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Current Mayo management have matched last year's management successes . Acid test for them is Saturday week.

Really, Mayo should win the replay pulling up on the basis of last Sunday. But there are alot of Dublin players stinging from the criticism they are getting and maybe there is one last sting in the dying wasp. Age profile of alot of the key Dublin players now an issue.

Are you even allowed wear long-sleeved jerseys during the championship now?
Can't remember the last time I saw them.
Pete McGrath was on the radio talking about how it's harder for players to gather the wet ball in first-time in short-sleeves than it is in long-sleeves.

Think McGrath has a valid point here.

Have to say also that the younger generation  of footballers have an obsession with wearing mouldies all the time , even when wet. For me , last Sunday was a day for the screw in stud type boots for grip. Doubt many wore them last Sunday.

Watched Hell or High Water at the weekend. Old fashioned character driven 1970s style bank heist movie. Enjoyed it . 8/10.

Jeff Bridges has aged something else.

Crazy crazy game. We should have been beaten by anything upwards of 5 points but amazingly found ourselves 5 points up at half time and 2 up after normal time. No rhyme nor reason to the game.

By the way, can you imagine the meltdown if Dublin were down after normal time and 7 minutes extra time was announced.

Two Dublin players literally had their shirts torn off them during the game. Never seen that before tbh.

On what basis do you way Mayo have improved? Sunday is the only time we will be able to tell that I think but so far nothing to suggest they've improved.

Beat a much touted Tyrone team in a very thorough  manner. Cantered past Tipperary who had beaten Cork and hammered Galway.

Not the Ealing Comedy manner of getting to an AIF that many would lead you to believe.

This has a Donegal 1992 written all over it.

Read Catch 22 on holiday there. Fantastic book - laugh out loud in parts and utterly tragic in others

Have started it a number of times and given up early on . On all the "must read" lists but just never did it for me.

Have a very bad feeling about Sunday. Nothing between the teams last year. Mayo have improved and Dublin slightly weaker.

Mayo couldn't have sat down this January and scripted a better way to go into an AIF.


Every newspaper article says "nobody is giving Mayo a chance" only then to give them every chance of winning on Sunday.

One less cooking programme I hope. Hope to see the trend continuing with less "fat people " / house buying or renovating/ or people stuck on an island programmes which seem to make up half of what is on the box at the moment.

Big Bang Theory and that American guy stuffing his face  makes up the other half it seems.

The best nights out are after you lose in the championship.

Back in the day when non black coloured boots were viewed with deep suspicion, anyone wearing "flashy boots" would go whole seasons without getting a free.

Club team managers secretly wish for only 15 players to show up for games.  No hassles in trying to  keep everyone happy.

Waiting now for the "trouble in the Mayo camp", "injured in training", "doubtful for the final" stories to surface shortly. Serious efforts to downplay their chances.


I for one haven't forgotten how good Mayo were last year and the year before (not to mention 2012 and 2013)  when they had claims to be the best team in Ireland.

Am very fearful of Mayo tbh. Despite all their poor mouthing they are exactly where they expected to be at the beginning of the season. They destroyed us in 2006 and 2012 .

Cannot think off hand of one KK player who got the better of his marker. Maybe two or three  shaded it but that is at a push.

Plenty of AIs there for Tipperary to pick off over the next few years if they can break a habit of generations and kick on .

Would think there are plenty of KK subs very disappointed today at not getting a run yesterday.

Excellent performance from Tipperary as a whole.

Firstly, bring very comfortable walking shoes or runners.... well worn in ones as you will be walking miles and miles every day.

Get a 3 day  bus pass for twenty dollars which allows you to travel up and down the strip non stop........... gets you to the two shopping outlets (waste of time but no point me telling you that as every Irish person goes anyway) and to downtown also.

Bring a good sunhat .

Got a ticket to the 2013 final by the skin of my teeth.

I think I pointed out at the time at how surprised I was at how elderly (compared to other supporters) the Mayo fans were.  Fewer kids and young adults there and way more females there than is usual.

Just got the impression the county proud supporters as opposed to the football mad fans got the tickets.

They paid for their tickets and entitled to go so no issues there.

Might account for the fatalism in the last 20 minutes or so.

Very similiar at the Down / Cork final . Way more Down fans, but all the noise done by the  Cork fans.

Maybe I am reading this wrong, but I think the Commission's argument is not about our low tax rate but that Apple got a particular "sweetheart deal" above and beyond our low CT rate.
That is its gripe I think  in that it was according to them a not allowed state aid .

By the way, every other country in the EU is at this state aid mallarkey, but when you,  as Ireland is,  severely weakened in owing alot of money, the sharks will pounce.

The way the game is going it is now hard for an old school solid stopper/ spoiler  of a back to win an allstar. Less of the onus on backs now "to keep their man scoreless" with the semi zonal defence now the norm and a sweeper covering your behind.

Need now to be booming up the pitch now and then imo to be in the running which imo is a pity.