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Good win for Donegal. Maybe the O'Donnell park hoodoo is behind us at last.

Mayo looked like they didn't really give a sh1t.

The issue for me is not the buzzer, it's that the game clock didn't start until the ball was played like a basketball clock. On every other occasion in the game, the ref restarted the clock BEFORE play resumed. Assuming the screen clock was correct, then there were 2 seconds to go. Ref should have restarted the clock and then blew the whistle. No way Kerry should have been allowed to get a score.

A question for Donegal men on here.
Was Mc Brearty better than Colm Mc Fadden ?

He never had a flawless season like McFadden did in 2012.

I think he was more consistent over his career than McFadden though.

I would agree with this. Paddy a level above because he delivered relatively consistently over 14 years. Colm Anthony had several solid years and one exceptional one.

A great servant for Donegal - 14 years of senior football is good going. Despite everyone knowing it was coming, that cut in from the RHS for a sweet strike off that left peg was incredibly effective over the last few years.

GRMA Paddy - some great days. The winner against Armagh in 2014 is probably the one that sticks out for me.

Love the Ryder cup and looking forward to a weekend on the sofa watching what will hopefully be a narrow EU win.

Well done to Kerry, a brilliant display and by far the better team. Possessions lead to shots and shots lead to scores - we simply didn't have enough possessions because Kerry were so assured for their own KO and did very well against ours. White was class as was P Clifford. Lots of stuff to lament from us but not sure that we were good enough to beat them no matter what. It was a good year in some ways, retained Ulster and went one step further to the final ... but who knows when we'll make it back again.

I have 2 paper tickets for tomorrow, so not done away with yet.

[He is a Christian so he's hardly going to go on the rip for a month.]

Jesus anyone but Scheffler. I would like to see the trophy go to someone, who you know, actually likes golf.

He said something they probably all think, it's a job & his family is more important. Obviously easy to say when you are worth as much as he is

Enjoyed that interview to be fair an interesting perspective from someone at the top of the game. He is a Christian so he's hardly going to go on the rip for a month.

Fitzpatrick looks to top form and Harmon is well suited to the links

Agree. You'd never find Christians going on the rip at all at all. Feckin Christians.

Clifford is the best player I've ever seen, the perfect forward.

He would seem to have a better big game to quiet game ratio than any inside forward I can remember. His quiet games tend to involve 5 points.

Those who might laud Canavan, Joyce, Connolly, O'Neill, Cooper, McDonnell, Coulter, Linden, McManus, O'Callaghan, Walsh as being better, I would suggest have their own biases to deal with.

Simple way to sort the argument would be to have their championship score averages listed. I imagine that Clifford would cone out on top.

So Cillian O'Connor it is then.

Allowing that it's often wrong ... for the craic I asked AI to tell me the average age of the 2 teams: Donegal 25.9, Meath 26.6.

I then asked it to look at the teams named in their AIQF's and it gave the same figures.
Asking for the starting 15 gave Donegal 29.0, Meath 27.3.

Donegal has a few older stalwarts for sure, but we have a good few youngsters in there too with the likes of Roarty and Moore.

If you are subscribed to GAA+ do you have the ability watch games back on demand?

Great 2nd half from Donegal ... but we've now had 2 games where we've depended on one strong half to get the job done. That won't cut it in a semi-final.

Beggan's 2 pointer at the half - he was probably 50-55m out? And it cleared the posts with a good bit to spare. I'd say he'd have knocked it over from 70m. Unreal.

Watching the Pacers in the Playoffs this year has been such fun. They are a great team to watch and have a very unique style. Siakam immense all year and his experience is really helping them. Hali with another game winner - unreal. Still reckon OKC will win it out, but stealing Game 1 on the road makes it interesting.

Mayo folk are delighted with the venue (as they should be). A short drive from their main population centres and a venue that they are intimately familiar with as underage and senior players.

There's an understaendable frustration for Donegal supporters. We were dragged to Castlebar to play Galway in a qualifier in 2003 and it feels like the county is always at the rough end of these decisions. Hopefully we'll get a similar result to 2003. Up Donegal.

These threads are always fun because everyone has a slightly different understanding of the purpose.

Michael Murphy is not the best player in the country, he's probably not the best all-round footballer, but as I look back on his career, I don't there are too many lads who:
- take 45's (mostly goalies these days)
- primary free taker
- option for a high ball into the square
- 2-point threat this year
- regular kick-out target
- attacking playmaker out around the 45

His versatility is impressive, not least because all of things remain true this year at 35yo.