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

Security holding back the fat and furious Mayo fan was the moment of the game

ref had two different approaches in that game, strange

no-one really commented on it either. joe brolly talking about how mayo lacked "ruthlessness" which was straight bollocks imo. kerry look fitter and less leggy than mayo over the 2nd half of ET though.

Have that ya cunts!

ahem

no, no, carry on by all means tbh

local gardaí will have had mixed feelings regarding the day's sport

7/1 for Donegal to win. Madness.

12/1 ht & ft

rank stuff

look at that. cuntacting from kickouts in a fucking final. gluck lads.

better since. please god mcbrearty makes the difference

Shit game alright

Disappointing. That little kick at the end was shockingly unsporting.

dubs not even close to tested yesterday. ominous.

Same every year. Will believe when we are actually tested. Lost the first test to Donegal last year, with the same manager who was incredibly naive on the day.

My posts upthread balance praise for him with disgust.

nakh is the wintour of our diss content (darraghmac) wrote this on thread Mayo haven't been on dis ting since 1951: ILF welcomes all comers to Cluiche Cheannais na hÉireann 2013 on board I Love Football on 24-Aug-2014

"The mayo player everyone is raving about is the redeveloped aidan o'shea, always a fielder of note but physically reconditioned over the summer to a cross between longcat and a sherman tank. His fetching of the high ball above a forest of thuggery is rivalled as a sight this year only by his can't-fail method of seeking out opposition defenders to run over on his maraudings."

this fucking guy tho

balanced against dubs being beaten once in two years, and very few of those were even close

jaysus

kinda feel both teams will fancy they have a better performance in them tbh

Gavin out. Pathetic bottler strategy and we still nearly won. We were afraid of losing and played within ourselves, even after we'd basically won it. player for player Dublin should win, if they abandon whatever cagey post-Donegal panic they played with today. Can't be sure of anything tho based on that.

Like what is worse than a manager getting it so wrong one year that that influenced him to go too far the other way and get it wrong the year after. Ref hadn't a breeze how to ref the tackle for either side throughout.

agreed on all that

dub had that, we were out.

can't call replay,both teams poor today and may or may not have a performance in them

ref a funny mix of fussy and laissez faire all round

pretty frustrated with how it went to be honest. the moment that keeps coming back to me is when paul flynn attempted a glory point from beside the sideline with 20 yards of space in front of him and brogan or mcmenamin free - we were 6 or 7 up at that stage and it was a point at the very least, could well have been a goal.

dublin were bizarre, no clear strategy but scored nearly every chance they got, whereas mayo missed a lot of good chances, enough to suggest dublin should have let them shoot instead of all those fouls. i honestly felt the ref didn't really know what to do when 2/3 dublin players surrounded a mayo guy, he'd just run into them and fall over and it'd be a free. not saying dublin didn't foul at times, but the anomalous number of free kicks was like it was a rugby match or something in which dublin failed to understand the referee's "interpretation" of the tackling.

i think gavin is a farce by now but i would be fairly confident dublin should win the replay. the main consolation of the draw is that i'm home by chance for the replay and a mate texted me immediately after to offer me a ticket. used to work near croker for literally every game for 7/8 years when i last lived in dublin (8 years ago) so it's been about 17 or 18 years since i got to see a game.

Mayo p wilfully stupid in their choice of kick/pass, last week and at the start of this.

good open game though

ooof O'Connor on cluxton

it's just like watching a Brazil made up entirely of dungas

carrying parsons. his passing last week was shit and so it is today again.

I'd want that goal between the teams at this stage, shaping up to be a big half hour this

it's like the cunts aren't even listening to me.

cuuunts

Thought Dublin were done after that slump at the start of the second half - we are a strange team, we looked beaten but then had an absolutely magical five minutes. Then we took the foot off the gas again. I'm not sure that mixture of caution and wild abandon is a way to win the All Ireland, it's not blended right at the moment. The passing at the end was terrifying, but the way they used to to score the third goal justified it completely.

Was in Croker for the first time in 20 years yesterday, I worked on every match day from 1996 to 2007 then moved to London. The quality on show for a 20 euro terrace ticket is unreal. The first half in particular was just brilliant.

yeah I'm over the raging turmoil of watching it in real time and the better team with the bigger squad won a very good semifinal

hard for the rest of the country to pick a team to support in the final imo....

"The mayo player everyone is raving about is the redeveloped aidan o'shea, always a fielder of note but physically reconditioned over the summer to a cross between longcat and a sherman tank. His fetching of the high ball above a forest of thuggery is rivalled as a sight this year only by his can't-fail method of seeking out opposition defenders to run over on his maraudings."

Haven't seen it yet but he's been featured in a sport-swapping programme called "toughest trade" with NFL and I predict all ilx will bow down

one of the awful sports banter viral cunt sites was tweeting about the first weird thing in his wikipedia here, so i decided to edit it to include the second.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aidan_O%27Shea_(Mayo_footballer)

Shergar? Lols

he was middling, tho tbf its hard to compete with the freaks of nature in the nfl combine

State sponsored violence.

Thats some ten minutes.

Dublin fondness of cheap shot tackles hasn't hurt them in a few years but won't help them today- don't ask me why today and never before

Great game. Kerry playing like a gaa team that has finally figured out how easy this game could be with use of space and simple passing

What a game. I was hoping it would go to a replay. Mayo are going to get slaughtered :p

Well it's a final yknow

i hate kerry. i am happy. i particularly hate donaghy. bootcut jeans start a fight outside a chipper fucking dickhead.

kevin mc was unreal. that shoulder is up there with my favourite sports moments. juddering hit.

brilliant game - geaney is one of the best players to watch in the country. all that said, dublin doled out two goals - without that they would have won easily.

Anyone watching this at CP today?

Wish I was but I'm in London. Think Mayo's build-up this year has a been a lot better, off the pitch I mean. It's a failure if Dublin lose though.

Gtfo

An béal bocht is an béal bocht but that is obscene from the malahide man there

This will be merciless I fear. I can see no way it can even be close. Not sure I'd watch it if I hadn't lads from home over.

Mayo were lucky to beat Tipp in the semi final tbh

I honestly think it'll be close, Mayo will be up for it and they were very close to beating Dublin last year. The rest of the season doesn't matter. We are a machine of sorts but we do let teams into games.