The 2023 All Ireland Senior Football Championship (Sam Maguire Cup)

Put up the photo of mayo winning Sam.....

yes you are correct it very hard to support 2 teams at senior level. Thankfully this group of players are restoring some pride to galway football and are developing into a good bunch, hopefully an all ireland winning bunch. What mayo do is of no concern to me. Green and red mention about filling the togs in croke park and i just reminded him of a day we didn't.

I guess PJ wasn't the only one moaning afterwards! I wouldn't be bringing up diving either after your captain's theatrics against Monaghan.

https://twitter.com/Joe_Stalwart/status/1632457024775639041?t=D6SiW0zn99aPrzioX2OE6A&s=19

i didnt see many empty sits at the all ireland final last year. So if mayo had a competitive senior hurling team, do you think that they will be supported aswell as the footballers. When Joe Canning arrived on the scene allot of the football followers and football strongholds started going to hurling matches and are slowly filtering back towards the football and plus it bloody expensive to follow two teams who are at the tail end of the championship majority of years. You mention about the population of galway, its at 280,000, sure 20,000 of that are from mayo 😁 and another 10,000 are from roscommon and you can discount 80,000 in galway city so we are pretty even in GAA following stakes.

Using that logic the poor support for Galway has been an advantage over the years has it? 🙄

This is the only narrative you need:

1951

72 years and counting.

Enjoy princess.

I feel i might be wasting my time here but games from when before players were born or when they were toddlers like 1951 and 2001 have little bearing on today.

Let's look at the more relevant stats involving guys that play for galway and Mayo at the moment (you might have missed it as you didn't address it or comment on it)

Finals in Croke Park in the last 5 years.

Mayo Played 5 Won 3 Lost 2

Galway Played 5 Won 0 Lost 5

I'm guessing there'll be no reply or a really p1ss poor one like above.

Mayo have beaten Galway every time we've played them in Croke Park in the history of the GAA.

Mayo have the best win ratio of any team outside of Dublin (and perhaps kerry,not sure on that) this century.Galway have the worst win ratio of any team with top 10 notions since the turn of the century.

These are unconfortable truths for the aristocrats and their shawl.

Also as to your earlier point about past glories,Mayo will be as worried about the Galway team of 98 as galway will be about the Mayo team of 51.

Haha! I dont know where you're getting those numbers from.

Anyway,back on planet earth it is a mad sports statistic that Mayo lost 11 finals since 89.I was at all of them and they all had their own story 96,2013,were the ones we should have won (possible the first day in 2016 also) when you see two own goals in an all ireland final in 7 mins you have to start believing in curses etc!

2017 the best final of the modern era,two teams at the absolute peak of their powers,a privilege to be at that game.Possibly the only time Dublin support was outnumbered in Croke Park ,a great summer and adventure.

We were no match for kerry in 04 and 06 and just happy to be there really,happy to be there in 89 aswell but could have won.

Didn't show up against Tyrone in 21 and kerry in 97 and those are the ones that bug me,no excuses,there for the taking.

Anyway,I know from you're posting history and indeed your nonsense post above that you're a wum and not interested in football talk but I'll throw this up here anyway.

A great win ratio, but no Senior All Ireland in that period is an awful shame though, I think you'd agree?

Hopefully you get to see them lift Sam once in your life, I can tell you as a Galwayman its a great feeling.

How difficult would a ticket be to come by for Donegal v Derry on 4th June? In the area, tempted by it but wouldn't fully commit till closer to the time

Picking metrics is to suit your narrative is pretty easy.

Let's stick with championship.

Let's stick with current form since you don't like to delve to deep into the past (for obvious reasons)

Who has better championship form over the last two seasons wins vs losses. Go.

Metrics are pretty simple. Why you've fixated on this Croke Park and finals is beyond me. Getting into finals usually means the opposition are not half bad. Nature of sport. Doesn't reflect on much. Especially when league finals are being included. We call them friendlies in Galway.

Your whole point is "pis$ poor". But an empty vessel makes the most noise kinda response is what I was expecting and you didn't disappoint. Saying something for the sake of it.

So you've hung your hat on the fact

Mayo have Played 5 won 3 Lost 2

Galway have Played 5 won 0 Lost 5

In Croke Park. But you forgot about the Connacht Final in Croke Park in 2021........ which is included in Mayos 3 and Galways 5.........

So you've no idea of the context of the stats your spouting.....

And I'm embarrassing myself.

Morto for your ma lad. Morto.

Good lord you're embarrassing yourself. You can't talk about the recent past (last 2 seasons), and you can't talk about the long term past (1884-2012) without cradling in the fetal position, so you cherrypick the one decade in time (2012-2021) mayo had a better team than Galway and some nonsense other stats and repeat ad nauseam.

Galway are the third most successful football county on 9 All Irelands. Will that trend continue? Probably not, the counties pivoted fairly clearly to hurling but there is a good football crop at the moment so we'll see.

Mayo are about 25th on the roll of honour with 3 All Irelands, less than Louth or Tipp or Wexford. Perhaps they can go out this year and finally catch Wexford on 4, especially with no Soccer/Rugby/Hurling to compete in any meaningful way in the county. Until that (and a few more All Irelands thereafter) happens, Mayo fans would do well not to start unprompted attacks on more successful counties