Mayo haven't been on dis ting since 1951: ILF welcomes all comers to Cluiche Cheannais na hÉireann 2013

the bit at the end where o'rourke made some joke and they were all about to lose their shit laughing, great telly.

Best for all concerned we end this now

Blow it up ref. Underneath those jerseys they're still men for god's sake.

The Monday Game

Kept meaning to go down to that rough-as-fuck pub just up the road from me that shows GAA every Sunday, however the Premier League's starting up again so I suppose it'll be fucking Arsenal from now on.

wtf happened the rossies? i was in work yesterday so i missed it. mayo are going to give kerry a game aren't they? just don't bother turning up until the semi-finals.

tyrone could trouble dublin too if we're as wasteful as we were on saturday.

Think we'll get battered but hey this could be the year seeing as no hype

last year was p similar to this though i guess - same stumbling route through. they must be a bit tired tho. is the kerry game this weekend?

Fortnight. And I in Milton keynes

i'll be in nyc. not paying 20 dollars to watch gaa at 10am, even the dubs.

aidan o'shea playing at full-back! i don't care that they're 1-1 to zero up - that is fucking madness.

As I said, I'm only getting scores relayed to me.

What dyou care for Aidan o Shea anyway!

true enough but if he's actually supposed to be a key player then you can't move him to full-back. donaghy isn't even kerry's best forward.

this game is fucking nuts

knife-edge doesn't even describe this.

what a match, fucking hell. thus ends my liveblog.

mayo love the drama!

German gone what's happenwd

mayo equalised in injury-time. huge back and forth game, mayo were three up a few times, kerry two or three up at times. kerry missed a (long) free at the death.

so a replay.

Ffs

Spurs and mayo. Maybe I'm the problem

definitely should have won today but in the final minutes were lucky to draw

A synopsis that rings through the ages tbf

These are the hard times lads

I think this is the year tbh

well that was easy

do you actually think it's the year?

Jesus it's a different game pitchside. Space just disappears.

Yeah. I think this is it. The journey has been so different to the usual and the focus and variety is there.

The experience finally seems to be worth more than just lending an air of doom.

wasn't it a kind of similar year to last year? like gradual improvement after early poor performances? i think kerry are actually shite so i'd be more worried from your pov. should have cunted them thusly the first day.

guess tomorrow's game is a factor, i have no idea what level tyrone are at yet, such is the nature of it. tbh tho it is hard to win 3 in a row, to not lose a game for 3 years. can't go on forever for the dubs, good and all as they look.

Other years it would've been about not having beaten Kerry at croker in two decades.

This time it was how to take them tactically, how to effect our own game to meet the Roscommon performance, no drama talk, no air of tragedy for the press. Business at the business end, like Dubs and Kerry assume as a matter of course.

XP I've only seen bits of Tyrone but people who know are telling me they are like hungry animals. Be a test I'd suspect.

yeah i am fairly concerned about it - it's a pity there aren't more good teams, or even seeding, the whole thing is so badly weighted, easy games and then this huge leap into the unknown.

that's a good point about mayo tbf, there hasn't been the same level of cringey hoping, certainly not for the second game, the first there was a bit. but you know in the lead-up to the final all that entitled shite will be back, even if it's driven by the media it still seems to infect the team. the last day the game was there to be won and they just would not take it. in the end kerry had a free on halfway which they panicked over and kicked to themselves, leading to a mayo equaliser. maybe that's behind them now but i dunno.

on the free i mean barry john keane, i think, literally kicked it up in the air short and ended up having to touch it next himself, resulting in a mayo free

As I said, the route this time may be the only difference. Could be that with it all cleared away the next three weeks could see a reversion, worth watching for.

Rochford has repurposed the whole team tho, each player a component, no stars, and the squad can play a few styles. Tricky decision going right, and real confidence you can draw from when things falter, not the brittle kidstuff we bit our lips for in other years.

I'm confident.

God help us

lol

I'd love to watch this tomorrow but what are the chances when Liverpool are playing Arsenal at the same time?

You in London? Bound to be places.

well.

the first half was fucking unreal - the second half frustrated me a bit, but still, an incredibly easy win.

I wasn't even listening after the second minute.

See ye.

Will be on road for this I think

Feel confident that it will be a game, but with this dub team there's no guarantees tbh

Soft goal to concede there

Mayo have been passing badly but defending well.

Dublin will pulverise us in the second if we're that sloppy

Couple of phantom free kicks given to Dub imo

Dublin can't get their game going at all but theres still only 1 pt in it. That last Dublin free was odd alright. Def yellow card moments before it too

Vaughan ffs that's outrageous

Great goal but Dublin bench will be worth a lot at 14 Vs 14

No arguments. Vaughan owes the county nothing but he'll carry the blame for that.

otm

Mayo should have got a penalty tho

Impossible to call those. I mean there's no foul but what a ref calls and I don't feel he favoured either team

disagree about the phantom frees - on at least two occasions first half a mayo player practically sat on a dublin forward and nothing happened. the injury time can fuck off too, utterly ludicrous shit playing about 3/4 minutes desperate for an equaliser.

one of the more satisfying dublin wins but again we played poorly in a final - it was extremely impressive we they won the ball in midfield when it mattered, having not done so all day. i can only imagine how horrible it is and i feel sorry for mayo as a team and for the supporters but i honestly can't stick the hatred and resentment that comes dublin's way. kilkenny destroyed everyone for years in hurling and all we got was mythology about cody as ferguson and worship of a great side - only a few specialist journalists or the sunday game pundits will actually give dublin respect or even bother to talk tactics instead of shiting on with sexual fantasies about a team causing "panic in the dublin ranks" or "chaos from the kickout" etc, wetting themselves over the prospect of a loss.

even in the preamble the entire week was all mayo-centric coverage and not a word mentioned about the fact that dublin are on the edge of becoming one of the great sides. i know it's hard and not irish to actually praise a victor, but still - it's not like dublin fans were sitting back thinking "here we go another meaningless win" - i have little experience of supporting a successful team but today was no lesser a day for us even with two previous years' victories.