Roscommon GAA Discussion Thread

I was composing the post in my head were I was going to call Roscommon the biggest bunch of frauds to ever walk to face of the earth, but because of Galway's inability to go two clear with nothing left I had to hold fire.

But this team and management are frauds, you were pathetic today.

Your players and management are obviously unable to grasp the fact that winning Connacht sets you up well for a deep run in this championship.

megadodge wrote: »

This coming from a 'supporter' of a shower of frauds who couldn't beat Galway in their own ground and had to use blatant fraud to get past Fermanagh yesterday.

P!ss off back to the choker's thread!!

Mayos problems have been well documented over the past year or less.

But ye guys were supposed to be the new big thing, and your management team were supposed to be the envy of all of us in Mayo.

Taking yer time proving it now aren't ye.

As I said a few days ago, this is a golden opportunity for Roscommon based on the nature of the draw, but they did nothing today to indicate that they were anyway interested in winning this and pushing on to further things.

Must be depressing for the fans.

Pathetic lack of balls and bottle from a host of Roscommon players today, real lack of bottle to take a kick especially the **** acting around in the last minute.

sean mac wrote: »

Pathetic lack of balls and bottle from a host of Roscommon players today, real lack of bottle to take a kick especially the **** acting around in the last minute.

Were you at the match?

megadodge wrote: »

Are you drunk?

Well, besides being drunk with bitterness, like quite a few of your fellow posters who think being a 'supporter' of Mayo means coming onto the Roscommon thread with pathetic, snide comments as often as possible.

In case you didn't notice, Roscommon were the ones who came from behind today, on more than one occasion. Obviously not interested in winning? What an idiotic post, but then again that's what we expect from you, why let us down.

Off you go now and prepare for the 20th anniversary of the Great Whinge of '96? All together now "they got their worst player sent off, we got our best, boohoo".

Just like ye came on to or thread when we got beat by Galway so it's ok for ye to do

sean mac wrote: »

go away with that bull**** now kid, total and utter lack of conviction and bottle from a host of Roscommon players to take a punt, attitude like that will win **** all, hopefully the braver team will win replay i.e. galway

So I'll take that as a 'no', "kid"?

No player from either team scored against the relentless wind and rain from more than 30 yards out. It was pointless trying. If you were there you'd know that!

What disappointed me was the lack of patience shown by Roscommon on a few occasions when fellas did actually kick - with the expected non-result. Of course you had the usual panickers like yourself roaring "kick the fukin thing will ya" from the crowd and everyone around them wondering what game the fools were watching.

megadodge wrote: »

So I'll take that as a 'no', "kid"?

No player from either team scored against the relentless wind and rain from more than 30 yards out. It was pointless trying. If you were there you'd know that!

What disappointed me was the lack of patience shown by Roscommon on a few occasions when fellas did actually kick - with the expected non-result. Of course you had the usual panickers like yourself roaring "kick the fukin thing will ya" from the crowd and everyone around them wondering what game the fools were watching.

Excuses, excuses kid, ye need to raise the expectations, numerous players with the exception of niall daly didn't want to know about it, cathal creggs 'kick' before his score in fairness had nothing to do with the wind it was bad technique by a player under pressure......not good enough, too much champagne football played in February and march by this team methinks.

gilberto_eire wrote: »

I'm not coming into Troll like the other poster but have to take this...




Its complete and utter tripe.

Roscommon haven't beat Galway in championship in years.

They also didn't win any significant amount of Connacht's since Galway's famine in 2008.

Roscommon, regardless of their league standing, are nowhere near the level that they can "handily beat division two teams like Galway".

There is very little between most of the higher D4, D3 and anyone outside of Dublin and then Kerry(Kerry are a mile behind Dublin too but still a tad ahead of the chasing pack) as has been evidenced enough this year.... Never mind how Roscommon nearly lost to New York... A team they should have "handily beat".

If you want to talk down other counties you have a lot more to do than get to D1 or win an under age or two.

Nobody outside of Dublin can talk about handily expecting to beat teams.

You're 100% correct.

It's just that nobody here takes him seriously. That's typical of his occasional forays on here.

I said before it was a 50/50 game. I think the same of the replay, as do most Roscommon people that I've spoken to.

Fr Tod Umptious wrote: »

I was composing the post in my head were I was going to call Roscommon the biggest bunch of frauds to ever walk to face of the earth, but because of Galway's inability to go two clear with nothing left I had to hold fire.

But this team and management are frauds, you were pathetic today.

Your players and management are obviously unable to grasp the fact that winning Connacht sets you up well for a deep run in this championship.

So you were composing your post before the game finished were denied the opportunity to post your narrative because the game finished in a draw.
Instead of holding fire as you put it you go ahead despite your post not matching the outcome of the game!
Surely you can see how idiotic your post looks? Maybe hit the preview post and take a deep breath next time. I have read other posts from you in both the Mayo thread and the general championship thread and you make good points and obviously have a good knowledge of the game but for whatever reason ha can't help but come into this thread as a pure wum, why?
How are Roscommon "frauds"? Surely by your way of thinking its Galway that are the frauds, beat a top team in their own home ground but then can't kill off Roscommon who you have previously described as barely a team and a nothing team?
As for your assertion of the deep run in the championship, surely after Mayo's very recent experience you can see the pitfalls of looking down the road at draws and permutations. Our management have always expressed the view of one game at a time.

As for the game itself today, I'm sure it came across as a very bad spectacle but you had to be in the ground to experience the horrendous playing conditions.
I thought we were way too negative first half and was sure we would pay the price with only a 3 point half time lead.
We were too ponderous in our build up play giving Galway time to funnel back when we should have counter attacked at greater speed. While the running out of defence has been our trademark all year I would have liked to have seen a bit more variation and a good 30 yard kick pass availed of more often to speed things up, this only happened a couple of times first half via Davy Murray and Niall mcinerney releasing Cathal cregg on the stand side.
Why weren't we having a pop from the 45 when the opportunity arose? Murtagh landed one but the 2 creggs are well capable of it.
We were in real trouble at half time and I thought the game was up with 20 mins left and Galway taking the lead but the lads showed great heart and resilience to keep at it. That said Galway really should have killed the game when Flynn burst thru creating a 2 on 1 but fair play to John McMAnus for a game saving block.
Credit too to Donie for the late free. It probably looked a gimme but it was far from it. Have to say I enjoyed the whoops and hollering from Galway fans in close proximity as the ball was on its initial trajectory before it curled in.

Anyway great to get a second shot at it. A lot of stuff to work on and there is great scope for improvement. Galway can also say similar, like I can't understand why they didn't push up on our kick outs and force the longer ones where their strength was.
Still going to be a close call next Saturday but can't wait.

MOD

I haven't time to go through the posts at the minute - but everyone should have a basic grasp of what's permissible here irrespective of whether it's your county thread or not. As a starter calling out other posters as trolls in thread is a definete no no - that's why we have a "report post" function. We can't actively police every thread on here - take a step back and make life a little easier on everyone.

corny wrote: »

I couldn't believe how poor Roscommon were at running off the man in possession. Players passed the ball in front of the Galway defence and acted like their job was done. The man in possession, with no viable options inside to aim at and no players running off him just shovelled it along. I mean the likes of Dublin and Tyrone do it with real verve but even Longford and Clare looked infinitely more cohesive this weekend.

That and the baffling first half game plan....i think you're either poorly coached or the players aren't listening.[/QUOTe

rosscommon defiantly dont need to adopt a defensive game plan but the conditions didnt suite a running game today

Will Mayo getting drawn at home against Kildare in qualifiers throw a spanner in the works on castlebar option for next week. Castlebar wouldn't be big enough for a double header and only option would be to put mayo game back till Sunday or following week

Sunday at 3:30 in Castlebar confirmed