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Who did ?
We were not allowed say it though
Absolutely pointless
Uncoachable
O Hora is another one
there is a reason he wasn’t anywhere near intercounty set up for years
The manner of this defeat reflects very poorly on the management.
They're blessed to have the league this year but some serious questions should be asked.
1. Really failed to time peak performance for the Championship.
2. No real development in play versus blanket defences.
3. Persisting with Loftus at CB all year for him to be dumped aside.
The Dubs were good today but we couldn't raise it when needed. Terribly flat performance.
I said at the time, that Mayo seemed to be peaking in the league.
look at the gears Kerry & Dublin went up
When you know a relentless attack is coming to begin the second half, even if it’s incredibly difficult to stop as it always is with Dublin, surely there has to be an approach to stifle them as much as possible?
Credit to the Dubs for going out and battering us in those 8 minutes, but there was a complete lack of effort from Mayo and tactically we played right into their hands.
Felt exactly like 2019 all over again.
Standing back from the disappointment, hammered Kerry twice, beat Galway three times and top Connaught team, we’ve had worse years
I'm going the other way tbh. We beat a Kerry team who were miles off the pace and without Clifford and O'Se starting in Castlebar. Pointless really with the bigger picture in mind.
The game in Killarney was really impressive but finishing third in the group undid the good in that.
We drew once and beat Galway twice, ambitions should be greater than being the top team in Connaught.
They are coming ……
I would think that the holders of the Nestor Cup would quite clearly be the best team in Connacht.
But cope however you must.
They have arrived
Going to assemble some thoughts more coherently tomorrow, but it was a shambles and so many problem areas I don't know where to start. Midfield a mess as it has been all year.
Returning the favor from last week.
Destroyed around the middle in the 2nd half, miles off it and no apparent strategy for kickouts
Mayo lost to the better team today, Reape’s kickouts, midfield and also the lack of drive from the team lost that match. Not going forward enough, lateral passing around the back going nowhere.
This analysis was very much off the mark.
your little bit of confidence was very much unjustified.
Dublin got the start to the second half Mayo needed.
Their second goal was very naïve and that was the end of the contest.
Very disappointing after a bright first half but Dublin took us to the cleaners.
My biggest gripe was ohora. Too much time spent grooming his hair than honing his skill..carrying too much weight to be competitive.
I felt aos should have stayed on, when in the melting pot, there was no target man inside. And he set up a lovely point in the first half, as well as a midfield win. Eoghan, i thought did well, but doesnt seem to be the consensus.
I really thought jordan flynn was one of the few that wanted to bring the game to dublin.. i know he kicked a wide early and anoter 1/2 short, but i think those 1/2 were deliberate hail.marys.
Hopefully, tje mayo response will be similar to a kerry one. Out for scalps and dropping players and/or management.
I wouldn't criticize Mayo for going for the league, it's a new management team and winning the league in your first season is not a bad way to start.
For next year they can concentrate on experimentation etc, just ensure that they stay in Div 1.
Overall I think the future is brighter than darker
There are plenty of young and experienced but still relatively young good players on that team.
Reape, the full back line, Durkan, Ruane Flynn, Conroy, Carr, Carney, O'Donoghue.
And the likes of Diarmuid O'Connor has still loads to give.
I think Loftus should be an impact sub in the forwards, I think he could make a better contribution there than as a starter.
Even though we have seen little of Cillian this year I think if fit he should be a started next year.
Aiden O'Shea at FF was not the revelation some thought it might be, but I think he could be very valuable as an impact sub next year.
I'd say it's the end of the road for Kevin McLaughlin and Jason Doherty, but they have had great inter county careers.
I don't think Eoghan McLaughlin nor O' Hora really have what it takes to be consistently dependable at this level.
They really need to get the half back line sorted, that is the weak link.
Other than Durkan neither of the other two in that line full one with confidence.
I was really disappointed the way they came out in the second half and were overrun, it was exactly the same as last year, but I think we had more excuses for it last year.
There was a time when Mayo could stick with Dublin for the bones of 80 minutes (2016 and 2017 finals jump to mind) , but why not today?
I still think the 2024 championship will be wide open.
There were a lot of familiar names from the six in a row on that Dublin team today,vso where is there production line gone ?
Kerry are very reliant on Clifford and I think can be exposed elsewhere.
Galway will flatter to deceive.
And there really is nothing coming from the north capable of playing enough football to actually win an All Ireland.
So let's look forward.
Such delusion. Also, it’s only two years since Tyrone beat Mayo in an All Ireland final, who played enough football that day?
Reminded me of the 2019 semi final v Dublin, doing alright 1st half then contest ended at the start of the 2nd half.
Yeah, and that was a Mayo team riddled with injuries all season.
This year they have been relatively healthy but the outcome was exactly the same.
I didn't see such a collapse coming.
The writing was on the wall after the cork defeat. I was shocked we beat Galway as we were sitting ducks and needed a decent team to beat us. This was also our third game in three weeks and were out of gas for the second half. Ruane, Coen and Carney who play in central positions did very little today, add in OHara and EML miss, there is no way you will beat top teams with so many off performance but I now think Ruane, Coen, OHara, EML are just ordinary footballers so this is our level - hard to know but at the end of the day we got what we deserved.
All of the above. If we’d scored the the open goal and had the disallowed goal been given it would have done little to change the result in my view. We didn’t have the energy to capitalise on those if they had gone our way so it would have only put a gloss on the margin. Dublin backing off on our kickouts in the second half made the difference, we had to run the ball and that along with the turnovers they allowed them to counter and kill us off very easily. The turnovers and the simplicity with which they were executed I’d put down to the fatigue of 3 games in 3 weeks, which was our own doing.
Losing to Cork came back to bite badly today, but that’s a game Cork deserved to win so we can’t have any arguments about that, or the result today.
On the Galway forum ?
Not me anyways
Even though it was game involving both teams I wouldn’t stoop that low.
Never mind if my own team wasn’t involved
You would think so, until that team is beaten by another Connacht team in a more serious competition?
We blew any chance we had with the collapse in limerick,you can't struggle so much against the likes of Roscommon Louth and cork and expect to be all Ireland contenders .
We’re going no where as long as we continue not to kick the ball.
I thought our tackling was poor again. I'm not seeing much of Buckley influence this year at all.
Although Mayo had a poor second half, that disallowed goal and missed open goal had a huge bearing on the outcome of the game, I don’t think the score at the end truly reflected the course of the game itself. Disappointing as a Dublin fan, didn’t want to go there for a match like that, saw some **** behaviour by Dublin fans too. Kerry to win overall. Would genuinely be content with an upset by Monaghan and would love to see Derry beat Kerry.
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