At the early stages, I’d have to agree. That being said Tyrone kept them in it with the stupid black cards
He kept Kerry in the game.
Phantom frees all second half long to keep the scoreboard ticking over, two very dubious black cards to Tyrone when he didn’t do anything about worse Kerry challenges.
When you play Kerry at Croke Park, you have to beat Kerry and beat the ref too. Tyrone had to do that today, had the ref being impartial Tyrone would have won that by 5 or 6 in normal time.
Kerry and Donegal have a lot of similar failings.
This is what psychology refers to as ‘transference’…a term used to describe a behaviour where an individual indulges in actions which he or she feels significantly negative towards. The individual may then openly and aggressively accuse others of a similar behaviour, often in an attempt to encourage widespread censure, isolation and condemnation of these ‘others’, thereupon the individual essentially creates a degree of social separation between both the problematic behaviour and the innocent victim. It’s generally a mechanism to deal with and displace shame, guilt, self loathing etc.
A good example would be a limerick man accusing a proud Derry man of being ‘English’ in a pathetic attempt to deal with his own opportunistic switching of his allegiance to a seemingly invincible kilkenny, only to then face the double ignominy of having to switch back to limerick in order to feel some part of their newfound success.
It’s more common than you think.
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Hopefully they do a mashup of 2021
Powerful stuff today so it was.
Tyrone even had the local branch of the LVF/Ben Sherman Shirt Wearing Club down supporting them in 2003, which was nice.
There’s been some incredible upsets in the football championship in the past two seasons.
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Has to be one of the greatest meltdowns ever
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And vice versa. Tyrone won’t blow mayo off the ball like they did Kerry I don’t think. Tyrone look harder to beat than mayo though.
Tyrone don’t deserve an all Ireland after their covid gamesmanship.
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I love them for their brinkmanship, it’s admirable. They bluffed Kerry out of their boots
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Gamesmanship?
Elaborate.
Should they have landed down last week without a collective training session in about a month?
Any man who dispenses with the services of Donie Buckley is not to be trusted. I’d hazard a guess that Keane is a pig of a man behind all the cute hoorism.
Well done @Fulvio_From_Aughnacloy - Limerick will have to make do with only the Liam MacCarthy in 2021.
6/4 on a team facing Mayo in a final, I’ll be having some of that.
Delighted for Mickey Harte, they have to win it for him now.
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A lot of the narrative will be anti-Mickey Harte here but it’s not as if this team came from the doldrums. They’ve been there or there abouts in the past few years.
We could just as easily have left that behind today as we did against Kerry in 2015 and 2019 and Mayo in 2016. We had those three games in our grasp but a combination of missed chances, refereeing calls going against us and a sending off in the Mayo game in 2016 swung it away from us. Think we were due a bit of luck today in that respect.
On paper I think Tyrone have better players, they far more down the development line that Mayo are at present but Mayo seem to spook Tyrone a little. They have the ability to storm teams and overwhelm them with their tempo. I still see a lot of stupid things Tyrone do on the ball - the likes of McGeary, Donnelly and Burns had some really stupid wides today.
Mayo will be coming with no inferiority complex and will get wired in, should be a great battle. Hopefully Tyrone do enough on the day but it would be hard to begrude Mayo if they earn it.
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Joe speaks @Fulvio_From_Aughnacloy will enjoy this
Trying to win an All-Ireland with a one-man team is a precarious business, as Kerry keep finding out
independent.ie | August 28, 2021 08:53 PM
Expand Close Kerry’s David Clifford during the All-Ireland semi-final against Tyrone. Photo: Piaras Ó Mídheach / Facebook Twitter Email Whatsapp Kerry’s David Clifford during the All-Ireland semi-final against Tyrone. Photo: Piaras Ó Mídheach
Two decades on, Kerry were soon in deep shit. Tyrone were calm and tough, Kerry panicky and rushed. For the first 60 minutes, it was an entertaining contest between Tyrone and David Clifford. But when Clifford got injured after a hospital pass from Seán O’Shea, Kerry were done.
Trying to win an All-Ireland with a one-man team is a precarious business. Kerry, looking like an over-eager under 20 side slightly out of their depth against the real thing, soloed into cul de sacs and hand-passed the ball away on multiple occasions. Had it not been for Clifford, Tyrone would have walloped them.
Expand Close Kerry manager Peter Keane reacts during the All-Ireland SFC semi-final defeat to Tyrone. Photo by Brendan Moran/Sportsfile / Facebook Twitter Email Whatsapp Kerry manager Peter Keane reacts during the All-Ireland SFC semi-final defeat to Tyrone. Photo by Brendan Moran/Sportsfile
As it was, the young King of Gaelic Football was unmarkable, kicking eight points and singlehandedly creating the illusion that Kerry are a serious team. But as soon as he was injured (inevitably by the umpteenth awful Kerry hand-pass) that was that.
Beforehand, when Kieran Donaghy was asked for his prediction, he smiled and said: “I’d be worried if it was wet and slippy.”
This was a reminder that Kerry have yet to shed their complacency when it comes to Tyrone. Here, they quickly discovered that Ulster teams are not Clare, and certainly not a Tyrone team backboned by Dooher steel.
My old Derry teammate Fergal McCusker, an infallible predictor of games, told me a fortnight ago that Mayo would beat Dublin.
On Wednesday, he texted to say “Tyrone to win. Kerry a one-man team. They have two feet in the final and have the false comfort of beating Tyrone by 16 points in the league. Tyrone have plenty of buckos in their team who don’t give a f**k. They will come out swinging and Kerry will eventually go down under the pressure.”
Paddy Power, who had Kerry at 1/7, should hire him. He is not expensive. Sponsoring the Watty Grahams GAC annual golf tournament will be enough to persuade him.
The first half ended with the Ulster champions a point ahead, the half-time scoreline reading Tyrone 1-7, David Clifford 0-9, but there was an air of desperation around Kerry and the mood of the contest was strongly with Tyrone.
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Even though they owned Tyrone’s kick-outs throughout, Kerry continued to play amateurish football in the second half, remaining totally reliant on Clifford for scores from play. Seán O’Shea — as always — took his frees beautifully, but he is not at the highest level of Gaelic football forwards.
Rather he is an artist from placed balls and given time, can kick points beautifully from play. However, he is not a top line goal-scorer, nor does he have the pace or craft to open a defence like Tyrone’s.
Here, he got one point from play. This came about after Clifford had sent him through on goal with a miraculous hand-pass over his shoulder while he was falling to the ground in the opposite direction.
Presented with the goal chance, O’Shea panicked and just about drove the ball over the bar. Like his other four forward colleagues he was nervy and anonymous, Tyrone calmly swatting them aside.
When the goal chances came for Kerry, they were spurned as a result of this panic. First, with the goal at their mercy in the 21st minute, and Niall Morgan stranded, Paul Geaney hurriedly hand-passed the ball at Stephen O’Brien’s feet. O’Brien, meanwhile, had for some reason stationed himself well inside the square, so when he palmed it to the empty net it was immediately disallowed.
The second botched goal chance was the final disaster, O’Shea crippling Clifford in the 66th minute with a telegraphed hand-pass when a dummy and pause would have left Clifford with an easy palm-in.
Tyrone’s psychological hold over Kerry (save for Clifford) was obvious throughout. This manifested itself in the way Kerry soloed until they over-carried, hand-passed the ball away and rushed their shots.
A flavour: Cillian Spillane over-carried (40). Seán O’Shea hand-passed the ball away (41). Killian Spillane was easily blocked when he took a panicky shot for goal (42). Mike Breen soloed until he stumbled and fell over, resulting in a Tyrone free (47). Stephen O’Brien over-carried — free out (52). Jack Barry hand-passed to Con Kilpatrick (57). Paul Murphy kicked the ball over the sideline after falling mid-solo (61) and so on and so forth.
Tyrone had them by the balls. Cathal McShane and the son of God came on and made excellent contributions.
Both will be fit for the final. This Tyrone team are a tight, happy group. They love Dooher and Logan. They are tough and ruthless and full of football. Like Milwall, no one likes them, but they do not give one damn.
At the final whistle, all that remained was for Pat Spillane to go and have a good puke.
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Mickey was clearly holding them back, he was a useless cunt for the last decade or so
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I disagree. He kept them at the top table when counties who had varying degrees of success in and around that era like Meath, Armagh, Galway and Cork fell off the scene.
Harte has taken lots of abuse in the past for persisting with players.
Colm Cavanagh was one. He eventually turned into a mainstay for Tyrone and a key man.
Cathal McShane was another. He turned into an All Star and top scorer in the championship.
Meyler, McGeary and Burns were three others he got slated for persisting with. All three were immense today, if Tyrone get over the line in a fortnight it’s hard to look past McGeary for FOTY.
The time was obviously right for change. Dooher and Logan have came in and reenergised the sqaud but I think Harte left Tyrone football in a very healthy shape.
Maybe had he had guys like McShane, McKenna and Canavan around for a bit longer then who knows?
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