Mayo GAA Discussion - Part 3

PARlance wrote: »

More concerned about a lack of a gameplan than injuries or the result. Left 10 mins early, couldn't watch that muck tbh. Clueless in attack, spineless in defence.

Tyrone are a well drilled side and very strong in the tackle. Men against boys today.

Yeah feel sorry for the people who paid good money to see that. I just listened to it on the radio as I had a pretty good idea how it would go.

Green Peter wrote: »

How did Galway do today?

A draw.

13 points each

What a horror show,failed dismally to deal with the blanket defence.

Colm Boyle rightly given his marching orders for two yellows.Silly black card picked up by Andy for dissent.David Clarke’s kickouts will continue to be a weakness ruthlessly targetted going forward.Ger Caff is not the solution at full back.

Very disappointed with some of the newer brigade,Stephen Coen and Adam Gallagher.It must be noted nobody impressed today.

Disastrous on the injuries front.
Looks like Cillian’s done his hamstring and Lee Keegan has dislocated his shoulder.

Monaghan did us a favour but it’s a big ask to get the vital point in Ballybofey based on today’s performance.A performance so lacking in intensity.

Don’t get me going on the state of the pitch,nothing short of disgraceful.More like a desert than a grass pitch.Kudos to Tyrone for managing to play that bit of football on such a surface.

At this moment in time it’s hard to see any basis in reality for a win on May 13th.

Well done to the Mayo hurlers on their league final win.

km79 wrote: »

Keegan has either broken his collar bone or dislocated his shoulder
Cillian at first look concussed but then seemed to limp heavily with a hamstring injury .
Neither will play next week.
We got a glimpse of life after Andy today and it wasn’t pretty. If he gets suspended then our season may have ended today.
Whatever about next weekend we could be facing into Galway with a number of absentees and a lot of undercooked players .
That’s as low as I’ve felt since Longford .

Deegan was Deegan today but he got most of the big calls right bar Boyle who was lucky to stay on for initial yellow.
However I think he made up a new rule when he moved a 45 in 10 yards

Overall I’m waiting on injury /suspension updates but I’m worried about May now

That was truly bizarre.

One thing that annoyed the ****e out of me today was mayo players constantly trying to hop the ball
It was clear from minute one the hall would not bounce properly
Yet for 80 minutes we persisted trying to do it and turning the ball over

jr86 wrote: »

Even if we do lose in May, it's still important not to panic. The Super 8's will be a completely different competition, later in the year, and there won't be any decent team in the back door

Yes it sounds defeatist but at this stage we're playing at Division 3 standard and it'd be nothing short of miraculous to get to near our peak as early as May. I think we'll be relying on Galway being burnt out and being able to grind out a win in a ****fest of a match.

Ah in fairness, coming through the backdoor this year will be setting ourselves up for early elimination and it's not as if we waltzed into the last eight in 16 or 17 either. We can't continually expect things to miraculously come good as in the previous two years, eventually we will be caught and if we are relegated next week I think it will be a sign of decline.

Coillte_Bhoy wrote: »

If we lose we will have to play 4 games to reach the Super 8's, i wouldnt be too confident of doing that tbh

It will be a massive task for whoever loses. And that's what makes May 13th so intriguing. It's almost back to the days of straight knockout - it has that feel to it.

I'm gonna take a risk here. Firstly declare, I don't know enough about Gaelic football as I didn't play it and don't have enough knowledge to analyse it. However I've attended 12 Mayo games since this time last year, mostly enjoyable experience though often frustrating. Today was horrible, I didn't see any cohesive plan in what was played out in front of me. I didn't see any committed determined football. It seems amazing to me that with Mayo 6 points plus behind we seemed happy to let Tyrone play the ball around in their half with no pressure being applied.

I love all sports and what I generally see is that good teams put in a consistently good performance with rare blips. With Mayo you turn up and hope for the best that doesn't speak to me of a unit that is likely to succeed, I'm sorry to say. It's not my experience that good teams produce random performances as Mayo seem to do.

By the way why ( and this happens to lots of Gaelic free kickers) Kick the ball up in the air with the posts being a secondary target. From my limited knowledge there is no doubt but that all frees should be kicked off he ground ( Bryan Sheehan style) and directed at the target since you kick the back of the ball. In hurling we have high scores because the ball is hit flattish at the target towards the post. I don't understand why in football kicking isn't properly trained for..

Stoner wrote: »

You'd wonder if Mayo concentrated on the league , they could avoid the back door
I understand that this is an old argument, however I haven't heard someone say that a good league might save a difficult backdoor campaign, surely that's as taxing on a panel as a league? It's interesting that the slow start has forced a difficult championship run in the past two years.

I think people are too forgiving of results like today...obviously if you have a great championship you look back less on days like today but Mayo play badly more often than they play well under Rochford if you include league and championship. Granted, the results are all that matters and results have been good in the past two years even if performances haven't always matched, but the beatings we are shipping at home on a regular basis now would have me wondering where we are going, I mean if the goal is still an All Ireland, it's a very strange way to go about it.

What is clear from today we need the half backs creating scoring opportunities and running game . Our 6 forwards can’t create on their own . Was it right the starting forwards didn’t score from play? Without Keegan or Boyle it was only Durcan that filled that role .
Boyle spent too much of his time covering infront of Cafferkey . Our forward play was so poor . It’s rare to see Mclaughlin not up to pace . What sort of training did they do to look so leggy .

Shocking stuff today. Up against it big time now next week.

Shocking challenge on Lee Keegan.

Jesus lads ye were ripped apart today. Could Andy Moran get a lengthty ban for touching Deegan?

seligehgit wrote: »

It was lunacy I thought he'd get a red card.Presume he won't as it's been dealt with unless Maurice Deegan mentions it in his report.

Looks like he will get away with seligehgit. The firing squad of the Sunday Game have glossed over it.