do you believe in the curse on the mayo football team

techno_radio · 09-08-2017 1:22am #1

personally not religious or superstitious but i do believe in the curse,

imo all the energy from people makes it real

Kristopherus · 09-08-2017 1:26am

Are you just in from the pub ???

Noveight · 09-08-2017 1:27am

Not cursed. At this stage losing in Croker in September is habitual to them.

techno_radio · 09-08-2017 1:30am

Noveight wrote: »

Not cursed. At this stage losing in Croker in September is habitual to them.

not this year, sam maguire i coming homr to mayo

The Golden Miller · 09-08-2017 1:35am

Don't believe in the curse, Mayo folk are just soft. No backbone to grind it out when push comes to shove. Bottlers. Benfica are their footballing equivalent

techno_radio · 09-08-2017 1:37am

The Golden Miller wrote: »

Don't believe in the curse, Mayo folk are just soft. No backbone to grind it out when push comes to shove. Bottlers. Benfica are their footballing equivalent

so basically your saying the-yr too nice :pac:

manual_man · 09-08-2017 1:40am

techno_radio wrote: »

personally not religious or superstitious but i do believe in the curse,

imo all the energy from people makes it real

The curse is very real

Stemming from an ancient curse initiated by the Healy-Rae's in the fairy forts of Kerry

mickdw · 09-08-2017 1:42am

I believe it will take a collapse of opponent in a final for mayo to make the break through.
I don't believe in curse but they have managed to lose finals in ever more inventive ways as they improved.

jimmycrackcorm · 09-08-2017 1:43am

Mayo win in Connaught as a dominant team. But it's Connaught.

For them to win is the same as expecting an Irish soccer team to win champions league

Mr. Incognito · 09-08-2017 1:47am

I didnt until the two freak own goals last year

kupus · 09-08-2017 1:47am

The Golden Miller wrote: »

Don't believe in the curse, Mayo folk are just soft. No backbone to grind it out when push comes to shove. Bottlers. Benfica are their footballing equivalent

Less of the old bottler sh1tetalk, if they were bottlers then 7 semifinals in a row is what?

Between freakish goals conceded in finals and balls that normally never bounce that friggen high to go over for a point ( i still remember the silence after that point meath scored to level the match, nobody could believe what happened in front of their eyes)
Another game that maurice fitzgerald was on fire for (one of the finest players ever in the history of gaa)

After all that, and yet here mayo are again in a semi.

But bottlers you say.

KungPao · 09-08-2017 1:52am

Up the Dubliners!

They are my favourite Gaelic sports team. They are the best at scoring top marks.

The Golden Miller · 09-08-2017 2:14am

kupus wrote: »

Less of the old bottler sh1tetalk, if they were bottlers then 7 semifinals in a row is what?

Between freakish goals conceded in finals and balls that normally never bounce that friggen high to go over for a point ( i still remember the silence after that point meath scored to level the match, nobody could believe what happened in front of their eyes)
Another game that maurice fitzgerald was on fire for (one of the finest players ever in the history of gaa)

After all that, and yet here mayo are again in a semi.

But bottlers you say.

Yes bottlers. Always nearly getting there but never having the stomach to see it out is exactly what bottling is. The more semi's and finals they get to without winning, the bigger the chokers they become. And Meath you say? Mayo could certainly take a leaf out of their book in terms of standing up when it counts and grinding it out (well the Meath teams of old, not the rubbish they churn out today)

endacl · 09-08-2017 2:17am

techno_radio wrote: »

personally not religious or superstitious but i do believe in the curse,

imo all the energy from people makes it real

What energy?

Describe the mechanism.

Junkyard Tom · 09-08-2017 2:21am

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techno_radio · 09-08-2017 2:39am

endacl wrote: »

What energy?

Describe the mechanism.

basically all the superstition is converted into kinetic energy, then thats converted into fm radio-waves, and the football becomes the fm receiver, so the football is like a radio and the curse is broadcast in fm waves

r93kaey5p2izun · 09-08-2017 3:19am

That must be one boring Dutch disco and some sh1t Special K.

I don't believe in any curse beyond the everyday casual references to "luck" or being "unlucky". Mayo sure have been unlucky. I wish they'd win so they could just get over it. I doubt any amount gloating in the event of a win would be as painful to listen to as the bitter moaning brought on by repeated defeat.

diomed · 09-08-2017 3:20am

Kerry have lost 22 finals;
Cork have lost 16 finals;
Galway have lost 13 finals;
Dublin have lost 13 finals.

Antrim, Carlow, Clare, Fermanagh, Loais, Leitrim, LOndon, Longford, Monaghan, New York, Sligo, Waterford, Westmeath,Wicklow have never won a GAA football final.

Kildare, Roscommon, Wexford are waiting longer than Mayo for another win.

Omackeral · 09-08-2017 3:39am

Simply put, if you believe in curses, karma, fortune tellers or any of that sh*te then you yourself are a bit simple.

tupenny · 09-08-2017 4:07am

jimmycrackcorm wrote: »

Mayo win in Connaught as a dominant team. But it's Connaught.

For them to win is the same as expecting an Irish soccer team to win champions league

Well they didn't even do that this year..
As for the curse, placebo effect maybe??

Hastentoadd · 09-08-2017 4:33am

i believe you go into a game with an attitude of you can't win then you wont win. I believe you go into an all ireland phase having being beaten every year, it plays on your brain. But you have a coach who tells you that is bollox! Now that is the guy you need. My home team had a great coach. We simply put everything on the line for him. We were just an ordinary team but we punched well enough for our weight. I hope Mayo take a lot of heart from what Connacht rugby did last year. It is very possible. You just go out there and kick ass and things will land as they will land.

the_syco · 09-08-2017 4:54am

No. They're just sh|t.

Hastentoadd · 09-08-2017 4:59am

the_syco wrote: »

No. They're just sh|t.

Dublin are just ****? I thought we were talking about Mayo

Dirty Dingus McGee · 09-08-2017 5:30am

The Golden Miller wrote: »

Don't believe in the curse, Mayo folk are just soft. No backbone to grind it out when push comes to shove. Bottlers. Benfica are their footballing equivalent

It's the exact opposite for Mayo.

Very few teams have as much heart as they have if they didn't they wouldn't keep on coming back year after year they wouldn't be getting to these finals and nobody would be accusing them of being bottlers.

They just happen to be unlucky that every single year they get to the final there is a team better than them in it.They're unlucky that when they have the best team they've ever had (this decade) Dublin also happen to have their best ever team who are just that bit better than them.

Hastentoadd · 09-08-2017 8:38am

Dirty Dingus McGee wrote: »

It's the exact opposite for Mayo.

Very few teams have as much heart as they have if they didn't they wouldn't keep on coming back year after year they wouldn't be getting to these finals and nobody would be accusing them of being bottlers.

They just happen to be unlucky that every single year they get to the final there is a team better than them in it.They're unlucky that when they have the best team they've ever had (this decade) Dublin also happen to have their best ever team who are just that bit better than them.

It is not unlucky. You get used to losing, its become doubly hard to win

Donal55 · 09-08-2017 8:42am

I love this time of year.
Mayo 4 Sam.

LOL.

Sebastian Dangerfield · 09-08-2017 8:46am

Its nonsense. Aidan O'Shea did a documentary for RTE and visited one of the surviving members of the 51 team in America. He said that not only was there no interruption of a funeral by the bus, there was no bus. All of the team travelled seperately in cars