Mayo GAA Discussion - Part 3

JohnBoy26 wrote: »

If you give it you got to be prepared to take it. Kerry went up there to play football. Mayo had other ideas and went out to bully a young kerry team and got a rude awakening when they got as good as they gave.

Haha good one. Pure thuggery from the 'purists' from the first minute. Shane Enrights assault on Evan Regan which left him concussed & with a fractured jaw for his troubles typified the nasty element brought by the young guns. Make no mistake Fitzmaurice has them well advised

@radiomidwest: The injury sustained by @MayoGAA forward Evan Regan on Saturday evening has been confirmed as a facial bone fracture. http://bit.ly/2El7jyo https://twitter.com/radiomidwest/status/960569863663177733/photo/1

Loafing Oaf wrote: »

Now that would be a useful aptitude in a Gaelic footballer.

I've seen Andy winning the ball in both corners, at the same time!

He's just trying to use fancy words now that he's a Mod

JohnBoy26 wrote: »

If you give it you got to be prepared to take it. Kerry went up there to play football. Mayo had other ideas and went out to bully a young kerry team and got a rude awakening when they got as good as they gave.

So give some specific examples of this attempt to bully ?

seligehgit wrote: »

Aftermath of the Kerry defeat.

Mayo were brought back down to earth under the lights of MacHale Park on Saturday night by a hungry young Kerry side who came out on top by four points in what was often an ill tempered contest.In this week's edition of the podcast we take you through the action as it happened,including that incredible drop-goal winner from Johnny Sexton in Paris,and then we analyse a match that turned out to be a real disappointment from a Mayo point of view.Host Rob Murphy and John Gunnigan describe the key in game events and then Rob and John chat afterwards with Mayo News doyen Sean Rice.After that Rob catches up with Billy Joe Padden and Mike Finnerty for more post match ruminations while Ger Flanagan gets reaction from both Stephen Rochford and Eamon Fitzmaurice.

http://themayonews.podomatic.com/enclosure/2018-02-04T05_11_56-08_00.mp3

Terrace Talk will definitely be worth a listen back.

Out of interest is there any Mayo podcast that John Gunnigan isn't on now? he even had his brother and son on some other podcasts.

Always_Running wrote: »

Out of interest is there any Mayo podcast that John Gunnigan isn't on now? he even had his brother and son on some other podcasts.

Agreed. I accept that he has run the WJ blog and don't have any issue with his contributing, but some contributors don't have the credentials to be on there, and having your young son on is, to be honest, more than one step too far.

I feel the quality of the podcast is on the wane a bit. It is kind of going down the road of 'and now let's hear from player x's grandfather', rather than let's hear the opinion of someone who will actually have some solid analysis to offer that people might want to listen to.

Is Reape not away with the colleges still?

The Mayo News podcast can be hit and miss, Billy Joe is very good, Sean Rice I always think is very negative. I like when they have outside journalists, gives a better insight.
But I absolutely despise Rob Murphhy, he is worse than bad on it. Just shut up with the nonsense.
John Gunnigan is ok but I do feel a lot of the time he doesn't have much of a clue, possibly coming from having no experience of what a dressing room is actually like, that does count sometimes.


Very little to say about Saturday nite, diabolical for all of it, they had enough chances to win three games in the first half and were clinical in the second. We had no answer when they were down to 13.

One thing that worries me about the replacement lads, namely Nally, Coen, Drake, Boland. When the game is in the balance or we're behind we currently have Boyle, Keegan, Barrett, Higgins, Durcan and Vaughan all of who will get on the ball and go forward, break a tackle and one of the others waiting to come off their shoulder. The new lads are not doing that, its like they are waiting for someone else to do it and then support them. What happens when there is no one else to do it.
O'Donoghue looks like some who is that tackle breaker

Audioslaven wrote: »

I don't think any Mayo fans on here are having a go/flogging the players to the extent where you would say that we need to get on board. Alot of the stuff on here is to draw discussion on why this and why that, if only this .. if only that etc. We can all have disagreements on players etc but I never think any Mayo fan on here is flogging anyone.

In regards to Kerry, I was disappointed with the manner of the loss and to a lesser extent the result, although a win would have been brilliant. I am critical of Rochford for not trying some new guys even some different tactic but that's not flogging anyone. We all have opinions otherwise it would be a boring spot.

They were just called diabolical in the post previous to yours...

When I say get on board, I mean get on board with what they are doing, i.e. just about surviving in the league to make the championship workload more manageable. When that is their gameplan for the season, why are we calling a loss to Kerry in February diabolical?
Anyway, Ive said my bit on that.


RE the podcast, Murphy is probably a bit too nice about things. He could do with listening to a Wooly Parkinson, but I wouldn't be as critical of him as green&red.

I'm not a fan of Sean Rice, I think he favours Castlebar a bit (his answer to every issue generally revolves around Danny Kirby), plus he is quite negative and even a little out of touch maybe?

Outsiders are definitely a plus, the guys from the mayo news office tend not to disagree with each other, which you can understand to a degree, but it doesn't make for a good podcast.

Audioslaven wrote: »

I see Keegan on about that Rochford must try some new lads. I hope he at least starts Loftus the next day who badly needs game time together with some chances for the likes of Reape. He should at least be trying one if not two new guys with the established guys.
I don't know why he so scared to give new guys a chance in the forward line.

Conor Loftus is busy playing Sigerson Cup for DIT.He got the key goal against Carlow IT last week and is playing tonight against IT Tralee.Likely to progress to the semi finals.

Definitely like to see Reape get a chance especially now that poor Evan Regan is our for the foreseeable future.

Decent podcast with an interview with James Horan.

http://www.rte.ie/cspodcasts/media.mp3

Woolly has an interview with Leeroy.

http://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/394871430-sportsjoe-gaa-hour-lee-keegan-in-studio-ignoring-player-welfare-brolly-v-harte-vii.mp3

Green&Red wrote: »

I didn't say the result was diabolical, sure it would be nice to win but not the end of the world to lose either, the worst thing we could do is get to a league final and lose to Dublin IMO.
The play however in both halves was diabolical for different reasons.

In the first our man marking was poor. We played without a sweeper which meant we were trying out M2M and we had several lads roasted. They switched Durcan onto Sean O'Shea which helped things.

In the second half we were up against a blanket defence and showed no guile at all. This is the place to be trying something. I have no problem with COC or Jason Doc kicking frees wide, its February but I'd like to see something more.

I am on board, try anything they like, I didnt really see that in the last 20 minutes

Not to drag the thing out, but I suppose my point is that
A) when they are only back from a team holiday,
their overall plan is to survive in the league only,
C) they were up against a team who are taking the league seriously and have a raft of lads in from sigerson teams, and therefore are going to be a fair bit fitter than us.
D)We all know, when a team isn't as fit, they are going to look sh*te at pretty much everything when they come up against a team who are. (Id also argue that they were doing hard training this week just gone, by the look of them.)

Therefore, isn't it only common sense that they are going to look poor in the above scenario?

It is the perfect example of the 'dirty diesel' scenario. When everything is taken into account, I would consider diabolical is far too strong a word to describe any facet of the game (broken jaws apart), and a bit of an over-reaction.

It was simply a reality of the tactical plan we have taken for the season, and that realisation is key to any analysis we carry out.

km79 wrote: »

@radiomidwest: Midwest Radio understands that former Mayo Minor star and Ballaghadereen clubman, Cian Hanley is to return home to Ireland this month ending his time with #AFL club Brisbane Lions. https://twitter.com/radiomidwest/status/961659169039319040/photo/1

Just Read that. Great to have a man of his calibre back. Was he released or did he make the decision himself?

Fowler87 wrote: »

Be too early to bring him in I wonder. Been out of the game for awhile though. Conditioning wise he should be sound

Will take him a while to get his skills back up to speed but I’d add him to the extended panel. Had huge promise as a minor and certainly shouldn’t be lacking in fitness, conditioning or work ethic!

Love how both Kerry & Mayo fans keep mentioning the Dubs on this thread the last week, obsessed much? & calling out a broken jaw with a jersey pull & an incident that had nothing to do with football, pathetic.

EICVD wrote: »

Love how both Kerry & Mayo fans keep mentioning the Dubs on this thread the last week, obsessed much? & calling out a broken jaw with a jersey pull & an incident that had nothing to do with football, pathetic.

Do you not see the irony of you being here to read it?



Re hanley, you would wonder would he be better left to his club for the time-being? I suppose a forward of that calibre isn't something we can drag our feet over at present.
Is he worth a point or two to the team? I'm sure EICVD will be obsessing over that as we speak...

Also, not to be getting in the way with facts but, a Mayo man hasn't mentioned Dublin on this thread since the all-stars were given out