All Ireland Quarter Final;Roscommon v Mayo Sunday July 30th

[weareros]

Well we have a ref the next day who likes to dish out cards. Let's see how he will handle Lee Keegan's continuos holding back players and pulling of jersies, or the Cillian and Diarmuid O'Connor's accidental dirty tackles or accidental entanglements looking for frees (nice point Mayo got off that last week before half time). Mayo always ungrateful to their Dublin Joe - have they even sent the auld Christmas Card for the penalty he gave against Fermanagh for Aidan's dive last year?

[Rudi]

Thats boogate done to death now.

Replay it is , we will win this one and more comfortably than the masses think i believe. From what i gathered from a player sunday evening, they didnt show up and have no intentions of letting it happen again. Mayo are confident of victory .

"They didn't show up"

Have Mayo secured full copyright permission from Galway to use that?

I know ye are excited about winning Connacht but since when does 1match turn a team into Barcelona. I remember a big match Ros drew last year. What happened in the replay?
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Feeling left out Seafood? You can't stand seeing the lesser Mayo and Roscommon playing on the big stage. To debate about all things Galway is a lonely room at the minute. Nobody in Roscommon thinks we are the Barcelona of football (pitiful analogy by the way) however we finally seem to have a team who will fight tooth and nail for the cause. This has been missing from Ros teams for far to long. We as supporters admire these traditional traits in our team.

[macdanger2]

Well we have a ref the next day who likes to dish out cards. Let's see how he will handle Lee Keegan's continuos holding back players and pulling of jersies, or the Cillian and Diarmuid O'Connor's accidental dirty tackles or accidental entanglements looking for frees (nice point Mayo got off that last week before half time). Mayo always ungrateful to their Dublin Joe - have they even sent the auld Christmas Card for the penalty he gave against Fermanagh for Aidan's dive last year?

You mean the stonewall black card incident?? 

[Tubberman]

Thats boogate done to death now.

Replay it is , we will win this one and more comfortably than the masses think i believe. From what i gathered from a player sunday evening, they didnt show up and have no intentions of letting it happen again. Mayo are confident of victory .

"They didn't show up"

Have Mayo secured full copyright permission from Galway to use that?

I know ye are excited about winning Connacht but since when does 1match turn a team into Barcelona. I remember a big match Ros drew last year. What happened in the replay?

Feeling left out Seafood? You can't stand seeing the lesser Mayo and Roscommon playing on the big stage. To debate about all things Galway is a lonely room at the minute. Nobody in Roscommon thinks we are the Barcelona of football (pitiful analogy by the way) however we finally seem to have a team who will fight tooth and nail for the cause. This has been missing from Ros teams for far to long. We as supporters admire these traditional traits in our team.

I have him on ignore list, it's a sad reflection on him when he spends his time trying to belittle others achievements when his own county footballers have failed to perform yet again.
Ros and Mayo supporters are entitled to be proud of their teams - Galway football supporters would love to be able to say the same about their team, it's been a long time... 

[weareros]

Well we have a ref the next day who likes to dish out cards. Let's see how he will handle Lee Keegan's continuos holding back players and pulling of jersies, or the Cillian and Diarmuid O'Connor's accidental dirty tackles or accidental entanglements looking for frees (nice point Mayo got off that last week before half time). Mayo always ungrateful to their Dublin Joe - have they even sent the auld Christmas Card for the penalty he gave against Fermanagh for Aidan's dive last year?

You mean the stonewall black card incident?? 

No it wasn't. Mayo had lost the ball. Roscommon were going up the field on a quick counter after Cregg sent the ball forward. O'Connor was behind Cregg and way behind the play, and totally manufactured that free. Joe gifted Mayo that score.

[PW Nally]

Well we have a ref the next day who likes to dish out cards. Let's see how he will handle Lee Keegan's continuos holding back players and pulling of jersies, or the Cillian and Diarmuid O'Connor's accidental dirty tackles or accidental entanglements looking for frees (nice point Mayo got off that last week before half time). Mayo always ungrateful to their Dublin Joe - have they even sent the auld Christmas Card for the penalty he gave against Fermanagh for Aidan's dive last year?

You mean the stonewall black card incident?? 

No it wasn't. Mayo had lost the ball. Roscommon were going up the field on a quick counter after Cregg sent the ball forward. O'Connor was behind Cregg and way behind the play, and totally manufactured that free. Joe gifted Mayo that score.

Childish stuff weareros. Could mention McInerney might have seen red for the high dangerous tackle on AOS etc but I'm better than that  .

[Syferus]

Well we have a ref the next day who likes to dish out cards. Let's see how he will handle Lee Keegan's continuos holding back players and pulling of jersies, or the Cillian and Diarmuid O'Connor's accidental dirty tackles or accidental entanglements looking for frees (nice point Mayo got off that last week before half time). Mayo always ungrateful to their Dublin Joe - have they even sent the auld Christmas Card for the penalty he gave against Fermanagh for Aidan's dive last year?

You mean the stonewall black card incident?? 

No it wasn't. Mayo had lost the ball. Roscommon were going up the field on a quick counter after Cregg sent the ball forward. O'Connor was behind Cregg and way behind the play, and totally manufactured that free. Joe gifted Mayo that score.

Childish stuff weareros. Could mention McInerney might have seen red for the high dangerous tackle on AOS etc but I'm better than that  .

You mean the one where he barely touched AOS and he went down as if he had been chokeslamed by the Undertaker? Really? That's the best you've got?

[Blowitupref]

Joe Molloy made an interesting point on OTB on Monday nite, Mayo for the last two years seem to matching the performance of their opponents, be they Dublin or Derry.
I'd expect the same again on Monday, it could easily be a draw but I'd expect us to go through.
Why?
Roscommon got the start they dreamed off and couldn't capitalise on it and thats with AOS and COC not performing at all. Add into that Rochford making the mistake of taking off Boyle, breaking on Drake but most of all over estimating how good a footballer Enda Smith is. It was ideal to have Keegan marking him in the first half because Smith didn't have a notion and let Keegan dictate. Second half he should have been handed off to someone else and let Keegan continue at midfield.
Add to that again the two non-black cards that McQuillan dodged and the disgraceful awarding of the Donie Smith free and what else could go right for Roscommon the next day. Mayo will also surely have a solution (although I've said this before) for the high ball into our full back line

It is almost exclusively the case that the underdog rues not taking their chance the first day

Mayos performance levels has been consistent under Rochford. Steady more than spectacular and forever hard to beat who ever they play doesn't change that but they still have the ability to give a side a trimming if the opposition turn up poorly organized.

I believe Keegan will be given the job to man marker Enda Smith again as Sunday proved once Keegan went off him Smith he caused damage and both Harrson and Cafferkey was put onto him without much success. The last free was picked up off the ground even the very biased Willie Joe (aka John Gunnigan) has said this since watching the game back, as for non black cards well McQuillan also turned a blind eye to likes of Higgins,AOS and both O Connors "tackles" and if repeated Monday that won't be the case with Anthony Nolan who is card happy ref.

That game last Sunday wasn't one for forwards and the longer the game went on the less time and room they had on the ball, the best players on the field was all arguably defenders or sweepers Kilroy,Mullooly,McManus,Barrett,Keegan,Boyle etc.  For Roscommon to let a seven point lead slip and then recover to win the 2nd half by 2 points against experienced and seasoned outfit like Mayo are probably deserves a lot more credit than its got IMO.

[rosnarun]

"They didn't show up"

Have Mayo secured full copyright permission from Galway to use that?

If that's the attitude then I'd be seriously worried. Why would a team of Mayo's experience not show up for an AIQF?

Why would we suddenly 'show up' this week?

It would be nice if Coen, Loftus, Regan, Boland et al were to show up on the starting 15 before they hit 30.

For us to win the AI we need to see if we have anything else in the squad to get us over the line, so what if we run the risk of losing in the QF by playing them.

We could hardly make a worse start with them than was made with the old reliables last week?

because it was only Roscommon . we will have bigger fish to fry soon  and the replay is an unnecessary Distraction


as for Willie Joe changing his mind  that pretty par for the course . hes not the most coherent of commentators and like a few maore seems to be trying to use mayo's success as a booster for some sort of a media carrer . not worth paying attention to

[criostlinn]

The booing was more likely from a small band of jarred up lads. I don't think our lads are whinging about it much.

You Sy, are now whinging because if we were whinging in the first place about it we now will stop because of the Roskie CB statement.

Ye should be more worried about Enda Smith limping off the field at the end rather than our supposed whinging.

You mustn't visit MayoGAABlog, Midwest or Mayo GAA Banter or major national outlets much so.

Enda's no more hurt than Andy's feelings.

Syf, surely you have a job to go to? You seem to spend an unhealthy amount of time scrutinising the likes of MayoGAABlog, Midwest or Mayo GAA Banter or whatever yer havin' yerself and coming back here to bother us with what ever tidbit of nonsense you find there.
Who gives a f**k damn about any of those sites or what some gobshite may or may not have posted there?
Surely you have something similar in the land of the sheep stealers?
Mac and his panel disassociated themselves from the behaviour of certain louts last Sunday. That's laudable but you shouldn't get orgiastic pleasure from the mere fact that the behaviour of some Rossie "fans" was so bad that your management and players felt the need to condemn this sort of behaviour.
There may be other counties where some elements resort to this objectionable carry on but we are not discussing other counties here.
Two wrongs don't make a right not even east of the Lung river  where general behaviour can be a bit agricultural at times.
Leave it be, there is no need to keep on fecking your soother outa yer pram.

I think child labour laws in this country prohibit him from working

[seanf]

are sky covering the replay on Monday?

[MayoBuck]

are sky covering the replay on Monday?

Rte I think. Sky have the 2 quarters on Saturday

[Rossfan]

RTÉ 2.

[mrhardyannual]

With the likelihood of Tom Parsons returning to midfield, Rochy has a few choices to make:

Return Keegan to the half back line with Caff losing out in the reshuffle
Return Keegan to the back line and name Higgins/Durkan on the half forward line with both operating in the backs with Hihggins as sweeper.
Leave Keegan at midfield with Parsons and exclude SOS
Leave Keegan at midfield with SOS, push Parsons to the 40 and Aido to FF.
Start Loftus to the exclusion of DOC/K Mac or Doherty
Replace Caff with Crowe or SOS
Personally, I would like to see Kirby at FF with COC and Andy in corners and Loftus in reserve. Despite the reservations of others I would have Donie at chb and hold one of Boyle/Durcan as an impact sub. Likewise I had hoped to see Caff play himself into form but he looks to have lost pace and confidence. Time to make a change and probably a bold one. 
Roscommon played well last week and I expect them to play equally well this week. Looking for match-ups is a dangerous game as any of the Ros forwards are likely to have a blinder or fail to reach expectations.

[blast05]

Well we have a ref the next day who likes to dish out cards. Let's see how he will handle Lee Keegan's continuos holding back players and pulling of jersies, or the Cillian and Diarmuid O'Connor's accidental dirty tackles or accidental entanglements looking for frees (nice point Mayo got off that last week before half time). Mayo always ungrateful to their Dublin Joe - have they even sent the auld Christmas Card for the penalty he gave against Fermanagh for Aidan's dive last year?

Yaaaaawwwwwnnnnn..... yet another county having a moan about how Lee Keegan holds back players and holds jerseys.
Well it's time to put up or shut up. Point your phone on Keegan the next day and record the whole match and see what you got. You'll get shag all
Don't  point me to some sportsfile photo from the replay of an instant in time without context.... some photo journalist trying to earn a few bob by producing a photo that fits with a narrative that the Dubs set last year.