The 2021 All Ireland Senior Football Championship

Did you watch the match on sky sports? They pulled no punches about his calls. Should have been 3 red cards for Dublin.

He looked at the player, judged the tackle and went for it. Go back and look at it. He knew that was in no way a shoulder to shoulder. He had him lined up and knew exactly what he was doing.

no, to be honest I rarely watch Gaa on sky, is it any wonder with that guff. 🙂

Lane gives the cards as the rules dictate, it’s not Dublin finishing down a couple or three players...

when you have ex Mayo players criticizing him....

Conor Lane is modding the thread

It's just pure nonsense. Some lazy, mistimed or frustrated tackles. Even as a Mayo supporter I wouldn't call any of them dirty. Seen the same from our lads and every other team in the country on numerous occasions. Basque wasn't a black for me but Lane prob could have dished out a couple in normal time.

That Dublin team doesn't owe anything. What they have done over the last number of years will never been eclipsed. I expect it to be a very brief transition period and we could be in for heck of a championship over the couple of years.

As a Mayo supporter what do you say. We had some battles with Dublin the last decade. I was there when we beat them in the semi final in 2012 and was present every single time they beat us since - not to mention league games.

It was always sore because there was never really much in it. Between losing by a point, replays, own goals and everything else.

Dublin supporters were always generally sound when you'd meet them after the game but when we lost the final to a point in 2017, I met one Dublin supporter who was saying they played in second gear all day and all that craic. It just rubbed me the wrong way as I felt we died on our sword that day and there was nothing in it. Anyways to that Dublin supporter, get it up you. As Colum O'Rourke, every empire crumbles.

I'll be honest and say I'm glad Dublin's possession game was foiled and we were the ones to do it.

2006 is a long time ago now man .

Shur let me know when it happens.

It depends...hopefully they’ll provide a footballing lesson and hopefully for the good of the game, spectacle, competition and fairness as well as the entertainment factor.. you know.. ‘football’ they’ll be of the ability to do it fair and square with a referee that enforces the rules of Gaelic football as opposed to rugby / WWE... like Lane today.

id say the officials earmarked to officiate the final will be watching today thinking “ I’ll be fûcked if I’m going to allow that shîte that Mayo were up to and got away with, not having that on my CV”...

Mayo winning would be bad for the sport basically. Kids across the country seeing that carry on elevated as a pathway to championship glory ? Nope, let’s back football and footballers... skill sets, entertainment and sporting endeavor over Mayo. :) Kerry all the way.

Jaysus what a load of nonsense...you're talking about a team that's gone 20 years...stop living in the past.

With the way the population and resources are shifting to Dublin I'd be very surprised if they don't do a 7 in a row in my lifetime.

There were 3 red card offences and 5 blacks committed by Dublin last night and he missed them all bar two, one of which was pointed out to him by deegan. Its hardly a performance worthy of praise. Not a first fir lane either. He isn't even junior b standard.

They looked even buried on the hour mark. To me the game changed on basquel missing the goal chance after the hit and o Connor keeping the ball in for Kevin Mc Loughlin to score. Mayo grew in confidence after that. It was still 13 11 to dublin on 73 mins, Evan Comferord who was excellent was caught for over carrying and then Davy Byrne ran the ball over the line. Dublin needed to trust their kicking game on those occasions, really schoolboy stuff for that to happen. Mayo definitely deserved it I thought dublin should have seen it out.