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Replying To legendzxix:  "Dublin had the rub of the green in the quarter final. It went against them then in semi final. That's the way the cookie crumbles. More often than not decisions seem to favour Dublin in their home league ground. Usually a double whammy on top of drawing Dublin in their home league ground at the business end of the championship.
Dublin actually got a flavour on Sunday of what it is like to be the away team. Tyrone have set the blueprint in the 25 quarter final. All Ireland contenders have to be able to flip the script against Dublin in Croke Park. Anyone not prepared for the battle of playing Dublin in Croke Park are going to come up short. That's the reality of it. Sin é."
Kerry got the rub of the green int he quarter too. I'll never forget the game down in Limerick in 2014. If cookies crumble fairly (they don't) then maybe Mayo will get the calls Sunday week. I wouldn't hold my breath though.

yew_tree (Mayo) - Posts: 12213 - 14/07/2026 22:22:15    2685798

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Replying To TheUsername:  "GAA have marketed the life out of Clifford, RTE also heavily invested.

In these days of generating commercial revenue, clicks and content, the GAA failed the sport yesterday with very blatant weighted decisions.

The Championship this year just lacks any credibility now, pity, was some great games this year - but it ended yesterday.

Congratulations to the Dublin team, heads held high, always Guardians of the game."
A tad melodramatic.
Some of those accusations were levelled at the powers that be during Dublins prime years too.

Seniorleague (Galway) - Posts: 162 - 14/07/2026 23:12:52    2685806

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Replying To TheUsername:  "GAA have marketed the life out of Clifford, RTE also heavily invested.

In these days of generating commercial revenue, clicks and content, the GAA failed the sport yesterday with very blatant weighted decisions.

The Championship this year just lacks any credibility now, pity, was some great games this year - but it ended yesterday.

Congratulations to the Dublin team, heads held high, always Guardians of the game."
At least Kobe will escape all that here, when he heads off to Aus…!

As our fellow poster said previously - a lot of similarities to what is happening with Argentina in the World Cup so far.

Anyway, I am a lot more hopeful for next year after seeing how Ger, and the players, turned this season around in the last few weeks.

Fionn (Dublin) - Posts: 5182 - 15/07/2026 09:46:17    2685824

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Replying To maroondiesel:  "You are right; just the square ball was an error by the officials.
Dublin benefited from decisions in the Galway game, so it balances out.
Mayo will probably win the final, as they have better forwards overall."
Ah now , i think there is balancing and there is imbalancing. Even with my biased Galway head i think that in Dublin Galway game the decisions that went against us were debatable and im not sure if they ultimately impacted the result. Thats not the case in the kerry dublin game. People are arguing that there was only 1 wrong decision and that the dublin goal that wasnt is inconclusive. I have watched that ball over the line several times and done some geometric calculations to compensate for the camera angle, and while we cant be 100% certain, i am 99.9% certain that the whole of the ball was over the line . The penalty is debatable but i would say that 90% of refs dont award a penalty there. I think in the flow of the game if any 2 ( or even 1)of those 3 decisions were correctly made, then we would be looking at Mayo v Dublin on sunday week.

anotheralias (Galway) - Posts: 1099 - 15/07/2026 12:11:37    2685841

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Replying To MunsterFan:  "That's a novel take. And by novel I mean utterly bizarre!"
Not that bizarre. But i agree that it should not have been a free out........Nor should it have been a peno.

anotheralias (Galway) - Posts: 1099 - 15/07/2026 12:22:34    2685844

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