Mayo GAA Discussion

Tuohy and Towey the standout players so far.

So is Reape the number 1 for championship?

Hennelly looked rusty alright. Reape has really stepped up, it's his to lose from what I'm told.

Has the date and time for the League final been fixed?

Should be a decent final.

Sort of worrying that Conroy was nowhere to be seen today. What's the story there? I thought he might have gotten significant game time today since he hasn't really played a ton of football this year.

O'Hora seemed off the pace? He might struggle to get a starting place? Though he has been out for a while now too.

I'm not sure playing a forward at 6 is working great - we coughed up a lot of goal chances today; I'd like to see Coen there and have him holding the centre

Yeah, himself or Leeroy in there would make us a lot more solid

If it was not on yesterday on a TV station it unlikely. If it was you can watch on the Player but it's a pain between adds and buffering

No. Sadly.

We can get fantastic coverage of minor and 20s these days with streams available for every game.... but when it comes to Senior and the chance to do exclusivity deals with RTE/TG4/BBC we end up getting access to 3 games (Galway Kerry, Tyrone Armagh and Dublin Louth) out of the 16 games on the most exciting day of league football.

I'm sure it generates slightly higher revenue in the short term but the long term impacts are incredibly detrimental. From smaller counties missing out on better sponsorship deals to young fans missing out on access to potential heroes that might keep them playing the game there's so many indirect consequences of it that appear to get ignored time and time again. The period during Covid showed that the technical ability is there to do it perfectly now we just need myopic administration to realise that a small dent in ticket sales is absolutely worth it for a big boost in the overall health of the game.

The most recent rights deal was just renegotiated about 6 months ago so a couple of years to run on that yet. No harm mentioning any displeasure at the lack of access good and early so they've time to take the feedback on board before future renegotiations.

(Says a lot when I'm here complaining about it as a Mayo fan. We had 7 of our 8 league games shown live, likely to have similar coverage for Round Robin and knockout games due to the fanbase we bring, and even I can see how unbalanced the current system is when it comes to cracking games like Sligo Leitrim being ignored further down the ladder.)

You didn't miss a lot yesterday Par, fairly lack lustre from us, which is understandable, the game was there for the taking at one stage I felt but we didn't push on, kicked three wides in a row, I felt at that stage if we had got ahead Monaghan would have folded.

Probably told us a lot about our squad depth.

Callinan was excellent, Swanny looks way off the pace, DOC was awful at 6, which was disappointing, I thought it would suit him, Plunkett did well

Tuohy is still a young buck, physically he needs to develop, ok when hes surrounded by bigger lads but Monaghan bullied him at midfield. Much too early for Irwin to play senior for Mayo, he seems like a great talent but its just too early, a couple of years in with the panel will do no harm though.

Towey, IMO, isn't good enough for intercounty, lacking height, bulk and pace, we've seen lots of club players like this over the years, Durcan and Douggie from Castlebar would be two that spring to mind

Great to see Darren McHale back, I think he can be important for us from 11, I don't think we have too many with his vision, even if he did over cook some of his passes yesterday

What's the time frame for him expected to be?

I thought Callinan was very good, he'll be close to starting for championship I'd say. I thought we struggled on the breaking ball yesterday which is an area we have been doing v well on to date

Wouldn't be surprised with that, Diarmuid mops up / anticipates so much of that breaking ball.

Seems odd that the GAA would reject Mayos request to play on Saturday, given its already a designated match day. I see no reason why they couldnt do div 1 and 4 Saturday, and 2 and 3 on Sunday. With Dublin in the Div 2 final, it would even ensure a better spread of the crowd over both days.

If they were asking for a match day to be moved, fair enough - but in an already compressed season, why not try to faciliate players a bit?

I don't know but it required a scan.

I'd say that him out for league final and Roscommon game anyway.