Mayo GAA Discussion Part 2

TCDStudent1 · 28-03-2017 09:37PM

seligehgit wrote: »

He most definitely was'nt the winning or losing of that game.The head collision of Cillian and Aidan was a significant blow pardon the pun as was the MOTM performance of David Moran,an amazing display.The decision by management to persist with Ger Caff at full back with Kieran Donaghy as his direct opponent was questionable.TBH I only thought there was going to be one winner that day when it was went to extra time..Kerry.

Our real opportunity was the first day and yet again we failed to close the game out.

Having said all that Cormac Reilly's officiating that day was atrocious.

Thought that was the biggest factor in Kerry's win myself.

Fr Tod Umptious · 28-03-2017 09:43PM

Bunny Colvin wrote: »

That was the worst doing we ever got off a referee in Limerick. I'd rather just forget about it tbh.

But apart from his failure to give Enright a black what else did he do to harm Mayo ?

As the other poster alluded to, I think Mayo folks beef with Reilly is a spillover from a lot of other factors.

DDC1990 · 28-03-2017 09:52PM

Fr Tod Umptious wrote:

But apart from his failure to give Enright a black what else did he do to harm Mayo ?

Enright was on a yellow already for a tussle with COC off the ball.

Black would have been upgraded to red. Enright also hit AOS off the ball in the leadyp to the second goal and should have walked there as well.

Now a red card is no guarentee of a win. Mayo performed better the week before with 14 men.

Bunny Colvin · 28-03-2017 09:58PM

Fr Tod Umptious wrote: »

But apart from his failure to give Enright a black what else did he do to harm Mayo ?

As the other poster alluded to, I think Mayo folks beef with Reilly is a spillover from a lot of other factors.

Giving very soft frees to Kerry - mainly Donaghy. I was sitting right in front of a few of them. Gave one in extra time against Colm Boyle who's reaction summed it all up. I don't criticise referees too much but if that game was referred properly then we were in an All-Ireland final.

There were other factors of course, Hennelly's kickouts, Caff being left on Donaghy all game, the clash of heads between AOS and O'Connor etc but it doesn't take away Reilly's performance that day. The proof is there, analysts called him out on it and the GAA even demoted him because of it. I'll say no more, if you're brave enough to watch it again then go for it.

To hell or to Limerick they said! It's a game the Mayo support will never forget.

RD10 · 28-03-2017 10:36PM

Sad news coming from ballaghaderreen this evening on the passing of tommy hanley.
RIP

seligehgit · 28-03-2017 10:37PM

RD10 wrote: »

Sad news coming from ballaghaderreen this evening on the passing of tommy hanley.
RIP

Terrible news RIP.

The Talking Bread · 28-03-2017 11:50PM

15 years old. Awful awful when you think back to yourself at that age. Thankfully the lads got home but sadly it is only a small comfort.

RIP and best of wishes to the family.

ArielAtom · 29-03-2017 10:16AM

RIP Young man, thoughts and prayers with his family.

MayoAreMagic · 29-03-2017 03:15PM

DDC1990 wrote: »

Edit: To be fair to Tommy Carr I might be amalgamating his comments with Kevin McStays on the Sunday Game the night after. McStay was clearly emotional and while he showed a few token double hops from Mayo that went unpunished the fact that a Mayo man got free reign of the poor refereeing highlight clips clearly wont help on quelling the notion that Mayo were screwed. The other clip that he showed was Peter Crowley being pulled back going down the wing and barging into the Mayo man. He ignored the jersey pull and went with the subsequent barge and gave out about the free.

Well to be honest, I don't think McStay was that emotional, in fact he is generally very straight in his analysis. I think he showed more incidents where mayo were hard done by, simply because there were far more of them.
Im no fan of blaming refs, but watch that game back, it genuinely was a terrible performance, where he seemed to just lose track of the rules. Jonny Buckley and Donnacha Walsh were going around like the bash brothers, blocking runs, fouling off the ball, fouling in group tackles, frontal charges on guys in possession and nothing, not even a tick or a word in their ear.

Donaghy fouled Cafferkey several times also, wrestling and manhandling him out of contention for the high ball as it came in, yet he was getting the frees. If that was done on the throw in it would be a free all day long. He ended up shipping a lot of criticism from fans looking for someone to blame, but the guy was hung out to dry by Reilly.

In truth the mayo lads' mistake was trying to continue to play football and were just too honest. The Kerry lads copped what was going on and fair play to them for that. However, if the thing was run properly the ref would have been reprimanded for his performance. We shouldn't simply say 'ah mayo are just sour about losing' - there is a bigger picture at play there; Mayo shouldn't have needed to be cute enough to play the ref, and it was mayo this time, but who will it be next time out? Will it cost Dublin a 3 in a row for example? This time the rather handy 'same old mayo just not good enough' attitude can sweep it under the rug, but when that isn't there, what then?

PressRun · 29-03-2017 03:26PM

Reilly was awful that day in Limerick and to suggest that he was awful for Mayo and Kerry in equal measure is simply not true, tbh. Kerry got away with murder all day. There's a reason he hasn't reffed an important match since.

That said, I still think the clash of heads between Cillian and Aidan was the biggest factor in our losing that replay. I think I knew it wasn't going to be our day when I saw that happen. But no more than Dublin last year, there should never have been a replay in the first place.

mayo.mick · 29-03-2017 04:00PM

Reilly's performance that day was just part of the culmination of f**k ups that rankles with Mayo supporters. That day turned normally sane *ish* supporters into raving loons. A lot of people are still very bitter about it. When I heard he was reffing on Sunday, I could actually feel my blood boiling and rising. All those horrible bitter feelings from that whole episode came flooding back.

Why the hell did they appoint him for this, or any Mayo match?

westsidestory · 29-03-2017 04:12PM

mayo.mick wrote: »

Reilly's performance that day was just part of the culmination of f**k ups that rankles with Mayo supporters. That day turned normally sane *ish* supporters into raving loons. A lot of people are still very bitter about it. When I heard he was reffing on Sunday, I could actually feel my blood boiling and rising. All those horrible bitter feelings from that whole episode came flooding back.

Why the hell did they appoint him for this, or any Mayo match?

Will you be taking to the pitch again this time Mayo Mick?

mayo.mick · 29-03-2017 04:53PM

westsidestory wrote: »

Will you be taking to the pitch again this time Mayo Mick?

I'm not that Mayo Mick!

mayo.mick · 29-03-2017 04:55PM

westsidestory wrote: »

Will you be taking to the pitch again this time Mayo Mick?

Actually don't know who named him that. I was getting a bit of stick after it,

homewardbound11 · 29-03-2017 05:45PM

100 percent agree.
Reilly bought them extra time through non existent frees . I remember BARRY John brought the free in 15 yards and not a word said .
ENRIGHT , penalties the list went on .
We we probably at our peak that year only to have it taken. No fault of Kerry . Kerry did what they had to do . We would have done the same .

mayo.mick wrote: »

Reilly's performance that day was just part of the culmination of f**k ups that rankles with Mayo supporters. That day turned normally sane *ish* supporters into raving loons. A lot of people are still very bitter about it. When I heard he was reffing on Sunday, I could actually feel my blood boiling and rising. All those horrible bitter feelings from that whole episode came flooding back.

Why the hell did they appoint him for this, or any Mayo match?

DDC1990 · 29-03-2017 05:57PM

homewardbound11 wrote:

100 percent agree. Reilly bought them extra time through non existent frees . I remember BARRY John brought the free in 15 yards and not a word

I've said this already. That free was for pulling Donaghy off the ball which was off camera. I was down in that Corner and the referee clearly indicated as much. Reilly blew the whistle and marked the spot just to the left of the posts where BJK kicked it.

By all means lambast his performance but that free and the later one when Boyle lifted his knee into BJK were the correct calls.

Enright should have walked. Kerry wasted loads of time in Extra Time by starting fights and Reilly couldn't control it. Kerry picked up some soft frees throughout the match. However Reilly made mistakes on both sides that day. The last free in normal time given against Moran I believe,which gave Hennelly the free to try and win it was for nothing IMO. Kerry batted it put and Mayo had possession but Reilly blew it up before Moran could kick it. I thought that was harsh even though the 3 minutes had just elapsed.

Like many posters on here I just don't think it was Reillys fault. Cafferky and the clash between O'Shea and O'Connor stand out as far bigger reasons for the loss.

Look that's in the past, hopefully ye can get it together and beat Donegal by between 6 and 10 points, Dublin beat Monaghan and Kerry beat Tyrone and we're all happy.

mayo.mick · 29-03-2017 08:51PM

I see the Mayo ladies are playing Kerry in Swinford, at the same time as the Mayo v Donegal game in MacHale. Why can they not be a double header, same as how Dublin seem to manage it, for their minors, hurlers and only last week their ladies?

TCDStudent1 · 29-03-2017 10:15PM

mayo.mick wrote: »

I see the Mayo ladies are playing Kerry in Swinford, at the same time as the Mayo v Donegal game in MacHale. Why can they not be a double header, same as how Dublin seem to manage it, for their minors, hurlers and only last week their ladies?

What condition is McHale Park in? Maybe it is to protect the pitch?

PARlance · 29-03-2017 10:42PM

TCDStudent1 wrote: »

What condition is McHale Park in? Maybe it is to protect the pitch?

Possibly, can't speak for McHale Park but there's still plenty of give in the ground. While I can see the appeal of a double header, there would be murder if the pitch wasn't in as best a condition as possible for such a crucial match.

As an aside, I see Mitchels have started fundraising for a big 4g pitch development. That should come in handy.

Oldtree · 30-03-2017 12:53AM

mayo.mick wrote: »

I see the Mayo ladies are playing Kerry in Swinford, at the same time as the Mayo v Donegal game in MacHale. Why can they not be a double header, same as how Dublin seem to manage it, for their minors, hurlers and only last week their ladies?

Double header, now that would have been a really great day out

NabyLadistheman · 30-03-2017 09:35AM

Surely that Donegal U-21 semi-final being postponed until next week is favourable to Mayo? How many of the Donegal seniors that would be playing will miss this Sunday's game?

RD10 · 30-03-2017 10:23AM

was thinking same re. a double header myself.
probably down to the pitch.
just read ryan mchugh is out for the match.

Nidgeweasel · 30-03-2017 12:45PM

Suarezistheman wrote: »

Surely that Donegal U-21 semi-final being postponed until next week is favourable to Mayo? How many of the Donegal seniors that would be playing will miss this Sunday's game?

Those between both panels will still feature, as usual.

seligehgit · 30-03-2017 01:02PM

Nidgeweasel wrote: »

Those between both panels will still feature, as usual.

Tough going for the lads involved but sure they're only young fellas!

seligehgit · 30-03-2017 01:36PM

Mattie Donnelly has been handed a one match ban in the aftermath of his altercation with Aidan O Shea.

Mayo Club 51 · 31-03-2017 09:10PM

Mayo team for Sunday has just been announced;

1. David Clarke (Ballina Stephenites)
2. Brendan Harrison (Aghamore)
3. Keith Higgins (Ballyhaunis)
4. Chris Barrett (Belmullet)
5. Colm Boyle (Davitts)
6. Lee Keegan (Westport)
7. Paddy Durcan (Castlebar Mitchels)
8. Tom Parsons (Charlestown)
9. Danny Kirby (Castlebar Mitchels)
10. Shane Nally (Garrymore)
11. Cillian O'Connor (Ballintubber, Capt)
12. Fergal Boland (Aghamore)
13. Kevin McLoughlin (Knockmore)
14. Andy Moran (Ballaghaderreen)
15. Diarmuid O'Connor (Ballintubber)

RD10 · 31-03-2017 10:50PM

Mayo Club 51 wrote: »

Mayo team for Sunday has just been announced;

1. David Clarke (Ballina Stephenites)
2. Brendan Harrison (Aghamore)
3. Keith Higgins (Ballyhaunis)
4. Chris Barrett (Belmullet)
5. Colm Boyle (Davitts)
6. Lee Keegan (Westport)
7. Paddy Durcan (Castlebar Mitchels)
8. Tom Parsons (Charlestown)
9. Danny Kirby (Castlebar Mitchels)
10. Shane Nally (Garrymore)
11. Cillian O'Connor (Ballintubber, Capt)
12. Fergal Boland (Aghamore)
13. Kevin McLoughlin (Knockmore)
14. Andy Moran (Ballaghaderreen)
15. Diarmuid O'Connor (Ballintubber)

Happy with that team. i'd like to see diarmuid stay in that position for some of the game to see how he gets on.

MaroonAndGreen · 01-04-2017 09:04AM

Mayo Club 51 wrote:

1. David Clarke (Ballina Stephenites) 2. Brendan Harrison (Aghamore) 3. Keith Higgins (Ballyhaunis) 4. Chris Barrett (Belmullet) 5. Colm Boyle (Davitts) 6. Lee Keegan (Westport) 7. Paddy Durcan (Castlebar Mitchels) 8. Tom Parsons (Charlestown) 9. Danny Kirby (Castlebar Mitchels) 10. Shane Nally (Garrymore) 11. Cillian O'Connor (Ballintubber, Capt) 12. Fergal Boland (Aghamore) 13. Kevin McLoughlin (Knockmore) 14. Andy Moran (Ballaghaderreen) 15. Diarmuid O'Connor (Ballintubber)

That's very close to full strength, 11/12 championship starters there I reckon

squiredanaher · 01-04-2017 12:41PM

MaroonAndGreen wrote: »

That's very close to full strength, 11/12 championship starters there I reckon

Certainly looks good on paper. Throw in aos and sos and its even stronger.

SeanJ09 · 01-04-2017 01:32PM

What game are tg4 showing tomorrow then?

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