Mayo GAA Discussion

Struggling to process that tbh...at no time during the game did I envisage us winning.

I'll need to listen to every podcast possible this week to figure out what happened :-)

I'd say like everyone we we're hoping more than believing we could have another second half like the Galway game. And we did and then some. An unbelievable feeling. Roll on the final. HON Mayo.

That experience today was just insane. Greatest day in Croke Park without a doubt. Will need to watch it back as it was just a blur. The atmosphere was just insane, I know the voice will be gone until the end of next week but it's a small sacrifice.

These boys just never give up, they were dead and buried at HT. Padraig O'Hora put on a clinic today, he was bloody awesome. Touch tight all day bar once lapse early on. After all the stick Robbie has taken over the years you have to be delighted for him. What a kick!

Oh the Green and Red of Mayo!!!!

Well Done Mayo

Could Biden have lifted the curse 😉

Looking forward to Gift grub on Monday Morning….I am not Morgan Freeman…but I Love the GAA😊

The only thing you got right there was to congratulate Mayo on a great win. Not one of the Dublin medals is tainted. They are ordinary fellas who have given a huge amount to the game and their communities.

It was a pity how it ended for them. There was just nothing left in the tank. The tackles became lazy but not filthy. Pulling down a player is what any player would do. Small tackle was not a card but McCarthys was.

Firstly huge congrats to Mayo. A fully deserved win although it didnt look on at half time but I seem to remember a famous Mayo comeback from a few years ago and it crossed my mind today at half time.

As a Dublin follower Im disappointed at how it ended for us. The discipline went with their legs but I was delighted Tomas O'Se pointed out the fact Dublin stayed on the field and shook hands and hugged Mayo players. It was uncharacteristic of this group of players. No genuine Dublin fan or GAA fan will begrudge this Mayo squad.

I said it many times before if Mayo go and play their own game they can beat any team. Full of great talent and ability. I was delighted for Hennelley (altough not at the time he kicked that score). Took some balls for him to do that. Also James Horan who has rebuilt this squad. I wondered why he went back but he obviously knew the talent was there and he is getting the best out of them. Also Kevin McLoughlin, what a great score today. He is my favourite player outside Dublin.

I had tipped Mayo to beat Dublin today. There just seems to be a better balance to the team. In the absence of Cillian O'Connor and when taken off Aidan O'Se lads had to stand up and in fairness every player did. Maybe there is something in that as pressure is always on O'Se and C O'C to deliver big performances and when they dont it might have a negative impact on others. Today the Mayo lads played with flair and attacked which is their strength.The possession game has its place and Mayo used it to perfection in last few minutes and rightly so. They saw out the game perfectly and deserve great credit for that.

I wish all you Mayo people the best of luck in the final and hopefully the long wait will be over.

I did not see that coming.

I certainly did not see it coming at HT.

Mayo are box-office, pure and simple.

Really thought Dublin came out of the blocks with a point to prove, as in "we are not in decline"

And it looked like that, they did what Mayo usually do, hit hard, turn over ball and score from it

But what surprised me was they only had 35mins of that in them the rest was all Mayo.

I think this team are well up for taking on Kerry.

If Mayo can bring intensity and energy they will be able to run at Kerry and open up what is both a porous and untested defense.

No sign of a goal from either team all day, makes a change from last year's semi final.

Dublin have no pace that was the problem... it would drive a fella to drink....

So proud

We hammered the hammer in the extra time. I was afraid to say it out loud, but I kinda knew at the time we had them collared. We played them at their own game for that extra time period, and they didn't like it one bit. Amazing to watch.

A bit of a dampener, but apparently Eoghan McLoughlin's jaw is fractured. Conor Lane and the other officials seriously need to be looked at. Lane is not a competent ref at this level, and has shown as much time and again. His refereeing display was shocking yesterday, but it's not the first time. He should absolutely not be refereeing major championship matches.

I always felt a lot of the narrative about keegan and ocallaghan was kinda bs to be honest. This spiel about him 'destroying keegan' was overplayed. He had actually done well on callaghan in the first half and got shoved in the back after getting out in front of him for the first goal. He then got sold a good dummy by a lad he hadnt marked before - that is basically it. The rhetoric was more to do with circumstance, and maybe the dubs needing to scratch the itch that was keegan. The same is true of the stuff about keegan being a dirty player.

Yesterday keegan showed what he was about. As did hennelly, coen, conroy, k mcloughlin, loftus, oconnor - all guys who had been harshly criticised and even written off after dublin games previously. Each stood up at big moments and looked for the responsibility - and delivered. It showed a level of bravery and honesty that speaks volumes about them as people. They didnt ask for redemption, they just took it.

Ironically, they will now be the 'clutch players', the 'marquee forwards' etc that before they were told they would never be.

Yes, must give props to Robbie Hennelly. Absolute redemption and vindication. Delighted for him. Stood up when we needed him and showed great bottle. Terrific goalkeeping performance.

Absolutely wish him a speedy recovery. But that Lane waved play on when a man was clearly prone on the ground needs looking at. Was an absolutely ridiculous call to continue play, whether he saw the foul or not. Deegan not much use on the sideline either.

Agreed. Maybe not a foul in the strictest sense, but when a guy goes down like that it generally gets blown up. Even if only a hop ball. It is hard to fathom how he let the play go there. A real red flag that he didnt stop it.

Re his other decisions, it is probably hard for him to spot everything, but the guys on the line surely have a perfect view of the byrne and mccarthy incidents? Deegan seems to be no addition at all. He just misses everything and offers no help to the ref. The schmozzle at the end was totally contrived to get him to blow up the game early. Mccarthy gets red, mcmahon gets yellow, kick the ball out please mr goalkeeper.

Having surgery today on it

Delighted with that win, which we won playing poorly for large parts of the game. Plenty to work on for the final.

i defended Lane the last day out but he was appalling last night.

Terrible news about Eoghan. Wishing him all the best in his recovery.

Whats the story re EOD's injury?

The question is was it a plan so cunningly disguised it looked like the complete absence of one, i.e. sit back, let Dublin have most of the ball, hope to concede as few scores as possible then come out and play our usual high tempo game in the second half when Dublin are hopefully starting to tire. Doesn't sound like James Horan but if he had gone about things his usual way it would likely have ended up like