Mayo GAA Discussion Thread

yop · 18-05-2013 10:40pm

what would the pitch be like in Salthill? Got a text there that there will be an early morning inspection but its unplayable currently! Hardly be the case would it?

Defiler Of The Coffin · 18-05-2013 10:46pm

yop wrote: »

what would the pitch be like in Salthill? Got a text there that there will be an early morning inspection but its unplayable currently! Hardly be the case would it?

Hard to know. It was constantly raining today though. Time will tell but sure they could always relocate to Tuam anyways, some memories in that place!

yop · 18-05-2013 10:50pm

Have to say its dumped an amazing amount of rain around here today, so its possible, I THINK that Pearse does have a problem with flooding.
Tuam! Will you stop, that place was nuts. When we knocked them out after their AI win it was hilarious!

Always_Running · 18-05-2013 10:52pm

yop wrote: »

what would the pitch be like in Salthill? Got a text there that there will be an early morning inspection but its unplayable currently! Hardly be the case would it?

It's one of the worst pitches in Connacht i'd say after all todays rain the game in is the balance.

naughto · 18-05-2013 10:55pm

id say they will be under pressure to have it on with it being on tv

MaroonAndGreen · 18-05-2013 11:49pm

Also heard that Kevin Keane may not be fit to start, and Tom Cunniffe will take his place if hes not!

Fowler87 · 19-05-2013 12:04am

Always_Running wrote: »

It's one of the worst pitches in Connacht i'd say after all todays rain the game in is the balance.

Jaysis I thought it was an unreal surface the last time I walked on it. Thought was a lot better than Castlebar but saying that, with all this rain it wont be great tomorrow especially for the Senior game

Hulk Hands · 19-05-2013 1:59am

Always_Running wrote: »

It's one of the worst pitches in Connacht i'd say after all todays rain the game in is the balance.

That's complete and utter nonsense. I've played on it in the depths of winter a couple of times and it has been perfect. It's a great pitch. The wind and traffic are the issues with Salthill

Syferus · 19-05-2013 4:50am

They really need to think about removing the Connacht junior final from the bill if the pitch is borderline because it'll be tore to shreds no matter how good a field it is by the time the senior game starts.

yop · 19-05-2013 10:43am

Syferus wrote: »

They really need to think about removing the Connacht junior final from the bill if the pitch is borderline because it'll be tore to shreds no matter how good a field it is by the time the senior game starts.

Have heard nothing this morning but still lot of floods

Blackjack · 19-05-2013 6:12pm

Well, have to be happy with that result. While its nice to put a good margin over the neighbours, It's a shame to see Galway having fallen from grace so much and no doubt they will return, but they do appear to be in dire straits right now.

Anyway, this day is Mayo's day and its good to see Dillon and Andy Moran back. Great to see Andy score a goal and that will to the world of good for his confidence. He was only on 10 minutes so its hard to say how he is otherwise. Vaughan had a good day today too, he's taken a lot of flak here and elsewhere, some of it deserved, but he is a quality player and is more than capable of creating and taking scores.

I'm not going to get too excited as the game was over as a contest at half time, but I'll enjoy the victory nonetheless!.

Maigh Eo Abú!.

km79 · 19-05-2013 6:22pm

Andy Moran was VERY emotional coming off the pitch. Great to see him back. Maigh Eo Abu

Syferus · 19-05-2013 6:32pm

Mighty to see Andy back, the emotion after he scored the goal was wonderful. One hell of a long road run just to be there today.

keane2097 · 19-05-2013 6:56pm

Terrific performance by Mayo, the forwards were just superb in terms of workrate.

seligehgit · 19-05-2013 9:53pm

Aidan O Shea was magnificent today.

Seans_Username · 19-05-2013 10:00pm

"The most over-celebrated 4th goal" - Andy Moran

tacofries · 19-05-2013 10:03pm

Well I was not expecting that! Absolutely delighted especially to see dillon and moran back. Moran got some cheer comin on..... have to disagree about aidan having a great game. He was decent but not at all as good as usual. The few times the ball went his way on the kickout he failed to catch it straight from the air.

Well done to the forwards. They stepped up to the mark today

yop · 19-05-2013 10:14pm

I didn't expect that. Were we unreal good or Galway unreal bad? All you can do is beat whats in front of you. Everything went for us on the day, delighted for Andy Moran but also for Varley, Carolan and Coen who played very well today. AOS was quite enough, did what he had to do. Thought McHale had a good game when he came on.
Lot of positives.
Maybe we should have buried them totally when we had such possession and extra numbers. But the goals "issue" is well and truly behind us.

Not mentioned here but whats the thoughts on Marty Duffy?

DDC1990 · 19-05-2013 10:22pm

Duffy was poor IMO.

Huge contrast between the control Deegan had on the Armagh Cavan game and Duffy's control.

Duffy threw cards around sometimes randomly. 2 Reds were straightforward, but he was very tough on Mayo.

Gave a few frees to Galway that clearly should have been Mayo frees.

km79 · 19-05-2013 10:38pm

Mayo got zero credit on the Sunday game for a thoroughly professional demolition of a team man including their newest recruit O Hara and Spillane tipped to beat them. Probably as well off but annoying nonetheless

Blackjack · 19-05-2013 10:40pm

DDC1990 wrote: »

Duffy was poor IMO.

Huge contrast between the control Deegan had on the Armagh Cavan game and Duffy's control.

Duffy threw cards around sometimes randomly. 2 Reds were straightforward, but he was very tough on Mayo.

Gave a few frees to Galway that clearly should have been Mayo frees.

I have to say I thought so too but figured it was my own bias skewed this a bit. To be fair, he's not a ref Mayo fans expect much from.

Blackjack · 19-05-2013 10:44pm

km79 wrote: »

Mayo got zero credit on the Sunday game for a thoroughly professional demolition of a team man including their newest recruit O Hara and Spillane tipped to beat them. Probably as well off but annoying nonetheless

It was odd to see Brolly being the only one today to give us credit. Fair play to the man. Must bode well for the summer.

yop · 19-05-2013 10:48pm

Wouldn't mind them dicks on the Sunday Game, they are watching Dunphy etc and trying to keep themselves in a job by trying to be controversial, they proved it today by 2 of them backing Galway.

Duffy was embarrassing, I thought it may have been me but he was so blatantly against it, not for the 1st time in a game he "officiated" at. In a closer game he would have cost us and could easily have sent off one of our lads by crazy yellows, the yellow to freeman for a pull, where he was blatantly been fouled was beyond ridiculous. If the ref who assess these has any brain they will kick this imp out of reffing games.
He lives on the Mayo/Sligo border and the guy must obviously have had a Mayo bird give him the flick, but he will go on to cost us.
Sorry if I sound like a ranting plum, but this must be the 3rd or 4th game where has shown blatant bias.

Great win though, so 2 fingers to you little leprechaun Duffy

Fowler87 · 19-05-2013 10:49pm

Blackjack wrote: »

It was odd to see Brolly being the only one today to give us credit. Fair play to the man. Must bode well for the summer.

Bunch of pigs apparently

Lol at the bitter texting in too saying Galway will win AI before Mayo. Maybe he could be right but twas :pac:

Fowler87 · 19-05-2013 10:54pm

Overall we were good today but intensity wise for most of the game, it wasn't a patch on what we witnessed even in the league which is disappointing for Connacht football. Great to see the goals flying in again, Andy's return and what a goal!. Nice cameo from Coen and Burke too. And tik a bow captain fantastic (for the day) Keith Higgins

Syferus · 19-05-2013 10:58pm

Clarke was your captain!

Fowler87 · 19-05-2013 11:04pm

Syferus wrote: »

Clarke was your captain!

Nope Higgins lead us today in the March and was announced earlier on in the week too. Sunday game forgot though

Syferus · 19-05-2013 11:16pm

Fowler87 wrote: »

Nope Higgins lead us today in the March and was announced earlier on in the week too. Sunday game forgot though

Gah. Well I should have expected that after Marty called Thomas Flynn 6'8'' about ten times.

Audioslaven · 19-05-2013 11:57pm

Cosmo Kramer wrote: »

One other thing I had forgotten about until WJ mentioned it on his blog...the Galway warm up session before the game. I couldn't believe what I was watching, 20 metre dashes and then random half arsed shooting at the posts.

Down the other end Mayo had split into two groups and were knocking lumps out of each other in warm up mini games. The Galway warm up was more like a Junior B effort.

The more I think about it, the more I wonder whether Mulholland has any chance of taking Galway forward. It's a tough one, because you can't just keep changing the manager, but there's a big difference between grouping a bunch of young lads together to win an Under 21 and the commitment and attention to detail needed to be a top manager at senior level these days. Kevin Walsh has his critics and they may have a point, but he would at least add a bit of steel and tactical nous to the natural ability that should start to show in the panel in the next few years. Mulholland seems far too traditional (nicer word for outdated) in his approach.

Agree 100% good post

Stoner · 20-05-2013 12:25am

Good win for Mayo, you guys should be happy to get zero credit for the win, Mayo was mentioned as a top five side a good bit on the panel, they are regarded as a top team now and they played as expected, the interesting/sad subject was how bad Galway were. We learned little about Mayo apart from the good news that there is a near full panel available.

With the fitness and numeric advantage alone Mayo would have won comfortably, never mind the better players, offering credit to Mayo would have almost been patronising IMHO.

Fowler87 · 20-05-2013 1:46am

keane2097 wrote: »

Terrific performance by Mayo, the forwards were just superb in terms of workrate.

That's bit harsh after winning away to our best rivals by 17 points:pac:

I do get what your saying though as overall, Mayo showed some good to very good build up play and decision making but there was a lot of sloppy unforced errors too that would be punished (and have already been in the league) by better teams. Other than sorting the problem of scoring goals, that performance was no better than any of our displays in the league but the opposition today especially from 1-9 were dire so it was an easy win in the end.

Fr Tod Umptious · 20-05-2013 11:29am

Delighted with yesterdays results and for the most part the display.

I though they would win by 5 or 6 but never imagined 17.

The display was good but there was still a good few wayward passes, particularly into the corners that were far too long for the intended target.

Pat Spillane was on about them not going for the jugular and scoring 10 gaols and 100 points like the likes of Kerry would do, but that is BS as usual from Pat, I have never seen Kerry run up the score v Clare or Waterford, everyone takes their foot off the pedal.

Good to see a wide spread of scores also, but then again you have to look at how poor Galway were.
Good to see some fringe guys get game time too near the end.

That being said I am no more excited about this teams chances for 2013 as I was before the game, the Connuaght Championship should be a case of going through the motions for a team that have eyes on an All Ireland, and yesterday was the first step in that.

GBXI · 20-05-2013 11:32am

Have to comment on the ref as well, and I'll keep doing it until the gob****es in the GAA remove him from inter-county games. I know Gaelic football is hard to ref and I have a lot of sympathy for refs in general but Duffy is an embarrassment to the game. He just has no appreciation of how the game should be played. I'd say the yellow card count was in double figures yesterday, and this in a game that barely had any intensity, never-mind a dirty game.

Defiler Of The Coffin · 20-05-2013 11:37am

Delighted for Mayo in that they really gelled as a team yesterday, they were disciplined and ruthless, something that was entirely missing before Horan took over. Hugely impressed with Boyle and Vaughan, both were pacey and seriously showed yesterday. Fair play to Cillian O'Connor for picking up man of the match but it could have easily gone to a few different players. Midfield was entirely dominant with McLoughlin hoovering up all the breaking ball around the middle. So much for the lack of firepower up front! I found it hard to believe that the pundits got it so wrong yesterday, what did O'Rourke and Spillane base their predictions of a Galway win on? Same old story with Mayo being under-rated.

Did anyone think that there were nearly more Mayo fans at the game yesterday than Galway? I was expecting a bigger turnout but I suppose it's early days in the championship yet. It does seem that Galway's fans have almost abandoned them though, I'd imagine there would have been a bigger turnout if it had been played in Tuam.

Fr Tod Umptious · 20-05-2013 11:53am

Defiler Of The Coffin wrote: »

Delighted for Mayo in that they really gelled as a team yesterday, they were disciplined and ruthless, something that was entirely missing before Horan took over. Hugely impressed with Boyle and Vaughan, both were pacey and seriously showed yesterday. Fair play to Cillian O'Connor for picking up man of the match but it could have easily gone to a few different players. Midfield was entirely dominant with McLoughlin hoovering up all the breaking ball around the middle. So much for the lack of firepower up front! I found it hard to believe that the pundits got it so wrong yesterday, what did O'Rourke and Spillane base their predictions of a Galway win on? Same old story with Mayo being under-rated.

Did anyone think that there were nearly more Mayo fans at the game yesterday than Galway? I was expecting a bigger turnout but I suppose it's early days in the championship yet. It does seem that Galway's fans have almost abandoned them though, I'd imagine there would have been a bigger turnout if it had been played in Tuam.

As you say this team has an edge to them not seen before in Mayo, did you notice COC go in for a bit of 'afters' on the keeper after the Vaughan goal ?.

I think it was the result of something had happened between them a few mins earlier, but that type of in your face 'disciplined' aggression is not something you would have seen from a young Mayo lad in the past.

Pappa Charlie · 20-05-2013 11:53am

Galway had a stand in full back on the day who wasn't up to the level and a couple of other defenders, more direct football out off defence would have eliminated a lot of the mistakes that led to the goals, galway were geared up to try and win midfield and mayo played short balls out to half backs time and time again and it worked every time and mulholland was too slow in stoping it. they are a young team and no leaders emerged when the heads dropped after going behind. This defeat will shake up the county board and management and in the long run will be the start of a new beginning, I recall a senior member of the 98 Galway team telling me that in the early 90's the abuse they got when they went to division 3 was shocking and if they had listened to the media and some supporters he would have walked away from football, they stuck with it and turned it around and it can be done again! Best of luck to mayo from here on! But all Ireland's aren't won in May!

yop · 20-05-2013 11:54am

Defiler Of The Coffin wrote: »

Did anyone think that there were nearly more Mayo fans at the game yesterday than Galway? I was expecting a bigger turnout but I suppose it's early days in the championship yet. It does seem that Galway's fans have almost abandoned them though, I'd imagine there would have been a bigger turnout if it had been played in Tuam.

V poor turnout from Gway fans. Then again some of the hype is still following us!

A lot of us got it miles wrong yesterday, though I read somewhere that Horan wanted to start the championship at a massive intensity and to continue it.

June 16th will tell us a lot.

Padkir · 20-05-2013 1:32pm

tacofries wrote: »

Well I was not expecting that! Absolutely delighted especially to see dillon and moran back. Moran got some cheer comin on..... have to disagree about aidan having a great game. He was decent but not at all as good as usual. The few times the ball went his way on the kickout he failed to catch it straight from the air.

Well done to the forwards. They stepped up to the mark today

To be fair to O'Shea, while he didn't catch many clean balls, you could see he was very obviously angling his breaks towards his own men. It was great to see. Too many midfielders go up to put a fist on it with no clue which direction it will break!

naughto · 20-05-2013 2:04pm

boyler should have got man of the match to day its easy to give it to a forward,but man galway where p1ss poor i was expecting us to beat them by a couple of points.iwas not expecting the game to be over at half time.
i would have prefered a tougher game to be honest as we learned nothing from the game(well be sides duffy be a sh1te ref)

good to see dillion and moran back i dont under stand the craic of naming a team and starting a different one.a lot of people knew dillion was going to start as he has being flying in training so to name coen in his place was daft.

will moran start against roscommon i would give him more time to get his fitness back and to have him come on as a sub.

MayoForSam · 20-05-2013 4:00pm

Missed the game yesterday as I was driving back down from Dublin after being in the US all last week, it sounded like a home game on the radio with the reaction of the Mayo fans every time Mayo scored and the radio nearly exploded when Andy Moran got his goal.

I spotted a good omen on Friday night as I was boarding my flight leaving Washington DC, out of the corner of my eye I saw an empty cardboard box with a very special code printed on the front:

mayo51.jpg?v=0rc-s

dvzzRDtDlPTTX06T4MDqtP1-dRo7jqCJGcpQYyJbTR8=w279-h207-p-no

Not sure what Sam has been doing over in the USA but he might just be on his way home this year.

Arriving back at home 4 miles outside Tuam yesterday evening, I was very tempted to hang out my Mayo flag out the front window of the house but I thought that might be really rubbing it in for the locals

mayo.mick · 20-05-2013 6:41pm

I have all the photos from the match yesterday between Galway & Mayo uploaded to my online album here; http://pix.ie/mayomick/album/466305

ColeTrain · 20-05-2013 10:11pm

What a win yesterday. Galway were poor but the Mayo lads deserve credit for being clinical and playing with an intensity that Galway couldn't handle. Even the pressure the forwards were putting on their backs was brilliant to see. I heard a lot of people saying our goals were from Galway mistakes, that's only partly true. Mayo were working their arses off all day. Even the forwards were chasing everything down. That kind of work-rate is invaluable. Apart from a ten minute spell in the second half, Galway were dominated all over the park by a team who looked like they wanted to make a statement of intent for the months ahead.
Huge credit to Horan and his team and from Clarke to O'Connor, all brilliant.

Also, it was great to see Andy back, what an ovation he got. Same for Dillion when he was going off.
Roscommon next but you have to enjoy the moment, not every day you beat your rivals by 17 points playing away from home. The future is bright, the future is green and red!

NabyLadistheman · 20-05-2013 10:48pm

Pappa Charlie wrote: »

Best of luck to mayo from here on! But all Ireland's aren't won in May!

They are certainly lost in May though

MaroonAndGreen · 21-05-2013 12:25am

Great result for Mayo, really unexpected that Galway would be so poor!

Tough for Mayo to keep this up for the whole summer though..

Syferus · 21-05-2013 12:43am

MaroonAndGreen wrote: »

Great result for Mayo, really unexpected that Galway would be so poor!

Tough for Mayo to keep this up for the whole summer though..

Just schedule June 16th in for an off day and you can have a nice tour of Ireland through the back door before eventual AI triumph in September :cool:

Pappa Charlie · 21-05-2013 1:15am

Suarezistheman wrote: »

They are certainly lost in May though

Actually not really as happened in 2001 for Galway when they won Sam McGuire via the back door, don't expect Sam but still in the championship maybe mayo and Galway could meet later in the competition!

ColeTrain · 21-05-2013 1:18am

Pappa Charlie wrote: »

Actually not really as happened in 2001 for Galway when they won Sam McGuire via the back door, don't expect Sam but still in the championship maybe mayo and Galway could meet later in the competition!

It will be at least a year.

aidan24326 · 21-05-2013 2:43am

Pappa Charlie wrote: »

Actually not really as happened in 2001 for Galway when they won Sam McGuire via the back door, don't expect Sam but still in the championship maybe mayo and Galway could meet later in the competition!

Ah now, is one hammering of Galway not enough?

Anyway well done Mayo it's a sweet one I'm sure when you hammer the old enemy by 17 points.

But it didn't tell us much about Mayo that we didn't already know. This was a shocking performance from Galway, and I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that we must be one of the worst teams in the country right now. Teams will want to draw us in the qualifiers. That's how bad it's gone.

I really hope Mayo can go all the way. Most Galway people (a few clowns excepted) will be behind ye. Horan has done a good job with this group of players and there's a lot to like about this Mayo team. The lack of a real marquee forward is still a bit of a concern. Is there a matchwinner there? That said, 4-16 is an impressive score no matter how bad Galway were.

For me this is the best Mayo team that I've seen and a team that has a chance to finally end the famine. I hope they do.

For our lads it's hard to see where we go from here. Carlow in the qualifiers would be a tricky one at this stage. I honestly wouldn't be confident of beating anyone bar maybe London.

Fr Tod Umptious · 21-05-2013 10:45am

Another point about Mayo performance on Sunday I liked was their ability to move the ball with pace, there was very little latteral had passing out of the backs and across the middle.

yop · 21-05-2013 11:49am

Well Prat Spillane said that the new trainer was going to make the difference to Mayo.

I see Trolley getting lambasted, rightly so, by the Armagh manager. I know he is only a Sh** stirrer but your man has threatened to boycott the RTE media.

Any word on the injuries of our lads?

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