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Two points dropped by conceding in the 6th minute of added time to a player that hasn't scored a goal for 8 years, will he ever strike the ball as cleanly again?

The lack of closing down shots that should be basic defending was very poor by United for both Everton goals.

2 goals conceded v Ipswich,Everton,Hull and up next in the Premier League is Man City with Haaland and co.

Rashford was limping before taken off and other than Sesko none of the subs made an impact.

Would have to question the timing of that departure. Was rumours about a month ago on a player vote against Joyce which Galway GAA later rubbished. 

So why has it taken him from June 28th to now September 3rd to decide to step down? He also told the media after the championship exit to Dublin that he had two years left.

It all suggests much like Monaghan something behind the scenes has made him to step aside.

Credit to Hull worked their socks off and fully deserved their win.  The fact a club like them who finished 6th in the championship last season was able to make themselves hard to score against and beat was some comparison to that United team.  Once again United hopeless in defending set pieces.


Ipswich will be licking their lips before facing that United team next

Austy these lads wouldn't fill a tea room in Castlebar,

That myth put to bed.



My three

Clare island
Never Mind the Strangers
N17

WTF is wrong with clowns apparently deliberately driving the wrong way down the motorway. Gardai have said it is being done for social media likes - 5 dead overnight and could be more to come.

That movie idiocracy played out in real life once again.

Work rate to win back possession with relentless high pressing was the foundation.  40 phases of play for Mayo and 28 of these came from Kerry possession.

Tally must have shared the Tyrone 03 DVD with him

Makes you wonder what was going on with Derry that they didn't win a league or championship game under Tally. 

This evening.

[But the scoring forwards was the foundation..]

I'm not sure about a progression since 2021. Kevin McStay couldn't get it to work.

They were 12/1

They have 3 scoring forwards. 2 of their marquee players are teenagers. Kobe and Beirne could be as good as Linden and McCartan when they are 26. Hopefully Kobe will be back.

They have an excellent management team. Higgins and Boyle are very impressive. So is Tally.

Like Tyrone 21 but also like Derry 93 or Down 91. They had a team that was ready for Croke Park. They broke the mould. They were good enough to beat Kerry.

Their mindset was spot on. Culmination of years of work Rochford and Horan addressed the Mayo psychology when they were managers.

Andy Moran is a great tactician. He was thinking a few steps ahead. He was fearless.

Keith Higgins diary Irish Examiner


As soon as the medical team dropped off the call Andy set off his stall. We were going after Kerry. No holding back. No backward step. No deviation from our principles.
If anything we were going to ramp up.that stuff even more..

They got the crowd behind them. They had an energy source.

They had the right model.
Performance levels on the biggest day.
It all came together. But the scoring forwards was the foundation..

Work rate to win back possession with relentless high pressing was the foundation.  40 phases of play for Mayo and 28 of these came from Kerry possession.

Mayo,Roscommon and Galway all winning All-Ireland titles in Croke Park the last 7 days the west is awake.

If the charts are still on the go you'd think the Saw Doctors will be at number 1 this week.

The Green and Red of Mayo has shot to the top of the Irish Spotify charts.

Written in 1990 after the band had played a festival on Clare Island, off Mayo.

"It was beautiful weather, a cloudless, warm sunny day," Ollie Jennings, the band's manager, told media. "We started writing a poem on the boat with Gerry Mulholland. Davy put music to it, and we had a song shortly afterwards."

Dingles club run really didnt help them. Paul Geaneys fairytale ended in disaster.

Only on the bench to pick up the cup it appears. A fit Brosnan would have been a better option. Given Geaney's age and injury issues that's him surely done with Kerry now.

Diarmuid O'Connor out proved to big loss and for the strength in depth Kerry meant to have they really struggled to get any impact from their subs introduced.

Main downfall was not focusing on the main strengths of Mayo and trying to curb them.  They had the look of a team that thought midfield will be won and the Clifford's,Sean O'Shea will do the rest.

Mayo gave their game plan away against Louth, and it amazes me that Kerry ignored the clues.  Louth sauntered into tackles and lost the ball continuously in the middle third.  I was sure Kerry would kick it long, but they made the same mistakes Mayo did.

Mayo's other obvious tactic was to go for two pointers and Kerry weren't able to adjust to that on the day.

And their substitutions were a mess - O'Sullivan in for O'Connor (big loss) and shipped off again at halftime?  Geaney on the bench but not used- what was the point of that? 
Introduced Evans too early, needed his legs with 15 to go.  Brought off a midfielder when they needed power around the middle?

All very strange. Jack O'Connor has done it all, but didn't seem a good day yesterday for the Kerry sideline.

It was a poor day at the office by Kerry management. Jack O'Connor said the other day he was no longer the manager but observer nowadays.  As you said Mayo showed their hand against Louth but it doesn't appear much if any observing of that game was done by Kerry at all.

It was a bit of shotgun approach on the subs and it made no sense to start Tom O'Sullivan when he had only 40 minutes of championship football under his belt against Clare back in April.

Getting Paul Geaney onto the match day 26 and David Clifford not wear number 13 was more important things to address.

Dingles club run really didnt help them. Paul Geaneys fairytale ended in disaster.

Only on the bench to pick up the cup it appears. A fit Brosnan would have been a better option. Given Geaney's age and injury issues that's him surely done with Kerry now.

Diarmuid O'Connor out proved to big loss and for the strength in depth Kerry meant to have they really struggled to get any impact from their subs introduced.

Main downfall was not focusing on the main strengths of Mayo and trying to curb them.  They had the look of a team that thought midfield will be won and the Clifford's,Sean O'Shea will do the rest.

I still hope goes to Australia.  Too good an opportunity for him to miss from a personal point of view.

I hope he's not swayed by the emotion of yesterdays win and homecoming etc.

He signed a 2 year Category B Rookie contract this past November. He gets a base salary of €68k for his 2 year contract. If he plays any Senior football matches his contract bumps up to €100k.

If it doesn't work out for him he'll back aged 20 with decent money made and great life experience.

Long wait finally over doesn't matter now but a game/final  Mayo should have could have won more comfortably. Team thar defends best won All-Ireland final and Mayos ability to turn over the ball a key trait throughout this campaign, the work rate and wanting it more the big difference.

A perfect send off for Kobe McDonald after that today he might get homesick in Australia? 

Thinking of forner posters on here who died in recent years, a shame they aren't around to have seen that green and red day.

It be McDonald, not overly starring today but he the YPOFY

They'll be breaking their neck to give it to Kobe

Rayn O'D has to be MOTM and in the running for POTY

I'd be amazed if anyone got POTY ahead of O'Donoghue

O'Donoghue excellent again today,  probably the hardest working player in the game at the moment and covers serious milage around the pitch. I agree MOTM today and could well win POTY also.

Mayo better team after first 15. Kerry cant deal with their high press.

Kerry the better team for the opening 24 minutes and leading 1-6 to 0-3

Mayo the better team in the last 11 minutes of the half and outscoring Kerry 0-7 to 0-2.

McNally has been generous with some of the Mayo tackling on the high press.