Dublin make another giant statement against Tyrone

Three weeks of it so, poking and prodding this Gulliver of a football team, Mayo and the rest of us mulling over the questions Tyrone failed abysmally to pose of Dublin yesterday.

The no-show of Ulster’s finest and Kerry’s malfunction on Saturday brings a degree of clarity to the pecking order at football’s top table, but leaves one intriguing question for the All-Ireland final: Have Mayo closed the gap on their nemesis since last September’s final replay?

Stephen Rochford and Donie Buckley left the Hogan Stand yesterday with the ledgers as empty and themselves as wise as when they sat down to watch a Dublin demotion of Tyrone, 2-17 to 0-11. The robust scrutiny of the three-in-a-row chasers will be left to them.