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Am I the only one who thinks that the championship has been excellent this year with lots of brilliant games? Tyrone gave the Dubs a good run a few weeks ago and could well do in the final! Brolly (Monaghan) - Posts: 4472 - 14/08/2018 13:22:04 2133178 Link 0 |
Tyrone forwards at least as good as ours that have pushed Dublin close. Tyrone need to show intsnesitt and push up at the right time to have a chance. Dublin though have experienced match winners all Over the field. Connolly was the difference last year when introduced...will he be missed this year? Time will tell if the game is on the melting pot in the final 10 mins. yew_tree (Mayo) - Posts: 11237 - 14/08/2018 13:52:01 2133194 Link 2 |
Your forwards are poor.The reason you pushed Dublin close was that you have good backs & midfielders.
Condorman (Dublin) - Posts: 983 - 14/08/2018 14:25:56 2133217 Link 0 |
So is the Dublin defence poor? Seeing as tere was only a point separating the teams.
Dec82 (Clare) - Posts: 242 - 14/08/2018 14:53:05 2133232 Link 0 |
Thats a fair point and no i wasnt at it but i understand your point. As a Galway supporter who goes to the games, do you enjoy watching them? Im just curios because watching Clare in 15 and 16 was hard work.
Dec82 (Clare) - Posts: 242 - 14/08/2018 14:59:42 2133234 Link 0 |
yes you are the only one
mayomanic (Mayo) - Posts: 85 - 14/08/2018 15:51:21 2133263 Link 0 |
I have said it before. Joe Brolly backs a winner. He always has. The abuse we get off him up until he thinks we might start to win something and then his approach softens. It has been the same for Mayo, Donegal and now Galway. Believe you me, if we lose the final then he will be the first to tear is apart and if we win he will have jumped on our bandwagon again. Its cringeworthy listening to him talk about Mayo and how they are perennial losers and then when he is sat beside Lee Keegan on the Sunday game call them a great team. He has more sides than a rubic cube and everybody just needs to take him with a pinch of salt cause he is definitely no prophet. He is just a fickle attention seeker. Wally (Tyrone) - Posts: 913 - 14/08/2018 16:15:00 2133268 Link 1 |
I couldn't agree more. You are the only one. festinog (Galway) - Posts: 3097 - 14/08/2018 16:19:56 2133271 Link 0 |
Not sure what the confidence and swagger is based on. Tyrone had one golden generation in roughly 130 years and in fairness that generation made hay. The only other two finals you reached outside those years, you lost. In order to win or lose finals you first have to reach them. It remains to be seen if this generation can emulate the last one. If you can beat the Dubs in the final it will mean you can back up that swagger but three All Irelands in your history will hardly frighten the Dubs. I wouldn't take much notice of the psychological imbalance thingy, the only imbalance I noticed was when things were in the melting pot in finals the Dubs could afford to bring on the likes of Connolly, McManaman and Costello and we could bring on... well not Connolly, McManaman etc. I wish you luck in the final. I have the feeling you will need lots of it as misplaced confidence will only get you so far!
Llaw_Gyffes (Mayo) - Posts: 1113 - 14/08/2018 16:44:24 2133284 Link 1 |
its interesting/scary to note Dublin's average age at the beginning of the 3 in a row was 26.7 and now on the verge of a 4th all Ireland in a row, its 26.2 Gavin deserves great credit for continually introducing new players Miami305 (Galway) - Posts: 147 - 14/08/2018 16:49:06 2133289 Link 2 |
I have said it before. Joe Brolly backs a winner. He always has. The abuse we get off him up until he thinks we might start to win something and then his approach softens. It has been the same for Mayo, Donegal and now Galway. Believe you me, if we lose the final then he will be the first to tear is apart and if we win he will have jumped on our bandwagon again. Its cringeworthy listening to him talk about Mayo and how they are perennial losers and then when he is sat beside Lee Keegan on the Sunday game call them a great team. He has more sides than a rubic cube and everybody just needs to take him with a pinch of salt cause he is definitely no prophet. He is just a fickle attention seeker. Wally (Tyrone) - Posts: 913 - 14/08/2018 16:51:13 2133294 Link 0 |
No its not. Are you saying Mayo forwards are good? Condorman (Dublin) - Posts: 983 - 14/08/2018 16:51:36 2133295 Link 0 |
I dont think tere poor. 2017 final mayo forwards scored 10 points from play, Dubs scored 1 - 10 from play. Teres not much in that because each set of backs are evenly matched. Like another poster said earlier i think tere lacking a quality inside forward but i wouldn't say tere poor.
Dec82 (Clare) - Posts: 242 - 14/08/2018 17:06:45 2133307 Link 0 |
Come back Mayo all is forgiven was exactly what I was thinking after watching two terrible semi finals at the weekend. 3 poor teams in Galway, Tyrone and Monaghan and Dublin being their poorest since 2010. Galway were pathetic, didn't even try to put it up to Dublin in the second half. Tyrone fell over the line against a poor Monaghan performance. And the Tyrone posters slagging Mayo off is laughable. Mayo have put it up to Dublin more than any other team in the last 8 years. All while playing watchable football. Tyrone have lost to Dublin multiple times in that period playing unwatchable football. HurlingSnob (Dublin) - Posts: 220 - 14/08/2018 17:07:25 2133308 Link 0 |
How can you consider the Dublin backs good if those Mayo forwards scored 14 points in the AI final last year?
MayoDan (Mayo) - Posts: 420 - 14/08/2018 17:12:07 2133315 Link 0 |
Op you spelt mayo wrong its spelt "All-ireland quarter finals". #notsosuper8s WaitingInTheLongGrass (Roscommon) - Posts: 165 - 14/08/2018 17:28:18 2133328 Link 0 |
Mayo didn't make it this year... lots of excuses can be thrown up, but the two best performing teams are now in the final, and isn't that what the championship is supposed to deliver on final day? As regards Mayo and the future, who knows whether this year is a hiccup or the start of a phase of lower expectations and rebuilding. Stephen Rochford is staying on and the vast bulk of the team will still be there and are far from over the hill... mileage only matters if injuries start mounting (not denying that this year might be a sign of that). I don't accept that Mayo didn't have the forwards to win because a winning set of forwards have to do so much more than lose their marker and kick points. Dublin undoubtedly have the best set because they combine all of the dirty work and off the ball exertions with a traditional capability to convert chances. No team wins now without tracking, pressing and turnovers, and for instance the young Kerry lads will need to develop these capabilities for them to become effective against the real contenders. Leaving 3 or 4 up permanently will get you slaughtered outside Munster. Besides Mayo have had championship top scorers and a forward who was player of the year, and nowadays scoring has to come from all quarters from goalie out. Team scores win games, no forward division can do it on its own. Galway certainly made progress this year, but it's hard to know how capable they'll be with different systems (or even without one). Some players are definitely good enough and some of the younger lads will get stronger.. time will tell. Looking forward to the final now. If the Dubs win easy then that'll be a first for this team. Like most, I can only see Dublin getting their place in the history books, but I'll be hoping it won't be the canter that last year's semi-final turned into. An early goal for Tyrone might be needed to head off a coronation. Pericles (Mayo) - Posts: 2521 - 14/08/2018 17:41:04 2133334 Link 1 |
Sorry Wally, I had a remark about Brolly in my original post (thus replying to yours) but got rid of it... best thing! Pericles (Mayo) - Posts: 2521 - 14/08/2018 18:08:56 2133343 Link 0 |
National media certainly are obsessed and in truth they just want ye there to knock and kick once down. Take Brolly for example and the heading of this thread comes from his views in the INDO...
The_analyser (Roscommon) - Posts: 3766 - 14/08/2018 18:24:59 2133356 Link 0 |
I travel all over Ireland and a few people from other counties have recently said it's not the same without ye in it..I don't think it's any love in for Mayo but maybe because we tend to be involved in cliff hanger matches...(games we should be winning easy).Gaa are probably loosing a bit of income from the gates too.
yew_tree (Mayo) - Posts: 11237 - 14/08/2018 18:43:03 2133360 Link 2 |