Mayo GAA Discussion

Lack of belief and faith on these forums is something to behold.😄😄

Lose the fear and wataboutery lads,

Galway have yet to play a team at Mayos conditioning level.

Is in Croke park, not tuam.

Totally agree here.

Why would you not want to win a league final v Galway after the great league season they have had.

A league win is the perfect way to be starting the championship.

And remember it's Roscommon they are playing in the opener, not Jim Gavin's Dublin at their prime.

Yes thanks I got it in the end.

Yes, and mayo were far more conditioneder than Galway at the time……………..

But didn't have COC, Conroy, Durcan. Can't remember if McLaughlin played...

Edit and great news!

The Mayo News (ie the reputable football paper) reporting Tommy C will at least tog on Sunday.Thats a major bonus.

Any word on Hession? Would be great to see him back

What I heard was that he picked up an injury v Kerry, had recovered somewhat and then injured again in a challenge match. But who knows.

This is very true,I've been thinking about it a lot the last while.

Its just that many people cant/don't fully understand it because its natural to think we must go hell for leather for a provincial.

Over the next year or two as thi will play out and it'll become more apparent and dawn on people.. At that stage I think the next reforms will see the provincial moved to a pre season competition or something like that.

I have no strong feelings either way on keeping or getting rid of the provincial championships.I really do hope that Mayo fans will be smart about the way the fixtures have fallen and be able to see the long game though.

I think they will definitely tweak the championship next season. Only provincial winners should be guaranteed a place in group stages for Sam. Rest based on league position.

The pre-quarter finals should also go to free up a another week so the league final gets more prominence and not have the provincials starting straight after.

If the lads aren’t going hell for leather to beat the rosses in ten days and Galway a fortnight after. You can forget about them like. It’s not imperative we win but it’s an advantage having played tough games and knowing how we respond and how ou r subs perform and stuff there’s load of time between the first group game and Connacht semi final

maybe it’s different being close to the border but there isn’t a better crowd to beat than Galway and u can be sure they think the same 😂

The value of the pre-quarter finals is that they will almost entirely eliminate dead rubbers in the group stages.

With three coming out of a group that last game means something to someone.

We had dead rubbers in the old Quarter final group stages and they were exactly that, dead rubbers.

Upper cusack was an option for me when the tickets were released first!!

I'd definitely check TM at 9 on the dot tomorrow. They're releasing 307's in drips and drabs all week anyways. Only use the seats map because the Best Tickets filter generally gives the worst and most available sections like Davin/Hill.

Looking forward to the match now, should be a good tight game and a good test for both teams to see where we stand. Midfield is where we probably have an advantage with McDaid being out for Galway and Conroy (although he always seems to play well against us) aged 34 can hopefully be got at. I'd expect us to try to put the Galway keeper (will be interesting to see if Power holds his place) under pressure for most of the game.

Both sets of backs are likely to be under pressure with a good few new faces in there although Galway probably have a better overall defensive system than we do. I presume we'll have some plan in place for tracking Sean Kelly rather than having AOS chasing back after him.

If we can keep a clean sheet (only managed 3 so far in the league), I think we'll win by a point or two but that's a fairly big IF