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Why?
You can add a very average management team, lack of quality forwards, aging players to that as well. It is unbelievable that after what was witnessed over the last few years, people would cop the hell on. Disillusion stuff tbh
It is exactly the complete opposite and is exactly what Mayo need!!
we'd be good enough to win the All-Ireland this year. Galway and Armagh!? Does anyone think we couldn't beat them!??
In an All Ireland final?
I'd say we couldn't beat them.
We've never stepped up in an All Ireland final and beaten a team we should beat.
so true..
Galway never looked like winning the 22 final either…….think its a west of Ireland mentality.
I do think Kerry were the better team on that day to be fair. But there was a hesitancy in the first half from Kerry, It felt like they were afraid to lose it. I think this year its 50/50 for the final and I think this Galway team is much improved from 2022.
Regardless of what people think if we are good enough or not. There is a small gap between us and the top teams, but a gap nonetheless! This year, we were not good enough to win Connacht or get to a quarter final. That's the facts, the teams that we're supposedly better than were good enough to do exactly that and get to a final.
I don't see next year panning out any differently either unless we can figure out how to get Tommy Conroy scoring again, or find another two Ryan's. We don't have enough players that can score.
From what I have seen in the development of other teams as the season unfolded, I think that gap is bigger than you think. I think Dublin, Kerry, Galway, Armagh, Donegal are well ahead of Mayo. Mayo may be able to beat them the odd time and keep the illusion going that we are close to the top table. But I reckon when it comes to the business end of the Championship, that all those teams will beat Mayo 9 out of 10 times.
I'd have Mayo alongside the likes of Roscommon, Cork, Tyrone, Derry etc. Mayo lack leaders and players with determination that the bigger teams have. The likes of Rian O'Neill, Stefan Campbell, Ciaran Kilkenny, Fenton, McCarthy, Paul Conroy, Sean Kelly, Paudi Clifford, Diarmuid O'Connor (Kerry). Those guys will grasp a game by the neck, and die with their boots on to get their team over the line. Paddy Durkin is our man I guess, but he is always out injured. We used to have those personalities in the likes of Keegan, Boyle, Higgins, Barrett, Andy Moran. And that is a lot of the reason that led to the great decade or so we had from 2012 onwards. But we don't have that right now. Hopefully players will grow in to that type of role e.g. Sam Callinan
I don't think Galway or Armagh are far ahead of Mayo at all and I would give us a great chance against them if the game was tomorrow. Dublin and Kerry seem to have come back into the Mayo got rode in Galway game by Gough in the last ten minutes, admittedly he had given some questionable decisions to Mayo earlier in the game. Mayo beat Galway last year in the preliminary quarter and in the league final. Maybe Mayo just lacking a bit of killer instinct, should have seen out the game against Galway when they were up by 2 with 71 mins gone and also same with Dublin and Derry.
If Galway do win it, it will be a sickener for Mayo. Same happened in 1998 after Mayo lost 96 and 97. Galway always seem to come up and win it.
Jesus lads will ye let this thread go quiet for the next few weeks. Its embarrassing at this stage continuously seeing it at the top of the GAA forum, we were knocked out weeks ago.
As a Mayo man living in Galway its sickening enough having to put up with it without logging on here and seeing the Mayo chat thread being bumped with talk of how we should be in the final or how we can beat anyone on any given day or how we were rode by X ref or how Galway got an easy route to the final etc.
What's embarrassing about Mayo Football Fans talking about Mayo Football?
You can't talk about it seems once you get knocked out.
Some of our fans are like an alcoholic who doesn't go to therapy to acknowledge his flaws.
Shove it under the carpet, then rock up next season like everything's grand, then bang , the same old problem rears it's ugly head again.
Rinse,Wash,Repeat.
We all know what the problems are. A lack of scoring forwards. Changing the management team is not going to fix that.
Thats ground up changes that are needed and changes to alot of management style at club level away from the ultra defensive muck they are serving up at club level.
Last year club final was absolute ****.
At the moment, it looks like the forwards are being instructed not to take on any shot that isn't a tap over. Just look at the conservative attacking play under the current regime vs the Horan era(s). I bet you'll find that we scored more, even under Horan Mk II, as well. The attacking structure/system is being used as a stick to beat the current management and rightly so. It's ROD (and mainly his frees) that is keeping us active on the scoreboard and I think everyone agrees that if anything happens to him that we're screwed completely. If we're ever going to win a final and beat the guns, we'll need to score goals. Apart from an odd moment of luck, we never look like scoring goals and you can't see that happening under the way McStay has them playing up until now.
You sound like fr Fintan stack 😂.
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Thoughts ?
After constant Mayo failures, Galway beat them to Sam. It would underline how much Mayo have failed and make the county into even more of a laughing stock.
Was just looking at odds for the championship:
Westport 5/2
Ballina 7/2
Castlebar 5/1
Knockmore, Breaffy and Ballintubber 6/1
Garrymore 20/1
You'd expect a close enough race again this year, hopefully the quality will be better than last though
God help the poor lad if they don't win the All Ireland, this ad for dog chews will surely be touted by many barstool bullshitters as the sole reason why.
Thoughts? Well, I think it's amazing how far the student grant will stretch these days to get you a pad like that in leafy Dublin 14……
Best not feed the trolls……….
If he puts in the same performance as 2 years ago it won't be a big factor. Unfortunately other players fail to show up in finals.
Its cringey enough imo. But sure good luck to him if he makes a few euros off it.
Galway have beaten Mayo to Sam?
I really like to see that attitude coming from the Galway camp.
and you think that’s a genuine Galway supporter ? More like a troll so don’t bite
I'm not trolling. This is my sincere opinion.
Great,I hope all your county men are thinking the same.
From his posting history it looks like he's from Mayo? Zero there to indicate he's from Galway anyway
Why would you be hoping "his county men" are thinking the same, out of interest?
Galway haven't won anything yet. The Galway fans probably thought the same a few years ago against Kerry and that didn't work out.
Galway's 2 best players are half fit.
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