

S1234 (Mayo) - Posts: 729 - 27/01/2026 16:58:36    2653597

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Going a bit off topic here but is it just me or the TV schedule and the schedule of games in general this weekend really poor? Especially given it's a Bank Holiday weekend.

We once again have a top heavy Football TV schedule and even within that one of the glamour fixture of the weekend in Mayo vs Dublin isn't able to streamed/televised anywhere. I honestly think it's a joke and pathetic that other than the games on BBC NI iplayer, there are no games on GAA+. The whole purpose of GAA+ should be to show additional games (like the ifollow for the EFL in England) and not just Sky's old package from the Championship.

No disrespect intended but why is Cavan vs Meath or just a Division 2 Football on a hurling and football double-header weekend your headline Sunday game (say we take the 3:45 game on TG4 as the equal of Sky Sports with the 4:30 Premier League on a Sunday).

As I have made reference too already, it's a bank holiday weekend and yet the GAA have sandwiched all games for Saturday and Sunday and some many interesting games untelevised or streamed.

I get it's not a bank holiday in the north and unfair to put hurling games on the BH Monday with games the following weekend, but some Football games could be the BH Monday with a break weekend coming. Cavan v Meath or Kildare vs Offaly would be prime games to put on BH Monday being neighbours or better yet play on Friday night and free up the TV schedule more. I think on hurling and football double-header weekend, there should be a night game between neighbouring counties.

And the schedule should have been better organised this weekend to have ensured there would be a ground with floodlights in Division 1 Football or Division 1A Hurling to have the 3:45pm on Sunday. For example given Limerick had a bye last weekend, could the GAA have not fixed their game to be at home instead of away and have that as the 3:45pm game and make it a double header with the Footballers instead of having them in Rathkeale on Saturday.

GerBo (Roscommon) - Posts: 86 - 27/01/2026 17:54:17    2653610

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Replying To S1234:  "You are just pure anti mayo amd having an old dig at Cork there . We were well off it last year ."
You know your own county. From what I've seen - write Mayo off at your peril.

legendzxix (Kerry) - Posts: 9387 - 27/01/2026 18:10:02    2653613

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