Mayo GAA Discussion Part 2

Roscommon supporters before the game...

Mexcanelo wrote: »

Got the tickets today for Sunday. Heading down from Meath to see this one. Should be a great game. Come on the Rossies.

Prediction Roscommon by 7 or 8 points.

Roscommon supporters after the game...

Duckworth_Luas wrote: »

The Ros B team, augmented by some U21 and squad players, having secured a semi-final spot, still put it up to a Mayo squad scratching and scrapping for their Division 1 future. I don't think anyone in Roscommon thought Mayo would take this nothing game as seriously as they did. Mayo won their All-Ireland today, Roscommon have bigger things to look forward to.

A good training session for Roscommon all the same.

Gotta love the Rossies

Cosmo Kramer wrote: »

Roscommon supporters before the game...

That chap isn't a Roscommon fan..why don't you look at his post history where he said a number of times he is from meath...he didn't even know the names of the Roscommon players when questioned

TCDStudent1 wrote: »

'The form team of the spring' - really? I think Dublin might argue with that a little bit!

Well "unexpected" form team then, we all knew what Dublin are about, but Ross were on a 4 game winning run.

Cosmo Kramer wrote: »

Roscommon supporters before the game...



Roscommon supporters after the game...



Gotta love the Rossies

That is hilarious, Those Rossies gettting seriously over excited by a few league games. Bless 'em

Enjoyed the win, wides.........

Good overall team performance and great midfield play, with some supurb rapid one two play up the middle. Solid marking/defence with good accurate hand passing. Another improvement I feel and getting championship ready from what I can see. Well done, cant wait for next weekend.

I would have thought that a pitch on a hill would have had excellent drainage or it would be very easy to improve drainage. Had to have a look at the pitch afterwards and its in a very very bad way, no wonder players were skidding all over the place.

Going out the door for a few tasty pints.
Good win rossie sh1te no midfield bring on the championship.
Taxi is awating

Well if we lose to Down we could be in trouble. Then again if we lose to Down at home we'll deserve to be relegated. While it's possible, it's hard to see us beating Down and getting relegated.

I'm confident at this stage that we'll stay up and continue our record of being the longest standing team in Division 1 (nearly 20 years now). Next year the fixture list will most likely be a lot less kind to the Rossies and hopefully kinder to us and you'll have either Galway or Cavan in the top division as well. So no reason why we shouldn't be looking to maintain our status for the foreseeable future.

Delighted I made the trip,super win.

TBF the pitch was atrocious,totally unfair to expect inter county footballers to perform on same.

Performance I thought we dominated proceedings from the get go other than that short spell post the Roscommon goal.

Our intensity levels were first class and we totally bossed them in terms of physicality.

First half we were defensively very sound,some silly turnovers and lots of relatively poor wides with a couple of spurned goal chances,one a half chance.We really should have been 6 to 8 points at least to the good at the break.

Marvellous 15 minutes or so after the restart,panic stations in full mode post the goal concession.We never like to make it easy for ourselves.Nice clincher from Cillian on his wrong side considering that awfully difficult to read swirly wind even for a close in free.

Robert Hennelly was sound in goals,kicked a couple of quality frees off an awful surface with a wide thrown in as is the norm.

Brendan Harrison put in another sterling performance,Tom Cunniffe has his work cut out to win back his corner back berth.Ger Caff was imperious as he has been throughout the current campaign.Hopefully his injury is of a minor nature.Chris Barrett made an excellent return.

Our wonderful half backs Lee Keegan and Colm Boyle were at the top of games,superb.Patrick Durkan's introduction made a huge difference.He's a strong favourite for the number 7 jersey with some able back up in Shane Nally.Donal Vaughan has a real fight on his hands to get a starting spot.

Tom Parsons and Seamie O Shea lorded midfield,Tom alongside Colm Boyle have been our players of the current campaign.Great to see a welcome tour de force display from Seamie.

Many issues up front,the positives Diarmuid's excellence,Aidan O Shea's link up play and quicker release of same said ball,hard balls won like Boyle,Parsons and his brother Seamus.Bodies put on the line.

Jason Doherty was largely anonymous,Conor O Shea showed well for the ball.Alan Freeman as always needs to utilise his undoubted physicality to win his contests.He kicked his frees,Evan Regan got all the headlines with his goal,lovely skill.He appeared to take a crazy amount of steps.A few needed challenging frees landed..Little threat from play in terms of the scoreboard up front.

Welcome return from Cillian O Connor,Alan Dillion will be a very useful squad player,top game intelligence.Pretty surprised Evan Regan got MOTM from TG4,he got a few vital scores but like many of our inside men was only sporadically effective.Surely Seamie O Shea,Tom Parsons or Colm Boyle were a tad were worthy of this accolade?

Hopefully we'll get a decent win against Down as I'm firmly in the camp that believes it is vital we preserve our division one status.There was nothing in our performance that will have Dublin or Kerry quaking in their boots.

But we have been defensively sounder this league campaign,hopefully we can increase our effectiveness in offensive terms.

After the brutality of the last few weeks there may be a few green shoots......

season tickets updated !

km79 wrote: »

season tickets updated !

2 of the 3 tickets on my account have been updated. Hopefully the third will follow.

Stoner wrote: »

Exactly what I was thinking tbh, they were a little unlucky against Monaghan too, taking nothing away from monaghan in the process.

TBH Mayo should have been in a better position this year, but its a new manager so that's understandable to a degree. Mayos position in division 1 should really have nothing to do with Roscommons position.
IMO mayo are well ahead of Down and Cork. Only Dublin, Kerry, Donegal should really be capable of beating them in div 1. Today's result was not a shock given Roscommons secure position coming into the game but mainly due to Mayos experience.
I thinking roscommon are a coming side, but they don't have the scalps this mayo team has.

They have yet to prove that they can match a championship pace that Donegal, Kerry, Mayo and Dublin have throw Tyrone and Monaghan in there too.

I'd like to see them develop and reach their potential as Division 1 will be interesting next year, but they have yet to actually do it imo.

Agree 100%

They could do with adding a bit more physicality too. Mayo looked totally at home in all the key battle zones. Still, given the horrible conditions that didn't suit Roscommons fast paced, running game, I though their keeping it to a 4 pt margin was quite impressive. Later in the summer, the faster, harder pitches should really suit them. They won't be playing all their games in a bog. I'm really interested to see how they get on in Croker. On paper, they seem tailor made for it.

mass_debater wrote: »

A better question is how will the Dubs get on the next day in the Hyde

Why don't you have a look at how the Dubs got on the last two times they played a game in horrible, wet conditions, and find out for yourself how they got on.

I'll give you a hint.

One of them was against Mayo in Castlebar in February. The other was a trivial little kickabout last September. Perhaps you've heard of it? I believe it's called the All Ireland Final.

homewardbound11 wrote: »

Am I right in thinking we are pretty much safe in div1 . Cork are in Tralee next week and with their points difference a loss means they could well be in relegation. That is if Mayo win and Monaghan beat Donegal .
If Donegal win then Monaghan are relegated and our match against down is then irrelevant .
If we win and Monaghan beat Donegal then we can make the play offs but a huge score of +25 points is needed. Again all assuming cork loose in Tralee.

Its possible that 4 teams could finish of 6 pts with one going to the playoffs and one being relegated.

If Cork lose and Mayo and Monaghan win Cork will be gone.

Mayo have to win by one point more than Monaghan win by to be 100% safe.

Cork and Donegal would have to lose and Mayo would have to overturn a 25 pts deficit on Donegal to get to a SF.

Mayo can still lose and stay up if Monaghan also lose.

ProudDUB wrote: »

Agree 100%

They could do with adding a bit more physicality too. Mayo looked totally at home in all the key battle zones. Still, given the horrible conditions that didn't suit Roscommons fast paced, running game, I though their keeping it to a 4 pt margin was quite impressive. Later in the summer, the faster, harder pitches should really suit them. They won't be playing all their games in a bog. I'm really interested to see how they get on in Croker. On paper, they seem tailor made for it.

Was it that impressive? I don't really think their keeping it to a four point margin was as much to do with how well they played and more to do with the fact that Mayo dozed off, as they often do. Mayo still need to work on actually closing out a game properly and they could have won it by a lot more, but they were the architects of their own difficulties rather than Roscommon doing anything all that special.