Mayo GAA Discussion Thread

Cosmo Kramer · 14-07-2015 01:18PM

Quite a few Mayo dropouts have gone on to play for other counties in recent years - aside from the players that went to the overseas teams there has been BJP to Armagh, O'Malley to Wicklow, Kilcullen to Sligo and now Ruddy to Sligo as well.

naughto · 14-07-2015 02:29PM

Cosmo Kramer wrote: »

Quite a few Mayo dropouts have gone on to play for other counties in recent years - aside from the players that went to the overseas teams there has been BJP to Armagh, O'Malley to Wicklow, Kilcullen to Sligo and now Ruddy to Sligo as well.

There was another Alan Costello to Sligo as well

naughto · 14-07-2015 03:42PM

is any one bar me having any hassel printing off there sesaon ticket from the site

yop · 14-07-2015 04:22PM

naughto wrote: »

is any one bar me having any hassel printing off there sesaon ticket from the site

You just bring your season ticket to the stile on Sunday. Nothing to print unless I am missing something!

naughto · 14-07-2015 08:00PM

yop wrote: »

You just bring your season ticket to the stile on Sunday. Nothing to print unless I am missing something!

Your stop on yop it's different to last yr

mayo.mick · 15-07-2015 12:50AM

naughto wrote: »

is any one bar me having any hassel printing off there sesaon ticket from the site

I should hope you are having trouble printing off your season ticket

yop · 15-07-2015 08:35AM

mayo.mick wrote: »

I should hope you are having trouble printing off your season ticket

Maybe take a picture of it on the screen and print that out

Team out tomorrow night? Regan getting rave reviews. I think we could see him towards the end of the game.

eastmayo · 15-07-2015 08:50AM

Also forecast wet for Sunday,would be interesting to see young Regan at some stage on Sunday,not long now!

irishgeo · 15-07-2015 09:45AM

eastmayo wrote: »

Also forecast wet for Sunday,would be interesting to see young Regan at some stage on Sunday,not long now!

lovely in the uncovered seating.:rolleyes:

Fr Tod Umptious · 15-07-2015 10:40AM

irishgeo wrote: »

lovely in the uncovered seating.:rolleyes:

I watched the 2011 final (the one with the really bad wind and rain, but worse when they played against it according the the Rossies) from the terrace in the Hyde, and only the top of my head got wet as it was so packed the rain had nowhere to go.

lippy88 · 15-07-2015 10:42AM

Does anybody know where I can get my hands on 4 stand tickets or is that possible? Thanks

yop · 15-07-2015 11:24AM

lippy88 wrote: »

Does anybody know where I can get my hands on 4 stand tickets or is that possible? Thanks

SuperValu at this stage.

Rawhead · 15-07-2015 11:57AM

lippy88 wrote: »

Does anybody know where I can get my hands on 4 stand tickets or is that possible? Thanks

Judging by the uptake in our club you'd want to get a move on. It'll sell out I think.

seligehgit · 15-07-2015 06:46PM

Possibly some welcome news that the joint management are looking at means to protect our full back line and address the much talked about defensive frailties we have.

http://m.hoganstand.com/Home/Details/241054

glack · 15-07-2015 11:31PM

Team announced:
1. David Clarke - Ballina Stephenites
2. Ger Cafferkey - Ballina Stephenites
3. Donal Vaughan - Ballinrobe
4. Keith Higgins - Ballyhaunis (Capt.)
5. Lee Keegan - Westport
6. Tom Cunniffe - Castlebar Mitchels
7. Colm Boyle - Davitts
8. Seamus O'Shea - Breaffy
9. Tom Parsons - Charlestown Sarsfields
10. Diarmuid O'Connor - Ballintubber
11. Aidan O'Shea - Breaffy
12. Kevin McLoughlin - Knockmore
13. Andy Moran - Ballaghaderreen
14. Cillian O'Connor - Ballintubber
15. Jason Doherty – Burrishoole

2 changes - Ger Cafferkey will replace Chris Barrett and after impressing off the bench Donal Vaughan comes into the side for the injured Kevin Keane.

Blackjack · 15-07-2015 11:39PM

glack wrote: »

Team announced:
1. David Clarke - Ballina Stephenites
2. Ger Cafferkey - Ballina Stephenites
3. Donal Vaughan - Ballinrobe
4. Keith Higgins - Ballyhaunis (Capt.)
5. Lee Keegan - Westport
6. Tom Cunniffe - Castlebar Mitchels
7. Colm Boyle - Davitts
8. Seamus O'Shea - Breaffy
9. Tom Parsons - Charlestown Sarsfields
10. Diarmuid O'Connor - Ballintubber
11. Aidan O'Shea - Breaffy
12. Kevin McLoughlin - Knockmore
13. Andy Moran - Ballaghaderreen
14. Cillian O'Connor - Ballintubber
15. Jason Doherty – Burrishoole

2 changes - Ger Cafferkey will replace Chris Barrett and after impressing off the bench Donal Vaughan comes into the side for the injured Kevin Keane.

Donie at 3 and Jason 15 seem slightly odd but for no reason other than used to seeing both at half back and half forward.
Jason used to be a regular on the full forward line before. Hoping he can regain that ability to bury loads of goals in games he had a few years back, that was in the FBD mind.

km79 · 15-07-2015 11:43PM

Blackjack wrote: »

Donie at 3 and Jason 15 seem slightly odd but for no reason other than used to seeing both at half back and half forward.
Jason used to be a regular on the full forward line before. Hoping he can regain that ability to bury loads of goals in games he had a few years back, that was in the FBD mind.

caff will be FB cunnife in the corner and Donie CB ya would imagine

ColeTrain · 15-07-2015 11:50PM

Blackjack wrote: »

Donie at 3 and Jason 15 seem slightly odd but for no reason other than used to seeing both at half back and half forward.
Jason used to be a regular on the full forward line before. Hoping he can regain that ability to bury loads of goals in games he had a few years back, that was in the FBD mind.

I'd expect to see Doc swich with AOS. The backs will be shuffled around, like KM79 said.

Overall, it's strong line-up. I wonder if Keane's injury is serious? He has been fairly solid this year but Caff is a quality replacement.

Blackjack · 15-07-2015 11:52PM

km79 wrote: »

caff will be FB cunnife in the corner and Donie CB ya would imagine

That would be the more usual format alright.

Fr Tod Umptious · 16-07-2015 12:23AM

Blackjack wrote: »

Donie at 3 and Jason 15 seem slightly odd but for no reason other than used to seeing both at half back and half forward.
Jason used to be a regular on the full forward line before. Hoping he can regain that ability to bury loads of goals in games he had a few years back, that was in the FBD mind.

It was actually the NFL rather than the FBD.

He got 7 in the league in 2012 I think.

Always_Running · 16-07-2015 02:06AM

New management but more or less the same team the last management Would pick. Surprising or to be expected?

Padkir · 16-07-2015 09:21AM

Always_Running wrote: »

New management but more or less the same team the last management Would pick. Surprising or to be expected?

If Regan was not just coming back from injury, I think he'd possibly start ahead of Andy, that's probably the only change I'd like to see.

The team were barely a kick of the ball away from an All Ireland the last few years and no-one has retired, so no need for drastic changes. I'd be more inclined to see what kind of different tactics they employ to be honest; the players that are there are good enough.

Rawhead · 16-07-2015 09:31AM

Always_Running wrote: »

New management but more or less the same team the last management Would pick. Surprising or to be expected?

Hardly surprising, they're the best players in the county(give or take a player) and have lost 3 championship games in 3 years, including 2 All Ireland's and a semi final replay to the eventual AI champions.
I think it's fairly commonly agreed that Mayo have the players to win an All Ireland, we just need some system tweaks at this stage as opposed to a complete overhaul.

HighKing33 · 16-07-2015 09:49AM

Blackjack wrote: »

Donie at 3 and Jason 15 seem slightly odd but for no reason other than used to seeing both at half back and half forward.
Jason used to be a regular on the full forward line before. Hoping he can regain that ability to bury loads of goals in games he had a few years back, that was in the FBD mind.

Doherty will just go to midfield, he was named at 15 in the last game if I'm correct and spent most of the game acting as a roving half-forward. I thought Horan got the best out of him, deploying him on the wing where he became an extra midfielder, winning kickouts, getting up and down the pitch.

His role under C&H is probably similar as Aidan will be given a lot of freedom so the midfield have to accomodate this somehow.

padd b1975 · 16-07-2015 10:16AM

Anyone else feeling 'meh' about Sunday?

Obviously it's a great achievement to be aiming for 5 in a row, but I miss the build up to a Mayo V Galway final with nothing between them....

ColeTrain · 16-07-2015 10:24AM

padd b1975 wrote: »

Anyone else feeling 'meh' about Sunday?

Obviously it's a great achievement to be aiming for 5 in a row, but I miss the build up to a Mayo V Galway final with nothing between them....

I'm a little bit like this myself. When the ball is thrown in there will be some excitement but it's not a Connacht Final with much going for it.

naughto · 16-07-2015 10:43AM

padd b1975 wrote: »

Anyone else feeling 'meh' about Sunday?

Obviously it's a great achievement to be aiming for 5 in a row, but I miss the build up to a Mayo V Galway final with nothing between them....

No two cars going from here with the lads on board so should be good Craic if it stays dry it would help but its not looking good.
Good few pints will be had when we get back Sunday providing we have the cup,sure what else do ya want.

Fr Tod Umptious · 16-07-2015 11:11AM

padd b1975 wrote: »

Anyone else feeling 'meh' about Sunday?

Obviously it's a great achievement to be aiming for 5 in a row, but I miss the build up to a Mayo V Galway final with nothing between them....

Far from it actually.

Personally I have not had the chance to see many live games this year so I'm really looking forward to it.

But it's also the beginning of the real stuff, we have waited so long between games and now if we win this we know there is an outing in CP on August 8th.
And in the meantime we can be looking at who the possible opponents may be and who we hope they may be.
An possible SF opponents will be determined at that point too, so between Sunday and August 8th we will have plenty to think about.

Fr Tod Umptious · 16-07-2015 11:36AM

Always_Running wrote: »

New management but more or less the same team the last management Would pick. Surprising or to be expected?

With the exception of D O' Connor and the possible introduction of Regan there is no new players introduced to this team in the past few years

And that is a major worry.

As I said last year the team does not need major overhaul but it does need fresh blood in certain areas, unfortunately that has not happened.

Yes these guys have been close to winning it all but yet they have not, and I fear that they may not ever

I recall coming out of the 9th loss to Kerry in the 2011 SF full of hope because these guys and Horan showed us that they were on the up.

The night of the Final loss to Donegal I looked at the program and realized that the average age of these guys was around 25.

But whne we lost to Dublin in 2013 it was if the last chance for a number of years may have gone, and I felt the same the night after they lost to Kerry in Limerick, and even worse the next day when we saw that it was Donegal and not Dublin in the final.

I'd love to be able to compare this Mayo team to the Cork team from the mid '00s.
The Cork team that were knocked out of the championship 5 years in a row by Kerry in either the final or SF, but they hung around and eventually in 2010 they got to a final and meet a team that were not that accustomed to being there, and they managed a win.

Mayo need the luck that Cork team had.
Since '04 Mayo have always faced juggernauts in AI finals.
They need to catch a break to win one at this stage, Cork or Kerry beat Dublin, Monaghan or even Galway or Tyrone progress from the other side, something like that.

One can only hope, otherwise the names Keith Higgins, Andy Moran, Seamus O' Shea will go down in history just like the names Willie Joe Padden, T.J. Kilgannon, Liam McHale

Kalyke · 16-07-2015 11:46AM

padd b1975 wrote: »

Anyone else feeling 'meh' about Sunday?

Obviously it's a great achievement to be aiming for 5 in a row, but I miss the build up to a Mayo V Galway final with nothing between them....

We are beginning to sound like Roscommon lads.....

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