Mayo GAA Discussion - Part 4

spurscormac

MayoAreMagic wrote: »

Why wouldnt they?
I wouldnt call it whining tbh. I know of people who didnt get home until 3 in the morning from last weekends match. If we had woken up to news of fatalities in a traffic accident in the small hours, the people who were giving mayo fans both barrells would have been very silent. It was idiotic then and it is idiotic again this weekend.

100% agree with this.
Travelled from Galway, only got home at 1:30am and that was motorway all the way. Some of our party had to then jump in a car and travel back to Mayo, home around ~2am or a bit after.

Utter madness to be making anyone do that unnecessarily.

They said it was to facilitate Down people who wanted to attend the hurling, yet there was no such consideration given to Leitrim who also played a footbal and hurling game on the same day.

Coillte_Bhoy

spurscormac wrote: »

100% agree with this.
Travelled from Galway, only got home at 1:30am and that was motorway all the way. Some of our party had to then jump in a car and travel back to Mayo, home around ~2am or a bit after.

Utter madness to be making anyone do that unnecessarily.

They said it was to facilitate Down people who wanted to attend the hurling, yet there was no such consideration given to Leitrim who also played a footbal and hurling game on the same day.

There was also the issue of the PSNI wanting a later start time

flasher0030

Audioslaven wrote: »

Only for two stupid mistakes against Roscommon, we would have won. We would have most likely taken Galway. We would have been in the super eights and the doom and gloom would not be so high.

We have fixed the first mistake with Clarke and Higgins is still an issue, but the real bigger problem is that confidence is now low and this makes us vulnerable all over the pitch in these qualifiers.

I do think we will improve once we get to CP, so we just need to get through these next two games in whatever manner.

Also, we cannot give Geezer a bigger head than he already has.

2 years ago, Higgins was having a bit of a stinker in the league and early championship. But when it came to squeaky bum time in the championship, he was able to produce the goods, and ended up with an All-Star in his pocket. If Mayo progress on and hopefully don't get caught on the hop in the next 2 games, I wouldn't worry about him.

Hope that optimism doesn't come back to bite me in the a$$.

cossy09

spurscormac wrote: »

First come first served in the stand.
Be warned though, Mayo fans have been arriving earlier and earlier to games, lots waiting on the gates to open.
If you want a decent seat in the stand, I reckon you'll need to be there at least an hour ahead of throw-in.

Thanks for that feedback and responding. Much appreciated

cossy

blowitupref

Audioslaven wrote: »

Only for two stupid mistakes against Roscommon, we would have won. We would have most likely taken Galway. We would have been in the super eights and the doom and gloom would not be so high.

We have fixed the first mistake with Clarke and Higgins is still an issue, but the real bigger problem is that confidence is now low and this makes us vulnerable all over the pitch in these qualifiers.

I do think we will improve once we get to CP, so we just need to get through these next two games in whatever manner.

Also, we cannot give Geezer a bigger head than he already has.

Mistakes has a big habit of repeating themselves with Mayo teams down the years though, for example how many AI finals have Mayo lost now due mainly to errors on or off the field? For now its probably for the best to say "if" Mayo get to CP.

Audioslaven

blowitupref wrote: »

Mistakes has a big habit of repeating themselves with Mayo teams down the years though, for example how many AI finals have Mayo lost now due mainly to errors on or off the field? For now its probably for the best to say "if" Mayo get to CP.

Finals have been lost on mistakes but outside of that we have been on the ball the last few years with the exception of last year.
So on most day we are better than any team in the qualifiers and defeated provisional losers so I think we should progress all things been equal.

seligehgit

flasher0030 wrote: »

2 years ago, Higgins was having a bit of a stinker in the league and early championship. But when it came to squeaky bum time in the championship, he was able to produce the goods, and ended up with an All-Star in his pocket. If Mayo progress on and hopefully don't get caught on the hop in the next 2 games, I wouldn't worry about him.

Hope that optimism doesn't come back to bite me in the a$$.

Agreed Zippy oft times has indifferent performances in the league and early championship but has rarely been found wanting at the business end of the championship.

I thought Diarmuid seemed quite tired and leggy on Saturday night.TBF to all and sundry it was quite a warm evening.

Cian Hanley has been struggling with injury for quite a while.

muddle84

seligehgit wrote: »

flasher0030 wrote: »

2 years ago, Higgins was having a bit of a stinker in the league and early championship. But when it came to squeaky bum time in the championship, he was able to produce the goods, and ended up with an All-Star in his pocket. If Mayo progress on and hopefully don't get caught on the hop in the next 2 games, I wouldn't worry about him.

Hope that optimism doesn't come back to bite me in the a$.

Agreed Zippy oft times has indifferent performances in the league and early championship but has rarely been found wanting at the business end of the championship.

I thought Diarmuid seemed quite tired and leggy on Saturday night.TBF to all and sundry it was quite a warm evening.

Cian Hanley has been struggling with injury for quite a while.

Cian Hanley had left the panel entirely and is going to the US for the summer along Shairoze and Adam Gallagher

https://twitter.com/RefComeOn/status/1143494875754762241?s=09

charlie14

seligehgit wrote: »

Armagh away.

Tough one.

You have them at home. How much that helps I do not know. At times ye seem to play better away than in Castlebar.
Themselves and Tyrone were the two too avoid, but ye might have been better with Tyrone in that the are, unlike Armagh a known quantity.
Armagh look to be a dangerous outfit, especially up front. Young Rian O`Neill is top scorer in Ulster faik and Stefan Cambell is a strong dangerous forward. To add to that Jamie Clarke is one of those players that on his day can win a game on his own.
This one could be a real banana skin folks.

jr86

charlie14 wrote: »

You have them at home. How much that helps I do not know. At times ye seem to play better away than in Castlebar.
Themselves and Tyrone were the two too avoid, but ye might have been better with Tyrone in that the are, unlike Armagh a known quantity.
Armagh look to be a dangerous outfit, especially up front. Young Rian O`Neill is top scorer in Ulster faik and Stefan Cambell is a strong dangerous forward. To add to that Jamie Clarke is one of those players that on his day can win a game on his own.
This one could be a real banana skin folks.

They've a very stellar back door record too in recent years

km79

Potentially some very very bad news if true
From the same person that told me about the Ruane injury
Diarmuid has broken his wrist

km79

Oh crap

http://twitter.com/RefComeOn/status/1143788823748517888

jr86

Murray into midfield? Big game for him

km79

It’s very hard for us to compete when all our midfielders keep getting injured
It’s limits bench options as well
I’ve a bad bad feeling about this now

km79

http://twitter.com/RefComeOn/status/1143792746702016517

RedDevil55

km79 wrote: »

http://twitter.com/RefComeOn/status/1143792746702016517

That's a disaster

Loafing Oaf

Was there a separate curse put on our midfield at some stage?

We'll be asking Armagh to lend us back Billy Joe Padden at this rate...

PressRun

Raises serious questions about the nature of the training going on.

km79

PressRun wrote: »

Raises serious questions about the nature of the training going on.

Wait a minute
Didn’t Horan say they wouldn’t be training till Weds night?
It must have happened Saturday so

Unless he was fibbing ……..and if he was then who is to say when COC and Vaughan will be back

PressRun

km79 wrote: »

Wait a minute
Didn’t Horan say they wouldn’t be training till Weds night?
It must have happened Saturday so

Unless he was fibbing ……..and if he was then who is to say when COC and Vaughan will be back

Horan said Cillian was returning to the squad a month ago and it didn't happen. There's been a general lack of transparency around what's been going on. That's his prerogative btw, he's the manager and he can manage the media and such like however he sees fit, but I wouldn't be taking anything he says at face value.

padd b1975

Disaster.

What's the recovery time for such an injury, best case scenario?

PressRun

padd b1975 wrote: »

Disaster.

What's the recovery time for such an injury, best case scenario?

Out for the season apparently

km79

http://twitter.com/mayonewssport/status/1143812768241455105

Coillte_Bhoy

[QUOTE=PressRun;110532499]Horan said Cillian was returning to the squad a month ago and it didn't happen. There's been a general lack of transparency around what's been going on. That's his prerogative btw, he's the manager and he can manage the media and such like however he sees fit, but I wouldn't be taking anything he says at face value.[/QUOTE]

He did return to the squad and training afaik, didnt he play n a challenge game a few weeks ago.

yop

Luck isn't on our side is it.

Fr Tod Umptious

km79 wrote: »

Wait a minute
Didn’t Horan say they wouldn’t be training till Weds night?
It must have happened Saturday so

Unless he was fibbing ……..and if he was then who is to say when COC and Vaughan will be back

Anyone listen to the podcast ?

Did you hear Horan's reply to Nathan Murphy's question about rumors of a falling out ?

He did not sound that convincing in ruling out any rumors.

km79

Fr Tod Umptious wrote: »

Anyone listen to the podcast ?

Did you hear Horan's reply to Nathan Murphy's question about rumors of a falling out ?

He did not sound that convincing in ruling out any rumors.

That’s what I said at the time too

Noccy_Mondy

km79 wrote: »

Wait a minute
Didn’t Horan say they wouldn’t be training till Weds night?
It must have happened Saturday so

Unless he was fibbing ……..and if he was then who is to say when COC and Vaughan will be back

They were training in the Centre of Excellence last night.

km79

Fr Tod Umptious wrote: »

Anyone listen to the podcast ?

Did you hear Horan's reply to Nathan Murphy's question about rumors of a falling out ?

He did not sound that convincing in ruling out any rumors.

That’s what I said at the time too

km79

Noccy_Mondy wrote: »

They were training in the Centre of Excellence last night.

We know that now
But that’s not what Horan said Saturday
As is his perogative
But I don’t believe him about Cillian
Listen to it and make our own mind up