Mayo GAA Discussion

We have a lot of work to do to get back to being a top team so today isn’t a surprise, I expect we’ll see another game like this before the league is out . The kicking was poor today , but at least they were kicking and I’ll take that over everything we saw in the last couple of years any day.

Is this not donegals 2nd yr under Jimmy ya expect them to be flying

I don't see what Carr is adding to the line up at all. But Andy must have a reason for giving him so much game time! Time will tell!

It certainly is a problem position! But Carr isn't a scoring forward at the moment. He has an up hill battle anyway considering he's only playing Junior club football away from county and has had injury issues. I just don't see him being the answer considering its been so long since that goal against Galway!

O'Shea isn't the answer either for that position as he isn't a consistent scorer!

I think Carr had a lot of potential initially but between injury and his junior background he hasn't developed properly and at the age of 30? isnt likely to.

It shows how important the new CEO will be. Revenue will need to be generated to have full time coaches implementing plans at every club in order to maximise players potential.

Carr is a walking advertisement to have four regional teams playing senior. One thats properly supported, not like the last poor attempt at getting it off the ground

Saying that we don't have scoring forwards is absolute nonsense. Darragh Beirne, Ryan O'Donoghue are natural scorers. Cillian is on the panel and he's the all time top scorer! I don't think he should be there though as he is past it now.

Then the likes of Jack Carney and Jordan Flynn have proven that they're well able to kick a few points.

I agree that we don't have enough scoring forwards and we need to find a FF that scores.

Definitely not DOC anyway. He has neither height nor speed now.

On Aidan, I think Mayo have shown over the last decade that we do not know how to utilise a big man in full forward. I don't know why that is the case. When Aidan was stationed in around the square, it is very seldom kicked into him, and when it was, it was more of a hit and hope up in the air, rather than a strategic kick for a full forward to run on to. I remember when Kerry had Donachy full forward, the likes of Tomas O'Shea were able to kick the ball in at a curling angle, outside of the boot, and was perfect height for Donachy to fetch the ball. Karl Lacey did it for Murphy back in the All Ireland in 2012. If playing with that tactic, it has to be perfected on the training ground. But it never seemed to be implemented on the pitch.

Anyway, that ship has sailed. Big Aido ain't up for that anymore.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjkROwqbDa4

I find it baffling after a variety of management teams since 2009 that people still complain that we don't know how to use OShea. Has it not occurred to people that a lot of the problem may lie with the player himself? In the first league game this year against Galway long balls were kicked into him in one on one situations but he didnt get many of them. He has certain attributes but lacks pace, scoring ability and often even aggression.

The goal against Donegal in 2015 was a glimpse of what he could do - used his physicality to gain possession and then barrelled through defenders to finish to the corner. But we rarely saw that level of power and aggression repeated despite usually being the biggest, most powerful man on the field.

Andy In fairness seems to be tying to keep him to a bench role now but a reliable replacement has not been found so far. I hope he finds one as we need to move on now.

There is absolutely no room in the modern game to be fielding anyone in your starting six forwards who carry little to no zero scoring threat. This ain't going to happen under Andy's reign.