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The 2021 All Ireland Senior Football Championship

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It starts on Saturday.

Again it's straight knockout, hopefully this will be the last year of that and we can get back to something with a bit more intrigue next year.

Leinster and Munster look straightforward

That could have been said about Munster last year also but I seriously doubt Kerry will make the same mistakes and they did in 2020, there is no way they can.
And they have been playing the league like they cannot afford to put a foot wrong.

There is no use talking about the Leinster championship.

Ulster offers a bit of intrigue, Tyrone and Donegal could meet in a SF and Monaghan and Armagh could meet in the other,
Donegal really need to step up, for the last three years we were told that they were a team to watch and in all three occasions they could not make an All Ireland SF.
One would wonder how focused Tyrone were on their trip to Kerry a few weeks ago, with little really on offer.
Monaghan on there other hand had a lot of focus on the same weekend and staying in Div 1 will do them no harm at all.
Armagh are a potential dark horse.

Connacht is a two a two and a half horse race depending on Roscommon, they have caused shocks before in Connacht previously and I'd not be willing to right them off v a Galway teams that one really has to scratch ones head about.
Mayo have an easy run to the Connacht final but could become unstuck there without Cillian O' Connor
They struggled without him a few years ago.

Anyway it will end up with Dublin beating the Connacht champions without much fuss in the SF and Kerry beating the Ulster champs with a small bit more fuss in the other one.

Barring an early sending off like we had in the first game in 2019 Dublin will cruise to the title like they did in 2019 replay and 2020 finals, regardless of what people say about Kerry getting closer to them.

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Swaine

Imagine playing a team at home with a fraction of the population and funding and needing to resort to that stuff to not lose the game. Also with a referee on their side.

I'd be embarrassed if I was a Dublin fan.

JeffKenna

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117754548#Comment_117754548

Conor Gleeson got sent off against Galway at the start of the second half for an incident at the end of the first half. Same should happen here surely?

BonnieSituation

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117754302#Comment_117754302

Ah Slattsy.

Larbre34

I'm a Dub and I hope Mayo do it now. The reason why, is that I don't want my young lads coming up against fellas on the field who see the way Dubs players have behaved and have been reffed and think dangerous conduct is totally fine.

Scumbaggery and a coward of a ref. A coward.

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There'll be a statue made of Rob Hennelly if Mayo prevail here 😁.. WHAT a score!

FixdePitchmark

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117754567#Comment_117754567

After 6 in a row - lol

Beechwoodspark

Ref has rode mayo

there should’ve been at least 1 possibly 2 red cards dished out to dublin in the last 10 mins. And a black card not a yellow.

TheRiverman

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117754511#Comment_117754511

Mayo were awful in that half, if they got dug in like in the second half they would be in the final. Yes Dublin are cynical. I hope Mayo go on to win it now.

Fred Astaire

When you're watching this stuff back it's even more incredible that the ref let Dublin get away with so much.

The putrid standard of reffing is something that has dogged GAA for too long. There's too much on the line, there's too much commitment now for teams to be robbed by some chancer who hasn't a notion of the rules.