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The 2021 All Ireland Senior Football Championship

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,295 ✭✭✭External Association


    A tough watch for the neutral? Are you serious?? The neutral are delighted that the team with 37 All Irelands aren't in the final as favourites. And delighted that the team they are tired looking at who won All Irelands in 2011, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020 aren't in the final. I can't get your cognitive process at all.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1 Issuer


    I actually registered just to reply to this as I've read your posts since Mayo hammered ye. You have to the most delusional, one sided and partisan "supporters" I've ever seen. I really hope your a clever spoof account because only someone who spends the day with their head buried in a bag of glue could make ludicrous statements such as this. The Dublin display against Mayo was one of the most thuggish in memory and had it been properly reffed like you said, Dublin would have finished with at least 3 red cards.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,655 ✭✭✭✭The_Kew_Tour


    Cavanagh was dead right to call out Spillane and his BS

    If my mother tongue is shaking the foundations of your state, it probably means you built your state on my land.

    EVENFLOW



  • Posts: 7,712 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Far more than Spillane questioned what they’ve been at and how they played this, and rightly so.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,295 ✭✭✭External Association


    I actually think Cavanagh is as bad, starting off with the victim card and chip on the shoulder. I get a very bitter vibe off him.

    Oisin McConville, Tomas O'Se etc are pleasant nice guys, Dessie Dolan is a bit boring but carries no bias. I really enjoyed Philly Jordan on the Sunday Game last year as a guest. I find Cavanagh arrogant to the point of insulting, he came in gunning for a fight.

    At the start, water breaks, half time, full time he was full of bombast, oh Tyrone are in complete charge, perish the thought someone is laying a hand on Kerry etc. His tone more than his words were confrontational.

    Spillane at least tried to apologise for his puke football comment in 2003, acknowledge the greatness of Tyrone in the noughties. Not a budge of reciprocating from Cavanagh.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,584 ✭✭✭happyoutscan


    Your posts are nothing more than those of a WUM.

    I asked you previously to tell/show/explain to us how Lane called that match in Mayo's favor and you refused. Quite simply, you have absolutely nothing to back it up and know if you even attempted you'd come up well short.

    I work in tourism over here on the west coast and have literally spoken with a hundred or more Dubs since that match (probably more) and not one of them thought the ref called the match in Mayo's favor. Not a single one. Nada.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,655 ✭✭✭✭The_Kew_Tour


    Well if the people are saying fair play to Spillane now, than Cavanagh has till 2039 to apologise for what he said.

    In fairness I agree with lot of what you say and I do think Cavanagh is bit too protective on his side, but Spillane been round block long enough and still like get those sly digs and it just looks little sad for a guy who done it all. I would say something if Spillane came from smaller county

    If my mother tongue is shaking the foundations of your state, it probably means you built your state on my land.

    EVENFLOW



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,163 ✭✭✭✭Fr Tod Umptious


    List the other finals where Mayo were in a winning position and found a way to lose the game ?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,255 ✭✭✭C__MC


    It's great it's a novel pairing in the final, I couldn't have beared the cringe dublin kerry build up that is thrown up in the media.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,655 ✭✭✭✭The_Kew_Tour


    2003, 2010 and 2012 only years this Century where been no Kerry or Dublin in final

    This is very welcome. Game badly needed a fresh final and to be honest it does not happen enough in football

    If my mother tongue is shaking the foundations of your state, it probably means you built your state on my land.

    EVENFLOW



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,768 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    i commented at the time the game was played , I’m not of the mind to go back rehashing and repeating or giving a play by play analysis just to please you, you don’t agree fair enough.

    A simple google search shows that not people on a holiday and yapping to you on their ‘jollys’ but students of the game, ex players, journalists had plenty to say negative regarding his performance, they by your eccentric logic ie. somebody disagreeing with you.. they are WUM’s too... right....mad.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,676 ✭✭✭elefant




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,295 ✭✭✭External Association


    Spillane had apologised pretty soon after 24 August 2003. He's a pain, but i think he isn't as vindictive as Cavanagh, he's right bitter.

    I wish Spillane said the old Donal og Cusack piece to Clare players pre the 1999 Munster final. 37-3 Sean,go smoke it!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,983 ✭✭✭✭Ha Long Bay


    Leaving aside your other posts I'm genuinely curious who would you like to see win in two weeks time and why?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,901 ✭✭✭✭gormdubhgorm


    Overall though football is in a far healthier state than hurling. Way more teams of a decent standard and a better geographical spread. Dublin raised the bar, Kerry attempted to follow and failed so far. I think who ever wins this final between Mayo v Tyrone could define an era. I was lucky enough to be at the 2012 final. Really tense atmosphere until Murphy got that goal.

    Fans holding back tears on both sides at the final whistle. Great to see such passion.

    Guff about stuff, and stuff about guff.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,597 ✭✭✭crossman47


    Cop on. If its a strict ref, then Tyrone will be the ones at a disadvantage. mayo are tough but fair - Tyrone are well practised at the dark arts.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,584 ✭✭✭happyoutscan


    You've pretty much confirmed what we all knew, thank you.

    You can get back to eulogizing the nonsense spewed by Pillar and Hickey in defense of your thinking. No one else will, the two are easy enough to dismiss.

    You're nowhere near a 'student of the game' either, just in case you think you are.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,655 ✭✭✭✭The_Kew_Tour


    Would disagree with your first comment. 1 new final won't change that just yet

    If my mother tongue is shaking the foundations of your state, it probably means you built your state on my land.

    EVENFLOW



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,197 ✭✭✭✭Bass Reeves


    2017 final Mayo after getting back into the game and go one point up with about 20 minutes in normal time left. John Small gets a second yellow card and Donal Vaughan proceeds to clock him and get a red card. Mayo lose by a point

    2016 maybe not to be describe a winning position but Mayo decide to switch goalies before the match starts. David Clarke had an excellent game during the first game and Mayo looked the team more likely to win. Hennelly proceeds to have a poor game conceeding a penalty, getting a black card and having to be replaced.

    Slava Ukrainii



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,142 ✭✭✭theoneeyedman


    An interesting match up in the final.

    Tyrone were good yesterday, but Kerry made some basic errors, butchering several goal chances in the first half, and carrying the ball I to the tackle too much. They relied too much on Clifford and O Shea, and the support cast were average at best. That said, the game was a draw on 70 minutes.


    I found it interesting the poor conditioning of the kerry lads (relatively speaking). Lads were cramping up all over the place before the hour mark, in this day and age something is wrong ad you seldom see this any more.


    Peter Keane is as well throw his hat at it tonight, because the 'fvcking animals' will gut him after that. Patteen was beginning to round up a posse at the end of normal time, the knives will be out this week.


    On the RTE coverage, do ye have remote controls lads. The so called analysts are a joke, like sitting in a pub listening to 2 cranks arguing. McBennett has gone for the lowest common denominator in their coverage, really poor, low brow stuff. I missed the BBC Ni panel, who I've seen a few times and they provide decent insight, usually Harte, McConville, and maybe Marty Clarke and/or McHugh (who is a bit of a pain at times, granted).

    Sad to see all the coverage the pundits are getting really.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,600 ✭✭✭✭breezy1985


    2010 seems like such a crazy anomaly now. Reads like a final from years ago



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,768 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    You know what everyone knows ? Ehhhh ok, maestro ;)

    I don’t think I’ve quoted what Pillar or Hickey said first off, I don’t need anybody to defend my views on the game... if you don’t agree I’ll still get a good nights sleep. Trust me.

    a student of the game ? Don’t think I’ve ever claimed to be... I enjoy the sport and simply comment on it, as one in enabled to do here...

    you seem to get upset and emotive quite easily... that’s not good for you... because someone has an opinion that differs from yours ? Just relax... it’s not life or death.



  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 12,470 Mod ✭✭✭✭Say Your Number


    Colm O Rourke sounding like an auld lad from the fifties, saying those young Meath lads could be distracted by rock and roll.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,050 ✭✭✭conor05


    You’re living in cuckoo land if you think football is in a healthier state than hurling.

    This will be the first time in 7 years we will have a different All Ireland winner in football, that stat alone finishes your argument.

    A well rested Dublin could come thundering back again next year too.

    The Lower minnows in hurling and football will never be in the mix for Sam or Liam so they will have their own cups to play for at their level.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,572 ✭✭✭Stacksofwacks


    Spillanes rant was all over the place yesterday. Yes i think there is a possibilty that tyrone could have used the covid situation to their advanatge, but its pure speculation and he had no evidence to back any of his claims and being from kerry he just came across bitter and twisted. very poorly handled from RTE and Cavanagh and Spillane sniping at each other like children for the rest of the game was very unprofessional should not have been allowed to continue. If anything Cantwell encouraged it, very poor.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,768 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    Lying on top of the football feigning injury so the opposition can’t get it to take a sideline ball or free, provoking the opposition to try and enter into a physical contact to try retrieve the ball... dark arts.

    Running off the pitch and booting the ball away so sideline balls can’t be taken quickly by their opponents... dark arts...

    Mayo exploited a weak referee and were dark art effective...fair ? No... multiple pundits / ex players don’t agree with your assessment, I certainly don’t.

    for the good of the game / sport hopefully the referee lays down a marker from the first second... both sides equally.... too much of it now... it’s ruining the sport..l



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,295 ✭✭✭External Association




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,163 ✭✭✭✭Fr Tod Umptious


    Your first example is a poor one.

    Twenty minutes left in a game is an age in football, actually it's closer to 25 or 27 these days with injury time.

    Being the bare minimum up with that amount of time to go really stretches the narrative of being in a winning position and finding a way to lose the game.

    To give it context as the clock hit 70 minutes in the 2016 drawn final Mayo were three points down, and they did not need a goal to level it.

    Your second example is not even an example of being in a winning position and finding a way to lose the game.

    So, any more examples ?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,163 ✭✭✭✭Fr Tod Umptious




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 647 ✭✭✭eddie73


    Congrats to Tyrone and Mayo for reaching the final in a very stylish way indeed. This is an unlikely pairing, considering the dubs and kerry were raging hot favourites to get to the final.

    I think it is a breath of fresh air to have 2 teams who have had little to cheer about in recent years to be contenders.

    I really can't call this one. I would expect it to go down to the wire.



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