2 brilliant performances from 2 genuine contenders... :)

god (Westmeath) - Posts: 90 - 08/02/2010 15:40:08    555159

Long way to go yet!

blu (Down) - Posts: 1240 - 08/02/2010 15:48:12    555171

Well if God can't see the future who can ;)

Is that league or AI final???

hurlingdub (Dublin) - Posts: 6978 - 08/02/2010 15:51:37    555182

very long time to go .. lets concentrate on derry now nothing more

waynoI (Dublin) - Posts: 13659 - 08/02/2010 16:51:40    555293

Yeah.. we'll be seven points up and lose... at least Shane Ryan wont get in Cluxtons way this time around...

jimbodub (Dublin) - Posts: 20763 - 08/02/2010 17:00:56    555310

dublin have a bit to do at least the core of the mayo team no what its like to be in croker on all ireland final day . Mayo seem to be going for the cork style diamond down the middle in mcgarrity parsons oshea and howley and to be fair mayo probably overall have better footballers in this area they lack the agression and physicality that the cork diamond contains i think moran is turning into a great player i see him as the play maker of this team i thaught he was superb yesterday i personally would like to see kevin mc at 10 and higginsa at half back as hes to good to be in the corner

stekhli (Dublin) - Posts: 3121 - 08/02/2010 17:02:07    555316

I reckon we'd take the Mayo ladies although they don't have as nice hairstyles as the Mayo lads.

hurlingdub (Dublin) - Posts: 6978 - 08/02/2010 17:05:54    555324

Yes without doubt at this stage, its a nailed on certainty that not alone will Dublin and Mayo contest both the National League Final and the All Ireland Final but also the National Pie Throwing Championship and one or other is bound to win the childrens face painting Championship. .

corkcelt (Cork) - Posts: 4388 - 08/02/2010 17:07:50    555328

From a Derry perspective I hope it's Dublin and Mayo in the league final.

Fr.Ted.Crilly (Derry) - Posts: 449 - 08/02/2010 17:24:05    555368

Lets see how they get on with Cork first-but would make a good league final-kerry v tyrone for AI final

kerrykerry (Kerry) - Posts: 1779 - 08/02/2010 17:32:13    555390

hurlingdub
County: Dublin
Posts: 1152

555324 I reckon we'd take the Mayo ladies

Not in the biblical sense i hope

dhorse (Laois) - Posts: 11374 - 08/02/2010 17:43:15    555421

corkcelt
County: Cork
Posts: 1408

555328 Yes without doubt at this stage, its a nailed on certainty that not alone will Dublin and Mayo contest both the National League Final and the All Ireland Final but also the National Pie Throwing Championship and one or other is bound to win the childrens face painting Championship. .

They will both be there or thereabouts at the ploughing, Athy might just tilt things the Mayo's direction

dhorse (Laois) - Posts: 11374 - 08/02/2010 17:45:35    555426

Staying in div 1 is Mayos goal for the league,tough game Sun in Omagh v Tyrone. Mayo have road games against Kerry,Derry and Cork all hard places to get points. Mayo had to win Sunday against Galway.

mossy (None) - Posts: 39 - 08/02/2010 17:52:47    555445

mayo are a more developed team than dublin at this stage. This is a team that has been building gradually over the last few years. Still no all ireland in them but i dont think we ll be a million miles away and could have a decent summer. Dublin look like they are revamping things this year which they prob needed to do. Some of their young lads looked good last wknd

redandgreen (None) - Posts: 691 - 09/02/2010 15:29:43    556342

A subeditor's dream final "THE BATTLE OF THE BOTTLERS".

Ulsterman (Antrim) - Posts: 9840 - 09/02/2010 15:39:35    556361

Ulsterman
County: Antrim
Posts: 1569

556361 A subeditor's dream final "THE BATTLE OF THE BOTTLERS".

Funny but unoriginal

Jackeen (Dublin) - Posts: 4097 - 09/02/2010 15:58:59    556398

Is this a joke, 1 game in and people already think Dublin/Mayo ? I seen both games and neither showed anything that would indicate they would be there...

itsgreenandgold (Meath) - Posts: 312 - 09/02/2010 16:48:00    556504

its in the bag

TheMaster (Mayo) - Posts: 16187 - 09/02/2010 19:38:05    556770

Yeah, I've always been a big fan of Andy Moran and if O'Mahony decides to keep him on the forty with the emergence of McLoughlin at wing-back then that could very well be the most effective half-forward line in the game - Dillon, Mortimer, Moran. I don't think he's trying to replicate Counihan's diamond.

Any genuine football fan would love to see the shackles taken off Higgins in a wing-back role but this is the one big reservation that people should have about this Mayo team. O'Mahony's persisting with a full-back line of Vaughan, Cafferkey and Higgins. Meath showed the whole country just how fragile this line is and I think if they came up against a twin-towers style forward line consisting of Donaghy - Walsh or Brogan - Davoren they would be similarly destroyed.

That line will continue to be Mayo's achilles heel until O'Mahony wakes up and realises that Vaughan is a half-back and Higgins is not the tight man-marker he's mistaken him for.

Ollie99 (Meath) - Posts: 442 - 09/02/2010 20:18:19    556843

Ulsterman... well bottlers we may be... but at least we're there to bottle it in the first place.

Coming from an Antrim man... hanging off the coat tails of ur Ulster brothers victories.. I find your conclusions laughable to be honest.

jimbodub (Dublin) - Posts: 20763 - 09/02/2010 20:21:25    556849