AISF Mayo v Dublin

[Teo Lurley]

Hi! I've just popped in to speak some sense, like I always do.

To say a team that plays at home in every game has an advantage is a FACT!
To say a team that has it's underage structures paid for and it's senior team backed by millions has an advantage is a FACT!

To say a team that plays at home in every game doesn't have an advantage is a LIE!
To say a team that has it's underage structures paid for and it's senior team backed by millions doesn't have an advantage is a LIE!

Happy to sort all this out for you. I'm sure everyone will agree with my synopsis above and will deal with the FACTS in a reasonable and respectable nature. Slán.

[Teo Lurley]

Forgot to add that Joe McQuillan has been assisting Dublin for over a decade now, how he's still let ref their matches I don't know. He even helps them out in training on occasions.

[Tubberman]

Conroy is out for the rest of the year - big blow for him personally, and a blow to the Mayo squad as it limits our options if things aren't going well.

https://twitter.com/ConroyMickey/status/633261067892846592

Disappointing weekend. Another injury that ends 2015 for me. Will be supporting from the stands. #suchislife

[Mayo4Sam14]

Forgot to add that Joe McQuillan has been assisting Dublin for over a decade now, how he's still let ref their matches I don't know. He even helps them out in training on occasions.

I thought he was very fair in 2013

[The Aristocrat]

Forgot to add that Joe McQuillan has been assisting Dublin for over a decade now, how he's still let ref their matches I don't know. He even helps them out in training on occasions.

I thought he was very fair in 2013

see the free count and watch it back.

[Tubberman]

Forgot to add that Joe McQuillan has been assisting Dublin for over a decade now, how he's still let ref their matches I don't know. He even helps them out in training on occasions.

I thought he was very fair in 2013

see the free count and watch it back.

Do you not remember the Dublin players fouling repeatedly in the last 15 mins to close out the game? Every few metres gained, Mayo players were hauled down. That accounts for a lot of the frees rather than referee bias!

[The Aristocrat]

Forgot to add that Joe McQuillan has been assisting Dublin for over a decade now, how he's still let ref their matches I don't know. He even helps them out in training on occasions.

I thought he was very fair in 2013

see the free count and watch it back.

Do you not remember the Dublin players fouling repeatedly in the last 15 mins to close out the game? Every few metres gained, Mayo players were hauled down. That accounts for a lot of the frees rather than referee bias!

Just returning the favour at the 2012 semi when Mayo spent the last 15 mins on the ground etc.

[Tubberman]

Forgot to add that Joe McQuillan has been assisting Dublin for over a decade now, how he's still let ref their matches I don't know. He even helps them out in training on occasions.

I thought he was very fair in 2013

see the free count and watch it back.

Do you not remember the Dublin players fouling repeatedly in the last 15 mins to close out the game? Every few metres gained, Mayo players were hauled down. That accounts for a lot of the frees rather than referee bias!

Just returning the favour at the 2012 semi when Mayo spent the last 15 mins on the ground etc.

Not suggesting otherwise, just pointing out the reason for the free count was down to Dublin's fouling, not Joe McQuillan as you suggested.

[giveballaghback]

Mayo as usual getting their excuses in early.

[Farrandeelin]

Mayo as usual getting their excuses in early.

We may as well. I just think Dublin will win because their forwards are way better than any forwards Mayo's defence have faced all year.

[INDIANA]

Mayo as usual getting their excuses in early.

We may as well. I just think Dublin will win because their forwards are way better than any forwards Mayo's defence have faced all year.

Yeah but the Reek was cancelled. The planets are aligning for Mayo.

It's written in the stars

[ballinaman]

Mayo as usual getting their excuses in early.

We may as well. I just think Dublin will win because their forwards are way better than any forwards Mayo's defence have faced all year.

Hardly worth going up so.

Game is officially a sell out.

[ballinaman]

Mayo as usual getting their excuses in early.

We may as well. I just think Dublin will win because their forwards are way better than any forwards Mayo's defence have faced all year.

Yeah but the Reek was cancelled. The planets are aligning for Mayo.

It's written in the stars

So you're telling us Dublin have astrologists on the staff as well now...feck sake.

[moysider]

Mayo as usual getting their excuses in early.

We may as well. I just think Dublin will win because their forwards are way better than any forwards Mayo's defence have faced all year.

Yeah but the Reek was cancelled. The planets are aligning for Mayo.

It's written in the stars

So you're telling us Dublin have astrologists on the staff as well now...feck sake.

Indiana and the other Dubs on here can afford to be flippant.

Stuff is spinned but they expect to win and they know that they have a considerable advantage in CP. There is a sense of ownership about the place from the Dubs going back to heffos time the 70s. Pillar's teams' march to the hill was a deliberate statement of ownership of the pitch. The only statement comparable to that, that is still indulged, is the NZ haka.

Most of the Dub posters here know their football but a lot of their garden supporters are condescending and dismissive of everybody else bar maybe Kerry. These tend to be less than knowledgeable about their own team never mind the culchie hoardes. When they lose though its quickly dismissed and they return to their first and true love for next 9 months (Man U).

I'm complaining about the disadvantage we face before the event. Pointing it out like. To highlight the advantage after I would be accused of whinging.

The notion that CP is some kind of Mecca or Taj Mahal is way off the mark also. It's already a crumbling pigeon sanctuary, that was never completed and is poorly serviced by public transport. In a part of a city very difficult to reach.

Before my fellow countymen get caught up again in the romanticism about the place. The game is about players and great teams - not the field. The great teams/ players/ games would just have been as good anywhere else.

[Hound]

Wow. Whingefest meets Cringefest 

The notion that CP is some kind of Mecca or Taj Mahal is way off the mark also. It's already a crumbling pigeon sanctuary, that was never completed and is poorly serviced by public transport. In a part of a city very difficult to reach.

Yeah, a place within a short walk of Connolly Station and Bus Aras is very difficult to reach!
But at least it puts the rest of your posts in context