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Caff wouldn't have quit if he thought he could get fit enough.

One of them died from a brain tumour years ago so he must have been very young.

40. That was Ruben Kruger.

Nah. Boyle a nailed on cert.

Galway are out of the Championship 2 months. Walsh could have confirmed his exit a bit earlier to give his successor more time to look at the Club championship

Would the Corofin manager be interested, Kevin O Brien?

Probably initially intended to stay on. However it appears that the board were sounding out likes of Gallagher and O Rourke. That made his position untenable.
Strange really because it board hardly prepared to pay what those outsiders would command.

Thanks for the memories Andy. Pity he didn't get the All Ireland medal he craved.

There were structural reasons behind that.
The future will probably look on now differently.
He lost 5 all Ireland finals but it's different to say DB .

A bit cryptic there seafóid?
You'll have to break that down for me.

Emmanuel Macron today put his hand on Boris's shoulder as they both walked away from the podium. Although a small gesture, it showed who was dominant!

at 17:55

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wX_0uu3tv6k

Cant really stand Macron,always seem like a smug individual who knows better than everyone. Macron proved today the main failing of the eu in that Merkel said yesterday that a deal could be reached within 30 days. Macron today has said no chance basically. Not really singing off the same hymn sheet. Normally you cant get 3 people to agree but trying to get 27 different leaders to agree anything is near impossible .

I would say UK will exit with no deal and refuse to put up a border. Eu/ireland will have to install it then at which point boris can stand back and say look UK hasn't installed a hard border that was the EU.

Why would UK put up a hard border?
It will be up to EU/ Republic to put up border checks. Otherwise Republic's membership of EU will be compromised. Boris doesn't have to worry about that. It would suit UK if the border is left unchecked but EU wont tolerate that.

what's the story with that o'callaghan lad? looks absolutely juiced up

Ten years too late with that question about the Dubs.

Ok. What are we talking about here?
There are posts about financial doping here all the time. Right?
Are people suggesting something else?

I probably go against the grain here being from Mayo and all.

I was probably seen as pessimistic going into today's game but I would prefer to call it realistic.

Still being realistic I think we had a good year. A lot went wrong but we got a long way being as dysfunctional as f**k at times.

Ironically our first half today is probably the first time I ve ever seen a Mayo team deliberately trying to control a game. I was genuinely impressed by that.
Not too depressed by what happened after tbh. A Dublin team 20 yrs ago could kill ye if they got a run on. In the 2006 AI semi we were on the ropes a bit before sneaking it. Not a lot has changed except now Dublin now don't f**k up when they get the opposition on the ropes.
Mayo was in a hopeless situation before a ball was kicked today. I'm not saying that another week would have changed the result but it reminded me of the scene from Gladiator where Maximus is wounded before his fight with the Emperor.
It was great to see Parsons able to come on and other injuries have defined our season in a way. I know people want to write us off but when you consider our younger players have been destroyed by injuries all summer, the older lads have dug out a good rearguard campaign and expect most to be back again. Ruane and McDonagh have been disrupted by injury. Durcan out for most of the Summer and Diarmuid O Connor not able to do himself justice today after wrist fracture.
Surely nobody thinks likes of Colm Boyle is through? One of his best years.
I'm not comfortable with a lot of the Dub bashing. I expect Mayo to match and compete with Dublin and suspect that people in Kerry, Tyrone, Donegal do as well.
The genie is not going back in the bottle. Dumbing Dublin down is not the way forward. That would make things worse. You would end up with a championship lite with no credibility at all.

Croke Park is a neutral venue but they get to interview a Dublin lady boxer in the match build up, play a trumpet role when the Dubs take the field and have Dublin always walking down the pre parade shaking the opposition hands. Oh, and they always warm up down the hill end.

Plus they always get the same changing rooms. It's apparently done by alphabetical order but it's in Irish so unless they playing Aontrim, Atha Cliath will always get the same changing room

Ard Mhaca as well...

Then it'll be ''Contae Ard Mhacha'' when they play the Dubs.

McLoughlin and Boland in for Doc and Higgins

A last 4 slot is great and consistently getting there is great.

But consistently getting beat by kerry mayo and Dublin ain't so hot. And that's been happening since 2009.

It's happening to others too!

[Dublin have pretty much had a 3 week break]

Obviously fancy the dubs to win but reckon this could be another mayo cracker. Hopefully it's more mayo V Donegal than mayo V Kerry. Dublin have pretty much had a 3 week break compared to mayo one and that's the key here.

Would love mayo to do it but just can't see it.

It's a no brainer and unfortunately makes Dublin's ultimate achievement flawed, through no fault of their own.

It's shameful scheduling. I know everybody is all hyped up about this game because of recent history blah, blah blah. That's nice but the reality is that it is a load of bollocks. It is impossible for Dublin to lose this. If both teams went in in same conditions, Dublin would still win in all probability. Mayo would have a punchers chance though. Tomorrow Mayo have no chance.

That is a serioursly impressive starting 15 and bench from the Dubs!

Indeed!

Die Einsatzgruppen!!

Looks like this is their 'final solution' for the upstart, underling culchies that have been a bit of a nuisance in the past.

You could well be right Moy but hopefully there is a bit of madness left in this Mayo team and we can go down fighting tomorrow!!

Yeah.I have no doubt we will not f**k off easily.

For all the talk of Kerry forwards I think a combination of Harte Donnelly mcshane and Mcaliskey could cause serious problems at the other end. The standout performance from Kerry was v mayo in Killarney but there's been plenty of other days over the last few years they've looked far from impressive.

It's now or never for this current Tyrone team, hopefully they're ready to deliver.

It is not now or never for Tyrone.
A last 4 slot is not something to be taken for granted.
The Killarney performance V Mayo should be taken with a pinch of salt after what happen since.
The real losers in the super8s were Donegal ( currently
better team than Tyrone) who landed in the 'wrong' group after winning Ulster.

Tyrone and Dublin ended up in a group that they could not not qualify from. Donegal would have strolled that too.
Instead they got a gimmie at home ( reward for winning Ulster) v Meath, burst their arses trying to beat Kerry in Croker, knowing that Mayo would use cannon in Castlebar if they had to.

That is a serioursly impressive starting 15 and bench from the Dubs!

Indeed!

Die Einsatzgruppen!!

Looks like this is their 'final solution' for the upstart, underling culchies that have been a bit of a nuisance in the past.