Mayo GAA Discussion

Diarmuid is by some distance our most important and irreplaceable player IMO. He makes everyone else look better

33-1 for POTY, just saying

Fair play to Sam Callinan. He was playing on one of the earlier games in the league (I think he came on as sub), and it was all going wrong for him. Mistake after mistake. I thought this guy is nowhere near good enough. And then game after game, he started to improve and was Mayos best player yesterday - for me anyway.

It's a pity Towey and McStay couldn't grip the chance yesterday and put in a performance. I can't see either being an impact sub - someone you'd turn to in the heat of battle, looking to having a steadying influence. Both are too light and carry the ball into contact and then losing it. Must be frustrating for the other players.

Speaking of frustrations, there were a lot of kicks at goal landing short again - dropping into the keepers hands. I can understand the first half against the wind. But no excuses in the second half from 30 yards out. Darren Mchale kicked a point, but everything after that was woeful. A wide, dropping kicks short, bad passes. Mattie Ruane was kicking them into the Keepers hands as well. It would be interesting to see the stats we to which team in division 1 has kicks at goal that drop short. Cause we seem to do an awful lot of it.

Stephen Coen had a great first half. Must be his new tight haircut. But he seemed to be everywhere. Was more anonymous in the second half, but good performance overall.

Yesterday was good for Mayo. Got to rest several players, other players got a decent piece of game time practice. No harm that they lost - better than our second team beating Monaghan and have an overinflated level of confidence going into the league final/and then first round of the championship. The players that were trialed yesterday now have a greater understanding of the levels required, and hopefully it will encourage them to push on even further.

Yeah fair enough, I didnt really consider it from the Galway side. They went full pelt yesterday and will value the extra day to prepare as much as we would the following week.

At least it should be a cracking game. I've never really gotten the "do they really want to win the league" argument but surely no fear of anyone shying back on Sunday

Tickets available now - Section 302 is the best available for anyone bringing kids so I might hang on until later in the week

No. I got caught with that for the U20 final v Kildare a few years back, had a 1 year old with me and they wouldn't let her through without a ticket. Luckily, I was able to buy one online rather than having to walk back to the ticket office - have no idea why it's not free for games where capacity isn't limited

Not great.

The gates at the Albany end were locked throughout the game,totally against all health and safety rules and genuinely dangerous.

They were still locked at full time as people were trying to get out. Emergency services/medics,ambulances etc couldn't get in or out.

They were more concerned with keeping a few kids off the pitch (which didn't go too well for them) ,they'd really want to cop on and get the finger out.

They are such pr1cks the way they stick anyone with juvenile tickets in the nosebleeds. I was looking yesterday and had the same issue. ended up buying adult tickets for the 2 kids so we can have a proper view of the match but its not on!

Yeah, I was thinking the same - once the first match is over, a rake of people (esp Derry with a decent drive ahead of them) will head off so there'll be plenty of empty seats

That said, there's no good reason for restricting people with kids to the Cusack side only for example

Any other season ticket or chairde Maigheo ticket holders having trouble downloading tickets for final?

Out of curiousity, would a red card in the league final rule a player out of the first championship match. Hopefully it doesn't come to that.

It wasn't last year....

Adults tickets are €25, kids are €5 from what I seen yesterday.

With the new championship format and the lesser importance of the provincial championship, you’d think that winning the league is more desirable than ever. Beating one of the best four sides in the country and winning something at Croke Park certainly wouldn’t be the worst way to head into the championship, if we can manage to beat Galway which is far from a certainty.

Our place in the group stages of the All Ireland is already locked in, so if we win Connacht, there’s no guarantee we’ll even end up with an easier path to a potential final in July.

There’s no excuse not to go hell for leather in a league final anymore IMO.

We aren't going to be full strength though as far as I can tell.