All Ireland Football Final 2020 Dublin v Mayo

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You’ve grown a lot as a poster

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So it’s not a conveyor belt of talent but a team that has found a tactical system that works and the players are well drilled and conditioned in it.

It’s not putting a man on the moon

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What a pathetic piece. Sickening

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Ah yeah, no talent there at all.

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The ability and desire to work hard is a key talent.

Kicking and hand passing off both sides is not talent. It’s practice.

I’d look for tall fast lads if I was running a county team. The rest you can add. Look at Limerick hurlers :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

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It’s a strange All Ireland Final week but the buildup is in swing now.

I think Mayo’s best chance is to play Coen at midfield to focus solely on stopping Fenton. That would likely mean Ryan O’Donoghue dropping out and Loftus moving to 11, or Loftus dropping and playing Keegan at 6 and O’Hora at corner back. The latter is probably preferable if O’Hora goes on Rock, he doesn’t need lightening quickness to stick with him and can give him the business in the hope of rattling him.

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Edit, already posted thanks mate.
I’d love mayo to win, and there’s always a chance but can’t see past Dublin looking comfortable.

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This is part of the issue though. Both Mayo and Kerry have had fair success at stopping Dublin’s marquee players over the last few years. It’s the amount of energy and concentration that takes and the amount it detracts from their own teams attack that matters. When the space is taken from Fenton, Con or Kilkenny then it leaves a tonne of it for Scully, Small, McDaid etc. And they are good enough to take advantage and will. It’s not how good Dublin’s best players are that’s the problem. It’s how good the rest of them are.
That’s what I think anyway.

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That is nail on head.
Limerick are the same the fuckers.

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Paul Mannion would score that in 10 minutes.

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To paraphrase Mark Moran, the only good thing about your substitutes is that there was 20 of them

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Don’t forget the dig outs from refs if it gets too close.

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In a very odd sort of way the legacy of some of these Dublin players will be remembered more fondly if they lose.

The likes of Fenton should be talked about as one of the greatest footballers of all time but instead people talk about the unfair advantages Dublin have. The players quality is over looked.

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Are the refs told to favour Dublin by someone in Croke Park do you think?

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No, I think the weight of public expectation, opinion and pressure inexorably drags them in that direction. The same as refs deference to Kilkenny when kk were at their peak. Refs knew kk are the greatest team of all time and any a player of them the finest hurler of all time, inconceivable to be brandishing cards at them or the like. It took some time before refs were brave enough to truly call them up equally. The same weight of expectation bearing on refs has seen the Dublin footballers come out the right side of massive calls that have tilted knife edge games in their favour. Hopefully the all Ireland final last year will be a turning point and see Dublin held to the same standards as everyone else.

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This is 100pc true. If Dublin lose on Saturday they will go down as the greatest team ever to play gaa. If they win they will get no credit and all the talk will be about changing the competition or disbanding the team completely. That’s genuinely crazy but it’s a fact.

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Absolutely. Have they found Austin Gleesons testicles yet by the way?

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I hate when people try to cast aspersions on a players character like that. Austin Gleeson had a superb season, he’ll be even better next year.

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He was decent at times but hardly superb.

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That’s a well made point. I do remember feeling refs favoured Kilkenny a bit when they were in their pomp. I don’t think referees favour Dublin but considering where I am from that’s not surprising.

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