The 2021 All Ireland Senior Football Championship

What do you need for conditioning and fitness ? In terms of a financial push ? What have Dublin spent money on ? Did they build their own gym ? Nope... I use the same one as they do, publicly accessible, there are inter-county players from Mayo that I see in our gym...teams from Cork, Limerick, Armagh, Galway are all using facilities of a similar type... they use the same equipment as the general public...

teams were tired ? That’s on them, SFA to do with Dublin... if your strength and conditioning isn’t up to scratch ? Work harder, get up to scratch... what you are inferring is hilarious and that’s like a student getting a B in an exam being pissed off that the student who got an A prepared better.

Jez it was a crazy game, in the cold of light day, a purple patch by dublin in the second half sees them win. Mayo were poor in reality although they did raise the intensity stakes in the second 35, for a seasoned team dublin threw it away rather then mayo being magestic, it was 12 - 7 on the hour mark, 13 - 11 on 73 mins, Mc carthy, the keeper and Byrne making schoolboy errors to gift mayo the draw. Mayo will need to improve alot.

Unfortunately the GAA carries poor discipline. During my lifetime, three of the greatest teams, kk, kerry and the dubs have been shall we say reckless.

What happened to Murchan that he went off? Heard someone say he took a big hit off Ryan O'Donoghue at some stage but I didn't see that myself.

The ref missed it and whatever about him missing the tackle its was very poor of him to not see the player down and stopping play.

Bad refs happen in rugby too

Indeed, that’s why they use the basketball coaching to set screens

Lots of things being missed here. The ref knew the rules around the head injury. he stopped the game in the 1st half when a Dublin player had a suspected head injury. Not sure why he didn't do it for the mayo player.

Secondly the GAA do have HIA rules, James Carr was brought off for a HIA after being punched in the head by Small. It's the reason I think o Shea was brought back on.

I can't see John small being banned if it hasn't happened by now it's not going to happen.

Officially the linesman can't call a foul. This need to change. Give him the opportunity to call a foul by waving his flag. Then get on to the ref on the radio who can make a decision about it. 5 officials are 4 of them only job is to be concerned about the ball and who touched it last or whether it went over the bar. That one change would make a world of difference.

I oy counted two umpires but I haven't had my morning tea before I posted.

Someone on the Sunday Game (can't remember) said that they were privy to the referees radio in the commentary box and late on the linesmen were pinging him every 2 minutes with calls for cards. So even with current rules what you are saying is doable.

I think the ref just messed up on the Small tackle and didn't realize it was to the head.

Doesn't even need rule changes or anything else it was just a bad piece of refereeing

I have huge sympathy for referees, single handedly taking charge of 30 players on a huge playing surface in front of thousands of passionate fans with the live TV cameras rolling. Every decision scrutinised by "experts" who have the benefit of slow motion replays from all angles while the man making the decision has to do it in real time while running around the pitch and having to keep track of injury time, subs, ticks, cards and players diving, sledging and trying to pull the wool over his eyes at every turn. Referees are in a no win situation and I don't know why anyone would do it. There should be two refs one for each half of the pitch.

The commentary around Conor Lane after the game was absolutely disgraceful, maybe he didn't have his best game, nobody is perfect, but he has been filleted. I thought Oisin McConville's comments on the Sunday Game were disgraceful and they were cowardly as well because a ref is an easy target, he has no comeback and slating him is playing to the gallery. These modern pundits are all savvy about mental health issues in modern society, no one seems to care about the effect this public execution of Lane could have on the mental health of Lane or his family.

Aiden O'Shea had an absolute nightmare of a game Saturday, he had a much worse game than Lane but I didn't here any pundit nailing him to the cross the way Lane was. How bad of a gaffe would a ref have to make to equate to an inter County player missing a free kick from 14 yards out.

I can understand the ref thinking the shoulder in real time was a fair shoulder. He can be excused for missing the elbow at the end of 70 minutes. Missing paddy Smalls high hit with a closed fist as well, I thought it was just high myself. You could say he let the game flow by not giving frees for every small tug. Not giving the black card at the end of the game could also be excuse as he thought the player just pulled him back and the Mayo player fell over easily.

However letting the game continue after the Small shoulder was inexcusable. He saw the player fall and not move. He deserves to be called out as a major part of his job is player safety and he failed badly on that count.

Well that's not really true. About two minutes after McConville commented on Lane's performance, they showed a clip of AOS coming in from the sideline to tussle with Philly McMahon. McConville commented that is was the only thing AOS had done all game (or something along those lines).

You don't need a slow mo reply to see that McLaughlin was nearly prone as he was falling. Foul or not, Lane risked the player's health by not stopping the game.

Did he question O'Sheas bottle or his actual ability to play Gaelic Football because that what he did to Lane, its cowardly and playing to the gallery and he should have been pulled on it.

How can anyone say that he saw that McLaughlin was in trouble as a result of the hit, maybe he didn't, we are talking mili seconds here. I'm sure if he realised th player was knocked out he would have stopped thd game straight away.

I can see Hickey's dark glasses on there. Only assuming his guide dog is out of shot.