Mayo GAA Discussion Part 2

cocoman wrote: »

Cork in the final so we may be back on the road to Limerick again.

Ennis it was the last time

Great heart shown today.

Diarmuid O'Connor will be as valuable to Mayo as Ciaran McDonald was. Focal point to everything we did today, if he wasn't intercepting balls in his own square, he was scoring goals at the other end. A work horse and has the technical ability to match.

gigantic09 wrote: »

Days like today would take years off a man,a joy to behold.my heart goes out to Tommy Carr now that neither his beloved Dublin or Kerry will be in the final.

I thought Tommy Carr was/is a Tipp man:)

Kristopherus wrote:

I thought Tommy Carr was/is a Tipp man

No he's from Dublin, so is his brother Declan who played for Tip alright.
They had a pub on Prussia Street/ Stoneybatter for years

yop wrote: »

I'm out of the country so no access to the game but it sounded an immense win even more so the fact we returned from a big lead into what looked like a defeat. That's two games on the bounce now we've taken it to end and won. Now need to once and for all close out the pre final performances and continue them to an ai final win. Doc has been superb all year
Delighted for him

Yop i think some of our Dublin colleagues thought you might have gone further afield to never return if we'd lost yesterday's contest!:D

Just got to Ballina for the last 2 minutes of the game...and what a 2 minutes!!! On a negative note.... very disappointed to be in a sports pub on the outskirts of the town and the Indian Premier League cricket on the big screens!! GAA relegated to 2 small screens over the food counter. (With no sound) Shamefull!:mad:

Fr Tod Umptious wrote: »

Ennis it was the last time

No offence to the good people of Clare but I hope it isn't played there as it isn't a nice venue. Limerick would be perfect but it's a good bit nearer to Cork than Mayo.

TCDStudent1 wrote: »

I have been to many hurling matches in Ennis. Just a couple of football matches. But I always found it to be a wonderful town for a match. Great atmosphere there.

The town is grand I just don't like Cusack park.

Will venue and time be confirmed tomorrow?

gigantic09 wrote: »

He reckons Dublin and Kerry are miles ahead of everyone else and never misses an opportunity to castigate and belittle Mayo.He conveniently forgets that we provided Dublin with their toughest challenge last year and Kerry the year before,not to mention that last years final was one of the poorest in recent times.

He'll jump on whatever bandwagon is rolling early in the year, so if they win the All Ireland later he can say "I told you so".

He's a Dub so he's always going to love them, along with Westmeath and Roscommon.

Kerry are rolling now so he's behind them, but after losing to Roscommon he said we were going nowhere.

He famously went on radio the day of the Kerry v Westmeath qualifier a few years ago, and gave out stink about the referee and how he favoured Kerry, and that Westmeath deserved better, even suggesting they should have won. When quizzed further it turned out that he had missed all of the first half of the game because he was watching the Connacht Final, which was delayed by half an hour AFIAK.

Sums him up as a pundit.

I don't really understand these "pundits" who have grudges against certain teams and I understand even less why they keep getting paid to give their opinions. I get that people have their favourites, but if someone can't even summon up any vague semblance of objectivity when analysing a game, then they shouldn't be doing that job.

Nothing to see here....move along now....move along...have yiz no homes to go to at all, at all, at all....whistles innocently...:P

PressRun wrote: »

The ref was poor for both sides, to be fair. He gave Dublin a couple of dodgy ones too.

The referee gave Dublin a few very handy frees but in the end I felt he robbed them. In the first half he gave a very soft free in particular to Dublin and 1 in the second half. When Dublin were went ahead I felt he brought Mayo back into the game. Two wrongs dont make a right. Fair play to lad for having the bottle for the last few frees. The last one I would given the other way. But thats how the cookie crumbles. But if that was a senior match the Ref would have had a few paragraphs all to himself. Inconsistent.

But better overall balanced team won on the day.

Just on D.O'C. He is a fine player but now needs minding. I can only imagine what the local papers will say about him. It can destroy a young lad as we have seen in the past with many good young players. Con O'Callaghan has been kept fairly quiet by Dublin and is another exceptional talent to look forward to.

ProudDUB wrote: »

Congrats you lot.

That DO'C is some man for one man.

( Insert obligatory grumble about the ref here

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D.O'C was superb. Great display and a great effort from both sides.

On the Tommy Carr punditry, lads grow up. He wants to be like Pat Spillane but is not in the same league at all. Him and Martin McHugh and Martin Carney should be put out to grass.

And he is a TIPP man, wants to be a dub though!!

PressRun wrote: »

Btw, do people think Sharoize Akram will make the move to senior level in the next year or so?

He certainly has the ability but I don't think he's got the physicality yet that is needed for senior football. However, that's not too surprising as he is one of very few on the team who is only in his first year out of minor, so he'd have another two years with the 21s if they weren't disbanding the competition.

Personally I think they should be looking at getting him involved with the senior team's S+C program this year so that he might be able to make the step up for next year's division 1 campaign.