The 2021 All Ireland Senior Football Championship

It has been said over and over and over and over and over that it's not about in the stadium it's about the congregation before and after. I was really surprised how big a crowd the fans made outside the stadium and around Dublin for the 24k hurling semi final

I've seen this in a couple of articles and I completely disagree with it - if Kerry go long, the Tyrone defenders are already in place and Kerry still get bottled up. IMO, what they should have done is taken the short kickout and then played it up the field slowly to draw Tyrone on to them without Kerry getting sucked in to conceding turnovers; play it patiently like Dublin would have done. It's boring to watch but effective

I think putting it down to workrate is too simple. Basically saying Kerry didn't try hard enough. Surely the fact so many players went down with cramp, means they put in huge workrate? They got caught out for a few goals but I would put it down to poor organization in defence rather than workrate. Gavin white and Stephen O'Brien kept trying to take on Tyrone players, so there was nothing wrong with their heart and endeavor. It was just plainly not working.

As a Mayo fan I've never questioned our workrate in recent years, but we've still conceded bad goals at times.

On this occasion, Comerford and his defenders showed their naivety and inexperience and if they had held on to the ball and not conceded a 45 at the end of normal time, they would be in an All-Ireland final. O'Connor could probably be excused his first All-Ireland failure as inexperience but by 2016, he had plenty of experience and could be classed as having choked, ditto Clarke.

If Comerford messes up the same next year in a clutch moment, he could face the same accusation, or else Dublin may just consider that he is not good enough.

Joe mcquillan is the ref for the final.

Just in the capacity thing there seemed to be a bit over 24k at the mayo dublin game appeared nearer the 30k mark wonder is that why tickets appeared again on the Friday .

This is hilarious. The one year it should probably be David Gough as a Leinster ref, and they give it to an Ulster man with an Ulster team. The GAA really is a gas organisation.

Agreed. I read a stat before that Cillian O'Conner's average scoring actually increases when he plays against Dublin. Both overall and from open play.

Somehow despite being the top scorer of all time he is still under appreciated outside of Mayo. He has saved Mayo more than I can remember.

I don’t think that he’s in anyway under appreciated outside Mayo. I think most counties would take him in a heartbeat.

I think that he’s just unpopular with a few vocal fans of a certain county. Probably because he has always fronted up.

More nonsense. I don't know exactly his conversion rate for penalties is, but at a guess its 90%, many of them in big AI games. He's hugely consistent from frees. He's scored many crucial points and goals from play including rescuing Mayo against Dublin.

And he scored 4-9 in an All-Ireland semi final.

Luckily he has nothing to prove to armchair experts!

Him "opting out" didnt last long and he was back reffing as soon as the season restarted. He reffed the semi final last year between Tipp and Mayo. And he reffed the Ulster final this year between Monaghan and Tyrone.

They're the highest profile games I can remember him doing without checking. He definitely didn't take a break like he originally hinted.

A few extra tickets available

It sickened me yesterday to see Kerry GAA advertising a draw for match tickets if you bought a ticket to win a house or something. They're not the only ones but being a Kerry man I was disappointed to see it.

For the year thats in it, every club and county should be giving their tickets back to HQ to distribute to competing counties only.