Dublin GAA Discussion Thread: Mod Note - No 'Dublin Dominance' chat allowed!

While I think there's validity to some critique of the referee, bottom line is Dublin were dominant in the first half but were only four points up with no clear goal scoring chance again. In the second half they were utterly shocking, they were outplayed and none of their subs had an impact never looked like getting a goal and scored a measly 5 points in the second half..

Galway surprised me how well they defended. I would have thought their attack would have been more of a threat. But you are right I would say the last time a Dublin team were kept that quiet was in the AI SF v Donegal back in 2011.

When it's all said and done we have lost 1 game and there's teams left who have lost 3 who have a chance of getting to a semi final. How does that work?

Hopefully we will eventually get back to an all Ireland where everything matters.

So it's a Gaa thing that losers get to move forward? Wtf. Sooner the better Dublin get there own proper ground so we don't have to listen to tired old excuses Everytime we win no matter how big or small pitch is.

100% the reason along with mannion who was not fully fit , them 3 players coming on at the end would have won the game for dublin terrible call by farrell

dublin are far from finished , when you take the age profile of the likes of ,con ,fenton, kilkenny , costello , but the fringes of the team need to be calculated better then tonight in terms of selections

Great teams are built on competition and having player fighting for a starting place. When guys like Cluxton, Fitzsimmons and McCarthy can take the winter off and stroll back into the team then questions need to be ask about how that impacts the rest of the Dublin. Dublin will be stronger next year when those three aren't around.

Commiserations to Dublin.

Ye'll be there or thereabouts every year so no big deal. I'm sure the elder statesmen of your squad would prefer to go out with a win, so they might stay on another year.

It's better for the game to have different finalists.

Kerry are the bookies favourites but I think every team bar Louth can win it this year.

The jury's very much out on Kerry but we'll have a better idea of their ability after today's game.

I'm sure Kerry will be using Michael's death as motivation also.

The still you took conveniently excluded the strike by the Dublin player to the shoulder/neck area. See first few seconds of the video. If a player tries to tackle like that, coming in from behind the player with the ball, it's going to be a free all day long. It's not Galway bias, or anti-Dubs. And JRant trying to stand over his comment that Con O'Callaghan was pushed for the wide that he kicked at the end. Galway player clearly tried to block the ball, and jumped in front of Con. Get over it. The better team won yesterday. Just about the better team. You can take every game and try to analyse every play in great detail - and you will nearly always come up with some fault of a ref e.g. many players take 5/6 steps, but get away with it cause it's not obvious; most tackles that are executed are not in line with the rule book, but they are not called out unless generally overly aggressive. Happens for all teams in all matches. It's really sour grapes - saying other teams are cheating just because they win. Dublin are plenty good with the dark arts themselves. I was at the match, and the amount of times Galway runners were taken out of the game when they were trying to make an off-the-ball run. And I (not so fondly) remember well Dublin players taking down several Mayo players before a last minute kick-out some years back so that they couldn't attack to get an equalizer I think. But that's part of the game. I wish my own team had a greater level of deviousness - they would have landed Ciaran Kilkenny and Jack McCaffrey into row Z of the stand in Roscommon 2 weeks ago. But unfortunately they don't.

This talk of several Mayo players been pulled down in last minute of 2017 final is one great GAA myths. Aside from Kilkenny pulling down Keegan incident I don't recall any other Mayo players on the ground.

Deserves credit for winning Sam last year where he got it spot from the QF's on. He got it wrong this year with his selection though. As others as pointed out it left no bench with his starting 15. I have not forgotten he did the opposite v Mayo in last years QF and turned it around. It was odd that he did not stick to the same plan, that worked.

Surely Ger Brennan is top choice now?

The water boy was a big influence on the players last year.

My auld lad (A Galway fella who was delighted yesterday) was describing Dublin's win last year as a coronation. One they were not supposed to win. Hard to argue with that.

But I can't help thinking that if Dessie did his same selection tactic as v Mayo in last years QF Dublin would have seen the game out handy enough.

That's it. Psychologically it gave Galway a boost.

Yeah, I know if I was a tired Galway back.I would much prefer seeing Jack McCaffery coming off than Jack McCaffery coming on.

Another thing I was thinking about was the way the Dublin starting changes were announced was weird not the usual like for like replacements. As if it was a rushed last minute thing by Dessie? I might be reading too much into that, I don't know.