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Fitzsimmons cooper/McNamee t o Sullivan?
McCaffrey Small Durcan
Fenton Murphy
O Brien O Callaghan Howard/Sean o Shea
Mannion McShane Clifford

Don't like that fullback line but can't think of many that have excelled?

so can anyone give a good account of both sides injury situation?

Potentially for us, you have the possibility of Paddy Durcan/d'oc back, seems to be less optimism about matty ruane and no idea re: Keith.

Donegal injuries the last day beforehand - ban gallagher/mcgrath/mcgee, any of these expected back? any knocks expected to rule any new players out?

Any chance the telegraph is wrong?

any team named that doesnt have coc starting is worrying.

Cillian gets plenty of scores from play. I honestly don't know how that myth is still out there.

He scored a stunning goal against Kerry in the 2011 semi final despite only being 19. Scored a hat trick against Donegal in the 2013 quarter final. When do you ever see a hat trick in Gaelic football? Excellent in both semi-finals vs Kerry in 2014. Carried the side vs Dublin in 2015. 3 points from play in the low scoring quarter final win vs Tyrone in 2016. Super equaliser vs Dublin in the drawn final. 3 points from play in the 2017 final. Many other examples too.

I can understand opposition fans don't like his off the ball stuff but you can't deny he's a prolific scorer.

Donegal the current all Ireland holders at the time. If I'm not mistaken he scored a hat-trick in the connacht final (all be it against London) in the game prior too. Has anyone ever scored 6 goals in 2 concurrent matches? I think free takers get this argument thrown against them a lot. I would have held the same opinion of Dean Rock for a long time before realising his Quality.

I actually think Cillian O Connor's piggery is needed in that mayo side. Too often they lose games by not fouling enough/being cute enough/slowing down the game with fake injuries/taking soft frees the way Kerry/Dublin and more recently Galway do, and its something COC is very smart at.

Can anyone explain to me the logic of round 1 & 2 of the qualifiers being unresticted with teams able to meet who played in the provincials while round 3 will be restricted??

So if both Tyrone and Monaghan get through they can't meet, Same with Armagh and Monaghan.

It makes little sense to have rounds 1/2 restricted while 3/4 are not.

Yeah ridiculous. And if mayo make it to round 4 and Rosc beat Galway we wont be able to have a second cut at them.

Why are we getting rid of this competition with games like this...

Not that it made a difference but Gary Sice took 12 steps before scoring that goal, whereas Comer's looked totally legitimate.

Unrelated but why wasnt Enda Smith playing? and then why wasnt he brought in earlier when it was apparent that Kilbride hadnt the legs to be chasing runners coming out of defence?

I think we mentioned this before the match, we're very weak on cover for the FB line.

Keane, Harrison, Higgins and Barrett are our only out and out full back line men. Vaughan, Hall and Coen can probably do a job there but after that, you're struggling

without caff back there, I'd be very weary of the 'higgins in attack' experiment. He is now desperately needed in that full back line.

The Mayo team for Saturday's Connacht Senior Football semi final clash against Galway in Elvery's MacHale Park at 7pm is:

1.    Robbie Hennelly (Breaffy)
2.   Brendan Harrison (Aghamore)
3.   Kevin Keane (Westport)
4.   Keith Higgins (Ballyhaunis)
5.   Lee Keegan (Westport)
6.   Colm Boyle (Davitts)
7.   Patrick Durcan (Castlebar Mitchels)
8.   Tom Parsons (Charlestown)
9.   Jason Gibbons (Ballintubber)
10. Kevin McLoughlin (Knockmore)
11. Aidan O'Shea (Breaffy)
12. Jason Doherty (Burrishoole)
13. Evan Regan (Ballina Stephenites)
14. Cillian O'Connor (Ballintubber, captain)
15. Conor O'Shea (Breaffy).

Team Manager: Stephen Rochford.
Selectors: Donie Buckley, Tony McEntee & Sean Carey.


Missing 3 definite starters in Caff, Seamie and Doc. Hopefully will be enough, but there are areas that Galway can exploit if they're good enough.

Same team named as was named for London, so it probably means damn all.

I'm in the flights-booked-no-ticket situation and expecting to hop a wall. anyone who's been there before know how penetrable the fortress of ruislip might be?

mayo by 1 with 2 mins added left.

The game changed when caff went off, and then murtagh came on. I hope that wasnt a 'the game has been won' type substitution from Rochford.

While Evan Regan did very well, I was really hoping he'd slot that free. Its all well and good scoring when we're winning, but when the chips are down we need forwards who want to stand up and be counted. It wont be as big an issue though when cillian reassumes freetaking.

Alan Freeman's black card is yet another to add to the littany of terrible black cards. Introduced to counteract cynicism and it has failed spectacularly in doing so.

As a neutral watching that reply, at first i thought nothing of it, but its that point where McCarthy stops leading with his index finger and changes to his thumb that shows intention to me. In that last second he knew what he was doing.

[Hennelly, for all his great saves, is a liability]

I heard a lad behind me saying that mayo were going to get hammered in every match and that relegation has been coming for a few years, FFS!

Just a few things:

• This is what Cork do, for the rest of the league they won't hit the points they hit in the last 10 minutes of the first half. I had heard Goulding was flying, he was excellent yesterday
• Its an away league match, thats all we've lost
• I thought the first 15 minutes were good, I was happy out, we had the cork lads at arms length
• It is very worrying that Rochford could not see that Cork were just fisting the ball back at us on our sickouts, all it took was someone to stand under it to win the breaks, or maybe not kick it out
• Hennelly, for all his great saves, is a liability

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• Regan is not the messiah, looking at him yesterday he's at least a year away from being able for senior IC football, the little jinks and dummy solos get eaten up by good backs. And get your hands on the f**king ball before you start throwing the shoulder. And tackle, put some work in rather than a token effort at looking like your working, have a look at DOC, COS or Jason Doc for an example. I really hope theres more to him than what was there yesterday
• Mikey Sweeney - where do you start
• Not a great fan of COS but a good second half yesterday. Harrison was very good IMO and the two Barrymore lads were decent
• Another depressing day in Cork but you'd hope that the misplaced passes we saw when we had the upper hand in the first half are just rustiness

Totally agree on Hennelly.Aimless kickout after aimless kickout it was like Limerick all over again.

+1

Ramelton,
Tinryland,

had an english friend pronounce ennistymon as ennis-tee-mo as if it was french in origin.