The 2021 All Ireland Senior Football Championship

Brilliantly entertaining final from a neutral point of view. Lots of talent coming through.

The GAA really need to follow rugby's lead on tackles to the head area. John small went in to do him there and should have been sent off. I don't for a minute think Small meant to catch him on the jaw but he had no intention of playing the ball and went for the big shoulder. He missed his mark and made contact with the jaw and therefore should have been sent off. These are amateur players with jobs or studies to look after. Accidents will happen and injuries too but that challenge yesterday, although perhaps without intent, was reckless in the extreme and lead to a very serious injury for the Mayo player.

The GAAs approach to discipline is deplorable. Casey's red card rescinded for Limerick too. Sends out the wrong message totally. Would love to see a GAA president take the bull by the horns and sort out the discipline issues once and for all. I'll be waiting I'd say.

P.S. I'm both a GAA fan and a player.

I agree , the shoulder charge in this scenario is a free shot and an opportunity to "legitimately" take out an opponent , a sacred cow that needs to be addressed . I felt Small left something in there as well and the incident deserves investigation.

I am only an occasional GAA follower. I would watch the big games. What's with extra time in GAA? I was watching yesterday and they all trooped off at full time. They must have been gone for 15 minutes form final whistle blowing to extra time whistle starting.

The commentator implied there was something odd or confusing about GAA matches going to penalties. What was all that about?

Penalty shoot outs are a relatively new addition to GAA rules. There used to be replays after draws after extra time.

There hasn't ever been a senior game of major important decided by a penalty shoot out.

To me Fenton was excellent yesterday, and was the only Dublin player who a) could justifiably say he played well and b) didn't resort to any nasty stuff. Natural leader in a post-Cluxton world.

I find it ironic too that a poster, who has since gone into hiding, was claiming he was getting abused and no-one wanted to talk football with him, when he is the most disparaging and disrespectful to every other county.

At least last night you could have the excuse of being three sheets to the wind, but to start coming out with the same bullshyte in the light of day only leads us all to the conclusion you are a grade A deluded gombeen.

You are a disgrace to true Dublin fans and supporters.

Yeah we might slag each other, but not spout insufferable horseshyte like you.

And if the ref was so for Mayo, please explain how come no Dublin player was penalsed yet a Mayo player ended up carted off to hospital last night.

Lane was terrible.

Even if he reckoned in real time shoulder was ok, he should have stopped the play the minute he saw a player collapse like that on the ground.

Instead he let play go on.

Aren't there any rules about head injuries, there are in every other sport ?

Lane only seemed to discover some rules once the match was nearly finished.

So you know what you and Conor Lane can both do.

Nice amount of wriggle room in that statement, but it's certainly one that needed to be made. No doubt HQ will make a mess of whatever decision they decide to come to.

Also, thought this was funny: "Every All-Ireland title that Kerry has won, has been hard earned after a tough competitive campaign and we expect this year to be no different."

Something that was pointed out by RTE panel last night was the vista where what happens if now Kerry or Mayo have covid within the camp.

They will rightly demand they are afforded the same treatment as Tyrone.

You could end up with final at end of September after all.

You could.

Even if its refixed the final will have a team playing after 2 weeks rest/inactivity, versus a team playing after 4 weeks rest/inactivity. (I assume final will be put back a further week)

But such is the situation now.

Do we think they'd genuinely prefer to play the match? You'd imagine Tyrone will still be in pretty rag order, and Kerry would be hot favourites even under 'normal' circumstances...

It's a **** situation. I'm sure Kerry wouldn't prefer a walkover either. No ideal scenario but lets hope Tyrone can do their best to field a competitive team.