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Will Mayo annihilate the Dublin buckos early doors and then commence operation pull your man off...........................or down ?

Squire, the team that wins will be the one with the most points on the scoreboard.  How you get there, well thats what happens on match day.

Unfortunately, protecting your lead has become a facet of the modern game, and its something I would expect both teams to do.

Previous Mayo teams wouldnt have engaged in that type of carry on....thats why we havent won anything in 62 years.

I'd say keep Andy in the lineup.  See how he intervened when that Tyrone buck was going to have a "word" with Freeman before he stepped up to take then penalty.  That's experience for you

If he's a yard off the pace play a different type of ball in to him

I've watched it 20 times and still can't tell definitively

If he got if wrong, it's wrong by an inch

The foul began on the line but it he was definitely inside by the time he was put to ground. 

Look at it closely, it was the hip check the put him down not the initial attempt at a push

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look at Cunniffes outstretched hands. Both players arrive at the same time. Brutally tough challenge but entirely fair.

Can someone please call Mid West and ask for a blanket ban on all Mayo 4Sam songs....it's getting tedious at this point

Refs decisions didn't change the outcome of the game

Even though O Shea was acting the tool, Tyrone goalie should have had a yellow and it should have been a hop ball (maybe free in....I don't know the exact rule)

Mayo goal disallowed for nothing

At least one of Tyrone's first half frees that they scored was a fair tackle by the Mayo player

Cunniffes challenge was rock solid....no foul there

Penalty not a Penalty...not even a free in in


Foot block was not a foot block.....he was moving into position to make a challenge.  (I think Mayo minors had a penalty against them for something similar last year and all the commentators agreed it was no penalty)

cant see past a mayo win.
playing better at the moment.
Tyrone are the GAA villans at the present time so ref wont do them too many favours.
will the ref pull up mayo on their cynical fouling (not as highlighted as much this season as the red erses), will the ref penalise players for charging or taking too many steps with the ball - imo some tyrone players but most mayo players v guilty of both this season so far).
Harte might try to set tactical traps for mayo, but with the GAA top brass not wanting these tyrone bad boys to progress, I cant see them winning - just dont think they have the team for it yet. close but not close enough.

GAA and media want a mayo v dublin final and it looks like the GAA hq would prefer a mayo win (god knows they deserve it after all the years of heartbreak) - as they would reckon this young dublin team will be winning sam next year!

Personally I didn't think Deegan was swayed by Brolly ridiculous attempt to sway the ref against us in his All Ireland preview last year so I would be very surprised if he pays any attention to the Brolly rubbish about Mickey Harte/Sean Cavanagh for this game. He is a decent ref I think.

Watch the first 6 minutes of last years final.

Donegal man-high challenge-no card.

Mayo man-high challenge-card

The Donegal tackle was arguably much more dangerous and the commentators were shocked at the fact the Mayo player got a card.

It may have had nothing to do with Brolly, but perception becomes reality

Enda was a fine corner forward on the Islandeady Junior B team back in the day. If anyone looked sideways at Poor oul Enda, they'd have the Horse Sweeney to answer to

As a hardcore Mayo supporter this is where we enter the twilight zone

How many times have we put in a mesmerizing quarter or semi final performance, only to fall flat on our face the next day out, and be down maybe 8 or 9 points in the first 10 mins.

Sitting in the Green Brier in Boston, last September little did I know that history was to strike yet again. I watched the 04 and 06 finals there and vowed that like Mayo I would exercise the ghosts of years past. I wouldnt let superstition and curses banish me from this fine watering hole-we' d see it through one way or another. Id even befriended a Celtic Tiger refugees in the process.

Until I see Sam been kicked down the Main St in Castlebar, I wont rest easy

I remember a ref out at the old Dilboy Stadium in Boston started booking fellas for "persistent fouling" one Sunday-LOL. ( Ie Home based donkeys fouling the young hired guns over for the Summer.)

There was ructions at the time, but it actually worked.

this sh1te of selectively picking out incidents isnt doing anyone any favors. if we look over an entire game there a a multitude of occurrences which could impact the final outcome. some happen to occur in the first minute, others in the last minute.

whether its a card given or not given, a pull, a drag, a wide called a score, a score called a wide.

as it is, play to the rule book. if the rule book dictated that was a yellow, then the referee made the right call.

look at Tadgh Kennellys elbow against the Cork player in the first 3 seconds of the final a few years ago. Look at Cillian O Connor getting pulled and dragged in the first few minutes of last years final.no free given-Donegal go down and bang in a goal-game over. What about Joe Sheridans "goal" against Louth and the square bAll that preceded it.

Football is played real time-no time outs, no reviews, no instant replay.  If we want every call made by the eye in the sky so be it, because at the end of the day every single call, or missed cll can impact the lutcome pf a game

I think Achill GAA's pitch is better:

The sandybanks was better.

Any nice settings along the roscommon coast?





Looks lovely.....ever play there is February???

He was a gas man, and manager.

In a Junior Championship match, where we threw away a lead late on to draw (against Islandeady in Westport - or maybe the other way round) there was extra time to be played. We weren't supposed to leave the field but the bold Willie ordered us into the dressing room and told the ref it was to 'bollock the shite out of them'. When he arrived to join us, the door was closed so he kicked it in. It landed on the hapless corner forward, who when he complained, Willie told him he was 'even more shite than the rest of them, and you're not going back on for extra-time!'.

LOL...wasnt there another time he left a brand new set of jerseys in a pub back in Westport such was the shame he felt his charges had brought upon the. This was back in the 80s when money was tight and I remember there was a huge uproar at the time. 

For grub definitely hit Katz Deli-you'll get a sandwich that'd feed an african village for a week

Staff are ignorant b**tards. We arrived in hungover on a Sunday, didn't cop the Jewish/kosher nature of the place (also haven't seen When Harry met Sally) and asked if we could get a fry up. Server looks at us and goes "Sorry man, not that kind of place" and
It's a Jewish Deli in Manhattan......what do you expect?

Note the bit where I said "didn't cop the Jewish/kosher nature of the place"...

What I'd expect from anyone in that situation working in the service industry would be to explain the situation and clarify what they were able to offer.

LOL.......stereotypes don't come from Thin air

For grub definitely hit Katz Deli-you'll get a sandwich that'd feed an african village for a week

Staff are ignorant b**tards. We arrived in hungover on a Sunday, didn't cop the Jewish/kosher nature of the place (also haven't seen When Harry met Sally) and asked if we could get a fry up. Server looks at us and goes "Sorry man, not that kind of place" and walked off.

It's a Jewish Deli in Manhattan......what do you expect?