Mayo GAA Discussion

I think it's a good draw. Nothing to be gained by going into weak groups. We are comfortably a top 8 team and probably higher so would expect to qualify out of either group 1 or 2. Playing the 2 ulster teams should bring us on a lot if we have any capacity for improvement.

The Irish Independent is trying to hype the draw with talk of a 'group of death' facing the winners of the connacht final. An cliched exhaggeration to say the least.

https://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/the-race-for-sam-mayo-or-galway-face-group-of-death-as-championship-draw-revealed/a535992335.html

And having it at 3pm on a Tuesday afternoon. Great marketing there lads

Not ar$ed about the groups.

Win the game, get a trophy,

All Ireland aspirations can be shelved for a couple yrs until more forwards & midfielders from underage are added to this current group which is still relatively young.

I get the feeling that Brickenden will be marking Comer even though I'd prefer McBrien. McStay seems to have a lot of faith in Brick.

Forecast for Sunday is for dry day with gentle easterly breeze. Will take that over what we had last year up there.

On a separate topic this podcast on McGuinness is worth a listen.

Quick question, are the seats number adhered to in Pearce Stadium in the stand? Or, is it just sit anywhere?

Seat numbers are adhered to everywhere now.It just took a while for people to get used to it outside of Croker.

as above poster. Seated Stand tickets available. I managed to book 4 stand tickets

Logical!? He's a mess of contradictions and changes his views to suit his agenda or whichever team is in vogue.

Don't worry, I have no intention of listening 😀

I don't read the Sunday Indo for several reasons, him being one of them.

A little disappointed with his 'analysis' of the Derry/Donegal game. I'd disagree with anyone suggesting it would have been fine if Lynch had been at home in nets. In reality, at least 2 and more likely all 3 of the 3 restart goals would have been scored even with a 2nd Lynch back there.

Derry were pushing 8v4 inside the Donegal 45 meaning Donegal were always likely to dominate 50/50 breaking balls in the middle (a brave enough call for Donegal given if Derry had won many of those balls they'd have had a serious overload inside the Donegal 45 - but Derry only managed 1 point off the 12 or so Donegal kicks they won long showing Donegal worked back hard and fast on each loss). Add in Patton's driven low trajectory kicks minimising the chance for lads to shuffle back or get under the ball and Donegal usually kicked to advantage with midfielders like McGee dominating more than his fair share of the few 50/50 balls. With nearly every phase having the Donegal lads completely outwork and outpace their Derry taggers, leading to the all too common 6v2 or 4v2 breaks they had. It was a total restart breakdown (mostly positional but a very rare lack of energy/work-rate contributed) rather than just a keeper positional problem for me.

I really enjoyed Dean Rock & Aaron Kernan's look at the game on Rock's new "GAAGO: The Analysis Show" YouTube channel (especially Rock's contributions). They dug well beyond the surface (e.g. smaller details like Lynch always looking to be the man scrambling back to the line +70m rather than a few defenders scrambling back a line each at 10-15m), something lacking in a lot of the other coverage around the game. You'd love to see the likes of a Canavan or a Horan joining in with them.

If you are looking for an "insight" (to use your term) on any topic or subject, you won't get it from Joe Brolly.

Hi, Ms. Blewitt. 😂

They really make it very difficult to bring kids to the games which you would think they'd be trying to encourage

I wonder why did they do it for this match. I was looking on ticketmaster there, and there are loads of tickets available for the stand now. Did organisers think there would be bigger demand and that it would be a sell out. I don't think there is huge appetite for this match. It's not knockout, and whichever team wins/loses - the repercussions are not a whole lot different. They will probably be in a tough group anyway. And then there will be another (hopefully) at least 4 more matches in quick succession in the coming weeks, which makes it an expensive exercise to attend them.