The 2023 All Ireland Senior Football Championship (Sam Maguire Cup)

Best part of that was, among the cat calling and booing, the Roscommon lads kept them chasing shadows for several minutes before scoring the point.

Lack of self awareness from the dubs.

I'd have been proud to be a Roscommon fan today, they played with great heart. They really seem like a team all on the same page.

Connacht's good form (domination?) of 2023 continues. All 3/4 AI Sam Maguire groups topped by Connacht teams, and the only teams that has beaten a Connacht team so far has also been from Connacht.

Long may it continue 😁

Dublin of all the top teams will probably must need to top there group and get the week of the preliminary QF's off. IMO unless a teams tops there group they will struggle to win the AI. Those three games on the trot will have implications for injuries, cards, and possible bans because of cards at QF, SF and AI final.

I am not sure on this theory of timing your run. If we look at the history of the super eights teams that could rest players for final game( were guaranteed to top group) virtually all won there SF's to reach the AI final.

Think the all ireland is Mayo’s to lose …no team anywhere near them…

Ever since Dublin struggled v Wexford in 2021 down in Wexford I knew Dublin were in Trouble

But I am shocked how Dessie Farrell has managed to speed up this decline.

I still believe that it was a missed opportunity for both Louth and Kildare in Leinster this year - but Kildare lacked the experience to see it out and Louth for some mad reason set up very naively.

If Jim McGuinness or Jim Gavin was in charge of that Kildare/Louth team both would have won v Dublin IMO.I was shocked what a class player Mulroy was, and was even more shocked that a fella like Harte could not set his team up to play it cagey and make use of Mulroy. I still have no idea did Harte not try, or else the players did not listen to him. Tactically it seemed really odd, really loose.

To beat this Dublin team you just set up defensively and stay in the game. This Dublin team is extremely static and ponderous - especially when there is no Jack McCaffery to break the lines as was shown v the Rossies. Most of the time you get pointless side to side stuff very easy to play against. There is no fellas creating angles or moves, switching with their head up. The players now do not work as an attacking unit, they are hoping for something to happen.

And Dessie Farrell has proven that great players do not make great managers. He is extremely slow to react to trouble. For example why not play an extra midfielder v Derry? Common sense Rodgers and Glass the main men. If he watched the AI club final he would have seen that.

And the funny part is Dessie got Lucky when Glass got injured in the league final - changed the game. Dublin lost that first game v Derry when they had the two of them.

And Dessie Farrell has the sheer neck to blame div2 for Dublin's rustiness when he was the eejit that landed Dublin there in the first place. The Armagh one was the worst in div 1 lamping high ball in the wind, and playing a real high line - making Armagh look like world beaters.

I think the rest of the country are slowly but surely copping on that this Dublin team can be got at. The fear factor has gone outside Leinster for sure.

It could be another decade until Dublin get back to a decent top tier level IMO. I just hope it is not Kerry winning the AI's !

Good point about the freetaker. Rock is missed, now that he is generally not on the starting 15. Freetaking is not jut about quality. Need to have the steel composure to knock frees over in high-pressurized circumstances. Dublin don't have that at the moment. Kerry have O'Shea and Clifford. MAyo have Ryan O'Donoghue. McCurry for Tyrone. Galway have Walsh. But I don't think Cormac Costello will be the answer for Dublin - not on a consistent basis anyway.

Ah posters are probably sick of me giving out at this stage, and Dessie Farrell will find out where I live yet! It is just disappointing the way things have been let slide unnecessarily by Dublin, you would expect a dip. But there is no structure from Dessie Farrell and his interviews indicate he doesn't seem to have much of plan either - Daydreaming head on him half the time.

As regards the AI overall other posters are correct it is a very open AI. This could be the year of a real surprise package.

@gormdubhgorm reading that report as a Rossie reminded me of the display Darren Gavin gave that day at centre field, fairly sure he got man of the match on TG4. Whatever happened to him, i know he was one of the younger lads thrown in that day but i can't remember hearing much about him afterwards??

I heard this second hand last week from a mayo player.

Alan Dillon and Andy Moran felt they wasted four years of their career until John O'Mahony, where standards slipped from the high levels of Mickey Moran and John Morrison. Said JOM wasn't attending half the training sessions even. When they saw standards slipping under Holmes and Connelly they acted quickly. Looks very much like the Dubs are in their JOM phase

Interesting first round anyway. All provincial winners below par.

Having a few weeks prep seems to have done Mayo, Monaghan and Roscommon a power of good, even Tyrone might have got a result if they kept 15 on the field.

Losing finalists Clare and Armagh poor also, Louth played reasonably ok I guess despite losing and Sligo had a good result albeit against Kildare who just love taking a 1 step forward, 2 steps back approach to the championship.

I thought Roscommon did great on Dublins main men Fenton, kilkenny, Mannion,Mc Carthy,Con... i felt they didnt have the influence they have in a lot of Dublins games... i feel when Mc Caffrey isnt playing Dublin are a completely different team... he injects that pace into them and seems to bring so many other players up to that pace... i think Mark Mc Hugh has brought a real grit and structure to the defence in Roscommon which was always a weak spot..

His presence and general play has dropped off massively over the last couple of seasons. He still has his moments but it seems he's getting worse the less he plays at this stage. Even his kicking is not on the level it was which is strange. At one stage the guy rarely ever missed no matter where he was kicking from now you're not sure what is coming when he steps up. Last Sunday it felt like he took that free trying to prove a point and wasn't his usual calm composed self and just fucked it. He comes across as a guy who was always incredibly confident in his abilities and it seems to be affecting him now that he's past his best and doesn't start games anymore. He hasn't adapted his game like some players would at this stage in there career.