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Only great teams win back to back All Irelands

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Has any team ever done 5 back to backs in a row?

Onion_Sack (Dublin) - Posts: 380 - 27/07/2025 20:30:35    2628395

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Replying To Onion_Sack:  "Has any team ever done 5 back to backs in a row?"
Like it, LOL

sligo joe (Dublin) - Posts: 1009 - 27/07/2025 20:55:16    2628416

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Replying To Kew:  "Hard to see anyone stop Kerry getting a double. Treble is easily on the cards for this team"
GAA are biased in favour of Kerry. Munster is a joke of a championship.

galwayford (Galway) - Posts: 2652 - 27/07/2025 21:15:31    2628424

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When David Clifford and Sean O'Shea retire they will have 10 All Irelands each. Football has changed and for the better.

KerryAllIrelandChampions2025 (Kerry) - Posts: 16 - 27/07/2025 21:54:47    2628430

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Replying To galwayford:  "GAA are biased in favour of Kerry. Munster is a joke of a championship."
Hard to kerry getting 2 in a row now, a lot of views were hard to see them winning this years one only a few months ago,, kerry were a joy to watch in the latter stages this year an if D cliff as said here ends up with 10 all irelands, it'll be good to be alive to see it

otherlad (Meath) - Posts: 151 - 28/08/2025 19:56:54    2634001

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Replying To KerryAllIrelandChampions2025:  "When David Clifford and Sean O'Shea retire they will have 10 All Irelands each. Football has changed and for the better."
The arrogance coming out of kerry is ridiculous. Fair play you won this year but no way will you be getting 10 all Irelands . You won't even win next year .

S1234 (Mayo) - Posts: 347 - 29/08/2025 10:14:50    2634047

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Replying To KerryAllIrelandChampions2025:  "When David Clifford and Sean O'Shea retire they will have 10 All Irelands each. Football has changed and for the better."
It will be some bottle job if they don't.

MesAmis (Dublin) - Posts: 13839 - 29/08/2025 10:38:16    2634052

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Replying To KerryAllIrelandChampions2025:  "When David Clifford and Sean O'Shea retire they will have 10 All Irelands each. Football has changed and for the better."
And I know some Kerry people that wonder why they're not universally liked....

streaker (Galway) - Posts: 559 - 29/08/2025 15:32:50    2634111

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Replying To streaker:  "And I know some Kerry people that wonder why they're not universally liked...."
That's not everyone that's like can tell u lot kerry people don't think k that some may but not all.

So generalising is wrong. Don't pass herd he trying to rage bait.

And there's a few galway but mayo thinka s arrogantly.

Minority in all counties

Gaaforlife2023 (Longford) - Posts: 969 - 29/08/2025 16:43:44    2634120

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Replying To MesAmis:  "It will be some bottle job if they don't."
No guarantee doesn't listen all irelands never easy won 8 more is a lot will win few more more. But say ten big call not bottle if they don't this person just talking way to far in advance

Gaaforlife2023 (Longford) - Posts: 969 - 29/08/2025 16:45:00    2634121

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Replying To MesAmis:  "It will be some bottle job if they don't."
It's unlikely they will thats very u likely to happen doesn't mean it's bottle job

Gaaforlife2023 (Longford) - Posts: 969 - 29/08/2025 16:45:30    2634122

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Replying To streaker:  "And I know some Kerry people that wonder why they're not universally liked...."
Aside from far fetch statement kerry or like all consistent winners throughout hsitiryvgenerally get hegrudged soem fair but some just because they are successful similar to lk hurlingn in end people were sick them winning .
There's still a respect for the team and management in kerry even if some supporters nit all talk arrogantly

Gaaforlife2023 (Longford) - Posts: 969 - 29/08/2025 16:47:46    2634123

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Great teams don't need home league ground advantage to win provincial titles or All Irelands. The All Ireland has only been retained once since 1991 without home league ground advantage. Armagh had a target on their backs this year. You look at Meath and Louth going at it hammer and tongs in the Leinster final without needing home league ground advantage. Warriors!

legendzxix (Kerry) - Posts: 9170 - 29/08/2025 19:29:57    2634146

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Replying To legendzxix:  "Great teams don't need home league ground advantage to win provincial titles or All Irelands. The All Ireland has only been retained once since 1991 without home league ground advantage. Armagh had a target on their backs this year. You look at Meath and Louth going at it hammer and tongs in the Leinster final without needing home league ground advantage. Warriors!"
Great teams don't need to win one football game in a hurling province and 2 more after that to be called All Ireland Champions!

The Munster title has only been retained once since 1995 by a team the isn't the football team in the hurling province!!

Onion_Sack (Dublin) - Posts: 380 - 29/08/2025 21:33:57    2634161

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All the provincial comments are cracking me up! Apart from Louth, for all other counties the provincial championships were in the rear view mirror when the All Ireland championship started.

legendzxix (Kerry) - Posts: 9170 - 30/08/2025 13:13:25    2634230

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Replying To Gaaforlife2023:  "That's not everyone that's like can tell u lot kerry people don't think k that some may but not all.

So generalising is wrong. Don't pass herd he trying to rage bait.

And there's a few galway but mayo thinka s arrogantly.

Minority in all counties"
Not in places like Mayo & Tyrone it isn't. The worst most arrogant fans out there.

Square_B (Leitrim) - Posts: 1498 - 30/08/2025 13:19:02    2634231

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Replying To legendzxix:  "All the provincial comments are cracking me up! Apart from Louth, for all other counties the provincial championships were in the rear view mirror when the All Ireland championship started."
I think some of the comments about the Munster championship are a bit harsh on Kerry. Between 04-10 Kerry reached 6 finals, winning 4 and the feedback was that those all Ireland titles were handy because it was Mayo and Cork in the final. In 05 and 08 it was said that Kerry couldn't beat Tyrone and after 2010 that they couldn't beat Northern teams. Yet in 2025 they beat 4 en route to Sam and the question is then about the Munster championship being poor.

Same with Dublin and their 6 in a row. Leinster was perceived as poor etc.

The truth is that both Kerry and Dublin have repeatedly found ways to win all Ireland titles with special teams. If we are to be really honest about the provincial championships, isn't Ulster the only one that genuinely has competitors who can all beat each other on a championship day? Some of the all Ireland titles won by the Ulster sides have been full of tremendous battles from the first game of the championship. From my earliest memories the Ulster football championship has been like that and once Down made the breakthrough in 1991 Ulster sides have become skilled at regularly winning all Ireland titles.

As for back to back titles I think that is a huge achievement in itself. To get a group of players back up to same level they'd been at is an impressive achievement in the modern game. Football and hurling are so competitive among the top 8 in each, it is difficult to see teams do back to back.

slayer (Limerick) - Posts: 6557 - 31/08/2025 13:02:17    2634328

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Replying To slayer:  "I think some of the comments about the Munster championship are a bit harsh on Kerry. Between 04-10 Kerry reached 6 finals, winning 4 and the feedback was that those all Ireland titles were handy because it was Mayo and Cork in the final. In 05 and 08 it was said that Kerry couldn't beat Tyrone and after 2010 that they couldn't beat Northern teams. Yet in 2025 they beat 4 en route to Sam and the question is then about the Munster championship being poor.

Same with Dublin and their 6 in a row. Leinster was perceived as poor etc.

The truth is that both Kerry and Dublin have repeatedly found ways to win all Ireland titles with special teams. If we are to be really honest about the provincial championships, isn't Ulster the only one that genuinely has competitors who can all beat each other on a championship day? Some of the all Ireland titles won by the Ulster sides have been full of tremendous battles from the first game of the championship. From my earliest memories the Ulster football championship has been like that and once Down made the breakthrough in 1991 Ulster sides have become skilled at regularly winning all Ireland titles.

As for back to back titles I think that is a huge achievement in itself. To get a group of players back up to same level they'd been at is an impressive achievement in the modern game. Football and hurling are so competitive among the top 8 in each, it is difficult to see teams do back to back."
Well that's insulting enough it's because it was Mayo or Cork in the finals they were ' handy ' . You seem to have forgotten all the finals you lost before you won a couple .

Everyone knows Munster Championship is a walk through for Kerry every year. Simple as Kerry get easy routes to the business end .

S1234 (Mayo) - Posts: 347 - 31/08/2025 14:35:15    2634339

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Replying To S1234:  "Well that's insulting enough it's because it was Mayo or Cork in the finals they were ' handy ' . You seem to have forgotten all the finals you lost before you won a couple .

Everyone knows Munster Championship is a walk through for Kerry every year. Simple as Kerry get easy routes to the business end ."
The point I was making was that when Kerry win a title usually someone finds a way to knock it. I don't think Mayo or Cork or any county are a handy all Ireland final, my point is that's what was used to knock Kerry at that time.

slayer (Limerick) - Posts: 6557 - 31/08/2025 14:50:53    2634341

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The Connaught football championship this century has seen Galway and Mayo win 11 titles each, 4 going to Roscommon and 1 to Sligo. All 5 sides have reached the final. In Munster 5 sides have reached the Munster final also, Waterford the only exception. The Waterford footballers did reach the 2000 U21 Munster final.

Those 26 seasons of football have brought 1 all Ireland to Connaught which is the same as what Munster has achieved if you don't count Kerry's all Ireland titles.

With one less county involved in the Connaught Championship than the Munster Championship, can the Connaught championship be deemed significantly tougher than Munster, to give a disadvantage to the Connaught teams that play in the All Ireland Championship?

slayer (Limerick) - Posts: 6557 - 31/08/2025 15:26:41    2634344

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