Dublin vs Tyrone

[Anto McC]

Do you think that players like Kevin Moran, Niall Quinn and Kenny Cunningham would agree with that assessment?

Why did over 78000 (many of who are also Irish soccer fans, especially among the Dubs) turn at Croke Park yesterday?

Gaelic football and hurling played at the highest level is as good as any field sport anywhere in the world.

Agreed,it's typical Irish sh*te to knock our own,any time somebody from Ireland becomes well known the rest of the country calls them gay or something and tell us how they are shaming the Irish nation

[sligoman]

Agreed,it's typical Irish sh*te to knock our own,any time somebody from Ireland becomes well known the rest of the country calls them gay or something and tell us how they are shaming the Irish nation

Yeah Anto, your a disgrace to this country

[Anto McC]

Yeah Anto, your a disgrace to this country

Well i'm just happy enough to be considered well known

[bigmac]

Dublin should have edged it but that Tyrone goal was terrific.

Terrible defending though - two players bought the same dummy twice!

[Green Tribe]

Hope Dubs win for no other reason than these Ulster teams are getting far too arrogant.

Jealousy, jealousy......... I'm a Down supporter, so even though i would usually support my province in such a game, i couldn't bring myself to support those tyrone tramps, they are forever thumping us out in the Ulster championship over the last couple of years, we could've nearly got them this year ....fcukers! They are one of the dirtiest players as well. Got to see most of the game, was class.....Down for next year! Up Down!

[hamish]

Terrible defending though - two players bought the same dummy twice!

True, true but it looked a great goal all the same.

[carrickharp]

Come on it was a great goal, if a Dub had scored it....

[Eire06]

Great match to watch on Saturday (Not great football!!)
Fair play to the Dubs for not letting Tyrone run away with it (although that free was questionable! Never mind the pulling forward of it)..

I'm hopin for a Dub Cork final!!

[Aberdonian Stu]

Nearly threw it away but then got out of jail. Should be interesting in a fortnight.

I was very impressed by the ref's interpretation of advantage, both consistent in his application and generally correct in his assessment (one occasion for each team where perhaps he would have been correct to call it back but otherwise top notch).

As with all refs there are areas of his game that need improving, some of which aren't in the rule book. When he went hunting for a player who had committed an offence he shouldn't have gone running all over the place, if he knew the number he should have called the player over and if he didn't he should have taken no action. On the whole it was one of the better refereeing performances I've seen this season.

[Superhoops]

I was very impressed by the ref's interpretation of advantage, both consistent in his application and generally correct in his assessment (one occasion for each team where perhaps he would have been correct to call it back but otherwise top notch).

I thought there was no advantage rule in GAA, something that leads to inconsistentcies.

My understanding is that even if a referee wants to give an advantage to a team instead of a free that the rules do not allow it and he cannot make it clear to the players that a foul has been committed and that he is playing on to the advantage of the team/player who was fouled.

[geysir]

Jealousy, jealousy......... I'm a Down supporter, so even though i would usually support my province in such a game, i couldn't bring myself to support those tyrone tramps, they are forever thumping us out in the Ulster championship over the last couple of years, we could've nearly got them this year ....fcukers! They are one of the dirtiest players as well. Got to see most of the game, was class.....Down for next year! Up Down!

Down going up? Maybe if Sean O'Neill starts listening to voices in the night:-)
There was a lot of acclaim for Owen Mulligan's goal and rightly so, but the best ever claim is a bit OTT. I am thinking of the semi final victory of Down over Kerry in the 90's when Down scored two great goals. One of them in particular scored by a player who went on to play a bit of soccer afterwards, for Dundalk I think.
Then there was the great man himself Sean O'Neill, the second goal against Kerry in 1968 or 69 final, on the 14 yard line he was being pulled one way to the left, with the ball on the ground while falling he stroked it with the outside of his right boot into the right side of the net. I was only a young lad standing at the opposite canal end. My family who are all Kerry on one side claimed it was a flouke.

[Green Tribe]

ahhh the 90's, the paradise years for Down and Ulster teams.... Sweet.......
As much as it chokes me, I think Tyrone will sneak this replay.

[bigmac]

Come on it was a great goal, if a Dub had scored it....

Take nothing away from him, when it went in I texted my girlfriend
"Mulligan just scored goal of the season for Tyrone"
You can only beat what's in front of you and he did that easily.

Referee was excellent, helped by the lack of cynical fouling that we saw in other games this year. Equal credit to the two teams for making his life easier. For all people who can't keep their mouth shut I was delighted to see him advance the final free forward - that piece of "gamesmanship" could have cost Tyrone the game - turned a difficult kick into a fairly routine one.

[Poor Student]

Anyone know when the replay will be? I heard they're going to have trouble finding a slot for it.

[geysir]

Referee was excellent, helped by the lack of cynical fouling that we saw in other games this year. Equal credit to the two teams for making his life easier. For all people who can't keep their mouth shut I was delighted to see him advance the final free forward - that piece of "gamesmanship" could have cost Tyrone the game - turned a difficult kick into a fairly routine one.

No matter what way you look at it, if the free was given against the Tyrone player for knocking the ball out of the dub's hand then it was no free to begin with. Do you think there is any validity to the conspiracy theorists about the ref going for the draw? I am a bit suspicious by now with the number of games ending in draws with suspicions of flexible refereeing

[Aberdonian Stu]

There is no rule but there is no obligation to call for a free if you see a benefit in allowing play to continue.

The main area that this differs from camogie is that prior to recent years it was set in stone that a free is a free, making for some truly dull games (and I'm not that fond of the sport to begin with). Thankfully it isn't applied as rigidly anymore.

[Superhoops]

Anyone know when the replay will be? I heard they're going to have trouble finding a slot for it.

Thought it had been fixed for Saturday 27th At Croke Park, with the winners playing the winners of Laois/Armagh on Sunday 4 September.

[bigmac]

No matter what way you look at it, if the free was given against the Tyrone player for knocking the ball out of the dub's hand then it was no free to begin with. Do you think there is any validity to the conspiracy theorists about the ref going for the draw? I am a bit suspicious by now with the number of games ending in draws with suspicions of flexible refereeing

Don't think so. Dub prob shaded the decisions (home town crowd etc) but there were one or two frees given against them that shouldn't have been frees. With regard to conspiracy, would the ref have played more time if Dub had missed the kick? I doubt it, he told the player that that was last kick of the game. If a game is a draw after 70 minutes I think refs blow up so nobody can say they lost it because the referee played too much extra time.

[Anto McC]

As opposed to starting another thread,I'm just going to revive thjis one

I think Dublin will win by 2 points

[SuperDub]

I would love it just love it if were to win just to knock the smug Grins off Joe Brolly & Colm O'Rourkes faces. O'rourke has being moaning since the meath match that ciaran whelan was never punished for decking the Meath midfielder.