The 2021 All Ireland Senior Football Championship

The views of a simpleton.

What do you think Mayo did?

Dublin were the disgrace to the sport not Mayo. Dublin were incredibly lucky the referee DIDN'T follow any rules of the game.

Every single post from you is contrarian and vindictive. A WUM basically.

Dublin practically went into the game uncooked. Leinster is a farce of a championship. The provincial system needs to end.

He wouldn't be wrong. Eoghan Mc has a double jaw fracture but sure that was a fine challenge. 🤨

Ref had some calls off on both sides, some worse than others.

However I do think part of the social media outrage is people seeing things on tv, on playback and in slow motion. You just don’t see tackles like this as much in other tv games or the level of abuse roared at refs etc. Rugby is quite managed (tv ref etc). Soccer is different again. To those tuning in who don’t watch much GAA it’s a lot to digest

For what it’s worth with the level of physicality and strength on the pitch nowadays shoulder tackles are too dangerous imo. I know others will disagree but there’s too much room for error I feel and we know so much more about concussion etc I feel they shouldn’t be allowed at all. And I have always absolutely hated the tolerance of shouting and roaring and temper at the ref. And as a mayo lady Aidan o Shea should not have been on that pitch no matter how angry he was. I know it’s in built to the game at this stage but it feels and looks thuggish

Having said that, one way or the other I’m a happy woman today. Do we have what it takes for Kerry? Who knows! But yesterday was just brilliant! Had it all, bitten nails and nerves and fear at half time. Building excitement and budding hope. Then the absolute chaos before the end and wtf as we realised we had extra time. The heart attack when Dublin scored the first point in extra time then the growing realisation that we might do it tinged with the fear of the many many games before where we hadn’t. What a brilliant day out, fair play to these sportsmen for the dedication to providing us with such an experience!!

It's very strange for a player to receive a double jaw fracture in a fair shoulder to shoulder challenge isn't it?

Absolutely disgraceful act by Small yesterday. Should receive a lengthy ban.

I know this won't be bothering too many Mayo supporters this morning, but has anyone figured out why the last 45 was retaken? Pretty sure it's the 1st time I've ever seen that decision.

Delighted for Mayo. Dublin supporters are seeing now that when a team is as dominant as them, that the ever growing hatred of supporters of other counties causes those supporters to lose all objectivity and in the context of the achievements of the dominant team be more than willing to portray cynicism, refereeing decisions, dirt etc. as being much bigger contributors to the dominance than they really were, all the while ignoring that a lot of these indiscretions that they regard as being unique to the dominant team are in fact common to all the teams that are challenging the dominant team, including their own.

Then when the dominant team eventually lose, that pent up hatred leads to an outpouring of bile with many letting themselves down in the process.

It must be said that the Dublin team yesterday did nothing to abate the negative narrative about them, with many cheap shots and instances of cynicism

The ref's performance did leave a lot to be desired but I'd imagine it was a tough match to ref, peppered among the cheap shots from Dublin players were multiple instances of Mayo players hitting the deck a little over dramatically making distinguishing the more serious offences from the less a bit more difficult.

I can understand the ref not initially penalizing Small for the challenge on McLaughlin, it was hard to tell in real time where Small connected with him but not picking up the effects of the impact from the way McLaughlin hit the ground was very poor in my opinion, there was none of the theatrics we've seen in other similar high profile instances in both codes in recent years where the recipient of the challenge throws their head back in a direction unconnected to the original impact with flailing arms etc. McLaughlin went straight down and didn't move for what seemed like a while, which should have been picked up by the ref.

I think Philly McMahon ran onto the field as a sub while he was taking the 45. Subs are only supposed to enter the field during a break in play.

In this case as he was starting his run so ref was entitled to get it retaken

Yes, Mayo fans are almost unbearable at times but compare them to Kerry or Dublin. Especially Kerry. Dripping of arrogance.

I think the Philly reasoning was given on RTE. It didnt make sense as Philly had ran by Hennelly about a minute beforehand. I dont think it had anything to do with subs/philly.

There was a camera shot from behind Hennelly were you can see two lads pulling and dragging around the half way line (not interfering with Hennelly). Ref whistled and looked to be pointing to them as Hennelly shot wide. Henley threw up his arms as if the ref's whistling interfered with him, and was allowed take again.

Here it is lads, conclusive evidence. Not looking at the ball at all, lining up McLoughlin and a shoulder straight to the jaw. McLoughlin didn't drop his head, there are no excuses for this. An absolutely filthy act and if this is not investigated it's a disgrace.

Its crazy.

For a more physically aggressive sport, rugby have perfected the punishment of the shoulder into the head. Small's defenders will of course say that he didn't intend to connect the way he did, but no rugby player go out to intentionally concuss an opponent either (if they do, they are thugs). Its about time they had some sort of video referee for incidents like that. Easier to retrospectively book two fellas for hand-bags off the ball I suppose.

Mc stay is still as bitter with mayo for not giving him the job in 2014 and the hiding mayo gave his roscommon in 2017. Another RTÉ dinasour that needs to go. Can some please tell me how joanne cantwell got the job of micheal lyster? Beyond brutal constantly cutting across the pundits.