Theres no room for individualism in the GAA. I was totally devastated to see it.
Is O’Rourke going senile?
POTY - Rock.
Moment of the Year - Kerry winning minor because senior championship was boring.
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His MOTY was Kerry completing a 3 in a row, kinda like the Oscars giving Return of the King the Oscar for the 2 previous films as well.
Joe Brolly is a great man. I cant wait for him to be President of both the GAA and Ireland.
I’m fucking sickened. You can look at any number of incidents and whatever, but the game was lost for Mayo on the Hennelly call. Clarke has been in inspired form this year, dropping him for an All Ireland Final Replay was daft. Hennelly was woeful (to state the obvious), but Rochford made the call to put him in.
Deegan got a few things wrong, but they weren’t fatal, and it was a tough game to ref. Coen did well when he came in. Seamie and Harrison were immense. Forwards let us down. Moran wasted possession repeatedly and bottled a number of chances with funny solos. O’Connor wasn’t great in open play, but strong word he wasn’t fully fit anyway. Doherty does his job, but isn’t a scoring threat when we have the ball. Freeman should’ve been introduced instead of Barry Moran.
Fuck it anyway.
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Are you not a Kildare man?
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Also, anyone giving O’Connor the label of a bottler is a fool. Yeah he missed a free you’d say he kicks eight out of ten times, but Jesus, two weeks ago he had the balls to shimmy around Daly and slot a point to get a replay. Mayo would’ve been at home today if it wasn’t for him.
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Aye, but my old man is Mayo. My first memories of going to games were National League games in Ballina, Charlestown and Castlebar.
No one in their right man could blame him.
Was a v tough free even if it was given to him earlier on in the game…Mayo’s loss is unfortunately due to not having top quality forwards.
Hard for them to take as they gave it their all for 150 mins plus and arguably got the better of Dublins marquee forwards…
If it’s any consolation, mine wouldn’t know a football from a garden rake, and I’ll be lucky to get any before Christmas.
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All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. 
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He changed his set up. That is the prime example of bottling. I hate the term and believe it ia over used, and i like COC, but he bottled it. And what you do last week is forgotten this week. He bottled it this week, he saved it last week. Maybe too much time to think? Who knows.
He kicked it wide at his own side. Can’t do that.
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I think it’s v harsh to say COC bottled it mate…if Mayo had the forwards they would have won that AI.
It really is as simple as that…given the circumstances that was a v tough free even on his favorable right side.
That disgusting bastard Connolly waving the imaginary card in the refs face with his drug fueled eyeballs popping out of his forehead was what got Keegan off.
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I was watching him trying to get himself set and the linesman came in on top of him then, he was facing into the Hogan as if he was kicking it off his left at one stage. His routine was out of sync and it did look like he snatched a little at it, but I think to say he bottled it is harsh. Depends on your definition I suppose.
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Diarmuid Connolly is the best footballer in the country.
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I’ve said it before but it was again very unedifying to see the players and management teams from both sides appealing to the referee to issue cards to opponents.
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The replay was never going to be a great spectacle…both defences were well on top…was intriguing though.
That is Gaelic Football nowadays…to think otherwise is naive.
Maybe so but all evidence suggests he is a loathsome individual.
I thought it was a great spectacle and game today.
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