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Low-key build up!

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Replying To Awwwwnow:  "Is it ticket or cups your after? Dubs by 6/8 lump on!"
Wow great response, that showed me.

TheFlaker (Mayo) - Posts: 7905 - 15/09/2016 11:35:54    1914556

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Replying To uibhfhaili1986:  "Every single year people say there is a low key build up.It's just a meaningless cliche at this stage.

What exactly do people want rioting ,overturned cars and bonfires all over the 2 competing counties in anticipation of the game."
That's what they must be doing up home in the lead up to the Ulster final.

They're all wearing their Armagh colours, huge following even when they're not in the final.

Whammo86 (Antrim) - Posts: 4232 - 15/09/2016 11:48:25    1914561

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Replying To Liamwalkinstown:  "Anyone else find the build up very low key to Sunday? In the media, in the pubs hell even on HS! Just seems to be a very low key feeling re Sunday. Or is it just me?"
The perfect build up for Mayo :-)

Definitely a lot more low key than 2015 though. Possibly because last year had the Dublin v Kerry rivalry as well. I was listening to the radio last year three hours before throw in as the atmosphere was electric.

Prediction for Sunday:

Mayo to win 1-14 to 0-15
Philly McMahon to be sent off
Hill 16 to offer warm congrats to the Mayo folk

slayer (Limerick) - Posts: 6480 - 15/09/2016 14:46:31    1914639

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da aul evening's are closing in fast...

yew_tree (Mayo) - Posts: 11232 - 15/09/2016 15:56:51    1914691

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Replying To Whammo86:  "That's what they must be doing up home in the lead up to the Ulster final.

They're all wearing their Armagh colours, huge following even when they're not in the final."
I remember being shocked driving through Kesh on the morning of the 2008 Ulster final to discover the locals appeared to be supporting Armagh!

Lockjaw (Donegal) - Posts: 9147 - 15/09/2016 16:09:43    1914703

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Replying To Liamwalkinstown:  "Anyone else find the build up very low key to Sunday? In the media, in the pubs hell even on HS! Just seems to be a very low key feeling re Sunday. Or is it just me?"
Mediaman will probably have a theory on it.

PoolSturgeon (Galway) - Posts: 1904 - 15/09/2016 19:42:39    1914807

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Replying To PoolSturgeon:  "Mediaman will probably have a theory on it."
RTE only cover the negatives of GAA.

No Ulster team in the final, so nothing negative to report.

Whammo86 (Antrim) - Posts: 4232 - 15/09/2016 22:02:47    1914868

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Replying To Jimin10:  "A final involving Dublin is not appealing. It's not as satisfying to see a team win with undeserved advantages! Now a Kerry v Tyrone final that would excite the neutral. Even a Cork v Donegal final."
Spot on, there's virtually NO interest outside the two counties involved. Trying to pretend that the two dogs in the fight are evenly matched and have an equal chance is an insult. Dublin going out in football combat in 2016 is like sending out an army with tanks, guns, missiles, surface to air, radar etc to face a tribe in the Amazon with blow pipes, bows and arrows.

Ulsterman (Antrim) - Posts: 9706 - 16/09/2016 00:39:55    1914928

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Speaking for myself anyway I find it has been a pretty muted build up, it doesn't feel like we are coming into an All-Ireland weekend at all.
Then again I suppose you get used to planing your year around an All-Ireland final when your from Kerry, so when we are not there it's a bit of an odd feeling. September just doesn't feel like September when your not talking or making calls every five minutes about tickets.

But I've also been up in Dublin this week and there doesn't seem to be much by way of street corner talk, flags or bunting or anything.

Even on social media there's no real amount of fan videos, cringey songs, elaborate feats of decorating in the county colours etc going viral.

Hopefully come Sunday that will have change, I'll be watching it from home this year but hoping for a good game in the senior and a 3 in a row for our Kerry minors!

TheHermit (Kerry) - Posts: 6354 - 16/09/2016 01:31:16    1914934

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Replying To Ulsterman:  "Spot on, there's virtually NO interest outside the two counties involved. Trying to pretend that the two dogs in the fight are evenly matched and have an equal chance is an insult. Dublin going out in football combat in 2016 is like sending out an army with tanks, guns, missiles, surface to air, radar etc to face a tribe in the Amazon with blow pipes, bows and arrows."
So..let me get this right.Philly MacMahon is a tank and Aidan O'Se is a blowpipe??? Sorry, I just don't see it...You've a wonderful imagination Ulsterman..a real gift for coining colourful metaphors and the odd simile with all this talk of weaponry and coronations etc. Remember David slew Goliath...

avonali (Dublin) - Posts: 1974 - 16/09/2016 08:27:55    1914945

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Replying To Ulsterman:  "Spot on, there's virtually NO interest outside the two counties involved. Trying to pretend that the two dogs in the fight are evenly matched and have an equal chance is an insult. Dublin going out in football combat in 2016 is like sending out an army with tanks, guns, missiles, surface to air, radar etc to face a tribe in the Amazon with blow pipes, bows and arrows."
Apart from the radar, which apparently Mayo are coming in underneath, you are probably spot on. It's our history in a microcosm, our lads with pikes and scythes and slash hooks against them other fellas with rifles and machine guns, and obviously we rarely won. We'll have to send Enda up to sue for peace!

Llaw_Gyffes (Mayo) - Posts: 1113 - 16/09/2016 13:56:24    1915097

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