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That was a joke of a red card in Castlebar.
High tackle - yellow all day long.

Ah jaysus, take off those anti dub glasses. Red card all day long. Mayo looking very limited up front regardless of red card

Anti-Dublin? I'm the least anti-Dublin person you could meet.
A huge admirer of that Dublin team.
But that to me is a high tackle which is a yellow card imo.

Cheap shot that deserved a red card. Mayo were rubbish up front and if they use the red card to delude themselves about the result they're fooling no one but themselves

Ach now come on. In no way that was a cheap shot. Mayo deluding themselves? Maybe you should ask how Dublin only scored a handful of points  (some of which were soft frees) against a 14 man mayo team in 35 min of football.

+1.
Red card ( 9 times out of 10 a yellow) decided the game early. After that it was only a matter of how much Dublin would win by. Unfortunate for the large attendance that showed up, but that's the way it goes. Good night out ruined.
Under the circumstances I was happy enough with how Mayo did. Put it to bed and move on.

Unreal result in Ballybofey.

I suppose we should be used to James Horan's selections at this stage but Donegal were handed the game from the start. 3 subs at ht says a lot. Not sure though he took off all the right lads though!

However, the newer players that can play at this level played well. Swanee was terrific. Oisín Mullin and Tommy Conroy have quality and no doubts about them. Mullin is probably ahead of where  Lee Keegan was at his age. Conroy is only 19.

RIP.
One of the best.

+1. RIP.

Howard named at 6 the only surprise so far. 6 forwards to be named after the ad break.

Not a surprise but while he didn't really play 6 he was nominated in that line so.........
Boyle really should have got 6.

Mayo did not do to well on the nominations.

A few defenders and Aidan O Shea.

Will get one but probably not most deserving one.

Certainly puts winning the league and getting to an AI semi to bed as regards anything really, when it comes to All-Stars.

Only seeing this now moy, you reckon Durcan will but Boyle won't? That's my thought also.

Yes.

Labour need to drag brexit into a GE

Which is exactly what Boris Johnson wants. He gets a working majority (with the support of Brexit MPs in a pact) and will kick the 'deal' to touch and go for a hard total Brexit. He will get the support of the DUPs that survive the GE in the North as well because they will get the hard border that they crave. Looks to me like a well- set trap. Labour eventually will have to agree to an election.

You're correct in that Johnson wants a general election to establish a majority government, it has been his modus operandi from the get go. However, the DUP will no longer be relevant after the next election barring another quirk of fate with the numbers. If the opposition granted him an election (which I doubt they will) I think he will use this to try and get his deal from last week ratified. The downside of an election for the Tories will be their annihilation in Scotland and the potential for the next government to grant a second independence referendum after Brexit is done.

I dunno. A Boris majority after GE ( regardless of where the majority comes from) means that the deal is dead and buried. It's a clean slate and I suspect that it will be a no deal Brexit. A second referendum might happen with Scotland but the DUP will be on the pig's back. A hard border and loads of angst that they want so badly.

Labour need to drag brexit into a GE

Which is exactly what Boris Johnson wants. He gets a working majority (with the support of Brexit MPs in a pact) and will kick the 'deal' to touch and go for a hard total Brexit. He will get the support of the DUPs that survive the GE in the North as well because they will get the hard border that they crave. Looks to me like a well- set trap. Labour eventually will have to agree to an election.

The current British government have absolutely no credibility and you wouldn't trust them to go to the shop for you.
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Everything is being done to play to a UK electorate base in order to whip up an anti EU/Irish frenzy. Ably assisted by a complicit media in certain sections who are willing to distort words and tell mistruths in order to fit a set agenda. There is no intent, nor has there ever been any, to enter into any serious negotiations. Where it all ends is anybody's guess but the UK is fast descending into a dangerous place with right wingers in suits using the 'Rule Brittania' imperialist mob to further their own agendas. It is the height of irresponsibility.

It is but it is what it is.
Brexiteers will do anything to secure Brexit - apart from ditching the DUPs. They might be handy later after another election and a hung parliament.
Brexiteers don't give a f**k about the border and the trouble it will cause. The fact that there will be trouble is music to the DUP. Peace is their enemy and would eventually become irrelevant and current crisis is good for them. I have been amazed that some posters on here think they are painting themselves into a corner. The more chaotic things get the more they love it.

http://www.mayonews.ie/living/34403-mayo-football-the-hypomanic-obsession

Don't be always worrying about money
Gas article from mayo news this week

Did I read the same article?
Gas article?!

[Cora makes triumphant comeback]

Cora makes triumphant comeback


http://hoganstand.com/Article/Index/304591?fbclid=IwAR0P6xCopbZq3KZQEzcjPqlXR6eBcM4ZzjFRVfNDj7MJnFeRUv-kvwq08uE

As someone who is constantly crying over dubs dominating Leinster/All Ireland I say pot, kettle, black but that would sadly go over your bitter head.

If anyone deserves credit it's the Mayo manger to come back from Cora's lies, slander, and complete and utter bulls**t together with her club's arrogance/ignorance to take Mayo to an All Ireland semi final this year

Sorry, you've really lost me there. I don't know what you are talking about? I just posted a link to an article.

What's going on

Mayo did not do to well on the nominations.

A few defenders and Aidan O Shea.

Will get one but probably not most deserving one.

Certainly puts winning the league and getting to an AI semi to bed as regards anything really, when it comes to All-Stars.

Fair f**ks to Ballina tonight. Didn't see it but beating Breaffy aet by 5. Hope we can do the same tomorrow against the Mitchels!

I hope ye can too.

Sweet win for Ballina. Especially considering what happened last year.

Yep - good enough for the arrogant pricks

In fairness I doubt that call is reflective of Breaffy. I think I know who made it and of course it was incredibly poor judgement. Ballina should have been about winning that game today anyway and I don t think that shite like that had any bearing on things. At least I hope not.

Fair f**ks to Ballina tonight. Didn't see it but beating Breaffy aet by 5. Hope we can do the same tomorrow against the Mitchels!

I hope ye can too.

Sweet win for Ballina. Especially considering what happened last year.

I'm a little puzzled at some very strange remarks from Declan Darcy about Diarmuid Connolly's return to the squad: https://www.the42.ie/dublin-diarmuid-connolly-declan-darcy-4812056-Sep2019/

Connolly's private life is his own concern. I don't want to know anything about it, it's his own business. What's bothering me is - are Dublin so far ahead of the pack that they could afford to carry a passenger in the All-Ireland series?

I know Connolly in his prime was a superstar, but he was eighteen months out of inter-county football and looked it. Are Dublin that far ahead that they could carry him? I know he's not a passenger in the sense they couldn't carry Joe Duffy or Christy Dignam or some other hero of the city, but dammit, those comments from Darcy are just plain odd.

In 35 minutes he set up 2 points, and while he missed a goal opportunity, it eventually went for a 45 which Rock pointed. So direct involvement in 3 points for Dublin, and cost a few turnovers too. But overall, there was at least half a dozen players on the pitch who contributed less than he did. So a passenger? I don't think so.

And while there may have been some sympathy shown to get on the panel of 35 or whatever it is. To get in the 26, he had to be showing more in training that his competitors for half forward cover. To suggest he was in the 26 as some sort of compassionate play is clearly way off the mark.

I dunno Hound. I'm only going on how Darcy is quoted in the interview.

I think first and foremost it was really important for us, the care of Diarmuid. To bring him back into the group was the right thing to do Things weren't going really well for him probably outside of football and I think he needed football, he needed structure and whatever about whether he was to function within our group or not.

He had soldiered long and hard for us and he deserved that right to come back in and I think it was a really good thing for him to do. No matter whether we won an All-Ireland, I still think it would have been the right thing to do because we were looking after one of our own and he needs to be in our family.

Because the lads are brilliant to look after him, and reach out to him, which is really, really important. It was very impressive to see it, when it operated, and how Diarmuid flourished in that environment, and that friendship being shared to him.

We'll have to agree to disagree about how good or bad he was. Nobody ever agrees 100% on these things, not even the players themselves. I find the whole thing very puzzling. But then, really, maybe it's none of my business either. Dublin won, and won well. That's the bottom line.

Agree Iolar. Very strange stuff. 'the care of Diarmuid'
Wtf!

Poor Ger was a scapegoat over on the Mayo Gaa blog anytime he played and Mayo loast in recent years.

Imagine the abuse he would have got if it was him marking Con O Callaghan a few weeks ago.