Armagh & Donegal gone. Kerry perfection. Mayo, Dublin & Monaghan win

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What happened to Armagh and Donegal in the latest football matches?

Oisín McConville 0:00

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James Crawford 0:09

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0:36

It's the GA Social on BBC Sounds and we have our game back. We have our game back. Again. Again. Again. There's nothing to complain about. Unless you're from Armagh. Unless you're from Donegal. We maybe get into that. But tell you what, there's not too much complaining done from Wicklow or Shane.

Oisín McConville 0:58

No, it was a good weekend for us. Very good weekend. It was just brilliant to be involved first and foremost and then to go ahead and put in the second half performance we put in. It was a lot of happy Wicklow faces there and I was delighted for that. I was delighted for the players and for supporters and everybody I like. Myself and everybody else as well. I was delighted for the smiles on the faces of those supporters and how many times they've watched Wicklow teams and maybe not getting across lane or just falling short. And certainly our first half performance wouldn't have inspired them. But they stuck with us through the game and in the end, you know, they're just that 16th man for you because they really turned out in the numbers as they did last year.

Oisín McConville 1:48

And I know they were disappointed last year, but at least we done the job yesterday and they have another day out to look forward to.

1:56

Yeah, it was a spot at the McConville Cubs wearing Wicklow jerseys. What's going on, boy?

Oisín McConville 2:03

What's going on? Well, they couldn't get to Killarney because we're all in Dublin. So look, they've been at most of the games. It's brilliant because the lads themselves, you know, the players make a big deal of them and they love it and enjoy it. And they're sort of part of the furniture there. and that's probably as it should be because like as I say you know you you spend a lot of time on the road or spend a lot of time away from them so it's good to be able to take them and occasions like that will always live with them so it was nice nice good to see nice to get them onto the hollow turf yep

2:44

I noticed Paul Murphy and Paddy Burns had their kids out playing with each other, actually, after the game. I think Paddy's weaker. It's called Clota. Paul Murphy. So they've gone to war. Next thing you know, their kids are... One's on a Kerry jersey, one's on an Armand. The two daddies were kind of down in their hunkers watching.

Oisín McConville 3:01

Yeah, I've seen a bit of that. It's lovely. It's lovely to watch it, actually.

3:05

Well... Let's skirt at Croke Park. Donnie Gall, alright. Armagh, on Saturday, out. Two of the three that were definitely going to win Sam Maguire. It's not going to be outside them three, a lot of people thought. And two of them haven't even made the quarterfinals. Which is unreal that that is the space. But that is it. And Kerry, and of course... watching the Dublin-Donegal game. Dublin, full value for the win. But the Donegal game, so what did you think? What are you thinking now?

Oisín McConville 3:41

Right. I'm just thinking, you expect Donegal to go back and hit the heights of the National League final or the trip to Killarney. That really hasn't happened for them. I still go back to the down game and think that that was a massive blow. And I don't know if they've fully recovered from that, to be honest. Obviously, you know, Cork last week is another body blow.

How did Kerry achieve perfection in their recent game?

Oisín McConville 4:11

It means you're out. You know, I've seen Jim McGinnis talking about being out week on week and that is not simple and it's not easy and the travel and everything that's involved in the preparation and all that. But I still think they just seem to lack a spark from that Kerry game. I don't know if they put an awful lot into it or what. But if you're looking at the roadmap for Donegal at the start of the year, it probably hasn't gone the way they wanted it to. I'm sure they would have liked to be in an also final. I'm sure they would have liked to have gone straight into their quarterfinals. I'd say that was all in the planning. But being out week on week probably wasn't. And I thought that would come back to bite them a little bit.

Oisín McConville 4:57

And I thought, from a Dublin point of view, you have to handle them.