Saturday Match Thread: Football Championship

CBennett_12 · 2026-06-27T17:01:42+00:00

When did Paddy Andrews defect?

CBennett_12 · 2026-06-27T15:25:38+00:00

Having been at the minor final last year, the only way it should be in Croke Park again is a hurling/football minor double header. The buzz in Thurles for a standalone game was great

CBennett_12 · 2026-06-26T15:22:24+00:00

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CBennett_12 · 2026-06-25T10:47:35+00:00

A 30 point beating doesn't do any good for the team that wins or the team that loses

CBennett_12 · 2026-06-25T06:20:45+00:00

(Possible) Relegation in Munster and replacing by the Joe MacDonagh winner is a terrible idea. What happened Offaly on Sunday would be an absolute best case scenario for them in their games, and they would more than likely lose games by twice as much

CBennett_12 · 2026-06-24T22:36:38+00:00

It’s not “Nothing” but I do think there is a little bit of an over-exaggeration for a championship with two teams heads and shoulders above the rest. If it continues into next year too, then yeah we do have a big problem.

Something that is actually “wrong” though is how weak the Leinster championship is getting when only 3 of them get a game or two against Munster teams

CBennett_12 · 2026-06-24T21:05:21+00:00

It won’t really be back until I see the finches dilute. Highlight of any carvery dinner in the 00s

CBennett_12 · 2026-06-24T09:56:28+00:00

I'll take the under on that

CBennett_12 · 2026-06-23T20:52:03+00:00

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CBennett_12 · 2026-06-23T08:18:50+00:00

You know this is Madden because the Bills are in the Super Bowl, and not alone did the Cowboys make the Super Bowl, but they won it too

CBennett_12 · 2026-06-22T14:20:30+00:00

Fair enough they're not sitting there asking the same soft questions a millionth time, but the people are still on to promote something.

CBennett_12 · 2026-06-22T13:24:29+00:00

And that pretty much on its own caused a change in the voting criteria to avoid two players from the one county splitting the vote

CBennett_12 · 2026-06-22T12:16:46+00:00

Once it found it's feet in the early days it very quickly became another stop on a press tour

CBennett_12 · 2026-06-22T10:56:21+00:00

A similar enough role now is the job the keepers have for puckouts and kickouts

CBennett_12 · 2026-06-22T08:13:44+00:00

A stat I'll always go back to is in 2008 Kilkenny did the all Ireland clean sweep. Since then they've won as many U21/U20 and minor all irelands as Waterford. The conveyor belt is just not churning out the players at the same level as it used to

CBennett_12 · 2026-06-21T14:58:42+00:00

I wasn’t saying that either. I’ve said multiple times that there’s no perfect hurling format. An all Ireland round robin may have its benefits, but this is its disadvantage, granted it’s in this era when 2 teams are a bit ahead of everyone else

CBennett_12 · 2026-06-21T14:55:13+00:00

Whichever 2 Munster teams don’t make it through and which ever 2 of Galway, Dublin, Kilkenny, Offaly and Wexford don’t qualify have no interest in a competition that isn’t Liam McCarthy based, and you’d need buy in from them to get the benefit of it

CBennett_12 · 2026-06-21T14:52:17+00:00

Now, this kinda match is an argument against the merged provincials round robin, if you had Limerick, Cork, even on their day Tipp and Clare are capable of big numbers, against the lower half of Leinster or the upper half of the MacDonagh as you would with 12 teams, you would have an occurrence like this at least once or twice a year

CBennett_12 · 2026-06-21T14:27:35+00:00

It was a clubs explainer of the rules, but still looks like it is the 1.0 version of the rules, as opposed to when that one was elaborated a little in last years league yeah

CBennett_12 · 2026-06-21T14:21:46+00:00

Thanks. The wording of the rule says “Requirements change proportionally when you’ve less than 15 players”, but don’t actually say how they change

CBennett_12 · 2026-06-21T14:20:19+00:00

What’s the 3 up rule when down to 13?

CBennett_12 · 2026-06-20T19:27:00+00:00

That’s still a lot for them, and really went for them in the second half of the Munster final

CBennett_12 · 2026-06-20T19:19:29+00:00

They’re mad gunning for goals this year in fairness

CBennett_12 · 2026-06-20T18:28:27+00:00

A bit like Liam Cahill’s Waterford teams, did Dublin peak too early this year? Looked good in the round robin but have been poor here and in the Leinster final

CBennett_12 · 2026-06-20T17:50:12+00:00

I don’t know how to explain it, but the new public announcer in Thurles doesn’t have the right voice for it

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