NFL Mayo vs Dublin

spider guardian

Should be a good match, both teams will be looking to keep their 100% progress, Dublin still look weakened by all the injuries they've picked up, whilst Mayo have Trevor Mortimer back from suspension, along with much the same team that defeated Galway and Tyrone.

I'll be shouting for Mayo tomorrow, go on the boys in red and green!

Spiritoftheseventies

Hope the other Mortimer gets the spelling right this time:)

Reillyman

Aww ya, jibes about Mortimers spelling are fine, but god forbid should we mention the ancient battle of 2006. He'res hoping ye bottle it again!:)

C'MONNN MAYO!

MementoMori

Last year's league match was an utterly woeful game, so it'll be interesting to see how this one goes.

blobbie

FT: Dublin 1-9 to 1-8 Mayo.

dcr22B

Reillyman wrote: »

He'res hoping ye bottle it again!:)

C'MONNN MAYO!

By the sounds of it, you bottled it by kicking 16/17 wides.

COME ON THE DUBS, six points from six!

Pride Fighter

Can I dream the dream.

Dubs for the league:)

ShamoBuc

My God!!! the dream for dubs is to win the league..... at least ye seem to be realising ye have no chance of winning Sam!!

dcr22B

ShamoBuck wrote: »

My God!!! the dream for dubs is to win the league..... at least ye seem to be realising ye have no chance of winning Sam!!

It's much more fun watching your lot bottle it every year once you come against Kerry in Croker

Seriously though, this squad is developing a winning mentality even without the so called star players like the two Brogans, Keaney (although Bernard and himself played a big part in the winning of today's game).

Bring on Moanagain next Saturday night in the Nell!

Reillyman

dcr22B wrote: »

It's much more fun watching your lot bottle it every year once you come against Kerry in Croker

Haha, it's a step further than ye've got in a long long time...

dcr22B wrote: »

Seriously though, this squad is developing a winning mentality...

Here we go again, same sh1te, different year. Ye think when ye win a few league games, maybe throw in beating Wicklow or Westmeath in the Championship, that ye're world beaters. :rolleyes:

Bluetonic

Just back from Castlebar.

Poor game. Mayo were absolutely woeful in the final fifth of the pitch. Their attempted shots and resulting wides were laughable. Lots of embarrassed Mayo folk in the crowd.

Dublin played again with 10+ behind the ball and defended well as per the last two games but offered little of nothing up front until Brogan can on again. A few excellent points by Dublin in the second half. Make no mistake though Dublin were poor enough. Thats two poor performances in a row and two wins though. Three in total. We'll take that.

Lovely new stand in Castlebar, must be one of the best in the country.

Pride Fighter

Screw the begrudgers. Dublin have always treated the league as a warm up as it was considered a jinx to win it, that one would peak too early. Tyrone and Kerry have won the league and Sam in the same year in the recent past. So it is a good thing the Dubs are winning matches and are now in with a great shout of making a league final. Winning any national title or even just making the final is a good achievement. Hopefully it can happen.

dcr22B

Reillyman wrote: »

Haha, it's a step further than ye've got in a long long time...



Here we go again, same sh1te, different year. Ye think when ye win a few league games, maybe throw in beating Wicklow or Westmeath in the Championship, that ye're world beaters. :rolleyes:

Where did I say we're world beaters, the last thing I'm going to do is take that kind of rubbish from someone from a county who rival us in the bottling stakes perhaps even worse, lest we forget it's 49 years since you even won Sam Maguire (by the way I remember 83 and 95 well).

We're on a rebuilding process in Dublin that won't herald Sam this year or maybe not even a few years but the Lord O'Mahony has had 4 years to rebuild the Mayo team from that shambles of a final in 2006 (makes the fact that we threw the semi final away to you guys all the more galling) and the same frailties remain, you must be the world leaders when it comes to kicking simple wides! Some of the misses today wouldn't have looked out of place in a Junior B game (wasn't there but some of the lads who did make it down were saying just that).

yop

Woeful game, possibly the worst display by a set of forwards I have seen.
18 wides is un-forgivable really.

Until Dublin brought the 2 lads on in the 2nd half there wouldn't be too much to be getting excited about, if Mayo could score and probably 9 of them 18 wides were easy chances then Dublin would have been on the end of a 7 or 8 point defeat.
So it was more of a case of a Mayo implode than a Dublin win.

CLuxtons cockiness near cost yous a goal and a point, he can definitely pick out a pass but kicking a ball across his goal mouth is on the verge.

Bluetonic

yop wrote: »

CLuxtons cockiness near cost yous a goal and a point, he can definitely pick out a pass but kicking a ball across his goal mouth is on the verge.

That was pretty poor alright, then the resulting attempted shot and resulting wide even worse.

Some comical moments indeed.

jj72

dcr22B wrote: »

, lest we forget it's 49 years since you even won Sam Maguire (by the way I remember 83 and 95 well).

..........i wish it WAS only 49 years...you might want to redo the maths.

popebenny16

Reillyman wrote: »

Haha, it's a step further than ye've got in a long long time...



Here we go again, same sh1te, different year. Ye think when ye win a few league games, maybe throw in beating Wicklow or Westmeath in the Championship, that ye're world beaters. :rolleyes:

dont know what else to call a team that won three out of three excpet a winning team. In fact its usual for me to be posting about how inconsistant dublin usually are in the spring and how it usually leads to a downfall in the summertime.

yop wrote: »

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CLuxtons cockiness near cost yous a goal and a point, he can definitely pick out a pass but kicking a ball across his goal mouth is on the verge.

he does that every so often, maybe he has got it out of his system

ManFromAtlantis

Bluetonic wrote: »

Lovely new stand in Castlebar, must be one of the best in the country.

+ one on that. resty of the ground is decent enough too. whats the total seated capacity (albeit concrete benches with good views) mut be near 40,000

Pride Fighter

ManFromAtlantis wrote: »

+ one on that. resty of the ground is decent enough too. whats the total seated capacity (albeit concrete benches with good views) mut be near 40,000

You're right, it is 40 or 41,000 according to Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McHale_Park

yop

It is a nice stand alright, great view from there but my God it would freeze the nads off you!!


How many of the "regular" team were playing there yesterday out of interest? That number 8 looks like a handful but a little immobile. (Bit like O'Shea who was poor enough yesterday)!

Anyone figure out why both teams found it hard to hold onto the ball?

keane2097

I think it's a mistake for Dublin fans to take the line"We didn't play too well but at least we're winning and we'll take that" tbh.

That's the type of attitude a Kerry or Tyrone can afford to have because they have a standard of game that they know they can achieve at the business end of the season without worrying too much about it early on.

If I were a Dublin supporter I'd be much more worried about the standard of performance than the end result of what are essentially meaningless league games.

dcr22B

jj72 wrote: »

dcr22B wrote: »

, lest we forget it's 49 years since you even won Sam Maguire (by the way I remember 83 and 95 well).

..........i wish it WAS only 49 years...you might want to redo the maths.

Apologies, 59 years!

MementoMori

popebenny16 wrote: »

he does that every so often, maybe he has got it out of his system

Or on Cluxton you could alternatively say that inspite of doing daft things like this before which has cost his team, he has failed to learn from the experience. I for one wouldn't be surprised to see him do something similar in a big game in Croke Park again.

I think pulling the 10+ payers deep and defending en mass won't be as effective a strategy come summer for Dublin, with better playing conditions and players fitter and more up to speed. Do Dublin have an alternative plan?

dcr22B

MementoMori wrote: »

Do Dublin have an alternative plan?

During Gilroy's interview yesterday, he said they are working on an attacking plan. Could be just his spin to the meeja.

Nobody ever doubted that we could put up big scores on our day, it was always the heavy concessions at the other end that murdered us.

spider guardian

Fair play to Dublin, they defended well and took their chances. A basic rule of gaelic football is that you should always have a capable goalkeeper and freetaker, Alan Freeman is a good player but he seemed to suffer from stage fright yesterday. David Clarke was quick to come off the line!

The statistics say it all, losing a game by 1 point after kicking 18 wides should inject a healthy dose of cynicism, the sooner Mortimer and Dillon are match-fit the better. Aidan O'Shea needs to regain his confidence fast!

I wouldn't rule out a Mayo v Dublin final!

MementoMori

dcr22B wrote: »

During Gilroy's interview yesterday, he said they are working on an attacking plan. Could be just his spin to the meeja.

Nobody ever doubted that we could put up big scores on our day, it was always the heavy concessions at the other end that murdered us.

Problem is you usually need to be able to do both to win an All-Ireland.
No use just coming up with one half of it.;)

dcr22B

MementoMori wrote: »

Problem is you usually need to be able to do both to win an All-Ireland.
No use just coming up with one half of it.;)

We know that but three things:

a) what month is it now? (2nd month of this squad's development)

b) when is the All Ireland final? (I don't remember the month September for obvious reasons)

c) where did any Dub in this thread state anything about winning an AI this year?

This team have been extremely lucky so far this year in that they have come up against a second string Kerry team who were lacklustre aside from Paul Galvin and Donaghy, a Derry team that waved the white flag with 10 minutes to go and a Mayo team that couldn't score in a brothel with a fist full of tenners!

Rome wasn't built in a day and I think any SERIOUS Dublin fan will tell you that there is a long, long way to go before we have anything resembling a squad that can challenge for the Holy Grail but I can see progress and for now, that is good enough for me.

spider guardian

Problem is you usually need to be able to do both to win an All-Ireland.
No use just coming up with one half of it.

We suffered at centre half-back for years. Now with the scoring deficit it's like going back 4 years in time! Even Kiltimagh suffered it a few weeks ago!