Tbf Dublin don’t have to worry much about traveling and logistics outside the capital so that’d explain the shortfall.
For Tyrone, there are two elements lacking currently.
A free taker who can get a decent return from 35 yards and further out.
A quality big man in the full forward line which can allow us to vary it up. Our attacking play is a bit predictable at the minute, I think a good foil for guys like McCurry, McAliskey, O’Neill, Brennan and Bradley - all really skillful but fairly slightish scoring forwards would do them the world of good. Niall McKenna is a lad I’d love to see get a go at 14, I think he could make a real difference there - hopefully he remains fit for the pre-season this year round and can make his claim.
Top quality forwards win all irelands,mayo just don’t have any yet
Why didn’t this bollox tell us exactly how many of them are travelling up and down from Dublin? Probably fuck all of them. Every cunt in Mayo crosses the boarder and tries to find a day’s work with the farmers of Galway anyway. We let them off at half six to go back.
Money Kerry football raise in NYC is Sinn Fein Esque
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Mayo could beat it if they got themselves organised over there, I’d bet.
Half of the Irish over there are O’Malleys.
Tyrone need to knock Niall Morgan’s ego in in the same way Mayo need to do with Aidan O’Shea, except to an even larger extent. Another Hollywood prima donna with serious notions. Cut this bollocks of him taking frees. Has he ever got an important one?
They look to have a perfectly decent sub goalkeeper there in Michael O’Neill who carries a lot less baggage around with him.
They definitely need something different in the full forward line - McCurry is good, if not top class, McAliskey a notch below that. I’m not sold on Ronan O’Neill. Didn’t try a leg against Mayo.
Morgan is a far superior goalkeeper to O’Neill, night and day between them. O’Neill was rightly dropped after a bombscare display against Cavan in the drawn game where his inability to command his square was evident. Morgan is brilliant at coming and dealing with a high ball and if he is fit then he will start.
Morgan is an excellent keeper and very important to Tyrone but he’s not the answer on frees and needs to be taken off them, this is a management decision as well - the players always call Morgan up when they get one rather than the other way round. Harte wants Morgan on them but it hasn’t worked. His forays up the pitch can be a bit risky but he seems to have curtailed that type of nonsense this year.
Morgan’s a shape throwing ponce. It’s alright doing that if you can back it up but he can’t.
Every time he misses a free it boosts the opposition above and beyond the mere miss itself.
Donegal 2013, Kerry 2015 and Mayo 2016 are all games where he has been central to Tyrone losing.
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He’s a solid keeper, he had a bad day on kickouts against Kerry last year but equally his kickouts were pivotal to Tyrone beating Monaghan.
I didn’t see any issue whatsoever with his kickouts against Mayo this summer, if he didn’t miss those frees someone else would have as we’ve tried them all on frees - Cavanagh, Harte, O’Neill, McAliskey, Bradley and McCurry - none of them can cut it from the distance. It’s a big problem and management have to find a way around it, Morgan is only operating under instructions coming up and taking these.
Look at the difference in the amount of goals conceded between O’Neill and Morgan in Championship football in the past three years - it’s night and day.
Have only completed this up until Cooper’s black card so far. Hope to make some more progress on it tonight and tomorrow.
Referee Analysis
Dublin v Mayo 2016 Replay
0:11
Tom Parsons is in possession. Diarmuid Connolly pulls his jersey. Deegan lets it go and play continues with Mayo still in possession.
2:04
Dean Rock penalised for pulling back Keith Higgins. Soft but technically a correct decision. The ball in had travelled well over both of them to Robert Hennelly however and the decision had no material impact on the game.
2:20
James McCarthy adjudged to have pushed Jason Doherty. Free given. Soft from the main camera angle. DEBATABLE.
2:34
Aidan O’Shea pulls Cian O’Sullivan’s jersey while in possession of the ball. Free out to Dublin not given. INCORRECT DECISION.
2:51
Kevin McManamon appears to pull back and impede Diarmuid O’Connor’s arm rather than the ball while O’Connor is in possession. Free not given. INCORRECT DECISION.
2:55
John Small is in possession and wraps his arm around the arm of the challenging Diarmuid O’Connor. Free not given. INCORRECT DECISION.
3:07
Diarmuid O’Connor runs across, brings down and cuts off the run of Diarmuid Connolly after Connolly has passed the ball forward. O’Connor likely knew what he was doing here. Technically. it could have been a black card although O’Connor doesn’t raise an arm. Debatable.
3:11
Kevin McManamon’s arm is pulled by Colm Boyle before Donal Vaughan comes in with a high arm tackle. Advantage is played before Kevin McLoughlin fouls Paul Flynn at 3:15. Deegan correctly comes back for the original free. CORRECT DECISION.
4:55
Dean Rock pushes Keith Higgins to the ground after scoring a point. No action taken and Rock would continue this sort of thing beyond this incident. A talking to would have sufficed.
5:58
Kevin McLoughlin appears to hold Ciaran Kilkenny’s arm as they battle for a 50/50 ball into them. Free not immediately given but Dean Rock scores a point three seconds later. Impossible to see fom the TV angle whether Deegan had signalled for a free advantage which would have been the correct call, so no judgement can be made on his call in this case because we don’t know (and I can’t remember from the live viewing).
6:30
Diarmuid O’Connor, while in possession 40 metres out on the sideline, pulls John Small’s jersey. Free out not given. INCORRECT DECISION. Mayo score through Patrick Durcan 13 seconds later.
One point direct benefit to Mayo.
7:07
John Small deliberately trips Andy Moran. Free correctly given, but it clearly should have been a black card.
8:42
Brian Fenton and Seamus O’Shea go for a 50/50 ball on hte Mayo 13 metre line - neither gathers it, Fenton falls and O’Shea trips over him. Deegan’s decision to not award a free out is probably correct as the trip was completely accidental and O’Shea reversed into Fenton, not knowing Fenton was there. CORRECT DECISION.
8:48
Kevin McManamon goes past Kevin McLoughlin before going to ground looking for a free. McLoughlin does apply some pressure with the arm but not enough for a free. Deegan correctly waves play on. CORRECT DECISION.
9:02
Cian O’Sullivan pushes then pulls Aidan O’Shea. Free correctly awarded. CORRECT DECISION.
10:07
John Small adjudged to have fouled Andy Moran. Technically Small probably impedes Moran with his arms but this is certainly on the soft side. Technically CORRECT but many, if not most referees would not have given it.
11:41
Dublin free: Jason Doherty pulls/impedes Paul Flynn. Again, like the previous free, on the soft-ish side but probably technically CORRECT.
12:21
Dublin free, unseen by the TV camera which was still replaying Andy Moran’s point. Cian O’Sullivan appeared to have been fouled by Cillian O’Connor from the aftermath of it.
13:07
Dublin free: Tom Parsons pushes James McCarthy in the back. CORRECT DECISION.
13:17
Dublin free: Patrick Durcan fouls Paddy Andrews. Actual push just missed by TV angle but Andrews goes flying so one can only presume it’s a CORRECT DECISION.
14:25
Mayo free: Deegan spots a jersey pull in midfield as a long Hennelly kickout drops. Possibly the one by John Small on Diarmuid O’Connor but this is on Deegan’s blind side so the free may have been given for an impeding by Cian O’Sullivan on Tom Parsons. Difficult to see for sure on TV for the latter but either way Deegan is very sure it’s a free, and either way it’s a CORRECT DECISION.
16:02
Dublin free: Seamus O’Shea pulls John Small’s jersey in a scoring area. A stupid foul by O’Shea. CORRECT DECISION.
17:23
Jason Doherty clatters into the unsuspecting Jonny Cooper after Lee Keegan’s goal. It’s a strong arm tackle to dislodge the ball from Cooper’s arms rather than a strike. Yellow card would have been the correct call here but Deegan takes no action.
19:12
Donal Vaughan fouls Jonny Cooper, probably twice within two seconds, with hand interference around the head area, but neither is given. INCORRECT DECISION.
19:15
Cooper, now on the ground, grabs Vaughan’s legs and trips him. A black card is awarded. It’s the CORRECT DECISION by the letter of the law, but not the sort of foul that the black card was brought in to try and eradicate. Cooper should also have had a free a couple of seconds earlier, which is why he was on the ground in the first place.
I have a funny feeling this ends up with “he got most of the calls right bar the Keegan card”
Refs get some calls wrong and some right. This level of analysis is fucking insane. They are not robots ffs.
Lunashy.
Thats not what you were saying sunday
Sunday was ‘winding up the roasters’ day. Some of them were frothing at the mouth.
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With a background in sports psychology.
Cork lowest figure of the 32 counties?
Frank OUT!