The 2025 All Ireland Senior Football Championship (Sam Maguire Cup)

No complaints Meath deserved winners more 2 pointers. Well done @Sonny678

Meath fans jubilant and in shock

Leinster championship needed that.

Brian -Enton ruled midfield today

Again.

Getting a post-Fergie United vibe off Dublin, don't seem to be producing the same talent as before either.

Meath and Kildare ahead of them in underage at the moment alone.

Should be a better turnout for Louth v Meath than the 23,000 Dubin v Louth last year. 2010 was 60,000 and this will be only the fourth ever meeting of Louth Meath in the final.

Poorest dublin team and performance for at least 15 years.

Exactly. Play this game with Dublin at home in Croke Park and they win. With a terrible atmosphere as well.

Take Dublin out to away or neutral venues and they lose a few points, which is crucial in close games. We saw it vs Mayo last year and now again vs Meath.

Yeah, Dublin win that game today in Croke Park in my opinion.

lads, the venue doesn’t matter. I’m fairly sure it’s the huge drop in quality that makes the difference. Dublin are just not a brilliant side anymore. Definitely not adapted well to the new rules either

I don't know. I can see how it could apply in Connacht. Galway have won the last 3 Connacht championships. I don't think Padraig Joyce would specifically instruct his team to lose the game, but I could see how his heart might not be in winning Connacht, if the prize is to have Dublin in the same group for the qualifier groups. It appears that Dublin will now be 3rd group seeds. Meaning could have maybe Armagh or Donegal as 2nd seeds. That would be a group of death - provential winner (e.g. Galway, Armagh, Dublin, A Another seeded 4th). Alternatively, a provential loser (e.g. Mayo could be in a group with Meath, Clare, A Another seeded 4th). I know which I would prefer.

Apologies if my understanding there is incorrect.

Venue matters in most sports

Nothing to do with anything on TV. Dublin people have just stopped going. Last year the 2 semi finals were a double header in Croke Park. Just 22,000 turned up.

Nothing to do with the venue. Just a Dublin team who have fallen off a cliff in terms of quality available and mix that with the players playing today having a nightmare Meath were simply the right team in the right place. Twice in the second half dublin fisted the ball over the bar rather than going for goal. Also they were turned over multiple times while not under pressure.

Dessie and the lads need to forget about the "process". That was fine when the game was like a chess match. Its not anymore and a lot of those dublin lads are too robotic.

The runners off the shoulder were too slow or non existent. Handling errors then were laughable.

This Meath team or Louth team will win Leinster but your more likely guaranteed that Leinster football is seriiusly poor. None of them would trouble Armagh, Donegal, Galway, Kerry or Mayo.

The lack of balls to take on two pointers when the oppirtunity was viable was also telling. They were waiting until near the end for hail marys. CON and Small have to take on goal chances rather than fist points when they are 6 or 7 behind.