Ecstasy in Dublin. Agony in Mayo. With 24 hours to digest the result of the 2013 All Ireland final, Conor Deegan and Billy Joe Padden joined the lads to anayse the decider.
Firstly, where did Mayo go wrong?
"Mayo lost it because they took a lot of bad options," explained Deegan. "Their shot selection was poor a number of times. They gve the ball away, they turned it over. I would have loved to see Mayo setting up man for man and really go for the thing - the way they played all year. Bu they didn't do that. They came up with what looked like a damage limitation mentality. Once the Brogan goal went in that helped Dublin massively. Dublin worked the ball a wee bit more efficiently. But Mayo had a great opportunity to beat a Dublin team that didn't play particularly well."
Former Mayo footballer Billy Joe Padden felt Mayo looked worn out.
"In the last 10 minutes of the first half, Mayo looked very tired. It felt like they had missed a big opportunity with the possession they had in the first 20 - 25 minutes. The goal really brought Dublin back into the game and knocked Mayo's confidence a little bit. The main factor behind the drop off was the pressure they tried to apply to Dublin all over the field. That takes an awful lot of running. Dublin are a very athletic team. I just think Mayo were out on their feet at the end of the first half. That's probably why they made so many poor choices and handling errors."
Wooly agreed that Mayo expended too much energy in the first half. But he also felt Mayo looked out of ideas. He said: "You could see them visibly tired and out on their feet. There were no forward runs from Aidan O'Shea or Donal Vaughan. We saw nothing of Donal Vaughan - Mayo's best attacking threat from centre-back. I think putting him on Flynn was a mistake because Flynn is Dublin's hardest working forward. Paul Flynn dominated Vaughan. Mayo completely ran out of ideas. Mayo's forwards were just not good enough."
From a Dublin perspective, Deegan was impressed by their character and the way they stuck at their task.
"This was a dogfight. Dublin showed a side of them that people didn't know was there. This game could have got away from them very, very easily and Mayo with a little more control could have got ahead. Dublin stuck in and got out of that dogfight."
The lads also touched on the future for this Mayo team and whether they can come back from consecutive final defeats.
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Paul Flynn and Phily McMahon of Dublin celebrate at the end of the game as Michael Conroy of Mayo sits dejected ©INPHO/Donall Farmer
