Mayo GAA Discussion Thread

Cosmo Kramer · 08-04-2013 04:02PM

aidan24326 wrote: »

So what's yer thoughts on the Galway game? Surely Mayo must be confident about this one?

Very wary, parallels can be drawn with 07 when we were coming off the back of an All Ireland Final and a decent league run and got our arses handed to us by a Galway team that were nothing special and didn't do much that summer afterwards.

On paper we're significantly better than any other team in the province but that counts for little when you're playing your local rivals in their own home ground. I'd be happy with any kind of win, even getting them back to Castlebar would be fine with me as I'd take us to finish the job there. But it is potentially a huge banana skin of a fixture for us.

Fr Tod Umptious · 08-04-2013 04:19PM

Cosmo Kramer wrote: »

Very wary, parallels can be drawn with 07 when we were coming off the back of an All Ireland Final and a decent league run and got our arses handed to us by a Galway team that were nothing special and didn't do much that summer afterwards.

On paper we're significantly better than any other team in the province but that counts for little when you're playing your local rivals in their own home ground. I'd be happy with any kind of win, even getting them back to Castlebar would be fine with me as I'd take us to finish the job there. But it is potentially a huge banana skin of a fixture for us.

I don't think you can really compare 2007 with 2013

Mayo were coming off the back of two terrible all Ireland appearances in quick succession.
The team were ageing with the likes of Nallen and Heaney going into their 10th year of service.
Plus you had a new manager in O' Mahoney who was busy with an election campaign.

This time you have a young but experienced team, a manager in the third year with the serious ambition to be All Ireland winners

Always_Running · 08-04-2013 04:54PM

aidan24326 wrote: »

So what's yer thoughts on the Galway game? Surely Mayo must be confident about this one?

At this moment in time we are looking at 4-6 point win for Mayo.

Syferus · 08-04-2013 06:39PM

Shane Walsh surely has to be in line to be the centre-piece of the Galway attack for that game? If Meehan is still slowly improving and Conroy is on form Galway have the forwards to do damage against a Mayo team whose big weakness has always been its ability to convert its chances. Form gets thrown out the window a lot of times Galway andayo meet and that needs to always be kept in mind.

I don't think there will be much in the game in Salthill but if Andy Moran and Dillon are fit Mayo may edge it.

Defiler Of The Coffin · 08-04-2013 08:56PM

yop wrote: »

Its a balls, my missus is due and I can't see me chancing been away again Long time since I missed us in Croker!!! Going to kill me.

Congrats, if it's a boy you should name him Sam, might bring us some good luck

Such a buzz after the final whistle, the trip down was worth it for that alone! Mayo were immense in the second half yesterday, Cork weren't going to get away with any bullying this time around. I thought McLoughlin, O'Connor and Gibbons were superb but the rest of the team really showed as well, although I thought Sheamie O'Shea had a quiet enough game and the forwards were constantly being crowded out by the Cork defence. I would also question the tactic of Clarke kicking the ball directly into mid-field when it was clear we were having problems in that area. We were fortunate that Cork didn't make more of their purple patch in the first half and were completely bereft of accuracy at the end of the second.

Still, after such a torrid 4 games it's good to end the league on a high note, amazing how things can turn around in the space of a week. We'll have a tough time against the Dubs but a good intense game at this stage of the year won't do us any harm against Galway.

Any news on Barry Moran and Keith Higgins, will they be fit for next week?

Defiler Of The Coffin · 08-04-2013 08:57PM

Syferus wrote: »

I don't think there will be much in the game in Salthill but if Andy Moran and Dillon are fit Mayo may edge it.

Even without Moran and Dillon I'd be very surprised to see Mayo lose tbh

aidan24326 · 08-04-2013 09:11PM

yop wrote: »

Its Galway, form means little. We SHOULD win, but I wouldn't be looking at a cake walk over in Salthill

Cosmo Kramer wrote: »

Very wary, parallels can be drawn with 07 when we were coming off the back of an All Ireland Final and a decent league run and got our arses handed to us by a Galway team that were nothing special and didn't do much that summer afterwards.

On paper we're significantly better than any other team in the province but that counts for little when you're playing your local rivals in their own home ground. I'd be happy with any kind of win, even getting them back to Castlebar would be fine with me as I'd take us to finish the job there. But it is potentially a huge banana skin of a fixture for us.

I very much see where ye're coming from lads. If I was a Mayo supporter I'd be wary of this one too. Not the ideal first round draw for Mayo that's for sure. Galway v Mayo games are almost always close and this one might well follow the trend.

But there's no getting away from the fact that Mayo are a better team. Significantly better. Galway have gone backwards at an alarming rate and I wouldn't be confident of us beating anyone at this stage, let alone Mayo (who are very much a top 4 or 5 team right now).

Meehan is a shadow of what he was and we've no Joyce to rescue the situation any more. I hope it's a good game and I hope Galway can put up a performance but to me Mayo ought to be winning this. Though I concede that it is certainly a banana skin and a game that could ruin Mayo's whole year if ye get beaten. There will be more pressure on Mayo in this one as expectations are that bit higher.

Syferus · 08-04-2013 10:08PM

Too much downplaying there for my liking. Shane Walsh is ready to be a star at senior level and Conroy can be fantastic on his day. Scoring potential is in no way Galway's problem, it's Mayo's top level middle third where Galway will find it tough sledding. Fiontan O'C is a serious talent but it'd be some achievement to do something with a player like Aidan O'Shea.

That's where the game will be won, not the lack of Joyce (who didn't really feature last year anyways) or Meehan who is at least finding a vein of fitness that should benefit his level of performance in the summer.

naughto · 08-04-2013 10:49PM

i would take a loss to dublin if it ment we when in peak condition against galway.i dont want to see dillon or moran untill galway that way it gives them a full chance to get over there injurys not point in my opinion rushing lads back for a semi/final in the league.
they where very good against cork was not expecting it at all with all the injurys

ColeTrain · 08-04-2013 11:51PM

Yesterday was a great day for the green and red. It was like a home game

very poor turnout from Cork it has to be said.
I am delighted how we grinded out that win. Games like yesterday can be crucial for a teams psychology - especially a young team like Mayo. Look at the facts.
-We were playing Cork away
-The conditions were poor
- We were missing crucial players in B.Moran and Higgins, not to mention Dillion and A.Moran
-They pulled out in front and our first half performance was sloppy to say the least.
- Other results were going against us which meant only a win would do.

^With all that in mind, to come out and win the game in the second half is impressive stuff. Great desire from the players to do it and that's all any supporter wants, to see players play for the jersey.

I would really love a win next week. Also, does anyone know when the final will be played ( presuming we make it ) Will it be Sunday week?

mayo.mick · 09-04-2013 12:41AM

ColeTrain wrote: »

Yesterday was a great day for the green and red. It was like a home game very poor turnout from Cork it has to be said.
I am delighted how we grinded out that win. Games like yesterday can be crucial for a teams psychology - especially a young team like Mayo. Look at the facts.
-We were playing Cork away
-The conditions were poor
- We were missing crucial players in B.Moran and Higgins, not to mention Dillion and A.Moran
-They pulled out in front and our first half performance was sloppy to say the least.
- Other results were going against us which meant only a win would do.

^With all that in mind, to come out and win the game in the second half is impressive stuff. Great desire from the players to do it and that's all any supporter wants, to see players play for the jersey.

I would really love a win next week. Also, does anyone know when the final will be played ( presuming we make it ) Will it be Sunday week?

Final Sunday 28th.

Barlett · 09-04-2013 01:05AM

I would not expect either Dillon or Moran to start against Galway...may they might come on towards the end but it's very unlikely they will start

Amprodude · 09-04-2013 01:11AM

Hi Lads, Congrats on the win Sunday and delighted you stayed up. I agree it was a great win especially as you were playing away in Cork and missing few key players. A win like this under the circumstances will be very good for confidence come championship.

If you dont mind me saying, I reckon Mayo will be very hard to beat in 2013. They definitely have something going with Horan in charge and come championship I reckon there fitness levels will be as good as Donegal 2012. Unlucky in last years All Ireland and put up a good show after conceding two early goals, I believe Mayo have learned a lot from this and Horan definitely has a project in motion and Mayo are playing much different to Mayo teams of the past. Horan, I believe will deliver success for Mayo yet mark my words.

yop · 09-04-2013 08:19AM

Amprodude wrote: »

Hi Lads, Congrats on the win Sunday and delighted you stayed up. I agree it was a great win especially as you were playing away in Cork and missing few key players. A win like this under the circumstances will be very good for confidence come championship.

If you dont mind me saying, I reckon Mayo will be very hard to beat in 2013. They definitely have something going with Horan in charge and come championship I reckon there fitness levels will be as good as Donegal 2012. Unlucky in last years All Ireland and put up a good show after conceding two early goals, I believe Mayo have learned a lot from this and Horan definitely has a project in motion and Mayo are playing much different to Mayo teams of the past. Horan, I believe will deliver success for Mayo yet mark my words.

Cheers buck, same to ye, it was good banter on Sunday. Will yous put on the fricking heaters for the next time

Seans_Username · 09-04-2013 10:44AM

I know that everyone's saying that getting to the semi final is a bonus in itself (and one one hand, I'd agree with that considering at half time the team were facing relegation) but do ye not think it'd be worth trying to get to the final and winning it? Donegal did it in 07 and that must have given them some sort of a boost psychologically.
Winning in Croker could do wonders for some of the younger players in the squad

Fr Tod Umptious · 09-04-2013 12:15PM

Seans_Username wrote: »

I know that everyone's saying that getting to the semi final is a bonus in itself (and one one hand, I'd agree with that considering at half time the team were facing relegation) but do ye not think it'd be worth trying to get to the final and winning it? Donegal did it in 07 and that must have given them some sort of a boost psychologically.
Winning in Croker could do wonders for some of the younger players in the squad

Yea winning is good and winning the whole thing would be a boost but at the same time loosing to Dublin in a semi-final would be no real problem, depending on the performance of course.

Getting back to the game in Cork, fair enough it was a hard fought win in a game that ultimately they needed to win to secure Div 1 status, but there were a lot of problems with the performance too I thought

- The backs were very poor in the first half, I thought that Cork just ran and passed and found their men effortlessly.
- The whole team were responsible for some terrible turnovers, not so much loosing the ball in possession but passing balls to Cork players when Mayo were attacking, some instances were shocking.
- The inability to breakdown massed defences. Fair enough they could not kick from distance in the first half because of the wind but any balls that went into the forwards came out as quick. The same was the case v Down, they found it very hard to breakdown swarming defences.
- The problem with drfiting out of games, they went 25 mins withouit a single score, that is going to come back and bite them in the ass on a more important stage. Fair enough it's the league and training regimes may mean that they do not go 100% for 70min but from now on they have to be 100 for the full game.

Cork missed a number of easy cahnces from frees and play in both halfs, had they scored them I think we would be talking about Div 2 rather than a day out next Sunday in Dublin

Defiler Of The Coffin · 12-04-2013 08:57AM

Many of ye headin to Dublin for this one lads? I would expect an attendance of around 20,000 given the teams that are in it.

Fr Tod Umptious · 12-04-2013 12:25PM

Defiler Of The Coffin wrote: »

Many of ye headin to Dublin for this one lads? I would expect an attendance of around 20,000 given the teams that are in it.

I'm not going to it.

Too expensive to head up from Kerry between petrol, food, ticket etc and I am still pissed off with them for scheduling the same fixture last year between Mayo and Kerry in Croke Park.

I'll go to the final if they make it.

ColeTrain · 12-04-2013 02:21PM

Defiler Of The Coffin wrote: »

Many of ye headin to Dublin for this one lads? I would expect an attendance of around 20,000 given the teams that are in it.

I'd have it at 30-35k given that the Dubs are in it.

I'm not saying there will be that much in the crowd come 3.45 though.

Looking forward to it now.

GBXI · 12-04-2013 02:38PM

Would like to see Cunniffe starting at 6 assuming he's fit. I think he showed more in his two games against Kildare and Donegal, especially from a defensive aspect, than Vaughan. He's also a lot pacier than Vaughan, which our defense needs when Higgins is missing.

Other than that, I'd like to see Regan in the corner ahead of Conroy and Dillon ahead of Carolan, assuming Dillon is fit. Should be a good game of football.

DDC1990 · 12-04-2013 02:39PM

Fr Tod Umptious wrote: »

I'm not going to it.

Too expensive to head up from Kerry between petrol, food, ticket etc and I am still pissed off with them for scheduling the same fixture last year between Mayo and Kerry in Croke Park.

I'll go to the final if they make it.

Typical Mayo fan. :P

ColeTrain · 12-04-2013 03:05PM

GBXI wrote: »

Would like to see Cunniffe starting at 6 assuming he's fit. I think he showed more in his two games against Kildare and Donegal, especially from a defensive aspect, than Vaughan. He's also a lot pacier than Vaughan, which our defense needs when Higgins is missing.

Other than that, I'd like to see Regan in the corner ahead of Conroy and Dillon ahead of Carolan, assuming Dillon is fit. Should be a good game of football.

Is Conroy injured? no chance I'd drop him if he's fit.

GBXI · 12-04-2013 03:38PM

Not injured as far as I am aware. I just wouldn't be his biggest fan and I also think we need someone in the FF line that is naturally left footed. As much as Conroy shows for the ball he doesn't have enough pass nor does he offer much of a goal threat. Also, I'd like Regan to get a start in Croke Park.

tacofries · 12-04-2013 05:49PM

Im tryin to get a lift with my uncle but he's only a maybe! Have to wait and see tomorrow. .

Defiler Of The Coffin · 12-04-2013 08:02PM

Team named:

David Clarke (Ballina Stephenites)
Kevin Keane (Westport)
Ger Cafferkey (Ballina Stephenites)
Chris Barrett (Belmullet)
Lee Keegan (Westport)
Donal Vaughan (Ballinrobe)
Colm Boyle (Davitts)
Jason Gibbons (Ballintubber)
Seamus O’Shea (Breaffy)
Kevin McLoughlin (Knockmore)
Aidan O’Shea (Breaffy)
Cathal Carolan (Crossmolina)
Cillian O’Connor (Ballintubber)
Jason Doherty (Burrishoole)
Michael Conroy (Davitts)

Subs: Kenneth O’Malley (Ballinrobe), Shane McHale (Knockmore), Michael Walsh (Ardnaree), Richie Feeney (Castlebar Mitchels), Keith Higgins (Ballyhaunis), Enda Varley (Garrymore), Evan Regan (Ballina Stephenites), Brian Gallagher (Claremorris), Darren Coen (Hollymount/Carramore), Alan Murphy (Ballinrobe), Alan Freeman (Aghamore)

km79 · 12-04-2013 08:07PM

What's the story with Alan Murphy ? People were tipping him for an all Ireland final start last year ! Has he been injured or just not getting a game ? Not much point having him there if he is not going to be looked at in the league

Always_Running · 12-04-2013 08:54PM

If Higgins is fit enough he'll start. B Brogan is to return so Mayo will have to mark him better this time and Mayo need to improve on 0-13 average score they have got so far this year.

Defiler Of The Coffin · 12-04-2013 09:07PM

In fairness to Mickey Conroy he scored a peach of a point against Cork, he was somewhat starved of possession though throughout the game but I'd still have him on for Sunday. Mayo had a hard time splitting the Cork defence. We badly need Andy Moran and Alan Dillon back to help us in this regard. I'm somewhat surprised to see Sheamie still in midfield, thought he had a quiet day against Cork and I think his brother and Gibbons would be a more effective partnership in Barry Moran's absence. It looks like Horan will be sticking with Aidan in half forward until Dillon and Moran return.

Who will Higgins replace if he comes on though? I rate both Barrett and Keane, would like to see both of them shoring up the back!

Always_Running · 12-04-2013 11:17PM

I rated them as well though in fairness Higgins is better player and defender than Barrett,Keane. Donal Vaughan still at no 6 i thought this was the year to move Higgins further up the field and to do the job that Lacey has done for Donegal?

hardy buck salmon · 13-04-2013 06:54PM

Fr Tod Umptious wrote: »

Was at the match, nearly froze

Great win in the end, but terrible first 30 mins
They really upped their game in the second half, were far more aggressive at the back and did not commit stupid turnovers, the wind helped too.

They have achieved what they wanted in the league I think, try out a few options, stay in Div 1 and get to semis was a bonus.

was at the match too.

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