Jackeen, the money jibe will always remain, frankly because it should. The same way no neutral will cheer for man utd when they play some small club in the FA cup, and why would they? Utd have every advantage under the sun over the other club. If you really want to be treated equally, be it praise or criticism, if you want to be seen as an equal to the other sides, then you will need to get on the same page as everyone else in terms of finances and resources. Until that happens you wont get the same praise and will be criticised more, and that is quite fair to be honest with you. If a guy cant win a race with a car that is twice as fast as everyone elses, he deserves more criticism.

TheMaster (Mayo) - Posts: 16187 - 24/09/2015 15:13:26    1791859

Gavvygavgav
let it go, people.
controversy over GAA decisions didn't begin on August the 30th

Why would people let it go? Dublin fans showed themselves to be grossly unsporting. Nothing wrong with pointing that out. When mayo knocked Dublin out in 2012, there was still guys going on about how they were hard done by in November. Now the shoe is on the other foot and it is 'let it go people'. Why the double standard?

TheMaster (Mayo) - Posts: 16187 - 24/09/2015 15:19:16    1791871

When mayo knocked Dublin out in 2012, there was still guys going on about how they were hard done by in November.

Fine, master, you keep turning that stuff over in your head. Keep that sense of injustice chewing you up. Bottom line is that Dublin should have closed out the first match and were clearly the better team the second day, Lee Keegan's miss is just a canard. My advice is to move on.

Gavvygavgav (Dublin) - Posts: 382 - 24/09/2015 15:37:22    1791885

This isn't about the result though. Dublin were the better team, I've no issue with that. I accepted the result the instant the whistle sounded. This is about how unsporting the Dublin fans were in the week before the replay. All they seem to deal in is feigned indignation, victim blaming and whataboutery... They wanted to ban guys who didn't deserve bans, engineered a big stink in the media, harangued the gaa into giving Connolly a pass. All very nasty stuff. At the end of the day, All Irelands come and go, teams are already thinking about next year. But once your good name and reputation is gone, they don't come back so easy. The perfect example of that is tyrone. Their reputation precedes then wherever they go. That is in the post for Dublin.

TheMaster (Mayo) - Posts: 16187 - 24/09/2015 16:19:35    1791922

Yeaah, got to nearly 20 posts today before some gob***** decided to drag Tyrone into an argument that has nothing to do with them.

benched (Tyrone) - Posts: 534 - 24/09/2015 16:32:07    1791929

TheMaster
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No they shouldn't though. Keegan deserved a yellow card - he got that. O'Connor deserved a yellow also, that was missed, but it still isn't a ban. Connolly, Cooper and McMahon were nailed on red cards - McMahon twice, once for the headbutt, and once for the punches to boyle. O'Sullivan should have had a yellow and a black also, but then if he got the first yellow, maybe it could be argued that the second one mightn't have happened. Dub fans were blatantly just trying to play up the Keegan and O'Connor incidents with this feigned indignation to try to get their own lads off the hook. Like surely if keegan wrestling Connolly to the ground is a red card, then cooper wrestling mcloughlin to the ground in the first minute was also a red card? I mean they were saying they were hard done by, by the ref. For Christ sake, a penalty, four red card calls - what more do you want? It was a bit of an eye-opener Mes, it appears the majority of Dublin fans, on here anyway, are willing to say literally anything to get ahead. That isn't what sport is about, there was a complete lack of sportsmanship and honesty

If that's how you see the Mayo lads indiscretions then fair enough.

I've no problem admitting that Dublin should have had at least 2 players (possibly three) unavailable for the replay.

MesAmis (Dublin) - Posts: 13710 - 24/09/2015 16:40:55    1791933

Benched, so you think tyrone's reputation doesn't precede them? Isnt that the whole angle on the tiernan McCann incident? Harsher treatment because of where he is from?

MesAmis, that isn't how I see them, that is how the majority of people outside Dublin seen them - including the rte pundits, two of which were from Dublin themselves.

TheMaster (Mayo) - Posts: 16187 - 24/09/2015 16:57:39    1791952

You're making stuff up now master, creating nice little straw men to go along with your finely-honed sense of indignation. Listen if you want to make out that Dublin are a team then that's your prerogative. But it's nothing new, the "Dirty Dubs" has been around for decades, it's a handy little catch-all mendacity that our brethren not from the capital have levelled at the team whenever it suits. Meanwhile, in every era, every single team from every single county up and down the country has had its hard men, the tough bullies who play the game at the very edge, sometimes getting away with their actions, sometimes not, doing what they can to win. Water off a duck's back, becuase there will always be the likes of yourself, always have been.
Mayo are no different to any other county. All your talk of reputation is as hollow as a rotten tree trunk

Gavvygavgav (Dublin) - Posts: 382 - 24/09/2015 17:14:16    1791967

Gavvygavgav
You're making stuff up now master, creating nice little straw men to go along with your finely-honed sense of indignation. Listen if you want to make out that Dublin are a team then that's your prerogative. But it's nothing new, the "Dirty Dubs" has been around for decades, it's a handy little catch-all mendacity that our brethren not from the capital have levelled at the team whenever it suits. Meanwhile, in every era, every single team from every single county up and down the country has had its hard men, the tough bullies who play the game at the very edge, sometimes getting away with their actions, sometimes not, doing what they can to win. Water off a duck's back, becuase there will always be the likes of yourself, always have been.
Mayo are no different to any other county. All your talk of reputation is as hollow as a rotten tree trunk

Spare me the rhetoric spiel. It is noticeable that you 100% failed to address the actual incidents listed that you supposedly disagree with.

TheMaster (Mayo) - Posts: 16187 - 24/09/2015 17:17:57    1791968

Yawn and yawn the same awl tripe about Dublin money it doesn't matter how much a team gets you can't buy Tallent or skill how much do you think kerry group give kerry or Donagal lot give Donagal get its probably nearly the same as the Dublin senior football team gets what the Dublin county board get off aig goes between every Dublin team now in the past teams like the ladies and some hurling teams had to get their own funding
So before spoutin rubbish about money got off your hole and do something about it and your under age system in your county it's taken many years for it to happen in Dublin and only now seeing the rewards of hard work by many people over the years

delboydub (Dublin) - Posts: 665 - 24/09/2015 20:30:49    1792067

Have you been drinking del?

Ulsterman (Antrim) - Posts: 9703 - 24/09/2015 20:52:54    1792087

Dunno bout Del but i have....woooohooooo up the dubs :))))))

Jackeen (Dublin) - Posts: 4097 - 24/09/2015 20:58:55    1792090

Jackeen, did Croke Park give all the Dubs a 90% grant to buy their carry outs?

Ulsterman (Antrim) - Posts: 9703 - 24/09/2015 21:03:49    1792094

Nope! 100% this year!

Jackeen (Dublin) - Posts: 4097 - 24/09/2015 21:16:00    1792105

Jackeen, did Croke Park give all the Dubs a 90% grant to buy their carry outs?

Ulsterman (Antrim) - Posts: 9703 - 24/09/2015 21:19:50    1792110