Rochford resigns as Mayo manager

paulie21 · 27-08-2018 6:32pm #1

Some surprising news just breaking. Thought he’d committed to another year even announced new selectors over weekend. Has he been pushed?

OldMrBrennan83 · 27-08-2018 6:34pm

Never saw that coming if it's true, especially after the appointments last week. Unless they weren't his.

C__MC · 27-08-2018 6:34pm

Lack of support from the committee

God a book of Mayo GAA player a from 2018 would sell like hot cakes

Just An Opinion · 27-08-2018 6:34pm

paulie21 wrote: »

Some surprising news just breaking. Thought he’d committed to another year even announced new selectors over weekend. Has he been pushed?

Very odd, although a few in the Mayo thread yday were saying they felt very uneasy about how things were going with the whole appointment.

27-08-2018 6:35pm

stink from the board, shambolic handling of it and cowardice to leave it to him to resign after the mess of today

WanderlustIre · 27-08-2018 6:36pm

Just An Opinion wrote: »

Very odd, although a few in the Mayo thread yday were saying they felt very uneasy about how things were going with the whole appointment.

Why the lads he brought in are management at breaffy

RossieMan · 27-08-2018 6:36pm

He jumped before he was pushed.

OldMrBrennan83 · 27-08-2018 6:37pm

WanderlustIre wrote: »

Why the lads he brought in are management at breaffy

Isn't it the Breaffy players calling the shots in the intercounty setup for a long time now anyway?

Beechwoodspark · 27-08-2018 6:42pm

Decent man by all accounts. Sad way to end it but hopefully mayo will go onwards and upwards

27-08-2018 6:46pm

Statement from Stephen Rochford:

http://mayogaablog.com/?p=23528

OldMrBrennan83 · 27-08-2018 6:47pm

So have the players McGuinness lined up then? They didn't need another reason for me to want them to disappear out of any contention, but that would go right to the top of the list

Coillte_Bhoy · 27-08-2018 6:47pm

Patww79 wrote: »

Isn't it the Breaffy players calling the shots in the intercounty setup for a long time now anyway?

Oh for crying out loud,not this ****e again :rolleyes:

OldMrBrennan83 · 27-08-2018 6:49pm

Coillte_Bhoy wrote: »

Oh for crying out loud,not this ****e again :rolleyes:

You don't agree, grand. No need to go all hissy fit about it, people disagree all the time.

WanderlustIre · 27-08-2018 6:54pm

Patww79 wrote: »

You don't agree, grand. No need to go all hissy fit about it, people disagree all the time.

Apparently but I'm a dub so Mayo's destruction is all the rage in these parts.

Niles Crane · 27-08-2018 6:59pm

If they get McGuinness then it could be a great move with them.

Say what you want about him but his transformation of Donegal was a seriously impressive achievement and they played great football in 2012 in spite of what some people want to think it wasn't all 100% defensive ****e from them.

Peatys · 27-08-2018 7:01pm

Patww79 wrote: »

Isn't it the Breaffy players calling the shots in the intercounty setup for a long time now anyway?

Breaffy Mafia

O Shea Sr who bank rolls the setup calls the shots.

seligehgit · 27-08-2018 7:06pm

Peatys wrote: »

Breaffy Mafia

O Shea Sr who bank rolls the setup calls the shots.

What a load of nonsense,totally untrue.:rolleyes:

WanderlustIre · 27-08-2018 7:07pm

Peatys wrote: »

Breaffy Mafia

O Shea Sr who bank rolls the setup calls the shots.

I quite like the Breaffy set up, clubhouse reminds me of Kilmacuds in Glenalbyn same building type. I had pleasure of playing against them in a Challenger game before. Good lads, although I hate AOS.

WanderlustIre · 27-08-2018 7:08pm

seligehgit wrote: »

What a load of nonsense,totally untrue.:rolleyes:

Well Jim is CB rep for Breaffy.

MattressRick · 27-08-2018 7:36pm

Anyone see Jim McGs 2 proposals for how Tyrone could beat Dublin this weekend in last week's Irish times?
The days of Mayo going toe to toe and man to man with Dublin would be over by the start of the fbd league!

Coillte_Bhoy · 27-08-2018 7:38pm

Patww79 wrote: »

You don't agree, grand. No need to go all hissy fit about it, people disagree all the time.

Its rubbish ffs but hey if you want to **** stir, off ya go :rolleyes:

OldMrBrennan83 · 27-08-2018 7:39pm

Coillte_Bhoy wrote: »

Its rubbish ffs but hey if you want to **** stir, off ya go :rolleyes:

**** stir? You're saying it like you know it isn't the case when you really don't. I believe it's true and you don't, big swinging mickeys.

Make sure to post another rolleyes though, they're very effective.

Coillte_Bhoy · 27-08-2018 7:40pm

Patww79 wrote: »

**** stir? You're saying it like you know it isn't the case when you really don't. I believe it's true and you don't, big swinging mickeys.

So what exactly do you believe is true then? And can you be specific? Im genuinely interested because ive never heard anyone actually outline how this Breaffy control works in practise

OldMrBrennan83 · 27-08-2018 7:44pm

Coillte_Bhoy wrote: »

So what exactly do you believe is true then? And can you be specific?

That's there has been strong player power in the Mayo camp for a long time now and it's a certain group.

UpTheSlashers · 27-08-2018 7:48pm

Patww79 wrote: »

Coillte_Bhoy wrote: »

So what exactly do you believe is true then? And can you be specific?

That's there has been strong player power in the Mayo camp for a long time now and it's a certain group.

That's not very specific.

Coillte_Bhoy · 27-08-2018 7:48pm

Patww79 wrote: »

That's there has been strong player power in the Mayo camp for a long time now and it's a certain group.

Needless to say you're very short on specifics about how Breaffy players call the shots. As i suspected. Not a shred of evidence. You think the other players are going to put u with that and Rochford himself? In fact he wanted to appoint the Breaffy management team to his back room team, so how would that work then? I wonder who calls the shots at Breaffy? The players eh?

TheRiverman · 27-08-2018 7:49pm

Let them appoint McGuiness and then we can watch the greatest f..k up of all time.

Coillte_Bhoy · 27-08-2018 7:50pm

TheRiverman wrote: »

Let them appoint McGuiness and then we can watch the greatest f..k up of all time.

No thanks and id say the vast majority of the Mayo support think the same

OldMrBrennan83 · 27-08-2018 7:53pm

They got a pair of managers the road and forced a distastrous goalkeeper change for an all Ireland final for a start.
Supporters better hope it's McGuiness because it's exactly what they need to get things back run properly, whether it forces retirements or not.

bodyguard1 · 27-08-2018 7:54pm

Did they not sign up some Argentinian lad called Francis something the other day at knock airport, he has a huge following apparently, he was a last minute signing just before he boarded a flight to have talks with Roma

gRo8Omxuk4A

Coillte_Bhoy · 27-08-2018 7:58pm

Patww79 wrote: »

They got a pair of managers the road and forced a distastrous goalkeeper change for an all Ireland final for a start.
Supporters better hope it's McGuiness because it's exactly what they need to get things back run properly, whether it forces retirements or not.

This nonsense about Hennelly is just that, nonsense. I mean do you really think a manager is going to allow that? Yes there was a player revolt. That doesnt equate to Breaffy .calling the shots

Bogfairy · 27-08-2018 8:17pm

Disappointing news, got us closer than any other manager and came across as a decent fella, but he didn't bring in enough new players over 3 years in my opinion. I mean look at Dublin, that team keeps evolving each year. Subs coming in are as good as players coming off. Our bench often left us wanting. I don't understand giving subs virtually no game time and expect them to be on the same page. Big shoes to fill but a fresh approach may be just what Mayo need.

Thanks Stephen. Up Mayo.

Hulk Hands · 27-08-2018 8:51pm

Be surprised if McGuinness would go for Mayo. His ego would certainly love a crack at working the oracle but logically he surely has to see an aging squad who couldn't get over the line in their prime, and will find it tough now with a few important players close to the end. Recent underage results have been poor recently also, one U20 win against Roscommon this year aside. Expectation will remain huge however and the hype will ramp up if he joined. In saying that, money may talk and they're will be plenty willing to pay it. I did hear a rumour he was interested in Cavan but it fell apart through money

Beechwoodspark · 27-08-2018 9:01pm

Hulk Hands wrote: »

Be surprised if McGuinness would go for Mayo. His ego would certainly love a crack at working the oracle but logically he surely has to see an aging squad who couldn't get over the line in their prime, and will find it tough now with a few important players close to the end. Recent underage results have been poor recently also, one U20 win against Roscommon this year aside. Expectation will remain huge however and the hype will ramp up if he joined. In saying that, money may talk and they're will be plenty willing to pay it. I did hear a rumour he was interested in Cavan but it fell apart through money

On that last point alone he should stay well away. Is this money declared and taxed? ...Is it fcuk

TCDStudent1 · 27-08-2018 9:33pm

Bogfairy wrote: »

Disappointing news, got us closer than any other manager and came across as a decent fella, but he didn't bring in enough new players over 3 years in my opinion. I mean look at Dublin, that team keeps evolving each year. Subs coming in are as good as players coming off. Our bench often left us wanting. I don't understand giving subs virtually no game time and expect them to be on the same page. Big shoes to fill but a fresh approach may be just what Mayo need.

Thanks Stephen. Up Mayo.

Easy to do when you have the calibre of player Dublin has coming through. Players like Basquel & McHugh getting cameos! The younger players in Mayo are simply nowhere near the standard of the Morans, McLoughlins, Boyles etc.

Niles Crane · 27-08-2018 9:43pm

Hulk Hands wrote: »

Be surprised if McGuinness would go for Mayo. His ego would certainly love a crack at working the oracle but logically he surely has to see an aging squad who couldn't get over the line in their prime, and will find it tough now with a few important players close to the end. Recent underage results have been poor recently also, one U20 win against Roscommon this year aside. Expectation will remain huge however and the hype will ramp up if he joined. In saying that, money may talk and they're will be plenty willing to pay it. I did hear a rumour he was interested in Cavan but it fell apart through money

That's just typical of Cavan.

LoughNeagh2017 · 28-08-2018 5:36pm

I was always meaning to tell this story about Mayo, here seems as good place as any, my mothers granny and aunt were from Mayo, she used to visit Ballina in the 1980s, her aunts mother in law who was a native Irish speaker in North Mayo would hide behind the sofa when there was cowboy films on TV as she fought the shooting was coming from outside.

I have a few more tales about Mayo such as my south Derry great uncle threatening a waitress in a diner in the late 1970s just because the food was slow at coming out.

WanderlustIre · 28-08-2018 6:04pm

Horan and JmcG being touted as favs for the job. I know people slate jim but i genuinely think hed be a good man for that job. Egos on tbat mayo panel need an equally lunatic ego to quell it.

Along comes the Cull.

Powerhouse · 28-08-2018 6:06pm

LoughNeagh2017 wrote: »

I have a few more tales about Mayo such as my south Derry great uncle threatening a waitress in a diner in the late 1970s just because the food was slow at coming out.

This is a story more about your great uncle being a psycho than a ‘tale about Mayo’ isn’t it? Must be a forum like After Hours or something to get people’s sides splitting with this sort of silly stuff.

Richmond Ultra · 28-08-2018 10:49pm

Declan Shaw done well with Mitchell's in recent years. A left field candidate but at 25/1 I'd have a small nibble.

Horan is high up with Coca Cola or some firm like that and is managing Westport, along with media gigs etc. Would he sacrifice the mileage expenses with Westport and his way of life to go back to inter county?

McGuiness I don't see happening.

He wants to be a soccer manager, but I would say he is a bit late in life starting on that path. Realistically would any football league team take him on as he has no pedigree in the sport.

One thing for certain is that the next few weeks will be entertaining.

MattressRick · 28-08-2018 11:51pm

No way will Jim McGuinness take it.
Firstly whatever slim chance he has of getting a soccer managers job will be torpedoed if he goes back managing a gaa team. He needs to stick with the soccer while all that recent work experience he got is relevant.
Secondly, the Mayo gig is too risky for him because he would be judged a failure if he doesn't deliver the all Ireland and all those articles he writes wouldn't be taken half as seriously anymore. It's easy to come up with radical ideas that Tyrone should implement this weekend if you're just putting it in a newspaper and no one will know whether you're right or wrong. I suspect he hasn't the balls to bring that into a dressing room like Mayo's. They've strong characters who would want a say in how they play, which is fair. But McGuiness wouldn't want that. Easier for him to take on a smaller county with no hope and squeeze an improvement or provincial title out of them.

Fr Tod Umptious · 29-08-2018 1:14am

MattressRick wrote: »

No way will Jim McGuinness take it.
Firstly whatever slim chance he has of getting a soccer managers job will be torpedoed if he goes back managing a gaa team. He needs to stick with the soccer while all that recent work experience he got is relevant.
Secondly, the Mayo gig is too risky for him because he would be judged a failure if he doesn't deliver the all Ireland and all those articles he writes wouldn't be taken half as seriously anymore. It's easy to come up with radical ideas that Tyrone should implement this weekend if you're just putting it in a newspaper and no one will know whether you're right or wrong. I suspect he hasn't the balls to bring that into a dressing room like Mayo's. They've strong characters who would want a say in how they play, which is fair. But McGuiness wouldn't want that. Easier for him to take on a smaller county with no hope and squeeze an improvement or provincial title out of them.

Good post.
Its exactly why I don't see McGuinness being a fit for Mayo.

Rochford resigns as Mayo manager

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