Mayo GAA Discussion - Part 3

Doctors room ghost

km79 wrote: »

Sigh
Not going to even bother ^

Put him on your blocked list km along with the rest of us.you”ll think the place is empty soon.dont forget to tell everyone you have blocked him though. The mayo general without the army 😀

mayo.mick

Can any of ye riddle me this? How come Mayo v Galway Q/final tickets were €30/25 yet Galway v Sligo S/final tickets are only €25/20?

charlie14

mayo.mick wrote: »

Can any of ye riddle me this? How come Mayo v Galway Q/final tickets were €30/25 yet Galway v Sligo S/final tickets are only €25/20?

Probably like everything else.

It come down to the value of the product you are selling.

Mayo Club 51

Been confirmed the Limerick v Mayo Rd1 qualifier is on Saturday 9th June at 6pm in the Gaelic Grounds Limerick.

km79

Fekc them anyways

Mountjoy Mugger

Train booked from Heuston - at least I get back on Saturday night.

muddle84

Amprodude wrote: »

This year will probably be  the last adventure for this team.

So on that point, assuming you're not just saying it to piss people off, if we assumed that Boyle, Higgins, Vaughan, SOS, Andy Moran, Chris Barrett, David Clarke and Jason Doherty all were to retire at the end of 2018. Then do you think that the remaining Mayo team would end up in Division 4 after a few years and the Super 8's would be a distant dream?

Bunny Colvin

Mayo Club 51 wrote: »

Been confirmed the Limerick v Mayo Rd1 qualifier is on Saturday 9th June at 6pm in the Gaelic Grounds Limerick.

See you all in The Green Hills, plenty of time for a few beforehand.

charlie14

muddle84 wrote: »

So on that point, assuming you're not just saying it to piss people off, if we assumed that Boyle, Higgins, Vaughan, SOS, Andy Moran, Chris Barrett, David Clarke and Jason Doherty all were to retire at the end of 2018. Then do you think that the remaining Mayo team would end up in Division 4 after a few years and the Super 8's would be a distant dream?

In fairness when you look at the Mayo bench, replacing all of them without consequence would be a major problem in holding Div 1 status and making the Super 8`s

muddle84

Leeroy will be on the panel in limerick.

https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/sport/lee-keegan-set-for-mayo-return-but-tom-parsons-facing-second-operation-845678.html

miocicmma

mayo.mick wrote: »

Can any of ye riddle me this? How come Mayo v Galway Q/final tickets were €30/25 yet Galway v Sligo S/final tickets are only €25/20?

Roscommon vs Leitrim was also 20/25. Maybe Connacht GAA decided to price the non competitive semis a bit lower.
Roscommon destroyed Leitrim and you'd expect Galway to smash Sligo too. Its all lined up for the the best team in the province to face the champions in the final.

miocicmma

McStay determined to play the final on home ground.
https://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/roscommon-satisfied-hyde-safety-issues-can-be-addressed-for-connacht-final-36956155.html

wirelessdude01

The ticket pricing is not very transparent. You would hope that the county board would be raising that issue at some level.

SomethingElse

miocicmma wrote: »

Roscommon vs Leitrim was also 20/25. Maybe Connacht GAA decided to price the non competitive semis a bit lower.
Roscommon destroyed Leitrim and you'd expect Galway to smash Sligo too. Its all lined up for the the best team in the province to face the champions in the final.

Galway are the champions?

miocicmma

SomethingElse wrote: »

Galway are the champions?

Not exactly.

Coillte_Bhoy

wirelessdude01 wrote: »

The ticket pricing is not very transparent. You would hope that the county board would be raising that issue at some level.

What is not transparent exactly?

Amprodude

muddle84 wrote: »

So on that point, assuming you're not just saying it to piss people off, if we assumed that Boyle, Higgins, Vaughan, SOS, Andy Moran, Chris Barrett, David Clarke and Jason Doherty all were to retire at the end of 2018. Then do you think that the remaining Mayo team would end up in Division 4 after a few years and the Super 8's would be a distant dream?

Without trying to ruffle a few feathers. I'm saying it's Mayos last year to try and win the All Ireland as some of the older players will be retiring. Would you ageee?

Fr Tod Umptious

Amprodude wrote: »

Without trying to ruffle a few feathers. I'm saying it's Mayos last year to try and win the All Ireland as some of the older players will be retiring. Would you ageee?

Yes the core of the team that we have seen be as consistent has they have been since 2011 are getting older, but their retirement is far from imminent.

Parsons could be gone due to the injury.
Seamus O See may see less game time
Higgins the same

As for the rest of the older guys listed below, they still seem to be making a decent contribution, but we will see how this year pans out.
Boyle
Barrett
McLoughlin
Andy Moran
Vaughan

After that there is a lot of middle career and young guys

Aiden O Shea is about 28
Lee Keegan 28
Cillian about 27
Diarmuid about 24
Doherty about 28
Loftus 23 may be
Durkan the same
Harrison somewhere in his early 20s
Same with O'Donoughe

The above have oddles of experience and the kind of guys that you can use as a core to build the upcoming teams around.

My biggest concern is that midfield is definitely a place where the two guys look like they are in the twilight of their careers, every other area has a mix.

Stoner

Fr Tod Umptious wrote:

My biggest concern is that midfield is definitely a place where the two guys look like they are in the twilight of their careers, every other area has a mix.

Add to that only Parsons can comfortably contribute for a full game against decent teams, that's always been the case imo. AOS and SOS don't have the engine to maintain their high tempo game for the full duration.

Lads like the O'Connors will run all day, but a flagging midfield for the last 10-15 minutes has occurred too many times from a mayo point of view.

jr86

Keith Higgins and Donie Vaughan are the only two I could really see retiring at the end of this season as things stand

jr86

Fr Tod Umptious wrote: »

Yes the core of the team that we have seen be as consistent has they have been since 2011 are getting older, but their retirement is far from imminent.

Parsons could be gone due to the injury.
Seamus O See may see less game time
Higgins the same

As for the rest of the older guys listed below, they still seem to be making a decent contribution, but we will see how this year pans out.
Boyle
Barrett
McLoughlin
Andy Moran
Vaughan

After that there is a lot of middle career and young guys

Aiden O Shea is about 28
Lee Keegan 28
Cillian about 27
Diarmuid about 24
Doherty about 28
Loftus 23 may be
Durkan the same
Harrison somewhere in his early 20s
Same with O'Donoughe

The above have oddles of experience and the kind of guys that you can use as a core to build the upcoming teams around.

My biggest concern is that midfield is definitely a place where the two guys look like they are in the twilight of their careers, every other area has a mix.

Mcloughlin is the same age as Keegan and Doherty if I'm not mistaken

Hard to believe

statto25

jr86 wrote: »

Keith Higgins and Donie Vaughan are the only two I could really see retiring at the end of this season as things stand

Vaughan is only 29 so no hope of him retiring unless you know something we dont.

jr86

Assumed he was older fair enough

Green&Red

KMcL is 30

seligehgit

jr86 wrote: »

Keith Higgins and Donie Vaughan are the only two I could really see retiring at the end of this season as things stand

I doubt Donie Vaughan is contemplating retirement this year.

jr86

McLoughlin played minor in 2007 and under 21 in 2010 so is born in 1989 - can't be 30

muddle84

Amprodude wrote: »

muddle84 wrote: »

So on that point, assuming you're not just saying it to piss people off, if we assumed that Boyle, Higgins, Vaughan, SOS, Andy Moran, Chris Barrett, David Clarke and Jason Doherty all were to retire at the end of 2018. Then do you think that the remaining Mayo team would end up in Division 4 after a few years and the Super 8's would be a distant dream?

Without trying to ruffle a few feathers. I'm saying it's Mayos last year to try and win the All Ireland as some of the older players will be retiring. Would you ageee?

That's fair but I wouldn't agree. I honestly can't see any of the current panel retiring bar Higgins, and the only reason I could see him moving on would be to concentrate on hurling. If you look at Dublin, the likes of the players we have in the 30's were only retiring because they weren't able to sustain a place on the panel because some one younger is taking the place. EG Alan Brogan. But there is nobody coming through at that level(yet) that is going to take any of those players place so I just don't see this abrupt end to this team that you and many others too. The end is coming as with all things of course but i can't see how it would be anything but gradual and I don't think that starts this year or next year.

Fr Tod Umptious

While the age profile of the team we are used to is increasing the fact that there is still a stack of very good, very experienced 20 something year olds makes me think this notion of them one day falling off a cliff due to mass retirments is unfounded.

Stoner

muddle84 wrote:

That's fair but I wouldn't agree. I honestly can't see any of the current panel

I agree. I'd say they are all fine. Would be fine next year and the year after too bar 2 or 3

Maybe they could have a break this year though. Might suit to go out early and recover properly.
I understand that sounds off the wall, but it might allow a refocus and a fresh approach to next year

Because more than most other recent years there was a particularly bad start to this year imo. They started off limping.

Panrich

jr86 wrote: »

McLoughlin played minor in 2007 and under 21 in 2010 so is born in 1989 - can't be 30

That's correct.

Ages this year of some of the older lads as far as I can work out from their minor/u21 years

Clarke 35
Andy Moran 35
Higgins 33
Barry Moran 32
Boyle 32
Cafferkey 31
SOS 31
Vaughan 30
Parsons 30
McLoughlin 29
Doherty 29
Keegan 29
AOS 28