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Dublin 2011 to 2020 Ten Glorious Years.

The greatest Gaelic football team of all times. We're privileged to have lived through this era.

8 All Irelands
5 National Leagues
10 Leinster titles
Several record unbeaten runs
Dominated the All Star awards
Etc. etc. etc to name but a few

Sit back and enjoy the journey 

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Very good, memories around for a long time, even in 20, 30, 50 years, people will be looking back in awe at the greatest team of all time, in any sport... !

Time RTE got rid of the Dublin commentator for matches, he is brutal, McStay is as bad.

Mayo people are never happy. Ye won. You enjoy the victory 🤣🤣🤣

Worse than the Dubs. Always giving out, no one can do wrong in Mayo..

Decisions go for you and against you in big games, Dublin have got their fair share of calls over the years, some for , some against.

Il only begrudge decision, the Hennelly point, but its all buts, if he scored first time, would Lane had made him take it again? However Mayo the better team after half time,  still think Dublin threw it away and could have easily won it, should of won the game.

[in Donnycarney,]

I live in Dublin; in Donnycarney, as true blue as you'll find.
It is a long tradition that Donnycarney fans march together to Croke Park on AI day.
Okay so far...?

My nephew and his young son were waiting at the church bus stop to get down to Fairview. The young lad was wearing the Mayo colours, flag, hat, scarf etc. The Dubs started teasing him but when his father told them he was from Birmingham and really hadn't a clue about Gaelic football, they decided to 'adopt' him.
So the procession started again.... with the lad out in front waving his flag and the crowd, marching behind, singing Dublin songs and teasing him and him dizzy with excitement.
They led the pair up to the stile they needed to enter the stand. One accompanied them and directed them to their seats.
The lad's pockets were a good bit heavier also.
I never had a minute's bother either with my Mayo flag hanging outside and everyone local knows I support my native county. Mind you, the arguments could be fierce-- but only in the local pub after a game! 
Genuine Dub supporters are as good as you'll find anywhere.

Could be neighbors

Great champions know how to win and lose.  Dublin didn't cover themselves in much glory on Saturday.

Yes they did, they fought until the very end, gave it everything, wasn't good enough as Mayo were better.

Of course Hickey is biased, like most on here are too, I am too, made some valid points though..., but games over, Mayo beat Dublin for only the 3rd time in Championship and deservingly so.

I tell you which player of Mayo I like now, Padraig O Hora  A different breed of Mayo player, different mindset.

Also you all you are making out that Mayo are the angels of the game, Mayo are well able to dish it out, have done over the last few and have to do it when playing Dublin, but there is and has been a Mayo media love for a good few years now.

The thing I would say about the media love. Philly McMahon is getting a lot of abuse now about his da and stuff online - and people who are doing that need a good look at themselves. I like who the guy comes across media wise etc but on the pitch he is a dirty hallion. He has been a bit of a media darling too.

Only in his capacity of what he is doing off the field, and maybe they feel they have to give him a voice, but behind it would care too much for him, and probably look down on him also.

Dublin have always been made out as a rough team, going back as far as the 70s. Philly and a few others get a lot of abuse win, lose , draw, nearly always after Mayo games etc,  id say he the most abused player, online , in the history of the sport, driven by the media, the likes of the 42, Sports Joe, Off the ball, etc , stir the pot, post pictures up online, freeze frame, with snide comments, just so they can get likes and comments under their posts, and then keep reposting the same posts. Going on years and is agenda driven, given the demographics of some of the people behind these so called " media " sites.

The end of the day, he will finish with 12 Leinster, 8 All Irelands, 5 National leagues, 2 all stars. Maybe one more if he's lucky and will always be remembered and always be a hero in the eyes of the Dubs.

Whereas Mayo are celebrating beating the Dubs for only the third time like its an All Ireland final win, remains to be seen how they fair in yet another final.

Of course Hickey is biased, like most on here are too, I am too, made some valid points though..., but games over, Mayo beat Dublin for only the 3rd time in Championship and deservingly so.

I tell you which player of Mayo I like now, Padraig O Hora  A different breed of Mayo player, different mindset.

Also you all you are making out that Mayo are the angels of the game, Mayo are well able to dish it out, have done over the last few and have to do it when playing Dublin, but there is and has been a Mayo media love for a good few years now.

I can see why Lane missed it, I thought it was a good hit on live viewing during the match, there is no VAR/TMO so we cant check except with his linesman so he cant guess if he should give a card or not for something that seemed to look ok to him at the time, but he ABSOLUTLEY should have blown his whistle when he saw the aftermath of the hit. Himself and Deegan the king clown himself can have no excuses for that.

Most Dubs fans appear to be premiership fans first and foremost and inhabit that world of  "my team always right, your team always wrong" the predicates that cesspit. So the one eyedness doesn't surprise me. Small f*cked up what he was trying to do with devastating consequences for Eoghan McLoughlin, up to the GAA to decide if he should be sanctioned for that or not but the referee has to stop play to check on the player after that hit.

Never liked the Premiership to be honest. Numerous incidents in the game , numerous incidents in Mayo Dublin games over the last few years. . .

Nobody will change my mind on the Small shoulder, if anything, at worse, it was a free for Mayo..

If there is a witch hunt here for some players.

Also Aiden O Shea should receive a 8 weeks suspension for entering the pitch of play. If you recall this similar incident:

https://www.the42.ie/darren-hughes-monaghan-ban-4690277-Jun2019/

If this is the game we are playing now looking for bans then, Personally, I don't think he should miss the final, but those are the rules what...

I will add, and i know this will not go down well, The Small hit, a great hit, dont care what anyone says and wont change my mind, one of the best hits ever, pity about the goal chance after it.....  A pity the about the injury too, unfortunate, GAA going soft, people going soft. ..

This kind of attitude is a problem in the GAA. You are not allowed shoulder people in the jaw. End of discussion. It was a disgraceful hit

No its not. Small he wanted to dispossess the player, lined it up perfectly, unfortunate about the last second contact. If it happened in a Kerry Tyrone or Leitrim Sligo  match I wouldn't be logging in here looking for blood, but because its Dublin, because its Small, because people love putting the boot in.

One of my club players went viral due to be on the receiving end of a monster monster hit, quite similar, but we were not looking for blood after it because who the team or player was.

O Se called Dublin defenders and defending savages, or bunch of savages, hes right. Tough hard defending, that threads the line and pops over the line from time to time. It has been a key component of our success, wouldn't have it any other way.

One more chance for another one next year if right players are brought back into the fold, and even Dessie goes, after that IMO a barren spell, few heads will go again.

As StPatsAbu, a WUM ! ..

First time logging in since Friday, Haven't read any of the previous comments on this thread yet about the match, I don't think i will, i can only imagine, if the same as social media afterwards... I just don't have the energy, presumably Small and McMahon coming in for stick, etc,  but nothing new there, win or lose.

Well I am sure you all delighted also. Congratulations to Mayo, better team overall on the day, congrats to the Mayo fans on here also, some are decent skins.

On Dublin, gave me, my family and my friends the best decade of our lives supporting them. Owe nobody nothing. Will be back next year and be there or there abouts (Hoping Mannion and Jack come back!!) but after next year, i can see a decline again, and again and could be some barren years ahead. to my knowledge, nothing coming through to the talent of what there has been there the last few years. Good yes, but Fenton, Con, Kilkenny good, no.

Best of luck Mayo in the final.

I will add, and i know this will not go down well, The Small hit, a great hit, dont care what anyone says and wont change my mind, one of the best hits ever, pity about the goal chance after it.....  A pity the about the injury too, unfortunate, GAA going soft, people going soft. ..

https://twitter.com/offtheball/status/1425720201270775819

I say this as a person without a inch of will to wish injury upon anyone, but why the f*** can it never be Dublin who pick up these f***** injuries

https://www.con-telegraph.ie/2021/08/11/mayo-facing-major-injury-concern-ahead-of-clash-against-dublin/?fbclid=IwAR2KRq7-cYy2QYYI3WxgpzSehtqFKzvLsrsVH-Ftr-YTAyNQfUxtLvCmbiY

Huge loss if accurate, top top footballer.

Which one of you did this?

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