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I see AhRef is running with The McStayWay as a follow on from HoranBall... Tongues firmly in cheek.
Those odds are more in line with what I was thinking. I would have Galway and Kerry closer.
It would be a big shock if Kerry lost at home to the Rossies next. If we give them the two points there, it could quite likely come down to Galway Vs Kerry as being the decider.
I can't see Armagh taking 4 points from Galway home and Tyrone away.
10/1 for Kerry is a crazy price imo and it's still available.
Early days yet. McStay has a habit of having teams running on all cylinders early. Maintaining the momentum for the whole season is what we need to be doing.
Galway getting to the final last year was no flash in the pan. I would have been a huge admirer of PJ as a player but I'm not sure about him as a manager yet. I could be proven wrong this year. I think having Cian O'Neill there alongside him is a great shout though.
Paddy Power have odds up now for it as well. Mayo 5/6,Galway 4/1, Kerry 6/1, Armagh 8/1, Roscommon 9/1, Tyrone 16/1
I dont think anybody said he isnt! He will have a league title in a few weeks as well im sure and good luck to him!
Sean Kelly is a super footballer and Mayo know it. He's well able for anything Aidan O Shea can produce at full forward. Kelly and Galway will win an All Ireland SFC in the next 3 years.
Running across a defender no bother when the player is in possession. Handy way to win a free. Doing it a million miles away from the action is a totally different situation trying to get a lad black carded. In the modern game players run side by side all game long tracking runners. Lads were throwing themselves into each like that no one would be left on the pitch.
Anyway my comment was in jest more in defence of AOS than anything else. Galway is one of the more frequent teams he battered playing full forward and I still get the sweats when he lines up there.
Poor Kelly might get a Chinese burn the next day as Karma.
Good luck also. Sure it’s all only a bit of Craic.
But the proof is there - he was tripped and the penalty was warranted, whether the trip was accidental or not (I believe it to have been accidental). Also It was 7 years ago, yet you’re still sore about it. Kelly going down like he’d been shot and then writhing on the ground for a few minutes trying to get a lad sent off after only the slightest of contact is quite different, and it was last Sunday, and much more current no matter what spin you want to place on it.
Anyway I do hope Kelly makes a full and speedy recovery from the awful Purple Nurple. He certainly seemed to be in great pain and suffered great injury, despite barely having been touched at all.
Yeah, showing pictures that proves he was tripped is waffle alright. I’m sorry you got all sore about the purple nurple comment re Kelly but dragging up an incident from 7 years ago to make your case and then dismissing the clear evidence presented to you that the penalty was warranted as “waffle” won’t win you many debating competitions.
Everyone wants the play acting gone and would like to see it punished but the whataboutery won’t progress anything.
Genuinely surprised you don't have more acknowledgement for this post. Very funny. Kudos
Fermanagh lost by 5 points in case anyone has forgotten. The still shot shows the trip which cannot be seen in the clip you shared.
That penalty against Fermanagh was blown way out of proportion. Their keeper came out afterwards and said he considered retiring over it! Not to mention Marty M bringing an iPad into his interview with the Fermanagh manager just so he'd call Aido out for diving. Nobody did that last weekend for the Cox and Kelly dives though.
I'd definitely agree with you on the punishment! They have to start clamping down more on that type of behaviour!
The loser of the Mayo v Roscommon Quarter final will be 3rd seed in the group and in a group with a provincial winner Dublin, Kerry, Ulster champions and will play them away in round 1.
If you don't win the group its prem round played a week before the All-Ireland Quarter and the opposition will be rested.
Long story short this new format is set up best for the provincial winner to win their group and All-Ireland quarter final match.
I disagree on the clip with Cillian in it - as a forward, it's common practice to run across the path of a chasing back; literally every single forward in the history of the game has done it at some point
To be fair to AOS, that is not part of his game. The Fermanagh incident got plenty debate before, but there is pictures out there that show contact! I don't think anyone in their right mind could argue against Cillian acting the maggot in that clip, he did the same thing to Tom Flynn in Pearse stadium a few years back if i remember correctly. Darran O'Sullivan in the replay in 2017 if i remember correctly too??The list goes on! Definitely in the same bucket as Sean Kelly's effort at the weekend.
He threw himself, the arms were up, but it was fairly clear the was minimal contact. And it doesn't take much to put someone of balance when running. Plenty an ankle tap has taken down a big man.
But whether people want to think he dived, went down easy, was tripped etc... it really isn't the same as Kelly dropping and faking an injury in my book.
It's something that is a problem in the game now. I wouldn't be getting too righteous about it myself, as it could be one of ours acting the maggot next week.
The GAA really need to get some video evidence and start handing out bans.
Another thing they really need to address is lads falling into "high tackles". Lads seeing a raised arm and pretty much initiating the contact. Very hard for a ref to spot it though and video evidence mightn't be conclusive either.
Wasn’t referring to you as a troll but if you look at the photos you can see it was a trip. Again those photos didn’t make it to the Sunday game commentary at the time and they were ignored, even though they show the trip clearly. That was the point I was making. It was a different angle which Marty Morrissey didn’t have on his iPad to show the Fermanagh manager after the game, and that particular incident has been bandied about as a dive when it clearly wasn’t.
I’ll admit my purple nurple reference was perhaps a little inflammatory. And for what it’s worth I don’t care for the feigning of injury to get players sent off from any players, and that includes mayo players.
its something that’s rarely punished - I’ve only seen someone getting penalised for it once, a Kildare player in the league game last year in Pairc Seán getting a yellow for acting injured. The ref even dismissed the medical team running onto the pitch and gave the lad a yellow card, can’t recall which Kildare player it was.
Refs do certainly need more assistance when it comes to the appropriate decisions but by the same token need to start penalising players that are acting the maggot. That includes lying on the ball to slow down play as well.
*Threw himself to the floor because he was tripped, not because someone tickled his tummy.
That prompted me to check the odds for the league. My flutter is mainly confined to the grand national these days so I might be missing a trick but I was surprised that it took so long to find odds for the league.
None of the Irish ones seem to have odds. William Hill have us 4/5 on followed by Rossies and Galway. But Kerry 10/1 and Tyrone 50/1 are huge odds for outright winners.
Kerry especially imo, Galway and Roscommon up next for them, if they start to find some form, they could easily find themselves in the final by accident. Yera.
Those final spot(s) is fairly wide open I would have thought.
There sure is. Of course that didn’t get the same level of notice from the trolls
https://twitter.com/inphojames/status/752245287327072256?s=46&t=ykVB3m4Gr-33Rm_rENBb4A
Probably the same kind of trip that O'Laoi got black carded for last year when Cillian decided to fall into him...........
Playing them in a league final wouldn't be bad experience either!
Winning is a habit. We are unbeaten so far this year. Got to keep the momentum going Playing Galway in Connacht is one of the highlights of the year. And that game be better experience for mcbrein , coyne carr Conroy than a years worth of training
Seeing that, we should really try Aido at FF more often.
Disgraceful carry on from Galway.. Keep at that and they won't win Sam for 75 yrs.. Or more...
There is a pretty clear picture from the stand side showing O'Shea got tripped for that penalty.
ah there's no doubt Matty was acting the maggot. That said some players react differently. I mean look at how Sean Kelly reacts to what can only be described as the most painful Purple Nurple ever applied to a grown man in the history of Purple Nurples.
Looked bad from that angle but I'd say he got more ball than leg... And Matty was nothing if not looking for it tbh.
