Club Championships

Salvation Tambourine

Castlebar only allowed go for goal or something? Should have tapped over three easy points so far.

PeterTheEighth

Oh dear, this is over already.

ProudDUB

Castlebar would want to get the finger out, or this is going to be over in a hurry.

FalconGirl

Game over. Castlebar have failed to turn up. That penalty was needless as a result of a very sloppy handpass.

Salvation Tambourine

Castlebar woeful so far, failing at so many basics.

Men against boys so far.

DanielODonnell

You would know they are a Mayo team

mansize

Big gap in skill and match readiness

seanhynes

Depressing viewing ,winning the midfield battle that's all

Dyr

Think we're going to see some classic sympathy reffing now

Redsoxfan

You'd swear this was Castlebar's first final.

Salvation Tambourine

Ballyboden with at least four brilliant, point saving blocks.

seanhynes

Didn't see any evidence bb would show up like this after the last two matches in comparison to castlebars displays , mayo teams croke park :rolleyes:

mansize

https://twitter.com/aib_gaa/status/710502896010399744

AIB throw shade

Stoner

Redsoxfan wrote:

You'd swear this was Castlebar's first final.

Reminds me of Ballymun a few years ago, the occasion is making them look like lesser players.

Slieve Gullion

That was no penalty.

mansize

Ah it was. He was fouled

Slieve Gullion

It was an awfully soft penalty for the ref to give out there I thought.

Canadel

Mitchel's believed the hype somewhat and went asleep for the first 20 minutes and at this level you get punished.

They'll make amends though and I can still see them taking this to ET. Kirby and Douglas have goals in them in any match.

mansize

Boden strong defence

FalconGirl

Canadel wrote: »

Mitchel's believed the hype somewhat and went asleep for the first 20 minutes and at this level you get punished.

They'll make amends though and I can still see them taking this to ET. Kirby and Douglas have goals in them in any match.

As much as I would love your prediction to come true there is not a chance. They're pure flat.

Plus the boden defence are on top form.

mansize

Seriously poor striking by Castlebar

Redsoxfan

Stoner wrote:

Reminds me of Ballymun a few years ago, the occasion is making them look like lesser players.

But why? Recently in a final and have beaten All Ireland Champions this year. Gave Vincents a much better game

mansize

Excellent play by Boden there

mansize

That did look over to me! Umpires are so blind

ArnoldJRimmer

What's the wide count at this stage? Desperately disappointing stuff

mansize

ArnoldJRimmer wrote: »

What's the wide count at this stage? Desperately disappointing stuff

It's so poor - you'd expect better in a final

mansize

Boden play very clever

seanhynes

As bad as any mayo team in a final since 2006 , awful

MayoSalmon

Mayo lads choking again in Croke park..you wouldnt expect anything less!

MayoSalmon

Mayo lads choking again in Croke park..you wouldnt expect anything less!

mansize

Someone pulled out the plug!!!

ArnoldJRimmer

Ah TG4, not the time for technical difficulties, Castlebar were just getting back into it!

seanhynes

They were outstanding last game , bboden sluggish enough against clonmel . Hard to explain how this consistently happens mayo teams ****ing sick of it

mansize

ArnoldJRimmer wrote: »

Ah TG4, not the time for technical difficulties, Castlebar were just getting back into it!

Really??? All the miracles in knock won't save them

mansize

Irony is I'm missing the start of Pointless to watch the end of this...

DubOnHoliday

Tidy performance by Boden

mansize

He just kicked it over the bar so nonchalantly

armaghlad

To be fair if you can't put the ball over the bar from 30m out you deserve to lose. Fair play to Ballyboden, I really didn't rate them. Very professional in seeing off whatever little resistance Castlebar had to offer.

ProudDUB

Bloody well done to 'Boden. They were absolutely superb from the very first minute.

ArnoldJRimmer

mansize wrote: »

Really??? All the miracles in knock won't save them

No, not really at all, that two minute interval was the least painful viewing of the day. Fair play to Boden though, great performance in the first half in particular. And delighted to see my fellow county man Paul Durkin picking up a medal

ultrapercy

ProudDUB wrote: »

Bloody well done to 'Boden. They were absolutely superb from the very first minute.

Well done indeed, they showed real metal. Castlebar on the other hand lacked everything required of champions including work rate. That is not Ballybodens problem so congrats to them.

seanhynes

Ya great performance they proved me well wrong after the last two matches they didn't impress me at all. Great stuff saved the best till last

ProudDUB

Shocked at that outcome really. Very happy, but shocked too. The weird thing about Castlebar's performance today, is that their manager said (in the pre game interview) that they learned from their mistakes of 2014. Said that back then, the beginning of the game passed them by. By the time they realized they were in a game, it was too late.

So you'd think that they would have come out of the blocks today, all guns blazing. They didn't. They looked incredibly flat. Conceding the early goal must have been a sickner, but it was so early on in the game, they had loads of time to bounce back from it. The drive just didn't seem to be there, never mind the work rate.

DubOnHoliday

ProudDUB wrote: »

Shocked at that outcome really. Very happy, but shocked too. The weird thing about Castlebar's performance today, is that their manager said (in the pre game interview) that they learned from their mistakes of 2014. Said that back then, the beginning of the game passed them by. By the time they realized they were in a game, it was too late.

So you'd think that they would have come out of the blocks today, all guns blazing. They didn't. They looked incredibly flat. Conceding the early goal must have been a sickner, but it was so early on the game, they had loads of time to bounce back from it. The drive just didn't seem to be there, never mind the work rate.

At 4 points down they'd a few chances to score but bizarrely kept trying to walk the ball into the goal. Game plan seemed to go out the window.

Canadel

ProudDUB wrote: »

Shocked at that outcome really. Very happy, but shocked too. The weird thing about Castlebar's performance today, is that their manager said (in the pre game interview) that they learned from their mistakes of 2014. Said that back then, the beginning of the game passed them by. By the time they realized they were in a game, it was too late.

So you'd think that they would have come out of the blocks today, all guns blazing. They didn't. They looked incredibly flat. Conceding the early goal must have been a sickner, but it was so early on the game, they had loads of time to bounce back from it. The drive just didn't seem to be there, never mind the work rate.

Interesting alright. I think there is something to be said for the Mitchel's (and you can add Mayo) teams that in trying to avoid making the same mistakes of yesteryears, they in fact make sure they are doomed to repeat them by the fear they have of failing again. Almost a self fulfilling prophecy.

Of course the Dublin clubs have more quality, but the mental side of things cna not be underestimated either. As the BB player said, there is not that big of a gap between the teams as the scoreline showed.

Xenji

Castlebar today resembled a ghost town, no parade, pubs dead in comparison to the day that was is in it, and nobody back till after 9 tonight from Dublin, surely we must be the most miserable town in Ireland today :pac:, terrible performance, always hate seeing a team always try for a goal when an easy point is on offer, would of been a closer scoreline if they went with a more simple game after the first goal.

funkey_monkey

Congratulations to NaP on their well deserved victory. They had a bigger physical presence and were always a few steps ahead for the ball.
Their super striking efficiency was incredible.

Gutted for the Dall. It was nightmare start and from that NaP gently eased clear. There were flashes of skill and tenacity - especially the second goal which was a joy to watch - and some of the hooking and blocking.

Hopefully they can regroup and go again.


Not much hurling chat on here compared to the football!

Was shocked to see Castlebar at odds as low as 4/11 for the final. Ok they did well against a Corofin side who were on the slide and came back very well against Crossmaglen after a poor start but considering it was in Croke Park against a Dublin club side how their odds were that low is beyond me.

It's sad to see a team perform so far below its capabilities on the big stage as you'd hope a final would be won with both sides having performed on the day but considering the odds pre-game I think that was up there with the biggest capitulations you're ever likely to see on All-Ireland day.

Given everything that has gone wrong in the past, Castlebar's main objective early on should have been to avoid early goals but yet again on a big stage we see unbelievably naive defending to allow goals and goal chances clean through the middle. Still the goal needn't have been fatal to Castlebar but they seemed to totally lose their composure, trying to work goals when they needed a point to settle and kicking some outrageous wides. Ballyboden defended in numbers when they needed to and Castlebar's defence was so open Ballyboden really could have been even further up at half time.

Ballyboden's interplay and fitness levels were superb as you'd expect with a side who won the Dublin club championship and they were more than deserving champions. I wonder how Clonmel feel tonight though or Portlaoise who missed a tap over free at the death against them in the Leinster final.

Rightwing

Hurling was poor as a contest, but Na P looked like 1 serious team. No club would have beaten them today. The Antrim boys would have put it up to other teams, but were just a few levels below.

mansize

There'll be whinging in Castlebar this evening...