Mayo GAA Discussion

Agreed.

Not sure what is to be done about Coyne ar this stage too. Andy, in his infinite wisdom, decided to make him captain and he is know having an absolute nightmare season. Made McCurry look like Clifford today. Not sure how a lad like that is meant to be motivating a dressing room when he should, by rights, be sitting on the bench.

it’s clear that Moran is out of his depth. He is making lots of fundamental mistakes. He has to see some of this stuff in training or else he is throwing a blind eye to it. We are also soft under him as well. A slightly harder outfit would have nailed this game as Tyrone are no great shakes

The Coyne situation could not be anymore glaring at this stage. He hasn't had a good game all year and yet starts every single time. McCurry the latest to make a show of him. It's obviously just awkwardness that is preventing him from being benched. Andy doesn't know how to do it now because he made the decision to give him the captaincy. It's a bit of a pattern. Things have to be absolutely irrefutably awful before he'll act.

Some food in Canavan's pub/bistro after the game, amazing how something like time, food and a chat will cool the emotions. Not a bad place to go to, food I felt was dear for what it was, very busy but the customers and staff were good craic Nice drive home afterwards and am thinking now that things could be a lot worse. It's going to be Kerry, Meath or the Dubs. Doubt we'll beat a Kerry team but every chance we could get a result v the other 2. I'm taking it we can't play Monahan? I'm not sure on that, can people confirm? All in all the game was enjoyable, it was there to win and in fairness both sides missed chances. I mentioned Callinan and might have sort of blamed him, sorry if I did, he had a good game. People giving O Shea some stick isn't very nice. He's been some player over the years and carried us many is the time. Mayo at the moment aren't perfect but there's very few who will relish playing them, we'll hopefully get there eventually. Time and patience and maybe no harm to remember we make plenty of mistakes ourselves in our lives and our comments, including myself. Crazy results and might well be more to come. Keep the faith, even if you don't go to mass. 😎

Very disappointing not to see that game out, in a great position, thought Aidan tried to buy a free but ended up giving away the two pointer for Morgan, then he should never have taken on that shot, he is not a good point taker, there was time to get a reliable kicker on the ball.

That's before mentioning Callinan's goal chance. A lot of regrets but I think we're improving and if we can avoid Kerry, we still have a decent chance of making a q-final.

Thought Tommy C looked sharp, which hasn't been the case in a long time. Unfortunately ROD had a poor game by his standards and Kobe didn't really get on much ball.

They'll be sickened but no time to dwell on it which might not be a bad thing .

Tyrone got a point that was clearly wide. it was really obvious from opposite the stand side where I was.

The amount of turnovers we gave away with silly passes.

I don't think Callinan had a good game at all.. got blocked down 30 seconds before half time and Tyrone went up the field and equalised. A bit more patience from him there and we could well have went in 2 up. After an excellent league campaign his form has nosedived the last 3 games.

For all his quality, Ryan OD turns over some amount of ball. Has proved very costly.

Livingstone, Hession, Carney, Paddy and Beirne did very well for us.

Shame we didn't get that bit of luck to see us over the line. On the way home I was thinking of when we played Tyrone in the 2016 quarter final. We were second best for the most part but Tyrone (Morgan and McCurry in particular) butchered so many chances and we scraped over the line by a point. The complete opposite of the second half today.

I think if this team could claim a big championship win we could go from strength to strength but it's not happening the last few years.

In 2012 we beat Leitrim sligo and down to reach an All Ireland semi final.. can't compare it to the current format where every team has lost at least once.

Just looking back on the Sunday game now and the last two point free Morgan got was incredibly harsh.. the Tyrone player just charged into O'Shea. Dunno what he was supposed to do exactly?

I thought the same.

Home to Meath

Thank god it’s at home. Maybe we might get a free in for charging to win the game . Even up yesterday’s decision which happened straight in front of me. But it was AOS so the knives were out from our own supporters straight away.
In a game that we lost by a point ROD gave the ball to Tyrone for 4 scores , kicking the ball 30 yards backwards for one as he is want to do instead of passing to the two scoring forwards either side of him………..but that’s fine . He is not Aidan O Shea.

We need both to perform better in their two very different roles next weekend. We will be in bonus territory if we win and I’ve a feeling our well rested neighbors will be waiting for us. Licking their lips !
it’s opening up for Galway

Best draw we could have got. If he makes a few changes with coyne out and let Mcgreal have the number and after yesterday I think he should start Tommy and drop Hugh McLoughlin, maybe move Kobe to the half fowards. Its funny how you give a few young lads the nod and they repay you in spades KMD, Beirne, McGreal, Livingstone - its brilliant to see but as someone else said this should have been done over the league and not in the depths of championship football.

Meath is a decent draw but with our poor record at home, it's difficult to be very confident

Revenge? A 20 year old Darren Fay was lucky to come away from those challenges with his head still intact. Trevor Giles knocked off his feet with a blow to the head from your captain. A certain basketball gent ran 40 yards(That’s 36.58m for you youngsters) to windmill his way through a few lads trying to restore some order. It’s forgiveness you should be looking for! ;-).
Kidding aside, always a good contest with Mayo. Looking forward to it