My pal? Awful, worse than useless, Maher to boot. Major impact on losing of game imho.
I’ve only had the opportunity to watch up to the first goal, but what the fuck was Ger Brennan at? Right from the start he was jumping all over Gooch, fouling him at every opportunity. As if Gooch is going to start running scared at this kind of treatment, as would never have seen it before. Naturally after such an incident, Gooch goes into one of his Zen like states, pauses time and delivers a pass that the rest of us would spend our entire lives talking about to set up the goal. Utter brilliance. I hope Brennan has a good look at it and realises what a complete tool he looked liked.
it was an average pass
Scumpot - You are getting far too carried away. This is not a great Kerry team, they have a couple of outstanding individuals, but it’s an average enough team. Declan and Darren O Sullivan were largely ineffective and have been for a while. Really it was Gooch, JOD & Walsh that did all the damage and Galvin played well for 2 or 3 6-7 min bursts. Other than that they were poor all over the field.
Ignore history and colour of the jerseys. Dublin need to respect Mayo more than Kerry, and I wonder is this the case. I get the feeling the Dubs made a big thing out of it being “Kerry”. Some of the young lads really under performed and froze somewhat (McCaffery, O Brien, Killkenny for example) and I think it could be related to the “big thing” made of Kerry.
Mayo will ask far more questions and will be far more relentless than Kerry.
To him yes. To us mere mortals, no.
id honestly say if I kept going with the GGA I would have been a better GGA player than him
Surely in that case they need to respect Mayo less?
The GAA’s loss is the Fixie world’s gain.
So you advocating respecting the most impressive team all year ( other than Dublin) less because?
WOW. anonymous internet forumite give opinion on himslef which no one can back up. Youre living on the edge ma…
A former All Star and multiple All Ireland medal winner credited him as being the greatest natural talent he has ever shared a dressing room with.
well that clears everything up… :rolleyes:…rumour and conjecture…
talent is fuck all good without hard work, he save it for the barstool.
[quote=“count of monte cristo, post: 825642, member: 348”]well that clears everything up… :rolleyes:…rumour and conjecture…
talent is fuck all good without hard work, he save it for the barstool.[/quote]
Until you can come up with as clearly a made up testament toyour abilities you’d do we’ll to genuflect and back off mate.
I will when he does.
Respecting the other team and the occasion too much can stifle your own game.
http://fanpic.huggity.com/196-2013-eircom_gaa_semi2/app/index.php
Fanpic from the semi-final on Sunday. Who was sitting in corporate boxes ??
WelL too much of anything is not great. And playing an occasion is certainly not a good thing.
But I would say fully respecting your opponents should focus your mind on preparing to the max of your ability. Failure for even a small number of Dubs to do this and they will lose.
However I think it’s a fair assumption at this stage that Gavin won’t let this happen and even today I’d say they are switched into Mayo and preparation.
[quote=“caoimhaoin, post: 825563, member: 273”]Scumpot - You are getting far too carried away. This is not a great Kerry team, they have a couple of outstanding individuals, but it’s an average enough team. Declan and Darren O Sullivan were largely ineffective and have been for a while. Really it was Gooch, JOD & Walsh that did all the damage and Galvin played well for 2 or 3 6-7 min bursts. Other than that they were poor all over the field.
Ignore history and colour of the jerseys. Dublin need to respect Mayo more than Kerry, and I wonder is this the case. I get the feeling the Dubs made a big thing out of it being “Kerry”. Some of the young lads really under performed and froze somewhat (McCaffery, O Brien, Killkenny for example) and I think it could be related to the “big thing” made of Kerry.
Mayo will ask far more questions and will be far more relentless than Kerry.[/quote]
o_O
eh kev…that’s exactly what I said about the young lads… Sunday was to be enjoyed…not often you can say you saw your team knock Kerry out of the championship twice in 3 years…especially as a dub…so let me have that moment…
I watched the game again last night…Truth be told…Dublin looked very disjointed…You can make an argument that the more the championship has gone on the more they are coming apart as a unit…what was Gavin doing leaving ger brennan on cooper so long??..it was obvious he was always goign to be destroyed by him but Gavin left it until half time to change…that could have been too late…Half forward and half backlines were non existent in first half…cluxton was edgey all day…it was like he was mad for a piece of the action and he done some really bizarre things in an effort to be involved in the game…Brogan still won’t pass the ball and that won’t change in 3 weeks…in the second half Mannion just hid…he didn’t make nearly as much runs as he could have and when he did it was the exact same run everytime…thought paddy Andrews was the only Dublin player who kept showing for the ball for 70 minutes…Connolly in second half…Dublin’s kickouts were a disaster…i don’t know why cluxton didn’t just go long to connolly more…or even flynn…surely they have to be an option for final with Colm Boyle being much smaller than both??..
Before the match people said the high ball destroys Dublin full backline…now people are saying switching to the high ball cost Kerry the game…:rolleyes:
Gavin is beginning to remind me of Wenger - he doesn’t want to just win…he wants to win in a certain style…Mayo will stay with Dublin til the end so I’d be worried to be honest …I actually think Mayo will probably beat them.the only hope Dublin have is if Vaughan plays the way he did against tyrone and leaves that gaping hole in middle of defense for Dublin to run through like Colm Kavanagh did…but its mayo’s to lose if they keep the head
It helped when Kerry switched to the high ball the game was practically done, especially post goal when two balls in succession iirc went in (shockingly bad balls may I add) and Dublin had pulled Flynn and others back. Saying that I wouldn’t have put Donaghy in full forward, hes been worked out and seems to have lost the ability to time a run and jump, settling solely for a vertical jump which is easily defended. He may have been more use at midfield but truth be told he may most likely be a busted flush at this stage.
What Sunday showed is that Dublin’s overall attacking game is so strong and relentless that they can afford to carry individual players when they play poorly.
It’s a bizarre fact that few of Dublin’s players stood out as having really good matches and yet they still scored 3-18. Of the starting team you could say that almost half of them actually played pretty poorly or were at best average. Cluxton, O’Brien, Brennan, McCaffrey, Flynn, Kilkenny, Mannion were all either roasted or nowhere near their best.
Good as Mayo are I just don’t see them living with that.