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Absolutely stunning finale of Breaking Bad. I saw a couple rather poor reviews lamenting it feeling small but it was pretty much perfect. Breaking Bad was never about non-stop action and the space every scene was afforded in the finale gave it a poignancy  few films or tv shows even dare to aim for.

Walt exacting revenge on Elliot and Grechen for losing his original meal ticket and in many ways setting him on the path towards Heisenberg and also getting a decent shot at giving his family the money he earned, Walt wiping Lydia, she of anal-retentiveness when it comes to putting anything in her body (bad choice, Todd), with the ricin, the unspoken love that Skyler still has for Walt, Walt admitting he did it because it made him feel in control of his life rather than simply for his family, him giving Skyler the co-ordinates to Hank and Gomie's burial site, Walt seeing his son for the last time at a distance and always obscured by something, Walt killing Jack in a dark echo of how he had killed Hank, Jesse finally succeeding in rebelling against Mr. White, indeed Walt choosing to save Jesse in the first place. And Walt dying alone in his meth lab with the one thing that never abandoned him, chemistry.

You got the crowd-pleasing apocalyptic finale in the third-last episode, the powerless, hopeless ending in the penultimate episode and a measure of redemption for Walt in the true ending.

The greatest final season of all-time to end one of the greatest stories ever filmed.

Bring back the mort

The last time the Mort played against Dublin (April 2012) he scored 0-8 breaking all time Mayo scoring record but then again would he deliver on All Ireland final day?

Horan would need to take his talents to South Beach before Mort had even a remote chance of featuring again. Realistically, bedding in a player like Adam Gallagher (or Darren Coen if he shows something he didn't this year) is the best route for Mayo changing up their attack next season.

I still maintain that Sligo left one behind in 2002.  I have a lot of care for Armagh football but I think even the most die hard Armagh supporter realise that they were lucky to beat Sligo in their greatest ever year. To take that thought further, had Sligo managed to beat Armagh and were as obsessed with doing two in a row as Armagh were, would Tyrone have taken them in 03.  Would Mayo have got by them in 04 and 06.  Would Armagh have won Ulster in 05?

Armagh would have won 2 or 3 All Irelands, puke football would never have been invented and Mayo might even have won one.
Sligo has a lot to answer for!

There's still time to fight a rearguard action, 'Niac.

You can't be in the footballing elite if you're not playing football.

Steve Austin once scored 3-16, though.

[you have 5mins to decide]

First of all, I wouldn't let Lawnseed know about it.

alright so I know nothing about it.. but you still have it.. maybe if I press this little button.. now its ticking so you have 5mins to decide 

tick.. tick.. tick.. muppet. are you just gonna let it go off in the same room as you?

But whatever it is already went off, and I have forgotten about it.

Come to think of it I haven't heard anything from Roscommon in at least 10 minutes.

Maybe.............

Hateful Mayo bástards living by the Atlantic Ocean would rather bomb Roscommon. Jealousy gets you no where.

Roscommon: 1 Senior AI for 2013

Mayo: Zero Senior AIs for 2013

If you ask nicely we'll let ye see it, from a distance.

NEVER GO BACK

Can anyone give me an example in sport where someone made a return and was deemed as successful as their first stint?

Last four games for Chelsea- two draws and two defeats. Early in the season yet and hardly a crisis but if Rafa had of:
- Dropped the captain, leader, legend,
- Dropped Chelsea's POTY (for the past 2 seasons)
- Got beaten at home in Europe by inferior opposition
Chelsea fans would of been calling for his head.

Di Matteo in.

Brian Corcoran.
Sugar Ray Leonard.

Cake Curran.

Still the ladies finals left before it's time for tearful goodbyes, Farr.

The time for the triumphant final turn of the Thriller has arrived.

[In Davy "El Loco" Fitzgerald, hurling possesses the greatest character in Irish sport.]

In Davy "El Loco" Fitzgerald, hurling possesses the greatest character in Irish sport.

What a day, and the €10 above face value I paid for a Canal End ticket five minutes before the throw in was SO worth it.

Viva the Baby Banner, and viva la revolucion.

Tut tut.

Hard to see what'll happen next year. Based on previous champion form Dublin may hit a slump, few teams make a third AI final on the back of two losing appearances and Kerry will be in full rebuild mode next season. Who knows where Donegal go. Tyrone seem too limited to challenge without a lot more development.

Cork may be the sneaky bet if they get a good manager.

I think it's MayoWR's turn to go to NY and the Herrins go to Ruislip.
Hopefully we get a first round game against one of the minnows, then a Semi final draw against the other minnow.

So Leitrim at the Hyde followed by Galway in the wind tunnel? Sure we won't be tested by that at all.

Never had a problem with the draw being now. If anything it's something to focus on in the dead of winter.

Too many whiney people. Didn't yo mamas teach you better than that?

I can think of plenty of teams severely effected by injuries and absenences. Mayo's is just more obvious because their season extended to September.

Donegal only had a couple injuries but they were to mission-critical players and that was enough to nudge their train totally off-road by the end of the season. Some of the teams we named in the NFL this year would have been experimental for the FBD.

Great to see the Roscommon hurlers doing so well.