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State of Play in the 2026 All Ireland Gaelic Football Series after Round 2 · On The Edge Sports Podcast

0:15
SPEAKER_00: Hello and welcome back to episode two of our 2026 On the Edge podcast with myself, Brendan Tierney.
0:20
SPEAKER_00: And he's back.
0:21
SPEAKER_00: He braved it after last week's predictions.
0:23
SPEAKER_00: Now, in fairness, Darren, how many checks did you get over the weekend?
0:26
SPEAKER_00: A lot.
0:27
SPEAKER_00: A lot.
0:27
SPEAKER_00: And I'm still getting them, still getting them to be honest, Brendan.
0:29
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
0:30
SPEAKER_00: I think there are multiple pundits out there and analysts.
0:34
SPEAKER_00: Uh did anyone, could anyone have got it right?
0:37
SPEAKER_00: Like it was absolutely crazy.
0:38
SPEAKER_01: Like definitely not the full list of results, but I suppose the main one is obviously what Cork done to Dougal up in Bally Buffet, which I don't think anybody, apart from maybe their themselves in-house, yeah, um, had an inkling that it was going to be.
0:51
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, they seem to be going in confident, and they were missing Callahan.
0:53
SPEAKER_00: And you know what I mean?
0:53
SPEAKER_00: They like as I said, we'll get into them a bit later on, but like even Ster Stephen Sherlock, I was in a reading and say he wasn't there last year, which I didn't realise.
0:59
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
0:59
SPEAKER_00: And like this year, like he's scored an amount of two pointers.
1:03
SPEAKER_00: We'll get into that later on.
1:04
SPEAKER_00: So that was the big shock.
1:05
SPEAKER_00: Nobody's seen that, and now no team is unbeaten.
1:08
SPEAKER_00: No team unbeaten, no team is unbeaten.
1:10
SPEAKER_00: Wide open.
1:11
SPEAKER_00: Is it the most open we've ever seen?
1:14
SPEAKER_01: Oh, definitely.
1:15
SPEAKER_01: It is, yeah.
1:15
SPEAKER_01: Like I don't think anybody could say that anybody has nailed on to be even getting to a semi-final at this stage because of the way that the draw is unfolded now for this weekend ahead.
1:25
SPEAKER_01: And looking at the results from last weekend, everybody is going to say that they're in with a fighting chance of getting silverware at the end of the year.
1:31
SPEAKER_01: Yep.
1:31
SPEAKER_00: So we we we threw you under the bus last week, and one of your predictions was the finalists would be our man carry.
1:38
SPEAKER_00: Unfortunately, that's obviously impossible now because they're playing each other this weekend.
1:43
SPEAKER_00: Rank the 12 teams.
1:44
SPEAKER_00: Start at number 12.
1:46
SPEAKER_01: Oh, well, uh start at number 12.
1:48
SPEAKER_01: So I gotta write these down now so we don't forget them.
1:51
SPEAKER_01: Okay, so um I'll go with Mead.
1:55
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, okay.
1:56
SPEAKER_01: 12.
1:56
SPEAKER_01: Um, Dublin.
1:58
SPEAKER_01: Ooh, controversial, okay.
2:00
SPEAKER_01: Uh go sneak in there, Mayo.
2:03
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
2:04
SPEAKER_01: No, and the pop of jerks and the boys won't be too happy with you.
2:07
SPEAKER_01: Yes.
2:07
SPEAKER_01: Um I will go on to number nine.
2:10
SPEAKER_01: Push to Westmead.
2:14
SPEAKER_01: Monaghan.
2:17
SPEAKER_00: And Loud.
2:21
SPEAKER_00: Right, so that's your from 12 down to 7.
2:23
SPEAKER_00: Okay, the top six then.
2:25
SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna go with Cork.
2:29
SPEAKER_01: Tyrone?
2:30
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, they're they're sneaking up, aren't they?
2:32
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
2:33
SPEAKER_00: Donegal.
2:36
SPEAKER_01: Your own home county in Galway.
2:39
SPEAKER_00: Galway, yeah.
2:39
SPEAKER_01: We'll get to them later on as well.
2:40
SPEAKER_01: I was very impressed at the weekend.
2:41
SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna have to stick my colours to the mast here with our mat sticking in at number two and the kingdom at number one.
2:50
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, they're just cooking again, aren't they?
2:52
SPEAKER_00: Just coming back nicely.
2:53
SPEAKER_00: But yeah, I think like I'm just looking at your list there.
2:57
SPEAKER_00: Um, could people argue like Mayo fans might be saying, look, we we we've been starting to get a bit of a run going?
3:04
SPEAKER_00: I know they and I mean it was kind of last-minute drama as usual.
3:08
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
3:08
SPEAKER_00: So they could argue they could be up there a bit more.
3:10
SPEAKER_00: But yeah, like Corkerfly and Tyrone are ticking along.
3:13
SPEAKER_00: We talked about them last week.
3:13
SPEAKER_00: Like, they are they kind of a deformed team in one sense.
3:16
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, well, look at the one point loss or win king.
3:18
SPEAKER_01: Got across the line again in a in a really tight match.
3:21
SPEAKER_01: Um, I if if it was Mayo that got across the line, Mayo could be right up where I'm after putting Tyrone, whether it'd be right or wrong.
3:28
SPEAKER_01: But it's the I think the they're in the quarter final now, week's break.
3:32
SPEAKER_00: Uh this is a massive thing we probably can't forget.
3:34
SPEAKER_00: Is that week off will will take a lot because the season's so compressed now between the League and Championship.
3:39
SPEAKER_01: It really is.
3:39
SPEAKER_01: Like, and the teams that are playing this week are going to be out then again sh very sharp straight after it.
3:44
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, whereas the teams that won at the weekend are going to get the week's break and a couple of knocks that they can get irred out and get a game plan set up, plus they will get a look at the other teams and see where they're at and see the teams that are coming through this weekend.
3:58
SPEAKER_01: And there's there's no provincial winner in the quarterfinals, no provincial winner in the quarterfinals.
4:02
SPEAKER_01: And as as as we mentioned last week, I had tipped the Rossies to come across against Monaghan.
4:08
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, but uh Monaghan undone them, and these are the joys.
4:12
SPEAKER_01: So Roscoban have out parked the bus for a week.
4:16
SPEAKER_01: Even had an RIP.
4:18
SPEAKER_01: I've seen that.
4:19
SPEAKER_01: I I got that, I got that sent to me along with other messages, but yeah, so the bus is parked up for another year.
4:25
SPEAKER_00: So we've a couple of little chatting points, and then we'll kind of go through each team and kind of what's happened the weekend and what's coming up for them.
4:30
SPEAKER_00: So, like the two points debate.
4:32
SPEAKER_00: I was just looking across the spread of scores.
4:33
SPEAKER_00: Now, from play, uh Galler got one, Donegal, Tyrone Low didn't score any two-pointers from play.
4:38
SPEAKER_00: Samuel Lurray got the most ultimate kind of two-pointer at the end.
4:42
SPEAKER_00: Kerry got four, you would argue that was against you know, maybe a weaker opposition, obviously.
4:46
SPEAKER_00: But like, where are the two-pointers going?
4:48
SPEAKER_00: Do you think it's a tactical change in teams?
4:51
SPEAKER_01: I'd say more so a tactical change on the opposition.
4:54
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
4:55
SPEAKER_01: That they are pressing out.
4:56
SPEAKER_01: I listened to an interview from uh Andy Moore after the game the last, and he was asked about the Monaghan tactics that they used, or that the Mayo tactics they used against Monaghan, yeah.
5:05
SPEAKER_01: And he says that they're very high uh two-point takers, so they had decided to push out, and that's how they conceded a lot of gold chances against Monaghan, which we raised the issue with them last week.
5:16
SPEAKER_01: This week they changed tactics and they went more defensively.
5:20
SPEAKER_01: I think they only conceded one or two maybe goal chances.
5:23
SPEAKER_01: Great save by Jack Limson again, yeah.
5:25
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, on Ethan Jordan there was a great save at a crucial moment in the game as well.
5:30
SPEAKER_01: Um, but again, it's it's I'd say it's the opposition that's nullifying the threat of the two-pointers, they're really pushing out because when the hard the ground hardens up this time of year, the ball travels further, it's an awful lot easier for guys to be kicking two-pointers.
5:46
SPEAKER_01: So if you don't push out on that, two-pointers can be got.
5:48
SPEAKER_01: So I would say it's not that the teams that are attacking are going away from the two-point, they're just opportunities aren't there.
5:55
SPEAKER_00: They're not as not as easy to come by at all.
5:56
SPEAKER_00: I don't think so.
5:57
SPEAKER_00: And as I said, there was only there was only a few happening.
5:59
SPEAKER_00: And I listened to Robert Finnerty on a podcast, and he was saying, if you go out press hard, you're letting in goal.
6:05
SPEAKER_00: So is it kind of it marries across a few teams saying the same idea?
6:07
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I'd say a lot of people are all singing off the same hymn sheet in relation to that, you know.
6:11
SPEAKER_00: And we mentioned earlier on, but I just seen the stats, Stephen Sherlock for Cork, he's got eight two-pointers.
6:17
SPEAKER_00: Now, and I'm pretty sure these are from play.
6:18
SPEAKER_00: I'm open to correction on that.
6:20
SPEAKER_00: Uh, in the last two games himself.
6:22
SPEAKER_00: And he has scored in the last 18 months 55 two-pointers.
6:27
SPEAKER_00: Phenomenal.
6:27
SPEAKER_00: Now, this was in a paper, the Irish Examiner, and your man rightly says, I'm pretty sure that's more or less accurate.
6:31
SPEAKER_00: Like so he's back this year, and I forgot that he wasn't there last year.
6:35
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, look at he was kind of in and out of the team over a couple of seasons.
6:38
SPEAKER_01: He was back at the start of the championship there.
6:40
SPEAKER_01: There was a kind of a it was a toss-up between himself and Brian Hurley to see who was going to start because they're both very similar players, but I think what Sherlock, the way that he's kicking the ball at the moment, is just like it's it's outrageous what he's doing.
6:52
SPEAKER_01: Like even against Kerry and the Monster finally kicked a sideline ball over the bar, which was an outrageous score, which wasn't a two-pointer, which could lead to the debate: should a sideline ball be a two-pointer?
7:05
SPEAKER_01: You know, because they're very there's not too many two-pointers kicked or sideline.
7:08
SPEAKER_01: They're a great spectacle and they're great crowd raisers, so you should be encouraged in that kind of positive.
7:12
SPEAKER_01: If you think back to Jack McCarron's one for Monhan, which was a clinker, which was a two-pointer.
7:17
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
7:17
SPEAKER_01: Do you know what I mean?
7:18
SPEAKER_01: But but Sherlock, yeah, his his just his kicking is phenomenal.
7:21
SPEAKER_01: Like them stats are off the charts, yeah.
7:22
SPEAKER_01: To be able to do that, and look at and the proof is in the pudding, he's getting caught across the line.
7:27
SPEAKER_01: They're sitting pretty in a quarter final now and they're awaiting the outcome of this weekend.
7:31
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
7:31
SPEAKER_00: No, no, I mean, and no one will want to face them now.
7:33
SPEAKER_00: No, you know, they've they've shown like against 14 men against me, that would and like me, the Frank in that form as well, after beating Derry three years.
7:39
SPEAKER_01: So like and if you touch back to Sherlock there just on his there was that the the two-pointer that won the game for them against Donegal.
7:47
SPEAKER_01: He had the cojones to step up and take it because it was actually a one-pointer for I think a bit of back chat from Brendan McCall ball was brought forward, and he decided to bring it back out for the two-pointer.
7:58
SPEAKER_01: A one would have done him at the time, yeah, it still would have put them into the lead, but he kicked the two-pointer, and Donegal couldn't get their two-pointer.
8:04
SPEAKER_01: They ended up getting a one, so it led to Cork winning the game by a point.
8:08
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so it just shows that he's right up there.
8:10
SPEAKER_01: Self-confidence is huge at the moment.
8:12
SPEAKER_01: But when you're kicking like that and your stats back it up, like he's well able to do it, you know.
8:17
SPEAKER_00: We were we were laughing at you know your predictions and anyone else's predictions the weekend, but the merry-go-rounds, as they call them.
8:22
SPEAKER_00: So Cork, you know, got bet fairly easily by Kerry.
8:25
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, monster final, yeah.
8:26
SPEAKER_00: Then Dunny Gaulle got down and hammer Kerry, yeah, and then Cork go up away from home and beat Dunny Gall.
8:33
SPEAKER_00: Like it is the most it's brilliant.
8:35
SPEAKER_00: It is a bonkers championship.
8:37
SPEAKER_00: And then the other merry-go-round is Mayo.
8:38
SPEAKER_00: Mayo got hammered by Ross Common and then uh Bet Monahan.
8:42
SPEAKER_00: Bet Monahan and Monahan kind of walked over Ross Common a bit at the weekend, like they really did, yeah.
8:47
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so there's like our teams just learning from games, like you said.
8:50
SPEAKER_00: Andy Moore is like learning and go, okay, we now know them.
8:53
SPEAKER_00: I think I suppose the big thing is who's shown their hand fully all year.
8:56
SPEAKER_00: Like, did Donegal show to early the league final, maybe?
8:58
SPEAKER_01: You know, yeah, quite possibly, like, or even or even against Kerry in the first round that they really wanted to win that game and nail down a marker.
9:05
SPEAKER_01: Did they put in a huge amount of energy?
9:07
SPEAKER_01: I would say they did.
9:08
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, have they got enough energy left to come back?
9:11
SPEAKER_01: I would say that's up for debate also to go the whole way.
9:15
SPEAKER_01: But yeah, it's it's like timing your run, showing your hand.
9:19
SPEAKER_01: It's like one of these things, like who's who's shown enough for the opposition to learn more from?
9:24
SPEAKER_00: Isn't that the mad thing?
9:25
SPEAKER_00: Like, because if you ask me, I mean you might disagree, but I think Kerry and Gallway, maybe less so, have a higher ceiling to go.
9:32
SPEAKER_00: I gotta have Matthew Thompson to come back.
9:34
SPEAKER_00: I know Matthew or uh Finerty and uh McDade, they were very doubtful for the weekend.
9:40
SPEAKER_00: Like and McDade maybe didn't get into the stride as much.
9:42
SPEAKER_00: And yeah, Finnerty still got three points, but he just wasn't cooking as much.
9:45
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so like those Chavelas maybe with a week's break now.
9:47
SPEAKER_00: Of course.
9:48
SPEAKER_00: Thompson potentially back, and I'm not being the uptimacy Gallman here, but like you're kind of going, oh, God's a chance.
9:52
SPEAKER_00: Where's Kerry?
9:53
SPEAKER_00: The more and more players to come back.
9:54
SPEAKER_00: Like, is there anyone else like missing?
9:56
SPEAKER_00: Don't he goal, Armad that I don't know where they're doing.
9:58
SPEAKER_00: I think they're missing a mountain.
9:59
SPEAKER_01: Well, like I suppose one of the things we touched on last week was the rotation of goalkeepers in certain teams, and I had mentioned the fact that Armah had chopped and changed their keeper on a couple of occasions.
10:11
SPEAKER_01: Now I think their hand was played, was forced last weekend that Blaine Hughes got injured, and Ethan Rafferty had to play.
10:17
SPEAKER_01: Now he was just very unlucky with the ball that he dropped in.
10:20
SPEAKER_01: I think we'll touch on that later on.
10:22
SPEAKER_01: But I don't think Blaine Hughes is there for this weekend either.
10:25
SPEAKER_01: I heard Stephen Campbell today saying that in a podcast that he wasn't togged at all, apparently.
10:29
SPEAKER_01: So he said I'd be surprised.
10:31
SPEAKER_01: And again, up in Dunegal, uh Sean Patton got into the starting lineup against Cork at the weekend.
10:36
SPEAKER_01: Um Gavin Mulrini had played all the season through throughout the league and the championship.
10:40
SPEAKER_01: Now, don't get me wrong, Sean Patton is unbelievable.
10:43
SPEAKER_01: Right, but his his kick out is right up there with the guys that we mentioned last week with Began and Connor Carroll, and even the likes of Niall Morgan, like he really showed what he can do last weekend.
10:53
SPEAKER_01: But again, it's the guys out the field adjusting to the keeper, and as I said, the trainer pitch is okay doing it, but it's when you get into the game situation that the right red heat of the battle, like you know.
11:05
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
11:06
SPEAKER_00: The the other thing I noticed as well is uh the scoring spread amongst players.
11:10
SPEAKER_00: Like, I mean, Armad 11 scores, mead and Westmead 10, Galway, 9, Lau the eight, like and we were going back to trying to snuff out the danger.
11:17
SPEAKER_00: So teams are going, we can't just have one or two people, yeah.
11:20
SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
11:21
SPEAKER_00: So this has obviously been drilled in as well.
11:22
SPEAKER_01: It definitely spread the scores.
11:24
SPEAKER_01: You have to get guys chipping in, yeah, right.
11:26
SPEAKER_01: And the likes of that, like it's the likes of them teams that are that are thriving at the moment because as we say, you can mark one or two top forwards, one or two top defenders can mark one or two top forwards if you have a third one coming in, like we mentioned the Goldwith situation with the likes of Walsh and with the likes of Finerty.
11:43
SPEAKER_01: Matty Tierney stepped up at the weekend, kicked one, two or one three.
11:47
SPEAKER_01: You mentioned Thompson to come back into the team.
11:50
SPEAKER_01: You have Comer coming off the bench.
11:52
SPEAKER_00: Uh he didn't score, but he won some amazing balls.
11:55
SPEAKER_01: I listened to what PJ was saying and after the game, and I think he's resigned to the fact that Comer is an impact sub.
12:01
SPEAKER_01: I think he said he's 30 minutes in him.
12:02
SPEAKER_01: That's right.
12:03
SPEAKER_01: Um, 30 minutes for the likes of Damian Comer, I'd imagine it's going to be the last 30 minutes in a game.
12:08
SPEAKER_00: You would think that you don't want to play that card early on.
12:10
SPEAKER_01: You want to see how things are going and then bring it in like that.
12:12
SPEAKER_01: And and the likes of that happening.
12:13
SPEAKER_01: So, like if you're a defense, how are you going to mark four or five of them guys?
12:17
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
12:17
SPEAKER_01: Plus, you have the strike runners coming through, the likes of Keen Darcy, and the likes of John Maher, Sean Kelly coming from deep, them guys, it's just it's impossible to mark.
12:25
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
12:26
SPEAKER_01: And if you have a spread of scores, like you mentioned, there are Ma right spread of scores.
12:30
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
12:30
SPEAKER_01: So if Kerry are setting up defensively at the weekend, again, they'll have three or four guys marking their main threats.
12:37
SPEAKER_01: Have Armagh enough guys to step up to the plate and kick the extra scores that they're going to need to get across the line.
12:44
SPEAKER_00: In the top ten scores from play, Armagh have three.
12:46
SPEAKER_00: They're the only team with three.
12:47
SPEAKER_00: You know, so there's another little nugget that I kind of and they've been in some tight games too.
12:50
SPEAKER_00: So you know, you're just trying to find markers like where where is this, you know, where's the difference?
12:54
SPEAKER_00: And like Westmead, uh so many names, Brandon Kelly, he's the top score from play in the championship, and he only got two points.
13:00
SPEAKER_00: So you kind of go, well, well done, Galway.
13:02
SPEAKER_00: But like, yeah, as we said, there was half backs, there was midfielders coming up, allowed the two wing backs, or if number five and six was it that got one, three between them, or something like that.
13:11
SPEAKER_00: Like, you know what I mean?
13:12
SPEAKER_00: So it is, it's but it makes the game so brilliant now.
13:15
SPEAKER_00: Like, you know, it's a game of chess, like no other.
13:17
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it is, and and it's that middle third, it's that 11 on 11.
13:21
SPEAKER_01: It's just the the hard runners going coming through from there.
13:24
SPEAKER_01: Like, yeah, like you've direct runners coming.
13:25
SPEAKER_01: You take one guy out of the game, they have another guy coming.
13:27
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so it's just very different from the game.
13:29
SPEAKER_00: So good at that, especially.
13:30
SPEAKER_00: But then again, everyone's watching each other.
13:33
SPEAKER_00: Um, we're gonna move on to the the team, so we can have a little chat about what happened to them and maybe what's what's coming up for them.
13:37
SPEAKER_00: So Tyrone, as I said, the one-point king, sometimes they lose by a point, they lost to our Ma by point this year, but now they've won the next few games, like especially Cruce ones, by a point.
13:45
SPEAKER_00: Um, and McCurry, yeah, 33.
13:49
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, and it just seems a bit of anger in him.
13:51
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, well, I think um he had come on against Roscommon and he looked very rusty.
13:58
SPEAKER_01: And I'd say he was very disappointed with the way he played against Roscommon, so he was like, if I get another chance, he was making a mark.
14:05
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, because he came on the last day and he just couldn't be touched.
14:09
SPEAKER_01: Left foot, right foot, some of the kicks he got with his right foot down the bottom corner, and again, like he was just it was just one of these things that the first one clicked for him, he kicked the very first one the minute he came on first touch of the ball, second touch of the ball, another point, and he just kicked on from there.
14:25
SPEAKER_00: And not only they're not just simple scores that get a round of applause, they're really lifting the crowd when they're spectacular, and they're killing the other opponents then.
14:31
SPEAKER_00: Like, oh god, he's a few.
14:32
SPEAKER_01: And he's the type of player that like he was giving the fist up to the crowd, yeah, yeah.
14:35
SPEAKER_01: Every time he rises up like that, and that was just him growing in stature.
14:38
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, but yeah, I would say the likes of McCurry, like uh Tyrone at the moment, like they're probably looking at McCurry coming on and doing that.
14:46
SPEAKER_01: I'd say for a long time he has considered himself to be a starter, and when he's not starting, it doesn't sit well with him.
14:52
SPEAKER_01: So I'd say sit better now with it.
14:54
SPEAKER_01: I'd say he's parked that and realised I can come on and make a real impact here.
14:57
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
14:57
SPEAKER_01: So for the likes of Tyrone, now look at they probably got out of jail a little bit.
15:01
SPEAKER_00: No, I know, and we'll get on to Mayo later.
15:03
SPEAKER_00: Like, I mean, like it's it's like another, you know, they had winnable more than a lot of things.
15:07
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, but but again, Nile Morgan stepped up that two-pointer that he kicked at the end because he had missed one against Armagh in the very first game of the championship, and he said that in his interview afterwards that he was even thinking about that, and he met uh Johnny Sexton.
15:19
SPEAKER_01: He said he had spoken to Johnny Sexton, yeah, and just said uh a couple of nuggets of information like that are crucial.
15:24
SPEAKER_00: But like he's so experienced, like, but I mean, look at you've played more games in goal than most people, and like you're probably always going something else to add, or yeah, you know, just just kind of bring but bring it.
15:33
SPEAKER_00: It was a sweet strike of the ball behind him and was going nowhere else.
15:36
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, minute and a half to go.
15:37
SPEAKER_00: Like, you know, um like McElhome, um, the Canavans, McCurry.
15:43
SPEAKER_00: You know, I know they're not all on the pitch at the same time, yeah, but there's another team.
15:45
SPEAKER_00: We probably forgot that that there's another team with a ceiling.
15:47
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, go up through.
15:49
SPEAKER_01: They are of course, yeah.
15:49
SPEAKER_01: Like there was if McLhome played the last day, Canavan came on, so he came on for the last few minutes, which would lead me to believe that getting another two weeks training under his belt.
15:59
SPEAKER_01: That'll make a big difference this time, it's the time of year.
16:01
SPEAKER_01: Huge, yeah, right.
16:02
SPEAKER_01: I don't think Rory Canavan is in the pecking order at the moment, he must have picked up a bad injury, right?
16:07
SPEAKER_01: But the likes of Matty Donnelly there playing at 14, he's just marshalling the troops and he's taking guys into the game, he's taking a lot of the dogged work that the other guys aren't doing and setting up the scores to the other guys.
16:18
SPEAKER_01: Like, I don't think he got in the score sheet at the weekend.
16:21
SPEAKER_01: But again, I don't think so, yeah.
16:22
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, but again, it's it's just like they have a high ceiling.
16:26
SPEAKER_01: Can they get to where they need to be?
16:27
SPEAKER_01: But they're sitting pretty in the quarterfinal in the same as Cork, and they're watching what's happening this weekend.
16:31
SPEAKER_01: So, you know, it's it's it's a nice place to be for Tyrone at the moment.
16:34
SPEAKER_00: So moving on to my own my own county, Galway.
16:37
SPEAKER_00: Um, like I mean, I'm trying to stay very unbiased here, but like I was I was impressed by it, like they always kept them at arm's length.
16:45
SPEAKER_00: And near the end, like it was like five minutes left, they were like nine points up, and I watched the back like the goal that West Mead got your man took nine steps, bounced seven steps.
16:52
SPEAKER_00: So I kind of like to write that off, going that shouldn't have been a goal.
16:55
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, Shane Walch got a free given against him as well earlier a few minutes later, and I was like, It was daft.
16:59
SPEAKER_00: So even Mark McHugh and fairness said, look, Galway could have got a couple more goals, yeah.
17:02
SPEAKER_00: And that was a good Westmead team who did not play bad, like they didn't collapse and they actually played very well.
17:06
SPEAKER_01: No, what I would say that I would say on that Goldwood kind of flex their muscles, yeah, and they were like, because obviously it was all about Westmead on Sunday.
17:13
SPEAKER_01: Like you've seen the crowds that was down there.
17:15
SPEAKER_01: They I think the stand was full two hours before throwing.
17:18
SPEAKER_01: There was crowds cues in video four hours or something outside, absolutely ridiculous, yeah, crazy scenes.
17:23
SPEAKER_01: But look at that's the bandwagon that Westmead they're on at the moment.
17:40
SPEAKER_01: But Goldwood were like, You're coming into our hometown here, it's our home pitch.
17:44
SPEAKER_01: Let's put down a marker, which they really did, and ten or eleven minutes ago, ten points up.
17:50
SPEAKER_01: They saw it out, they ended up winning in the end by three.
17:54
SPEAKER_01: There was a fisted point towards the end that another fist across and Shane Watch tapped the biggest.
18:03
SPEAKER_01: Like if Wes Meath had won the kick out or the ball from the next kick out and ended up on a goal, I guarantee you there would have been Russians in the middle.
18:09
SPEAKER_01: Sam Mulroye wasn't playing for the Moray.
18:11
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, but I don't think Shane Watch was overly happy about that.
18:13
SPEAKER_00: No, no, he wasn't at the moment.
18:14
SPEAKER_00: Like, in one sense, they were probably well, I don't know how much they watched the clock, and we'll get on to Loud watching the clock in a minute.
18:19
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, but um they there was about ten seconds left, you know, and it's getting very confusing to know because is it the clock in the stadium, or do you have to ask the ref?
18:27
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
18:27
SPEAKER_00: But like Shane McGrath, who took that point, you know, kind of go, look, let's just get this and insurance score to putting three up.
18:35
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, so they can't get a handy two because it's harder to work a goal in two.
18:38
SPEAKER_00: Of course it is, of course, unless you're Samuel right.
18:40
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
18:40
SPEAKER_01: But it was like um Key and Darcy was immense.
18:44
SPEAKER_00: I watched it all back today, and I was making note like he was just you know crazy how much ball he got.
18:49
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and the ground he covered also.
18:51
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, like it's not just that he caught the ball and laid it off, like he was catching the ball and he was turning and he was going.
18:56
SPEAKER_01: Like Shane Watch's delivery from Matthew Tierney's flick goal.
18:59
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, like I've been on right to him.
19:01
SPEAKER_01: It was just perfect.
19:02
SPEAKER_01: Like, and I know Monahan do that except himself, just kick the ball, but do it well.
19:05
SPEAKER_01: And he spun it in and he just left it up there.
19:07
SPEAKER_01: And Tierney got the hand to it, a huge man in there, danger zone.
19:10
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, Conroy chipping in with five points from the middle of the field.
19:14
SPEAKER_00: And like he kept on in the heat, and people will be saying he's 37.
19:18
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I thought you see that, but he's getting up the long those legs, yeah.
19:21
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, he's open to correction there.
19:22
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, but uh like it's nuts like that.
19:24
SPEAKER_00: He can't people go, Oh, he wanted the legs, but in the heat, big pitch, you know what I mean.
19:28
SPEAKER_01: So yeah, like and that's when you get into Crow Park in these places, like you're going to need a panel of players, so they're they're getting there.
19:34
SPEAKER_01: As we mentioned, comer coming on for 30 minutes.
19:36
SPEAKER_01: If you have Thompson coming back on, and he's gonna be a viable option there as well.
19:40
SPEAKER_01: Like Sean Kelly is back to his best again, yeah.
19:43
SPEAKER_01: He really and Keen Hernan.
19:44
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, Keenan and got a great goal, couldn't end up with another one.
19:47
SPEAKER_01: But like Sean Kelly, I suppose, has been plagued with injuries over the last couple of seasons, like between ankles here and there and different bits and pieces, very hard to get a run at game time, you know.
19:57
SPEAKER_01: But he's back right where he should be.
19:59
SPEAKER_01: Like he's one of the top fumblers in the country, really showed it at the weekend.
20:02
SPEAKER_01: Now, and we'll touch on Westmead in a minute, but like Westmead dug in there, but it was like goal were just in a different class, I thought.
20:09
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, well, I mean, I'll take I'll take all the good wins that come, you know what I mean?
20:12
SPEAKER_00: Because it I just was like going, what this is a proper measure of Galway, and they they passed the test, yeah.
20:16
SPEAKER_00: You know, they said they were nine points up, yeah, and then as I said, there was definitely a couple of a goal and up a couple of points that maybe shouldn't have really stood because but like that's gonna happen in two and a fro in of a game anywhere, you know.
20:26
SPEAKER_00: Uh but yeah, no, no, they're they are in a good place and they have a week off.
20:29
SPEAKER_00: And I think we said it last week, like a kind of what you might say, there's a few maybe older statesmen there compared to other teams.
20:34
SPEAKER_00: They definitely didn't need another.
20:35
SPEAKER_00: And Galway have had two home games as well.
20:37
SPEAKER_01: They have, and no hotels, traveling, nothing like that.
20:40
SPEAKER_01: And again, we touched on it with the with the goalkeeper situation in Galwell.
20:42
SPEAKER_01: It seems to be that Gleason is going to be the number one that's three in a row now.
20:45
SPEAKER_00: Two kickouts, but like I think every goalkeeper of the week had made some kick out mistake.
20:48
SPEAKER_00: I just thought he was very calm, very impressive, some really good kickouts as well.
20:52
SPEAKER_00: His range of kicking, like it's going 60, 70 metres, like you know, which is a huge asset to have.
20:56
SPEAKER_00: Uh Loud.
20:57
SPEAKER_00: Yes.
20:58
SPEAKER_00: Uh, their manager said in an interview, he said, like, look, you have to have some bit of structure, but you have to embrace the chaos.
21:03
SPEAKER_00: Embrace the chaos.
21:04
SPEAKER_00: And they did that.
21:06
SPEAKER_00: My god, they did.
21:06
SPEAKER_00: And like it was so funny, we learned about the clock earlier on.
21:09
SPEAKER_00: I like Mulroy didn't know there was a clock until he the re he was asking the ref for something, he said it's over there.
21:15
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
21:16
SPEAKER_01: You know, yeah, I suppose that that that's that's up for debate as well because the guys mentioned it on Tomas O'Shea and Kier McManus on the Sunday game that night, and then in the middle of the the programme, they were actually told that there was actually a clock there, yeah, which could be seen whether everybody could see it or not.
21:31
SPEAKER_01: Uh we don't know, but um yeah, loud just look at they they really dug in there like like Armagh had the game one, they had a goal chance that Connery went soccer style, yeah.
21:44
SPEAKER_00: Falker took a wild shot, and then the last run up the field was so unArmagh-like to just go race up the field, just slow it down.
21:51
SPEAKER_00: I was shocked to say when they went out, and the two loud fellas that just hit him each other.
21:54
SPEAKER_01: I think I think it was like it was it could be down to the chaos of Vinishkeen, you know, the crowd in on top of them.
22:00
SPEAKER_01: Um loud supporters roaring them on, like it's it's a local derby at the at the same day, neighbours playing each other.
22:06
SPEAKER_01: I think it was the first time they played each other in championship, which is a crazy stat, also.
22:10
SPEAKER_01: Like, you know, that's right, that's true.
22:12
SPEAKER_01: Um but again it was like Armageddon's goal from uh kick out that was intercepted, they nearly got another one from a kick out that was intercepted.
22:20
SPEAKER_01: Loud stayed in the game, stayed in the game, and right at the death, you could see that there was only one man that they were looking for.
22:27
SPEAKER_01: I was astounded Armad didn't go just get.
22:29
SPEAKER_01: Him.
22:30
SPEAKER_01: I couldn't believe that they'd stood off him.
22:31
SPEAKER_01: And he like he didn't do an awful lot to lose his marker.
22:35
SPEAKER_01: Um they got the shot off.
22:38
SPEAKER_01: Now look at Rafferty, he just got caught.
22:40
SPEAKER_01: He had taken a couple of steps too far.
22:42
SPEAKER_00: Whether the breeze took it in over his head, it was something really peculiar because it was actually between his hands.
22:47
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it was.
22:47
SPEAKER_01: It wasn't that it was touching his fingertips, he had it between the two hands, and just obviously the celebrations for loud after it.
22:53
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
22:54
SPEAKER_01: Like Horse Devlin, the manager, like he he wears his heart on his sleeve, and he was in, like, and some of the shots he was hitting his old players after the game.
23:02
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
23:02
SPEAKER_01: Do you know?
23:03
SPEAKER_01: And I listened to a couple of the loud players, and like whether they're again, obviously, when you're in-house, you think this of your own management, but they they were actively saying that they have the best management structure in the country.
23:15
SPEAKER_00: Oh, okay.
23:16
SPEAKER_01: So obviously they're not going to say it about anybody else, but it just shows that the players have a huge, huge belief in what the managers are doing or the management are doing, and the management have a huge belief in the players also.
23:26
SPEAKER_01: And like they're stuck in the game.
23:27
SPEAKER_01: Like our man another day could have beaten them six or seven points comfortably, right?
23:32
SPEAKER_01: They didn't.
23:33
SPEAKER_01: And now they're just there they go.
23:35
SPEAKER_00: They're just big players all over the pitch as well.
23:37
SPEAKER_00: Like they're they're they're monsters, they're scorers, and as you said, they're half backs.
23:40
SPEAKER_00: So, like, yeah, and like they've they've laid a few markers now down in a few games.
23:45
SPEAKER_01: There was one particular point that uh Kieran Downey scored in the first half with two dummies, a dummy bounce, followed by a dummy solo, and clipped it over the bar.
23:53
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it's just brilliant to see that.
23:54
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
23:55
SPEAKER_00: Well, I mean, that's what I'm saying.
23:56
SPEAKER_00: This championship keeps on up great moments and memories, and like from Jack McCarron's point to uh you touch back to before these rules came in, there was no space to do that for a forward.
24:05
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, do you know, because he was hitting a blanket defence and he was trying to run through them and get done for overcarrying, but the actual time that there was a small bit of space and he put two Armaged guys away to the side and clipped it over at the end of it.
24:18
SPEAKER_01: You know, it's one of them scores that you remember, like you know, yeah, forever more.
24:21
SPEAKER_00: Like, and if they don't go any further, but again, they now have a week off, they're back to Crow Park.
24:24
SPEAKER_00: They're of course, yeah, and they're not going to fear anybody.
24:26
SPEAKER_00: And I suppose I know they've had some they didn't have a great result earlier in this year, but like over the last few years, they've been creeping up step by step.
24:33
SPEAKER_00: And that's what the manager said.
24:34
SPEAKER_00: He said, like, this takes two to three years to start going.
24:37
SPEAKER_00: We can take out some of these teams like that.
24:39
SPEAKER_00: Definitely, definitely.
24:39
SPEAKER_00: So, well, they haven't taken them out yet, but you know, Kerry might do that for them, and they won't have to meet it again.
24:44
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, um, so that that's the four quarterfinal, I say we've touched on um Dublin.
24:49
SPEAKER_00: Okay, Conn is back, he gets 1-9.
24:52
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, Kavan had a lot of widespread and shots missed.
24:54
SPEAKER_00: Um, like, so where are they?
24:56
SPEAKER_00: Are they flying because Conn's back or are they still dodging in defense?
24:59
SPEAKER_01: I mentioned it last week.
25:00
SPEAKER_01: Uh, and an awful lot of what Dublin do relies on Connor Callan.
25:03
SPEAKER_01: And reason like he's an exceptional footballer, he's one of the best in the country.
25:06
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, like he really, really is.
25:08
SPEAKER_01: And I thought against Loud a couple of weeks ago he's a little bit rusty and he ends up kicking 1-4-1-5.
25:13
SPEAKER_01: He looked really sharp the last day, kicked, I think, ended up with 1-9.
25:17
SPEAKER_01: Um, I get obviously the penalty goal, but he finished that.
25:20
SPEAKER_01: But an awful lot of what Dublin does has to go through, Khan.
25:24
SPEAKER_00: So, like it was say the spread of scores.
25:26
SPEAKER_00: Now, I forget how many scores Dublin had written somewhere, but like maybe that's a team you go, you take him out.
25:31
SPEAKER_01: Well, you I guarantee you Donegal have a game plan for him at the weekend.
25:34
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
25:34
SPEAKER_01: You know, there's no way that he's going to get the space.
25:36
SPEAKER_01: He'll probably get a couple of scores because of the way that the game is structured, but there's no way that they're going to give him that much space, and Donny Gaulle will have something up their sleeves.
25:44
SPEAKER_01: They'll have a man marker that likes a roar to you or somebody like this, yeah, could man mark him and just stick to him and follow him everywhere and anywhere and just not give him the space.
25:52
SPEAKER_01: A couple of the other guys, like for for Dublin, Comfort was back in goals.
25:56
SPEAKER_01: We had mentioned that.
25:57
SPEAKER_01: Sullivan got dropped from the week before, even though he had.
26:00
SPEAKER_00: They got five points off the bench, Pascal came off the bench.
26:02
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, Basquel back into the mix.
26:03
SPEAKER_01: Um, but again, look at Cavan are okay.
26:07
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, but they had a lot of chances against the dubs, which would lead me to believe that Dublin aren't the finished article.
26:13
SPEAKER_01: Jar Brennan back on the sideline.
26:15
SPEAKER_00: Had a little bit of you know of course energy, yeah.
26:17
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, look at he he he and in his interviews you can see that he really really wants them to thrive, and he had mentioned that he wanted the game to be in Pernell Park.
26:26
SPEAKER_01: That seemed to dissipate very quickly.
26:27
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it someone must have showed them the maths.
26:30
SPEAKER_01: It really did, yeah, yeah, yeah.
26:31
SPEAKER_00: Look, I I I think he was probably going, I'll just put a bit of uh a fright back to the G.
26:36
SPEAKER_00: Of course I could do this, but showing a bit of power back again after that.
26:39
SPEAKER_01: Obviously, it's in Croker now.
26:40
SPEAKER_01: But uh yeah.
26:41
SPEAKER_01: Again, look at Dublin, are they thereabouts, but I just don't think I don't think that they're the finished article by any stretch.
26:47
SPEAKER_00: No, I I wouldn't think so.
26:48
SPEAKER_00: And again, as I said, it's those chances, like if you're conceding all those chances against a weaker team, sorry, you know what I mean?
26:54
SPEAKER_00: Because most teams this weekend were conceding chances, but if it's against maybe what you might call a weaker team, uh and like we're moving on to Donny Gall, who they're gonna play each other now this weekend.
27:02
SPEAKER_00: Uh, as we said earlier, like have Donegal peaked?
27:05
SPEAKER_00: Am I right in saying there's no one missing off the top of head of the show?
27:10
SPEAKER_01: I think I think uh one of the O'Donnells didn't start at the weekend.
27:13
SPEAKER_01: Um, but again, that's probably just down to management making the decision because I think he had come on.
27:18
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, um, I think it was Connor.
27:19
SPEAKER_01: Um, but again, have they peaked?
27:23
SPEAKER_01: Did they peak at the wrong time?
27:24
SPEAKER_01: Have they more left in the tank?
27:26
SPEAKER_00: You know, if you're getting into Johnny Goldberg's head, you're going, okay, we played Kerry in the league and hammered them, but we're missing loads.
27:31
SPEAKER_00: Uh, down beat us, yeah.
27:32
SPEAKER_00: Uh, and now Corecraft are beating us.
27:34
SPEAKER_00: Like, that's not two of the top six teams in the country.
27:36
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
27:37
SPEAKER_00: So it has to start getting into your head, and then they go, Well, we bet Kerry away, but hold on now.
27:40
SPEAKER_00: We played with uh against 14 men for a half, you know, and they still had injuries carry.
27:43
SPEAKER_00: So if they meet Kerry again the championship, you think wonder mentally whether they like it.
27:46
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, definitely.
27:48
SPEAKER_01: But again, I suppose look at Jim is the ultimate tactician.
27:52
SPEAKER_01: He will have something designed for the dubs on Sunday.
27:55
SPEAKER_01: Um, but Donegal, they'll be they'll be itching to write the wrongs from last weekend.
27:59
SPEAKER_01: Like uh, I think it was 110 to 5 points up at the start of the second half.
28:03
SPEAKER_01: They will be scratching their heads as to wonder how did they lose the game.
28:07
SPEAKER_01: Uh, they didn't kick any two-pointers.
28:09
SPEAKER_01: Might be open to correct that maybe the kick.
28:11
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, no, I'm pretty sure.
28:12
SPEAKER_01: I'm pretty sure.
28:12
SPEAKER_00: Again, from play now.
28:13
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, there was none for play, anyways.
28:15
SPEAKER_01: Okay, which you know, for Dunny Gall, because they have some big kickers.
28:18
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
28:19
SPEAKER_01: Um, Gallen, I think he had kicked a few points again.
28:22
SPEAKER_01: I think he was taken off.
28:23
SPEAKER_01: Um, is it an SNC decision taken him off?
28:25
SPEAKER_01: He seems to come off in a lot of games.
28:27
SPEAKER_01: That's true.
28:27
SPEAKER_01: Is he not?
28:28
SPEAKER_01: Why is he not finishing out these games if you're kicking four or five points?
28:31
SPEAKER_01: At some stage, you have to realise we got to keep this guy on the pitch.
28:34
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you'd again we don't know, obviously, but yeah, it's an interesting one because he's been pretty okay on farms so far this season.
28:40
SPEAKER_00: But as you said, maybe they know more than we know, anyways.
28:42
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, definitely.
28:43
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, but uh, yeah, I think we both agree that they probably should have enough to beat Dublin.
28:47
SPEAKER_00: You know, but Dublin are probably in a little bit better place they were than two or two weeks ago.
28:50
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, definitely.
28:50
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
28:51
SPEAKER_00: Um Mead.
28:53
SPEAKER_00: Uh again, you know, uh is this another false dawn for them?
28:56
SPEAKER_00: Or they you could say Derry, but Derry away, not an easy fix, but Derry maybe not.
28:59
SPEAKER_01: I I thought that I thought that I had mentioned last week, I thought that the home venue might have got Derry across the line.
29:04
SPEAKER_01: Um, a little bit disappointed by Derry, to be totally honest.
29:07
SPEAKER_01: I thought that they left a lot of scores behind them.
29:10
SPEAKER_01: Their play looked very erratic, they didn't really seem to know what they were going to do when they had the ball in the hand.
29:16
SPEAKER_01: Um, interesting stat from from Derry was a guy, James Sargent, played centre forward.
29:22
SPEAKER_01: He has never played club football at senior level.
29:25
SPEAKER_00: Wow, it's even the under-20s teams.
29:27
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it was he had done his cruciate two years in a row.
29:29
SPEAKER_01: Wow.
29:30
SPEAKER_01: And it was his first start at senior level at either club or county.
29:33
SPEAKER_01: Now he ended up kicking one-two, which is very good.
29:35
SPEAKER_01: He's a bad thing.
29:36
SPEAKER_01: He's he's a great bright hope.
29:37
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, but um, just with Derry, some of their bigger players, like they're just not coming to the boil at the moment.
29:42
SPEAKER_01: Like Ethan Doherty there seems a little bit off, McKinless seems off, losing glass, who was you know a huge player for them.
29:50
SPEAKER_01: Um, he had to go off at half time.
29:52
SPEAKER_01: Uh, Brendan Rogers seems a little bit off.
29:54
SPEAKER_00: You know, it seems to be something void ever since uh Rory left them.
29:58
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, they just seem to be like pining for him for too long.
30:01
SPEAKER_00: And it's either I think they should go we need to give up on this.
30:03
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, well, again, I think uh Horst Devlin had mentioned that, and he was like, unless some of them players walk away from Derry, it's true, actually, yeah.
30:10
SPEAKER_01: Do you know they're they're never going to do anything because we're in the wings of what's happening.
30:15
SPEAKER_01: But touching on Mead, like some of their scores the last day were exceptional, like uh young Condlin there at footing forward, seven points.
30:22
SPEAKER_01: Again, very much like the McCurry mould, left foot, right foot, very hard to mark, very low centre of gravity.
30:28
SPEAKER_01: Um, how you go about marking him, I'd say the only way to go about marking is stop him getting the ball because when he seemed to get the ball the last cutting the supply, yeah, yeah.
30:37
SPEAKER_00: But he's so so uh like so so active like and so yeah, and Big Mac Bride at midfield, like like but they have giants of men all over the field.
30:44
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, they really do.
30:47
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, like Costello, Costello played well the last day.
30:49
SPEAKER_01: Again, he probably hasn't been at the levels of his own that he had set for himself.
30:56
SPEAKER_01: Um, but again, he came into the game late on there.
30:59
SPEAKER_01: Now there was a there was a mark that wasn't given for Derry late on in the game, which had a huge turn point in the game for Mead.
31:06
SPEAKER_01: Uh kick out Derry guy slid, he slid over the sideline.
31:11
SPEAKER_01: Either the linesman or the referee, there's no communication, and they gave the line ball to Mead.
31:15
SPEAKER_01: Meade kicked three in a row then, which was a huge turn-up point to the game.
31:19
SPEAKER_01: Now, I'm not saying Jerry would have won the game or anything like that, but them small margins in a tight game, you know.
31:25
SPEAKER_00: But there was there was a few, just when you're picking up on that, like the few like dodgy points.
31:29
SPEAKER_00: Was it the allowed against our man that won?
31:32
SPEAKER_00: Uh I thought that one of the throne points.
31:34
SPEAKER_00: McCurry's won McCurry's second point.
31:36
SPEAKER_00: It was like, what?
31:37
SPEAKER_00: Uh was it the loud keeper I'm pretty sure just picked the ball up outside the smaller?
31:41
SPEAKER_00: Yes, yeah, yeah.
31:41
SPEAKER_00: After he had dropped it himself, and like even the Sunday game pundits watched it twice and no one said no no one mentioned it.
31:46
SPEAKER_00: I mean, I couldn't be completely uh conclusive, but uh but if it was given against him, nothing you could say about it.
31:51
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and I would have given it and I no one around him can notice.
31:53
SPEAKER_01: And even even them two points that we're talking about, if they've been given it wide, yeah, there there's nobody gonna say anything about it because they were that tight a call, like you know, yeah, yeah, yeah.
32:02
SPEAKER_01: But when you don't when you don't have Hawkeye in these places, it's you know, yeah, you're either gonna have it and use it in every place or you don't have it.
32:10
SPEAKER_00: Not at all, yeah, yeah, yeah.
32:10
SPEAKER_01: And like, can they go down to Castle Bar?
32:12
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, look, it's they're going to Castle Bar with their tails up.
32:15
SPEAKER_00: Mayo cat home just seemed to be not what it was.
32:17
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, they're definitely that again.
32:20
SPEAKER_01: But um Mead won't fear them.
32:22
SPEAKER_01: Like they're no their power, their pace.
32:24
SPEAKER_01: But do you know?
32:26
SPEAKER_01: Um will Mayo have something up their sleeve for them?
32:28
SPEAKER_01: Quite possibly.
32:29
SPEAKER_00: Like, in fairness to Mayo, like they're learning as they go on line, like you know, Darrell Byrne.
32:33
SPEAKER_00: I know Kobe maybe didn't get as many scores as normal, but Rainer who's just Rainer done who's always just solid.
32:36
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
32:37
SPEAKER_00: But like they're gelling a little bit as well.
32:39
SPEAKER_00: Now, well, I suppose we might as well just go on to them now.
32:41
SPEAKER_00: Uh, but like the the hand pass for the goal, like last year losing that point by uh the duny goal defender got his name escapes me.
32:50
SPEAKER_00: It's not Roy, it's the Red Hair guy.
32:53
SPEAKER_00: Got the last minute point done in Hyde Park.
32:55
SPEAKER_00: Kieramore.
32:55
SPEAKER_00: Kier Moore.
32:56
SPEAKER_00: So, like it's this little moment of me.
32:58
SPEAKER_00: Oh, like you know what I mean.
32:59
SPEAKER_00: That hand pass, uh like like that's the it's crucial.
33:02
SPEAKER_01: Like, yeah, yeah.
33:03
SPEAKER_01: That's the difference between the the winners and the bigger teams.
33:05
SPEAKER_01: It is, of course, but this is inter-county level we're talking about.
33:07
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, like if if this happens at an under 15 match at club level, yeah, do you know what I mean?
33:12
SPEAKER_01: Like like the guys on the sideline are tearing their hair out.
33:16
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
33:16
SPEAKER_01: You know, um, it was an open goal.
33:19
SPEAKER_01: Oh after Tommy Conroy scores the goal.
33:21
SPEAKER_00: And Tommy Conroy didn't even seem to get that angry.
33:23
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, like I which also worried me going.
33:25
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I don't know.
33:26
SPEAKER_01: Did they think it was the insurance score?
33:27
SPEAKER_01: Again, we could be harping back to the clock, I was left on the clock at the time, like you know, but when you get through like that, at this level ruthless, at this level of competition, yeah, like you gotta be ruthless.
33:37
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
33:37
SPEAKER_01: And like and no more so than their manager, Andy, like like he was goal hungry back in the day, ever always.
33:44
SPEAKER_01: So I'd say he was would have been drilling it into them.
33:47
SPEAKER_01: I just don't know where he thought that taking the point at that time was the right option.
33:51
SPEAKER_01: When now ra I think it was Raffrey was the Tyrone defender, he kind of let him make up his mind, he didn't fully go to him.
33:57
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, he kind of stuck her twist.
33:59
SPEAKER_01: That's gonna be a little movement, like yeah, you know, and uh whether he was leaving Tommy Connery or whether he was going to Sam Callanan, look at he got into that position, but he fisted over the bar.
34:08
SPEAKER_01: But uh, it was a it was a it was a certain goal.
34:10
SPEAKER_01: I don't think there's any excuse for a certain goal and it's game up.
34:13
SPEAKER_01: Winning of the game, it's game.
34:14
SPEAKER_00: And I get now obviously it just comes to mind there.
34:16
SPEAKER_00: Um one of the Ros Kaman defenders was on about like in a in a chance like that where there's someone coming in on goal and there's a loose player.
34:23
SPEAKER_00: The rule that the goalie Connor Carlos told his defender, like, I will always go to the man at the ball, yeah.
34:27
SPEAKER_00: You stay on him.
34:28
SPEAKER_00: What do you do as goalie?
34:29
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, exactly.
34:29
SPEAKER_00: So that should be just a rule, and then everyone knows that's it.
34:31
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, okay.
34:32
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
34:32
SPEAKER_00: So don't leave your man like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
34:34
SPEAKER_00: Do you know what I mean?
34:35
SPEAKER_00: You've because it's still one-on-one with a goalie, like you're also a defender.
34:38
SPEAKER_01: Give me the chance to save it, give the keeper the chance to save it, or give the defender or the forward the chance to score it.
34:44
SPEAKER_01: Like you know, make them finish it.
34:46
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, because that adds a bit of pressure, like of course it does, because the like that we see loads and loads of tap-in goals at the moment.
34:52
SPEAKER_01: It happens like uh like even the Westmead goal there, hand pass at the back post.
34:56
SPEAKER_01: There's no way you can defend that because you're backtracking and the guy always has the run on you.
35:00
SPEAKER_01: But in them instances, if it's a one-on-one situation or a two-on-one situation, don't leave your man.
35:06
SPEAKER_01: I'd say is the golden rule that's so now young keepers watching in.
35:08
SPEAKER_00: Most keepers are silly.
35:09
SPEAKER_00: That's the rule, no other way around it.
35:12
SPEAKER_00: Was Aiden O'Shea unlucky to to concede a free or silly to make the ref have a decision to make?
35:18
SPEAKER_00: I would say unlucky, to be honest.
35:20
SPEAKER_01: I would say unlucky.
35:21
SPEAKER_01: Like like if McKernan was done for charging on that last play, there's nothing he could say.
35:27
SPEAKER_01: He hands the ball back, and that's it, and you get on with the game.
35:30
SPEAKER_01: And the we I don't think anybody would have said anything about it because it was shoulder charge straight into his.
35:33
SPEAKER_01: He kind of had a high arm as well.
35:36
SPEAKER_01: Straight into his midrift.
35:37
SPEAKER_01: Uh, they got tangled and legs on the ground then.
35:39
SPEAKER_00: No, I bossed it back and I slow-moted like if Aid Noche definitely did not untangle his legs quick, and the ref hadn't blown for the first thing, but that then blew.
35:47
SPEAKER_00: So he gave McKiern the chance to do his lovely dive.
35:49
SPEAKER_00: He did, yeah.
35:49
SPEAKER_00: You know, but like I just think, oh, another little moment, like, where just don't do that.
35:55
SPEAKER_01: I know, and then look at, and then Aid Noche has the chance up the far end of the field, then straight after it, and he goes to hook it over the left shoulder, drops it into the keeper's hands.
36:05
SPEAKER_01: Like, it's just one of these things.
36:07
SPEAKER_01: I'd say he was so annoyed with himself that he had got penalised, whether he gave away the free or not, we'll try to make up for it.
36:13
SPEAKER_01: We'll say he was penalised more so than give away the free.
36:15
SPEAKER_01: I'd say he was trying to make up for it and tried that a little bit too hard.
36:18
SPEAKER_01: And again, there was time on the clock.
36:19
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, there wasn't as if that it was in the last second that he had to had to take that kick.
36:24
SPEAKER_01: There was another play to be taken there.
36:26
SPEAKER_01: So communication on the field let them down a little bit again.
36:30
SPEAKER_01: But look at they're not too bad.
36:33
SPEAKER_00: No, no, from where they were a few weeks back, you know, after the Roscama game.
36:37
SPEAKER_00: But like, as we said, uh and go back before I forget to say, uh Kier McGeini uh said, like, you know, how the the lower teams of the last years are going up.
36:45
SPEAKER_00: He said, like, a number of years ago, everyone was out, or sorry, half the count country was teams were the county teams were out by May or June.
36:52
SPEAKER_00: And then there was like maybe four or five or six teams getting on till you know, whatever August, September.
36:56
SPEAKER_00: So they got all these trainings together.
36:57
SPEAKER_00: I'm sure you've coached teams, oh, the more time you get on the training pitch, you can trill things.
37:01
SPEAKER_00: Of course.
37:01
SPEAKER_00: These guys that kept getting to semis and finals for years, they have this massive advantage where he says now everyone's playing the league at the same time, and more or less some people get an extra couple of weeks in the street.
37:09
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, they do, of course.
37:10
SPEAKER_01: Like, and we mentioned we mentioned like Mayo's forward line last week, like like Kobe.
37:14
SPEAKER_01: Obviously, like he kicked a an unbelievable two-pointer outside in the right.
37:17
SPEAKER_01: So and Ryan O'Dunn, who again was probably uh seven or eight out of ten, which he always is.
37:22
SPEAKER_01: But young Dyra Byrne, who I said was a clinker of a player, like he finished his goal superbly.
37:27
SPEAKER_01: He could have had another goal with his right foot in the first half that he got over the bar, but again, he's a weak he he's a gem in the corner.
37:33
SPEAKER_01: Do you know what I mean?
37:34
SPEAKER_00: They've a lot of good options, and they seem to be clicking.
37:36
SPEAKER_00: And like even if Ryan Dunner doesn't Reiner Dunner, who doesn't score loads in a game, he'd obviously win a ball and feel for ball and he has guys he never high running off.
37:44
SPEAKER_01: No, he definitely doesn't shirk responsibility at all.
37:47
SPEAKER_01: Like you know, so they're not in a bad place, I don't think they are at all, to be honest.
37:50
SPEAKER_01: Um, and they get a home game, which is crucial.
37:53
SPEAKER_00: Like, and I know you said that they're not the team that they were in Castlebar, but in these knockout games, uh you know because the Mayo fans, the last the last home game this year, if I'm right in saying, was uh Ross Common, they got well bet.
38:04
SPEAKER_00: And there was even a big thing about the ticket prices of the crowds weren't in the stand as much.
38:07
SPEAKER_00: Of course, yeah.
38:07
SPEAKER_00: So maybe it'll be interesting to see.
38:09
SPEAKER_01: Will will the Mayo fans kind of come back?
38:10
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, when I say they will, I'd say the Mayo fans are are that loyal that they'll come out in their in their droves at the weekend, you know.
38:16
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so no, it'll be it'll be a dinger of a game.
38:18
SPEAKER_00: Um Monaghan, could you say they're the most underrated team left?
38:23
SPEAKER_00: Well, like it's it's I had uh said that the Rossies would take them.
38:27
SPEAKER_00: Um Monahan won the game comfortably, very comfortably, right?
38:31
SPEAKER_00: And was it as much that Russ did Ross Common just collapse?
38:35
SPEAKER_00: Obviously, missing End of Smith, of course, a huge loss.
38:37
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, like but again, it's just like Monaghan, they were just they were like a team the last day that was like nobody's talking about us.
38:44
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, let's put a marker down here.
38:46
SPEAKER_01: We're in Clonus, yeah, you know, let's let's set our stall out from the start.
38:50
SPEAKER_01: They were very, very strong, very physical, yeah, like huge men all over the field, and then they have two wing backs like that are just coming through there, like McCarthy and Jesse Ward, like and I think they kicked eight or nine points between them, which is massive coming from your half back line.
39:05
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and then you had Jack McCarn being Jack McCarn.
39:08
SPEAKER_00: You know, Stephen O'Hanlon marking um Darahina Darahina, yeah.
39:12
SPEAKER_01: Like we would have there was a but there's a speed, but and and look at it, it's it's it's thinking like we were saying that the opposition teams are watching what the teams are doing coming down the line and they're coming up with a plan in it.
39:22
SPEAKER_01: So, like who would have thought that Stephen O'Hanlon, a speedster forward all his life, would be marking a speedster on the other side of the pitch, nullified his presence to a lot.
39:30
SPEAKER_01: Um, but again, like big Andrew Woods there, a full forward, like like he uh he set up the goal brilliantly for Stephen Mooney.
39:36
SPEAKER_01: Could have been a goal the far side for Roscommon, and within 12 seconds it's a goal down the far side of the pitch, which is a huge that's a six-point swing.
39:44
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, no matter what.
39:45
SPEAKER_00: Psychology was a bit like Gaulage for half time again as me dropped one in there, yeah.
39:48
SPEAKER_01: And again, Rory Begin's kick outs.
39:50
SPEAKER_01: Like there was one kick out.
39:51
SPEAKER_01: I I'm not sure if you've seen it on social media that he disguised to his left-hand side to Connor McCarthy with nobody looking at the play at all.
39:58
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and it was obviously a game plant that they'd come up between themselves.
40:01
SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna be in that space, kick it there, I'll be there, back yourself.
40:05
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you know what I mean.
40:06
SPEAKER_00: And he is such uh such a laser for him.
40:08
SPEAKER_01: Oh my god, like and he like he hooked it, like usually he drills it, but he he hooked it to his left-hand side on on the run, and they end up getting a score down the far side of the field.
40:17
SPEAKER_01: So, again, look at they were full merit for their win.
40:19
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, um, again, another home draw.
40:24
SPEAKER_01: Like coming out of not too many teams come out of Clonas with a win, like you know, against Monhan, like you know, so that's where they're going to be licking their lips with West Mead coming down the tracks.
40:32
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so and they are at home again next week.
40:34
SPEAKER_00: I'm right.
40:35
SPEAKER_00: My fixtures this week, yeah.
40:37
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so they're at home, Westmead.
40:38
SPEAKER_00: Like, and I mean they would probably say, Okay, we could have got a worse draw.
40:40
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, definitely, you know.
40:41
SPEAKER_00: So, and I just wonder will Westmead's legs uh so they move on to them.
40:45
SPEAKER_00: Like, can their legs hold out?
40:47
SPEAKER_00: Like, they still played on to the end against Galway.
40:49
SPEAKER_01: In fairness, like they have some fitness, they have huge energy levels, they really do.
40:53
SPEAKER_01: And again, buoyed by their support, support is nuts, yeah.
40:57
SPEAKER_00: You know, they're the really that's what I said.
40:58
SPEAKER_00: Even about Mayo go back.
40:59
SPEAKER_00: If the big Mayo fan base come back again and Castle Byron has to be like an extra person, an extra man on the field.
41:03
SPEAKER_01: Look at Westmead dug in there against Gaul at the last set.
41:06
SPEAKER_01: Like, I just think that they're nearly running an empty at the moment.
41:10
SPEAKER_01: Like, if you're 10 points down in a championship game and you bring it back, it's it there's a little bit of luck in it.
41:15
SPEAKER_01: Now, I know you mentioned the steps, but other teams are getting away with steps as well.
41:18
SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah, but I mean the score set like that in different games.
41:20
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, they they kept they went up the field to get the score at least.
41:23
SPEAKER_01: But like like I think it is Sam McCartan centre-forward, he Sean Purcell's grandson.
41:29
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's right.
41:29
SPEAKER_01: Am I right in saying that?
41:30
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, which is great.
41:31
SPEAKER_01: There's a pedigree there.
41:32
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, there's pedigree there, like you know, the great Sean Purcil from Galway.
41:35
SPEAKER_01: Um, but again, like they have some great players all over the place.
41:38
SPEAKER_01: Hesson started the last day.
41:40
SPEAKER_01: Now, look at we mentioned Luke Lachlan being away from them.
41:43
SPEAKER_01: He's away now, but I'd say his presence is there.
41:46
SPEAKER_01: I'd say he's talking to the them them forwards.
41:48
SPEAKER_00: Like I wonder, he must be able to feature some point if they keep going.
41:51
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, no, I don't think it's a hamstring now.
41:52
SPEAKER_00: Maybe it was worse, isn't it?
41:53
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I think I think it was surgery on the hamstring.
41:56
SPEAKER_01: Ah, well then also I think it's a season ender.
41:58
SPEAKER_01: But again, look at they are where they are, they're in bonus territory hugely.
42:04
SPEAKER_01: Like, you know, um, they're going to clone us.
42:07
SPEAKER_01: Tough place to go.
42:08
SPEAKER_01: Can they come out of it with a win?
42:09
SPEAKER_01: I'm not so sure.
42:10
SPEAKER_01: Um, again, look at their keeper got caught with a couple of them small short kick outs to the edge of the arc on a couple of occasions.
42:18
SPEAKER_01: Uh, the goal that they conceded to Matty Tierney, like he's he's not an overly big keeper no more than myself.
42:24
SPEAKER_01: I've been in that position before he stickers like survivors or something.
42:28
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, like like in that instance, it was he as well stay in his line and let Tierney try and beat him with a flick to the net.
42:32
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, um, you're caught in no man's land, really.
42:34
SPEAKER_00: You know, but it was just that it's so long to come in, you're kind of going, okay, I have a few seconds here to make a decision.
42:39
SPEAKER_01: You do indeed, yeah.
42:40
SPEAKER_01: But but again, look at their they're they're flying it really.
42:43
SPEAKER_01: Like McHugh has them flying it, he really does.
42:45
SPEAKER_01: Like, you know, they can be proud of what they've done so far.
42:48
SPEAKER_01: I guarantee you that they're not thinking that their season is over in any stretch.
42:50
SPEAKER_01: No, they doesn't they don't emit that kind of vibe at all.
42:53
SPEAKER_01: Def definitely not.
42:54
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I mean, their two midfielders went off, so like obviously, because there's only you know five or six or seven days turnaround, that could be this is when the injuries really can destroy.
43:01
SPEAKER_01: And it's how you recover because there's not an awful lot of training you can do, and you just come up with tactics for the opposition you're playing, and how you get the bodies recovered for the weekend ahead.
43:08
SPEAKER_01: Like, yeah.
43:09
SPEAKER_00: Well, as I said, uh moving on to Armah again.
43:14
SPEAKER_00: My pick, your pick, well, look, they're still there, they're still there again.
43:17
SPEAKER_00: It was obviously just that last minute chaos, you know what I mean?
43:21
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, like look at they were they were one second away from having a week off and being all iron quarter final, yeah.
43:26
SPEAKER_00: And and no one had one of fancy them then.
43:28
SPEAKER_00: At least anyone now, you mean any of the quarterfinals go meeting anyone now when go up look these these these crew are after playing like three weeks in a row for the third week.
43:36
SPEAKER_01: A lot a lot of unarmah stuff that they've done at the weekend.
43:39
SPEAKER_01: Um I I'm not saying for one second they took loud lightly.
43:43
SPEAKER_01: I just think that they just made a few rash decisions that they hadn't been making.
43:47
SPEAKER_01: Now, again, I mentioned it previous the chaos and the small ground.
43:51
SPEAKER_01: I think the bigger the pitch, the better Armagh are.
43:54
SPEAKER_01: So you know, but now they have to go to Clarerne.
43:58
SPEAKER_00: Oh my god, it's going to be some cracker.
44:00
SPEAKER_01: Right, and they have to get a result.
44:01
SPEAKER_01: If it was in the athletic grounds, you'd be saying Jesus Kerry could be out of the championship at the weekend.
44:05
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
44:05
SPEAKER_01: At the moment, you know, Armagh like they're obviously going down there and they have to fight for their lives.
44:12
SPEAKER_01: Last year, if you go back to the championship game they had against Kerry last year, like they they had Kerry's match apart from a ten minute spell, they ended up getting well bet in the end.
44:21
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
44:22
SPEAKER_01: Right?
44:22
SPEAKER_01: But there was a ten minute madness where Armagh could not get their hands on the ball.
44:27
SPEAKER_01: So I would imagine that's not going to happen again.
44:29
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
44:30
SPEAKER_00: You know, there's no way a team, as we think we mentioned last week, they're so well drilled.
44:34
SPEAKER_01: Now, obviously, Ethan Rafferty would have to take a bit of looking after this week.
44:37
SPEAKER_01: Now, I have no doubt that he's the character that'll come back.
44:40
SPEAKER_00: It doesn't strike me as a man that gets too long.
44:42
SPEAKER_01: No, but like losing Blaine Hughes is is a huge loss to them, also.
44:46
SPEAKER_01: Like, because he had made the jersey number one jersey his own.
44:49
SPEAKER_01: Uh Rafferty came in, he made that mistake at the end.
44:52
SPEAKER_01: He had played well up until that, but he's not having the same presence in games now since the rules changed as he was having when it was a 15 or 15 game round the pitch.
45:00
SPEAKER_01: Like, you know.
45:00
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and I think that's where he really came into his own, was because these rules suit me as well.
45:04
SPEAKER_00: He really did since the change then.
45:06
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, again, like Armand, like it's it's just you know, they just left it behind them at the weekend.
45:13
SPEAKER_01: They should be in an all-arn quarterfinal.
45:15
SPEAKER_00: We said there's a few errors near the end that they should have should have.
45:17
SPEAKER_01: You know, and they should have got another goal and wrong options taken.
45:19
SPEAKER_01: But other teams are doing that at the same time, and they've only themselves to blame at the end of the day because if you leave yourself in that situation and you get caught with a sucker putch at the end, so well that's it.
45:29
SPEAKER_00: I mean, like as we said, Galway, if they you know, if if there wasn't enough time and then we'll go, why didn't they pass it across?
45:34
SPEAKER_00: We'll be talking like Mayob.
45:35
SPEAKER_00: It's like still look at it.
45:36
SPEAKER_00: It's just fine margins.
45:38
SPEAKER_00: But I love this, there's just drama everywhere you go with it.
45:43
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
45:43
SPEAKER_01: Jeopardy comes at the weekend now.
45:45
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
45:45
SPEAKER_00: So we're gonna put you into your usual Jeopardy now, anyways.
45:48
SPEAKER_00: Uh, let's call this four games this weekend.
45:51
SPEAKER_00: So we have Kerry and Arma.
45:52
SPEAKER_00: It's four o'clock on Saturday and it's on GA Plus.
45:55
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
45:55
SPEAKER_00: Who are you going for?
45:56
SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna write these down again.
45:57
SPEAKER_01: Look at uh I have Arma tipped.
46:00
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you're not gonna back away.
46:01
SPEAKER_01: I'm not gonna back away.
46:02
SPEAKER_01: Okay, I'm gonna say that they're gonna that they're gonna win it and it could be an extra time win.
46:06
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and as a golem man, I'm kind of going, I think I'd rather see Kerry out.
46:10
SPEAKER_00: You'd hope so have a good record against them.
46:12
SPEAKER_00: They as I said, they have players to come back, and if they are my colours at the mass, and I'll go for Arma in a cracker.
46:17
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, okay.
46:18
SPEAKER_01: Uh our neighbours down the road, Mayo versus Meads.
46:20
SPEAKER_01: Again, I just think that Mayo's home advantage are going to get them across the line.
46:25
SPEAKER_01: I think they might struggle with the physicality of the Mead team.
46:29
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, true, true, yeah.
46:30
SPEAKER_01: They they like Mayo not loads of physicality around the pitch in sense, yeah.
46:34
SPEAKER_01: But uh because like I think that Mead, they're gonna think that could be their matchups.
46:38
SPEAKER_01: If they get the matchups right, they could go a long way to the game.
46:40
SPEAKER_01: But I just think that that Mikhail Park might swing it from Mayo.
46:43
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
46:43
SPEAKER_01: I just am going to go with Mayo in a one or two point win on that one.
46:46
SPEAKER_00: Dublin, Dunegal.
46:47
SPEAKER_00: I think we kind of alluded to this one ear on just the Dunegal one.
46:50
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I think Dunegal bounced back.
46:51
SPEAKER_01: Okay, and uh Monaghan Westmead.
46:54
SPEAKER_01: I think it's gonna be a step too far for Westmead, and I think Clonus will get the job done again for Monaghan on Sunday.
46:59
SPEAKER_00: Or Saturday, is it Saturday afternoon?
47:01
SPEAKER_00: Uh so sorry, uh the games are Carrie Narmas Saturday at four o'clock, that's on GA plus.
47:05
SPEAKER_00: Mayo Mead is 6.15 on Saturday, and GA plus Sunday, then the only RT game is Dublin and Donegal at 1.15 in the day.
47:10
SPEAKER_00: Don't forget to get the dinner out of the way early.
47:12
SPEAKER_00: And Monaghan Westmead's at four, and that's on GA plus.
47:15
SPEAKER_00: So uh yeah, look, I I love it.
47:17
SPEAKER_00: I mean, but you kind of get sad now.
47:18
SPEAKER_00: There's only another few weeks left.
47:19
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, well, these four will tell a tale now.
47:21
SPEAKER_01: It's huge games at the weekend because there is no safety blanket now.
47:26
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's all gone.
47:26
SPEAKER_00: But like it'd be interesting, even if any of these four win, I don't think like you know, you've allowed Cork all the way to run.
47:31
SPEAKER_00: You could put an argument against all four of those teams in Crow Park against any of these four on the basis of whichever whoever wins this weekend, they're gonna have to play for three weekends in a row.
47:40
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and I just wonder yeah, that'll that'll really show a lot.
47:44
SPEAKER_00: So uh so yeah, so we'll just quickly read your rankings out again from 12 to 1 Mead 12, uh 11 Dublin, 10, Mayo, 9, Westmead, 8, Monahan, 7 Loud, Cork or 6, Tyrone fifth, Dunigal fourth, Galwith 3, uh Armad two, and Kerry at 1.
47:59
SPEAKER_00: That's your rankings at the moment.
48:00
SPEAKER_00: They could change.
48:00
SPEAKER_01: Now you're still on Armad, you still think Armad winning.
48:02
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, but that's the power rankings, and I'm gonna name my colours to the mass with Armand.
48:05
SPEAKER_01: And the bottom six, as you're looking at it, any of them six could beat each other on any day.
48:10
SPEAKER_01: I I would be sure of that.
48:12
SPEAKER_01: And the Cork Cork snuck in there ahead of Loud in the top six based on after beating the All-Irel favourites of the weekend Dunegal.
48:20
SPEAKER_00: With that, and a way it was really impressive.
48:21
SPEAKER_00: They beat me uh without him with a man down.
48:23
SPEAKER_00: You know, they have Callahan's come back now, so and like their forwards are cooking.
48:26
SPEAKER_01: So yeah, like and uh like if you're reading small little margins, we were saying that that Cork flew to Derry, yeah, stayed the night before the game in Ballyhoofesa, no travel the day of the game at all.
48:38
SPEAKER_01: And so they were coming into the game the same as Dunny Gall, fresh, ready, yeah.
48:43
SPEAKER_00: That was it, and no travel even as a as a as even for Galway, I think it's a great thing.
48:46
SPEAKER_00: There was no hotel to travel.
48:48
SPEAKER_00: Like last year, they had to go away to Cavent, Player Mad, they had to go away to Down and they had to go away to Derry all within a few weeks to get to where they are now.
48:54
SPEAKER_00: Like, yeah, do you know?
48:55
SPEAKER_00: Um, so I suppose I'm hoping clutching a straw is gonna maybe that'll keep me like.
48:59
SPEAKER_01: Look at Galway there on Merit and that's yeah, you know, and any of these four teams that are sitting pretty watching the games this weekend, and we'll have they'll have an extra week to watch and analyze again because you said there's gonna be a few more rabbits pull out of hats and they go, Oh, we'll have that marked now.
49:12
SPEAKER_00: Definitely so so yeah, so well Darren great.
49:14
SPEAKER_00: Um, as I said, hard looking last week's predictions.
49:17
SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
49:18
SPEAKER_01: Well, this week maybe much better.
49:20
SPEAKER_00: In the brilliant that it's so hard to pick them, though.
49:21
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, we're not like going, oh, none of them are dead rubber-like.
49:24
SPEAKER_01: No, none of them next, not, and even like the dubs in Croaker like, they're not going to give anything soft to Johnny Gaulle.
49:29
SPEAKER_01: But I just think that Johnny Gall have to bounce back.
49:31
SPEAKER_01: I think that's yeah, and like it's funny.
49:33
SPEAKER_00: I asked Michael Murphy, I was at a Legends tour of Crow Park a couple of years back, and I said, like, what like Crow Park is if you look at it, is actually uh more or less the same pitch size as multiple grounds around Ireland.
49:44
SPEAKER_00: And they go, Oh, the open space of Crow Park, all these pundits, and like that's waffle, like, but I he said no, it's the speed of the big pitch, yeah, to run and to bounce and everything.
49:54
SPEAKER_00: And he said, That's the big difference.
49:56
SPEAKER_00: Like, so it'll be interesting which team now does it suit the best.
49:59
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, well, I would say they'll have that they'll have something about them on on Sunday trying to show you.
50:02
SPEAKER_01: Well, their last trip to Crow Park was a good day, so yeah.
50:04
SPEAKER_00: Well, they're if they can bank that and bring it up again, yeah.
50:07
SPEAKER_00: Definitely.
50:07
SPEAKER_00: Okay, Darren, we'll be back next week, so and we'll see what's going on.
50:10
SPEAKER_00: Thanks again for joining me, and sure.
50:11
SPEAKER_00: We'll talk to you next week.
50:12
SPEAKER_00: Thank you, Brendan.