Mayo GAA Discussion

I was one of the people who forked out for a tile and would like a bit more of an explanation from Touhy.

Good bless your optimism. I would be very surprised if the contractor is footing any cost.

If my reading of the article is correct, the previous work was mainly to do with the surface... And they've now discovered a drainage issue.

The quotes from Touhy aren't incouraging.

"We have agreed a programme of work with Colman Warde and we’re getting costings of that at the moment for the main pitch,” explained the chairman.

“It will cost a considerable amount of money."

Only if the fault of the issue is actually with the contractor, then it all depends on if the effort was put into the actual contract with the contractor in the first place!

This article from 2021 says that drainage works were in scope for the project.

Surely it's up to the contractor to make sure any drainage work is up to standard?

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Why? We were hammered, and played shite football.

It's not like we were even close to sligo or tried to play a progressive style of football.

Don’t rate Deane or Sheridan at all

I'd have a lot more time for Deane than Sheridan. At least Deane has a gameplan and encourages players to express themselves - Sheridan seems to curtail all that.

Sadly, as logical as that sounds, contracts are far more convoluted. It will all come down to the fine print in the tender documents and in cases like this can often be the inclusion or omission of a key word here or there as to where the liability sits.

"Specifications were drawn up and sent to four specialised pitch development companies, and all four submitted tenders."

In a case where the contractor WAS responsible with shoddy work (huge 'if' there, not for a second suggesting they were) they'd have a very plausible case of denying responsibility and laying blame at the feet of the engineers for the proposed remediation being responsible for the issues or the client for incorrect scoping of the work. Once you break ground on a project there will always be unknowns and unforeseen's where a plausible (if not entirely truthful) case can be put together on why the blame lays elsewhere and they successfully fulfilled their side of a contract.

It's also very possible the proposed remediation was flawed coming from the Engineers side and the issues lay there. All sorts of ways they'd be insulated and protected too and they're never too keen to take a reputational hit so would fight it tooth and nail.

It gets messy, fast.

Not beyond the bounds of possibility to end up burning through more than the cost of the resurfacing on legal fees with no guaranteed outcomes. Having been involved on both engineer and contractor sides of stuff like this if I was part of advising the county board I'd be looking for an amicable agreement with the bodies involved (everyone involved will have a fair idea what went wrong even if it's difficult to prove) to get a resolution and hope to solve it miles away from a court or legal disputes.

(Said as someone that also helped funding the mess of a surface.

For the money that has been poured into it my heart sunk every time the last year or so I glanced at the surface from behind one of the large pillars obstructing the view.)

Kerry looked sharp today, albeit against a team that knew their fate before the throw-in.

RTE and the Media happy to champion them as darlings again, and fear monger its competitors, its what our bland media do.

Mayo fans need to remember the qualities of our own team ,plus they are rested up.

Need to be aggressive going down there, but apply it in a controlled manner.

If we silence them in the opening 20 minutes ,the game will go the wire.

Durkan would be a disasterous loss

We need his pace like never before .

Coynes arm was in a sling last weekend …….

I wouldn't be paying too much attention to RTE tbh. From my own viewing, albeit against a fairly poor team, they looked very sharp.

We're rested up but we're also on the back of two fairly poor performances imo. It'll be our biggest test of the year and I'm far from optimistic... They'll be gunning for us after the result in Castlebar.

In fairness i doubt they give two **** about the game in Castlebar