Replying To TheHermit:  "At this stage Dublin supporters seem to be the GAA equivalent of climate change deniers ;D And yes for me anyway they'll be an asterisk next to their 5 in a row given all that's gone on. I doubt I'll be the only person that feels the same ... But let their posters on here keep arguing black is white, sure it gives them something to do on a Friday night :D"

Replying To Antifa:  "So it's come to this. Despite all the flaws we've seen with the super 8's so far, and the flak the GAA has taken over it surely this is how the idea was envisioned. A Saturday night game against two heavyweights to decide who reaches the All Ireland semi-finals. A capacity (albeit reduced) crowd in a buzzing provincial town. After two tough games each in the group it all comes down to this, it's do or die and the country eagerly awaits a titanic tussle set to the dazzling backdrop of colour noise and passion from the crowd! Except they won't get to see it. The game is behind a Sky Sports pay wall. The viewing audience will be a fraction of what it would have been if it was on the national broadcaster. Fans of both teams will be at the game, or find a way to watch it, granted. But what about the hundreds of thousands of casual fans throughout the country who now won't see it. Not forgetting the casual fans within the competing counties. There's no shortage of families out there with no affiliation to the GAA and its watching games like this which often makes a child to want to play our games, who otherwise wouldn't have wanted to. Then the parent gets involved in helping out, and soon the whole family are active members of their club and the thing grows and grows… What price does the GAA put on having our games exposed to a maximum audience and to give our games maximum exposure? Does the money received by sky offset an audience drop of hundreds of thousands that otherwise would have been watching. I don't think it does. Without the national exposure that free to air live games give, the games really loose something special. Oh, and on the Sunday there will be two dead rubbers in the "business end" of the championship. "Super" 8's indeed."