Mayo GAA Discussion - Part 4

wirelessdude01 wrote: »

Welcome to IC winter football. Pure slobbering.

Poor picture quality for me too, making the whole thing look even more dismal

Pitch in Ballybofey looks worse. Awful conditions.

We are so ****ing soft at the back.

Great goal


Think Loftus is playing well

Green&Red wrote: »

Great goal


Think Loftus is playing well

Won a very good breaking ball from the kickout which led to the goal.

happyoutscan wrote: »

We are so ****ing soft at the back.

Don’t think we’ve enough tight backs.

Keegan is way off pace, I think Mullins is better going forward. McLaughlin similar.
Our No. 6, whoever plays there, doesn’t concentrate on man marking.
That leaves Durcan and Coen. Without a sweeper that’s not enough


Back in the day we could rely on Higgins, Caff, Boulder, Keegan and Barrett to all do their job man on man. That’s no longer the case and they need more protection

Cillian a shining light today.

seligehgit wrote: »

Cillian a shining light today.

We learned nothing new today
But it might help some supporters how important he is
He has never looked fitter either . I wonder was he even held back last weekend given the possible run of 3 games in 3 weeks

Job done
No injuries

Nothing learned really except a lot of the young lads have a way to go yet bar Mullin and maybe Conroy

km79 wrote: »

Job done
No injuries

Nothing learned really except a lot of the young lads have a way to go yet bar Mullin and maybe Conroy

Roll on next week.

Green&Red wrote: »

I don’t think Mullin is as good as is being made out. I think he can be but the three games I’ve seen have told me he is not tight enough.

That’s alright when it’s a Kilmeena forward you’ve to mark but when you’re marking IC forwards I don’t think it’s good enough but I’m sure he’ll learn

Likewise nothing I’ve seen from Eoin McLaughlin tells me he’s good enough.

Ryan O’D, Brian Walsh and Jordan footballers all look like nice footballers but not really good enough to have us really competing. All are young though

Thought Keegan was much better in the second half, as was Durcan.
Was impressed with Loftus at midfield

Cillian obviously MOTM, outstanding

Mullin is a halfback. Which position yet is to be decided.

Flynn doesn't have the temperament or IMO the aptitude for IC football.

Ryan is too small for starting but when the sod is dry and the game open he will be a serious second half option.

McLaughlan will be a serious in operator yet. You have to remember he was a serious cyclist up to two years ago.

I'll hold my hands up, Cillian was brilliant today, still maintain he could go well at CHF, kicked a couple of excellent 45s. Conditions sure as hell didn't suit the lighter players anyways.

This nonsense of AOS at FF has to stop, He's a midfielder, an area where we are really struggling, even against Leitrim. TBH, conditions didn't suit but I thought he was fairly awful today regrardless, has missed opportunities from a couple of marks he's taken in the last few games and is not a natural scorer, which is a full forwards no.1 duty. If D Coen had as bad a game as him he would have got the curly finger at HT you can be sure of it. Flynn not good enough at this level I'm afraid, we've much better options, Boland seems to have disappeared altogether and presume Moran and O'Hora were injured. Carr did ok when he came on and O'Donoghue got on a lot of ball the first half.

Wouldn't be overly confident of us taking the Rossies with how our midfield in particular are performing, move AOS back to his natural position and we can break even at the very least there, I think one of Carr/Coen will start in full forward line the next day.

I think Carr is definitely fit to start, think he’s an animal

mayo londoner wrote: »

I'll hold my hands up, Cillian was brilliant today, still maintain he could go well at CHF, kicked a couple of excellent 45s. Conditions sure as hell didn't suit the lighter players anyways.

This nonsense of AOS at FF has to stop, He's a midfielder, an area where we are really struggling, even against Leitrim. TBH, conditions didn't suit but I thought he was fairly awful today regrardless, has missed opportunities from a couple of marks he's taken in the last few games and is not a natural scorer, which is a full forwards no.1 duty. If D Coen had as bad a game as him he would have got the curly finger at HT you can be sure of it. Flynn not good enough at this level I'm afraid, we've much better options, Boland seems to have disappeared altogether and presume Moran and O'Hora were injured. Carr did ok when he came on and O'Donoghue got on a lot of ball the first half.

Wouldn't be overly confident of us taking the Rossies with how our midfield in particular are performing, move AOS back to his natural position and we can break even at the very least there, I think one of Carr/Coen will start in full forward line the next day.

I thought O'Shea played very well, his two quick offloads in the second half should have resulted in two goals.

Brusna wrote: »

Why is it that almost all Mayo supporters are loath to give any credit to Stephen Coen. He was very good today as he usually is but never gets a mention. Maybe in time we will begin to appreciate the work he puts in, like tracking runs and cutting out options for the opposite team. Well played again Stephen Coen!

Every team needs the worker bees. People only miss the likes of Seamie and Doc when they aren't there. They do the basics so well and unseen.