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In fairness, O'Connor knows how to beat Mayo and Cork in All Ireland Finals.

In all fairness, Mayo never turned up in 2004, they beat themselves.

As I said he knows how to beat Mayo and Cork in AI Finals.

Beating Mayo in 2004 and 2006 looks good on his CV, but how much of an achievement was it really ?
These two All Ireland's must go under the 'solf' heading.

Beating Cork wasn't much better

Cork did come back and win it the next year though Seafóid. Fair's fair.

They did but they have psychological issues in all Ireland finals, Iolar. They tend to calve. Especially against Kerry. And they only won the 1.

From where I'm standing in the County Mayo Seafóid, a stór, winning just the one doesn't sound that bad.

In fairness, O'Connor knows how to beat Mayo and Cork in All Ireland Finals.

In all fairness, Mayo never turned up in 2004, they beat themselves.

As I said he knows how to beat Mayo and Cork in AI Finals.

Beating Mayo in 2004 and 2006 looks good on his CV, but how much of an achievement was it really ?
These two All Ireland's must go under the 'solf' heading.

Beating Cork wasn't much better

Cork did come back and win it the next year though Seafóid. Fair's fair.

Is Jack O'Connor nailed on for the Kerry job? Is not a bit of a backward step, with all due respect to the Dromid Pearses clubman?

Congratulations to Tyrone. Best team in Ireland. They won Ulster, the hardest Championship there is to win, they beat Kerry (again) and they beat last year's finalists and this year's favourites.

Judging from afar and confessing I might be missing all manner of stuff that would be known to Tyrone people themselves, I think Feargal Logan and Brian Dooher are due a huge amount of credit for this win. Mickey Harte's were big boots to fill and fill them they did. I know they had a few close squeaks in Ulster but nothing is easy in Ulster. Against Kerry and against Mayo Logan and Dooher out-generalled the opposition and well done to them.

As for Mayo, I see a lot of "where do Mayo go from here?" articles in the papers. Well, back into the pot for the 2022 Championship is the answer there. Where else can they go? Maybe some older players will retire, maybe some will carry on, maybe some will be dropped. Some newer players will be better than what went before, some will be worse, some will be about the same. Maybe there'll be a change on the sideline, maybe there won't. There's a long winter to figure all that out. The chief thing I'd be hoping is that crowds will be able to go to games again. The past two years have been a pain in the ass.

Finally, in the context of this thread, a tip of the cap to Seafóid for his erudite Procrustean reference, and to whichever Tyrone poster came up with the Tyronavirus. Top class work. Up Mayo.

Both Up for the Match and the presentation of the Jubilee teams are victims of the pandemic. There's no point in having an Up for the Match when you can't have a studio audience. The Jubilee team would bring more people to Croke Park and is therefore forbidden. I think they let Martin Storey, who was captain of Wexford in 1996, in for the hurling final and had some sort of presentation, which means Tommy Dowd (I'm told; I would have bet Darren Fay was the captain) will be there to represent the gallant Champions of 25 years ago.

There'll be booing, I'm afraid.

I sincerely wish the neighbours what it takes to get over the line tomorrow.I hope the team that lines out will be legends by nightfall.

As the Follower used to say, they will be remembered by their people.
And everyone else.

God bless you Seafóid. We appreciate it. I hope the West awakens.

Will Morgan have one of his awful days or will he keep the head and be awesome?

I'm puzzled over why Tyrone people are so hard on Niall Morgan. Can you give us some examples of these awful days you mention? I don't remember him having any particular disasters. If anything, I'd have thought of him as one of the elite inter-county goalkeepers currently playing. Am I nuts, or what? What am I missing?

Thirty one counties would love to see it but Dublin still look the most likely winner of this match.

I'm not so sure about that. I would say most neutrals want a good final more than anything and, whether we like it or not, Dublin v Kerry is a very natural final pairing. I think that's the final most people want to see and therefore they want Dublin and Kerry to win their semis.

1. Eugene McGee
2. Seán Boylan
3. Micko

Good lord

https://m.independent.ie/sport/rugby/rugby-world-cup-2019/i-would-be-dreading-coming-back-to-ireland-jeanmarie-stander-slams-disrespectful-media-38615025.html

Now, that's all a lot of nonsense. I don't know what she's thinking about coming out with ... my God, she's beautiful.

€1.4 m on the win a house thing. However the likes of that is a one off and wont be coming again.
C. €200k Club Rossie membership.
These are my figures not official ones.
Add Sponsorship, gate receipts.

I presume Aidan is just getting expenses.

And private backers?

Are they anything like the 'influential' private backers who got rid of Rochford?

Leave the Stonecutters out of this!

Anthony Lane, film critic of the New Yorker magazine, despised the movie, not least for its cynicism in using stunts like having Gary Glitter on the soundtrack: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/10/07/todd-phillips-joker-is-no-laughing-matter

Here's the deal. "Joker" is not a great leap forward, or a deep dive into our collective unconscious, let alone a work of art. It's a product. All the pre-launch rumblings, the rants and the raves, testify to a cunning provocation, and, if we yield to it, we're not joining a debate; we're offering our services, unpaid, to the marketing department at Warner Bros. When Dalí and Buñuel made "L'Âge d'Or" (1930), they wanted to start a riot, and they succeeded, but "Joker" yearns for little more than a hundred op-ed pieces and a firestorm of tweets. With ticket sales, naturally, to match.

TV coverage guide here Farr: https://www.the42.ie/rwc-tv-guide-4815451-Sep2019/

I'm a little puzzled at some very strange remarks from Declan Darcy about Diarmuid Connolly's return to the squad: https://www.the42.ie/dublin-diarmuid-connolly-declan-darcy-4812056-Sep2019/

Connolly's private life is his own concern. I don't want to know anything about it, it's his own business. What's bothering me is - are Dublin so far ahead of the pack that they could afford to carry a passenger in the All-Ireland series?

I know Connolly in his prime was a superstar, but he was eighteen months out of inter-county football and looked it. Are Dublin that far ahead that they could carry him? I know he's not a passenger in the sense they couldn't carry Joe Duffy or Christy Dignam or some other hero of the city, but dammit, those comments from Darcy are just plain odd.

In 35 minutes he set up 2 points, and while he missed a goal opportunity, it eventually went for a 45 which Rock pointed. So direct involvement in 3 points for Dublin, and cost a few turnovers too. But overall, there was at least half a dozen players on the pitch who contributed less than he did. So a passenger? I don't think so.

And while there may have been some sympathy shown to get on the panel of 35 or whatever it is. To get in the 26, he had to be showing more in training that his competitors for half forward cover. To suggest he was in the 26 as some sort of compassionate play is clearly way off the mark.

I dunno Hound. I'm only going on how Darcy is quoted in the interview.

I think first and foremost it was really important for us, the care of Diarmuid. To bring him back into the group was the right thing to do Things weren't going really well for him probably outside of football and I think he needed football, he needed structure and whatever about whether he was to function within our group or not.

He had soldiered long and hard for us and he deserved that right to come back in and I think it was a really good thing for him to do. No matter whether we won an All-Ireland, I still think it would have been the right thing to do because we were looking after one of our own and he needs to be in our family.

Because the lads are brilliant to look after him, and reach out to him, which is really, really important. It was very impressive to see it, when it operated, and how Diarmuid flourished in that environment, and that friendship being shared to him.

We'll have to agree to disagree about how good or bad he was. Nobody ever agrees 100% on these things, not even the players themselves. I find the whole thing very puzzling. But then, really, maybe it's none of my business either. Dublin won, and won well. That's the bottom line.

I'm a little puzzled at some very strange remarks from Declan Darcy about Diarmuid Connolly's return to the squad: https://www.the42.ie/dublin-diarmuid-connolly-declan-darcy-4812056-Sep2019/

Connolly's private life is his own concern. I don't want to know anything about it, it's his own business. What's bothering me is - are Dublin so far ahead of the pack that they could afford to carry a passenger in the All-Ireland series?

I know Connolly in his prime was a superstar, but he was eighteen months out of inter-county football and looked it. Are Dublin that far ahead that they could carry him? I know he's not a passenger in the sense they couldn't carry Joe Duffy or Christy Dignam or some other hero of the city, but dammit, those comments from Darcy are just plain odd.