2017 All Ireland Senior Football Championship, Dublin's continued exploitation of its natural advantages

[Appendage]

Why does Aidan O’Shea pull up his shorts at every opportunity? Weird carry on. One would swear he was looking for attention.

[caoimhaoin]

Money talks.

Aussies show the way in this regard

[Lazarus]

1989 Cork 0–17 Mayo 1–11
1996 Meath 2–9 Mayo 1–11
1997 Kerry 0–13 Mayo 1–7
2004 Kerry 1–20 Mayo 2–9
2006 Kerry 4–15 Mayo 3–5
2012 Donegal 2–11 Mayo 0–13
2013 Dublin 2–12 Mayo 1–14
2016 Dublin 1–15 Mayo 1–14
2017 Dublin 1–17 Mayo 1–16

Oh the Green and Red.

[horriblecunt]

@fenwaypark

Cant understand why they dont have a ref for each half of the field. Would stop loads of pulling and dragging that goes on. In addition, each ref would be less fatigued, resulting in possibly better decision making.

it would also allow fatter refs and open it up to a greater portion of the population at large

[horriblecunt]

why are players wearing gps devices? is it in case they go missing?

[blackjack]

[Lazarus]

@Sidney

Ger Canning mistook Con O’Callaghan for John Small just prior to the throw-in yesterday and then quickly realised his mistake and covered it over smoothly and professionally.

The much maligned Ger Caning was excellent yesterday I thought, listen to his commentary for O Callaghans goal. Dessie Dolan was useless however

[kerry1891]

@Julio_Geordio

Keegan was only trying to keep up his ground covered stats so Rochford wouldn’t sub him

In terms of ground covered, there was only one winner yesterday for those present at the match. might not have been obvious on de tele

Jayo Sherlock was on the pitch more than he was on the sideline. haring around the place he was. He seems to have a bog role now in the Dublin backroom team. still fleet of foot by the looks of things sunday

[Lazarus]

@carryharry

Johnny Coen threw the ball to Joe Canning.

Lol, Tipp lads getting their knickers in a twist because Mayo lose the football. What a great sporting year it’s been

[anon70480284]

Jayo looks to have aged too

[myboyblue]

Cc @carryharry

[caoimhaoin]

Have any of the lads ridiculing Dean Rock apologised yet?

[glasagusban]

What is this bollox that’s becoming received wisdom on here that a team, mayo, should win the game by enough so that bad ref decisions don’t impact the result?

What a load of shit.

[Nembo_Kid]

You must think Mayo are the only team on the end of bad decisions. The same referee as Sunday blackguarded Fermanagh out of the Championship in Castlebar last year.

[glasagusban]

No i don’t and it seems you’ve missed the point.

[Julio_Geordio]

It can’t always be the refs fault mate. The ref didn’t clothesline a Dublin player and give away a scoreable free and numerical advantage, nor did the ref hit a chest high shot at the keeper when one on one on goals.

[Nembo_Kid]

Odd that you ignore the decisions that go Mayo’s way?

[glasagusban]

He got a few big calls wrong, they went Dublin’s way.

Either way that’s not my point. Lads are here saying mayo should have won by enough so the refs decisions didn’t matter. Then out the other side of their mouths they say that Dublin, who got the benefit of those decisions, are the best team of all time. Completely contradictory lines of reasoning. Bullshit basically.

[Juhniallio]

@glasagusban

He got a few big calls wrong, they went Dublin’s way.

Either way that’s not my point. Lads are here saying mayo should have won by enough so the refs decisions didn’t matter. Then out the other side of their mouths they say that Dublin, who got the benefit of those decisions, are the best team of all time. Completely contradictory lines of reasoning. Bullshit basically.

Not at all. It means the big decisions even themselves out over time so there must be some other reason why a team gets so close and never wins or another team, say Dublin wins almost every tight game they have for three years.

[Julio_Geordio]

@glasagusban

He got a few big calls wrong, they went Dublin’s way.

Either way that’s not my point. Lads are here saying mayo should have won by enough so the refs decisions didn’t matter. Then out the other side of their mouths they say that Dublin, who got the benefit of those decisions, are the best team of all time. Completely contradictory lines of reasoning. Bullshit basically.

Dublin have won three all Ireland’s in a row. You don’t do that without being a great team. Neither of the two great teams in recent times Kerry or Tyrone could manage a back to back, never mind three. They are currently behind the Kerry team that did the four in a row, but not a lot else. Mayo were the only team that laid a glove on them all year. In contrast Mayo were poxed to even be in the final.
Mayo have now lost 3 finals in 4 years by a point. It can’t always be the refs fault that they don’t have the bottle to haul themselves over the line.