2019 All Ireland Senior Football Championship *Mod note: Post #1*

Prestonites

I'm very surprised how bad Donegal are too. You'd not realise they are playing for their summer here

Karma King

OMFG OMF.

How Soon Is Now

Neither team wants to put this game to bed ffs!

Slattsy

Donegal need a goal. Game over I reckon.

Donegal have scored about 1 point from their last 10 or 11 chances.
Brutal stuff and only down by 3.

Mayo are the luckiest team in Ireland outside of the final.
This kind of thing happens to them constantly.

Spideog Rua

7 mins!!

Murphy is some player, I feel bad for him not to have any quality around him

FrancieBrady

Long road home for Donegal beckons. Thought they were better than that. Two awful teams today.

Donnielighto

Slattsy wrote: »

Donegal making a balls of this. Should be ahead. Mcbrearty gone missing.

They were lucky with the penalty. Mayo shot a lot of wides too, Mayo better side overall but neither at their best.

babybuilder

Slattsy wrote: »

Donegal making a balls of this. Should be ahead. Mcbrearty gone missing.

The white hot heat of battle has exposed Donegal weaknesses. Also exposed the unfairness of the super 8s.

How Soon Is Now

I honestly can't believe how bad donegal have been.

Slattsy

Donnielighto wrote: »

They were lucky with the penalty. Mayo shot a lot of wides too, Mayo better side overall but neither at their best.

Mayo deserved winners. No doubt. Donegal a shambles. Think they believed their own hype.

Championship better for Mayo in it.

FrancieBrady

Jesus that last miss sums it up.

babybuilder

Slattsy wrote: »

Mayo deserved winners. No doubt. Donegal a shambles. Think they believed their own hype.

Championship better for Mayo in it.

Okay you get what you deserve. Leave it at that

irishguitarlad

Dublin will probably steamroll Mayo

C__MC

'Donegal will put it up to Dublin this year'

Dr. Bre

Mayo for Sam

babybuilder

C__MC wrote: »

'Donegal will put it up to Dublin this year'

Don't listen to the pundits. They get it wrong 9 times out if ten

How Soon Is Now

So if all goes to plan Kerry Tyrone and Dublin Mayo. Didn't think be getting that!

BonnieSituation

How Soon Is Now wrote: »

So if all goes to plan Kerry Tyrone and Dublin Mayo. Didn't think be getting that!

Gawd

Johner

Got that one badly wrong. Mayo by a mile the better team, absolutely awful from Donegal, woeful performance.

FrancieBrady

If ever a saying held true, 'you have nobody to blame but yourselves' does just that in the Donegal dressing room. Architects of their own dismissal from the competition.
The one game where they had to perform and they didn't. Hard to explain.

blowitupref

Well done to Mayo they well deserved their 4 point winning margin, defended and attacked better than Donegal and got more of an impact from their bench.

Donegal haven't reached AI semi final since 2014 and where playing their league football in Div 2 this spring and you could see why this evening, they were simply talked up too much and have a lot to learn if they are to reach the heights of Jim McGuinness again.

prettyboy81

Fair play to Mayo won that game by winning the battle & keeping scoreboard ticking over.

The heat of that battle could still be in some players legs next Saturday evening. Only time will tell, enjoy the taste of victory tonight!

ArnoldJRimmer

blowitupref wrote: »

Well done to Mayo they well deserved their 4 point winning margin, defended and attacked better than Donegal and got more of an impact from their bench.

Donegal haven't reached AI semi final since 2014 and where playing their league football in Div 2 this spring and you could see why this evening, they were simply talked up too much and have a lot to learn if they are to reach the heights of Jim McGuinness again.

Talked up by an increasingly desperate media, not by anyone associated with Donegal. Ever since the Tyrone match, the aim has been to reach a semi final, and that would have been a good year. Fell short today, Mayo deserved it

Still the guts of a very good team there, harsh lesson today

Donnielighto

Drew with a Kerry team that slaughtered Mayo. Vagaries of sport.

Juanito13

Shot selection from donegal in 2nd half was atrocious

ToBeFrank123

FrancieBrady wrote: »

If ever a saying held true, 'you have nobody to blame but yourselves' does just that in the Donegal dressing room. Architects of their own dismissal from the competition.
The one game where they had to perform and they didn't. Hard to explain.

No leaders, apart from Murphy.

Westernyelp

gilberto_eire wrote:

Mayo are the luckiest team in Ireland outside of the final. This kind of thing happens to them constantly.

You make your own luck, as they say.

Well done Mayo. Great win

rossie1977

Donnielighto wrote: »

Drew with a Kerry team that slaughtered Mayo. Vagaries of sport.

It was a match Kerry had to win though or they were facing possible elimination. Mayo knew they had Meath and home game after so didn't need to show hand, also Mayo had played 4 games in 4 weeks at that point.

O'Sheas, Moran, Cillian O'Connor, Doherty, McLoughlin, Boyle, Keegan, Barrett, Higgins. I can't think of a group of players with such longevity at top level in recent times.

babybuilder

ToBeFrank123 wrote: »

No leaders, apart from Murphy.

Individual battles lost. 4 different scorers. Lowest of year. Physicality mayo were superior. Everything these young guys learned in training went out the window when pressure was applied.