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Kerry by 2 in a horrible game of football!

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Farr, Hefo and AZ taking "delight" in a Kerry win. Sort yourselves out lads will ye, sake.

Why? I am delighted for them and their freakishly long arms. It's probably the weight of carrying Sam around all the time 😄

Delight though? Really? I could only reserve the feeling of delight for a big win for my own county (as rare as that is before you say it  )

I'm ambivalent to Kerry's win today..much the same if the Yankees or the Pats win another Super Bowl..

If you make a mistake as big as Durcan did today you are unlikely to win at this stage of the season by the way in my opinion..,

Yes. Delighted "for" them. Delighted for my wife, in laws and friends down there.

Hmmm...maybe I've just a heart of stone...

You must have. It's great to see Declan o sullivan going out a winner too. He deserves that.

No he does not. He's a stinking thug as was shown when he acted the gypo v Derrytresk.

Id say not too many of us wouldn't have reacted having been on the end of such vitriol as O'Sullivan was that day
One of the finest footballers in my lifetime

Worst AI in history IMO. Even worse then 2003 and 2004.

Just curious, did you watch on RTE?

I was at the match and largely agree with Indy. It was better than any washout but the standard was really poor for an AI final. Dublin and Mayo will be sick as dogs after watching the level of performance that was required to win this year's final.

Kerry have learnt their Ulster lesson mentally but their execution still leaves a lot to be desired. I suppose it's something to work on for next year.

So it's a given that Dublin or Mayo would have performed better? How so?
The game was sore on the eye because of the ultra defensive game plan Donegal use.
If Mayo had reached the final they would have had to either play open football and the chances are got ate up by Donegal or met fire with fire resulting in what we witnessed today.
If it was a Dublin Mayo final or a Dublin Kerry final I'm sure it could have been a classic with much more open attacking football.
Kerry done what they had to do to beat the 'monster'.

Well done to Kerry. Another title no matter how it's won. But I found myself laughing out loud towards the end when Kerry upped the cynicism stakes to the max. I'd say it was the most cynical last five minutes of an All Ireland ever. Remember Canavan pulling down Cooper? Multiply that by 10.

It was a thing of beauty to see Kerry ratchet up the dark arts and fair play to them. It's 2014. Kerry often had the best footballers. Now they've merged that with the dirty hoorism in a more transparent way.

The country has couped and I like it.

On your own there. Worst AI in history IMO. Even worse then 2003 and 2004.

The lion share of blame is from Donegal. As mentioned earlier, Kerry adapted to some degree to beat Donegal using a system Donegal have honed for 4 years. If it was an open game Kerry would have played it as such. That's some achievement in itself.
For me the ref didn't favour any team, though Donaghey should have had a couple of frees in and around the box that he didn't. 
Fair play to the kingdom and commiserations to the hill men.
Papa Durcan will be hurting. Chin up big guy.

On the player of the year, Connolly by a country mile.

[but I don't think under any circumstance you can play Steven Gerrard and Lucas in the same team any more]

One thing Gerrard doesn't do is shit the pants. Reference last Tuesday for the most recent example. Anyone who says that hasn't a clue.

However, he shouldn't be an automatic start every game. The penny will drop with Rodgers soon, but I don't think under any circumstance you can play Steven Gerrard and Lucas in the same team any more.

Absolutely AZ.  St galls and udder the bar the same person?

Marty and Sakho are walking disasters. Gerrard is pretty much a waste of a pick at this stage. And Lucas,  it's not happening post injury.
A long frustrating season in store for the red men

Sitting down to watch the match though not overlay confident. Hopefully they get stuck into buck score a bagful

And not one of those players would have laced Suarezs boots. Fact.

one was twice, TWICE European player of the year for starters

I sat through that with my son last night. Somebody help me understand what is remotely entertaining about watching obscenely overpaid sportsmen serving that up.  I was reared on motd and perversely still look forward to it, but find myself more and more getting scundered looking at it after half an hour. Its a complete borefest AFAIC.

Always had the same problem with football.  Always struggle to sit down and watch the full 90 minutes, would rather avoid the scores and watch MOTD.

count me in this club. Though back in the day I'd have watched it all day long.

I'm not sure how the season will go, but it could well be a long one. Will certainly take time for the new players to gel. Suarez is an absolutely massive loss. I'd say the belief he gave the players last year was huge, basically, Luis is playing so we're gonna win every match. They dont have that this year. Ballotelli? meh. The odd goal goal but the polar opposite of what Saurez brought to the table.

Fairly laborious and toothless but a humongous 3 points

You can see why they gave this album away, couldn't see too many paying for it. Could turn out to be a masterstroke by both apple and U2, but I doubt it.

U2 are huge globally. Ireland and it's U2 haters are but a mere drop in a big ocean. They could release an album much weaker than this and it would sell a bucket load. I'm no fan by any stretch of the imagination but there's one or 2 decent tracks on this one. Haven't bought ought by them since achtung baby (serious album)

I wouldn't be what you would call a U2 hater by any stretch of the imagination, but this is probably their weakest album to date. The first track on the album is ok, the rest is poor. Maybe time will be kinder to it, but I certainly wouldn't have bought it.

Although I quoted you AO, it wasn't directed at your good self.  There's plenty on this island...I wish I was as shite as U2 ;-)

You can see why they gave this album away, couldn't see too many paying for it. Could turn out to be a masterstroke by both apple and U2, but I doubt it.

U2 are huge globally. Ireland and it's U2 haters are but a mere drop in a big ocean. They could release an album much weaker than this and it would sell a bucket load. I'm no fan by any stretch of the imagination but there's one or 2 decent tracks on this one. Haven't bought ought by them since achtung baby (serious album)

[Dunphy needs to calm down]

The only reason McGeady is frustrating is because he should have always been played as an attacking midfielder. It's where he started for Celtic and where most of his best games have been. I've been saying this for years.

He doesn't have the ability to put in a consistently good cross, so it's going to be a circular purgatory watching him play on the wing. As you saw last night, and even against Chelsea, when he gets the ball on the edge of the box he can make space with a bit of flair and technical ability. The commentary on RTÉ was continually stressing the need to put someone behind Robbie Keane -- McGeady is the person who can do that job. It's where O'Neill played him on his debut for Celtic and I hope it's where he will end up.

Good post. Circular purgatory - you should patent that term - it's exactly the right desrcription of McGeady's more frustrating side.

Glad we got the win but realistically we need to be beating Georgia. We're not world beaters but who the hell are they?

O'Neill will start off conservatively and focus on gettnig the side nice and solid. Then he'll get them playing a bit. This has been his trend as a manager. Dunphy needs to calm down. I think Tony O'Donoghue's line of questioning is snide and I would'nt blame O'Neill for cutting his socks off.

listen up you uncultured swines...DUNPHY WILL NOT BE CLOSED DOWN!!! Could be a long old campaign

How'd the trip go Ballinaman? 

Frampton winning this easily at the minute.

A class act. Could rule the roost in this division.

He could beat the rest although the king is Rigondeaux, most men can barely lay a glove on him.

Frampton is not interested in Rigondeaux, says McGuigan

http://www.boxingnews24.com/2014/09/frampton-is-not-interested-in-rigondeaux-says-mcguigan/

Of course they aren't, McGuigan will keep Frampton away from Rigondeaux as he knows the likely outcome of the fight in advance.

McGuigan though should really say they have certain objectives at the minute which include Quigg and a couple of others and once / if they are achieved, they will re-evaluate and this will maybe include yer man Guillermo. On Sat night and in that interview, cash seems to be the sole driving force at the minute.
Frampton is some boxer, and with hopfeully a few more big victories behind him, get the big fight on

Yer man Tony is still acting the plonker