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I'd predict Tyrone by 4 again but Cork can certainly get a shock here if we're not on it.Tyrone normally win by far greater margin than 4 points when the opposition they face are poor defensively and i can't see Tyrone giving the Cork forwards the time and room to play as Dublin did last Saturday or Kerry did in the Munster final.
Hard to be optimistic at the minute for 2020 if it stays as is.I wouldn't be too worried about losing all Irelands as a measure of quality
We are now also well into our longest All Ireland football final appearance drought since we first made it to one in 1919.
It never did Mayo any use
I'm not so sure about that, need to be getting there or thereabouts in my opinion regardless of the result, no one 21 or under in the county has any recollection of Galway in an All Ireland football final and the resultant hype and interest levels in the county that it brings with it. Mayo don't have a top tier hurling team to compete with for hearts and minds either.
On that bigger level, some of the stand out players for the minor hurlers yesterday were from Moycullen, Mountbellew and Ballygar, now while a good portion of hurling people in the county will be delighted with that spread out from the traditional heartlands, it's a development that should fill anyone from the football ends of the county with some trepidation for the future. This follows on from the ten dual minor players last year having to pick which code to play, with 9 opting for the small ball. Both sides made their respective finals and the footballers were the ones that lost.
Meath are decent value at 9/4 considering the results at the weekend
As abject and toothless a performance as I've seen from a Mayo team in a long time. Some of them didn't even look remotely interested in being there and beaten to every ball from the first minute. Kerry looked hungrier and more up for it from the word go. I guess this is what happens when injuries and games on top of games add up. Kerry had a couple of weeks to prepare for this game while Mayo have been bouncing from game to game, week in and week out while juggling injuries. It caught up with them. Kerry were fresh and prepared while Mayo looked out on their feet. The scheduling for these games is an absolute mess. It shouldn't be that one team is able to bounce into this phase of the competition after a couple of weeks' break while another is doing multiple games on the trot just to get to the next phase where they will have to continue playing week in week out in the Super 8s. Every team should be given some breathing space to prepare for this stage of the competition.
That said, Mayo were miserable to watch. Leggy, disinterested, kickouts an absolute shit show from the word go, defenders seriously lacking pace, forwards receiving the worst ball imaginable. When you make Shane Enright look like a quality defender, you know something is seriously amiss with your team.
It's a serious uphill battle for Mayo now. I'm not even sure they'll beat Meath, I don't even know if they'll win a single game in this Super 8s. I'm also not sure Kerry will do them a favour next week either and beat Donegal.
Most impressive display of any side to date in this years championship in that first half by Kerry. Defensively they have been excellent, Moran has dominated the skies and their forwards have been excellent although O’Donoghue has been below par. Men against boys and Mayos kick passing has been dreadful whilst they have very little energy from that middle 8 today.
Overall a disappointing game for the neutral in the sense that it is so one sided and was over after 25 minutes.
Game set match.
Half time in the first game but I think that’s full time on Mayo’s season.
No it wasn’t Rossies still waste too much possessionRossfan red card my hole,Tyrone won game in second gear for most of the game.Yup. Tyrone were never in trouble at any point yesterday.
Reality check
The game was very much in the melting pot 1st half and Roscommon could or should have led at the break, the fact they didn't came back to haunt and goals that was vital in the wins v Galway,Mayo didn't come v Tyrone.
I don't think losing to last years AI finalists by 4 points can be considered a reality check. Last years trimming v Tyrone in Croke Park certainly was and was one of the main reasons why Kevin McStay and his management stepped down.
Scoring average is still not good enough to trouble top teams
Missed chances still don’t count in any sport
Cork have improved bigtime. They didnt stop and i hope they give Tyrone a game....could be a cracker. Hurley is a beast. The Vikiing and Loughrey were impressive too
Rossfan red card my hole,Tyrone won game in second gear for most of the game.Yup. Tyrone were never in trouble at any point yesterday.
Reality check
Are the Dublin public getting tired of watching this team? Seems the crowds are way down, 40K at Leinster final, 30K at this game. 5 years ago every game they played was full house or close to it.
It’s beginning to kill the argument that the neutral game needs to be in CP to cater for the crowd, Thurles would be able to take a Dub/Ross game and maybe not sell out.
I'll go for Kerry all day long. Mayo shcraping past tier2, tier3 teams until now, much like last year before Kildare match. Kerry will be angered by the league final and the crowd will be like a 16th man. Would be better for the group to tee up a Mayo/Donegal finale (assuming Meath don't pull off a few shocks). Game of the qualifiers.
Agree with the jist of what you're saying. But Galway are now tier.2 or 3?
And the top 6 are?
Laughed when reading the Irish news just now where Cahair OKane said the 'big six' plus Meath and Cork.
http://www.irishnews.com/paywall/tsb/irishnews/irishnews/irishnews//sport/gaafootball/2019/07/12/news/breakdown-if-the-world-stopped-now-who-d-be-in-the-allstar-full-forward-line--1661500/content.html
