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#1
Quote from: Farrandeelin on July 24, 2019, 09:20:13 AM
Quote from: Rossfan on July 23, 2019, 06:16:25 PM
Ballagh left the darkness and came into the light in 1898.
Unfortunately their GAA club still refuses to come out of the cave.

Time for Ros to stop worrying about Ballagh and concentrate on winning a game as Connacht champions that matters for the first time in 40 years!  ;)

Like talking to children about it Farr. There's a lad on here called giveballaghback. Rossfan has just shown the irony of his name. Ballagh should indeed be given back....... to Mayo. Anyway for the 1000th time this has been brought up, debating it here won't change it. We're in Mayo for football thank feck!
Great to still have our hopes alive going into the last round. I'd have taken that after the no show in Kerry. Good to see Tommy Conroy called in to train with the squad. He obviously won't play this year but Horan is planning for the future which is vital if we're to be competitive for years to come.
#2
GAA Discussion / Re: Mayo! f**king Hell
April 01, 2019, 05:29:59 PM
Quote from: Tubberman on April 01, 2019, 01:40:52 PM
Quote from: Hound on April 01, 2019, 11:59:56 AM
Diarmuid O'Connor play in the last 3 bolded ones above?
Anyone else?

Stephen Coen captained the minor & U21 teams, is part of the squad and played most league games but didn't feature yesterday.
Michael Plunkett, Conor Loftus and Eoin O'Donoghue (Not 100% about Eoin) played in minor and U21 finals and were involved this year. Only Plunkett named in the 26 though.
Matty Ruane has an U21 medal but not a minor, Carr and Boland the same.
#3
GAA Discussion / Re: Mayo for Sam 2019
April 01, 2019, 05:24:51 PM
Quote from: BennyCake on April 01, 2019, 04:05:50 PM
COC is such a frustrating player. Gets involved in too much niggly stuff, distracting Mayo when in their flow.

Scoring a few frees is all well and good, but I wouldn't put him anywhere near the quality of that other 10.

Scoring a frees is all well and good surely. The 3 points he hit from play in the 2017 AIF came in handy too. I also kind of liked the point from play to bring us to a replay in 2016.

His big return from play in the two games against Kerry in 2014 were probably all handy scores in your head?
He's a class player who will walk back into the team. I agree he needs to cut out the messing  and the niggly stuff, he also lacks a yard of pace but you don't know what you're talking about if you think he only contributes frees to the team.
#4
GAA Discussion / Re: Mayo manager resigns - for defo.
November 19, 2018, 08:16:19 PM
Quote from: Mayo4Sam on November 19, 2018, 11:00:34 AM
Quote from: Orchard park on November 17, 2018, 02:08:12 PM
Quote from: Syferus on November 16, 2018, 09:12:23 PM
Quote from: Orchard park on November 16, 2018, 09:11:08 PM
Is any Mayo man as upset as a Roscommon man about young Akram young lad.... on my limited viewing saw nithing to show he was county senior material.....

Limited viewing would be the best description you could put on yourself alright.

Back in your corner.

Ignoring the petulant prepubescent,
Calling mayomen as opposed to the  Sufferus..... is Akram non selection a scandal

We know from past experience that Horan values ball skills, it was something he introduced last time round. From what I've seen of Akram he is a great athlete but lacking finesse. Hanley could easily fall into the same category.
Delighted to see Reape is included, he seems to light up the club scene
Hanley's ball skills will be fine. He was rushed back on to the scene last year but isn't ready. He's a serious footballer and it's only a matter of time before the skill levels return.
Agree with you on Reape, lots of potential there with some good coaching
#5
GAA Discussion / Re: Mayo manager resigns - for defo.
November 18, 2018, 04:20:49 PM
Quote from: Orchard park on November 17, 2018, 02:08:12 PM
Quote from: Syferus on November 16, 2018, 09:12:23 PM
Quote from: Orchard park on November 16, 2018, 09:11:08 PM
Is any Mayo man as upset as a Roscommon man about young Akram young lad.... on my limited viewing saw nithing to show he was county senior material.....

Limited viewing would be the best description you could put on yourself alright.

Back in your corner.

Ignoring the petulant prepubescent,
Calling mayomen as opposed to the  Sufferus..... is Akram non selection a scandal
As a Ballagh Mayo man I would say no is the answer. Sharoize is a talent but he still needs to work on parts of his game. He's really unlucky that he's in a line of the team that is so strong. If he works on his skills and develops more physically then I think he'll be looked at again.
#6
GAA Discussion / Re: Mayo manager resigns - for defo.
October 20, 2018, 10:08:43 AM
Quote from: spuds on October 19, 2018, 01:46:18 PM
Quote from: rosnarun on October 19, 2018, 11:22:21 AM
Quote from: Manning18 on October 18, 2018, 04:39:15 PM
Quote from: Ballaghman on October 12, 2018, 10:15:59 PM
As for Mayo not being known for big business men at home or abroad? Have you ever been to London or New York? Full of wealthy Mayo men. At home, who do you think owns Portwest, Carraig Donn, McHale machinery, CBE, Smyths toys etc, some clever Galway lads?
Finally your understanding of economics is limited. Mayo has two of the wealthiest towns in Connacht. It also has big businesses and big backers throughout  the county.

I'm not disputing your backing, i'm saying you do a phenomenal job of getting backing. How hard is this to process? Mayo don't have comparable business here or abroad compared to counties like Cork, Kildare, Limerick, Galway, Wicklow etc (and you're deluded if you think they do) but the manage to obtain outside finance far better. Richest Mayo man Charlie Kenny is worth 200m. Plenty of counties can lay claim to billionaires.

Which wealthy towns are you referring to? When I think of wealthy towns in Connacht I think of Barna, Salthill, Oranmore, Rinville, Kinvara, Rosses point & Strandhill. Are there others with a more wealthy populace than these?
your confusing wealth towns with place with wealthy people living there .
west cork or wicklow probable has more millionaire than anywhere else outside of Dublin but they are feck all good to the GAA

Never mind this ladeen sure he thinks he is getting some reflected glory with all this talk of wealthy Galwegians.
Yeah I've chosen the ignore option too. The poor lad lists off the wealthiest towns in Connacht and manages to leave the Mayo ones off the list. Maybe poor oul Westport will make it into Rinville's league someday!
#7
GAA Discussion / Re: Mayo manager resigns - for defo.
October 15, 2018, 11:36:53 PM
Quote from: iorras on October 15, 2018, 09:20:50 AM
Quote from: Beffs on October 14, 2018, 11:29:32 AM
Ask them yourself. A Mayo man was running the country until last year.

The very same GAA players are all able to find work in Kerry. Don't think I need to ask a politician why the Mayo ones can't.
No they're not, they are all in CIT and UCC taking 10 years to do degrees or teaching in schools in Kerry. Ironically if it wasn't for Cork education institutions, Kerry would be f*cked.
Good point. Also the amount of Mayo lads in Dublin is misleading. A good number of the panel are in college and I agree with Ed Coughlan, I think they should have chosen Galway to go to college but that's probably being a bit extreme I admit.
Some lads like Seamas O'Shea for example would struggle to find a job as an insurance underwriter in the west but most of the panel of a working age have jobs, and good jobs at that, in the west. We have the same problem as every other county west of the Shannon when it comes to construction related jobs. None of our lads have gone down the Darren O'Sullivan route of giving up work and Kerry has no more employment than ourselves. If any Mayo lad wants a job, they'll get one in Allergan, Coca Cola etc but some decide not to or in some cases have a specialised profession like SOS. They're in a privileged position of having options.
The point about fundraising is still valid. We are renowned for having wealthy business men who back us and it's one of the reasons our football team can afford to spend (you could argue blow) so much money on things like travel and accommodation on the lads living in the east for example.
#8
GAA Discussion / Re: Mayo manager resigns - for defo.
October 15, 2018, 11:21:39 PM
Quote from: iorras on October 15, 2018, 09:24:24 AM
Quote from: thebackbar1 on October 10, 2018, 01:28:14 PM
Now that things have settled down, does anyone have close to full story why Roachford wasn't kept on ? did the county board want him out ? or did horan make it know that he was interested in coming back and they decided he was a better option going forward ?
high stool talk alert with this but sure take what you may from it. There's a couple of wealthy backers to the county team, they weren't happy with last season and the general direction Rochy was going so they were threatening to pull the plug on the finances. They wanted Horan back to keep the funds going and the chairman knew what side his bread was buttered on so set about the required work.
Heard the same thing but as you say could be pub talk
#9
GAA Discussion / Re: Mayo manager resigns - for defo.
October 12, 2018, 10:15:59 PM
Quote from: Manning18 on October 09, 2018, 05:27:23 PM
Quote from: iorras on October 09, 2018, 03:41:28 PM
Quote from: Manning18 on October 09, 2018, 12:26:15 PM
Quote from: rosnarun on October 09, 2018, 12:18:51 PM
Quote from: Manning18 on October 09, 2018, 12:11:57 PM
Quote from: macdanger2 on October 07, 2018, 03:06:05 PM
Quote from: Manning18 on October 07, 2018, 02:51:13 PM
Horan doing videos talking about Adventures, Quests and Odysseys. "Brand Mayo". Some amount of cringe. It's not the presidency he's taking over

He seems to have you rattled anyway  ;D ;D

My eyes rattled from cringing?

"Brand Mayo". He's the manager of an average rural county's amateur football team, not the owner of the Dallas Cowboys. Quests and Odysseys is even stranger again. Perhaps he's a World of Warcraft fan
who are hugely popular and successful in fundraising allowing them to compete at the top level of football for the last decade from our impoverished county rather than whinge about dublin.
Welcome to footballs real world

Should he not be trying to extract less money from people in one of the countries more impoverished counties rather than more? Brand Mayo, sounds like a racket to take yet more from loyal fans. I do agree that Mayo's fundraising from far afield has been phenomenal from a county that wouldn't exactly be known for big businessmen abroad.
Dont worry about us lad, we have plenty of big businessmen at  home and abroad. And by big businessmen I mean big as in the type with money not big as in fat lads who eat burgers. Not sure which you meant.
Another positive is that we werent found with our hands in the till like one of our neighbours!

Not quite sure what the Supermacs dig is about. A family run business that give endless amounts of money to local charities and initiatives.

Mayo have the 4th lowest disposable income per person in Ireland and a similarly low GDP per person. I'm not particularly worried about it but perhaps you should be. https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/news/revealed-the-richest-and-poorest-counties-in-ireland-36636317.html

Hard to know where to start with your wayward posts. As one of the lads said you obviously didn't watch his interview. He doesn't buy into the quest stuff, never has.
As for Mayo not being known for big business men at home or abroad? Have you ever been to London or New York? Full of wealthy Mayo men. At home, who do you think owns Portwest, Carraig Donn, McHale machinery, CBE, Smyths toys etc, some clever Galway lads?
Finally your understanding of economics is limited. Mayo has two of the wealthiest towns in Connacht. It also has big businesses and big backers throughout  the county. Per head GDP doesn't come into it when you're looking for serious backing, we have been blessed with rich and generous people behind the scenes, Howleys and Corcorans don't exist in every county. Look at the map on the link you sent. We are grouped with Kerry. Ranked low like ourselves but with much wealthier individual towns than most counties, thanks to tourism and a sprinkling of big business.
We'll be grand, as we always are. We'll be competitive next year and that's all of most of us are looking for, i.e. be better than last year and take it from there.
#10
Quote from: Hound on August 29, 2017, 01:01:47 PM
Form in semi-final is completely irrelevant when predicting what's going to happen in a final.

Only thing of relevance is last year's All Ireland finals, and that being 12 months ago makes it very hard to compare. Andy Moran is clearly playing better than last year, as is Aidan O'Shea. Doherty now a legitimate threat and Loftus looks like he could do what Costello did last year. Boyle is super, and nobody can doubt the class of Harrison and Barrett at the back. Vaughan (who I would say pretty much has always been poor v the Dubs) is having his best year ever. Keegan not at the same level as last year, but illness accounts for that. COC not playing as well as last year, but I'm sure Mayo lads are confident he'll play well.

Overall I would say I expect Mayo to be slightly better this year than last year. I think Dublin are better too. It'll be down to who produces on the day. Should be a super game.
Pretty fair assessment Hound but can't agree with the Vaughan part. He played really well in both of last years games and was a huge loss last year when he went off with concussion.
#11
Quote from: DUBSFORSAM1 on August 28, 2017, 09:41:07 AM
Quote from: Zulu on August 27, 2017, 07:11:02 PM
Dublin are a great team but Tyrone made it easy for them. Con O'Callaghan is obviously a great player in the making but he, and the other Dublin forwards, will be marked by good defenders in the final. On the other side of the field the Dublin defenders will actually have forwards to mark. Mayo's only problem is the scoring power of their forwards, give them Paul Geaney and I'd have them favourites for the final.

Zulu if Kerry can score 2-14 and 0-17 against Mayo why will Dublin not score as much?
Do you honestly think the Kerry defence is as good as Dublin's ie If Shane Enright was from Dub would he have played 2 games on Andy Moran whilst getting taken apart??
The dubs are better all over the field than Kerry. Mayo will have to play to an even higher level to win. The thing is they will, they have the players that stifle an awful lot of what's good about Dublin. Stopping everything though and doing enough damage ourselves has been the problem, marginally. The dubs are rightful favourites and we'll just have to see if we have enough to beat you this time.
#12
Quote from: straightred on August 27, 2017, 11:52:37 PM
Quote from: Jinxy on August 27, 2017, 11:40:10 PM
I'd have the match ups as follows (assuming Dublin start Connolly & drop Scully):

Barrett on Rock
Harrison on Andrews (ideally Harrison @ FB)
Higgins on O'Callaghan
Keegan on Connolly
Boyle on Kilkenny
Durcan on Mannion

AOS drifting back into the HB line to help.
I'd target Mannion, O'Callaghan and Connolly with Mayo's best 'running' defenders in Durcan, Higgins & Keegan.
a) to keep up with them
and
b) to get them chasing back into their own half.

Keep Vaughan in reserve and see where he's needed.
Ideally he would come on for SOS in the 2nd half to partner Parsons.
Start AOS at 11 or 15 and bring him back out the field.
Scully did really well today and i wouldn't be surprised if connolly doesnt start the final. Dublin can do a few matchups of their own as well - kerry kept keegan quiet so dublin might do the same job on him
Keegan wasn't kept quiet the second day. His own shot selection is what let him down. 4 shots at goal, 3 of which he normally scores with ease. I except to see him back to full fitness and form for the final
#13
Delighted for Rochford after all the stick he has taken this summer. He stuck to his guns and had Fitzmaurice on the run both days but especially yesterday. He stuck with AOS at full back who rewarded him with an improved performance and they tweaked it a little to get Donaghy on the back foot a bit more. Higgins was unreal in front of him, what a player.
Serious performances all over the field and really could have been a 10 point win but we'll gladly take the 5. An exceptional group of footballers now have to finish the job and secure that title they crave. Anything else will be failure to them.
#14
Quote from: Taylor on August 23, 2017, 04:29:45 PM
Quote from: Cunny Funt on August 23, 2017, 03:23:21 PM
Quote from: Taylor on August 23, 2017, 02:56:24 PM

If AOS had not ben marking Star on Sunday they would be out IMHO
Can you call way off your man as marking? too much thought was put into The Star by the too many cooks on the Mayo sideline. In Last years drawn AI final Mayos defence held the Dublin forward line to 0-2 from play any 6 Dublin forwards can cause more damage than one mid 30 year old forward.

AOS not "marking"  Donaghy on Saturday will prove even the Mayo management will know they got that gamble/experiment wrong last Sunday.

How many long high diagonal balls do Dublin play in (like they did when OGara was there).

How many long high diagonal balls did Kerry play in each game up until Sunday? One can only assume it was because AOS was there that they stopped this tactic
Of course that was the reason Taylor. People are saying it was because of the weather? Laughable. Kerry pump high ball into Donaghy no matter the weather. Remember 2014 drawn game and the conditions weren't exactly great that day.
I don't totally agree with AOS being left FB the next day but I can absolutely see the merit in it. He put Kerry off their aerial bombardment game. Them being the good team they are and Donaghy being the good player he is meant they adapted. Fair play to them you'd expect that. If Rochford sticks to his guns the next day two things have to happen. 1) AOS has to get tighter which he did in the 2nd half but must be better again. If Kerry play a sweeper then we'll have one too and that will help further 2)AOS needs to push forward and drive at Kerry and get Donaghy on the back foot, at least a few gallops a half and tire and test Donaghy that way. Donaghy wouldn't be able to handle him going in that direction
#15
Quote from: AZOffaly on August 21, 2017, 04:41:29 PM
Quote from: highorlow on August 21, 2017, 04:39:11 PM
QuoteYou didn't happen to count how many steps Colm Boyle took before his goal by any chance?

When did was the over carrying rule re-introduced? It doesn't count for goal chances. That one balanced up the penalty we weren't awarded for the ground touch in the square picked up by Dessie Dolan in real time.

That was a square ball first. Cillian O'Connor followed the ball in, and then when Andy Moran kicked at it, Cillian was in the square.
Square ball? In open play? Ah lads get with the programme!