Mayo haven't been on dis ting since 1951: ILF welcomes all comers to Cluiche Cheannais na hÉireann 2013

pretty frustrated with how it went to be honest. the moment that keeps coming back to me is when paul flynn attempted a glory point from beside the sideline with 20 yards of space in front of him and brogan or mcmenamin free - we were 6 or 7 up at that stage and it was a point at the very least, could well have been a goal.

dublin were bizarre, no clear strategy but scored nearly every chance they got, whereas mayo missed a lot of good chances, enough to suggest dublin should have let them shoot instead of all those fouls. i honestly felt the ref didn't really know what to do when 2/3 dublin players surrounded a mayo guy, he'd just run into them and fall over and it'd be a free. not saying dublin didn't foul at times, but the anomalous number of free kicks was like it was a rugby match or something in which dublin failed to understand the referee's "interpretation" of the tackling.

i think gavin is a farce by now but i would be fairly confident dublin should win the replay. the main consolation of the draw is that i'm home by chance for the replay and a mate texted me immediately after to offer me a ticket. used to work near croker for literally every game for 7/8 years when i last lived in dublin (8 years ago) so it's been about 17 or 18 years since i got to see a game.

Mayo p wilfully stupid in their choice of kick/pass, last week and at the start of this.

good open game though

ooof O'Connor on cluxton

it's just like watching a Brazil made up entirely of dungas

carrying parsons. his passing last week was shit and so it is today again.

I'd want that goal between the teams at this stage, shaping up to be a big half hour this

it's like the cunts aren't even listening to me.

cuuunts

Thought Dublin were done after that slump at the start of the second half - we are a strange team, we looked beaten but then had an absolutely magical five minutes. Then we took the foot off the gas again. I'm not sure that mixture of caution and wild abandon is a way to win the All Ireland, it's not blended right at the moment. The passing at the end was terrifying, but the way they used to to score the third goal justified it completely.

Was in Croker for the first time in 20 years yesterday, I worked on every match day from 1996 to 2007 then moved to London. The quality on show for a 20 euro terrace ticket is unreal. The first half in particular was just brilliant.

yeah I'm over the raging turmoil of watching it in real time and the better team with the bigger squad won a very good semifinal

hard for the rest of the country to pick a team to support in the final imo....

"The mayo player everyone is raving about is the redeveloped aidan o'shea, always a fielder of note but physically reconditioned over the summer to a cross between longcat and a sherman tank. His fetching of the high ball above a forest of thuggery is rivalled as a sight this year only by his can't-fail method of seeking out opposition defenders to run over on his maraudings."

Haven't seen it yet but he's been featured in a sport-swapping programme called "toughest trade" with NFL and I predict all ilx will bow down

one of the awful sports banter viral cunt sites was tweeting about the first weird thing in his wikipedia here, so i decided to edit it to include the second.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aidan_O%27Shea_(Mayo_footballer)

Shergar? Lols

he was middling, tho tbf its hard to compete with the freaks of nature in the nfl combine

State sponsored violence.

Thats some ten minutes.

Dublin fondness of cheap shot tackles hasn't hurt them in a few years but won't help them today- don't ask me why today and never before

Great game. Kerry playing like a gaa team that has finally figured out how easy this game could be with use of space and simple passing

What a game. I was hoping it would go to a replay. Mayo are going to get slaughtered :p

Well it's a final yknow

i hate kerry. i am happy. i particularly hate donaghy. bootcut jeans start a fight outside a chipper fucking dickhead.

kevin mc was unreal. that shoulder is up there with my favourite sports moments. juddering hit.

brilliant game - geaney is one of the best players to watch in the country. all that said, dublin doled out two goals - without that they would have won easily.

Anyone watching this at CP today?

Wish I was but I'm in London. Think Mayo's build-up this year has a been a lot better, off the pitch I mean. It's a failure if Dublin lose though.

Gtfo

An béal bocht is an béal bocht but that is obscene from the malahide man there

This will be merciless I fear. I can see no way it can even be close. Not sure I'd watch it if I hadn't lads from home over.

Mayo were lucky to beat Tipp in the semi final tbh

I honestly think it'll be close, Mayo will be up for it and they were very close to beating Dublin last year. The rest of the season doesn't matter. We are a machine of sorts but we do let teams into games.

I can send a measurement of my heartrate if you like. Maybe I'm just not used to following a good team.

Interesting tactic for stopping mdma scoring against us, this

at least the thread title can stay the same for another year

frustrated with not having a dece live stream, i'm giving up on this.

game on?

all level, 64th min. wow.

should've written about this one right?

Nope. This was a dublin win since april

Amazing.

Dublin will hardly play that poorly in the next game

We'll hardly score two own goals

In fairness Mayo deserve credit for not allowing the Dubs to play

Lads it's a slow study that will get excited about this. We're precisely where we were this morning, seventy minutes from either a humiliating or maddening loss in a croker final.

Mayo, God help us.

Perennial sleeping giants and serial losing finalists Mayo take on Dublin tomorrow, 3.30pm. Beg, borrow or steal a stream, marvel at the brawn and desire of the amateurs on the park, ask yr friendly GAA posters what the hell it takes for a foul to be called, why hands are allowed and how knowing when to take yr point is a key cornerstone of malevolent irish rural psyche.

Enjoy the match. Boo the Dubs. Mayo, god help us.

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otm

I was right, that said we threw that away. 7 minutes injury time was outrageous, Connolly sideline kick droppable offence, heinous, awful.

Worst Dublin performance in years, gotta feel Mayo threw that away tho.

Perhaps as tv spectators the wet pitch and its effect is hard to understand - the quality was woeful.

Agreed, though that would have suited us far more than ye. Dublin hardly set out to stop mayo playing.

Yeah, my overall feeling, particularly in the weird moments after your first spell second half, is that the game was begging to be won, and some terrible attempts happened.

Like holy Jesus it was there for Mayo, and not taken

It got very sloppy in the 2nd half, mistakes all over place yet it was fun to watch as a neutral all the same. Bernard Brogan was shite today

No way the dubs play as bad again, no way

Congrats to them, I say