Nothing in celebrations in 2014 that I can recall but fuck me he has dined out on the victory ever since. Makes reference to it in almost 90% of his articles.
He beat us, is that not enough to hate the fucker.
An absolute dullard
A very lucky win it was too. The Dubs should have been out of sight after 10 minutes
A very convincing win it was too, game was done and dusted after about 45 minutes.
Smashing article by Jimmyâs Winning Matches in the Times yesterday.
Heâs been phoning it in a bit this year but the vista of a potentially ânotoriousâ All-Ireland final that he painted was delightful, and letâs face it, itâs one we all want to see happen.
Dublinâs sheer professional attitude of coaching coaching coaching could be an Achilles heel strangely. Take them out of their rehearsed plays and disrupt their key players in that system and they can look ordinary. I think individuality could have been coached out of them despite them having superb individuals and thus their ability to deal with a changing picture of what the match entails.
I pretty much robbed that from McGuinness.
Also I think Kloppâs Liverpool are excellent at adapting their play on the pitch for the circumstances in front of them. First leg against Roma was shadow boxing initially until Liverpool overpowered then through pace and energy, and kept the foot on the throttle.
This Dublin team are special and the can play it anyway you like
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Clear speculation.
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There is a clear way to beat Dublin which I will
post after the final.
Did they still have their foot kept on the throttle when Roma scored twice?
Score more than them?
I think the quality of Dublinâs individuals in an attacking sense is not what it was in the 2013-14 period and thatâs one reason why they are increasingly playing this sort of game.
Connolly is gone, Flynn is a sub and Brogan will be very peripheral at best. They also still had Alan Brogan as an option then. Those first three were playing at either career peaks in Connolly and Flynnâs case or near a return to career peak form in Broganâs case, in those years. You canât replace that easily.
I think the first half of last yearâs final proved this beyond doubt when Dublin struggled hugely and had to turn to Connolly.
The one thing Mayo always brought against Dublin was sustained savage aggression. Nobody has yet brought that this year, very few teams are able to do it at all and Dublin can struggle when a team brings it, because by definition theyâll only ever face it one or twice a year at most. So when a team does actually bring it it can sort of shock Dublin and make them malfunction, at least for a significant period.
Of any team this year, Tyrone came closest in Omagh, but it was not to the level needed. However I think they can up the aggression level again - Tyrone knew that game was not knockout and psychologically itâs difficult to bring that savage level of aggression in a non-knockout game. But psychologically Tyrone have to have a far more robust mindset than last year when they seemed to immediately and collectively shit the pot when they conceded that Con OâCallaghan goal.
In a battle of systems, when one system gains a clear upper hand, things can turn to absolute shit for the other one and players can panic. Given that Dublinâs game is now a system-based game, if Tyrone were to bring the necessary aggression allied to a game plan that caused Dublin trouble, it may become apparent that Dublinâs quality in attack is not as good as it was, in a similar manner to the first half of last yearâs final. And this time there is no Connolly to bring on.
If you did he is talking rubbish
Dublin are incredibly flexible and practice repetition without repetition incessantly
Itâs what makes them so hard to beat
That and the ability to bring on some boy from the bench - who can run like a madman, before he accelerates past a couple of lads
But Iâve a bad feeling about this one. I donât think thereâll be much in in.
I see Harte let his house journalist out
I note he doesnât mention rape apology or the behaviour of players under his watch as part of hartes âsupreme featsâ
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Plenty of teams players misbehave.
Harte never apologised for rape. Itâs no wonder youâre a failed lawyer.
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Youâre safe enough. I very much doubt Mickey Harte is lurking amongst us.