The 2015 All Ireland Senior Football Championship

Jayop wrote: »

I remember thinking we didn't get the rub of the green but you rarely do when your being beaten so comprehensively.

aveytare wrote: »

McQuillan gave Tyrone plenty in 2011. I'd be as paranoid as the next Nordie but we can't complain about that match really.

Strangely enough the last thing on my mind walking out of Croker after last years drubbing from Donegal was McQuillans performance either.

There's a certain irony when lads are being told to dry their eyes about the refs performance then in the next breath whinge about the ref when it suits their own motives - but shur it's only Dublin and they have to be held to more exacting standards

Tyrone seemed uncharacteristically naive in that 11 game, Dublin were class that day though.

Fr Tod Umptious wrote: »

Jesus, though crowd tonight.

I have been living here for the best part of 10 years, and your right the place may be full of simpletons.

In light hearted social conversation about football I regularly hear things like, "sure ye always try to play football like ourselves", and " sure yet fans are great" etc.

There is usually little or no sense that Mayo could ever turn around and beat Kerry when the chips are down.

That's the "sympathy" and "a sure yer harmless" stuff I'm talking about.

It's totally different to the suspicion that they hold Tyrone fans, and northern fans on general in, or the dislike they have for the arrogance of Cork fans.

I must admit that was a fairly intemperate statement on my part. I apologise for it and hope you won't hold it against me.

In terms of "cynicism/dirtyness/dark arts/dirty tricks" Tyrone of the Mickey Harte era are by far the worst offenders. They're not the most physically "dirty" because by and large theyre one of the smaller teams, but they make up for it with the sneaky, Knackery behaviour.
Just a selection of examples
Gooch bitten 03, Gooch eye gouged 05, McGuigan tripping Greg McCartan 04, Philip Jordan getting Marsden sent off 03, the antics on Saturday, the antics in Ballybofey, slagging a minor about his dead father, McMenamin spitting on Kerry players in a league match, the spitting etc in those junior club matches against the Kerry teams, Cavanaghs years of diving, the rugby tackle on McManus, Brian McGuigan getting blindsided by his own county man in a challenge match sustaining an eye injury so bad the surgeon compared it to people who had been beaten with baseball bats.
Thats just a sample count btw.

All the other top teams( and I would consider Monaghan to be the next worst offender, hence lack of sympathy for them, particularly the Hughes brothers!) have been guilty of various similar offences over the years but the total of the rest put together still wouldnt equal Tyrones list of misdemeanours.

What actually sickened me most this year was the sanctimonious whinging all overthe airwaves from Saint Sean and St Peter about the bad language theyve had to listen to from other teams and Peter using his newspaper column to have another whinge about Meath 96 the day Tyrone played Meath.

Jippo wrote: »

He did not "punch the ball out of [his] hand" at all! You can have another look I have linked to the incident:

https://youtu.be/oQbxpYRgwr8?t=104

Keep believing what you want to believe.

The non reaction from the Kerry fans sitting just yards away would seem to suggest there was little in it.

Dirty Dingus McGee wrote: »

Somebody on here said last year that Aidan O'Shea he had as much football in him as a bag of cement.It was nonsense comment at the time but I'm glad to see it being made to look foolish right now.

I was actually in Mayo at the weekend, watched the game in a pub and was surprised to hear so many negative comments about O'Shea from the locals. Anecdote is not data I know, but I would have thought any supporter would be glad to have him in their team, instead the opinion seemed to be that he was over rated and wasn't going to show up. I'm guessing O'Shea must have whipped them in a club game at some point. :pac:

They also seemed to think Lee Keegan was past it, barstoolers are a strange bunch.

harpsman wrote: »

In terms of "cynicism/dirtyness/dark arts/dirty tricks" Tyrone of the Mickey Harte era are by far the worst offenders. They're not the most physically "dirty" because by and large theyre one of the smaller teams, but they make up for it with the sneaky, Knackery behaviour.
Just a selection of examples
Gooch bitten 03, Gooch eye gouged 05, McGuigan tripping Greg McCartan 04, Philip Jordan getting Marsden sent off 03, the antics on Saturday, the antics in Ballybofey, slagging a minor about his dead father, McMenamin spitting on Kerry players in a league match, the spitting etc in those junior club matches against the Kerry teams, Cavanaghs years of diving, the rugby tackle on McManus, Brian McGuigan getting blindsided by his own county man in a challenge match sustaining an eye injury so bad the surgeon compared it to people who had been beaten with baseball bats.
Thats just a sample count btw.

All the other top teams( and I would consider Monaghan to be the next worst offender, hence lack of sympathy for them, particularly the Hughes brothers!) have been guilty of various similar offences over the years but the total of the rest put together still wouldnt equal Tyrones list of misdemeanours.

What actually sickened me most this year was the sanctimonious whinging all overthe airwaves from Saint Sean and St Peter about the bad language theyve had to listen to from other teams and Peter using his newspaper column to have another whinge about Meath 96 the day Tyrone played Meath.

I wasn't aware that Mickey Harte was over that minor team when those insults were thrown or was he over the Cookstown team that you mentioned.

they take stick from barstoolers from sept-may most years then they hop back onto the bandwagon for the month of August sometimes to the 3rd week in september

mayo for sam