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According to the unreliable Connacht telegraph. Jack Coyne, Conor Loftus and Paddy Durcan are on the treatment table.
Durkan would be a disasterous loss
We need his pace like never before .
Coynes arm was in a sling last weekend …….
Is this going to bring the GaGo controversy to a head, a game between possibly the two best teams in the country behind a paywall?
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.
Durcan out with another injury would be annoying. He was only just back.
In fairness i doubt they give two **** about the game in Castlebar
Amazing what 1 game in Munster & some media bigging does to the mindset of the average Mayo fan.
Mayo fans are now fearing a backlash from Kerry after a novel victory in Castlebar , despite taking humiliating beatings off them last season, and also in the All-Ireland series in 2019.
If anything Mayo & its fan-base should be travelling down to Kerry to re-enforce the reality that those days of taking beatings are over, and will now go toe2toe like how it used to be between 2012-2018.
We are not Clare or Tipperary.
Its nearly like we've got no divine right to go down to Killarney and give them a bloodied nose.
As "Ah Ref" stated in a recent pod , we must take "our medicine" on the 20th for beating them during the winter.
Is it any wonder we are waiting 70 years with that mentality.
Tickets on sale now, 25 for adults, 5 for kids
Edit: that seems to be for the terrace only, no stand tickets available at the moment.
You have to search for other tickets. In Kerry if you are able to stand you go to the terrace. We leave the terrace to older, infirm supporters and foundlings. ''This is the way''
Real story most Kerry supporters prefer the Green and Blue terrace area even on a wet day
Other group games that weekend €25 General admission. Stand tickets probably first reserved for season ticket holders and whatever are left will be put on sale?
€25 for stand too
Kevin McStay said the injuries Mayo have at the moment is Cillian O’Connor, Brendan Harrison and Rory Brickenden . No mention of injuries to Jack Coyne,Paddy Durcan and Cornor Loftus so I'm guessing the Connaught telegraph was wrong with such rumours again.
The published championship panel
Aidan O’Shea, Aiden Orme, Bob Tuohy, Brendan Harrison, Conor Loftus, Conor McStay, Cillian O’Connor, Colm Reape, David McBrien, Darren McHale, Diarmuid O’Connor, Donnacha McHugh, Eoghan McLaughlin, Enda Hession, Fionn McDonagh, Frank Irwin, Jack Carney, Jack Coyne, James Carr, Jason Doherty, James McCormack, Jordan Flynn, Kevin McLaughlin, Matthew Ruane, Michael Plunkett, Paddy Durcan (captain), Padraic O’Hora, Paul Towey, Rob Hennelly, Rory Brickenden, Rory Byrne, Ruairi Keane, Ryan O’Donoghue, Sam Callinan, Stephen Coen (vice-captain), Tommy Conroy (vice-captain)
Good to hear on the injuries front, I think with a full panel, we have every chance against Kerry - we'll need to dominate midfield though, if they win enough ball and get it inside, it's going to be hard to stop them
It would be good craic to start a daft rumour on here and see how long it takes before Aiden Henry presents it as an "exclusive " in the Connaught.
Here ye go.....😀
Andy Moran is flying in training apparently
So what's the quality of the GAA go streams like? It is worth buying the 3 match package as I assume Mayo v Cork and Louth will also be on there?
Ive found it pretty good so far, no issues at all.
Assuming everyone except Harrison & Brickendon are available, what 15 will we start with? Something like this for me:
Reape
Callinan McBrien Coyne
Durcan Loftus Coen
Ruane DOC
Flynn Carney Hession
AOS ROD Carr
That leaves a fairly strong bench of Cillian, Tommy C, McDonagh, Tuohy, McHale, Swanny, McLaughlin
Hession might be a bit left field but I'd have him there to pick up White as he's one of the few we have who'd be capable of sticking with him
I really like that idea of Hession on White... But I just can't see it happening.
Hopefully they're all fully fit, it'll be a great yardstick to see where we are / and still have a bit of time to work on things if needed.
If it counts for anything Mayo's recent challenge game form was apparently a win against Tyrone and defeat to Kildare.
Saturday should tell us a lot. I think Callinan will take up Clifford but the big challenge will be stopping the supply. Hopefully we've come up with an alternative to Loftus at 6 but I doubt it
I really doubt that as well, there hasn't been a hint of it yet, rather a doubling down of sorts by also playing Jason Doc there
Was thinking about the whole Loftus experiment and whatever about playing him in that role against a team like Kerry/Dublin who come out to play football, it's completely pointless playing him against teams who played a packed defence - there's almost never an opportunity to play the long ball in.
I would say the opposite. It makes some sense vs defensive teams where he won't have to mark anyone and will have time on the ball to set up attacks.
Against the likes of Kerry he'll have to mark someone.
I don't think it makes sense on any level tbh. Was there a game in the League where there was even a glimmer that we might be on to something?
We didn't see any great playmaking or passing, yet we were fairly open down the middle, regardless of the opposition.
I wasn't optimistic about it but I was willing to see if it would work. There were no real signs of it working and just a sense that it'll really get exposed come the heat of the Championship imo.
Seeing Jason Doc come forward as the backup CB was just as worrying. I can't get my head around it at all, and I'm sure decent teams will be looking forward to exposing this against us.
I'm the same,could see what they were thinking and willing to trust the management but I saw more negatives than positives in the league with Conor at chb.Having said that,him getting blamed for us being open down the middle is way too simple.If you analyse those goal chances a lot of the time the blame was elsewhere.
Didn't mean to imply it's all his fault at all. We're still very open at times in general so it's definitely not the fault or responsibility of just one player... But CB is a key position (maybe less so for some teams that have completely embraced blanket defences) and it's who I would still look to to be making sure things are solid back there.
He's not a defender that's for sure and I don't think the idea of him spraying passes and unlocking defenses in the quarter back role has worked.He was scoring a lot more from midfield aswell even though I couldn't really see his worth there either.I think he's a good solid footballer and could do a job in the hf line,maybe coming off the bench.
I do trust the management though and they know more than all of us put together and see what's happening in training aswell.
