Dublin v Donegal Sunday 31 August AI semifinal Mod Warning Posts #392 #541

Limestone1

Shocking 2nd half from the dubs.

Zeek12

Dubs trying for goals from impossible positions. Have wasted so many scorable points that way

DeadHand

How many Michael Murphys are actually on the field?

Donegal fought like dogs all day.

maccored

i think its good night irene for the dubs

lukesmom

All very quiet on hill 16

supersean1999

Dublin are kicking this away . But Its very clear to see the soft games up to now has killed them. They have Not Had a tough game for 11 months. Well Done to Donegal

westernfrenzy

9 wides in the second half says it all really.

bennyl10

Shouldnt laugh..

But the incincibles.. The undefeatables.. Cant score simple points with the posts staring you in the face..

After seeing fans on the threads the past 2 days, tbis is absolutely hillrious to watch..

Sure kerry wont be a threat.. 15 point win over donegal easily.. The subs have barely scored 15..

Karma youre amazing.

nice_guy80

Time to split Donegal in two!

greenman09

The media might stop the hype for a while. Til next June of course

SeanJ09

This is just remarkable by Jim McGuiness. Hard to believe this team were hammered by Mayo last year. Unrecognisable.

lukin

naughtb4 wrote: »

Commentary is bile, the Dublin team have said nothing and shown no disrespect. This isn't over confidence or arrogance, Donegal have just played well and will be deserved winners

Yeah I agree. Martin Carney talking s***e as usual. I didn't hear Jim Gavin or any Dublin player saying they already All-Ireland champions before this game. Quite the opposite, they were modest and respectful.

NightOfTheHunt

6-7 mins added time is my prediction, and Dublin to win on a dodgy penalty

wp_rathead

Hack commentary there imo - don't think Dub teams underestimated Donegal (maybe some fans did, deffo not all) just Donegal playing brilliant and got tactics spot on..

supersean1999

At 8-4 up and a sitter of a miss changed the game

Mushy

Christie Toy coming on in the first half changed the game. Donegal have played a great game since then, pretty much flawless! I never expected this.

NightOfTheHunt

2 mins! Game over, well played Donegal

Hibbeler

windy shepard henderson wrote: »

dublin are not finished yet but this performance has to go a long way in spelling out just how bad a state leinster football is in , the dubs look like the harlem globetrotters in that provence, donegal have exposed a few weakness here today

And what did Dublin do to Monaghan in the Quarter final??
Other than Donegal (after today obviously) they would be more than capable of doing the same to all other Ulster teams

LowOdour

naughtb4 wrote: »

Commentary is bile, the Dublin team have said nothing and shown no disrespect. This isn't over confidence or arrogance, Donegal have just played well and will be deserved winners

I agree....think Carney should differentiate between the player s and what the rest of the country are saying. I for one was definitely saying that it was Dublin's championship so this is a mad result.

After the league, If someone had told me it would be a Donegal Kerry final I would have laughed

Hotfail.com

bennyl10 wrote: »

Shouldnt laugh..

But the incincibles.. The undefeatables.. Cant score simple points with the posts staring you in the face..

After seeing fans on the threads the past 2 days, tbis is absolutely hillrious to watch..

Sure kerry wont be a threat.. 15 point win over donegal easily.. The subs have barely scored 15..

Karma youre amazing.

I know we're going to have Dublin fans getting extremely defensive when they see posts like that, but I've seen a massive amount of absolute blind arrogance coming from Dublin fans in the past few days, not all of them of course.

Still, it does feel good to see them shown up like this. :pac:

windy shepard henderson

i hope this donegal performance will finally put to bed the stupid argument that dublin have an advantage because of there sponsorship deal with A.I.G its performance not money that wins all irelands

alchemist33

lukin wrote: »

Yeah I agree. Martin Carney talking s***e as usual. I didn't hear Jim Gavin or any Dublin player saying they already All-Ireland champions before this game. Quite the opposite, they were modest and respectful.

The Dublin team and management seem a decent bunch alright but going by the thread yesterday, many Dublin fans thought they were already in the final. That sort of overconfidence can take hold in a county and affect players as much as they try to avoid it.

Woooo hooooo !!!!

:-):-):-)

Fr Tod Umptious

The Emperor has no clothes.

circular flexing

This really makes all the talk of Dublin dominating football for the next 10 years is just a nonsense. I've been saying for a while now that Dublin will get found out this year and their system is far from perfect and they haven't really been tested this year. No-one really listened to me and look at it now.

At the end of it all, it's 15 against 15 and any team can be beaten on any given day.

Westernyelp

Delighted for Dublin and their hubris

microsim

Show the hill.

martingriff

In fairness the Dublin team and management have been very keen to play down any talk of the been undefeatable and all that in has been all the fans.

Kristopherus

Well done, Donegal. Now give the same dose to Kerry:D:D:D

EunanMac

JIMMY'S WINNING MATCHES !

Spudmonkey

Brilliant!

Peist2007

What a collapse from Dublin. Completely outplayed and out-sussed

Peanut Butter Jelly

I think a few people in the game thread yesterday owe Donegal an apology...

freddiek

great day for the GAA.

A victory for honest amateurism over creeping professionalism.

Well done to all Donegal people.

ThunbergsAreGo

Well done Donegal, not Dublin day.

It wasn't the system, didn't even think they were too defensive, it was the players.

Two excellent teams today and Donegal were more clinical. As any same dubs fan has been saying the top 4 are very close.

NNot looking forward to the same old ****e from RTE after. As mentioned the commentary and lack of intelligence shown by the commentary team has been astounding. It's those exact people and not Dublin who have been saying they were unbeatable.

AGain well done to Donegal, guess we can keep Dublin unified for now 😉. Well be back next year

Oregano_State

Right lads, that's that. Will both teams have to wear alternate strips in the final?

bennyl10

Hotfail.com wrote: »

I know we're going to have Dublin fans getting extremely defensive when they see posts like that, but I've seen a massive amount of absolute blind arrogance coming from Dublin fans in the past few days, not all of them of course.

Still, it does feel good to see them shown up like this. :pac:

Let them get defensive.. The arrogance was painful..

Donegal prove it all to be smoke and mirrors..

But now will the arrogant fans admit that they werent good enough.. Or will the excuses roll in

Hotfail.com

circular flexing wrote: »

This really makes all the talk of Dublin dominating football for the next 10 years is just a nonsense. I've been saying for a while now that Dublin will get found out this year and their system is far from perfect and they haven't really been tested this year. No-one really listened to me and look at it now.

At the end of it all, it's 15 against 15 and any team can be beaten on any given day.

Yep, I always thought the same.

Didn't even put back-to-back All Irelands together and people were saying they were going to dominate. Absolute nonsense.

Timberrrrrrrr

Amazing game

Also hilarious to read the first couple of pages of this thread after that result

rebel girl 15

I've banned two users for a week for very poor name calling - lot of moderation on the thread already, you have been warned to keep it civil

aveytare

Joe'll be back to supporting Donegal so.

Well done Donegal, brilliant weekend. Final should be a great occasion as well.

ThunbergsAreGo

freddiek wrote: »

great day for the GAA.

A victory for honest amateurism over creeping professionalism.

Well done to all Donegal people.

Lol

Dirty Dingus McGee

Great match and an unbelievable performance from Donegal.

Dublin only have themselves to blame for this.Far too many bad misses, didn't show Donegal enough respect in the match today.They should have tightened up early in the second half and calmed things for about for 10 minutes.Bernard Brogan went missing today.

SeanJ09

Donegal favourites for the final IMO.

DeadHand

Great weekend for Gaelic football. Redeemed dramatically what was until now a dire Championship.

Moneymaker

bennyl10 wrote: »

Let them get defensive.. The arrogance was painful..

Donegal prove it all to be smoke and mirrors..

But now will the arrogant fans admit that they werent good enough.. Or will the excuses roll in

What arrogance? Muppets in the papers or on twitter?

Not a single one of us going to the game today thought we'd win this easily. This is a quality Donegal team and they fully deserved their victory. They completely outplayed us.

Stop talking ****.

Mr. Incognito

dublin conceded 3 14

Not much science to figure out what happened there

CountyHurler

Timberrrrrrrr wrote: »

Also hilarious to read the first couple of pages of this thread after that result

Well I dont think anybody would have expected Dublin to miss the sort of chances they did in the second half... It was like the sort of collapse that used to happen to Dublin pre-Jim Gavin... like against Kerry, and the collapse against Mayo in 2006. I didnt think we would see that sort of collapse from this era of players..

Fireball07

That was another great game of football, the intensity was something else. Fantastic display by Donegal, I didn't think they'd do it after going 5 or so points behind but they got the goals, and cut off the Dublin threat a bit higher up the pitch than most teams manage.

Were never going to concede a goal. Fair play to them.

ThunbergsAreGo

Peist2007 wrote: »

What a collapse from Dublin. Completely outplayed and out-sussed

Not sure they were, few breaking balls in it really. Goals change games

Was an excellent game, higher standard than yesterday I thought