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Agreed; a nicely worked handpassing move is great stuff to see.  No idea why everyone is so worked up about it.

Let's see, Kerry had the better of the first 10 minutes, and roughly 20 minutes in the middle of the second half.  Dublin were much the better team in the rest of the game.  On balance, deserved win for Dublin.

3 wins and a draw in the last 4 against Kerry tells its own tale.

Time is rarely added on for stoppages within the added time at the end of a match.  Of course it should be, but the practice is the same for everyone.  Dublin were the wrong side of that in 2006 against Mayo, the right side of it on Sunday. 

Dublin by 4 points.

Hows the ticket hunt Mike??

Just picked up a Hill ticket, always good to get one foot in the door of Croker. Might try and trade it up for a stand ticket come Sunday but can enjoy my pints now tomorrow.

Lots of posters on Res Dubs looking to trade their stand tickets for Hill tickets.

The Ha'penny Bridge on the south quays has one of the best pints I know of.  Never been there on a match day though.

Sure your post is shorter than his!

For a walk in the park, the Kerry lads in the bar in NY around me looked pretty relieved at the final whistle.

It would be if Mayo had won 3 all Irelands in that time span.  And beaten Kerry on the way in two of those.

Dubs V kerry.  Id say Kerry would love another bout of seventies and eighties style rivalry with Dublin.  How they hammered them again and again!
What great rivals, Its a bit like saying Tyson V Bruno were great rivals!

Fair point.  Hadn't realized we never beat Kerry in the 70's.

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I was joking about O'Gara by the way.

D'oh!

Was calling for O' Gara all day, once it was clear our plan A was dropping balls into the full forward line, but didn't think he made much of a difference when he came on.  In part that was because we were already controlling things for about 10 mins before that, but more so that he played very deep.  When he got the ball he was never in the danger zone, and never seemed to show between the sticks for the high ball in.

I can handle Donegal putting 14 men behind the ball, but the continual diving and feigning injury was a disgrace, among many other examples Durkan getting up twice after a free out to block a shot on goal then hitting the deck for three minutes.

This.

Though I'm in the minority camp here finding Donegal's tactics fascinating in general.  Absorbing game. 

Ref rode us completely.  Shoulder tackles apparently not allowed, but we made it all the same!  G'wan the Dubs!