Mayo GAA Discussion

Sure his best games for Mayo so far were when he marked Shane Walsh and Sean O'Shea. Is that not a core position when put on the opposition's number 11?

All out again with the team sheet.

Our competitors will once again be able to read us like a book come championship.

The cauldron of Kerry would have been perfect for some of the the young bucks to gain experience.

Anything on the north side? Im on parnell street

Good luck to all travelling....had to give it a miss in the end... accomodation was proving tricky anyway and then the young fella picked up a cold so that put an end to a family trip to Tralee.

Had planned to pop in to the training session in Mungret yesterday evening but got stuck at work so was destined not to see Mayo in action it seems

Kerry need to use the league as they have no competition in Munster.

Mayo on the other hand have a slog it out in Connacht just to get to the knockout stages of the All Ireland series ,and if they get there our players are burnt out & out of ideas when the main game plan is nullified at the business end of the season.

We as fans cannot continue showing ignorance when repeated mistakes are been repeated..

No roaming from Reape today. Well, you wouldn't with that forward line!

Club level mistake by Brickenden.

Could understand taking it on early doors but kicking it away with 1 minute to go was hard to fathom.

Maybe someone should have shown themselves for a pass.

No one showed for the pass from what I could tell.

Callinan had an unbelievable start to the game, what a player he's going to be. Unfortunately he seemed to gas himself out after the 2nd point. Looked jaded for the rest of the game. Probably should have been subbed off before the second yellow for that reason.

Thought Brickenden had a really good game too, he seems to get a lot of stick whenever he makes a mistake.

A third clean sheet in a row is a big positive.

The form of Ryan and Fergal up front another plus.

Diarmuid looked in great shape for his first game of the year.

No harm done with the defeat.

We're in a decent place for the year ahead.

Positives.

Callinan starting to take on Keegans mantle

Some nice moves in the second half against a packed defence

Defence solid

ROD and Boland good

Subs bench fairly strong

A lot of players seem to have scope to improve

Negatives

Midfield well beaten

Tommy C out of form

One of the scourges of Mayo football - too much unnecessary soloing is slowing down attacks too much and must be rooted out.

Every forward must be capable of scoring or else they shouldn't be there.

Mayo done OK tonight. They'll be happy and I'm sure they have one eye on the championship.

We improved in the second half but I didn't think we were well on top. I certainly don't think we have a midfield pairing to compete for primary posession at this stage. Last year we took so many short kickouts in an effort to avoid the issue and the problem persists.

I thought it was naive alright to leave him 1 on 1. But who knows he might have scored even with 3 on him he's that good.