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

It's in the bag. They should pre record the victory speech

Formality mere formality

Parsons has zero talent.

Jesus Christ we will always find a way to throw a final

Were you at Croker, Darragh? Cos someone who looked like yrself in a grey hoodie and mayo jersey popped up on the telly looking glum on the 75th min there

Saw him but looked more like one of the omalleys from louisburgh

I was gonna photo him! Had that exact thought. Dublin play with fear up front, like they get bollocked for shooting if the percentage isn't high enough, thankfully Costello hasn't been brainwashed like that. Also for a team that barely ever score goals we sure are obsessed with trying to engineer them. I know, moaning after we won two in a row. It was a stunning game.

Fully agreed, both last time out and today dub could have put the game to bed but we're holding back shooting from V reachable distance

Great game, no shame in losing it

Gk decision couldn't have gone much worse but we were much better and it's probable that Hennelly s kicking was a factor in that so.....

Imagine it went to extra time. Like that's prob a human rights abuse.

This time around the bench strength told. I'm still confused about it not doing so last time tbh.

Worthy winners and a truly great team tbf, can play a few ways and don't rely on one or two individuals.

Next year is our year

the decision to change the keeper was remarkably bad. i guess rochford will still survive for next year though.

challops warning but, imo aidan o'shea is shit, he never scores, he is terrible at shooting, and for a big guy he actually ends up rolling around on the ground a lot and isn't actually able to batter through people, though he keeps trying. did he even score a point in either of the finals?

He's shit in this system, I don't think that's a challop. In a system that suited him he was imo the best footballer in the country. Both systems got us to finals but are p much radically different approaches to the game. Hard to say what fine margins could be eked out either way for the sake of argument really. When oshea was great we were the best footballing team in the country and should've won one. The past couple of years feel much more like an incremental gains systemic approach where we are predictable and consistent and as a result made a final this year that we might not have expected to.

Think there's definitely room to introduce more talent and intent in that midfield and not be so reactive, but the system is probably here to stay and that's likely due to gavins success in deploying the same method and attitude with Dublin imo, it's the current benchmark.

That Donegal for Sam thanks page has to be a pisstake NN?

Fb page

God help us

What's happened? Do you hate Tyrone when they're playing football or hurling, I can't remember? Or just in general?

I can ignore them most of the time tbh, all the nordie teams are rough showers a bastards tho

Mayo threw away a strong lead against cork then didn't

Croí briste avec yon cunts obv

sounds like some game, i'm about to head out to watch it

stream?

has there ever been a more overrated gaa player than aidan o'shea?

— Ronan Fitzgerald (@rmkf) July 30, 2017

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It's a combo of being surrounded by shite, being the big player in the team, his own inconsistency and rarely doing it when it counts.

Overrated, yeah, at this stage.

Most ever? Ah now cmon.

he's just not good! he scored something like two fucking points in the entire championship last year. and he goes to ground a lot. i don't get the hype at all, he's nowhere near the level of a keegan or o'connor.

you're definitely going to win this though

rossies so wasteful

terrible finishing, jesus lads

Fuck ya

Like they never saw a fuckin ball.

Cloggers. Shit kickers. A joke.

my heart is thumping and i'm not from either county

why no extra time

Cos we suffered enough

An awful game and a shameful display of shit football

spillane exactly right, it was two teams who looked scared of going and winning it.

xpost agreed. it was exciting but the quality not good.

It was an exciting game!

ah man i fucking love watching gaa on rte - such a wave of nostalgia for ireland

It's a brilliant service there's no doubt

might get the season pass. it cost fucking 14 euro to watch that. it's 99 for the whole season. caught between a rock and a hard place really.

That's expensive alright

Here lads the game wasn't as bad as the Kerry one, that was total shite

i was in bed for that one. late night. i still wouldn't write mayo off - they were mostly shite last year until the final.

I was watching from the pov of wanting one team to string a fucking attack together

When you see gaa teams and they're completely unable to use space or make a decent decision in a move you wonder what the fuck training sessions are for and what they select fellas based on. There isn't ten players in the country with the brain to play lower league soccer in England imo

o'rourke/brolly/spillane are fucking gas old codgers xpost

Roch out!

I love the Brolly - Spillane dynamic. Brolly - "Best to stay silent when we see just how static Roscommon are here" - 5 second silence before Spillane squeals in his Kerry tone - "THEY'RE NOT MOOOOVING!"

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.