Mayo GAA Discussion

100%. Today was a huge performance considering the football that we have been playing last year and this year to-date. I don't care about the what ifs about today as what we did today is a huge step that I didn't even think was possible. They need to deliver another performance the next day and roll into the quarter finals in good form with confidence and believe. We need Monaghan as we always have trouble beating Cork and Derry will be sticky.

ciaran mcfaull and diarmuid baker starting to show form , they are the most dangerous team you could get , monaghan all day is the best draw

Ah Derry were beaten out the gate in 3 of their last four games and lucky to beat Westmeath. Mayo will win .

worst possible draw

Boy, I would love to shut Brolly up with this one!

I agree. After Mayo's impressive performance yesterday Derry should be more worried than us.

The main issue Mayo have now is not being ruthless enough going for goals. Points tapped over when players were free inside. We won't beat Dublin or Kerry without at least 1 goal as yesterday showed.

On the flipside we didn't concede any which is also important.

So you'd prefer hearing that team spirit is the best it has been with Derry hammering every team in front of them coming into next weeks game?

Derry are a division 1 side and Mayo won't take anything for granted after losing the league match to them. If we lose it will just be that they are too good for us, not an ambush.

No, I didn't say that at all. I'm saying that I can see this week being a lot of talk about Derry being a busted flush but there could very well be a sting in them yet and it would be fairly typical that we'd bear the brunt of that.

I'd agree that Derry will get a bit of a bounce from winning last week after losing a lot of games together. But I still don't think Mayo will be caught unawares. It's more about recovering from the exertions of yesterday.

We tend to get focused and perform when it gets to knockout stage while we can be a bit listless sometimes in Connacht and group games.

Not a notion Tyrone will wipe the floor with Roscommon,the rossies have being very poor an the manager of there's is no help to them.

Remember folks, don't feed the trolls!!!

Cork for me would have been the worst draw. We always find it very hard to defeat them and they are on the back of decent displays. Derry on the other hand have struggled since the league win. Granted they have some excellent footballers but they are clearly not firing… Glass has played some amount of football over the last 12 months. So if Mayo turn out another performance like yesterday, it should be enough to win. Yesterday performance has to bring huge belief that they can mix it with the best and not let it go down as a one off performance.

Many are being a bit harsh on Mayo imo, that was brilliant football by Dublin in the last play, three players all contributing with some great individual actions, it happens. Maybe we could have been a bit cynical and started soemthing but who knows how a free might have worked out, Dublin are so clinical in setting up a scoring chance. It's not as if we won posession and got turned over or kicked it away.