Mayo GAA Discussion Part 2

seligehgit · 04-02-2017 05:56PM

Kalyke wrote: »

Lads what channel is t on.. very confusing!

Eir Sport 1 9.45.

wirelessdude01 · 04-02-2017 05:56PM

Kalyke wrote:

Lads what channel is t on.. very confusing!

It's on the HD version of either Eir Sport 1 or 2

statto25 · 04-02-2017 06:57PM

It's EirSport2 HD. There are two other games in the SD versions of the channels.

Oldtree · 04-02-2017 07:56PM

Great to see such a big crowd. Should be a great night.

Kristopherus · 04-02-2017 08:44PM

Very lucky to be ahead at half time. Were defo 2nd best for most of the half.

Donal55 · 04-02-2017 09:05PM

0-6 to 1.5 .
Game on.

happyoutscan · 04-02-2017 09:17PM

Kirkby not up to it at this level.

Kristopherus · 04-02-2017 09:19PM

Some dreadful decisions by that ref.

Donal55 · 04-02-2017 09:27PM

Kristopherus wrote: »

Some dreadful decisions by that ref.

Red card for Monaghan player.

happyoutscan · 04-02-2017 09:27PM

Kristopherus wrote: »

Some dreadful decisions by that ref.

True, but too much going on for 1 man to follow anyway. Time to trial 2 refs.

Kristopherus · 04-02-2017 09:29PM

What are linesman or umpires for?

Donal55 · 04-02-2017 09:34PM

Ref playing for a draw here.

Donal55 · 04-02-2017 09:38PM

Monaghan win by 2 pts.

TCDStudent1 · 04-02-2017 09:44PM

Would Conor Loftus have been available tonight? You'd have to think he's worth giving a run of games in the league.

martyos121 · 04-02-2017 09:49PM

Dissapointing but not hugely surprising, Monaghan named a strong team and we couldn't quite match it. Newcombe looked good overall which is a bonus, had one great block too. Kirby can play better than he did tonight and Clarke showed why he's the best keeper in the country, his anticipation of play is superb.

Referee was crap, was far too happy to let the scrapping carry on.

04-02-2017 09:59PM

The Mayo forwards were very disappointing again as per normal, big improvement needed by them if they are to stay in Division 1.

Barlett · 04-02-2017 10:03PM

Well it's rare we win our first game of the league. Bit off the pace as to be expected, hopefully by game 3 we'll have a win on the board. By the way 10,817...it's a serious crowd

Donal55 · 04-02-2017 10:08PM

Barlett wrote: »

Well it's rare we win our first game of the league. Bit off the pace as to be expected, hopefully by game 3 we'll have a win on the board. By the way 10,817...it's a serious crowd

Maybe thats the problem, 'its rare we wln our first game...'
Sorta similar to, 'its rare we win an AI'.

0byme75341jo28 · 04-02-2017 10:21PM

Donal55 wrote: »

Maybe thats the problem, 'its rare we wln our first game...'
Sorta similar to, 'its rare we win an AI'.

You're already worrying about not winning the all Ireland? :rolleyes: Long way to go..

Jayop · 04-02-2017 10:27PM

Barlett wrote: »

Well it's rare we win our first game of the league. Bit off the pace as to be expected, hopefully by game 3 we'll have a win on the board. By the way 10,817...it's a serious crowd

Big crowd. Just shows the demand for county football. All the games on TV tonight looked like they had good crowds.

Fowler87 · 04-02-2017 10:32PM

Deleted User wrote:

The Mayo forwards were very disappointing again as per normal, big improvement needed by them if they are to stay in Division 1.

Good 10/15 mins at the end of 1st half but agree overall. Too much blind alley forward play again. Still waiting for Freeman to realise he is a bloody good player when he wants to be. Just doesn't believe in himself enough not getting younger either.

Boland had a decent debut. Mighty point. I reckon a role similar to McLoughlin will suit him in the long run.

Overall too many unforced errors. Goal was unfortunate with the slip. 16th man Motm

km79 · 04-02-2017 11:28PM

Only 2 real positives from that
Clarke
And cillian looks WAY fitter than at any stage over the last 2/3 years

Barlett · 05-02-2017 01:00AM

Donal55 wrote: »

Maybe thats the problem, 'its rare we wln our first game...'
Sorta similar to, 'its rare we win an AI'.

There's no relation between the two, we simply don't have a squad that's good enough to challenge in both competitions. Have to pick one or the another

Oldtree · 05-02-2017 01:57AM

Clarke was very brave and made the right decisions at crucial times showing his true worth imo. Motm

No sure why we seemed so sluggish at the start and for a lot of the first half compared to monaghan, maby we overtrained during the week???

Hate to see all that slappy stuff overlooked by the ref untill he could yellow card a player from both sides. Seems to be a tactic used by teams from up there that lack skill, but monaghan did not lack skill so I don't understand the use of a tactic like that.. The lines men had mikes and earpieces so was easy to contact the ref, so no reason to allow that type of sh**e to carry on. But we did rise to it and saw some retaliation during play that was not positive from our lads that the ref didn't see.

Saying that monaghan were very very quick to get 12 men back as soon as the ball was kicked out from our end in the first half. Their marking was very tight on kickouts too. We were outnumbered in their half for almost the entire half and kept running straight in or along the wing which suits the block defence. More than once we had 3 of theirs swatting at our man incoming on the ball. Their no 14 had a good accurate kick for points from distance.

Monaghans running back to block defence faltered on the 33rd minute in the first half when they ran out of steam and allowed a comeback.

Monaghans attacks were adept, running over and back, continuous fast hand recycling until you get a gap and it worked. Seems to me that's how you take on a block defence. Didn't really see mayo do this until COS came on, but a bit late.

I think the faltering in the 33rd minute was going to be relied on by us in the second half too, but even a man up it didn't work, but has to be said it was a near thing, a few mistakes proved it wrong, so close bur no cigar.

Still.i loved shouting mayo on in the dying minutes and look forward to the next outing.

Jayop · 05-02-2017 02:07AM

A tactic by teams from up there? Nearly every one that they showed the start of on TV was a Mayo man starting the pulling and dragging.

windy shepard henderson · 05-02-2017 02:20AM

Jayop wrote: »

A tactic by teams from up there? Nearly every one that they showed the start of on TV was a Mayo man starting the pulling and dragging.

its not a tactic that will get you any where though , kerry and dublin do as much as mayo or tyrone , its not what gives them the edge though ,.....if thats what the designed purpose is

Oldtree · 05-02-2017 02:28AM

Jayop wrote: »

A tactic by teams from up there? Nearly every one that they showed the start of on TV was a Mayo man starting the pulling and dragging.

Yes, you clearly know well the team I'm talking about from up there. Watching on TV dosn't give you a good overall view of the field of play and what happens there.

DDC1990 · 05-02-2017 09:36AM

Jayop wrote:

A tactic by teams from up there? Nearly every one that they showed the start of on TV was a Mayo man starting the pulling and dragging.

I watched the same feed you did Jayop and that's just not true. Monaghan, once they had the 4 point lead reduces the game to a scrap and some if the Mayo lads couldn't keep their heads.

Twice Kieran Hughes pushed a Mayo player towards the concrete wall over the sideline, leading to a bout of pushing and shoving.

Now the idea that only Northern teams start **** like that is rediculous.

Kerry did it to kill the last 5 minutes of extra time in Limerick in 2014. Dublin did it to Mayo in the last few minutes of the 2012 AIF. I'm sure Mayo have done it on occasion, I don't have an example off the top of my head though.

The same Mayo failings appear again and again. The lack of a real target man up front beside O'Connor really inhibits your attack. Boland looks a prospect, but in the long run I'm not sure Freeman, Doherty and Regan are the answer. Regan in particular looked a bit afraid of it last night. I might be harsh (watching Paul Geaney and Shane Enright last week in the McGrath Cup Final- they looked like Junior B players) it's still early in the year.

The Kirby experiment didn't really work. I would have liked to have seen him beside O'Connor and Regan at FF to draw the Monaghan sweeper deeper to protect from the high ball in. Anytime i've seen him at FF for Castlebar (which admittedly isn't often) he seems to cause difficulty. Also I think O'Connor would be clever enough to read the breaks off him.

Newcombe and Boland look really promising.

Donie Vaughan vanished from the game altogether. Presumably he was taken off early in the second half?

I have to say Rory Beggan has the sweetest strike of a ball that i've seen since Maurice Fitzgerald. Bryan Sheehan kicks a lovely free from the ground, but Beggan seems to caress it over.

Anyway see ye all in Tralee presumably? I hear there is great crowd travelling down. Should be a great atmosphere.

seligehgit · 05-02-2017 10:26AM

Truly disappointing start to the league campaign,our home record is awful over recent years.It was at times a very spiteful encounter.

The weather conditions really did not help,the heavy pitch and wet ball ensured it wasn't going to be a forward's night.

Few if any positives to be taken from the night.David Clarke excelled in goal although I would still have concerns re his kickouts.Donie Newcombe can be very proud of his day's work.Cillian did an awful lot right on the night but unfortunately outside of him we were very short on any guile up front.

I'm not sure if individuals like David Drake put down on significant marker to hold onto their position.Fergal Boland has great potential and cleverness of thought but it's likely he'll have to develop a tad more.

Sadly Danny Kirby was lost at sea and looked out of his depth.He was chasing shadows at times and mistiming his jumps out of a fear of been hit,it appeared.We were destroyed by the excellent Hughes brothers in the middle of the park.Monaghan defended so much better as a unit than we did.I was truly amazed how much space we allowed the Monaghan players and how many uncontested kickouts we appeared to give them.Our indiscipline in the tackle afforded McManus to showcase his wonderful freetaking abilities in the first half and Beggan in the second half.Perhaps it is indeed the fact we are behind the curve in terms of training but it is disappointing some of the newer lads didn't step up.

Alan Freeman outside of one excellent score from another decent fetch was largely anonymous.Evan Regan really has to attain the ability to win his own ball inside,he doesn't win near enough of same.

I'd have liked to see Shane Nally get some game time.So it wasn't a totally unexpected loss with Monaghan naming such a strong 15 but it truly ramps up the pressure for the trip to Tralee.

Conor Lane had a truly awful day at the office,got a number of decisions wrong on both sides and lost control of the contest.

What's the story with Eir Sports?:mad: Watching the deferred coverage, heading to an ad break during both halves,truly awful stuff.

PressRun · 05-02-2017 11:43AM

Not really surprised at the result. Kinda knew that Monaghan had their eye on winning this one and we didn't have the work done in training.

Boland looks promising enough, but a bit lightweight and he went fairly quiet for large parts of the game. Donie Newcombe had a good match. Clarke did well too, showing great instinct on his interceptions as always, but his kickouts were dodgy again, especially compared to Beggin, who found his man almost every time.

I was disappointed with both Freeman and Regan's inability to win their own ball. They both show some good stuff in flashes, but not enough, imo. Cillian, on the other hand, who doesn't have the pace of Regan or Freeman's height, is great for winning those 50/50 balls and he was trying to make something happen. Once again though he was on his own and didn't seem to have a clearly defined role. He seemed to be all over the pitch, even showing up at corner back at one point. He's well able to pop a goal or two. Do we really need him to be yet another all-rounder?

We were well and truly beaten in the middle and Kirby, though a big strong man, was a bit at sea. Donal Vaughan would drive you demented watching him running blindly into dead ends and crowds of opposition players. Stupid play, tbh.

I don't think we'll get anything out of the Kerry game because I don't think much work has been done, but I'd like to see Tom Parsons start for that match and Shane Nally in for Drake.

All in all, our poor home record continues and it looks like we're just aiming to stay in Division 1 again.

Mayo GAA Discussion Part 2

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