silvergreaser = fruit and nut.......everybody knows that.......gaelic football is a load of refuse.......do they ever use their feet.....throwing the ball to each other constantly......Dublin 2 goals were scored with hand......also got a point by fukking it over the bar with his hand.....should be called gaelic volleyball.......mayo the usual serial losers......wouldn't know how to win......they don't half breed em thick in the wild west.......

Thanks for clearing that up for me Keen Leader, santry obviously those stats might suggest the ref was favouring Mayo but I thought near the end of the game a lot of mayo forwards were been fouled but found it almost impossible to be awarded a free, incidentally how many of those frees were awarded miles away from the danger zone?.

And then there is all this hatred for Tyrone and their presumed cynical fouling, Dublin the so called bastion of good clean football cynically fouled on numerous occasions even the ref couldn't ignore the cynical stuff that racked up the free count for Mayo.

I don't think Dublin were the better team in fact that soft goal helped enormously in settling them down if that didn't go in I think Mayo would've won, buts thats my opinion each to their own.

Hollow victory for the young Dublin lads who were substituted. Kilkenny, Caffery and Mannion. They will be back looking for 2 in a row.

Bad game, Mayo have nothing beyond the first 9. Dublin played beneath themselves and mayo were much the same as they were last season.

Ciaran Kilkenny must be one of the most overhyped players of recent times. Jack o'Shea said in the spring that he gets his shots away at the pace of a Junior player, while that might be a bit harsh, he plainly doesn't do things quickly enough against good opposition. He is the Michael Carrick of Gaelic Football, sees everything and will pulverize ordinary opposition when given space, but is out of his depth   against better opposition.

Of the 3, Caffery is clearly a machine of an athlete which is the most important thing for a wing-back, he was just a little green yesterday. Mannion is also clearly has lovely skills and will do great things once he settles down. They could easily win it again next year as there is very little to challenge them. Cork with some new ideas and a fully fit forward line might be best placed.

Can anyone enlighten me as to how in gods name MacAuley is 4/7 to get the player of the year?!

A thoroughly average footballer skill wise who runs all day with limited end product. Shows how poor football is now a days technically. Any justice and Gooch or Cavanagh would win it for single handedly dragging teams to the semis, they wont get a look in mind.

I see Ciaran Kilkenny is 3rd in the betting for young POTY........I saw better footballing skills on the Waterford football team this year

Thought Gooch was very average by his great standards in the first few matches of the championship. He did not have as much impact on games from the half forward line. I think Cavanagh has been the best player this year by far but I would not argue with keith Higgins getting player of the year. Mayo should have made their mind up in the final that he is now a brilliant forward who can open up a defence every time he gets the ball.

What stood out for me in the early stage of the final was just how slow and laboured Dublin can be when they have the ball. They looked to have a lot more pace only when Mayo clearly tired around the 25 minute mark in the match.

Why would I be seething over Dublin winning? They were the most efficient team this year without doubt and probably the most skilful of a very poor bunch.

I am questioning why MacAuley is suddenly being lauded as odds on for POTY. Better players than him for Dublin both through out the season and in the Final itself. Paul Flynn for one has been very good not just this year but over the last 3 years and would be a much more deserving recipient.

Football is at a very low ebb. The physical elements of the game seem to have swamped the skill ones.

The 3 best teams this year were Dublin , Mayo and Kerry .  On reflection the best final would have been Mayo vs Kerry , as the draw worked out , that could have been a classic . Dublin and Mayo basically cancelled each other out in the final  , and the final did not do justice to either in terms of some of the football they played on the way to the final . Apart from Brogan ,Higgins , and maybe a few others ( my rte i player wont work at moment , so cant watch match again ) none of the players in the final could outplay their opponent(s) , so few starred .

Nerves also showed ,and some of basic skills such as passing and shooting were not always prevalent , in contrast to the Dubs v Kerry match where there was a high standard throughout the match . Thats the memory I cherish for this years football .  But fair play to the Dubs , they won out and nobody's going to take that medal away from them !

every team in the country would have MDM if they could, amazing athlete. Keith Higgins from Mayo the outstanding footballer of the year.

Well done on the prediction G Hall, went exactly as you said, but as for Mortimer, the one thing they don't have is a free-taking issue and I've always thought his lack of athleticism/strength/pace makes him pretty markable for any decent to good corner back in Croke Park.

MDM might not be the easiest on the eye, but is brilliant at everything bar high-fielding. He has some scoring rate for a lad who can't really kick a ball the right way.

Mayo only lost by a point but they lost to a team who, on the day, played poorly. Had Dublin performed better I believe Mayo would also have performed better. But they would still have lost. It's a head thing. I thought they may have had it sorted but I was wrong.

i thought 4mins extra time was a joke ,one off the dublin players was down injured for over 4mins near the end of the game, surely there should be a time keeper who stops the clock when a player is injured, i recon there should have been more like 8mins of extra time,  AND IM A DUBLIN MAN.

Agree this slow play taking frees is a blight on the game, even worse in rugby.

Think the Dublin football club championship will be interesting. I heard the better clubs are set up like inter-county squads. Fancy the winning Dublin team to win the club championship out this year.

The two losing semi finalists must be sick. Kerry would have smashed Mayo and Tyrone would have done the same to Dublin. Brutal final. Dubs terrible and Mayo spineless. Neither will win next year. Dublin are overated and are one of the biggest lays of the year in 2014.

Outside of Sean Cavanagh , Tyrone were a pedestrian team , nowhere near as good as the good ( not excellent) team they had 5-10 years ago .

Kerry would have beaten Mayo in a final , they would have been so far in front Mayo would have had to make changes and they do not have a strong enough bench to change a match they are losing .

Dublin outstayed Kerry in the semi , Kerry were ahead with 3 minutes to go . MD McAuley was MOM in the final , question arises would he have got on to the Kerry team of the late seventies / early eighties ?  Subs bench OK , but Jacko would have cleaned him football wise .

Kerry continue to produce the best natural footballers , maybe twas always thus .  Why is that ?