Mayo GAA Discussion

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Total F U. It is shooting yourself in the both feet... idiotic stuff. The only team laughing are Kerry. Handy all ireland for some team as there is feck all between most, but Dublin and Kerry have more quality. No better team to take handy all irelands than Kerry.

Haha! This lad keeps replying to me but I can never see it.Everything he posts gets deleted in minutes.

Time so see some ruthlessness from management I think. Whatever way you slice it, the team has massively underperformed in 3 of the 4 championship games they played this year. I hope they have more strings to their bow than crossing fingers and hoping teams take us on in a fire fight like Kerry did, or it will be a short season.

I cant personally see how anyone couldnt find fault in the CHB position the last couple of games. James Carr is probably due a sit down too, though I think he has a lot to offer before the season is out

If Loftus is selected at 6 this weekend I'm finished with this management.

The referee clearly wanted Mayo beaten on Sunday giving Cork everything, but Mayo should have built up a margin of error so he couldn't have impacted the game.

Don't know what it is with Mayo teams over the years, but their inability to put the foot on the throat of opposition teams is baffling, and its costing them year after year.

Do you honestly believe that an inter county ref went out with the intention of helping a team?

The only thing that's baffling is that there are people like you who genuinely believe that kinda rubbish

I'm sure there was nothing malicious in the refs intentions. But in fairness, you do have a point in terms of the refs calls. The punch in the back of the head by the Cork full back was a strange rush of blood by him, and he deserved to go. Maybe the ref didn't see it properly, and thought he was making an attempted for the ball. But it was as blatant a red card as you will see for striking. And Ryan O'Donoghue took a a whack to the head, that he actually let play on. That was bizarre. Even if we were to ignore dishing out a card for that strike, how it wasn't given as a free was a strange decision. It's difficult to fathom what could have been going through the refs head when the incident occurred. Did he think Ryan dived? I don't know. In any case, like you say, Cork deserved the result - due to the way they dug in and clawed it back in the last 15.

You're only looking at it from the Mayo side. Cork were roaring for a black in the first half, could easily have been given. ROD bought a free in the second half where the pass in was over hit, ROD stops and the let's the back go through him to win the free.

People thought the ref was against us v Roscommon too. Funny how we get rode the days we lose

I was at the Roscommon game, and thought in real time that the ref was bad. But I was led by the crowd roaring, tensions running high and not having the benefit of rewind and replaying the incident. I went home and watched the match that night, and rewound some of the "dubious decisions". It turned out he got almost all of them correct in my opinion.

I wasn't at the Cork game - and had the benefit of replaying the incidents on the screen straight away. And the incidents referred to in the last few posts are bizarre calls by the ref. The ROD incident that you referred to is a free all day long. ROD has the option to stop in his tracks if he likes. Just because he stopped, and the back went through him like a runaway train, doesn't male it any less a free. He was clearly taken out of it.

Anyway, what's done is done. Can only look ahead to the Galway game now. Can't wait for it. Any update on the Galway injuries. I would really fancy Mayos chances if Galway without Comer and Kelly. And we have good enough backs to keep tabs on Shane Walsh and Matthew Tierney. Midfield would be the main worry. Galway have Conroy, McDaid, Cooke and Maher. The 4 of them are unlikely to all start, but they are all big strong athletic guys who can play ball, and have plenty of experience. Our midfield area seems fairly limp in comparison.

They couldn't be replaced, rather than included, due to paperwork (although that's now being disputed). Neither were deemed fit to tog so both were removed from the squad. God knows they couldve done with either with 10 mins left. McHugh rather than Kelly also, Kelly went off hobbling

"I hope we get Mayo tomorrow, they are headless when pressure is put on them." Galway Supporter on boards.ie, that is what some Galway Supporters think of Mayo. We lost a five point lead against Armagh, we were nearly caught by Louth and lost a six point lead against Cork. To win in Salthill we will have to show Character and Leaders in the Team will have to stand up. Johnny Heaney has scored a number of goals against us (Stephen O Brien tracked him and blocked his goal bound shot in last year's Final) are we ready for the threat the Galway Forwards pose?. If every Mayo Player stands up on Sunday we can get a result.

Poor Roscommon got robbed in the minor Connacht Semi Final this year against us with some ridiculous calls in our favour and plenty of cases where refs can also be poor in general and not having the decisions tending to favour one side or the other. It's not just Mayo-bias saying a ref had a poor match when they have in fact had a disaster.

The weekend was one of the worst performances I've seen in a while. When an intercounty ref pulls a team twice for punching the ball on the ground, perfectly executed under exception 1.2(ii) of rule 1.2 as they've fallen/been knocked in possession, they're literally not getting the first page of the rules right (page 70 of Part 2 really, but first page of the football section). The ref wasn't solely responsible for the loss, we managed that all by ourselves, but we have to demand higher standards from intercounty officials and do a much better job of protecting our players (the lack of retrospective action by HQ against both/either Cork and Armagh for incidents involving intentional head punches, or even more so the sucker punch from Brannigan in the club game in Down a couple of weeks ago that cost a few teeth, is bizarre).

This isn't ref bashing in general... we have great young refs being locked at junior/intermediate/underage for far too long while poor repeated performers remain at senior/intercounty level too long too. The system of grading/selection is horribly inefficient and damaging the performances on show (notable Fergal Horgan didn't quit over abuse from the sidelines so much as abuse from HQ). Burying our head in the sand and pretending things are fine won't work here. We have to aim for better if we hope to improve things.

I posted that up on another thread last week. The fact that no one questions it when it happens makes me think that referees are told to interpret this rule as in control means holding the ball when on the ground as that seems to be the way it is always officiated. Which is consistent at least. Would love to hear a refs opinion on this.

What stood out for me on Sunday was the ref let Cork away with obviously over-carrying on a minimum 5 occasions, up to 10 steps, in the first half. and then pulled Mayo back for what was no more than 6 steps. There is no consistency in how the steps rule is applied.

Memories of Colm O'Rourke and Darragh Maloney ranting about one Sean Hurson (correctly) allowed under 1.2(ii) for Damien Comer a few years back. So not the first time we've had commentary on the wrong side of it.

There was a big one back in '95 too (when I first heard of it) for Tyrone but I'd tend to give the ref the benefit of the doubt on that one. Peter Canavan didn't seem to be in possession as he fell, so 50/50 call.