Mayo Senior Ladies Football team gone

rebel girl 15

Read a piece in yesterdays Irish Examiner in which Cora Staunton has slammed the decision of the Mayo County Board to withdraw the senior side from the Connacht and All Ireland championship. Now anyone who knows a little about ladies football will realize that this is a huge thing to happen to Mayo - a team that are in the top teams in Ireland!

I'm surprised that more hasn't been said about this - but if this had happened to a senior men's team there would have been uproar! Is there anyone that posts on here involved in Mayo and could shed a small bit of light as to why the delegates voted 26-5 in favour of taking the senior side out of the championship?

I'm very disappointed tbh, the Cork-Mayo semi final was a cracker last year, Cork managed to pull away late in the game, but up until then it was a great contest

joey54

That seems crazy! Any more reports as to why?

jj72

Is this true ?? Any links??

rebel girl 15

It was on Saturdays examiner, didn't see anything else about it

Cora Staunton slammed the decision

"It's a huge blow. We've been consistently in the top three or four teams in the country over the past few years. But look at the people making the decisions. The vote was 26-5 in favour of putting us out of the championship. Who are the people who are voting for this? Do they think Mayo ladies football is served best by dumping the senior team out like this?"

"Comments are thrown about troublemakers in the camp and that the older players are to blame. But what have the county board achieved? Look at our poor underage structure. The county board are happy competing in the B grade - that's not Mayo ladies football. The way they have behaved, we'll soon have a situation where no girl in the county will play for Mayo."


basically the manager resigned after the league, and many people thought it was because of troublemakers in the camp, but Staunton refutes that claim above.

martingore

here's a link from the mayo news

http://www.mayonews.ie/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9858:mayo-ladies-football-torn-apart&catid=14&Itemid=100008

rebel girl 15

thanks for that link martingore

comeraghs

bit of an over-reaction isn´t it!

could they not have gotten a new manager?

Player/Manager even ... surely Cora Staunton would be up for the job?

rebel girl 15

I'd love to see that - maybe someone like Denise Horan to come in to coach them or something. Flushing 4/5 months work down the drain for nothing is really disheartening for players

Spiritoftheseventies

So they are pulling the team due to a dispute between manager and players. Thats absolutely crazy.

rebel girl 15

The manager walked after the end of the league and many though it was because of the senior players causing trouble. Now the board have pulled them out, don't know the reason, presumably because they don't have a manager but their first game against Sligo is on June 19, which is plenty of time to appoint an interim manager to guide the team, but the board voted on pulling the team out instead

keane2097

Who was the manager? Had he friends on the CB? Someone who appointed him maybe?

Withdrawing a team from the AI because of player unrest with the manager is crazy.

rebel girl 15

keane2097 wrote: »

Who was the manager? Had he friends on the CB? Someone who appointed him maybe?

Withdrawing a team from the AI because of player unrest with the manager is crazy.

Pat Costello

Pat Costello resigned as manager of the senior team last month, ‘stating that his position was no longer tenable due to [being] constantly undermined by certain players within the panel’. Costello was asked to reconsider his position but said he would not be returning to the post.

Its ridiculous, but if my memory serves me correctly something similiar to this happened about 2/3 years ago to the same team, that there was a problem with players You have the likes of Staunton, I think the Heffernans are still around, Yvonne Byrne and Claire Egan who would be some of the older crowd. From a Cork perspective, it was always Mayo we wanted to beat, you want to beat whats considered the best and that came from the Cork camp as well!

Just a side note about Cora Staunton, I was at the semi final last year between Mayo and Cork, she got the ball close to the 20 out on the right hand side of the pitch, turned Rena Buckley and Ger O Flynn (both excellent defenders), before getting to the 13, still up by the sideline and slotting it over the bar with her right foot. I remember the development officer alongside me saying about if that happened in a mans game, the fella would be talked about for weeks! And that game really wasn't decided until the last five minutes, I think that was the only time in the whole game that I was nearly certain Cork were through to the All Ireland final

I'll miss them big time, to me, it would be like Tipp not being in the hurling championship, or Tyrone not being in the football