2017 All Ireland Senior Football Championship

[Massey]

Mayo will go àgàin

[Fagan_ODowd]

@gilgamboa

@braz83

It’s unreal. Hard to think of an equivalent in any other sport to come so close so often without winning one

Clermont lost 10 french finals before they won one. In recent times mainly from position of favouritism.

I think he was referring to actual sports.

[TheUlteriorMotive]

[Ralphie]

Wonder what % of those in attendance, was today the only match they attended all year.

[Little_Lord_Fauntleroy]

a lot less than the spud hockey

[caoimhaoin]

Because i didn’t comment does not mean i ignored it.

But that off the ball stuff was par for the course today. Even on tv.

The dubs should technixally have got maybe 4-5 black cards in the last 3 mins. It was unbelieveable. But they were right. Just as COC was. You push the boundaries till caught.

My problem is with stuff he saw.

[Little_Lord_Fauntleroy]

Letting the o shea black card go?

[tallback]

You think more black cards should have been given for the jostling before Clarke kickout after Rock final free? After KK was carded (correctly) he fucked it up and I don’t recall a Dub having the opportunity or need to black card again

[caoimhaoin]

I’d have to watch it again if i am honest. My initial feeling was "fuxk off dubs and commentators, he was getting up and there was no real intent.

But the shot was a fair bit back. So would like to see again

[tallback]

@caoimhaoin

I’d have to watch it again if i am honest. My initial feeling was "fuxk off dubs and commentators, he was getting up and there was no real intent.

But the shot was a fair bit back. So would like to see again

Didn’t show much replay to be fair but it looked very similar to the black card that Johnny Cooper picked up in the final last year.

[caoimhaoin]

They went at it inmeduately and CK was the one sacrificed, but at least 4 pull backs happened between 2 kicks, probably many more. But a couple were actual hughing of the players.

I’m not expecting them to be hiven, just outling what a farce of a card it is and balancing what matty was whinging about.

Dubs won and the best team always wins, even if tgey are not at tgeir best. And i think this confuses people. Dublin were not doninant today. But why have they the right to be? Maybe because its of the exposure we get to these 3 teams, but the 3 semis and the final have been so unbelievably oredictable.

Dubs played aome brilliant stuff today, but seems to be lost a bit.

[GeoffreyBoycott]

@GeoffreyBoycott

Mayo’s 1-16 was the joint highest losing total posted in an All Ireland Final. Galway posted 2-13 in their 7 point defeat to Cork in 1973, but that was an 80 minute final.

Of the 5 All Ireland’s won by Dublin since 2011, four were won 1 point (one of those in a replay) and the other by 3 points. A feature in probably four of those five final wins was winning in late off the bench. In both hurling and football, the advent to a 21 man has disproportionately favoured the counties with the larger populations and bigger playing pools. In rugby, the strength of the 7 or 8 players that New Zealand can throw on for the last 20 minutes in rugby has strengthened their dominance and stranglehold in that code. Reducing the number of subs back down to 3 should be looked at.

@Nembo_Kid

Irrelevant Boycott.

Huh?

The comment about the Mayo 1-16 losing total is factually correct as is the comment on the winning margin in Dublin’s last 5 All Ireland final wins. Apart from that, I mooted reducing the number of substitutes.

Irrelevance in the context of this year’s championship and this forum are the couple of hundred of spam posts you put up bigging up All Ireland Champions Elect 2017 - Tyrone. Are you going to give us another treatise on money, population and travel distance like you did in the immediate aftermath of the rout of Tyrone?

@Nembo_Kid

You don’t think Dublin have a huge advantage in terms of money or population or travel distance to training?

[Little_Lord_Fauntleroy]

Zzzzzzzzzzzz

[Appendage]

To lose 4 out of the last 6 All Irelands is some going. And 3 of them by a point.

[Nembo_Kid]

I didn’t say it wasn’t factually correct.

I said it was irrelevant.

[Appendage]

O Shea getting black carded would’ve had little impact. He was bolloxed for most of the second half. Penalties on the other hand would’ve had a major impact.

‘You know how I roll Bryan’

[Little_Lord_Fauntleroy]

Their star player missing the 2nd half would have made a huge difference

[GeoffreyBoycott]

@Nembo_Kid

I didn’t say it wasn’t factually correct. I said it was irrelevant.

Most of your 1207 posts on this thread are irrelevant.

[Appendage]

He didn’t go that well after. The dub dived anyway.

[Copper_pipe]