The 2021 All Ireland Senior Football Championship

Ulster football getting stronger every year at present.

Id fancy Tyrone, donegal, Armagh and Monaghan to give anyone a game.

cavan and down a bit further behind them then you’ve Fermanagh and Antrim.

the other 3 provinces haven’t more than 2 real decent teams in them. Leinster maybe with Kildare as 3

Yes

The GAA will be slow to get rid of it. It is only making the stronger teams stronger. Until enough counties opt for a Senior, Intermediate and junior system as in Camogie, ladies football and hurling we are left with this load of crap

The man who missed a kick to win the All-Ireland in 2017?

The O'Connor brothers have earned a reputation, quite correctly, for losing their discipline when the game is in the balance, but going against Mayo. Diarmuid was at it again on Saturday with a stupid foul on Morgan.

It was not that Dublin were in decline that surprised me, signs were there. But it was the speed of decline, and how now they are much easier to play against. Loads of that side to side passing no direct running, no plan B, not many options to change the pace. No movement, it used to be great interchanges everywhere. Now it is near constant static side to side stuff.

Ok, I get it for a few short bursts but not for really long spells. But Gaelic football is not soccer, constant 'keep ball' does not win games. It was/is really frustrating to watch. I can't wait until one of the players write a book and tell us if it was part of Dessie's plan? Or if it was simply because the players were not able to play the previous way anymore? And they were unable to implement it so took the lazy/easy option?

Well it does when it is exactly what we were disagreeing about. He was probably the best player on the field in the first half of the game. Wasnt in it as much in the second but that was as much down to cluxton kicking everything away from him as anything else. The point is, he clearly has in fact performed well in all ireland finals. Im sure you will be wheeling out the same disproven argument again though, which says more about yourself than anything else.

But David moran and Fenton are probably the two best midfielders of their generation though. He still managed to outplay fenton at times, as we seen above. Mcauley isnt a better player. Oshea was probably third behind them.

Would you say murphy is better than fenton?

Brolly always goes with who is winning and lauds them to the hilt, recent years first Donegal, then Dublin, Now Tyrone I assume? And says things like you have to have 'a bit of craic with it'. The fella is a pantomime and does so for attention. The fella thrives on attention same when he was a player, same now as a 'pundit'.

Joe Brolly has a Celtic Cross. He played at a time when there was no back door and no secod chance. At that time no team came out of Ulster two year's years in a row at the time he won an all Ireland. They beat Down who won in 1991&1994, Dublin who won in 1995 and a Cork team that had won in 1989 and 1990. He won 4 national leagure and two all stars. So do not that to demean what he achieved. He got one chance at winning a Celtic Cross in a final he took it. That was a right good Derry team they were unlucky not to win at least one more. Probably the best team of The 90's where Down were the only team to win two titles.

Ya he can be a spoofer, but like Pat Spillane and Colm O Rourke he can afford to be. They have the medals to back up there chat

Celtic crosses don't mean you are not a useless pundit though and Brolly is proof of that for me

Where it counts, Joe has won an All-Ireland medal, none of the Mayo panel have.

If the stories are to be believed Dublin might need to a few team building exercises to get back on track.

Normally the talk goes in one ear and out the other but you would have to question what you saw of them last month. Nervousness, petulance and a lack of fight are not characteristics you'd associate with the team. Add in Cluxton and other lads walking away... it doesn't paint a rosy picture.

Lets analyse that. He won an all ireland as part of a group of 23 or so. A new group win it every year. Some never see any meaningful gametime.

How does any of that make him knowledgeable? Furthermore, how does that put him in a position to criticise the guy who has scored more than anyone, anywhere, ever, in the all ireland football championship, both in one season and in all seasons combined. He also won the young player of the year, of which there is only one each year - twice.

Fair enough oconnor never won an all ireland, so far anyway, but he has done a shedload of things that literally nobody else has in the game. It is like comparing brian deane favourably to alan shearer, on the basis that he won a league and shearer didnt. It is actually idiotic.