Is Diarmuid Connolly still the best Gaelic footballer on the planet?

Jim Gavin has escaped criticism, which is understandable given the winning run he has led Dublin on throughout the last three championships. However, he should cop some for what he did yesterday — or rather what he didn’t do.

Ciarán Kilkenny was really poor and how he stayed on the field for 80-plus minutes I don’t know. Michael Fitzsimons struggled against Andy Moran and yet he wasn’t moved away from him. The decisions to stick by those two players defied logic as did continuing with Cian O’Sullivan as a sweeper when he was ruled null and void for a long time by the way Mayo played.

I don’t buy into this idea that this Dublin team are the best we’ve ever seen. They are hugely successful and will likely continue to be but a lot of that has to be based on the opposition and the number of challenges which they are faced with.