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Have they installed a UFC ring for this ?

I thought Harrison was definitely a red card . but the ref saw it and decided it wasn't. so I was wrong . so move along nothing to see here

Just another poor refereeing performance .

I've no problems with Harrison here.

If two players are happy to engage in a gun show, then both have to understand that one might have bigger guns. It looked worse than it was.

No worries. If he ended up in a wheelchair he can console himself that his guns  just weren't big enough
What sort of a moron are you ?

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I wouldn't even say we underestimated Roscommon.....

No, I think you hit the nail on the head there. I'm a Rossie living in Galway and everybody from work colleagues down to the local (and national) media where signing Galways praises. It was just a matter of turning up and collecting their cup. The winning score line was going to be a cricket score. Confidence is all good and well but there was no humitily or even the usual GAA attempt at talking up the opposition, Ala Jim Gavin and Carlow/Westmeath for example. It was just smug condescending arrogance by and large from Galway and they got their answer today. Read the Tuam Hearld's piece for example....

That HAD to feed down to the players and it showed in their attitude today. That's not to take away from Roscommon's efforts, they were immence and fully deserving of their win. But Galway could have been, and are, a lot better than today's efforts.

Galway are the most over-rated team in the country.

What have they achieved to date?

Very very little when you examine the evidence. Galway have achieved absolutely nothing in the last decade to consider themselves a foregone conclusion against anything other then a Div 3/4 side.

Still living off the back of Padraig Joyce, Donnellan , Mannion and the great players they once had

That's a bit harsh! Galway have been looking to get back to some level of competitiveness for the last 10 years. Once you fall out of the loop it's hard to get back in again. You say what have they achieved. Well they have beaten a still decent Mayo team in Championship the last two years. They have got into Division One and they have won a Connacht title. They are not the real deal. But they have made progress and have put themselves to be in the position to make progress. I know this may be hard for a person from Dublin to appreciate with all the advantages that go with the Dublin County and Club scene.

Indiana is a parody. Tomás Mannion played on teams that lost to the likes of Leitrim, a long way frôm the radar of Dub bandwagoners. The abuse they got. Nobody rated Galway in 1995 either.
Football goes in cycles. Galway need a few more iterations.

Nah you need a few footballers. When you find some let the rest of us know. I reckon Galway Football has had more false dawns then the Green party at this point.
Until then you've no right to think you can walk all over the Roscommon's of this world.

Hopefully action is taken against the Mayo players who stepped out of line yesterday.

Harrison must be training with Conor Mc Gregor these days

Good man mossie, nice try! 😂 we'll see if he analyses dublins thuggery to the same degree

Don't have the cuteness of the Kerry men. Mossy should have had a few notes. Let us know the offence and the punishment and leave the cccc with no choice but to look at it.

Maybe Indiana can start a social media campaign to get Harrison suspended. It has to be at least 12 weeks because you know, Dermo only touched a ref and what Harrison did was way worse. And Cillian O'Connor. Give that bollix 6 months. Did ya see what he bleeedin did to that clare fella. Well I didnt quite see it but the Sunday game were zooming in on it so it must be bad.

Come on hill16 army and All Dublin GAA Fans, lets get this trending. Call out to all the true blue dublin fans who feel Dermo was wronged and if the GAA ignore this its another example of the GAA bias against the Dubs.

Let's hope you don't train anyone that you think a dangerous UFC charge into the ground is an acceptable action on a GAA pitch . You're a bit of a joke I'm afraid . That could have broken the Clare's players neck. Only in the GAA with incompetent officials would that not be a red card

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I wouldn't even say we underestimated Roscommon.....

No, I think you hit the nail on the head there. I'm a Rossie living in Galway and everybody from work colleagues down to the local (and national) media where signing Galways praises. It was just a matter of turning up and collecting their cup. The winning score line was going to be a cricket score. Confidence is all good and well but there was no humitily or even the usual GAA attempt at talking up the opposition, Ala Jim Gavin and Carlow/Westmeath for example. It was just smug condescending arrogance by and large from Galway and they got their answer today. Read the Tuam Hearld's piece for example....

That HAD to feed down to the players and it showed in their attitude today. That's not to take away from Roscommon's efforts, they were immence and fully deserving of their win. But Galway could have been, and are, a lot better than today's efforts.

Galway are the most over-rated team in the country.

What have they achieved to date?

Very very little when you examine the evidence. Galway have achieved absolutely nothing in the last decade to consider themselves a foregone conclusion against anything other then a Div 3/4 side.

Still living off the back of Padraig Joyce, Donnellan , Mannion and the great players they once had

That's a bit harsh! Galway have been looking to get back to some level of competitiveness for the last 10 years. Once you fall out of the loop it's hard to get back in again. You say what have they achieved. Well they have beaten a still decent Mayo team in Championship the last two years. They have got into Division One and they have won a Connacht title. They are not the real deal. But they have made progress and have put themselves to be in the position to make progress. I know this may be hard for a person from Dublin to appreciate with all the advantages that go with the Dublin County and Club scene.

Galway is one of the premier GAA counties with stacks of cash behind them.

Problem is they don't deliver on the big day anymore a we saw against Tipperary last year.

It's got nothing to do with appreciating anything. Its'called delivery of performance

Hopefully action is taken against the Mayo players who stepped out of line yesterday.

Harrison must be training with Conor Mc Gregor these days

[once]

I wouldn't even say we underestimated Roscommon.....

No, I think you hit the nail on the head there. I'm a Rossie living in Galway and everybody from work colleagues down to the local (and national) media where signing Galways praises. It was just a matter of turning up and collecting their cup. The winning score line was going to be a cricket score. Confidence is all good and well but there was no humitily or even the usual GAA attempt at talking up the opposition, Ala Jim Gavin and Carlow/Westmeath for example. It was just smug condescending arrogance by and large from Galway and they got their answer today. Read the Tuam Hearld's piece for example....

That HAD to feed down to the players and it showed in their attitude today. That's not to take away from Roscommon's efforts, they were immence and fully deserving of their win. But Galway could have been, and are, a lot better than today's efforts.

Galway are the most over-rated team in the country.

What have they achieved to date?

Very very little when you examine the evidence. Galway have achieved absolutely nothing in the last decade to consider themselves a foregone conclusion against anything other then a Div 3/4 side.

Still living off the back of Padraig Joyce, Donnellan , Mannion and the great players they once had

Did he go off with your missus some night, Indiana?

Not being twisted here but I think he is very reasonable when it comes to analysing his own career. He acknowledges all the time that he was an eejit, bad trainer and shit stirer etc.

And money grabber. and sailed off into the sunset when things went bad. You missed that bit as well.

Wooly's an eejit! An average player at the time he gets access because he's a bit of a character and used to play for Laois.

Brolly wiped the floor with him the other evening and Wooly is not immune to grandstanding himself when he feels like it. Comparing himself to Diarmuid Connolly was one of the funniest things I've heard in a while!

Precisely- listening to Colm you'd swear he was a top player.

He wasn't - he was talented and wasted his talent

Trying to pass himself off as being comparable in any facet of Gaelic Football to Diarmuid Connolly was the funniest thing I've heard in years.

Self-delusion is a wonderful thing and he lives in Never Never Land.

Indiana, what podcast is the standard bearer then?

One that's minus that twat.

Years ago, some young lad had a Twitter account called @banterpanther which he used to take the piss out of the great and the good. Fair enough. He had a pop at Parkinson though, and Parkinson didn't care for it. So Parkinson doxed him – that is to say, he found out who the young lad was and tweeted his name and details.

Now, as it turns out, I believe the young lad did ok out of all of this. Twitter was (relatively) new at the time, and he was able to "sell" his account to some entrepreneur who thought a ready-built list of followers was worth whatever he paid for it.

But the thing is, it mightn't have worked out well for the young lad. It might have worked out badly, and I don't know how much that was taken into consideration. It was relatively easy for Parkinson to find out who he was because this a small country, the GAA runs through it and Parkinson's GAA network is huge. But, for a guy trying to make his way in media I thought he was being very precious about being criticised. I don't think he's any too shy about dishing out criticism himself; I don't know. Maybe he's toughened up. But at the time I thought it was a really shitty thing to do.

His podcasts are banal , un-interesting, Un-informed and full of cliches.

He'll be due a stint on the Sunday Game soon.

There is more respect for pondweed in Dublin then Parkinson.

Westmeath like fools listened to the media to come out of their shell and played open football! The theory is sure you are going to lose anyway. Wonder how many Westmeath people went to the game today? Not many I'd say! Today will have done further damage to that support. Dublin support will fade as well. Turkey shoots like today remind me of Premier league team friendlies played in the Aviva! Dublin going for 7 in a row Leinsters and 12 in 13 years! from a provincial point of view this is so unhealthy.

Today had nothing to do with resources . When you perform as badly as Westmeath did today you have no chance. Carlow would have beaten Westmeath today. They were the worst team we've played in about 5 years.

Not so sure. At that age you are sure to have lost speed and power, but with the correct training you can hold on to your cardiovascular fitness well in to your 40's. Mid 30's myself and still able to go pretty well (by my standard) around the middle 8, but I wouldn't have a hope from a standing start in the full back line.
In 5-10 years time I don't think we will see any intercounty players in mid 30's.

It is getting rarer all right, sad to see how some players lose their legs completely in there early 30s. Seeing Tiernan McCann ghost by Karl Lacy (only 32) is a case in point. The oldest Dub is Bernard Brogan at 33, Mayo have Andy Moran at 33, Tyrone have Sean Cavanagh at 34 while Kerry's oldest is Donaghy at 34 as far as I can see. So there is no real elder statesman in any of the top teams. Cork have Donncha O'Connor still going at 36 but that is a reflection of where they are at.
Monaghan keep their ages a secret but Vinnie Corey can't be too young now, while Dessie Mone has plenty of miles on the clock.

From a Kildare perspective we still have Eamon Callaghan coming on as a sub and he has to be at least 35 at this stage. Ollie Lyons is the only starter over the age of 30 and at 31 he has not lost an inch of pace and would be up there with the quickest players in the country still. Many others of a similar age did not age as well, whether that was down to the intense training in the McGeeney years remains to be seen. Johnny Doyle is still class at club level at the age of 39.

Denis Bastic(36) is Dublin oldest player.

Is nowhere near getting a game this year I'm afraid. Not sure why he stayed on to be hoenst

Dreadful performance against a very average side who were missing a lot of players. Could have qualified tonight.