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Where is BluestackBoy? Seems to have vanished since the weekend.

Haha!

All slagging aside, I was delighted for Tyronies everywhere when you finally won Sam. I'd say most GAA fans everywhere felt the same. 'Tis said that God loves a trier  and  he, whoever he is, must have relented a bit to let Peter Canavan finally get his hands on a Celtic Cross.
Tyrone had certainly been trying hard for many years and never lost hope.
I'd say Tyrone followers must have felt every bit as sick after the '95 final as we were after the '96 one. Like us, you shower have had a lot more dinner times than dinners but you did nail Sam in the end.
Tyrone were very popular winners and the fact that they beat Kerry along the way earned them even more respect. Stuff Pat Spillane and his "Puke Football;" it was the moaning of a sore loser.
The fact is that Armagh supporters were starting to give everyone outside their county a bit of a pain in the arse.
Tony Fearons, every last one of them!
Fair enough, it took Tyrone followers a bit longer to start blowing their coal but when they did, they sure did it in style. The controversy over the selection of the team of the decade did them no favours either.
Anyone who thinks I'm piss-taking can use the search function on this board and check out some of the threads around '09/'10 and see if I'm on a windup or not.
Like Armagh after 2002 or Clare hurlers in the mid-90s, neutral support began to wane fast.
If 99.5% of the rest of the country are hoping for Mayo win, it isn't because they all like Aidan O'Shea's haircut.
FFS, lenny says Tyrone is awash with hype and nobody has yet written in to deny this. A couple of Donegal folk who pass through the county regularly tell me the place is awash with hype and arrogance. I've no problem at all with that; why not have a bit of craic whenever we can?
But, you'd think going by the moaning going on here that Mayo have a patent on the art of begrudgery.
I think Mayo will win but if they're beaten fair and square, I'll wish Tyrone good luck for the final. I feel most Mayo heads feel the same way and I haven't come across any remotely serious post here that claims Mayo will annihilate Tyrone.
So what's the caterwauling going on here all about

Great post.

Oisin McConville on radio the other day saying that Tyrone will get a 16 point beating!
The main point of the discussion was by how many points Mayo would win by and who they would be playing in the final.

Listened to that myself.This team don't care about mind games,pundits outbursts etc,As i said they focus on themselves and their performance because  they know if they can get that right or near enough right they will win.It leaves us as Mayo supporters in a great position as we can sit back and have a laugh and a giggle at shite like this knowing it wont affect the team.

Fried wheaten bread, soda bread, potato bread, pancake, white bread-ye can't bate it!
Have to say I enjoy the banter with the Mayo lads.  Amazing how the Mayo lads in work, though, are so sure of an all-Ireland this year.  I feel like saying "Jeasis, slow down Tommay!" 
For any of our successes, I found that I was apprehensive about all of the matches.  I hope James Horan is working on keeping the team calm as I honestly think that this is going to be a cracking encounter with a frantic first half.  Quality of subs will win it.  We really could do with Penrose for that electric speed and terrier-like tackling in defence and attack, nomatter what anyone says.

Either thats a load of sh1te or your mates are clowns.
Any people I know (and i live in Mayo) are quietly confident as we should be that we will beat Tyrone.Not thinking past game 5.

The lads spouting about winning All Irelands at this stage are the same lads who watch most of the championship in the pub,go to the semi and throw their flags on the ground and say they're never supporting Mayo again if we go on and lose the final.

Mayo have been very impressive so far this year, but from some of the talk floating about you would swear that the Tyrone team is littered with average players in comparison to the Mayo team.  Tyrone have as good a player as Mayo do, and I think this match will be very tight with only a few points in it.

Agree with everything except Tyrone have better players.They don't.They may win the next day,it'll be a tight game no doubt but if they do win it'll be down to experience and their top players playing out of their skin and Mayo having an off day.

He did not say that Tyrone had better players. He said they were as good.

So for Tyrone to win they have to play out of their skin plus Mayo have an off day? Mmmm?

Sorry,my mistake.

Ok,well on current form they are not as good.If you could only pick all stars this year so far from Tyrone and mayo.Mayo would have 12 and Tyrone maybe three.

Im not saying some Tyrone experienced heads and up and coming young lads plus some brilliant Mickey Harte master stroke can't win this game,they can (but not if Mayo are the level of performance  they were the last day)

The bottom line is more things have to fall into place for Tyrone to win than Mayo.Im not being arrogant or cocky (ive been there for all the heartbreak) and am just trying to look at the facts as i see them and take it one game at a time.

Mayo have been very impressive so far this year, but from some of the talk floating about you would swear that the Tyrone team is littered with average players in comparison to the Mayo team.  Tyrone have as good a player as Mayo do, and I think this match will be very tight with only a few points in it.

Agree with everything except Tyrone have better players.They don't.They may win the next day,it'll be a tight game no doubt but if they do win it'll be down to experience and their top players playing out of their skin and Mayo having an off day.

I have to say that this years Mayo team and Mayo fans in general don't appear to be arrogant. I'd say ruthless, and confident just like every other county left in this years championship. This is coming from a Galway man.

There's nearly an attitude being labelled on Mayo that don't let the muck savages west of the Shannon get ahead of themselves. However it's okay to have the confidence of the Aristocrats down in Kerry or the magical Dubs without being labelled arrogant.

Nail on head there.

Have to say i dont think what any other supports say about us will slightly effect Horan and the boys.They're totally driven to hit the levels they know they can get too.If they can do that for two games we will win Sam,if they can't we may still have a chance or we may not.Anything else is just bluster.

Yet in your post above you seem to think what Tyrone supporters think, will affect how Tyrone preform? Strange!!

Erm,yeah thats my point.All the mind games and we're either cocky or chokers,take your pic will not effect Mayo.We are a level ahead of that rubbish and Horan and the team are focused on themselves and nothing else.Thats in the case of Mayo.In Tyrones case they may or may not be effected by sides shows,they have huge experience in fairness but better let them spend energy trying to figure what the mood of Mayo supporters is (and get it completely wrong by the way) than have them fully focused on the match as wee are.

Some of the Tyrone lads here are trying the same tactic that Jimmy and Rory Gallagher tried last week.

Trying to attack a perceived mental weakness in the opposition (in this case the arrogance of the fans  ), before the match, is not quite how Kerry brought us down.

This is great I have to say.Everyone calling us arrogant and cocky (God,i'm glad we left the chokers name behind  ) And Mayo fans laughing it off in general bemusement! Let them off with whatever they throw at us and we'll let the lads reply on the field.

I have to say that this years Mayo team and Mayo fans in general don't appear to be arrogant. I'd say ruthless, and confident just like every other county left in this years championship. This is coming from a Galway man.

There's nearly an attitude being labelled on Mayo that don't let the muck savages west of the Shannon get ahead of themselves. However it's okay to have the confidence of the Aristocrats down in Kerry or the magical Dubs without being labelled arrogant.

Nail on head there.

Have to say i dont think what any other supports say about us will slightly effect Horan and the boys.They're totally driven to hit the levels they know they can get too.If they can do that for two games we will win Sam,if they can't we may still have a chance or we may not.Anything else is just bluster.

I honestly can't get over the arrogance that seems to be coming out of Mayo.  Why the constant reference to the Roscommon game too?  Tyrone have hammered them two years running therefore I'm sure they weren;t completely fired up for the third installment a few weeks ago.  All this cockiness from Mayo is allowing Tyrone to be completely written off from every quarter.  Mayo are a good team, but to be honest I don't see them as being anything special and the only team I would be worried about from a Tyrone perspective would be Dublin.  Great cover from Tyrone to come in as overwhelming underdogs against a team notorious for choking.  There is no way Mayo are going to hammer 3 or 4 goals by Tyrone and no way that O'Connor's luck will continue into this game.

Can you speak to as many Tyrone people as you can and repeat that over the next few weeks, local radio or even yer man Logie bear. It'll be much appreciated. Thanks, love Mayo

Great stuff,the more Tyrone people thinking this the better.Spread the word up there.

Cillian won yptoty 2011 and 2012,first time a player won it two years running.

Means absolutely nothing.

Hes scored 6-7 in one half and the Connacht final and the knocking out the All Ireland champions (which we've just done for the last three seasons) Dont talk sh1te like a good lad.

Still hasn't had a real test. Lets face it, that wasn't the Donegal side of 2012, the fact that an average side like Monaghan also hammered them detracts from your win over them. Using statistics from a game against London also shows how much youre stretching.

CoC still has it all to prove.

Hes the best dead ball specialist in the country,he won ypoty 2 years in a row,he's not the worst from open play either,but im sure he's bothered he has a lot to prove to you.Oh yeah,he 21 as well.

Now go call Ross O Carroll Kelly for a circle jerk.

And there is nothing wrong with that? The lad is 21 and coming back from injury!

There is nothing wrong with that. Glad to see you're level-headed enough to agree with me. God knows there's enough Mayo lads out there who think he's already some sort of footballing God.

Why?

Because of people like the guy who created the "ULSTER DOMINANCE" thread. Not a fan of the circlejerk the Ulster county fans have over their "more competitive" and "higher standard of football" in the Ulster championship. Hopefully Mayo taking Donegal to school will help some of these Ulster boys reel their necks in a bit.

South Dublin and not a fan of a cirlce jerk? I dont believe you.

Great to see another 2 Ulster teams taken out back and blown away today, but to the Mayo man somewhere ITT who suggested that Cillian O'Connor is already on Colm Cooper/Bernard Brogan's level, I would say he's nothing more than the next Ray Cosgrove right now.

Cillian won yptoty 2011 and 2012,first time a player won it two years running.Hes scored 6-7 in one half and the Connacht final and the knocking out the All Ireland champions (which we've just done for the last three seasons) Dont talk sh1te like a good lad.

This is great craic, I haven't enjoyed myself as much in years. This game wouldn't be half the occasion if McGuinness/Gallagher hadn't spiced it up.

I fully expect Donegal to park the bus big time for the first half & get in 0-3 to 0-2 in front. More of the same in the second half only for Mark McHugh to appear with 10 minutes to go & win the game with a goal.
James Horans cap will go on fire, Pat Spillane's head will explode & Jimmy will give a gracious interview while at the same time putting us all on notice about shady goings on in Monaghan/Tyrone.

Summer in Ireland, where else would you get it!!!

Great craic for Mayo and the rest of the country.I be fairly red faced if i was from Donegal.Jimmy and his mate ranting and making clowns of themselves and no reaction from the Mayo camp.Backfired big time.

Ken Shannon, all this direct tampering of public opinion by you is below the Mayo back-room team.

I'd be red-faced if I was Mayo and wasn't still sunburnt from the good weather.

Is Ken Shannon related to Kieran Shannon?

This is great craic, I haven't enjoyed myself as much in years. This game wouldn't be half the occasion if McGuinness/Gallagher hadn't spiced it up.

I fully expect Donegal to park the bus big time for the first half & get in 0-3 to 0-2 in front. More of the same in the second half only for Mark McHugh to appear with 10 minutes to go & win the game with a goal.
James Horans cap will go on fire, Pat Spillane's head will explode & Jimmy will give a gracious interview while at the same time putting us all on notice about shady goings on in Monaghan/Tyrone.

Summer in Ireland, where else would you get it!!!

Great craic for Mayo and the rest of the country.I be fairly red faced if i was from Donegal.Jimmy and his mate ranting and making clowns of themselves and no reaction from the Mayo camp.Backfired big time.