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Official Dublin v Mayo Thread
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That's why the Mayo keeper was 4th choice 6 weeks a go. He was BRUTAL there for Brogan's goal
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Yeah shocking goal to give away,Dublin should be getting buried,they haven,t turned up at all.
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This is a barely believable standard of game. The amount of errors, poor decisions, poor kicking that is on show from the 2 best teams in the country is incredible.
Mayo have been totally dominant for much of the half, but have gifted points to Dublin and have wasted loads of opportunities themselves. |
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Dubs within 1pt. Looking good.
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Two of the 3 young footballer of the year candidates now off the park for various reasons.
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e.o'g next
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uncle joe mcquillan worth a few points to dublin- not giving any easy frees to mayo
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gave enuf 1st half come on TYRONE
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Absolutely terrible decision by the bench to not go for goal
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Have you ever seen a more brain dead performance by any team than that of Mayo just there. The guy clearly asked the ref how much was left, the ref had to tell him this was it and he put the ball over the bar.
Talk about having no plan B, they didn't even seem to have a plan a. The "it's our turn to win it" mentality seemed to be their only strategy. |
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Bit scrappy game . No real stars .
Mayo forward takes a point when time is up ? |
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Happy days
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Terrible match. Terrible standard. Mayo had it in their hands and threw it away
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I agree Joe. Mayo had more than enough possession to win 2 games. No team will ever again think Mayo can beat them in a final.
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Spot on the first goal was bad but the first was criminal. Cafferkey with the free out and kicked it 10 yards to a dublin shirt and straight over the bar. He should have been hauled off. No surprise he was involved in the goal debacle
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First point was criminal sorry
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Shocking game really, very poor from both teams and little high class football at all.
Kicking the ball over the bar at the end is one of the stupidest things I've ever witnessed. I mean wtf  |
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Think both teams were basically playing the same tactics, both attacking, and it just clashed from 45 to 45.
What on earth was o'connor doing at the end kicking it over the bar??!! When he did it I was sure the ref must have told him he will allow one more phase of play, thus if they win the kick out they have a chance to level. But clearly I though wrong, bizarre decision from Cillian,one of the best players in this championship. |
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He must have been told there was one more passage of play, there was no way he would have done what he did otherwise.. One of th eMayo players ran to the ref straight after the final whistle, must have been to ask him why he blew it up.
Dublin were the better side. Dillon, Aidan O'shea both went missing.. Keith Higgins was the best Mayo performer along with the goalie. |
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Mayo got 2 points from frees in injury time. O'Connor wasted over 60 seconds between the 2 frees shaping up to them, walking to the ball, patting the bottoms of team mates and what not. The whole second half was brainless from Mayo but the last 5 minutes was on a different level of stupidity I have seen in a long time
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Unlikely Mayo would have scored a goal from the last free but they came within a kick of the ball of winning the all Ireland and then never even give themselves a chance at winning. They refused a shoot for a point just before the free but then when they got the free they wasted any chance of getting two points by letting the clock run down thinking about what to do. They either tap the ball over right away and have time for one more attack or take their time and go for a goal. Instead they take their time and go for the point. The referee might have told them it was not the last kick of the game but that does not mean there is enough time for another score.
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Is Bernard Brogan a certainty for man of the match?
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hope so was on at 10/1 ladsbroke
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yes, he scored 2-3 and was a threat all DAY
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very scrappy low quality encounter,nobody stood out as mom so brogans surely
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james horan got his tactics horribly wrong in the 2nd half.......bringing his biggest ball winner back into the full back line for the 2nd half........keith higgins......saying thay mayo missed enough scores to win 2 games........another all ireland bypasses mayo.....be a while before they come back from this.....another point worth considering when ye watch the sunday game is.....joe mc quillan rather than let himself be the talk of the sunday game was quite content to let play flow when clear fouls had occured and on the opposite end of the fields but when mayo hadnt the clear shooting oppurtunitys from free kicks and the chance to slow the game down to their pace,they struggled......fair play dublin......
their will be sum noddin winking and blackarding in the lower end of the cusack with the rock the rat the rocks bro and the rats da,i hope rock made it upto the game when he posted he was going to buy the lunchtime papers after his workout and then make his decision at midday to head UP to the game........for me anyone from the yeats country would tighten it to go Down to the game from that time given the geographical positions.....but who am i to question? |
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Mayo got 2 points from frees in injury time. O'Connor wasted over 60 seconds between the 2 frees shaping up to them
He wasted alot longer. It was mentioned on RTE radio how brainless it was wasting time shaping around for a straight forward kick. Its highly likely had he just tapped it over, there would have been one last passage of play |
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it was a clear mayo tactic djq but they didnt get the frees the expected and noone told poor cillian there was only 30 seconds left and it was more or less the last kick of the game...
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Correct, he wasted that alone on the last free, and Richters he asked the Ref who either told him the truth or lied. Judging by the rest of the game the Ref told him it was all over but he was too stupid to process the info.
Kicking the point was the right move both times imo, but only if they were going to be kicked immediately. |
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RTE give MacAuley player of the year?!
 Cavanagh not even nominated. |
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gooch.....r ye arfin a fkn larf?the gravy men from har.t.e never fail to amaze..........
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Best hurling season in Liam O'Neills lifetime............have a lie down Liam eh
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Watching the Sunday game panels etc . Think I was watching a different match to the "superlative " performances attributed to various players today .
Only player I thought had a really good game was Brogan . It was a mistake ridden match . Thank goodness for the Dublin - Kerry match where almost every player played well . Hype from RTE tonight . |
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spot on ^ some thoroughly average performances today even from the Man of the match nominees
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I see the front page banner of RTE is taken up with Dublin. Next weeks winners will probably be given some snippet at the bottom.
Ciaran Kilkenny was shockingly bad today. The forwards for Dublin Brogan apart and O'Gara provided limited threat. How Dean Rock isnt a starter is beyond me. Ironic that Kilkenny would be more productive with the Hurlers imho This result will haunt Mayo. The first point for Dublin where Cafferkey gave it straight form a free out to Dublin, the mess the keeper made in the first goal.....so many what ifs to ponder over the winter. Aidan O'Shea was poor.......maybe they'll let him into the Everleigh Garden tonight. All in all a terrible All Ireland final to finish off a poor footballing season |
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read my post re the clueless tactics from donie buckley/james horan re:corner back player of the year keith higgins....lined out centre half forward,wins 80% break ball in first half,switched as sweeper in 2nd half,cleened,gets corner back in team of the year,...i really dont know.........
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Regarding O,Connors decision to take a point with the last free and his talk with the referee....you have to think O'Connor asked the referee if it was the last kick of the game. The referee must have told him no but it would have been wrong for the referee to say that although it was not the last kick there would not be enough time left for another passage of play. The ref played exactly the correct time. If Dublin had been responsible for delaying the last free you would think the referee would have added on the time. As it was O'Connor wasted the last chance Mayo had of winning the game by first ensuring it was in reality the last passage of play in the match and secondly going for a point when a goal would have won them the all Ireland.
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Will Mayo ever win an All Ireland in my lifetime?, Dublin were served up on a silver platter begging for someone to take them and Mayo once again fall at the biggest hurdle.
It was another All Ireland where nerves played a major part, players consumed by hype and don't want to be the first one to make a mistake as the whole of Ireland is looking in which usually amounts to loads of mistakes because if you play with fear of making a mistake the game is usually littered with errors. Granted Mayo were not helped by a ref who seemed very lenient towards Dublin, I remember this same ref refereeing a game between my team Moorefield and Portlaoise in the Leinster club championship, he rode us that much he actually used two saddles as the first one wore out, even Portlaoise fans seemed almost embarrassed to be the beneficiaries of such a blatant riding. The thing is our last Leinster club appearance against Tyrellspass led to a very controversial penalty award that eventually decided a game that was in the melting pot, our keeper been blown for over carrying when a Tyrellspass guy was virtually lying on him in his own box. To cut to the chase a disgruntled Moorefield supporter actually struck the ref after the game on his way to the dressing room hence the saddling we got off this Cavan ref against Portlaoise, like it was him dishing out his own justice in defence of a colleague?. He was poor yesterday and also a little bit biased but dare we crib about the ref and we're instantly labeled sore losers?. |
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Dont let the facts get in the way of a good rant. The ref awarded 32 frees against Dublin and 12 against Mayo. The final result may have been close on the scoreboard but in reality Dublin were far the better side in a poor match. Dublin didnt even play well either. Mayo forwards were poor but I was not happy with the Dublin fouling late on. They are better than that and it took from the win.
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silver, you must have poor joe mcquillan placed in the same hatred tray that young Joseph o brien occupies in your mind.
for the record, since its inception, in both hurling and football, no other ref has ever officiated at a leinster club match, ie all leinster games are reffed by officials based in the provice. joe mcquillan did not ref moorefielf/portlaoise, the actual ref that day was derek fahy from longford. |