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Yes there was a couple of guys living in the address who didn't know who Sean Johnston was and informed the postman of that. Thus the letter was returned saying he was not known at the address. You said we couldn't call him a liar without evidence. It appears we have such evidence. Now he obviously changed his circumstances since, realising that he wouldn't be able to fool Croke Park so easily. But at the time the initial contention that he was living in Straffan was a lie, based on the evidence of the registered letter.

Would the registered letter that was sent to Johnston's Straffin address that bounced back to Croker because there was nobody by the name of Sean Johnston living at the address count as "incontrovertible evidence"....?

I'm not fishing at all. I would be extremely surprised if Dublin didn't win by more than 5 points. That said I will be supporting Roscommon.

Dublin -5 is at 6/5. Looks like buying money.

Give Andy Graham a few years and he'll be as good as Johnston.

Mickey Brennan leased a pub in my neck of the woods a few years back. A class act and a gent to his fingertips in any dealings I had with him. Sorry to see him go, I have no doubt he was a good influence within the panel. He probably wasn't given a fair run at things, deserved to play more than he did in the past 2 years in my opinion. Thanks for the efforts Mickey and fair play for bowing out whilst showing respect to the supporters and to Cavan.

Surprised to see McLoughlin and Clarke called in. McLoughlin especially is very light, the thoughts of either of them marking Murphy, McBrearty or McFadden doesn't inspire much hope. That said, the experience of being involved with the squad will do them no harm.

I see Johnston was in the Kildare dugout today. Also, Mickey Brennan tweeted that he was informed Thursday night that his inter county career was over so there must be cuts from the panel. Sorry to see Mickey go though, a good lad.

Richie has the knives out for Hyland already. Hyland will have more wit than Andrews and will not even acknowledge such bullshit. It's horrible to see though. I'm sure if he's taken to task over it Richie will say Hyland will be judged on his results. ie: We want instant success, and even then any wins we do get will be down to the lack of quality of the opposition.

Things aren't looking great, loads of injuries for Donegal with Gearoid and Givney (who was in hospital during the week with a back injury according to twitter) two huge losses. And even then next year's league looks like the toughest Div 3 in years. Nobody there we could say we should be beating.

I'm struggling to see who could make the step up to Senior from this side.. Packie Leddy could make a case for inclusion in our half forward line perhaps and Jack Brady could be a good option coming off the bench. We have a few good young defenders in Clarke and Moynagh but neither are ready for Senior Football yet. While Kevin Tierney was our top scorer this Championship and got 2 goals yesterday I don't think he has the mobility to play Senior.

So apart from Packie and Jack I don't see anyone else being called up to the Senior Squad. Oh and Barry Reilly too if his injury clears up.

We could maybe have salvaged a draw but that would have been robbery on a much better Roscommon side. The referee was woeful, he in no way affected the result of the game but he was God awful. Did Jack Brady take a go at his daughter or something??

Good luck to Roscommon in the final I'd love to see ye win it now.

Extremely luck to be only 2 behind at the break. Roscommon backs all over us, getting cleaned out at midfield. Ref has been poor so far denying us a stonewall penalty and very inconsistent in blowing up for frees. Lumping ball in on Tierney won't work we need a plan B.

A friend of mine lives with one of the Roscommon Senior team and informs me that he has a rather sizable bet placed on Ros to win at 7/4.. What do they know in Roscommon that we don't?....

What a crock of shit. Same as last year, show the game of the counties who will barely support the game. How many people will be in Portlaoise? SFA will be my guess. Dublin played the U21 AI Final in Breffni 2 years ago and brought about a quarter of the crowd that we brought to Brewster last Wednesday night.
Meanwhile two well supported counties hungry for exposure get shunted onto the TG4 website which will no doubt have shite streaming and look like it's being filmed on a fooking calculator.

I hope the Dubs hammer TG4's darling Galway and then they can go and show them playing in the second Division next year.

TG4:

I believe the failing of this Cavan team will prove to be the same failing of last year's team (aside from our lack of midfield in the final). Lack of big scoring power. We got to Croker last year, the game opened up, Hehir, Cummins and Flynn stroked over points from 40 yards and Cavan tried and failed time and again to work the ball through to pick off scores. We have some good forwards but no proper classy ones.

Do the Cavan lads think Nevin O'Donnell will start again or if Paul O'Connor is fit will he regain his place?