The 2021 All Ireland Senior Football Championship

Were the Galway players threatening his kids too when he started a melee going down the tunnel and into the dressing room ? :) btw it’s on YouTube too... ;)

Nobody threatened his kids you are searching for excuses :) He’s just not a very ‘sporting’ individual.. that’s the diplomatic way of putting it anyway.

i know people from various parts of the country whom I’ve spoken to and would be generally neutrals or close to it watching an AI final not involving their team but they’ll all be Kerry fans as will a lot of us.. not gonna be supporting that craic.

For every Mayo infraction you give you can find 10 fold that have been carried out by Dublin players. You honestly come off as such a sore loser.

Hmmmm I'm not sure if threatening kids lives along with biting, eye gouging etc. will get many plaudits from any county.

Agreed. Players and fans alike are totally entitled to enjoy the days following a huge win like that. And it was a huge win. Dublin are the only team they really haven't beaten, they're the one team that have stood in the way of them winning an All Ireland and often did it by the finest of margins. Their encounters against them over the last decade have been physically and emotionally intense. It was also the manner of the win - the comeback, extra time, the bruising nature of it all. Of course there was going to be an outpouring of emotion whenever they finally got over them. I'd be more shocked if there wasn't.

It's a month to the final anyway. That's plenty of time to go and regroup and focus on what's ahead. It's such a joyless way of approaching these games to tut tut at players who actually show a bit of emotion in the wake of a massive victory.

I invented the coddle recipe handbook !

The bigger gap to the final has been cited, by some, as a drawback for Mayo. I couldn't disagree more tbh. It gives the players ample opportunity to come down and get back up again. If there were a 2 week break, i'd fancy Mayo wouldn't do themselves justice in the final.

I agree the outpouring was perfectly understandable.

You're on fire today, fair play to you. Running on to the pitch after full time pushing and shoving counts as attacking players. Smashing someone's jaw in on the blind side, elbows to the neck, punches to the jaw (*2) and then dragging someone to ground by the neck is all fine.

Hopefully the Dublin team feel the referee robbed them like you appear to believe.

In play? The ball was not in play when McCarthy threw an elbow back.

Which high late tackles are you on about by mayo lads? He shouldn't have come on the pitch pushing and shoving. Clearly it wasn't going to help or solve the situation. However there was never going to be any serious injuries as a result.

Eoghan McLaughlin didn't leave the ground with all his teeth.

So you've no examples of high late tackles by Mayo players? What drag backs are you talking about?

I already said he shouldn't have come onto the field.

Diarmuid's high clothesline tackle was dangerous.

Kevin Mc's failure to let the ball go.

You just know people are only waiting to trot out "I knew they celebrated too much after beating Dublin"

Armchair stuff

Free given against him for steps, he didn't release the ball then. Ref brought it forward.

However, when you weigh it up against some other examples it was easily one of the wost transgressions that occurred - possibly ever - and an obvious example (1 of 2) that shows how in favor of Mayo the ref was...

Diarmuid got a yellow card for that, unlike all the other stuff which went unpunished. It was nothing like a clothesline either

so anyone got any thoughts on the Kerry Tyrone game?.

It's almost a week ago Strumms. Surely, the bitterness has to have mellowed by now. If not, I suggest you seek out a bit of counselling. I'm sure it was lovely to be celebrating for all of those years. But when your team is on the end of one loss, you need to be able to accept it with dignity. That team will bounce back very quickly.

You're living in fairyland. We can understand how you might form opinions in the heat of the game or shortly afterwards. But when the dust settles, and analysis done based on multiple viewings and slow motions etc. you can read all about the Dublin player's poor behaviour last Saturday. You had a couple of Dubs looking for their 5 minutes of fame coming out and defending the players - churning out the "it's a physical sport" nonsense. But almost every other analyst, commentator etc. condemned the over the top actions by the players. How can you keep defending it? Have you been reading anything about the match in the past week. Or looking at any podcasts. If you want a little entertainment, have a look at pillar caffrey having a go at defending it. Wasn't good for his bloodpressure.

I know I am wasting my time, but I still need to pull you up on a couple of misdemeanors that you have thrown out-

• You were on about a Mayo player holding on to the ball. Was that not the same for Comerford - caught over-travelling, held on and got punished by ref bringing the ball forward. You can correct me if I am wrong on that comparison.
• You defend the Dublin rubbish by saying things happen IN play. James McCarthy swing round into the face of Diarmuid O'Connor was not in play. John Small elbowing Ryan O'Donohue was not in play. Both were strikes off the ball, not in play. What's your thoughts on that. Do you think they both should have been red cards.

Who you support in the final will not have any relevance to who wins the final. And will have even less relevance to any Mayo fans. So, knock yourself out - throw on the green and gold jersey, head down to the Tralee for All Ireland weekend and you can muck in with the Kerry bucks down there, and talk about how great Paidi and Micko were.