This bastion of fair minded lads neutral on Dublin and not driven demented by the greatest team the GAA has seen.
List off this please.
A few random thoughts having read through a myriad of posts here.
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Sidney can slice or dice it whatever way he wants and list another 20 instances where Mayo could have won the game. The reality is Mayo seem to find ways to lose all irelands while the tyrones of this world find a way to win them.
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To my mind the final was a five point hammering. I thought there was an inevitably about the result from about 25 mins in.
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Iām no fan of Tyrone but this team is more likeable than teams of the past with some seriously under rated footballers. That said Mcguigans comments about domination and zooming up the roll of honour list seem fanciful, although it is quite possible they will win maybe 2/3 in the next ten years with the age profile of this team and the talent coming through.
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Amazingly for a team that have lost so many finals there was a stench of having the hard work done after beating Dublin. They deserved to be the team that finally beat Dublin but its fuck all good now.
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I would be a lot less critical than most of AOS but I now believe heās a liability to Mayo. Apart from throw ins he canāt seem to win primary possession now, heās non existent on the scoring front and most damning of all he just passes off any possession he does get, mostly laterally and within five yards. Heās a serious unit and even upending one tyrone man before laying it off would have lifted the Mayo crowd no end.
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Youād have to think now the Dublin comeback was a bit of a fluke, aided by Dublin being well below par. There was no plan to it to my eye and as Iāve said before, anyone that says they thought at halftime or at 12-7 down after 60 odd minutes that Mayo would win are talking scutter.
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Mayo still lack a real x factor forward, a goal poacher who can turn a game with a moment of genius. They possess an abundance of fine, physical, hard running athletes but no elusive āGoochā type (not that many teams do). I think Kevin mcstay referenced this in one of his articles.
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Even as a Galway man, Lee Keegan is one of my favourite players off all time. An absolute warrior who always turns up on the big day. It would be akin to Joe Canning retiring without a celtic cross if keegan fails to win one.
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Perhaps itās time for Mayo to look outside for a Manager, someone not involved in club politics and is free to pick players on merit and make whatever calls he sees fit during games. That said I think Horan is a very good manager and way ahead of the like of Padraic Joyce.
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Tyrone are very worthy champions, even if I believe they used covid to their advantage. When they took to the pitch they stuck to their plan and gave their all for the jersey. They beat Mayo comprehensively and although the game went to extra time, comfortably had kerrys number too. They ALWAYS turn up on the big days, similar to Kilkenny. We in Galway can never take this for granted and its a hugely admirable quality.
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Canāt think of any off the top of my head.
Toddle along soā¦.
My point was thereās very few. So few I canāt think of any.
If Iām wrong Iām sure lads will be along quickly with lists of players with worse records than Small.
Nah, you were typing shiteā¦.
Was this the overwhelming weight of opinion on one viewing?
Of one person
Yup.
Absolutely. As aside, the way to undermine, troll and demoralise Tyrone is simply to like them. It will shatter their entire sense of identity.
That said I think this team are so wonderful that theyāll just rebuild and come back stronger. Come on Tyrone!!
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Anyone who understands football knew immediately that it wasnāt a fair shoulder. Mclaughlin just dropped to the ground where he was hit which means his body didnāt take the force of the shoulder, and so it could only have been his head that was hit. Compare it to how Diarmuid OāConnor went spinning down the field when Comer lined him up and hit him a proper shoulder in a very similar scenario.
And you would know this how?
Nonsense. Nathan Mullins drops straight to the ground from a perfectly fair hit by James McCarthy here.
Just thinking there that Iāve been very lucky to witness some of these famous big hits live at close range. I was pitchside dead level on the near side terrace for that McCarthy hit, one of the nearest five or ten spectators in the ground. Had a grandstand view of the Eamonn Heery one on Colm OāRourke too, low down on the upper tier of the old Cusack on the Canal 45. And saw the Rory OāCarroll one in 2013 from the Hill.
He doesnāt though, his feet end up about 2 yards from where the hit takes place. Compare that to Mclaughlin, one of his feet never even moves from where the hit happens, he just drops like a stone in the same way a boxer who has been knocked out with a belt to his jaw would. .
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McLaughlin ended up about 2 yards from where he was hit. They fall in the exact same way.
Sure if you are going to deny the video evidence and make up your own reality carry on.
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Iāve literally looked at both in the last 40 seconds. They fall in exactly the same way.
Can you show men one instance when a Limerick hurler has seriously injured an opposition player in the last 3 years ??
Are you for real?