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Lame wind-ups about certain counties not being proper GAA counties, supporters watching MUTV and the obvious weight problems of problems of certain players.

People taking the bait and giving offended replies to lame wind ups.

Supporters of teams claiming they're now outsiders in an attempt to influence the result of future matches.

I love the INTERNET.

I genuinely don't think Dublin will beat Donegal.

I don't believe we've learned enough from the corresponding fixture last year.

Quigley is natural class, Connolly is manufactured rubbish. It's like comparing Elvis with Justin Bieber!

Quigley outshone the entire creatine brigade today.  Natural skill and normal eating will always show up the artificially enhanced who live their lives on dodgy drinks supplements!

You call the Fat Brendan Grace's diet "normal eating"?

25-3 in fermanagh's favour the free count today.

That referee should never be allowed referee at this level again.

Out of his depth

I really loved the twee patronising of Fermanagh today.

It was like if a much younger fat child is allowed play football with the older, bigger boys at school to raise his self-esteem. The bigger boys go easy in the tackle on him, let him do a few nutmegs on them and deliberately crash into each other, leaving him to score a few tap-ins for goals. The teacher refereeing the match gives a free any time he loses the ball.

Jim Gavin's big grin at the end when he went over to Pete McGrath was like the teacher patting the fat kid on the head at the end and giving him a special badge to tell him he was the best player in the match.

I haven't seen such a triumph of human spirit in a sporting context since Eric The Eel. Heroic stuff.

Dublin are a horrible team to watch. Manufactured athletes that are so far above everyone else in terms of funding and professionalism that they rarely need to show any sort of heart to get through games which they play in their back yard with their off season soccer supporters. They don't look like they particularly enjoy the game, it looks more like a case of going out and winning to keep their semi celebrity lifestyles going. Plus they all have the personality of a wet paper bag on and off the pitch. They're winning by sheer weight of numbers and $$$. Fermanagh today is what the GAA is about, something da Duubs will never experience.

I spotted 47 Dublin players playing at one stage in the first half today. It did look a bit suss but I was happy to go along with it if it meant we won.

I'm looking forward to seeing Denis Bastick appear on the front cover of next week's Sunday Independent "Life" magazine with Paul Galvin, Darran O'Sullivan, James O'Donoghue and Dick Clerkin for Barry Egan's weekly "Men About Town" feature.

I'm gutted I wasn't at Croke Park today so I could have patronisingly congratulated Fermanagh people on their performance, with a big patronising grin on my face.

They won a lot of friends today.

Let's be real here, kerry are streets ahead of everyone else left. Unless mayo have something up their sleeves, they are far ahead of the dubs.  Claxton best days are behind him also.

Kerry would beat the pick of the rest of the teams left by 20 points.

Nobody can say Dublin now haven't been tested. Just glad to get through today.

B championship would turn the game into a hurling version of the game. The top teams staying at the top and the bottom teams staying at the bottom. With 2-4 yo yo teams going from one to the other.

Joe Brolly proposes a "vibrant second tier championship".

I propose it be named the "Vibrant Cup".

Kildare can win an All-Ireland within five years.

Not a joke.

Strong wind behind Dublin in that first half. This is far from over.

Impossible to see this Kerry team not win five in a row.

Five in a row
Five in a row
It's hard to believe we got five in a row

Would Dublin get within 20 of them?

JOD looks in a bit of trouble, the shoulder again?

If he didn't dive so much, he probably wouldn't get injured.

If anything we send our best to UUJ.

Antrim GAA has been good to us.

Glad it's been good to someone.

Antrim GAA is mainly good to comedy writers.

Those familiar butterflies that can only a knockout championship match can engender are once again floating in my stomach. The reality that we could be out of the championship by 5:30pm today has hit home in a big way this morning. I'm sick with nerves.