The 2021 All Ireland Senior Football Championship

Tadhg Kenelly on Nicholas Murphy in 2009?

Rewatching today, Tommy Conroy kicked 2 or 3 monster scores, especially one in the first few minutes of extra time.

Yes they choked / first time in years to do this - give them a break

The Mayo crowd got to them. Having a large vocal support can make a big difference.

Sorry to hear about your misfortune, maybe get a corporate box for yourself next time to avoid any contact with us yahoo's.

Absolutely dreadful tackle. looked worse in real time. I can't understand how this sort of thing is allowed to happen and if you simulate a kick or flap and miss with an open palm, you get automatically sent off. The linesman and ref need to reflect on their decision making. someone will get killed.

It is an interesting factor. Dublin in effect play at home and that advantage is compounded when the stadium is full. Little things like Dublin having the right to come out and warm up at the hill end (thinking back to mayo going down that end a few years ago). It is the little things that generate a home advantage. I wouldnt suggest these games not be in Dublin, but Dublin should get zero rights to anything not afforded to the other team.

It does make a big difference. It's called home advantage for a reason.

I think they need to look at playing extra time as a separate game almost with cards issued in normal time being revoked. At least one player escaped a red as a result.

Agreed.

Personally, I dont think small went to hit him in the face, I think he went to smash him, which is fair enough, but it came off badly and should have been a free and a yellow.

The issue for me is the mccarthy elbow. Deliberate, clearly caught on camera bang to rights. Just like mcmahons eye gouge a few years back. Those things need to be punished severely, with frivilous appeals dealt with ruthlessly and zero room for counties to be going down this sh*thousery root of the courts etc. Letting them go is why the game can get so nasty at times.

Not only letting them go but overruling officials after the game as just happened in the hurling. Players are too big, fast and cynical not to just run with the psuedo discipline that exists in GAA now. There are no consequences for cowardly hits like Smalls or Mccarthys yesterday. McMahon ran on, deliberately obstructed a free which wasn't punished by bringing it forward and on the kickout he started pinching players. All there on camera, years of form but nothing will be done.

Its a massive problem in both codes and we really need citings or retrospective punishment for these gutless cowardly acts that generally escalate into melees.

Yes I think Small went to bury McLoughlin, but I don't think he intentionally targeted his head, yellow card and free kick. Need to be careful not to take the physicality out of the game, it's a hard enough watch if you get rid of the legitimate hits it will be unwatchable. A well timed shoulder is a great skill. The off the ball stuff should be clamped down on, video evidence should be used and offenders hung out to dry.

Really strange game last night.

Not sorry to see Dublin lose finally, but I'm no Mayo fan either. The standard of the game was poor over all. Dublin got 45 + minutes to themselves and did SFA with it, really lax and should have been out of sight.

For all the credit Horan is getting for making the changes in the second half, he set mayo up terribly initially, and should have been beaten out the gate except for whatever problems Dublin had on the day. Mayo moved the ball slowly, defended very passively, and their main attacking ploy was to horse straight long balls into Aiden looking for goals. It was crazy, Aiden was shocking bad under the high ball and in general play too, and w as lucky to stay in the field as long as he did, should have been hooked earlier.

They had no choice in the last quarter really but to up the ante, and when they did they blew Dublin away, if they had the balls to play their normal running game they would have the game won easily. It's been called bravery, in truth it was desperation.

Mayo deserved the win, but they don't deserve great praise - it was probably one of their worse performances against Dublin in the last 10 years to be honest - the fact that Dublin were sh1te on the day shouldn't hide that.

The wheels came off quickly for Dublin, bad noises coming from the camp all year and hugely ill disciplined yesterday. Shocking decisions on the ball, and got involved in sh1te off the ball with the Mayo lads instead of just finishing out ghe game from a winning position.

Lane wasn't great in the whistle, but neither team were that interested in playing ball at times. Both sides are well versed in the dark arts, and he'd have needed eyes in the back of his head. The Small hit on McLoughlin, I'd have sympathy for Lane on this one - it was a big hit, a sickener, a reducer from Small, but the his was more or less shoulder to shoulder, excessive force certainly and probably a yellow card, but caused by a hospital pass to a stationary player, and didn't straight and frontal in real time, in fact Duirmuid O'Connor hit a straight frontal charge later but didn't connect as well, but not for want of trying. Hopefully young McLoughlin is OK though, wouldn't want to see any lad hurt badly.

You're the angriest man on boards.

You go to bed angry and wake up angry.

I'm delighted for ya.

Do you want some cheese with your whine?