Mayo GAA Discussion - Part 3

charlie14 wrote: »

I did mention that I liked the cut of the lad and thought he should have been brought in earlier last day.
(Even if I may have been a bit biased after getting a AI Final ticket of his grandfather away back when he was a baby ), I thought he was excellent and full of confidence today.

I assume you got the ticket from Dr Micky Loftus.

Just to clarify Dr Micky is a grand uncle to Conor not grandfather.

(Apologies if I assumed wrong)

From a Kerry man the first thing I'd like to say is congratulations to Mayo, well deserved win by a good group of players. Completely dominated every area of the field and showed massive heart & hunger. Defence was superb and fantastic off the ball running by the forwards. I really do hope they can get over the line in the final and wish them the best of luck. They will have our entire county's support!

From a kerry point of view there needs to be big questions asked of both players and management. Played extremely poor and it seemed no one knew their role. Full back line was atrocious again especially Shane Enright who has to be replaced at this stage. Forwards were poor except for paul geaney. James o donoghue needs to get his eyes off the women and back on the football. As for the donaghy incident I think o shea had it coming if I'm being honest, he was fouling and niggling Kieran the whole game and I think he had enough! Bad way to bow out tho as it seems he will retire.

Mayo for Sam 2017

franklyon wrote: »

I think it's too easy to blame the referee. From the throw in there was a bite to the game that wasn't there last week. Personally I think the ref did a good job and that includes CoCs black card. If he let stuff go it would have exploded into a brawl at some stage.

I thought the ref did a fantastic job. It's not his fault players were pulling jerseys, punching, tackling around the neck and engaging in off the ball fouling. I thought he kept it from spilling over by punishing where punishment ws deserved. He reffed exactly what was in front of him. I thought he got nearly all decisions spot on, although perhaps mistaking Paddy Durcan as the culprit late on. It was some difference from Deegan's performance in the first game. I had my doubts about Gough before the game, while others on here were talking him up. After yesterday's performance I'd happily take him for the final. You know what you're getting.

aidan24326 wrote:

Personally I thought the ref was awful. Easy to bash the ref I know. But he was way too whistle happy and was brandishing cards like it was confetti at a wedding, in what wasn't a particularly dirty game. I don't want to see him reffing a major game again.

It's all good now I guess since there's no issues for the next day.

But if one semi has a ref like that and the other doesn't you could end up down key players in the final.

I know this is early but can the Kerry folk please oblige us to get our hands on tickets for the final .

#Infiltration_of_the_hill

seligehgit wrote: »

Oh the joys of a lazy and sunny Sunday morning.I don't think I've ever been as nervous before a game as yesterday.

Can now sit back for once and watch the others slog it out at 3.30 after watching the game back.

Agreed. The tension was so huge, even throughout the game, that it took away from my usual sheer unabashed joy of watching mayo play.

Going to watch it again today making it a double header too

Rightwing wrote: »

Well done to mayo. Disgraced kerry on and off the field. They looked real poor. Pundits like tomas o se writing garbage like 'knock aidan o se on his arse and you knock mayo on their arse'. well o se, the only ones i see on their holes are kerry

I guess Tomas and his singular tactic.was listened to and finally paid off qed

Rightwing wrote: »

From what i saw of the 2 games, donaghy is the only kerry player that would make mayo's team. Yet all these so called analysts get it so badly wrong. Or are they trying to be controversial to get a gig?. Laughable.

Rightwing wrote: »

They are supposed to be the aristocrats of the game, yet they were reduced to rubble. Punching off the ball, red cards, sweepers, and all against a rather limited mayo. Let's give mayo credit though. They are a top 3 team. Not hard.

Care to elaborate on your opinion of "a rather limited mayo"!

Rightwing wrote: »

Similar to the pundits like tomas o se, i'm no expert, but mayo struggled v roscommon, kerry, cork, galway, derry. So i wouldn't be getting carried away if i was mayo. I'd say the kerry minor team would beat the kerry senior team.
so at the moment, i'd rank it like this:
1 dublin
2 tyrone
3 mayo
4 kerry

Like I told the other poster get the f1uck out and stay out what sort of rubbish are you talking

Rightwing wrote: »

From what i saw of the 2 games, donaghy is the only kerry player that would make mayo's team.

Paul Geaney would be one of the first names on the Mayo team sheet. JOD would also start for Mayo when fully fit.