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Did the Mayo players stay in Dublin the (Saturday) night before

Don't know. All the players (from all the counties still in the competition) the last few weeks must've got time off from their employers? Does it work that way ?

It's nonsense (and sour grapes) to say it's unfair on Mayo they had to play 3 games in 3 weeks.

Everyone knew from the start of the championship it was important to win the group to get the advantage of the week's rest. Everyone had equal opportunity of winning their group.

Hound read it as you wish. A Monaghan lad on here went daft with me on another Fact I stated as well. You will see in the build up to this match on here that I didn't hold up much hope as I sensed the back to back to back to back games would get us. Larryin89 also stated the same. I still think it's unfair on amateurs who put in a massive dedication to our sports to have a pile up of games when there is no real need.

If Galway were on the field yesterday in place of us it'd have been a demolition job as well.

Anyhow, best of luck to Dublin and I hope it's either yourselves or Monaghan that do it this year.

Exactly.
Three away games on the trot in treee weeks , no team could survive that

Correct, even Monaghan only managed a draw, so no team won.

p.s., well done to Dublin great to see yer die hards back today blasting out Molly Malone and donning the "city that fought an empire" jerseys, the jacks are back.

As predicted, too many games in a short space of time caught up with us.

This will sound like sour grapes but to expect this amount of games from amateur players is too much.

Could we not have an extra week so the QF matches would be a more level playing field. The team that goes straight through gets 3 weeks and the others 2 weeks. It'd just mean pushing the final out by a week.

Mayo have gone backwards anyone who says differently isn't watching our match's in full. We have forwards that don't show for the ball that are no use one on one. Nearly all our scores come from runners or overlaps. We are lacking a ball winning inside forward akin to Andy Moran.

Our midfield is non existent and what's worse when the chips are down they go into hiding. I'd have Hession in midfield, we need to find another.

Our defence is getting or will get a slating but when your overran at midfield it's good night Irene.

It was very soft.

That wouldn't be a free at any other stage of the match. Grugen should've been subbed earlier anyhow. He missed a sitter point and didn't round the keeper when 1 on 1 for goal.

Monaghan will win now.

Lane will give Monaghan a soft free for the draw

Monaghan will win the penalties

You'd think Armagh's subs will win this for them now. Lane will probably do something daft again.

It's getting controversial now.

Wouldn't rule out penalties. Armagh should've taken one of those goal chances.

Con is injured I believe

Unfortunately I expect Dublin to easily account for our bruised and battered warriors . Last 20 mins of this game I really fear could be wild scoring as our bucks completely run out of gas . 

We won the league , had a very enjoyable win down in Killarney, knocked Galway out . Overall it's been a 7/10 year for their first year as a management team . Croker the weekend is truly bonus territory imo , the one week turnaround will be the killer for a team that has not looked to have great stamina all year anyway ie last periods of several games from the league right through the championship.

Can't argue with much of that but the single bright thing that gives us hope is that in latter years when Dublin were at their peak it would be a case of "how do you stop the Dubs?", not as much of that going on these days. Might be close enough but I'd say the 5 day turnaround excluding travel will catch us alright.

ROD was born to run, lets leave it at that. It's time our lads got some of the old "nastiness", as Tomas O'Shea would call it, back. We were too soft up until now, but that was likely due to the nature of the fixtures more than anything.

thought Mayo a tad fortunate to get over the line,

100% if Tierney (I think) got the goal, (great save again by Reape) then we were dust again. We got Galway at a great time (unfortunate for them to be fair) and even at that their star performers didn't perform.

We have loads of improvement needed to win next weekend, no matter how the draw goes.

At some stage in the match, not sure when, McDaid did something similar to AOS, exact same as the ROD incident, hopefully someone can dig that one out to even up things. In any case Putting that shite up
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