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Speaking on RTÉ following Dublin's seven point victory in the All-Ireland semi-final replay, Joe Brolly was highly critical of Mayo.
Brolly credited Mayo's collapse to 'spectacular ineptitude' and also placed them firmly at number one in his rankings of 'masters of disaster'.
There are no masters of disaster like Mayo.
These defensive strategies need to be rehearsed. Two weeks before the Donegal match wasn't enough time to start with that.
It's not as if they weren't warned. The three goals were a disaster, each one of them. They're winning by four points and even by Mayo standards, this was spectacular ineptitude. They're winning by four points in the 55th minute and they concede three goals, each of them a disaster. And each of them because the full time sweeper is in completely the wrong position.
When they went four points up, it was if one of those giant thought bubbles that you get in cartoons and comics went up above Croke Park and said 'oh Jesus, what are we going to do now?'
There was a palpable panic. There was no sense of control in the game. Had that been Kerry for example, they would have held possession, they would have ruthlessly picked of their scores.
The problem with Mayo is, there's no sense of ruthless dispatch. You think of All-Ireland champions over the last six or sevens years, you must be ruthless. The great Tyrone team of the noughties, the great Kerry teams, Kerry currently are absolutely ruthless and they would have put that game away.
Nine minutes three goals given away and all of them a disaster.
And it was foreshadowed in the first half with the Philly McMahon chance which was blown.
