Mayo GAA Discussion

It is far from meaningless. If Mayo topped the group, they have a great chance to get to semi final stage. And anything can happen then. If they came third, I wouldn't be so confident of an away match in Louth or Cork . And then they have the issue of several matches one week after the other. And we have seen in previous years how injuries and fatigue take their toll.

Really inexperienced full back line. Fully expect at least one of o Hora or Hession to start

Looks like Mcstay has decided to move forward with other goal keeping options as well ……

My thoughts too. They are not yet the prominent names mentioned like Durkan, Ruane, O'Donoghue etc. further up the pitch, but the 3 on the full-back line put in some ferocious tackling in the league games - against the likes of Kerry, Tyrone, Galway. McBrien was a big loss in the latter league games when he was injured and then just coming back from injury. Hopefully he will have regained his full fitness. He's going to have a tough ask tomorrow against Clifford (assuming he will be marking him). I cannot see anyone else to put on him. Need someone with a bit of speed and height.

I'd say Clifford and Jason Foley must have some great battles in training. Foley is the only full-back that I could imagine keeping tabs on him.

Can't wait for match tomorrow. I'll need to splash out on that 3 match deal on GAAGo to get it. Presume it's not being shown on any Facebook page or anything similar? And then subscribe to Dazn tomorrow night for the Katie Taylor fight.

Why can't things be simple - when we just had RTE1 and RTE2, no choice on what to watch, no pay per view, and the highlight of the week was Where in the World followed by Glenroe.

What’s this 3 match deal thing on GAAGO?

You can buy a 3 match pass for €24. While buying matches one at a time is €12.

Mayo published team is the same starting 15 from the league final win against Galway so settled McStay line up.

Brickenden's injury is long term, so I've heard. So unfortunately I don't think we'll be seeing him again for some time.

Can't be comparing what happened 2013 to 2017 to the current team it's a much changed team now and I have no doubt that both Kerry and Mayo if they can help it will be looking to avoid a play off match a week before All Ireland Quarter final.

Wouldn't imagine McStay mislead in the update he gave. He'd lose way more than he'd gain on that.

Surgery successful and well ahead of progress on the rehab. Wouldn't be available for the Kerry game but should be back in contention by the end of the month.

Big step from eligible for contention to making the 26 when we've got the 14 (managed to leave out Donnacha McHugh from the 13 mentioned previously) lads all fighting for defensive spots but great to have more options there. Especially when they offer a bit more height and physicality like Rory.

Mayo U17s won the Connacht semi final against Roscommon tonight in MacHale Park 2-13 2-12 with the winner coming with the last attack of the match in the 3rd minute of added time. Play Galway in the final Final next Friday in Tuam and both finalists are into the All Ireland Quarter final.

Even in the last 4 years we've beaten pretty much all the major contenders, bar Tyrone and Kerry, in championship.

My point was topping the group and avoiding the play off game is a better position to be in Éamonn Fitzmaurice made a similar point the other day.

https://twitter.com/RTEgaa/status/1659257551299518483

Finals are different for Mayo.

They have beaten everyone on the way to finals, and regularly have beaten the counties mentioned in the post I was replying to.

They were beaten by a very average Kildare team in Newbridge not too long ago - it was recognised that a heavy run of games and injuries picked up along the way were a large factor as to why the team couldn't rally in extra time. They want to avoid coming third, and potentially having an away game against any of the opposition that I name, which could be a potential banana skin for the Mayo team. And incurs extra travel, which they could do without, considering the quarter final is on the following week.

We are assuming that Kerry will top the group. On that basis, I feel it is crucial that Mayo come second if they want a continued run towards Sam. If they come third, and have to play the likes of Tyrone or Armagh in their home grounds, it will be a tough ask, and then to rally in a quarter final the following week. And God knows how many little knocks they will pick up along the way.

I would have thought if it was being streamed as a subscription service you at least would not be subjected to adds!