All Ireland Senior Football Championships 2017 - Read Mod Note Post #1

Whatever about Sky Sports getting games but I really think RTE and too a certain extent the GAA need to stand their ground when it comes to game selection. Sky are consistently week in, week out getting to show the most attractive games and it does isolate a large portion who can't afford to pay for it, or even go to the pub to watch it.

The 'first pick' in qualifiers should change every second week at least that gives RTÉ a fairer bite.

Ballstein wrote: »

It's funny how despite crowd trouble in Mullingar,

nobody saw it apart from those there.

Ballstein wrote: »

12 Wexford men left on the pitch, Galway and Roscommon having a mass

6 red cards suggests the ref did his job and the players in question will be punished. its clear the officials in Ennis didnt.

Ballstein wrote: »

In the hurling one of the Cork players knocked the helmet clean off one of the Clare lads and nothing about it

last time i checked, this was the football threat. for what its worth, the horgan tackle was a disgrace and it was 100% a straight red. again, like multiple things in Ennis the ref bottled a huge probable game changing incident.

PressRun wrote: »

What the Sunday Game didn't show was the endless provocation and hassling that the Clare goalkeeper and fullback were at all day between the two of them.

This. I was behind the Clare goal second half and the amount of abuse he was getting was ridiculous, right in front of the umpire, i commented to my mate how he was showing great restraint so if he gets a dig in i really couldnt give a **** tbh and if he gets done for stuff then i wont be complaining either.

Can't abide the man but there's nothing in the O'Connor incident. The Clare lad is looking to go down given half a chance. Its a swipe more than a blow. From a Dublin point of view though, the Mayo lads do get it easy from the media. If it were Dublin RTE sport would be awash with pundits sticking the boot in.

Edit: I forgot about Patrick Durcan. Seriously whats up with the Mayo discipline? They used to be all business on the pitch.

Bambi wrote: »

Diarmo could give him one of his pair of togs with the extra large pocket that he had made special to hold all his celtic crosses. Give him one of his jerseys too... lee has a weird thing for them

He must be collecting them, suppose there's f**k all else for him to collect

Mayo's new nickname should be "The Werewolves".

Seemingly allergic to Silver(ware).

Bambi wrote: »

Diarmo could give him one of his pair of togs with the extra large pocket that he had made special to hold all his celtic crosses. Give him one of his jerseys too... lee has a weird thing for them

He must be collecting them, suppose there's f**k all else for him to collect

He started collecting POTY trophies
Diarmo doesn't have one of them

PARlance wrote: »

Christ above. Are you ten?

I love it, a newbie questioning my age.

I'm old enough to remember being there the last time Mayo climbed the steps of the Hogan to collect Sam.*

*That may have been my grandad, and not me.

Lighten up chap, sure youse are still in with a shout.

PARlance wrote: »

Better than the werewolf one at least.

It's all about improvement.

On the subject of improvements, how will Mayo get to grips with a team that likes to employ a direct running game? Cork made Kerry look vulnerable when they did it, and but for some awful shooting would have reaped dividends from this tactic.

Ditto for pushing up on kickouts. Will Clarke be as good with distribution once the full court press is put into effect?

Will they leave Caff in at CB when the Rebels have such a big fella they can put in there to aim a dropping ball at?

Initially, I assumed Corks perceived disarray would make this a relatively straightforward game fo Mayo, but the more I think about it, the more interesting this game could be. If GAA has shown us one thing, it's to be wary of a team with nothing to lose.

seligehgit wrote: »

Outside of the Diarmuid Connolly soap opera I don't see all that many Dublin footballers getting the boot put in to them.The rules are the rules and he interfered with an official,hence the three month ban.I'd apply the same rules to our players.Long since past time for Dublin fans and Jim Gavin to park the issue.It can still be a powerful motivating tool and I'm sure that Dublin can cope perfectly well in his absence.

TBF to Philly McMahon he's very much now letting his football do the talking now.

Keith Higgins and Paddy Durcan's red cards were cut and dried,no complaints re same.I thought Brendan Harrison and Cillian O Connor were lucky on Saturday to not receive red cards but the Sunday Game highlighted same.

It's laughable to suggest Mayo players get an easy time in the media,ask Aidan O Shea who got the most ridiculous of targeting over the whole selfie incident.

A small minority of Dublin supporters seem to have an obsession with highlighting any incident involving Mayo players.

BTW I do not like the nonsense that Cillian O Connor goes on with,it adds little to his game.

You admit that Cillian O'Connor goes on with "nonsense." (Is that the polite term to describe what he gets up to? :rolleyes:)

Yet when has he ever been called out for his behaviour in the media, on the Sunday Game etc etc

Never is when.

So how can you say that it's laughable to say he gets an easy time of it in the media, when has he never been called out for his behaviour in the media? Behaviour that you as a Mayo fan (and many others) have owned up to as being so unsavoury, they they wished he didn't indulge in it?

Bit of a contradiction there, no?

Bernard Flynn's comments about Aidan O'Shea were beyond ridiculous. Every single media outlet in the county, dined out on naming and shaming Bernard Flynn for a good two weeks afterwards. And rightly so. But just because that happened, it doesn't mean that there aren't some Mayo players who have a squeaky clean reputation in the media, that by many Mayo fans own admissions, doesn't really bare up under closer inspection. If those players want to take the "by any means necessary" attitude onto the field of battle, then more power to them. You won't win much, without at least a few of those fellas in your platoon. But they generally tend to get a rough ride of it in the media. Cillian O'Connor rarely does.

Jaden wrote: »

It's all about improvement.

On the subject of improvements, how will Mayo get to grips with a team that likes to employ a direct running game? Cork made Kerry look vulnerable when they did it, and but for some awful shooting would have reaped dividends from this tactic.

Ditto for pushing up on kickouts. Will Clarke be as good with distribution once the full court press is put into effect?

Will they leave Caff in at CB when the Rebels have such a big fella they can put in there to aim a dropping ball at?

Initially, I assumed Corks perceived disarray would make this a relatively straightforward game fo Mayo, but the more I think about it, the more interesting this game could be. If GAA has shown us one thing, it's to be wary of a team with nothing to lose.

It should be an open game because Cork don't seem to have any system from what I can see. A good start from us could kill them off but we've struggled with that.

Don't think we'll really know how Clarke's knockouts are until they come under pressure. But they've certainly improved in the last few games and with Aidan in MF... that outlet will take some pressure off.

ProudDUB wrote: »

You admit that Cillian O'Connor goes on with "nonsense." (Is that the polite term to describe what he gets up to?)

When has he ever been called out for his behaviour in the media, on the Sunday Game etc etc

Never is when.

So how can you say that it's laughable to say he gets an easy time of it in the media, when has he ever been called out for his behaviour in the media? Behaviour that you as a Mayo fan (and many others) have owned up to as something they wished he didn't indulge in?

Bit of a contradiction there, no?

Bernard Flynn's comments about Aidan O'Shea were beyond ridiculous. Every single media outlet in the county dined out on naming and shaming Bernard Flynn for a good two weeks solid and rightly so. Just because that happened, it doesn't mean that there aren't some Mayo players who have a squeaky clean reputation in the media, that by many Mayo fans own admissions, doesn't really bare up under closer inspection.

He was called out for duping the referee for the black card received by Tom Flynn in the Galway game.

The stray elbow against Dublin in this year's league game at Croker was highlighted I believe on SKY.

The Sunday Game highlighted what I saw as a strike at the game on Saturday.

I believe he may cost us dearly yet as his luck may run out.

Anyhow it's really not a them (Dublin) and us (Mayo).