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Its the speed of the the ball of the surface I think rather than the size of the field
How do we fix our problems at MF? In fairness, McStay rang the changes yesterday but we were absolutely cleaned out on winning clean balls and breaks - taken from Gaelic Statsman on twitter, we won less than half of our own (10/21) and only 2/16 of Galway's kickouts. 61% conversion rate was v good though (compared to 48% for Galway)
The wind was a huge factor - Tommy Conroy's first effort made that clear to me from the start that it was having an impact. We were fortunate that were able to make better use of it than our hosts.
I think there's an element for PJ that his hatred of Mayo clouds his judgement. I believe it was mentioned on one of the podcasts when we drew with Galway in the league that you could see how much he felt the need to get one over on us, and that if it meant that much to him that it really meant too much. I'm sure that has to feed into the dressing room too.
PJ was an outstanding player but I 'm not convinced he's cut out for management.
Never in doubt ffs
There is absolutely no way we should agree to anything other than the second throw in on Sunday
It’s a good job they didn’t know the draw on the Sunday game or the cccc would be after Rod now
Dublin it is.
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All very true and yet it was the same after the league final, a feeling Galway left it after them but that’s three wins over Galway this year & I do think the wind really skewed a lot of our stats yesterday
Players refer to Croker playing big, that's what is meant by it.
how much more space is there in croke park vs salthill?
refer to post 6177 for the answer. :P
Beat Galway in the prelims, then Dublin in the quarters, then Kerry in the semis, only to lose to Monaghan in the final... 🤣😭
My thoughts exactly - Derry would have been a bad draw for us IMO.
At least with drawing Dublin you know the game will be fixed for 4 o'clock on Sunday and you can start planning straight away!!
Well that draw had a bit of inevitability about it. Dublin probably suits us more than Derry who setup in a manner we just can't break down.
The more the dust settles on that game the more I think that Galway fluffed it more than Mayo won it. Losing Comer was a big blow to them but an even bigger blow was Walsh not being able to convert, as well as the number of wides they had.
Galway should have been out the gap at half time but Comer blasting the ball straight at Reape and then then Walsh having a meltdown under a little pressure. in the first half Galway scored 8 from 15 attempts in the first half, scoring 5 from 10 from play, and 3 from 5 placed balls. At least 2 of the frees he missed were meat and drink to a good free taker.
Add to that they dominated midfield, and our kickouts, but couldn't make the significant opportunities that were presented to them count on the scoreboard.
We certainly had a very large slice of luck with all of that. On the positives Callinan kept Walsh scoreless from play, McBrien took what was probably our only goal chance, and for a change, we were accurate. Sure we had 5 wides in the first half against the gale, but we had only the 1 from play and 1 45 going astray in the second.
We're not usually the ones to be saying that after a game. But I'll take it, we're still in the championship for now, and that's what counts.
It's been said a few times here but the wind was absolutely vicious. Maybe it wasn't as obvious on TV but it really effected both teams. Galway had similar issues in the second half.
We started well outta the traps and I genuinely think once the effort needed to score was determined (the shooting circle was well in) we literally slowed the game down where we could and wasted time in order to limit their opportunities with the wind. Galway should have been more up at HT but they weren't and lost Comer, who had the beating of his marker but they didn't make enough hay from it.
Second half we came outta the traps and put in some great scores with the wind.
Galways injuries eventually caught up with them and their key player having a major dip in form since last year (Walsh) was hard to recover from. They had a great year last year but came out the right side of injuries and the draw.
There's serious potential with Mayo as there is every year and at the same time we don't know where we are at really after losing to Cork and Roscommon.
They beat one of the best teams in the country ,playng very poor and missing a few players .Imo Mayo have every chance of going all the way ,there not a patch on the great team from a few years ago but that does not mean they cant get over the line this year
Wind was vicious. That first shot from Conroy, everyone was out of their seat, drops short
Not a great look for O'Donoghue. He won't have benefit of the doubt in the next game
I dont know how nearly half an hour scoreless at intercounty level could be deemed decent. Got away with it big time
Eh, goalie thought it was going to his left but he went to the goalies right - madness....
I dunno G&R, wait until you see it back, he gave the keeper the eyes and made him go the wrong way.
Must have been some eyes
https://twitter.com/offtheball/status/1673024402966073344?s=20
O hara was sick macstay said on off the ball
Maybe Mcbrien gave him the eyes …..
an excellent day at the office for the management team
Amongst others . Not a great trait in a manager.
Not disagreeing with you,a lot to work on.
Great to see McStay acknowledge that in his selections, would I be right in saying Mattie has never been dropped in his entire career for Mayo?
Some of the mental fragility amongst Mayo supporters bothers me though and your post at ht was a good example.It wasn't looking good but we had the gale force wind and I fully expected to put balls up on it and make it count,which we did.Now in fairness I'd have fully expected us to do that in lots of games down the 40 years I've been following Mayo and they didn't.
But at ht when it's in the melting pot I have much more time for lads who can see the solutions rather than kicking the dirt and saying we're bet.
No offence,I know you're a decent poster.
There was an interview on RTE 1 wireless before six, he threw his freetaker under the bus this time
I still think or number 6 is a problem its definitely not loftus
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