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The Prendergast haircut sums Ireland up really, embarrassing

You know you're Irish when......

You know you're an ould man when you start giving out about young lads haircuts!

Worst Dublin performance I've seen in Castlebar. Mayo weren't great, won by 6 and left an awful lot behind

Another daft ending with this stupid rule

this scoreline belongs to the old rules.

I thought Rob Hennelly had   retired? Sure didn't he write a  book and all that?

Andy how powers of persuasion! There's a raft of players who had retired or 'stepped away' that have now decided to return - Hennelly, Cillian O'Connor, Plunkett, Carr.

Doesn't say much for McStay/Rochford.

Regardless of the rest of them, I doubt Hennelly would be back only Reape is travelling.

AOS wanted him back . Will himself and COC will be helping Andy pick the team? The band is back together.

Dillon will have to rejoin. be hard to juggle job as a TD, but needs must.

I thought Rob Hennelly had   retired? Sure didn't he write a  book and all that?

Andy has powers of persuasion! There's a raft of players who had retired or 'stepped away' that have now decided to return - Hennelly, Cillian O'Connor, Plunkett, Carr.

Doesn't say much for McStay/Rochford.

very sad, relatively young age. Great actress, will be well known to millions

Maybe I missed it, but have any teams been announced for the weekend like?

Mayo (NFL Division One v Dublin, 1/2/2026): Rob Hennelly (Raheny, Dublin); Jack Coyne (Ballyhaunis, captain), Rory Brickenden (Westport), Enda Hession (Garrymore); Sam Callinan (Ballina Stephenites), Paddy Durcan (Castlebar Mitchels), Stephen Coen (Hollymount/Carramore); Bob Tuohy (Castlebar Mitchels), David McBrien (Ballaghaderrreen); Jack Carney (Kilmeena), Ryan O'Donoghue (Belmullet), Jordan Flynn (Crossmolina Deel Rovers); Darragh Beirne (Claremorris), James Carr (Ardagh), Tommy Conroy (The Neale). Subs: Jack Livingstone (Breaffy), Donnacha McHugh (Castlebar Mitchels), Michael Plunkett (Ballintubber), Fenton Kelly (Davitts), Diarmuid O'Connor (Ballintubber), Aidan O'Shea (Breaffy), Séamus Howard (Belmullet), Diarmuid Duffy (Ballinrobe), Fergal Boland (Aghamore), Paul Towey (Charlestown Sarsfields), Dylan Thornton (Ballina Stephenites).

Pat Spillane

The Derry men couldn't wait to get Tally out and go back to the handpassing ways of the Gallagher Era. The game has moved on Kicking and good forwards is wins games. Derry lack both.

Are you serious???
Tally is the king of risk averse play. If you had the audacity to kick the ball under his watch and possession was lost, you were immediately hooked.
Unfortunately, Meenagh has the same mindset and isn't prepared to adapt.

He won't be happy with Mayo performance so!

Stadium clock is the real one.
The TG4 screen clock is simplyctheir best efforts to swith on/off.

When the hooter goes off is what matters. Was the ball in the hands of the Kerry forward as it went off or was it in the air?

Personally I'd ditch the hooter altogether and leave it in the hands of refs on what time to add on.

There was nothing wrong with the rule as it was last year - it was clear, no confusion.
They meddled with it and have made it much worse.

Situations like the last score of the first half of the All-Ireland final put a lot of the GAA hierarchy off the old rule, Kerry had the ball for as long as they wanted without any pressure from Donegal before David Clifford scored.
Had other 1st half situations where a team turned over the attacking team before taking a couple of minutes to take a scoring attempt themselves.

Could have adapted it to just allow one last attack, if a team start just lateral passing without any urgency to attack, blow it up, ditto for a turnover.

But that rule was unambiguous - when the ball went out of play, the game was over. Not much chance for controversy.

This new rule is a mess. You have a timekeeper in the stadium, possibly keeping different time than the stadium, and also different time than the TV if game is televised.
Then he has to sound the hooter, then the ref has to blow the whistle.
Much more opportunity for the mess we saw yesterday.

Stadium clock is the real one.
The TG4 screen clock is simplyctheir best efforts to swith on/off.

Surely clock should have resumed from when ref blew his whistle, but instead it didn't seem to resume until ball was mid flight. at that stage, player had waited a second or two trying to figure out what to do

It  had just left his hands. Hadn't reached  the goals though.

Have watched it a few times and I'm not so sure. Just a round 1 league game and will be quickly forgotten about but wouldn't be a good look to win a knockout championship match in that manner

There was nothing wrong with the rule as it was last year - it was clear, no confusion.
They meddled with it and have made it much worse.

Was keep me uppies and too many boring passages of play with the tweaked rule last year. It was stupid by FRC to go back to the hooter rule that was in place for the first 4 league games last year after what happened in the Meath v Westmeath game. Ditching it altogether was the better solution

Sure a team defending a lead could still be doing that to wind down the clock until the hooter goes. I don't see that it achieves much and instead it actually has much more likelihood to result in controversial incidents

Stadium clock is the real one.
The TG4 screen clock is simplyctheir best efforts to swith on/off.

When the hooter goes off is what matters. Was the ball in the hands of the Kerry forward as it went off or was it in the air?

Personally I'd ditch the hooter altogether and leave it in the hands of refs on what time to add on.

There was nothing wrong with the rule as it was last year - it was clear, no confusion.
They meddled with it and have made it much worse.

barnstormer of a game. Paul Geaney crowning a glitting career is nice to see.

If he had got the black card he should have got, it could have been a different story.