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If Meath aren't traditional heavyweights, I really don't know who are tbh! To try and claim otherwise is nonsense of the highest order, which hardly deserves a reply!
But you already know this.......
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If Meath aren't traditional heavyweights, I really don't know who are tbh! To try and claim otherwise is nonsense of the highest order, which hardly deserves a reply!
But you already know this......." Respectfully, can you be less vague about the timeframe and try not to imply anything about what I know or don't in an off-topic fashion? It should be fairly straightforward to not make a comment about me and stick to the topic
Breffni40 (Cavan) - Posts: 12494 - 21/05/2025 21:08:36
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Replying To 32_4_1: "On topic so. Modern football, as in all sports, really developed as we know it in the 40s, 50s etc and progressed. Since then, Meath have never been far away from the top table until recently.
If Meath aren't traditional heavyweights, I really don't know who are tbh! To try and claim otherwise is nonsense of the highest order, which hardly deserves a reply!
But you already know this......." Just on this post merits alone, are you you saying that global sport (tenuously on-topic) only became relevant when Meath began to get good at GAA? Is that coincidental? Convenient? Was Meath GAA inspired by Jesse Owens or somebody?
Everything pre 1940, GAA and otherwise might as well not have existed? Just scrub everything from the record books as irrelevant?
Breffni40 (Cavan) - Posts: 12494 - 22/05/2025 10:41:28
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Replying To Viking66: "You were the lad who started with 70 years, then changed it to around 70 years. Best read the thread back, you are starting to sound a bit like a hypocrite. Respectfully." Yes I accepted that and hence I asked for whatever timeframe was acceptable. I wasn't expecting a more vague timeframe in response to the the fury about how vague mine was.
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Mayo - 2/1 (as high as 4/1) and Kerry 4/9
Mayo who lost to Tyrone and Roscommon, hadn't even been in a quarter final since 2023.
Beaten by Kerry in the league by 16 points, hammered by Kerry in last 2 finals against them.
Kerry in their 5th final in 8 years.
Mayo having failed to win in 12 finals previously.
Has to be the biggest shock of them all - above 1982.
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Replying To tirawleybaron: "Mayo - 2/1 (as high as 4/1) and Kerry 4/9
Mayo who lost to Tyrone and Roscommon, hadn't even been in a quarter final since 2023.
Beaten by Kerry in the league by 16 points, hammered by Kerry in last 2 finals against them.
Kerry in their 5th final in 8 years.
Mayo having failed to win in 12 finals previously.
Has to be the biggest shock of them all - above 1982." As one-off game no. Offaly stopping the 5 in a row will be very hard to top as a shock.
I don't know what the odds were in 1982, but Kerry would have been almost unbackable favourites.
Sunday was a massive shock and I expected Kerry to win, no doubt about it.
Kerry were deservedly strong favourites, but they were quite lucky to get over the line in the semi-final. They were outplayed for a large chunk of that match.
It wasn't a team which was unbeaten for almost 5 years.
As an occasion however, I'd agree it's the biggest, given all the context. A brilliant win for Mayo first and foremost, but for the GAA as a whole in my opinion.
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Replying To tirawleybaron: "Mayo - 2/1 (as high as 4/1) and Kerry 4/9
Mayo who lost to Tyrone and Roscommon, hadn't even been in a quarter final since 2023.
Beaten by Kerry in the league by 16 points, hammered by Kerry in last 2 finals against them.
Kerry in their 5th final in 8 years.
Mayo having failed to win in 12 finals previously.
Has to be the biggest shock of them all - above 1982." It's definitely right up there. Congrats TB, you never had Mayo no1 in your rankings all season. Andy will be very irate!!
I think Kildare were a stiffer price than 4/9 in 1998. I think Galway were available at 3/1 in the week of the game, or maybe that was a 'made for TV' punt, that i recall seeing on the box in some preview or other.
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Replying To Seniorleague: "Fermanagh beating Armagh in 04 has to be the biggest shock ever surely. Certainly close." Wexford beating Armagh in the AIQF in 2008?
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Replying To Viking66: "Wexford beating Armagh in the AIQF in 2008?" Id put Fermanagh ahead of it.
Wexford werent half bad then and Armagh were a shell of the 02-06 team.
Armagh 04 were seen as almost unbeatable.
I aas actually at that game,the Galway Kerry quarter final was the next game.
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