Mayo GAA Discussion

Both presumably injury/fitness-related? Maybe one of them could be sprung at the last minute though…

The Rossies are vulnerable right now & are long overdue a good hiding by Mayo .

Whether this team has the ruthlessness to do so is another matter.

Going for a patchy 2 point win for Mayo, with not much really learnt as to where we are moving forward as a unit.

Lovely day for it thankfully but I think could be a dour aul game, hopefully we'll come out the right side of it

Decent win yesterday, not a great performance though IMO. Our attack is so slow most of the time, it makes us very easy to defend against; the few times we moved it quickly, we got scores but unless we do that more often, we're going nowhere. The FF line played better individually but I didn't think they played any better as a unit

Midfield is a big problem, not able to win clean ball and not able to win breaks. On at least two occasions yesterday, we lost 3 of our own long kickouts on the bounce; against a better team, that's probably 4-6 points conceded and the game is over (like the Dublin game last year). And it's not like Roscommon have a huge midfield or anything.

We might well win Connacht but only because Galway aren't great either; if we're drawn in a tough group, we might not even make a QF IMO

The pitch in the Hyde was in pristine condition yesterday, a real credit to whoever looks after it considering how the weather has been. The new stand is nice although the seats are at a fairly shallow angle (similar to the stand in the Gaelic Grounds) so you're much closer to pitch level even when you go a good bit back and the view obviously isn't as good as you'd expect because of this

I was wondering why the Connacht Final isn't in Castlebar? I'm assuming the preliminary qualifier last year doesn't count towards the home and away agreement. Not that your record in Salthill is bad anyways.

Yeah, 2022 Connacht game was in Castlebar but the prelim QF last year was home for ye because ye were a 2nd placed team and we were a 3rd placed team

Hyde Park is class, they did some job, shows up how poorly the money on our own redevelopment in MacHale Park was spent,, blue seats like 🙄

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Anyone know if stand tickets will become available this week?

Yeah, I'm in the same boat with a couple of small kids, it'd be pointless bringing them on the terrace. I see this note on ticketmaster: "Please note there is a limit of one adult to one child per booking in the stand" which would seem to indicate that you can book child tickets in the stand but you can only bring one child/adult so it leaves the likes of us in a bit of a bind

The worst draw possible?

Tough going if we win or lose on Sunday

While the loser of the Connacht final probably has an easier group overall, I think they have less chance of topping that group compared to the Connacht winner i.e. it should be easier to beat Derry at home than beat Dublin at a neutral venue

Why have the Groups draws before the Provincial Finals. It introduces an unhelpful dynamic to the matches and takes a bit of the edge off the finals.

Seriously - What's the advantage to the GAA or others in having the draws early? It's like someone was going on holidays so just tried to get it done before they left!

The matches for Ulster/Leinster Provisional Finals are a week later than Connacht Munster Finals. If they didn't hold them in advance this week (which I agree is awful) it'd have to be a fortnight from now after the Leinster/Ulster games and throw Connacht/Munster Finalists into ~6 days of time to get logistics/setup/fans all sorted. No easy solution, bar an extra couple of weeks in the calandar, which just aren't there with the current structures.

The fact that the current setup leads to Leinster/Ulster Finalists (and the teams they face) being forced into a 6/7 day turnaround between round 1 and round 2 games is a slight bonus for us. We'd be facing a Westmeath side just days after facing Donegal/Armagh away or a Roscommon side just after Dublin away. So a small silver lining there.