Mayo GAA Discussion Thread

We're lacking running power today against a team with a mass defence and a ref very slow to give us frees.

Kinsella is awful today. Not giving us any scoreable frees. Allowed Tyrone men dive on ball/slide tackle the ball.

No answer to the massed defense.

Tyrone had everyone inside their 40 regularly when Mayo were on the ball.

Persisted with short kick out even though it allowed Tyrone to filter back.

They were unlucky also, Conroy's shot cleared off the line early, and Aidan's rasper of s shot was straight at Morgan.

Mayo the poorest of a poor game will need to pick stronger teams for remaining games as the strength in depth is not good as some seem to think and few of the young lads are not ready for senior step up yet.

Poor performance today. Very poor shot selection and very little put n on top of the full forward when that was probably the only way we were going to beat a blanket defence bar taking shots from 40 yards out. As for Mr eddie kinsella what a joke. No control on the match what so ever. He was very much in tyrones favour. Must have been chatting to Cormac Reilly. In saying that though we kicked some very poor wides. Our short kick out played into Tyrones hands as it gave them every chance to get 15 players behind the ball.

Dirty Dingus McGee wrote: »

Should that goal have stood?

From the initial long ball its definitely not a square ball but after the ball broke O'Connor was in the square before the ball was kicked against the post.

What's the rule on square ball now ? I thought it only applied for set plays or is it the other way round ?

Very disappointing day at the office,Tyrone set up much as expected.Extremely hard to break down,we were'nt good enough to take long range scores,move quick ball inside.Some truly awful wides and a mesmerising number of handling errors.

TBF Tyrone were excellent,perfect response to their defeat last weekend.Precise and clinical in everything they did,the polar opposite of ourselves.

You can't blame the referee,gaelic football is becoming increasingly difficult to referee.Who'd be referee,we simply were'nt good enough today.

washman3 wrote: »

Think you need to watch the game again, alone in a room, without a baying mob shouting at the referee. Kinsella was ok today, not excellent but not bad either. If anything, decisions were in Mayo's favour. Aidan O'Shea should have been red carded not black. That late tackle was at the upper end of the scale in being extremely dangerous. He also had 2 other late tackles ignored. Very poor display from him once again, even his goal attempt carried little conviction.The Mayo goal was a blatant free out.
Management had a poor day at the office, just wonder if the same clique of players are dictating again as they did with Horan

How can you claim Kinsella had a good game. He was never in control of it. A tyrone player picked the ball off the ground right in front of him and he never blew for a free. Another player hand tripped a mayo player. Again no free. I could go on and on. Granted mayo were very poor today but an honest ref shouldnt be to much to ask for

john mayo 10 wrote: »

How can you claim Kinsella had a good game. He was never in control of it. A tyrone player picked the ball off the ground right in front of him and he never blew for a free. Another player hand tripped a mayo player. Again no free. I could go on and on. Granted mayo were very poor today but an honest ref shouldnt be to much to ask for

Read my post again, I said he was ok, not excellent but not bad either.
Watch the game again, he wasn't the reason Mayo lost.
Concentrate on your own players shortcomings rather the referees mistakes, I guarantee you the former will far outweigh the latter.

Big worry at the moment is the form of some of our big players who have high mileage on the clock. Leeroy, Boyler, Aido all seem out of sorts and very leggy. Vaughan was poor at midfield and took the wrong option time and time again. Now I know it's early on in the season so hopefully I am just reading too much into it. All the handling errors would lead me to believe it was a rough week training which is surely counter productive for a team with aspirations of winning the league.

Today reminded me of the Donegal final. No-one inside to win the dirty ball. How Noel & Pat envisaged this match playing out any different from how it did is very worrying tbh. I cannot see the logic of bringing Sweeney into such a game when space is at a premium. Equally as baffling was bringing Cafferkey on and leaving him isolated in a one-on-one foot race in our half of the field!!

john mayo 10 wrote: »

I'm not disputing ur argument. We made some very poor mistakes today. Im just feel that the level of refereeing is very poor nowadays. We will agree to disagree. Lets move on.

Ya, agree with you there. The standard needs to be far better. Brian Cody made a good point when he said that a referee's biggest task now is appeasing the accessors sitting in the stands ticking boxes for the next referees meeting.
When 90% of the time all that's needed is common sense.

Suarezistheman wrote: »

Tyrone rock solid in defence? There would be something wrong if you weren't rock solid with 14 men back there! Worrying for Mayo was how poorly management had them set up. Bad day at the office for Noel & Pat

well it has won them a few Sam Maguires mayo could take note of it.

Suarezistheman wrote: »

Tyrone never won any All-Ireland's with the system they are using these days.