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Thought Tomas Quinn was excellent tonight.

RTE must be under severe pressure from sponsors to get back in Dublins good books.

Like ffs, the Commercial and Marketing Manager for Dublin GAA brought on as a pundit on the show.Can nobody see the irony of this after the ass Jim Gavin made of himself a couple of weeks ago. I could only laugh when I seen him talking about zoomed in grainy footage of Cillian O'Connor that shows nothing

How about Michael Duignan and all the other cheap skates fork out a few pound to cover the cost of Sky sports for 3 months to let their auld fellas watch these games over the summer.

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.

Ease off the brandy.

AOS is the best most inconsistent player in the country. I'm afraid to say that but it's true.

I hope your right and he plays every game the same as last week but it's not in him unfortunately.

Saturday is a big test for our midfield so we will see what happens.

I'm with Larry on this one and Clare is likely the end of the road for this team.

No game plan, no brains on the line no forwards inconsistent midfield and dodgy backs says we are ripe for picking, that's the reality and there is no getting away from it.

Unless of course we win (which is still the most likely outcome despite Clare being elevated to stratospheric heights)  in which case the above criticism will be packed away to be brought out again and again in the hope of a knowlegeable "I told you so"

Yep. Exactly. The stopped clocked syndrome of some Mayo "supporters". Keep banging out the same auld shite and of course you're gonna be right sometime. You know its mad, the same gobshite's be sitting above in croke park on all ireland final day and it never dawns on them how a team with "no brains on the line no forwards inconsistent midfield and dodgy backs" could even end up here.

I wonder at times, what is the agenda of lads like this. 

https://youtu.be/T_G-_brZsEY

What a wonderful and rare glimpse into the knowledgeable depths of Dessie Dolan's intellect. In this preface to the Mayo Derry game he explains on live TV in crystal clear fashion why he expects Mayo to win. Among the reasons were the fact that Keith Higgins got sent off the previous week, while Colm Boyle was demoted to the bench that day. Relevance to the Derry game which was about to commence I hear you ask? You won't understand because you haven't been blessed with Dessies superior insight. His eloquence of speech is up there with Joyce and his tangled masterpiece Ulysses. You didn't understand that either did you? He goes on to the subject of Aidan O'Shea and reveals that there are many questions surrounding the man. For obvious reasons he doesn't actually go into Aidan's questions but further explains that there are wider questions about the Mayo team. Such brilliant ability as a punter, what a masterstroke by RTE to have procured his services, it enhanced the whole experience. I eagerly await the next installment Saturday evening.

Good man Dessie. Brilliant stuff

What's the of capacity in Ennis

Can't get accommodation next nor near the place

The gouging has to be tackled but for some reason the GAA continually refuses to acknowledge it as a problem.

sshhh. Cant be commenting on that kinda stuff. Have to wait for due process. Just remember freedom of expression is one of the rights in this republic, BUT ITS NOT ABSOLUTE

Thought AOS deserved MOTM

Weird game, it's like we started kicking the scores in ET that we were missing in normal time. Where the f**k was our sweeper? Derry beat one tackle and they were wide open for scoring, bizarre!
Fair play to Doherty and Especially Loftus, nice to see him do something!
Deegan is a brutal ref, for both sides but felt the "double yellow" decisions could all have been blacks for Derry. That No. 5 for Derry was a tr**p!

Anyway good to still be there and probably will stand to us the manner of the victory. I don't think an extra 20mins will effect them too much

Deegan reffing is like a complete fuking lottery. Its gone beyond a joke at this stage. No one knows what hes gonna let go or blow up for. Decisions can go for you or against you but absolutely so consistency from one minute to the next. He just seems to be making it up as he's going along
And of course not helped by linesmen tonight. One man cannot see Diarmuid O'Connor getting eye gouged and battered by 2 players from 10m  away but the other lad can see Paddy Durcan strike from 60m away.

Anyway. We live to fight another day. Tis some craic following this team

Rochford's managerial record is pathetic. His decision making is brutal. He cost us the match.

At some stage they would have planned that we needed a point in the last minute and what does he do, brings on drake, a back, and leaves loftus on the bench. We should be beating a bad Galway team with 13 men ffs.

Also we lost the 2 x throw ins that cost us scores. What the f**k was diarmuid doing contesting the throw ins? What the f**k is that about.

Rochford should be carted back to corofin in a transport box.

Are ya kidding me. Rochford is a bloody genius.

He brought an over the hill,selfie taking team of  premadonnas with no forwards to within a kick of winning the all ireland 

[leave it to the chokers]

On a scale of 1 to overrated. D'OC is reaching new levels. Like is this actually happening? Anyways, leave it to the chokers to get upset about a ridiculous Donegal's man article, reluctantly published in a Galway newspaper because its full of shite. Anyways...im sure its up on the dressing room wall, some terrible tipster talking shit. Fuel lads, fuel

Name a better Galway forward than him who's scored in the business end of championship?? 

As for chokers ye havent won a chmpionship game in Croke Park in 16 years.

Haha. Without the obvious of Comer and Walsh being near the same age, but light years ahead of him, i'd take Daly and Heaney as footballers also. He's the single most overrated young player in ireland. Is thE CP slag your new go to? With a fraction of our All Irelands, Galway current connacht champions, lording underage. Is that all you have left?

All fine footballers but I think the question you were asked was name a better Galway forward than him who's scored in the business end of championship??

I didn't know this could be done until last year but FYI lads:

This board has an ''Ignore' function.
Click on 'Profile' near the top of the page.
Select 'Account Settings'.
Then choose 'Modify Profile'.
There, click on 'Buddies/Ignore List'.
Stick in the screen name of whoever you want to ignore.

Thank you

Why didn't I know about this ages ago

Way off topic here but you Mayo guys are unreal, look at this youtube clip. It has KK's red card in slow motion. It is absolutely crystal clear that KK struck MM with an open handed slap...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlPbGHVA8FU

Definitely clear in this video, however Murphy should also have received a red in this case.

Why?

He has a hold of Keane's jersey, he doesn't throw a punch or strike a player.

Yellow for Murphy, red for Keane would have been the correct call there. If some lad grabs your jersey or gives you a bit of a shove and you react like Keane did and take a swing then you're looking at a red card. Brainless stuff from Keane at the time.

Murphy did more than simply hold his jersey and should have received worse punishment than Keane.

No, he didn't. Murphy did not swing at Keane. He grabbed his jersey and shoved Keane. Keane responded by swinging at Murphy and hit him in the face. Keane was a red card offence, there was no red card offence in what Murphy did.

Murphy shoved Keane in the face with a closed fist, the fact that he was also holding his jersey shouldn't hide the fact that this is also a strike.

Come one FFS! You have to be taking the piss!

He grabbed Keane's jersey, Keane was struggling and grabbed Murphy's arm, presumably to free himself, causing the movement of Murphy's fist (which was closed due to his grip on the jersey) towards Keane's face.

Yellow card for both as Keane's "strike" was hardly worthy of the name.

I'd forgotten completely about this incident and was expecting a fairly straightforward box from the way you're going on!

Whatever about Keane's actions, I cannot see why Murphy shouldn't have gotten a straight red. By any stretch of logic you like, grabbing someone by the front of his jersey and pushing him backwards would constitute an assault. Try it out some day at a bus stop or similar and you'll see what I mean.
You may be indubitably correct here, "Keane was struggling and grabbed Murphy's arm, presumably to free himself, causing the movement of Murphy's fist (which was closed due to his grip on the jersey) towards Keane's face."
But whether it was his face or his arse that Murphy grabbed, Keane was assaulted.

Assaulted?

The level of partiality with you Mayo lads is off the scale. It's a simple case of a bit of pushing and shoving with Keane completely overreacting, striking his opponent which carries a red card as per the rules. He received it and it should never have been overheld.

There is no rule regarding assault. There is a rule regarding striking or attempting to strike an opponent. It's very obvious Keane struck Murphy, it's very obvious Murphy was holding onto Keane's jersey and therefore couldn't strike him.

I will once again state that there is no red card offence for assault. Is grappling with someone on the floor assault? By that stretch I'm sure you're looking for Lee Keegan to be sent off nearly every match he plays.

You really are obsessed with Mayo. Its unhealthy. You will argue black is white or white is black just to have the final say on a Mayo issue.
As you say "There is a rule regarding striking or attempting to strike an opponent". It doesn't say how far you have to swing back. It can be a haymaker or a jab.  If the offender is holding a jersey so be it.  But as I said earlier, Keane got off this because he argued Murphy had him by the throat and he slapped him across the face in order to free his grip. This was accepted by the cccc or whoever sits on these things. You can argue it should have been a red, a ban whatever you want but the fact of the matter is the people who looked at this independently, and not some obsessed nut job from Tymoan decided Keane should not have got a red and thus should not have been banned.

J70 has already said it. This was a nothing incident and both players should probably have been yellow carded. This seems to be the line the cccc took on it.

Way off topic here but you Mayo guys are unreal, look at this youtube clip. It has KK's red card in slow motion. It is absolutely crystal clear that KK struck MM with an open handed slap...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlPbGHVA8FU

Fair enough.

This thing with Kevin Keane is way off topic but just so people are clear.

Kevin Keane did not get off on technicality. He never denied that he hit Murphy.
He made the argument, an argument which was accepted and one which is backed up by the video in the above link that  after Murphy firstly thumping him in the face he then caught him in a chock hold which was restricting his breathing and the only way to get him release this chock hold was to bitch slap him.

Mayo's weak spot =their forwards.
Mayo's best player =Keegan

Why not move Lee into the forwards?  - I always thought he'd be fantastic there and mayo have plenty great backs

He's good partly because he can time going on those runs up the field. In the forwards you are often receiving the ball with your back to goal. Totally different dynamic.

Get that gbb - and yet Meath won an all Ireland in the 90s with 5 club half backs playing in the forwards...
So conversion is often easier that it might seem. What better man today do it than the best footballer in the country?

James Horan tried it a few years ago. It didn't work.

Sorry Fuzzman but that is a ridiculous question. You are asking me "Have you saw how SOMETIMES when the ball is down the other side of the pitch that he wraps his arms around his man and holds onto him and then lets him go at the last moment when the ball is being hit in their direction"  Off the top of my head I cant give you an example but Id be surprised if he has never done it. Like every f**king defender that has ever played the game. But to say this is a common trait in Keegans games is pure nonsense. Keegan is one of the most attacking half backs in the game and to be honest it is him who receives this treatment a lot more then he dishes it out. One thing for sure he certainly wasn't at this against Tyrone as the behavior you describe would involve having the forward actually in front of the ball to receive the pass. But of course you've seen it loads of times. Cameras, umpires, linesmen, referees all miss it but Fuzzman is haunted by this behavior from Keegan.

As regards my last few sentences. When I say look forward. Maybe I should have been clearer. What I really meant was stop making shit up and stop making excuses as to why ye got bet last year. Its over. Its done. When Keegan shrugged his shoulders he knew he couldn't change anything. No point in complaining. It wasn't going to change anything. Of course no Mayo fan will agree he deserved a black card because he simply didn't but complaining on the internet 10 months later wont change that.

Even your description of what Keegan is at has changed over the last few pages. You don't seem to be quite sure what the problem is. Is he the spoiler of the year or does he sometimes hold a player and then let him go before the ball comes in. To listen to some of the Dubs you'd swear he'd ate your children. All I can recommend to you Fuzzman is stop listening to Anto and Deco down in the club house. Them boys only see what their mate on the hill told them happened.

Or you know what. Maybe this is Mickey Harte's new strategy for the year. It worked for the Dubs, why not Tyrone.  Send out the social media warriors. Keep repeating the same lines. It doesn't have to be true but say it often enough and it will stick. But Fuzzman you need to be more subtle about it and at least wait until a little later in the year. And a word of warning, if ye do play Mayo l there is no guarantee ye will get a ref like Maurice Deegan to fall for this shite