Mayo GAA Discussion

I think its a decent gig to get for Dempsey. This will be his first taste of senior inter county management and has Div 2 football team to manage with low expectations. If they are relegated they could have a right cut at the Tailteann cup.

Where'd you see about the two week suspension? I wouldn't believe the telegraph if they told me it was Thursday.

IMO the right decision to reinstate Westport, it's not the kids fault that some lunatic can't control his temper. The penalty should be against him

I've heard Gibbons got off, quite rightly imo.

Exactly, given all that has went on recently, any time a mentor walks onto the pitch (even before anything happens) should be an automatic forfeit of the game and suspension of that mentor imo.

They need to crack down on this very hard but in typical fashion, a half arsed "solution" has been found.

Let the club/mentor apologise to the kids for the error of their ways.

Wrong code

Some end to the Mitchels Westport game, high drama.

Should be an excellent final in store.

I'm working in Castlebar, you get a good cross section of supporters

Castlebar gutted to have left it behind them, 30 seconds was all they needed to hold out for. Westport delighted, much better than winning handy

Unfortunately Ballina looked very good, Frank Irwin in particular but Ballintubber have only themselves to blame, all three goals were from their mistakes.

Swanny commits about four yellow card offences per game, it'll catch up with him some day

Was at the ladies final in Bekan, Burrishoole the deserved winners, awful game though

Well it seems this loss made them reconsider their position on the u17 game. They must have just realised that it was serious and report to Tulsa after the weekend loss.

Gaa have now an perfect example to sort this stuff out and stop hiding behind appeals. Cunning move by castlebar but if it was so serious they should have gone at the start..

It's funny what a loss can do

Well it was over a week ago the decision was given on the appeal. In the mean time they get dumped out of the championship and by Thursday they release a statement around been so concerned about abuse to an underage player about 3 to 4 weeks after the incident.

If this was serious they should have gone straight away to Tulsa. Bringing in Tulsa speaks that this is very serious but it took them nearly a month to decide. It is not just the lunney who is to blame but CM for sitting by and taking nearly a month to report.

They have made themselves look bad in this as well for their lack of action but it would seem that they were more concerned about last sunday.

If you complete any of these underage programmes , there are clear guidelines on reporting abuse and in a timely manner is also important.

I'm not one to fight Mitchels corner but you can't be serious in thinking they are doing all this because they lost a senior semi final...

They were rightly annoyed by the appeal decision. An absolutely crazy decision.

There has been no sense of bitterness from anyone I've spoken to from Mitchels about the game on Sunday. Nearly all acknowledged the better team won and they would have stole the game. Zero evidence of this being sour grapes from what I can see.

Connacht SFC Dates

Quarter-Finals

Saturday/Sunday 8th/9th April

New York v Leitrim, Gaelic Park

London v Sligo, Ruislip

Sunday 9th April

Mayo v Roscommon MacHale Park

Semi Finals

Saturday/Sunday 22nd/23rd April

Mayo/Roscommon v Galway

Sligo/London v Leitrim New York

Final Sunday 7th May

Before then the FBD and all matches bizarrely to be played indoors in the Connacht GAA dome again.

Quarter final

Leitrim v Galway Jan 6th

Semi finals

Sligo v Roscommon Jan 13th

Mayo v Leitrim/Galway Jan 14th

Final set for Jan 20th