Mayo GAA Discussion

Agreed. The best draw probably. A big performance needed regardless.

Eh? We've won 4 Connacht Minor, Galway haven't won since 2018. Won 3 U-21/20, Galway haven't won since 2020. And an AI title.

Any time you beat them in Clones, especially in championship with the support the get in Clones, you will generally have earned your daily rations the hard way

You are right about winning titles not being the be all and end all but at connacht level its an indication of our overall well being.

The lack of quality senior players coming through is an indication of issues with underage coaching. Its noticeable how players make the same errors in decision making and executing skills as those gone before.

Its very disappointing how few players came from that team. Ronan Clarke looked the pick of the forwards but has been cursed by injury. Mahedy another prospect but obviously not selected for off field reasons. I have heard a lot of talk about Diarmuid Duffy but he hasn't shown much at senior level yet.

Why are the GAA dragging the arse of setting the time date for the game?

No, not at it but was told they didn't win it. More important was what happened after the match. By all accounts the management don't see eye to eye and that's putting it mildly. I'm a bit surprised it hasn't come out in the media as it wasn't the type of confrontation that'll be swept under the carpet.

We lost by 6 points supposedly. Don't know who played or what they were trying out.

It wouldn't shock me either. Andy Moran has been coming across as panicked in my view, and he has backed himself into a corner with the O'Connor and Hennelly of it all. He went and pursued them and asked them to come back when he could have just let it be. He should have taken it as an opportunity to start fresh.

That said, there are big problems across the county in all grades and in the club scene, regarding the type of players being produced and the overall quality. Any manager who took on the senior job was going to have a big task on their hands. I don't know what the answers are.

No, I'm not and the reasons should be obvious. Oh, it certainly did happen and not rumours and it ain't settled either.

Unfortunately I find it hard to imagine they would have come back at their age and stage of their careers if they hadn't been offered such assurances.

A further question to Andy would be if we really are on "year one of a three year project", as he says, what was the sense in bringing back players whose best days are behind them and who had already walked away? Maybe it would make sense if we were a well-developed squad within touching distance of an All Ireland and they might be able to offer an extra percentage, but we are nowhere near winning an All Ireland. The squad needs to be rebuilt and year one is the stage at which one should have been wiping the slate clean to begin that process. So what indeed was the logic here?

I believe Andy was fully going for it this year. The fact he only had Kobe for 1 year and he thought he might be able to wring a few last tunes from the older crew was probably too tempting for him. It was clearly a big mistake. Talk of a 3 year process was only a defence mechanism against hard questions from an interviewer. But that is what it has become now whether he likes it or not.

Reape ain't the answer either.

Re Boyler, there's no need to have all mgmt members out giving interviews - Andy is plenty.

This is a real test of Andy's abilities, temperament and ruthlessness - let's see how he handles it. I'm not overly confident though.

Donie Smith described the Tyrone match for Roscommon "As a Dangerous Game" why is nobody from Mayo describing the Monaghan Game as a Dangerous Game for Mayo which indeed it is. Mayo underestimated Roscommon and paid a high price (I heard there was shock in the Mayo camp after the Roscommon Game) which would indicate they never saw it coming. I believe Jason Sherlock is the trump card in the Roscommon setup, he was Jim Gavins right hand man in one of the best GAA Football Management Team ever, we have no one of that caliber in the Mayo Management Team. Why have we so many Mayo Players at present who have no fight, tenacity, who seem even timid. Donie Smith in that interview described Roscommons greatest asset as speed, we seem to be sticking with players who have lost their pace. Andy has to make a big decision - does he stay with his former comrades (who!s best days are behind them) or give youth a chance. Surely Jack Livingstone has to be in goal the next day.