Mayo GAA Discussion

We're on borrowed time tbh. The win is putting a gloss on an absolutely abysmal team performance. Horan doesn't know what his best team is and playing key players out of position is a huge problem now - Oisin Mullin is not a full back. Full stop. He would have been better going to Australia than stay here and have to play in this ludicrous situation.

Matthew Ruane needs to find some form asap. Another stinker from him yesterday. He hasn't had a good game since the Dublin match last year. How Conor Loftus stayed on the pitch, I do not know - his management of the basic skills were woeful.

Only for Kildare's inaccuracy and terrible game management did we stay in it yesterday. A better team would have had us on the bus back home by half time time.

Our S&C probably was a huge factor in winning the game yesterday would you agree?

Id agree with a lot of that, we are on borrowed time, whether that runs out at the QF, SF or Final all depends on the opposition.

And I think we need not worry too much about Horan playing players out of position, because I think he will finish up this year anyway.

I listened to it on Midwest and it was really depressing at times.

The sloppy play, the inability to "lay a finger on players going through"

Where are the days when Mayo played the hard game, where everywhere the oposition turned there was a Mayo man there to put them on their ass ?

Their experience and fitness got them through last night, but it probably won't be enough from here on.

I agree. We're lining ourselves up for a hammering tbh. The overall team standard isn't good enough and we will be found out against better opposition.

I'm afraid I don't have time to be always on the internet. But the S&C issues speak for themselves in the recurrence of soft tissue injuries. S&C isn't just about running for 70+ mins. It's also about preventing and recovering from injury. Something which has been a big problem for us. There might be the odd "freak injury", but the majority of injuries happen because of issues relating to conditioning and stress. Being rushed back is a big factor too.

Our S&C won't bail us out against better opposition.

Ok, surely being rushed back can be put on management (or even the player) rather than the S&C set up.

By your logic, if the S&C team did a terrible job in failing to prevent all the injuries, they've done a remarkable job in getting the majority of them back.

Maybe when you've time, you can tell us more about the claims that it was commonly know (but unspoken about) that there had been a big decline in the county S&C set-up conspiracy.

Mullin was the only option for marking Dan Flynn yesterday so I don't really understand those complaints. Stephen Coen would have been burned for pace and the rest are too small/light. Flynn was moving in and out of the full forward line too so it was ideal for Oisín.

The tacking standard seems to have seriously dropped over the past while. Its so bad. We rarely win turnovers anymore from tackling.

Minor match on tg4 YouTube

Niall Hurley at it again, serious goal. 1-2 to 0-2 after 15 minutes, against a big wind. Look the better team

Great first half. 3-5 to 1-7, two goals in 30 seconds. I haven't seen a Mayo team as well coached in a long time, doesn't hurt that they have two absolute superstars in the full forward line With Clarke & Hurley. Meadady at 10 has been excellent too

2 late goals from kildare made it tighter than it should have been. Mayo able to get their scores much easier throughout. Anyone know what the SF draw is?

Was at the game yesterday, as somebody alluded to Kildare were gassed after 60 minutes, that and the missed chances to kill us off cost us.

am a fan of AOS but as soon as he went off saw a big improvement. He should be an impact sub and/or stuck up at FF to give an option B for the last 10 -20 minutes of games. Carr Coen and Loftus all looked poor.

I’m glad we didn’t draw Donegal looking at this !

Anyone know where the minor SF is likely to be played?