Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie

Mayo GAA Discussion - Part 3

18586889091334

Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,073 ✭✭✭✭PARlance



    Yes, yes it is. As clarified in a subsequent post.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,946 ✭✭✭MayoAreMagic


    With all the Dublin talk by Tomas O Se, Sean Cavanagh etc here's something that will make us feel positive again.

    Eamonn Sweeney's entertaining piece in the Independent today.

    http://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/eamonn-sweeney-you-heard-it-here-first-mayo-will-beat-odds-36119067.html

    Thought it could do with a title...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,073 ✭✭✭✭PARlance


    Thought it could do with a title...

    First Donkey Set To Win Sam?

    He was calling Rochford a donkey less than a month ago. Quite simply... He's a f'n Ass.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,946 ✭✭✭MayoAreMagic


    PARlance wrote: »
    First Donkey Set To Win Sam?

    He was calling Rochford a donkey less than a month ago. Quite simply... He's a f'n Ass.

    I gave it a title in my post, just noticed you cant see it on a mobile! Lions written about by donkeys was my effort..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,380 ✭✭✭✭Fr Tod Umptious


    PARlance wrote: »
    First Donkey Set To Win Sam?

    He was calling Rochford a donkey less than a month ago. Quite simply... He's a f'n Ass.


    I read the headline (that's all I'm doing for the week, headlines only).

    It says
    You heard it here first - Mayo will beat odds

    Sorry Eamon, you are not the first to say it, far from it actually, one of guys on Terrace Talk on Radio Kerry said it two weeks ago, I'm sure there are plenty others.


  • Advertisement
  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,286 ✭✭✭seligehgit


    Great insight in Tom. Smashing player and shows his dedication. I look back now and wonder why Horan dropped him but maybe it has made him the player he is now. My brother met his mother up in Croker last year and she said he was waiting for the day to get back in and show what he is made of.

    I'll never forget his MOTM performance against Tyrone this spring in the league,brilliant finish for his goal.

    He gave his mother his MOTM award on mother's day,my own mother loves him ever since.Her favourite Mayo footballer!:D

    Little sis went to college with him in Sligo IT,he was always very dedicated to his pursuit of excellence in gaelic football.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,631 ✭✭✭Dirty Dingus McGee


    With all the Dublin talk by Tomas O Se, Sean Cavanagh etc here's something that will make us feel positive again.

    Eamonn Sweeney's entertaining piece in the Independent today.

    http://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/eamonn-sweeney-you-heard-it-here-first-mayo-will-beat-odds-36119067.html


    2 weeks ago he said the team was lead by a donkey and now apparently they're going to win the all ireland.

    Prime example of why nobody should take any journalists opinion remotely seriously a lot of them have great regard for their own opinions and think they're above gob****es like us on the internet but in reality (as Sweeney has proven in the last few weeks) they're full of donkey**** and their opinions should be given no more respect than any than anyone elses.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 617 ✭✭✭franklyon




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,286 ✭✭✭seligehgit


    Sunday is looking like a mainly dry day according to Met Eireann.


  • Advertisement
  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,286 ✭✭✭seligehgit




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 48,490 ✭✭✭✭km79


    seligehgit wrote: »
    Sunday is looking like a mainly dry day according to Met Eireann.

    Yeah it's been promised dry for a while now so signs are good


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,286 ✭✭✭seligehgit




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,073 ✭✭✭✭PARlance


    Kevin Kilbane asking the important question! Any chance of wearing the black jersey

    https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10159354824210441&id=10150089120710441

    Fair play to Killer, I'd say he'll be in Mayo for the week after if we win.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,109 ✭✭✭Oldtree


    seligehgit wrote: »
    Sunday is looking like a mainly dry day according to Met Eireann.

    The 5 day forecast has rain on Saturday in Dublin :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,938 ✭✭✭Coillte_Bhoy


    PARlance wrote: »
    Kevin Kilbane asking the important question! Any chance of wearing the black jersey

    https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10159354824210441&id=10150089120710441

    Fair play to Killer, I'd say he'll be in Mayo for the week after if we win.

    Absolutely adored by the fans when he played for Ireland and really seems a genuine fella. On OTB a few weeks ago he was raving about meeting Willie Joe :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,073 ✭✭✭✭PARlance


    Absolutely adored by the fans when he played for Ireland and really seems a genuine fella. On OTB a few weeks ago he was raving about meeting Willie Joe :)

    I'm not sure what game it was but he was doing commentary for Off the Ball from one of the ppromoted Prem League sides and there he was in the press box with his beloved black Mayo jersey.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 513 ✭✭✭boosabum


    Huddersfield


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,088 ✭✭✭✭BonnieSituation


    If ye wear the black jersey and win the All Ireland, I guess that's the home kit going forward?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 617 ✭✭✭franklyon


    Nah it will be the home jersey against Dublin.I do like the black jersey though.


  • Advertisement
  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,088 ✭✭✭✭BonnieSituation


    franklyon wrote: »
    Nah it will be the home jersey against Dublin.I do like the black jersey though.

    Should be...

    But if...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,547 ✭✭✭✭martyos121


    If ye wear the black jersey and win the All Ireland, I guess that's the home kit going forward?

    As long as they get the Saw Doctors to rewrite their song, it could be a possibility.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 711 ✭✭✭glack


    Oldtree wrote: »
    The 5 day forecast has rain on Saturday in Dublin :)

    Rain Saturday, dry Sunday.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 624 ✭✭✭maximus15


    4 sleeps til sunday (no sleep sat nit from been 2 excited)

    Absolutely no reason why every mayo fan shouldn't think we can beat the dubs.
    We have had to watch their cheerleading team (AKA The Sunday Game pundits and commentators) waxing lyrical bout their gorgeous scores against Tyrone (Darragh o Mahoney and Martin Carney) and then the pundits bringing up a graphic that evening showing 6 forwards on their bench who could all be starting.

    The fact Tyrone sat back (like every other team the Dubs played in Championship) and let them pick off scores at will seems to be overlooked. We can't and won't let them do that.
    Probably 3 or max 4 of the 6 forwards will come on at some stage on sunday which still isn't a reason to be fearful, because the last test Dublin had, in League Final against Kerry( Whom had no Donaghy or O Donoghue), O Callaghan was the only forward the last day whom didnt appear against Kerry.

    They can watch every one of our games and do their homework but nothing is better preparation than proper tests which we had in abundance.
    We have learned from mistakes and improved in nearly game.
    We have had the chance to learn 3 games ago that poor Cafferkey was a problem area( hopefully a full winters training and a League will bring him back to the player he was before injury).
    We have seen that when we have gone behind in Qualifiers and first rossie game, the players show they are never beaten and grind out results.
    We have proved by playing most weekends for 2 months that their legs are far from gone and plenty left in tank.
    Most important the replay against rossies and the two Kerry games showed they can play a high intensity game for 70 mins which is needed to win on Sunday.

    Dublin cant have learned much from their campaign other than they were beaten by Kerry the last time a team went toe to toe with them.
    We saw in our game against Kerry, when they came up against a team who tested them, that their new lads like Michael Geaney and tom o sullivan disappeared in their first proper tests.
    Dublin dont know if likes of O Callaghan or Scully will do the same on Sunday.

    Ill be the first to give Dubs credit if they do beat us ( just cant see it!!) but they have so much more to learn this year about themselves than we do and it will take a tactical masterstroke by Gavin to learn a seasons worth of stuff bout his team in 70 mins and change things accordingly.
    There is nothing more Rocheford needs to learn other then the 21 men who play a part on Sunday are all capable of influencing the game enough to help bring Sam back for first time in 66 years!

    Whoever wins, hopefully McQuillen wont be a factor by giving controversial frees, black cards or dismissals and the game will be remembered for been high intensity and full of Quality

    THE END


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,109 ✭✭✭Oldtree


    glack wrote: »
    Rain Saturday, dry Sunday.

    I'll have to wait to see what the 5 day forecast says tomorrow before passing judgement, as it's the most accurate one imo :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,524 ✭✭✭finisklin


    When his team being named?

    Can't believe I am asking this on a Tuesday!

    Excitement is building.....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,286 ✭✭✭seligehgit


    finisklin wrote: »
    When his team being named?

    Can't believe I am asking this on a Tuesday!

    Excitement is building.....


    Most probably the team will be named Friday night between 9 and 10.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,524 ✭✭✭finisklin


    seligehgit wrote: »
    Most probably the team will be named Friday night between 9 and 10.

    At this point of the season and based on previous selections, its fair to say that that wont be the team that starts and plays as selected.

    Or maybe the curve ball will be that they do start as selected! :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,524 ✭✭✭finisklin


    While I think of it.....

    Remember speed camera vans will be out on Saturday and Sunday.

    Bugger was on the Foxroad road in Ballina last year on the Sunday so slow down.


  • Advertisement
  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,515 ✭✭✭mayo.mick


    finisklin wrote: »
    While I think of it.....

    Remember speed camera vans will be out on Saturday and Sunday.

    Bugger was on the Foxroad road in Ballina last year on the Sunday so slow down.

    Jasus, tis expensive enough going to all the games without getting a ticket or a clamp! Seen a few clamped in Maynooth a couple of times.


This discussion has been closed.
Advertisement