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The 2021 All Ireland Senior Football Championship

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It starts on Saturday.

Again it's straight knockout, hopefully this will be the last year of that and we can get back to something with a bit more intrigue next year.

Leinster and Munster look straightforward

That could have been said about Munster last year also but I seriously doubt Kerry will make the same mistakes and they did in 2020, there is no way they can.
And they have been playing the league like they cannot afford to put a foot wrong.

There is no use talking about the Leinster championship.

Ulster offers a bit of intrigue, Tyrone and Donegal could meet in a SF and Monaghan and Armagh could meet in the other,
Donegal really need to step up, for the last three years we were told that they were a team to watch and in all three occasions they could not make an All Ireland SF.
One would wonder how focused Tyrone were on their trip to Kerry a few weeks ago, with little really on offer.
Monaghan on there other hand had a lot of focus on the same weekend and staying in Div 1 will do them no harm at all.
Armagh are a potential dark horse.

Connacht is a two a two and a half horse race depending on Roscommon, they have caused shocks before in Connacht previously and I'd not be willing to right them off v a Galway teams that one really has to scratch ones head about.
Mayo have an easy run to the Connacht final but could become unstuck there without Cillian O' Connor
They struggled without him a few years ago.

Anyway it will end up with Dublin beating the Connacht champions without much fuss in the SF and Kerry beating the Ulster champs with a small bit more fuss in the other one.

Barring an early sending off like we had in the first game in 2019 Dublin will cruise to the title like they did in 2019 replay and 2020 finals, regardless of what people say about Kerry getting closer to them.

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gormdubhgorm

Well done Tyrone took their chances, better team because of cooler heads.

Ardent

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117877125#Comment_117877125

Nostradamus ain't got nothing on you 😆

Say Your Number

Don't think they've ever had a fella doing sign language for the speeches.

Apothic_Red

At least it'll keep the Covid spike north of the border

ctrl-alt-delete

The lad in the Donegal Jersey lol

Speak Now

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117877831#Comment_117877831

Didn't even know what day the match was on 😁

DecRyan1976

Well done to Tyrone, wasn't a great game but they did what they deserved to win. My heart does go out to Mayo, but at no point during the match did I see the experience of losing all those finals backing them to be clinical and take the scores when offered.

ShamoBuc

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117877843#Comment_117877843

I'm sure his parents are proud of him......

Tandey

Bit different from cluxton lol.

hynesie08

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117877125#Comment_117877125

23 hours to go, Mayo still wouldn't win......

Swaine

Why is the GAA president wearing a mask while 40 something thousand people around him are jumping all over eachother. Embarrassing.

Man Vs ManUre

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117877843#Comment_117877843

Pity the camera man was instructed to take him out of it.

[Deleted User]

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117877840#Comment_117877840

Why was he in a Donegal jersey?

koutoubia

Another year when Lee Keegan doesnt get a celtic cross is another good year!

Swaine

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117877862#Comment_117877862

Probably from Donegal.

[Deleted User]

State of the Donegal fan, probably thinks he's a legend 😏

Strumms

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117877761#Comment_117877761

Yep, that was evident in the last 10 minutes actually. Just thought they’d started looking leggy but the Mayo lads weren’t far behind at the end in fairness..

thoroughly deserved win for Tyrone, comprehensively the better team... a 5 point victory margin is pretty comprehensive in an All Ireland Final...

those two goals were crucial though, brilliantly taken and timed too. As was from the Mayo point of view the sending off and penalty miss.

I have a great deal of empathy for the people of Mayo but maybe not this group of players but sure..well done to both sides and Tyrone especially on a comprehensive, hard fought, entertaining and skillfully won victory...

ctrl-alt-delete

There was a more vulgar image after that one and all.

Swaine

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117877892#Comment_117877892

Missed that. What did he do?

bucketybuck

I think the "physcologist" comments and Mayos finals history in general obscure the fact that this Mayo team just aren't very good. Take the context away and Tyrone would have been heavy favourites for the game. The Dublin win was vastly overstated, Dublin were in a funk all year and always on course for a defeat, it didn't at all mean that the Mayo players were better than they actually are.

I had my money on Tyrone at just under 2/1, crazy odds in a two horse race and all because of a narrative that didn't actually take into account that man for man Mayo just aren't anything special. Aidan OShea up front? Good luck with that.

[Deleted User]

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117877894#Comment_117877894

Tongue out between his fingers. Probably on WhatsApp to his buddies now thinking he's brilliant. At least they blocked him off quickly and moved the camera.