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Dublin bound to be very happy at the appointment of Joe for another final.

Horan too seems he gave Mayo everything last year in the semi after falling for Horans bullshit lies of reffing A VS B games

Nope, Horan never said that, he was commenting on a question from the irish examiner journalist Terry Reilly who asked him what he thought of Joe's appointment especially since he had been reffing Dublin "A v B games"

"He's a top-class inter-county referee," he said.

"There's a lot of commentary out there that he is very familiar with the Dublin set up and, as you said, he refereed a lot of their A versus B games this year. But, look, we're happy with the referee that's appointed. There's a review committee there so if there was any questionable decisions they'd review that.

"We just go with the referees that are there. I have a lot of Kerry friends from last year that weren't too happy with some of his decisions but sin scéal eile.

"The referee has been appointed. The review committee is there to judge referees and that's not for us to do. I'm sure refereeing A versus B games will have no bearing on his performance against us in Croker."

And JH had a look at the crystal ball last week and predicted Joe for this one, I must get the Lotto numbers off him:

Horan expects that Joe McQuillan will be appointed match referee sometime next week, but doesn't expect the same focus of attention on cynical fouling as there was in the week of last year's final.

"There might be more pressure on the ref than any of the teams, whoever is selected. And more than likely it will be Joe if you look at the data," he said.

It wasnt that funny the first time Syrefus, no need to say it twice

Ah lads, tis all part and parcel of the "Best Game Ever" - copyright RTE MCMLXXXIIII4567

Don, have you any photographic evidence of these occurrences from the ladies? It doesnt matter if its not video as unlike the CCCC in O'Carroll V Cooper 2013, we will still take it into consideration so please, dont be shy, post away.

The team that beats Dublin will win Sam.

The team that beats Mayo will win Sam

The team that beats Kerry will win Sam

Well someone had to do it

You know its interesting, whatever about the whys and wherefores of Mayo v whomever in the games so far, most of the other teams, who clearly have to be at an IC level of fitness, look absolutley f*cked after 30 minutes playing against Mayo. How could that be?

Was interesting to see some of all the ball skills, Aidan Higgins, Colum Boyle and Lee Keegan look absolutley Kerry like when on the ball, sprinting full belt and going toe to hand. Yes, you expect that from IC footballers, but after years of watching our county I have never seen players wearing the green and red look so comfortable on the ball. Doesnt mean we will win the all ireland but its good to see.

Right, time for all the journalists to dust off the usual articles:

- Mayos dismal record in finals
- The curse
- The hype in the county (as if its different in any other f**king county who gets to an all ireland, what are we supposed to do, head up the reek for 4 weeks and whip ourselves?

I disagree. 
Had Deegan refereed the game correctly Mayo would still be putting her wide from the 21.   
The momentum was returned to Mayo not by themselves but by the referee.
I hate talking about referees after games. 
Mayo have a problem starting big games, Donegal exposed it last year,  Tyrone were not allowed to do so yesterday.  I like Deegan - I just think he is a terrible referee after yesterday.  What MAyo did have was some wonderful play when their confidence returned and they finished the job professionally and comfortably.  They had more ways of winning that game than Tyrone and more resources to add.  Tyrone could have won the game but had probably only one shot at it and that was to build an early lead Bear in mind ye were 7/2 favourites.... Ref negated that.  Good luck to Mayo in the final.   

Did Deegan give the ball to Chris Barret and tell him to solo 20 yards beat 2 men and put the ball over the bar from 30 yards out?
Did Deegan set up a 4 player passing move ending with Lee Keegan bursting through the middle to put another point over the bar?
Did Deegan kick another point from out on the right from a difficult angle? No he had nothing to do with any of that.
That changed the game from a 4 point lead, to a 1 point lead and changed the momentum, so stop talking shite about referees and take your beating.

I can see Tyrone edging this one.  Whilst this is not be best Tyrone team we have seen for a while, they are still scraping out results and are hard to beat.  Tyrone have done it all before (Connor Gormley has 3 Celtic crosses in his back pocket).

Joe Brolly's head burst during the Tyrone v Mayo All Ireland semi final today when he noticed Tyrone players taking to the field wearing shorts with pockets. The fact came to his attention when viewers noticed that Tyrone players appeared to have pockets in the back of their shorts during the warm up. This turned into a bigger issue during the game when Conor Gormley was shouldered over by Alan Dillon and two medals fell out of his back pocket. It is believed that one stayed in his pocket after the impact.
The GAA's CCCCCCCCCCCCC are calling for an urgent meeting with kit maker O'Neills to discover how this latest abomination brought to the game by Tyrone could have happened. They are believed to at least be demanding velcro on the pockets so that All Ireland medals will stay in place during games.
Mr Brolly is recovering in hospital.

73 pages of hype shows a certain frailty in the Mayo support. Mayo are out and out favourites in the public and mediappundits.  If Mayo don't get off to a flyer on Sunday how long before the mental frailties of past calamities begin to show ? Mickey will setup to keep the game tight in the first half to test their metal. Mayo supporter's have set themselves up for a massive disappointment with all their Mayo for Sam Guff. If the game is touch and go with 10 to go I wonder where all the smart money will go. Don't forget that of the 4 contenders left only one has a manager who has done it before.  You can dismiss this fact if you like but experience and know how has a  massive bearing on games at this level. If Mayo struggle to get to grips with Tyrone early on I expect the confidence of the Mayo support to melt like snow of the ditch in the stands. As supporters begin to lose confidence it's amazing how that can seep onto the pitch in the bear pit of Croke Park.

Yawn, with 7 posts I presume you must be new here. If you weren't you would know that mayo playing an FBD match against GMIT can muster 40 pages so 73 pages is no surprise.
These threads are some craic to read, whats even more craic is to read them after a match to see just how wrong everyone usually is, and how, despite the days that are robbed from the employers of Ireland with us posting shite here, most of us know feck all about it anyway.
You'll rarely find much actual analysis here its usually Ger Canning stereotype comments about "Meath never give up", "Mayo always choke", "Ulster football is dirty" "Kerry are cute hoors" and any teams changes are basically bigged up or written off by what has gone before.
but tis still some craic.
I'm going for a draw with a Rob Hennelley kick out bouncing outside the large parallelogram and going over the bar in the 7th minute of injury time to steal the draw for Mayo. Tyrone win the replay in Casement Park by 5

You cant use them up against the gable wall though if the sliothar is coming back onto tarmac or concrete.
Picking the ball up on a hard surface takes all the coating off the bas, it even says it with the paraphernalia that comes with it, dont use on hard surfaces.
Bit of a limitation I think

Whatever about Mullane as a hurler, wtf is he doing on the radio? Hes shocking, he cant speak and his questions are daft.
Did ye hear him talking to Davy Fitz last Sunday evening? I was cringing, in fairness to Davy he slagged him off well with his answers to his mad questions but Davy was talking to him like he was a simple child.
Mullane asked one question, I cant remember what it was, but it was a nothing question, Davy was two words into it and mullane starts blathering "let me ask you this, have you matured as a manager?"
What was Mullane trying to do some "kind of look into my eyes, wear some lingerie Barry Egan Sunday Indo shite interview"
Another reason I'm glad I havent released the shekels from the Isle of Man account to pay the TV License (well the radio lads get a few pound out of it as well)

how many times was Hawk-eye used in the Cork v Dublin game?

Dublin were playing into the Hill end in the first half if I remember correctly

Have mayo actually bate Tyrone when Gormley has been on the field. I wonder how horan plans to contain Gormley. Smart man he has seen mayo flounder so many  times on so many big days he has removed the mentally weaker players like Mortimer and replaced them with guys who have very little upstairs but are pure winners. Used to be mayo would be bate before the ball was thrown in as guys heads would go. Nowadays in the morning of a game what might prove to be the dumbest group of Nora s ever to win Sam have been tweaked and over coached to perform as robots. It's important that every county looks on and scans the intermediate schools for guys who can be play gaeiic.

Whats an intermediate school?

Careful now O'Neill, thats the kind of thing the Evening Herald or Sunday World will pick up on and think is real, before you know it people will be ringing yer man from Ballina who owns the trumpet shop (Ballina Bugles Ltd - "quality horns for all") who his source in the backroom team is