Mayo GAA Discussion

Woeful from the management with the team they picked. Later on again they were late in substituting players. No plan B. Lucky to beat Mayo, lucky again v Armagh and Derry gave them a clipping. What did Joyce and co do after all the luck they had? Zilch. What looked like a good team on paper doesn't really have it in reality. Players should always take the blame but the team put out by management today was wrong. Not Joyce's first big error, today he was found out and the luck ran out. Can't see him being in charge next season and the heart of that team will go too. Might well be some time before Galway football does anything. Might come across as blunt, but truth is like that.

Don’t be coming in here to gloat

oh wait

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MAYO COUNTY BOARD SHOULD TAKE NOTICE,HOW THE APPOINTMENT OF A TOP CLASS MANAGER CAN CHANGE THE FORTUNES OF A COUNTY TEAM. TAKE MEATH AS AN EXAMPLE, THEY WERE A SHAMBLES UNDER COLM O ROURKE, ROBBIE BRENNAN COMES IN (WON AN ALL IRELAND WITH KILMACUD CROKES IN 2023) AND NOW THEY ARE PLAYING WITH BELIEF AND DETERMINATION AND ARE IN THE ALL IRELAND SEMIFINAL.

With great help from the officials over the last two years.

Evan Regan with 2-13 against Castlebar at the weekend, surely has to be back in with a new manager, hes been the best forward in the county over the last two years

Hes in better shape now than he ever has been, left footed free taker, two point ability.

I had an interesting chat today with a senior club manager from a neighbouring county, I asked him about a wing forward he has, good young lad, think Diarmuid O'Connor esque, good fielder, high work rate, solid two points a game man.

Manager says he thinks he'll be in with the county this year, really rates him, goes on to say that he won't be a forward with the club because under the new rules there's no place in the forwards for someone who like him. That you need to get to 25-30 points now to win a game so there's no room for passengers.

Taking that logic in Mayo we need to be moving away from Carney, Flynn and AOS in our forward line, they are all either midfielders or half backs in the modern game.

And we need to be looking at scorers for the forwards.

I just type for example "u16" in the search and at least it will filter to that group and narrow it down to around 20 odd or so. I agree it is not very user friendly

Any murmurings of who might be putting together a mgmt team for the senior team?

Another way of looking at it is that Tyrone beat Kerry by a point, and quite lucky to do so, and we ran Kerry very close, so we're as good as any of them.

and what is the aim of underage coaching?

Maybe it would, maybe it wouldn’t, whether it was Cork winning 6/8 Munster titles in the 70s but then Kerry dominating football regardless , or Limerick winning only a couple at underage but dominating senior recently , one does not automatically lead to success or vice versa. Both minor and u20 did well this year and that’s what we should focus on .

I’ll give you Limerick alright but Cork would’ve rightly expected to dominate Munster until Mick O’Dwyer got the Kerry job - you still need the right manager at senior level - like as bad and all as you say our underage structures are , we are still third on the list with the most AI final appearances at u20 level with 12 and that has translated to zero all Ireland wins at senior which would suggest to me that the issues are far far greater than just underage structures , which in the grand scheme over the decades aren’t that bad.

Even as good and all as Kerry were at underage in the last decade, it hasn’t translated to senior in the same way by their high standards.

Anyway all I’m saying is yes of course you want to do well at underage, but unless you have good management in place at senior level, you won’t be challenging for anything when/ if the players come through.