Mayo GAA Discussion Thread

Do the Mayo fans feel Cian O'Neill's inclusion to the back room team has made a difference? i know for sure that fitness wise he was highly thought of in Tipperary and brought us on in leaps and bounds.

Blackjack

john mayo 10 wrote: »

Seamus o shea mite be a better option at center half forward.Mc Garrity isnt physical enough for midfield which is something A o Shea certainly offers

Yeah, I'd leave AOS where eye is, maybe put his brother up the front, it's one way of handling Dublin too, if the midfielders can do as they have been doing and lob high balls into the big lad (SOS) up front, could make all the difference. Not sure how good Seamus is in front of the posts but he certainly can catch it and if he's tasked to lay it off to the other forwards it might work. of course if he's able to score a point or 2, no harm either.

We don't have the capability to take points from way out, Dillon will be targeted to ensure he gets as little as possible, so they others will need to step up and one thing we don't appear to be able to do is shoot points from distance. Andy Moran and Alan Dillon are the only 2 forwards I've seen do that from our current batch.

Agree that McGarrity is not going to be the answer to our problems, the game has become a lot more physical and I just don't see him having the qualities we need right now. I'd look for someone new rather than go down that route.

JayReale

tipp_Gunner wrote: »

Do the Mayo fans feel Cian O'Neill's inclusion to the back room team has made a difference? i know for sure that fitness wise he was highly thought of in Tipperary and brought us on in leaps and bounds.

He certainly does seem to have made a difference Tipp_Gunner... Difficult to quantify exactly how much as they were going in the right direction last year. Fitness levels don't seem to be an issue.

JayReale

JayReale wrote: »

He certainly does seem to have made a difference Tipp_Gunner... Difficult to quantify exactly how much as they were going in the right direction last year. Fitness levels don't seem to be an issue.

Cian is a former Kildare and Moorefield footballer himself so i think his role with Mayo involves work with the football as much as anything id imagine

seligehgit

Blackjack wrote: »

Yeah, I'd leave AOS where eye is, maybe put his brother up the front, it's one way of handling Dublin too, if the midfielders can do as they have been doing and lob high balls into the big lad (SOS) up front, could make all the difference. Not sure how good Seamus is in front of the posts but he certainly can catch it and if he's tasked to lay it off to the other forwards it might work. of course if he's able to score a point or 2, no harm either.

We don't have the capability to take points from way out, Dillon will be targeted to ensure he gets as little as possible, so they others will need to step up and one thing we don't appear to be able to do is shoot points from distance. Andy Moran and Alan Dillon are the only 2 forwards I've seen do that from our current batch.

Agree that McGarrity is not going to be the answer to our problems, the game has become a lot more physical and I just don't see him having the qualities we need right now. I'd look for someone new rather than go down that route.

Totally agreed the other forwards are going to have up to the mark in terms of taking a point from a distance,very big concern.

Any truth in the rumors of Kieran McDonnell coming back? I assume not ?

Blackjack

Deleted User wrote: »

Any truth in the rumors of Kieran McDonnell coming back? I assume not ?

I'd say they're only rumours in fairness.

john mayo 10

i see thay the mayo minor match against meath is on the 26 august and the mayo senior match against dublin is on the 2 sept. that a rite fxxk up for supporters but done 2suit the dubs again

blackbelt

john mayo 10 wrote: »

i see thay the mayo minor match against meath is on the 26 august and the mayo senior match against dublin is on the 2 sept. that a rite fxxk up for supporters but done 2suit the dubs again

And pray tell me "How it is done to suit the Dubs again"?

Blackjack

john mayo 10 wrote: »

i see thay the mayo minor match against meath is on the 26 august and the mayo senior match against dublin is on the 2 sept. that a rite fxxk up for supporters but done 2suit the dubs again

Its actually how it rolled, because we beat Tipp, we effectively became "Munster champions" for the fixture list. Kerry became "Connaught champions" by virtue of beating Roscommon.

The fixtures wre decided in advance it was just how the winners of each province/ match up fell.

john mayo 10

blackbelt wrote: »

And pray tell me "How it is done to suit the Dubs again"?

both minor amd senior games that include dublin are on the same day and croke park on yer doorstep while mayo fans have to travel up to the capital twice n 8 days if they want to support mayo.im sure it could be changed if need be

prospect

john mayo 10 wrote: »

both minor amd senior games that include dublin are on the same day and croke park on yer doorstep while mayo fans have to travel up to the capital twice n 8 days if they want to support mayo.im sure it could be changed if need be

So then, it wasn't 'done to suit the Dubs', rather it wasn't 'undone to suit Mayo'.

Alaska1

john mayo 10 wrote: »

both minor amd senior games that include dublin are on the same day and croke park on yer doorstep while mayo fans have to travel up to the capital twice n 8 days if they want to support mayo.im sure it could be changed if need be

So putting the Mayo / Tipp Minor game last Saturday before the Mayo / Down Senior game in CROKE PARK while Dublin Minors played Monaghan in NEWRY on Sunday evening was to 'suit the Dubs also' ??

So you would like to ignore the fact that the draw for the minor games were set Munster /Connaught etc etc...

But don't let the facts get in the way of a good bit of bias there.

Fr Tod Umptious

seligehgit wrote: »

Totally agreed the other forwards are going to have up to the mark in terms of taking a point from a distance,very big concern.

At the half time analysis of the Down game on the TV Ciaran Whelan said that Sligo manager, Kevin Walsh, said that what Sligo did was try to prevent Mayo scoring early goals, beacuse Mayo go out and try to get early goals.

It certainly worked v Down but it will probably be much more difficult v Dublin.

I do not know that much about Dublin, but are they a team that Mayo can run at and get close to goal ?

If Mayo put enough pressure there it might free up Dillon further out to score points from distance.

But I may be totally off base.

blackbelt

john mayo 10 wrote: »

both minor amd senior games that include dublin are on the same day and croke park on yer doorstep while mayo fans have to travel up to the capital twice n 8 days if they want to support mayo.im sure it could be changed if need be

GAA Master Fixture List dictates when a team plays.If you have issues with travelling to support your team then don;t travel.We suited ourselves by winning the games we were fixed to play.Whatever way it fell for Mayo is up to yourselves.

SomethingElse

Deleted User wrote: »

Any truth in the rumors of Kieran McDonnell coming back? I assume not ?

If he doesn't get a call-up, the McDonald family are set to release a statement on the value of their precious boy, and how he's better than all the other boys on the team

Fr Tod Umptious

SomethingElse wrote: »

If he doesn't get a call-up, the McDonald family are set to release a statement on the value of their precious boy, and how he's better than all the other boys on the team

That McDonald talk is just crazy rumour that makes zero sense, and has zero credibility

Why bring in a guy in his 30s who has not featured for a few years when you have a bench full of forwards who should be chomping at the bit to go out and prove all of us who think they are not up to it wrong.

Two options

1. Keep Cillian O' Conor at half forward and put some combination of Doherty/Freeman/Varley/Conroy inside and hope they can step up.

2. Move Cillian o' Conor inside with some combiantion of Doherty/Freeman/Varley/Conroy and put Sheamus O' Shea at centre half forward. SOS can win ball there and feed it inside.

They cannot get it into their heads that they cannot win without Andy Moran, or else it becomes a self fulling prophesy and it also becomes and excuse if they loose.

Oh I can't wait !!!!

naughto

id have McDonnell on the bench no problem but id say its all ****1e talk

Fr Tod Umptious

naughto wrote: »

id have McDonnell on the bench no problem but id say its all ****1e talk

why ?

naughto

Fr Tod Umptious wrote: »

why ?

i cant see them bringing back some one whos is it 34/35 to the mayo setup.even if they do he would only be an inpact sub(last 20minsof the game)

Defiler Of The Coffin

Disappointed for the minors today. Thought we had them at half time but our 2nd half performance was poor. The Meath curse continues!

john mayo 10

jesus the ref was dire for the minor game got many decisions wrong including the penalty

Defiler Of The Coffin

john mayo 10 wrote: »

jesus the ref was dire for the minor game got many decisions wrong including the penalty

It's not the ref's fault only a single point was scored by Mayo in the 2nd half. Meath were rampant, very wasteful in the 2nd half, could have won by more

padd b1975

Defiler Of The Coffin wrote: »

It's not the ref's fault only a single point was scored by Mayo in the 2nd half. Meath were rampant, very wasteful in the 2nd half, could have won by more

Mayo scored four points in the second half.

john mayo 10

Defiler Of The Coffin wrote: »

It's not the ref's fault only a single point was scored by Mayo in the 2nd half. Meath were rampant, very wasteful in the 2nd half, could have won by more

i dont know what game u were watching .yes mayo had the game for the taking but when a ref seems hellbent on giving the other team every chance to win its not easy. colm o rourke on rte even said the ref was brutal and hes a feckin meath man

Defiler Of The Coffin

john mayo 10 wrote: »

Defiler Of The Coffin wrote: »

It's not the ref's fault only a single point was scored by Mayo in the 2nd half. Meath were rampant, very wasteful in the 2nd half, could have won by more

i dont know what game u were watching .yes mayo had the game for the taking but when a ref seems hellbent on giving the other team every chance to win its not easy. colm o rourke on rte even said the ref was brutal and hes a feckin meath man

Mayo were completely outplayed in the last 25 minutes, yes the ref was brutal but Meath fought hard and Mayo simply had no answer. To blame it entirely on the ref is farcical. Meath should never have had them chances in the first place.

ColeTrain

john mayo 10 wrote: »

i dont know what game u were watching .yes mayo had the game for the taking but when a ref seems hellbent on giving the other team every chance to win its not easy. colm o rourke on rte even said the ref was brutal and hes a feckin meath man

The ref was brutal and like in 2009 ( won't bring up '96), Meath have beaten us with some very dodgy decisions going their way.

Still though you have to look at that 2nd half, we were poor. There was a 28 minute period where we didn't score. If we had taken a few points in that spell then it's game over and even the referee couldn't have changed it.
It's all a learning process though at minor level.

Seans_Username

john mayo 10 wrote: »

i dont know what game u were watching .yes mayo had the game for the taking but when a ref seems hellbent on giving the other team every chance to win its not easy. colm o rourke on rte even said the ref was brutal and hes a feckin meath man

haha I was thinking that maybe I was being a bit biased when I thought the ref was against Mayo, but when Joe Brolly, Pat Spillane and Colm O'Rourke were calling the ref brutal it reassured me a wee bit

There's 2 ways of looking at that loss:
1) They didn't score for 25 minutes in the second half when they should have continued the scoring run they had.
2) The ref lost the game for them. I mean a foot block?! Are ya fúckin serious? He was no-where near him to call that a foot block. Then the push out on the sideline before the penalty. And the pick-up off the ground before the second goal. I don't like giving refs abuse cos they get enough of it and it's a tough job. But they were some very strange decisions to give, no matter how difficult a ref's job is, the calls in today's game were blatantly wrong.

And 2 goals in the space of 5 minutes, was it? Meath missed a lot of chances earlier on, I didn't think they'd create - let alone score - 2 goals in that space of time

Hammer Archer

ColeTrain wrote: »

The ref was brutal and like in 2009 ( won't bring up '96), Meath have beaten us with some very dodgy decisions going their way.

Christ almighty :rolleyes:

ColeTrain

Hammer Archer wrote: »

Christ almighty :rolleyes:

Zombie Jesus Monkey Balls :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

^That sentence is better than your reply.