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Chapter 1: What sporting events are previewed for the weekend?
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Let's look ahead to all of the weekend sporting action. I'm joined by Off The Ball's Eoin Shea. And hello, Eoin, how are you?
Very well, Clare. What's happening?
We're going to start with the GAA, the All-Ireland Football Quarterfinals. What a weekend we have. Kerry Tyrone first, will we start with that one?
Yeah, it feels like a mirror image of this time last year, or at least the semi-finals last year, because Kerry versus Tyrone played each other in the middle of a heatwave as well, even though I think it's going to break tomorrow, isn't it? So it might actually be a wet evening in Croke Park. So Kerry Tyrone, the narrative kind of writes itself. There is the great rivalry of the 2000s.
Tyrone people will say it was no rivalry at all because they won all three of those games. There was the COVID game of 2021 when A game was postponed by a number of weeks before Tyrone got the better of Kerry in that All-Ireland semi-final.
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Chapter 2: What is the significance of the GAA All-Ireland Football Quarterfinals?
And a lot of those players, particularly from the Kerry side of things, are still around and still playing. And I'd say that's a game that still rankles and still motivates Kerry, as we saw last year when they had that six-point win against Tyrone in the semi-final. But it's worth underlining that margin of victory last year because...
I think when people remember Kerry's All-Ireland last year, they remember them hammering Armagh, hammering Tyrone and hammering Donegal on the way to an All-Ireland win. I'm not quite sure I would describe the Tyrone game as a hammering. It felt comfortable at times, but still it was only a six-point victory, which in new money... Only a six-point victory. The rest of us would take that.
In new money isn't that much.
Chapter 3: How do Kerry and Tyrone's past matchups influence their upcoming game?
Well, and absolutely, Kerry did take that. A win against Tyrone is massive for them at any stage of the year. Have Tyrone improved much since then? Have they got close enough to Kerry to be able to knock them off? I'm not quite sure they have. I think there's been a few issues in terms of their personnel. For example, Derek Canavan's not named in the 26th for...
tomorrow and that's just a massive setback they have a number of young players that have come through over the past couple of years Owen McElhome is a really exciting forward who's looking like you know he's still a man of born at this stage but have they got a number of games under their belt a number of big games under their belt where they've played big teams in Croke Park and won them I'd still have my doubts this might just be a season too soon for Tyrone before they win the All-Ireland
but the pressure is firmly on Kerry. Even though they were the ones that had to go through the quote-unquote backdoor by playing Armagh last week and Tyrone had the feet up, Kerry's still in a commanding position.
I know, you guys do this thing. It's like, you know, waves and waves of attack. It's just sustained, isn't it?
It looked like it last week and certainly Kerry's defence was the... It was the foundation on those waves that you referenced there, that Armagh almost played into the Kerry trap, that Kerry defence sort of swarmed the Armagh attacker from time to time and then straight away kick pass up to the forwards. And it was lightning quick. And in the Killarney sun, it's pretty irresistible stuff.
The same thing tends to happen when Kerry are on form in Croke Park. They love this place. They'll be very, very excited for this tomorrow evening at quarter past six. Will Tyrone play into Kerry's hands like Armagh did? I'd have my doubts.
But even if the game gets slow and turgid and it comes to this hand passing around the perimeter, I still think Kerry have enough in terms of their two point shooters to put a bit of a gap between themselves and Tyrone.
Just before that then at four o'clock, we have Cork and Mayo in Croke Park.
This is fascinating. You've got Kerry Tyrone, you've got Dublin Galway, which are the headline fixtures, it feels. But the other half of the draw is just as exciting because it's very, very hard to call both of these games. Now, Cork, they too will have the memories of going down to Killarney this year and playing really poorly.
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