Mayo GAA Discussion

According to the unreliable Connacht telegraph. Jack Coyne, Conor Loftus and Paddy Durcan are on the treatment table.

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?

Durcan out with another injury would be annoying. He was only just back.

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.

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?

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)

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.

Andy Moran is flying in training apparently

Ive found it pretty good so far, no issues at all.

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.

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 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.

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.