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Utter filth-bag tackle from Small.  Dublin have actively coached such thuggery since Pillar's day, an exponent of dirtbag thuggery himself. The Dubs have always got away with it. Ciaran Whelan, the perrenial failure, was 100% thug and part-time player. Anyone remember him choosing to punch the Tyrone player in the jaw rather than compete for the ball at 2005 AIQF thrown-in?

United should sell Martial and by Eduardo from Celtic

United should just sell Martial. Who gives a f**k who comes in. Just sell the lazy hoor.

OK so who woould you buy? Eduardo world cost under £20M and is a quality forward

No idea. Just want to see Martial go.

So swap a lazy forward for no forward? Great suggestion

How many Dublin players were on the field at the end? 12 or 13?

13. Should've been 12 but actually 14 if you count the ref

Wonder if the gaa will take action against small. Actually I know the answer will be no but the ref missed a red card offence resulting in a player with a broken jaw.

That Dublin team has been getting away with cynical play for years. Bad enough about the funding, home venue every game etc but to add in favouritism from the ref no wonder they went unbeaten for years. Christ it took some serious fouling for the ref to give out a few cards when the game was almost over.

Last night reminded me of the Dubs in the bad old days of the Pillar era when the likes of Whelo would just bust some man straight from the the throw-in and get away with it.

Last time Dublin lost regularly. So was it always there?

Dubs lost their cool, then the plot, then the game

Apparently Kilkenny lost his shit in the dressing room. Called Dessie Farrell an imposter and fanny-pad and told him to fcuk off back to milking a living from the GPA. Gravy train heading south.

Fingers crossed that Kerry don't have an outbreak

There's a contingency plan for that possibility. AIF will be played on boxing day

There's a match on fella, nobody cares....

I'll f**king post whenever I want you p***k. It's possible to watch two games at once.

Unless I'm been whooshed ur gonna have to explain this to me?

Third time u have made a very nasty remark to me... I don't remember us ever clashing or me saying anything nasty to or about u. I dont think I've ever posted a seriously bad thing about anyone.  I like a bit of banter and a bit of craic nothing more nothing less.....

Don't mind him Boycey.  He works as a labourer or something with the electric board so his utterances tend to be unrefined to say the least. 

United should sell Martial and by Eduardo from Celtic

United should just sell Martial. Who gives a f**k who comes in. Just sell the lazy hoor.

OK so who woould you buy? Eduardo world cost under £20M and is a quality forward

Newsflash!
The GAA have just announced that Dublin will take Tyrone's place in their semi final v Kerry

United should sell Martial and by Eduardo from Celtic

Fenton is probably the greatest player of all time m.

Not even the greatest Dublin player of all time. Certainly the most privileged tho.

And he'd swap it all to be a Tyrone man with multiple troll accounts on a GAA message board..

I don't have any other accounts. Feeling tetchy?

Fenton is probably the greatest player of all time m.

Not even the greatest Dublin player of all time. Certainly the most privileged tho.

End of Dublin's decade of dominance was sad to see, but not as sad as I thought it would be

Joe Brolly

August 14 2021 09:44 PM


In the 38th minute, with Dublin five up, and moving gloomily towards another anti-climactic win, the game went into a dumb phase. A sort of footballing purgatory, with Dublin holding possession, going backwards, backwards, backwards and nothing in particular happening. For ten long minutes this continued.


Then, something extraordinary happened. Aidan O'Shea was taken off. It felt like a clarion call for a new era. Mayo's young team — having seemed to accept their fate for the first three-quarters of the game — were suddenly unburdened, and went into full-on championship mode.

Dublin, stuck in a negative rut, could not respond and for the rest of the game they were blown away. Eight times Dublin fisted the ball to a Mayo man.

When Davy Byrne soloed over his own end line in the 77th minute to give Mayo the chance to equalise with the last kick of the game, Rob Hennelly nailed the '45 imperiously and the Dubs were done.

Hennelly was unrecognisable from the psychological wreck we have come to know. Here, he played magnificently throughout, his inch perfect kick-outs quarterbacking Mayo on their way, complemented by two superb frees from around 60 metres and then that killer '45.

Dublin overcarried, got caught in the tackle, mis-passed the ball constantly with foot and hand, and might have gotten away with it, until the removal of O'Shea and the realisation by this vibrant young Mayo team that this was the moment.

The heart of this team is Pádraig O'Hora. Having dismissed Galway's main threat Shane Walsh in the Connacht final with an emphatic slam to the turf after Walsh had pulled him back, he underlined Alex Ferguson's credo that the game is first and foremost about character. I met him out walking his dog last week in Ballina, bouncing along with his ponytail and smiling broadly. "Give them hell," I said. "I will," he said.


Do not let the pink boots fool you. This man is a terrific bit of stuff and a natural leader. In Croke Park, he took the great Ciarán Kilkenny apart, physically and more importantly mentally, so that long before the end Kilkenny had accepted his fate.

Keegan likewise is a leader and with O'Hora at his side, Mayo have two men who are not afraid to win. It was this negation of Dublin's attacking threat that gave them the confidence to surge on in the last quarter and throughout extra-time.

Enda Hession came in as a sub and immediately showed his team-mates the way, making a series of electrifying drives through the heart of the Dublin defence.

Most teams are beaten by Dublin before they start. Witness Kildare coming to lose by not too much in the Leinster final. When Mayo drove at them, it soon became clear that this Dublin team had reached the end of its natural life. Kicking the ball into the goalkeeper's hands.

Driving goal chances wide. Fouling when it was as easy to tackle cleanly. But mostly, going backwards, backwards, ever backwards. It was sad to see but not as sad as I thought it would be.

This was because Mayo inspired us and sent us away with hope that this unprecedented period of dominance by one team, this era of oppression, is over.

They played with freedom and concentration and manliness and for the first time in seven years Dublin lost in championship, a decade of tyranny over the game that I hope will never be repeated.



Up front, Ryan O'Donoghue showed that he is also a natural leader, playing with composure and grit, refusing to let the game get the better of him.





Most pleasing for me was the arrival into the big time of Tommy Conroy, an electrifying, passionate, emotional young player who nailed down the Dublin coffin with three glorious points coming down the stretch. He must have suffered after his mauling and early removal against Dublin in last year's final. His performance here showed strength of character and a young man with spirit and a sense of adventure.

Tommy Goals they call him in Mayo. When he starts doing that in Croke Park they really will be in business. He will need to against Kerry.

All that remains to be said is three cheers for this Dublin team and their astonishing contribution to the game.

Sunday Independent

Joe in 'sucking the hole off Dublin' shocker

Is Dublin's forged dominance, delivered by crooked Bertie skimming €1M a year from the taxpayer, finally over?

The false empire built on Bertie's corruption and privilege has crumbled at last. Back to your soccer

The home team is entitled to have who ever they want as half time entertainment. You don't have the Dubs complaining about half time entertainment when they play away from home.

That's interesting but are all games involving Dublin regarded as home games? What about semis and finals? Do Dublin "host" those games?

The games are in county Dublin. The games are played in the same venue Dublin play their home games in the League. Dublin players live in and are from Dublin. I'd bet most that are employed in Croke Park are from Dublin. I'd bet most of these employees are on a first name basis with Most of the Dublin players and Management.

FFS wasn't Dean Rocks grandfather the head groundskeeper for years at Croke Park

If that's true he'd be revolving in his grave at Rocks asking for €1000s to coach amateur teams in free-taking