2021 All Ireland Football-Covid is a cod tyrone style

And then you have a keeper making it easy for them with his rash decisions - compare that to Morgan not falling for o donoghue stutter step

It was an illustration of how your perception changed depending on what team it was. You say Mayo should have won but they never looked like closing the gap. They gave away shit goals. They looked like they should lose to me.

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Even the second goal. Stand your ground and don’t come running out. Force McKenna to go for it and be aware of McCurry behind in the event of a hand pass.

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There was a defender close to McKenna too covering across. McKenna had been bang average all day and no guarantee he would hit the target even.

Hennelly’s showreel of conceded goals in finals is a horror show.

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They got bate out the gate

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Be very interesting to see where each of the top teams is by this time three years hence.

Tyrone look to have a good bit of improvement in them with McShane, McKenna, Canavan and the two midfielders all on an upward curve.

Harte, Donnelly, Tiernan McCann and maybe McCurry might drop off in that time.

Mayo will have Keegan, McLoughlin, O’Shea and Cillian O’Connor dropping off.

Michael Murphy doesn’t have long left with Donegal but otherwise they have a young squad.

Dublin are aging.

Kerry will have David Moran departing the scene soon but overall they look best placed to capitalise. They’re bound to develop a bit of steel with a better manager.

Dublin and Mayo are finished. Kerry are a one trick pony. Tyrone and Galway will dominate for the next 10 years

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Sometimes teams fuck away matches they should win all ends up. Tyrone did it against Kerry in 2019. And against Mayo in 2016. And against Dublin in 2010.

Sometimes you get matches where every event progressively changes matches psychologically and turns them on their head. Saturday was one of those. Mayo had five clear goal chances and took none. Everything that happened afterwards was affected by these misses.

But you’re expecting a team with shit or very inexperienced forwards to take literally every chance that they get in an all Ireland? That’s not reasonable. It’s just a myopic justification of what you thought should happen.

What’s the format next year? Straight knockout?

Dublin got awful stick for having a backroom team of 23 a few years ago. Petey Harte just confirmed Tyrone had 55-60 in their backroom. Very hard to see how the rest of us can compete when they have that level of support. Dublin can only dream of facilities like Garvaghey.

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Every things is back to noral from Oct 22

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Ayre Square fistfight. 3am throw ins.

Agreed. Even the Spartans wouldn’t train in Innisfails.

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Who said they had to take every chance?

They only needed to take probably one chance and it was a totally different game.

The margins are fine and outcome based narratives rule. The narrative after this final is that Tyrone were comfortably the better team and their victory was inevitable.And it’s completely wrong. On the basis of what actually happened, it was much more of a smash and grab. Had Conroy stuck his goal chance or O’Donoghue stuck the penalty we’d more likely be getting an outcome based narrative of how it was inevitable that Mayo were going to win. Which would have been wrong too.

No wonder their dressing room was a Covid Petri dish

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Would ya stop. Every time Mayo missed a chance Tyrone looked even more comfortable and didn’t have to extend themselves. They had the better bench and could have kicked on again if needed. Mayo couldn’t work a goal chance or necklace together a few successive points as Tyrone knew how to close it out,

That’s the outcome based narrative fallacy. It holds that everything that happened was inevitable. Gaelic football doesn’t work like that at all. Both semi-finals are absolute proof of that.

Dublin are miles behind. One pitch in St. Claire’s with a few ice baths. FFS where are they going?

Tyrone with Garvaghy, Kerry with Currans, Kildare with Hawkfield, Galway with Loughgeorge, Mayo with the Connacht GAA Centre, Wexford with Ferns, Offaly with the Faithful Fields. Places Dublin can only dream of.

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