Dublin GAA Discussion Thread: Capital Gains

I’ve never once said Mayo had no wrongdoing, I don’t agree with Aidan O’Shea entering the pitch at all. He left himself down there. Where I’m from is none of your business and has nothing to do with the posts. Maybe you can learn some humility with this loss now and move on. Sour grapes and all that.

Coming from an expert such as yourself on bias and sounding foolish I have duly noted your concerns and will reflect on the matter.

Small lost the plot completely tbf as did mccarthy.

small had two red card incidents so very lucky to stay on the pitch

For a moment there I thought I wandered into the Dublin GAA thread. Never mind.

1) Whatever way you want to read my posts is up to you. I never once said Mayo did no wrongdoing and haven’t in the past.

2) Again, my county is none of your business and doesn’t have any bearing on my opinion unlike how it does on yours. I can see when Mayo have done wrong and I can see when Dublin have done wrong. I don’t have a blind bias.

4) I really don’t care that much about Dublin football as you seem to think I do. What they managed to do was incredible and I don’t think we’ll see it again. I have great time for players like Mccaffrey, Kilkenny, and I don’t have time for others like the Small brothers.

I’m not replying to you again - have a great day 👋

Its heart warming to see the amount of new visitors we have to the Dublin GAA Thread. It really does bring home the amount of hurt that must have been inflicted on them over the years. I was berated by some for pointing out Flynns frontal charge on Cooper, and told to win graciously, something a lot of the new visitors to this thread could take heed of.

Interesting point on the Hennelly free we will never know now. There would have been real uproar if he scored the first and missed the retake. Maybe you are right Lane is likely to have bottled it.

I don't like the way posters are trying to tar the Dublin team. If they were real GAA people they would have more respect for the team. It has a similar vibe when the tired narrative was Dublin were physical machines/robots with no skill and so on. It was straight from a certain journalists play book.

But gradually even they had to concede that Dublin had great players, and moved on to find another way to diminish Dublin's achievements. It is pure and utter bregurgery. Remember when the Ulster teams and Kerry used to roll Dublin over they had skilful players but would outmuscle teams as well.

Kerry were not praised for this much for that but it was there in the an Gaeltacht lads they wouldn't be out muscled. Ulster football built its reputation on not being out muscled and the pundits used to rave about it.

The Dublin loss added to the John Small challenge is manna from heaven for certain posters. All their Christmases came at once they could really spin it. That is the nub of it really. Tomas O'Sé said as much when he called twitter a cesspit.

What shoe? What I find ironic is that you were responding to a poster about the Media's obsession with Dublin. Yet, here you are on a Dublin thread commenting about DUBLIN! 😀

Dublin had done five in a row never done before (in men's football) of course they are going to be the main draw. Six if you count the weird covid year. But, I don't really count that in my mind.

And now you're mentioning 'abuse' Meath players suffered from Dublin in Meath games. I am old enough to remember many a Meath game when both teams were top sides. There was hard hits from both sides and the teams shook hands. Then moved on from it. In fact many of the Dublin and Meath players of the late 80's early 90's side became good friends and played in golf outings together and the like. So I don't know where this abuse 'over the years' stuff is coming from. Your own head maybe?

AOS should have got a red for that missed free in the 1st half.

It sickened me seeing him celebrate at the end, and getting his mug into every photograph.

His behaviour at the end of the game reminded me of John Terry at the end of that champions league final that he didn't play in.

O'Shea contributed about as much to his team on Saturday as terry did to Chelsea that night.

The Ballymun lads are tough men. I remember watching a club game between them and Vincent's in Parnell Park and the should McCarthy gave one of the Vincent's lads which was a fair shoulder mind you flattened the Vincent's player. It might have been Nathan Mullins who was on the receiving end of it.

Nathan Mullin's is technically a Donegal man now...Ulster football must have made him soft! 😉

More often than not the Vinnies lads got the result against the Mun. I would love to see the head to head results from the last 10 years between those two teams.

Vincents were smarter footballers not as much legs as Ballymun, but more cuteness. I remember Ger Brennan letting on to be injured to buy time, slow restarting. And Mossy Quinn taking ages over a free to kill time, stuff like that. Ballymun crowd going ape wondering how they lost again etc.

what about when the 2 smalls were boxing the mayo lads in the head? don't try and fool anyone, we all know if Dublin scored the goal that was easier to score than miss (after the hit that broke a mans jaw) and Dublin won the game. You would be cheering away and probably saying it wasn't even a foul.

The game was over (as in normal time) when O'Shea came on the pitch.

If you look at this clip, you'll see lane on 11 seconds telling the players to clear the pitch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOfpG57P554

Then at 22 seconds there's a replay (ignore what's going on to the left) you see him holding out his arms to signal the end of the game. Comerford seems to also react to Lane ending the game. I've not seen the Sky version but it looks like RTE kept the clock running when the game was signaled as over.

Not cowardly, it was a legitimate hit, an unfortunate result for young McLaughlin. The slow mo pics and stills are after the initial shoulder to shoulder impact and that was what caused the damage. Nothing cowardly as you put it, simply McLaughlin was not prepared for the impact.

it was the same as punching someone when they aren't looking. If a player from my county did likewise I would admit it.

Anyway im glad this Dublin team is washed up, we wont have to hear too much about them anymore.

RTE would sicken you when Dublin are playing, oh great pass from insert any Dublin player here (average pass). After mccarthy elbowed Diarmuid O Connor "there was a coming together there" made it sound like a 50/50 tussle, when it was assault of a mayo player by a Dublin player.