Mayo GAA Discussion - Part 3

Kalyke

I hope that Rochford and co. will ignore this mess. Its not of our making!!

djPSB

Fair play Kildare.

Zeek12

Kalyke wrote: »

I hope that Rochford and co. will ignore this mess. Its not of our making!!

Not so easy to just ignore it.

Pitch at Newbridge is much tighter than Croker. That makes a difference tactically.

Its surely interfering with his game preparation to some degree.

PARlance

Kalyke wrote: »

I hope that Rochford and co. will ignore this mess. Its not of our making!!

I can't see them getting too wrapped up in it tbh. It's a fairly serious distraction for Kildare, not ideal having your manager caught up in it.

ProudDUB

Mayo should do the decent thing & rock up to St Conleths on Saturday night. Really set the cat amongst the pigeons.

Euphoriasean

I understand from a player and supporters point of view that they want home advantage, every county would be the same(well bar us) but I don't understand all the praise for their county board for sticking to their guns.Are they not the ones that have put them in this position by not sorting out the ground? A Division one team with the 7th highest populated county and their ground only holds from 6-8k according to varying reports.

Its not ideal preparation for either team. The GAA seemed very quick to release tickets to give Kildare no other option. Turning into an absolute farce. Someone has to back down.

7 bells in Croker is a horrid time for travelling back. Had hoped it was Portlaoise myself, would have seriously cut the journey.

padd b1975

seligehgit wrote: »

Cian O Neill live on six one news.

No surrender!!

Some side is going to end up looking like complete eejits, that's all that was achieved by doing that interview.

squiredanaher

Fann Linn wrote: »

ChikiChiki wrote: »

Croke park is not longer appealing at this stage of the competition. Playing one of the best teams on the country in a provincial ground will create a super atmosphere. Hope Kildare stand firm here as its a pure money grab. Tullamore or Portlaoise preferable to a lifeless Croke Park atmosphere.

Newbridge is an absolute ****hole, one of the worst in the country, I wont deny that.

Newbridge or nowt according to Kildare GAA.
This stand off will probably be better than the match itself!

haha we'll have to send the u14's to newbridge just in case

Bunny Colvin

ProudDUB wrote: »

Mayo should do the decent thing & rock up to St Conleths on Saturday night. Really set the cat amongst the pigeons.

Ah, no. This mess has nothing to do with Mayo thankfully.

eagle eye

This has put Mayo in a very awkward situation not of their doing. If they turn up in Croke Park they will be the most hated team in the country.



If they turn up in Newbridge they could get thrown out of the Championship along with Kildare.



GAA needs to sort this out very quickly, it's completely their fault. They need to back down and let Kildare have their home tie. It's the only fair way I think. Regardless of what people think of their ground they earned a home tie with two away wins.



It makes a huge difference to Mayo to have this matter rectified quickly. As has been said it's a hell of a lot different playing in St. Conleth's to Croke Park, it's going to affect preparation.

C__MC

I’d suspect the compromise will be portloaise.

The Talking Bread

Maybe this "decision" is a masterstroke PR stunt by the GAA to liven up the Championship! Not a mention of the 3 relatively awful provincial finals on the thread all day !! Yet it is headline news on all the sports bulletins now!

It is better to be talked about, good, bad or indifferent than not talked about at all !!

km79

C__MC wrote: »

I’d suspect the compromise will be portloaise.

But Kildare could have avoided this whole mess if they chose Portlaoise in the first place !!!!!
Not sure why they would now compromise if they feel so strongly about it

eagle eye

Why would they compromise? They are entitled to a home tie. It doesn't say anywhere that the ground has to have a certain capacity or anything.

munsterlegend

C__MC wrote: »

I’d suspect the compromise will be portloaise.

I can't see how portlaoise is a compromise. It's still a neutral ground.

C__MC

munsterlegend wrote: »

I can't see how portlaoise is a compromise. It's still a neutral ground.

Kildare will back down- to much to lose here. Give it time. They’ll be happy with portlaoise

Bunny Colvin

eagle eye wrote: »

This has put Mayo in a very awkward situation not of their doing. If they turn up in Croke Park they will be the most hated team in the country.



If they turn up in Newbridge they could get thrown out of the Championship along with Kildare.



GAA needs to sort this out very quickly, it's completely their fault. They need to back down and let Kildare have their home tie. It's the only fair way I think. Regardless of what people think of their ground they earned a home tie with two away wins.



It makes a huge difference to Mayo to have this matter rectified quickly. As has been said it's a hell of a lot different playing in St. Conleth's to Croke Park, it's going to affect preparation.

I don't buy that at all. The matter has nothing to do with Mayo. We'll go to whatever venue the game is officially fixed for.

To suggest Mayo turn up at Newbridge is daft beyond belief. It ain't happening nor would anyone with half a clue entertain that for a second.

I have some sympathy for Kildare but let's not pretend they're completely innocent in all of this. For a county of their population and resources, why does their main ground hold only 8,500? Not to mention the fact that they have forfeited home advantage to Dublin in the past in favour of extra cash.

C__MC wrote: »

Kildare will back down- to much to lose here. Give it time. They’ll be happy with portlaoise

That could happen but having read Kildare's statement and watched Cian O Neill's interview on RTE, if they back down now then they'll look like the GAA's biggest patsy's of all time. Foolish stuff from them to get that militant.

franklyon

eagle eye wrote: »

This has put Mayo in a very awkward situation not of their doing. If they turn up in Croke Park they will be the most hated team in the country.

Why exactly? Nothing to do with us.

wirelessdude01

Didn't the CCCC fix the Kildare/Limerick 2012 qualifier game for Portlaoise? Don't remember too much of a fuss being made then. Health and safety/capacitywas given as the reason then.

eagle eye

If you turn up in Croke Park and they turn up in Newbridge who do you think the neutral sides with?

If you don't think the answer is Kildare then you are way wrong.

TommyDe

ProudDUB wrote:

Mayo should do the decent thing & rock up to St Conleths on Saturday night. Really set the cat amongst the pigeons.

And if mayo get thrown out of the competition along with kildare will the dubs do the decent thing and drop out of the all Ireland?

kildare are dead right to be doing this.

wirelessdude01

I'd imagine by now that Mayo will have 2 sets of logistics in place for Saturday to cover all eventualities.

franklyon

eagle eye wrote: »

If you turn up in Croke Park and they turn up in Newbridge who do you think the neutral sides with?

They wont side with anybody as its the GAAs fault and to a lesser extent the Kildare county board for having a stadium which makes my local parish one look like the Nou Camp in comparison.

Westernyelp

wirelessdude01 wrote: »

Didn't the CCCC fix the Kildare/Limerick 2012 qualifier game for Portlaoise? Don't remember too much of a fuss being made then. Health and safety/capacitywas given as the reason then.

you are talking complete scutter in fairness. we can have sympathy with Kildare but that's not our battle. why would we be hated for turning up for a match? give it a rest.

edit. Apologies that reply was for Eagle eyes nonsense

Bunny Colvin

eagle eye wrote: »

If you turn up in Croke Park and they turn up in Newbridge who do you think the neutral sides with?

If you don't think the answer is Kildare then you are way wrong.

Even if that was the case, why would Mayo care what the neutral thinks? It's the Mayo players going out there and making sacrifices to play for the county - why should they martyr themselves because of what Jimmy in Athlone thinks about Kildare being denied home advantage. Not our fight.

Mayo should stay absolutely quiet on this, prepare for Croke Park on Saturday and expect to face Kildare there at 7pm. If they don't show then that's fine, take the walkover and prepare for the next round. That's not ideal but it's not the end of the world either.

TommyDe

Bunny Colvin wrote:

That could happen but having read Kildare's statement and watched Cian O Neill's interview on RTE, if they back down now then they'll look like the GAA's biggest patsy's of all time. Foolish stuff from them to get that militant.

It creates a siege mentality that will only be beneficial to kildare.
2 weeks ago every kildare fan wanted cian O'Neil sacked and saying the team were useless.
Now they are all backing both the team and management.
Very shrewd from CON but he's seriously ramped up the pressure on his team in what will be his own last season with them.

On the flip side the kildare team will be well fired up for mayo and it will be one serious banana skin.

seligehgit

eagle eye wrote: »

If you turn up in Croke Park and they turn up in Newbridge who do you think the neutral sides with?

If you don't think the answer is Kildare then you are way wrong.

Lots of sympathy for Kildare's predicament but I don't think we're going to be unnecessarily maligned for an issue that isn't of our making if the squad turn up at the venue where the game has been officially fixed.

Lots more road for this story me thinks.

eagle eye

Yes it's not ideal because they'll get booed at every game from them on. Hard enough to play against an opposing team but when the fans boo you all through the match it's not nice and it's harder to perform.

Bunny Colvin

eagle eye wrote: »

Yes it's not ideal because they'll get booed at every game from them on. Hard enough to play against an opposing team but when the fans boo you all through the match it's not nice and it's harder to perform.

That won't happen. Mayo usually have the majority of the crowd in attendance at games anyway even if it did.

"Boo-urns, they were chanting boo-urns" - Stephen Rochford's half-time team talk

Westernyelp

eagle eye wrote: »

Yes it's not ideal because they'll get booed at every game from them on. Hard enough to play against an opposing team but when the fans boo you all through the match it's not nice and it's harder to perform.

Are all your other 28,000 posts as good as the last few? give it a rest.