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This thread is 58 pages long with ridiculous posts from Mayo fans yet none have mentioned Lee Keegan's disgraceful action throwing his GPS at Dean Rock. If that was a Dublin player there would be calls for a firing squad. Disgusting and deserves a lengthy ban.

The dubs have achieved a phenomenonal achievement of 3 in a row but for some fucked up reason itt all about Mayo losing and not the dubs

Probably no mention of it because he didn't throw it at Rock. He threw it at the ball. Not ideal but hardly a lot worse then the carry on with the goalkeepers kicking tees or a lot of other incidents in the match.

This Dublin obsession with Lee Keegan has got totally out of hand. All over social media again today, all these gobshites, most of who have probably never even seen a match feel its ok to abuse and say what ever they want about him. Some even giving out that he had the cheek to fistpump into the hill half full with Mayo people after scoring the goal.

Just enjoy your victory and the great achievement of the Dublin team.

[Without a doubt. Philly would make sure of that as he'd rolled around the ground clutching his head calling for treatment. Might even be a black card issued]

Added to the fact that a professional outfit playing at home will be beaten it will be a monstrous achievement.

Mayo had won Leinster in 1981 and had a very good team including Aidan OShea. They were as fit as Dublin and they believed they were as good as them. Dublin were going for 5 in a row. Nobody could beat them.

The match was ebb and flow. Dublin went up 3 points but Mayo pegged them back. Jason Doherty was held in reserve for the last 10 minutes. His instructions were to go for a goal if he got the ball.

https://youtu.be/Wxgju-2xbfQ

There is no way Offaly can beat Kerry on Sunday

The ref would surely spot the push in the back on Philly this time. 

Without a doubt. Philly would make sure of that as he'd rolled around the ground clutching his head calling for treatment. Might even be a black card issued

Surely that's COC you're talking about?

Or even JC. But no it was philly I was talking about. Am I wrong ?

Added to the fact that a professional outfit playing at home will be beaten it will be a monstrous achievement.

Mayo had won Leinster in 1981 and had a very good team including Aidan OShea. They were as fit as Dublin and they believed they were as good as them. Dublin were going for 5 in a row. Nobody could beat them.

The match was ebb and flow. Dublin went up 3 points but Mayo pegged them back. Jason Doherty was held in reserve for the last 10 minutes. His instructions were to go for a goal if he got the ball.

https://youtu.be/Wxgju-2xbfQ

There is no way Offaly can beat Kerry on Sunday

The ref would surely spot the push in the back on Philly this time. 

Without a doubt. Philly would make sure of that as he'd rolled around the ground clutching his head calling for treatment. Might even be a black card issued

It was hilarious the hill not recognising St. Dermo

I see you got banned from the Kerry forum. Wonder how long it'll be before your banned here too

Hardly gonna get banned from here. When they let gobshites like you hang around here so long this forum lost credability a time ago
Is there even any admins around here any more. The all ireland final forum after just 7 pages looks like its gonna be ruined by the usual idiots

Well you've been reported for that so let's see if any are around !

If there is an admin still active around here and they take any heed of what a clown like you has to say, they may as well shut up shop on the whole thing

It was hilarious the hill not recognising St. Dermo

I see you got banned from the Kerry forum. Wonder how long it'll be before your banned here too

Hardly gonna get banned from here. When they let gobshites like you hang around here so long this forum lost credability a time ago
Is there even any admins around here any more. The all ireland final forum after just 7 pages looks like its gonna be ruined by the usual idiots

Might as well replace the goal posts with basketball nets, Gaelic Football has morphed into a version of basketball! Shocking viewing.

Agreed. The game is a brutal spectacle these days.

Played correctly it's still brilliant but the massed defence rubbish that Tyrone play is terrible to watch.

It's not just Tyrone playing it.

Oh I know but you can understand why a Carlow or Fermanagh might use it but any top team doing so are wasting their time doing it.

Gavin gives Connolly 1 min for fear he may get himself suspended for final

O'Shea was not a complete failure at fb but he is not a natural defender. There's bound to be a big man in that team with can jump and follow a forward around the park. Aos let him go unmarked  on about 10 occasions in that game.

Mayo folk need to lose the snowflake attitude to criticism if they're to win an all Ireland. You can be sure that there's a very honest and fairly brutal appraisal of Kerry tactics in the kingdom tonight.

Ara fcukit. Is that what's been holding us back all these years.
Sound so Joe Brolly and all his internet followers are 100% right and the next day Kieran Donaghy should be given free run of croke park.
Now. Will that do it. Now we agree with you will that win us the All Ireland

A glib response maybe, but square pegs in round holes will always cause problems.

True that. But when you don't have a round peg for the round hole you have to try something different.
All week the experts have spoke about Donaghy. All week we are listening about the trouble he could cause Mayo if he is not dealt with. We try something to deal with his aerial threat and end up keeping this dream full forward line to 5 points from play and yet to hear some if the comment you would swear it was an absolute disaster.
Of course everyone can have an opinion about how much it worked or it didn't but to see some amadan more i
Or less say that a mayo person disagreeing with him is the reason  they haven't won an all Ireland is just ridiculous.
Donnie Vaughan was Mayos man of the match in last years all Ireland final. He was phenomenal against the rossies the last day. Was he a better option to mark Donaghy ?

O'Shea was not a complete failure at fb but he is not a natural defender. There's bound to be a big man in that team with can jump and follow a forward around the park. Aos let him go unmarked  on about 10 occasions in that game.

Mayo folk need to lose the snowflake attitude to criticism if they're to win an all Ireland. You can be sure that there's a very honest and fairly brutal appraisal of Kerry tactics in the kingdom tonight.

Ara fcukit. Is that what's been holding us back all these years.
Sound so Joe Brolly and all his internet followers are 100% right and the next day Kieran Donaghy should be given free run of croke park.
Now. Will that do it. Now we agree with you will that win us the All Ireland

Watching it back here. Aos won a single contest with Donaghy all day. It was a failed tactic.

Don't think it's as simple as that. Donaghy was the key to Kerry's attacks v Galway. Today he had far less impact because of the whole O'Shea sideshow. Kerry rarely sought him. I think it worked, today.

2 5 came of him.

If Joe Brolly said it did well then it must have

I also don't get all this stick management are getting about O Shea. What were they meant to do. Leave him be. Hope that he wouldn't do anything and the first ball he catches and sticks in the back of the net, well that when the abuse really starts rolling. So what were the options. Vaughan ? No guarantee he'd compete with Donaghy in the air and I thought Vaughan offered far more out the pitch then people are giving him credit for.
Seamie, Parsons ?. Do we really think Aiden is a better option in the middle then either of these 2. What about a sweeper. But of course this is going to effect what happens further up the pitch. So what are the options. Was Aiden  really that bad at full back. I may be wrong but did Donaghy have any input in the second half. Kerrys second goal as far as I could see Donaghy was bet to the ball but it took a lucky deflection to put Moran in.
And what about all these marque forwards in the Kerry team How much from play did they score. This great full forward line that we were hearing about all week scored 5 from play. Does O Shea or management get no credit for this.
Andy Moran ran amok against Kerry in tralee in a league match this year. Fitzmaurice made no effort to try and do anythinf about this. At least Rochford looked  at problems Mayo have had in the past and tried to address them.

I see Dublin County Board have informed clubs that they won't get enough tickets to cover requests from clubs. Is this a normal occurrence in Dublin due to sheer numbers of club members? Its shocking that a non-member can walk into a Supervalu and buy 8 tickets but a club member can't get their hands on one!

The club member can walk into supervalu and buy tickets the same as the non member

Never fails to amuse me how Mayo supporters continuously go in blind into games. They hammer an average Roscommon team after giving them far too much respect in the original fixture and suddenly they are a serious outfit. For all their Huffing and Puffing it's been 5 years since Mayo took a serious scalp in the Championship - Dublin 2012. Like Tyrone they like to believe in their own importance. The game will be up for this group on Sunday! They, like other Mayo teams will join in the annals of cumulative under-achievers of their predecessors!

Kerry by 5 (and pulling up at that)!

Kerry all the way. We wont be able to compete with Moran in midfield and Donaghy at full forward. If Mayo get within 10 points of them i'll be happy. And then on march Kerry in the hope of getting there first serious scalp in the championship since......... well, have they ever had one. Surely the only thing that can be considered a serious scalp is to topple the almighty kingdom.

Vaughan is tough as nails

He tried to rough up Ciaran Kilkenny in the 2015 semi-final before throw-in and bounced off him and had to go off injured from it.

I'm not sure he's really that tough. Kilkenny isn't exactly Eamonn Heery either.

Not calling Kilkenny's toughness into question but Vaughan had a bad shoulder injury going into that game and should never have started really and definitely shouldn't have got into a shouldering bust up with anyone one of the Dubs that day.

Now Eamonn Heery he could cut you in half as quick as a flash!!

Oh ya the shoulder injury.
Why did you have to ruin such a great story. It was far better the way heffo told it.

Strange that he'd initiate a shouldering contest with someone when he's carrying a shoulder injury.

Anyhoo, anyone who rolls around on the ground clutching his face, Brian Dooher style, can't be described as hard as nails.

Are you actually typing this with a straight face
It's gas the dub coming in here talking about hard men rolling around clutching their faces considering some of the antics of Philly and Jonny lately.
Please never stop. This stuff is brilliant

Vaughan is tough as nails

He tried to rough up Ciaran Kilkenny in the 2015 semi-final before throw-in and bounced off him and had to go off injured from it.

I'm not sure he's really that tough. Kilkenny isn't exactly Eamonn Heery either.

Not calling Kilkenny's toughness into question but Vaughan had a bad shoulder injury going into that game and should never have started really and definitely shouldn't have got into a shouldering bust up with anyone one of the Dubs that day.

Now Eamonn Heery he could cut you in half as quick as a flash!!

Oh ya the shoulder injury.
Why did you have to ruin such a great story. It was far better the way heffo told it.

You have to play the system that best suits the players you have at your disposal. Harte doesn't have any real marquee forwards capable of shooting the lights out a la Brogan, Rock, O Donoghue or Geaney. Most of his best players are stacked in the middle 8 and are strong athletes best suited to a running style. Therefore he has to compensate by playing this ultra defensive system. It is not pretty to watch but sometimes you have to cut your cloth to suit. Any rational manager with an ounce of sense would play a similar system as Harte. In his own words, he is not there to entertain, he is there to win.

Maybe this is the only system that suits these Tyrone players. Far be it for me to argue with Mickey Harte about this. Looking from the outside it seems a lot of decent forwards have been sacrificed to the system over the last few years. No forward is going to be marquee playing this kind of football but for me this style of football has nothing to do with lack of forwards and all to do with no confidence in his defense.
As I said Mickey Harte went all in a couple of years ago that this was the way to beat Dublin. He has been refining the system over the last 3 years. 2015 they were two inexperienced for Kerry so they didn't get a chance to try it on Dublin, 2016 they didn't perform and off course the big bad wolf Lee Keegan stopped them trying it out on Dublin. 2017, No more excuses. This is it. If it doesn't work where do Mickey Harte and Tyrone turn to