The 2021 All Ireland Senior Football Championship

Utter rubbish, he went in to do as much damage as he could and take him out, he knew exactly what he was doing.

It’ll be interesting to see what these spoofers on the Sunday game have to say about Dublins thuggery and Lanes incompetence.

Good to see you back. You disappeared yesterday. Slagging Mayo for being weak and spinless all week must have tired you out.

In fairness the whole country was saying “we” yesterday apart from Dublin

McStay certainly wasn't.

hes a bitter little man who never got the mayo job nor never will

Gooch may be the worst analyst going , adds nothing.

MC stays head is still spinning from that hiding mayo have the rossies in 2017.

I can just about take Mc conville,

I've seen some reason?

I explained the issue in a reasoned manner all along, I wasn't the one looking to see legal action against the referee on an issue i admit to knowing nothing about, as you were earlier.

There are risks involved in any contact sport I'm afraid.

Thats the rule in the GAA too

Paddy small must have set the record yesterday for the number of red cards got away with in one match!

Seeing Andy Moran jumping up and down watching on from the stands during that montage put one huge spontaneous smile on my face

The fact they the likes of Small and Costello were preferred and they a player like Paul Mannion was dropped from. The squad says a lot about the Farrell regime, and the drop in standards in the Dublin set up over the last year or so.

Neither of them fit to lace Mannion's boots, either in terms of big game temperament or overall discipline.

One thing that is wrong with the gaa refs is the age they are at before they get to the top games and seems to be given these games for the time served and not on ability or fitness. Surely the gaa should be bringing in younger refs and ex players encouraged to give back something to the game and more training given to even the standards of the rules. Has to be time for var or rugby videos refs to look at foul play. we have Hawkeye in a couple of years with no interference with play. Time to move forward with the times.

Lane didn't realise a lot of things for most of the match.

Funnily enough most fans and not alone Mayo people reckon most of them were things that affected Mayo negatively.

It took him, what 60 minutes, to figure out the black card rule.

His linesman was only 10-15 yards away and should have the cop on to immediately draw attention to it.

What if Dublin had scored a goal in that continuation of play?

That would have caused uproar.

I never said the hits in GAA were comparable to the hits in NFL or anywhere else.

But from experience I can tell you a single hit to the head can be very dangerous and have lasting consequences.

Rugby has had to do something about head challenges because a) they are indeed scared sh*tless that there is NFL style lawsuits coming down the road and b) they have copped on players are now bigger, moving faster and hitting way harder.

It is about time the GAA copped on that top GAA players are now also on average a lot bigger, a lot faster and hit a hell of a lot harder than they did a decade or two ago.

BTW this leads me onto another point. Top players are now faster, fitter, stronger than ever. Coaching has become almost professional, strength and conditioning, diets, etc have all reached as good as that offered to professional sports people.

What has been done to make the officials fit for this new almost professional era?