Aidan O'Shea

[Captain Obvious]

Seamus was better than Aidan again today and for some reason he was taken off?

[Milltown Row2]

Seamus was better than Aidan again today and for some reason he was taken off?

Aye found that strange to be taken off

[CD]

Seamus was better than Aidan again today and for some reason he was taken off?

Aye found that strange to be taken off

Thought that myself! I'm assuming he had a knock - I know there was talk early in the week that we was carrying an injury into the game

[Syferus]

Aido was very poor today. You'd swear Bastick was an Olympic sprinter the distance he was in front of AOS for kick-outs. Sub should have been AOS for Moran, though it's not like Moran even looked like touching the ball. Cluxton destroyed Mayo's biggest strength.

[ross4life]

Throughout this years championship SOS has performed better than AOS but the one game against Donegal AOS has been hyped to the hills. Will be interesting next year when Barry Moran is fully fit as last year IMO he was Mayos best midfielder.

[Wildweasel74]

Aidan is not the footballer Anthony Tohill was at his age, and he does seem to lack abit of pace which the brother has, he be lucky to in a all star as i have MacCauley an his brother in front of him with Sean Cav in the half forward line

[Whishtup]

It's like trying to teach trigonometry to calves. They see but they don't understand. Some don't even see. A performance that included serial possession winning, vision, right place, right time, anticipation, 32 possessions (THIRTY TWO!) inspired defending, finding the right pass 98% of the time and just one (ONE!) error is dismissed as "a couple of bullock runs". All he didn't do was score a goal and save a penalty. But that's not good enough for those who think his brother was better. Even if that was in some other match. Sometimes I wonder. More times I don't bother.

(FOSB - don't you think the 1996 theme is a bit played out? We still enjoy the memories but it would be healthier for you lads to forget the trauma.)

Moo!

[Jell 0 Biafra]

Where was he today?

Maybe he met a better unit?

Dublin's Midfield has been consistently underrated all year. Once the QFs came around, we were expected to lose every game in the middle.  Well, it might be time to admit that McAuley, O'sullivan, and Bastick in the second half is actually an excellent unit, capable of living with the best of them.

[Syferus]

Where was he today?

Maybe he met a better unit?

Dublin's Midfield has been consistently underrated all year. Once the QFs came around, we were expected to lose every game in the middle.  Well, it might be time to admit that McAuley, O'sullivan, and Bastick in the second half is actually an excellent unit, capable of living with the best of them.

1v1 contesting a high ball they would have stood little chance. It was more about Cluxton than the midfielders yesterday, and AOS being so loose in his marking. Dublin's midfield remains one of their two big weaknesses.

[screenexile]

Where was he today?

Maybe he met a better unit?

Dublin's Midfield has been consistently underrated all year. Once the QFs came around, we were expected to lose every game in the middle.  Well, it might be time to admit that McAuley, O'sullivan, and Bastick in the second half is actually an excellent unit, capable of living with the best of them.

Dublin have changed the definition of a good midfielder! It used to be that you were a good midfielder if you could outcatch your opponents. MD McAuley and O'Sullivan can't do that. What they can do is work as part of a devised system which means they create space for Cluxton to hit the ball to and they can then run onto it.

Fair play they did it exceptionally yesterday and I personally thought that was the main reason for them winning the game!

[nrico2006]

Where was he today?

Maybe he met a better unit?

Dublin's Midfield has been consistently underrated all year. Once the QFs came around, we were expected to lose every game in the middle.  Well, it might be time to admit that McAuley, O'sullivan, and Bastick in the second half is actually an excellent unit, capable of living with the best of them.

Dublin have changed the definition of a good midfielder! It used to be that you were a good midfielder if you could outcatch your opponents. MD McAuley and O'Sullivan can't do that. What they can do is work as part of a devised system which means they create space for Cluxton to hit the ball to and they can then run onto it.

Fair play they did it exceptionally yesterday and I personally thought that was the main reason for them winning the game!

Sean Cavanagh changed the definition of a midfielder.  Amazes me how people suggest he is this, that and the other just because he doesn't win kick-out after kick-out in the air.  More to midfield than catching the ball.

[imtommygunn]

Where was he today?

Maybe he met a better unit?

Dublin's Midfield has been consistently underrated all year. Once the QFs came around, we were expected to lose every game in the middle.  Well, it might be time to admit that McAuley, O'sullivan, and Bastick in the second half is actually an excellent unit, capable of living with the best of them.

Dublin have changed the definition of a good midfielder! It used to be that you were a good midfielder if you could outcatch your opponents. MD McAuley and O'Sullivan can't do that. What they can do is work as part of a devised system which means they create space for Cluxton to hit the ball to and they can then run onto it.

Fair play they did it exceptionally yesterday and I personally thought that was the main reason for them winning the game!

Sean Cavanagh changed the definition of a midfielder.  Amazes me how people suggest he is this, that and the other just because he doesn't win kick-out after kick-out in the air.  More to midfield than catching the ball.

Micky Harte began the change I think with Tyrone not winning so much round midfield and winning more breaks.

Cluxton has made a massive difference to it though with how tactical his kickouts were. Shane Ryan, who wasn't really a midfielder, won some number of kickouts so the ball was rolling long before now.

[squire_in_navy_slacks]

Ye can add Vaughan to that list today too......................................Flynn absolutely bullied him all day yesterday

[Jinxy]

Vaughan did his usual cardboard tough guy routine by running in to throw shapes and ending up on his arse at one stage.

[GJL]

Take a reddner Aiden