Mayo GAA Discussion

PARlance

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121242469#Comment_121242469

This conversation, or something like it, comes up nearly ever year in fairness. Very rarely do the top scorers in club football shine similarly at inter County level.

Maybe we're doing something wrong in developing these players but maybe it's just a case that club football is where they excel.

I do think we are missing a trick somewhere along the line though. My memory of Regan for Mayo isn't great but the two things that jump out were ball winning ability and decision making.

You could argue that 1-on-1 ball winning isn't needed as much as it was given that ball retention is more like basketball these days. On the other hand, decision making has gotten more important.

Maybe he could do a job at CB...

flasher0030

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121244682#Comment_121244682

I completely agree with your point on decision making. And its importance. But maybe in Evan Regan's case, that has improved. As players get older, most of them do get that little bit wiser with experience, and are that bit more calm on the ball. I havent seem him play in years. Just a couple of clips on youtube from the club match highlights. He also seems like he can take distance shots with what seems to be a good conversion rate.

I can't believe he is only 30. If asked, I would have him mid-30s and past intercounty. I don't mean those comments in any negative way as to his playing ability. I just mean that it seems he was around the scene ages ago. Also, is he still part of the back-room team. He was team nutritionist. If he was to throw on t he green and red jersey again, it would be fairly unique I'd say to have someone play for a county team, finish playing and join the back-room team, and then subsequently play again. But I'd be all for him to get another few chances if he's up for it himself. With Cillian on a downward slope, Kevin Mc gone and we don't know Tommy C will ever make a proper recovery from that injury, we are not overly blessed with score getters.

MacDanger

Was at the match in Crossmolina yesterday, it was a very hard watch, as boring a game as you'll ever see.

Ballina were deserved winners though, they dominated for long periods around the middle. Even at that, we probably had more scoring chances in the 1st half and should have been more than a point up at HT. Ballina started the 2nd half very well and again dominated the middle for the first ~20 mins. We still managed to get back level by ~ 55mins and it was all to play for but Ballina managed to stay ahead and won handy enough in the end.

Ballina back into another final and they'll be favourites for that. Breaffy wouldn't be massively worried by what they saw yesterday though.

For anyone looking for potential Mayo players, there weren't many really standing out - Timlin played v well at FB and is worth a look for the county IMO while D McHale was probably the best forward on show (although that's not saying a huge amount); Thornton & Feeny best for Ballina I thought. Conor McStay came into it more in the last 10 mins when we were chasing the game and the space opened up a bit. Regan is a v good club players but not at the level required for county considering his age.

Was at the ladies final in Bekan on Saturday, this was a much more entertaining game and we were delighted to win a 2nd title in 3 years. We dominated the 1st half (despite what seemed like a very harsh sinbinning) and went in 9 up but fair play to Westport, they really put it up to us in the 2nd half and made us work all the way to the end to win by 2. We put some bad wides in the 2nd half and if we're to do anything in Connacht, we'd need to improve there.

HBC08

Going off memory here so open to correction but Evan Regan wasn't dropped from the panel,he officially retired and then joined the backroom team as a nutritionist.

He was very unlucky with injuries when playing for Mayo and it just never really happened for him.He wasn't afraid to shoot low % shots and often missed.Maybe that bit less time and space between club and intercounty standard was the difference.

Squatman

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121242469#Comment_121242469

definitely not. fool me once. that would be a major step in the wrong direction

PARlance

Kevin McLoughlin has joined the Sligo coaching set-up as a forward coach apparently. Only going from the Ah Ref podcast.

Will he take a few Knockmore forwards with him? 😬

ShamoBuc

Feedback thread for those interested.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058319439/feedback-thread-2023-new-gaa-mods#latest

flasher0030

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121253888#Comment_121253888

What do you mean by "fool me once". Are you saying that it was a mistake to have Evan Regan on the Mayo team in the first place.

Squatman

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121281241#Comment_121281241

yea, i think so. too light, too injury prone, too trigger happy. lost us a game against galway to boot

Green&Red

Best of luck to Breaffy at the weekend, always liked those lads, lets hope they can finally do it

Blackjack

That was not a great advertisement for the club championship

PARlance

Congrats to Ballina.

Senior football is absolutely diabolical.

Man Vs ManUre

St Brigid’s of Ros will absolutely crush Ballina.

spakman

That was absolutely dire. Mayo club football, and by extension the Mayo intercounty team, is in a bad place.

Not alone were the tactics devoid of any ambition, but the lack of skill, particularly in shooting, was very worrying.

I can't see Mayo being a threat for the foreseeable future tbh

Western Pomise

That had to be one of the worst Finals in recent history.Gaelic football has been destroyed,from a game where you had to win your own personal battles in pretty much set positions 20 years ago to a bastardised version of Basketball today,where you often have 26 players inside the 45 while one team attack.

There were plenty of poor games in the past as well,but at least there were direct contests for high balls between the 4 midfielders,real tussles between respective full backs and full forwards and ever man had to fight to get out in front to win their own ball.

Some of the shooting in Co Final was truly shocking.GAA has become a game for fitness winning out over skill.😢😔

PARlance

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121304155#Comment_121304155

There was times when I found myself reading the program just to pass thr time during the match. And I normally get fairly caught up in a match.

You've summed it up very well there, I would add that there isn't even "a big tackle" to get the crowd going these days as players are so conscious of a black card.

New rules are needed very fast or they'll see gates reduce dramatically.

MacDanger

Wasn't at it but it sounded like a brutal game, Ballina won't care too much I guess; disappointing for Breaffy not to get over the line again, hard to see them making it at this stage. Ballina will need to show a good bit more if they're to make progress in Connacht, I think it's London first followed by Galway (Moycullen/Corofin) in a SF and then you'd fancy Brigids to come out on the other side of the draw.

Overall, it's been very poor fare this year in the senior championship. Getting more use out of the mark is one way teams could get around the packed defences imo but it's rare enough that you see it being used - not that it'd improve the spectacle massively though.

Loafing Oaf

Ballina-Fulham game Saturday week a 6 in castlebar. What kind of crowd will that get? Why not play it in the Stephenites? Do they play all provincial club games in mchale?

blowitupref

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121308815#Comment_121308815

Connacht GAA brought in a rule a few years ago that County champions can't play in their own venues in the Connacht championship.

Scathing article from brolly on Sunday in the independent about the county final. Tries to come across as an honorary mayo man (with his usual name dropping) wishing them the best but we all know otherwise and we can expect his usual article in a few months trying to stir things up in the mayo camp.

https://m.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/joe-brolly-the-game-we-played-was-about-entertainment-but-mayo-snoozefest-might-just-be-the-final-straw/a483147473.html

HBC08

As soon as that game happened I knew Brolly would be delighted.Its all clicks and publicity for him.

The reason for his comical,obsessive hatred of Mayo GAA is not a secret and most in Mayo know it,yet most of the rest of country don't know it.Any time it's brought up to him on twitter he immediately blocks the person.

He's a coward and a bully.

2018na

Explain it on here. He won’t be able to shut down here. Just don’t name him. He is such a compulsive name dropping liar. His profession explains a lot. They will do or say anything for a bit of judas silver

The Moist Buddha

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121336493#Comment_121336493

a very successful coward and bully unfortunately

Fr Tod Umptious

Why are people here even reading what he has to say when it comes to Mayo.

I thought we were beyond that at this stage.

PARlance

Didn't read past the opening of the article as it is paywalled, but was there anything in it that hadn't already been said?

He's an attention seeker but that game amd the Senior Championship needed plenty of attention. The more the better imo, it might lead to a quicker change of the rules.

Blackjack

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121340076#Comment_121340076

This. Not sure why anyone reads anything that clown has to say about Mayo. He’s got his agenda about the fact that he married someone who was entirely incompetent at the logistics role but couldn’t handle the criticism of her ineptitude. He needs to accept she should never have been appointed to the role in the first instance, and no amount of slagging off the players that were involved in the team at the time will improve her inability to organise relatively simple tasks to the standard required.

HBC08

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121343318#Comment_121343318

This should automatically pop up any time Brolly starts his vitriolic Mayo talk.

Everybody in Mayo knows the craic,a lot outside the county don't. I'm surprised it doesn't get mentioned more often. He blocks anyone on twitter who says it to him.

It's pathetic.

Loafing Oaf

Well Ballina somehow made it past the mighty Fulham this evening. Semi v Corofin apparently on Saturday at 2 in Pearse Stadium.

windy shepard henderson

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121356981#Comment_121356981

good job it wasn't breaffy .... 😉 i keep thinking of jimmy sloyan in a Claremorris pub over the last few weeks and how he must be thinking 🤐

StatsAndSolos

Can I please ask the good people of the favourite county of the @Statsansolos account how many posts you need on this place to be able to post links?