Mayo GAA Discussion - Part 4

The high horse brigade

Euphoriasean wrote: »

Hit the right areas, he had a good game.

Yes, I thought he had a great game

franklyon

Green Peter wrote: »

Mayo to beat Dublin, supporters to go nuts. Tyrone to beat Kerry, Mayo supporters to go twices as nuts. Tyrone to beat Mayo with a last minute Goal after vaughon back passes from 40yards into his own net. Roll on 2020 and start again!

Galway thread must be quiet tonight eh?

Blackjack

I didn’t expect that result. Well deserved and for all the calls to say that Donegal threw it away in the second half with all the wides, the same could be said for our own performance in the first with the wides and poor shot decisions we made ourselves. I thought Paddy Durcan was excellent. We really have missed his presence.

To be fair I thought the ref had a good enough game, perhaps a bit inconsistent on some of the decisions but hard to argue with most of the calls.
The penalty was a penalty to be fair, at worst a 50:50 and the type of affair that does not get given most times. Murphy certainly made the most of it but Leeroy had a handful of the Jersey for the ref to see and Michael Murphy went down handy enough and won the call.

km79

Div 1 side at home to a team who played their football in div2 went as predicted by the few so

Let’s enjoy tonight
The pundits can spend the night wiping the egg of their face

raiders11

As a Donegal man, no excuses, the hungrier team won... Only one team wanted the breaking/dirty ball n it sure wasn't us.. Good luck to Mayo against whoever, sure is a roller-coaster supporting them..

Inspector Coptoor

Hennelly made one mistake all game.

He hit a shortish kickout straight to a Donegal player and donegal had an overlap for a goal chance which they fluffed.

Hennelly was slow from the tee a few times today. It was as if he didn’t want to take a short one for fear of being caught out.

That said, I’ll take him hitting it long to a a middle 8 who were hungrier for breaking ball.

Will be a different story next week.

Paddy Durcan was my man of the match.
Nullified Ryan McWho and scored 3 points from play.
A real captain’s performance from him.

padd b1975

franklyon wrote: »

Galway thread must be quiet tonight eh?

Been that way for some time now Frank.

Cartman78

Donegal brought knives to a gun fight.

They got the first couple of points handy enough and had no idea the intensity that Mayo were bringing.

Durcan, O'Shea and Moran were standouts but the whole team were up for it and it's hard to pick out a weak link.

Hennelly impressed me I have to say...made shyte of one kick out but crucially didn't lose the head after it. There seemed to be something approaching a kick out strategy...very few balls caught cleanly but we always seemed to have 2 or 3 men swarming around the breakdown.

The Doherty injury looked bad, he had a great game too so hopefully he makes a speedy recovery. Ruane looked decent when he came on.

My young fellas win rate is now 80% from 5 games and he's dead keen to go to Croke Park next weekend :-)

ethical

The hungrier team won.Murphy was a bit selfish at times and surprisingly wasteful.The same could be said of c.o c when he made a mess of a first half free when a quick ball would have troubled the Donegal goal.The ref was disgraceful I thought.Gough is the best ref in Ireland but tonight he half saw things and always seemed to punish Mayo.Donegal blatant ball off the ground in first half,unpunished.Mayo punished (and rightly so ) for same offence shortly after.The umpires were a joke,again a Mayo attack in the first period saw a Donegal player carry the ball over his own end line....under the nose of the umpire who never alerted the ref to it.I have no problem with a ref being bad for both teams but Gough was brutal tonight,the pressure got to him.Yes it prob was a penalty,no arguments there as he sided with the attacker but I would nt let him ref an u10 game tomorrow if this is what he did tonight.One linesman just seemed to point in the same direction all the time,away from the rain!!!!
Also the fcukin GAA hierarchy should be taken down a peg or two,none moreso than the continuity announce who welcomed both teams and their supporters to McH pk,as well as local and national media ......and a very special welcome to SLY!!!! ,the moans around where I was sitting were in awe of such carry on...and a few people said that there was definitely "an envelope " passed to someone for this sh1t.

PressRun

Really hope the Doherty injury isn't too bad, looked very rough though unfortunately. I think we will miss him badly next week.

Stoner

Cartman78 wrote:

They got the first couple of points handy enough and had no idea the intensity that Mayo were bringing.

You'd think after 2013 that they would be ready.

blueser

Cartman78 wrote: »

Donegal brought knives to a gun fight.

They got the first couple of points handy enough and had no idea the intensity that Mayo were bringing.

Durcan, O'Shea and Moran were standouts but the whole team were up for it and it's hard to pick out a weak link.

Hennelly impressed me I have to say...made shyte of one kick out but crucially didn't lose the head after it. There seemed to be something approaching a kick out strategy...very few balls caught cleanly but we always seemed to have 2 or 3 men swarming around the breakdown.

The Doherty injury looked bad, he had a great game too so hopefully he makes a speedy recovery. Ruane looked decent when he came on.

My young fellas win rate is now 80% from 5 games and he's dead keen to go to Croke Park next weekend :-)

Someone's been watching The Untouchables lately!

Stoner

I thought No 10 McDonagh had a good game, fast and a nice jink, didn't feed Moran for a tap in goal at the end, but ran past lads numerous times

PARlance

Boyles tackle/dispossession right after Cillian's goal was the key point in the match imo. Still not sure how he won the ball.

rainybillwill

PARlance wrote: »

Boyles tackle/dispossession right after Cillian's goal was the key point in the match imo. Still not sure how he won the ball.

Maybe the rumours of drug use in his youth is true?

rainybillwill

franklyon wrote: »

Galway thread must be quiet tonight eh?

Ya but after the races are over id say people will have some free time to post

rainybillwill

happyoutscan wrote: »

Gough was rubbish.

Brolly says he is the best ref out there so what did you expect

PressRun

Stoner wrote: »

I thought No 10 McDonagh had a good game, fast and a nice jink, didn't feed Moran for a tap in goal at the end, but ran past lads numerous times

He was immense in the tackle I thought. As was Aidan O'Shea.

Loafing Oaf

Couldn't understand Donegal's 'shoot on sight' policy in the second half. Maurice Fitzgerald in his prime wouldn't have taken on some of those shots. I know they have a few young lads up front but Murphy was maybe the worst culprit. Had our defence closed off their options so well they had to try the hail mary shots?

statto25

Stoner wrote: »

I thought No 10 McDonagh had a good game, fast and a nice jink, didn't feed Moran for a tap in goal at the end, but ran past lads numerous times

Thought his end product was poor personally. His pace and movement is class but his shooting was wayward today

Euphoriasean

Loafing Oaf wrote: »

Couldn't understand Donegal's 'shoot on sight' policy in the second half. Maurice Fitzgerald in his prime wouldn't have taken on some of those shots. I know they have a few young lads up front but Murphy was maybe the worst culprit. Had our defence closed off their options so well they had to try the hail mary shots?

On a dry summers eve they have the players to do it but with conditions as they were tonight they completely loss the head. Being behind in a knockout game makes you do strange things. The hunger tonight from our lads was unreal.

Ch1co

Folks, is there any way to watch the full match on TV or sky do a repeat? Wasn't able to record it today.

Lisbon67

Robbie Hennelly 👑👑
That is all.

cute geoge

T

Cartman78

Loafing Oaf wrote: »

Couldn't understand Donegal's 'shoot on sight' policy in the second half. Maurice Fitzgerald in his prime wouldn't have taken on some of those shots. I know they have a few young lads up front but Murphy was maybe the worst culprit. Had our defence closed off their options so well they had to try the hail mary shots?

Just watched the match back there...some of the misses were deffo due to pressure from Mayo but there was a lot of absolute shockers to be honest.

Commentators said as well that they might not have realised that there was so much injury time so might explain why they snatched at a few half chances.

seligehgit

Minors will play Cork at 15.00 before the main event.

finisklin

Thought there was a real atmosphere at the game, the mayo support did give it a fortress feel which helped us.

Donegal certainly felt they were in a cauldron with Mayo sparing no quarter.

The roscommon game didn't have a patch on that atmosphere.

Hogan was more decisive making changes, Andy for Coen etc.

Hate to admit it, Hennelly and his kick out is right fit for this stage of competition. The two o'shea made it easier than previous games, making themselves target men.

Patton had a couple of clangers, pressure got to him so he is human.

The spread of scorers was a +ive. Good tally across the board which gives a platform for next week. We had several goal chances that went a begging. Fionn's lung busting run at the end was some thing else, Fergal B would jave fisted it over bar. Credit though for finding the energy to motor like that in dying embers

Can't help thinking that the Dubs or Tyrone could try to go out tomorrow to lose in order to avoid us.

Who knows?

Roll on Saturday.

PressRun

statto25 wrote: »

Thought his end product was poor personally. His pace and movement is class but his shooting was wayward today

Shooting was poor, for sure. But he's such a great tackler and loads of pace. And the next day we'll more than likely be missing Jason, so we need a big, strong tackler in that half forward line

yop

Great win. Great crowd. Great atmosphere. Just great.

Brolly must be choking in knockmore.

God knows what will happen next Saturday night.

Euphoriasean

finisklin wrote: »

Thought there was a real atmosphere at the game, the mayo support did give it a fortress feel which helped us.

Donegal certainly felt they were in a cauldron with Mayo sparing no quarter.

The roscommon game didn't have a patch on that atmosphere.

Hogan was more decisive making changes, Andy for Coen etc.

Hate to admit it, Hennelly and his kick out is right fit for this stage of competition. The two o'shea made it easier than previous games, making themselves target men.

Patton had a couple of clangers, pressure got to him so he is human.

The spread of scorers was a +ive. Good tally across the board which gives a platform for next week. We had several goal chances that went a begging. Fionn's lung busting run at the end was some thing else, Fergal B would jave fisted it over bar. Credit though for finding the energy to motor like that in dying embers

Can't help thinking that the Dubs or Tyrone could try to go out tomorrow to lose in order to avoid us.

Who knows?

Roll on Saturday.

That Dublin team,fear no one. Hope we can put it up to them. On form Dublin should stream roll us but as we've seen before this Mayo team alway seem to have a kick in them. If it's Tyrone it's a 50/50.Either way we are yet again in a semi with some super young players to carry some of the burden of the the aging stalwarts.