Gaelic football is becoming very hard to watch

Well, I have to say that the Tyrone-Monaghan match was one of the poorest All-Ireland semi-finals I’ve seen in a long, long time, writes Oisin McConville.

The first instinct would be to say that it was too defensive but there was more to it than that. There was a real lack of quality at Croke Park yesterday, with no intensity for the most part and little bite.

Neither team will be happy with the standard of their shooting and some of the decision-making was terrible. The ball retention wasn’t what it should have been. Rory Beggan coming up the field late on and ballooning the ball into the air was essentially the match in a nutshell.