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Mayo GAA Discussion Thread
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Seems Richie Feeney had stomach bug on Saturday which ruled him out of playing on Sunday. Not the 1st time we have had rumours of himself and James falling out and the last time it was rubbish also.
Cynic hat on for a minute here
I think his tweet is interesting though, Yop.
"Very disappointed on Sunday in many respects. Thanks for all well wishes and support. #bestfans Well done to minors on serious display."
That "many respects", suggests to me a possible annoyance at not seeing game time. Granted a 140 character non-verbal statement is always tough to analyse but combine that with some rumours of a falling out and it doesn't look good
Frustrating something like that would happen at such a crucial time
I hope to God if there's differences there, they patch them up because I think Richie could be a big player for us next term
I'm more annoyed at Freeman coming off and Higgins to corner back myself though
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Cynic hat on for a minute here
I think his tweet is interesting though, Yop.
"Very disappointed on Sunday in many respects. Thanks for all well wishes and support. #bestfans Well done to minors on serious display."
That "many respects", suggests to me a possible annoyance at not seeing game time. Granted a 140 character non-verbal statement is always tough to analyse but combine that with some rumours of a falling out and it doesn't look good
Frustrating something like that would happen at such a crucial time
I hope to God if there's differences there, they patch them up because I think Richie could be a big player for us next term
I'm more annoyed at Freeman coming off and Higgins to corner back myself though
From the horse mouth, so can understand that tweet
Freeman was also sick so that goes along way to explain that.
IF next year we can have a fully fit Moran, a fully fit O'Connor, Dillion gets that groin op sorted, McLoughs get a few months off to recharge, that Feeney isn't sick, that Clarke isn't injured (not starting that debate again).
IF all them balls line up again then we can make another final.
I do wonder now though if the "IFs" still won fix the problem and we have a serious mental block in senior finals! We are almost like Englands soccer team now at this stage.
Though the sickener about last Sunday was that even though all them "IFs" weren't fixed, that we had the best chance ever to win an AI title.0 -
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From the horse mouth, so can understand that tweet
Freeman was also sick so that goes along way to explain that.
IF next year we can have a fully fit Moran, a fully fit O'Connor, Dillion gets that groin op sorted, McLoughs get a few months off to recharge, that Feeney isn't sick, that Clarke isn't injured (not starting that debate again).
IF all them balls line up again then we can make another final.
I do wonder now though if the "IFs" still won fix the problem and we have a serious mental block in senior finals! We are almost like Englands soccer team now at this stage.
Though the sickener about last Sunday was that even though all them "IFs" weren't fixed, that we had the best chance ever to win an AI title.
Yeah, completely agree.
The worst part of all is I can see Dublin being even stronger next year. If Brogan and Nolan are back fully fit they'll be huge boosts to them and with surely another player or two coming through in the league, club championship, under 21 or whatever (Furman for Ballymun e.g.) they'll have even more talent at their disposal. I think Mannion will be a super player next season
This Dublin team was beatable on Sunday. I felt like guys like McCaffrey, Brennan and KK could be got at and they were for the most part. Thing is I can see none of these starting next year, unless they improve (their young, they have time!).
Anyhow that's for another day. But yes it was left behind us no question
For the sheer heck of it, hypothetically do ye think that performance would have beaten kerry on sunday?
I don't myself given the forwards they have yet I think we are a better team than them no question0 -
Oh I did not mean it like that. I meant it was another stroke of bad luck for him to be struck down the day before the game. He was one of our impact subs equivalent to Bastick for them (albeit in a different role).Ah ya but if he had zero energy from been sick then out in the heat of Croker on Sunday last was no where to be. Jeebus even for us in the stands it was hard to take the pressure!
Added to freeman being sick , O Connor , Clarke (whose experience was a loss IMO), Doherty and so on.
I believe we would have won if even only Freeman was 100%.
Ah feck I'm thinking about it again now and today had been going so well 0 -
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Oh I did not mean it like that. I meant it was another stroke of bad luck for him to be struck down the day before the game. He was one of our impact subs equivalent to Bastick for them (albeit in a different role).
Added to freeman being sick , O Connor , Clarke (whose experience was a loss IMO), Doherty and so on.
I believe we would have won if even only Freeman was 100%.
Ah feck I'm thinking about it again now and today had been going so well :(
LOL, same as. I think I need to be banned off the Mayo forum for a few months!
(I'm sure Rebel Girl is saying I'm trying hard!)
Losing to anyone is bad Gerry, just another to rack up0 -
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Oh I did not mean it like that. I meant it was another stroke of bad luck for him to be struck down the day before the game. He was one of our impact subs equivalent to Bastick for them (albeit in a different role).
Added to freeman being sick , O Connor , Clarke (whose experience was a loss IMO), Doherty and so on.
I believe we would have won if even only Freeman was 100%.
Ah feck I'm thinking about it again now and today had been going so well
I have it from a good source that Freeman didn't have flu at all. Did you see his reaction when he was taken off?0 -
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davegrohl48 wrote: »Clearly Kevin Keane/Shane McHale replacing an injured Tom Cunniffe is the correct call to leave Higgins in the forwards. Lucky for Mayo OGara was injured as OGara has a significant size advantage on Higgins. It was not a good matchup otherwise.
Was madness! Higgins was running riot centre forward and was even an ideal option to pick up Bastick when he came in.
If you start Kevin Keane corner back in the final the previous year, surely he's worth a run the next year?
Freeman was nonsensical. I've said it plenty of times and I've had lads say back "ah look he wasn't winning much"- bullsh1t. He was all over O'Carroll. Like last year I'd a good vantage point being in the canal end. Where last year the McGees mopped up possesion for fun, this year we found ourselves a good target man and threw in Conroy who's about 5"9 and kept playing in high ball? Don't blame the players. Clearly the tactic was lob in a decent bit of high ball like Cork did to good effect and let Freeman who's at least 6 foot cause havoc. Clearly him going off wasn't in the plan as they kept playing that high ball in
One of the most nonsensical subs I think I've ever seen 0 -
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Was madness! Higgins was running riot centre forward and was even an ideal option to pick up Bastick when he came in.
If you start Kevin Keane corner back in the final the previous year, surely he's worth a run the next year?
Freeman was nonsensical. I've said it plenty of times and I've had lads say back "ah look he wasn't winning much"- bullsh1t. He was all over O'Carroll. Like last year I'd a good vantage point being in the canal end. Where last year the McGees mopped up possesion for fun, this year we found ourselves a good target man and threw in Conroy who's about 5"9 and kept playing in high ball? Don't blame the players. Clearly the tactic was lob in a decent bit of high ball like Cork did to good effect and let Freeman who's at least 6 foot cause havoc. Clearly him going off wasn't in the plan as they kept playing that high ball in
One of the most nonsensical subs I think I've ever seen
So we can agree (whatever about Freeman's reaction) that Horan didn't want to take him off but felt he had to.0
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