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All I'll say on the "expenses" front is that poor oul Evans is fairly green with envy.
The current package is common knowledge about the County.

Heard that Evans had issues with getting his "expenses" paid in a timely manner.

I wonder if McStay might run into the same issue down the line....

He won't.  He might run into a lot worse though!

Pretty sure McStay can handle the donkey whisperer in a fight.

Translation please.

Nope.

I ass-ume you are referring to the funniest thing ever posted on stolen-sheep. Beyond hilarious if true.

McStay called it "a moral victory". Funny, I thought we were hammered myself. He's now gone from playing the persecuted martyr in the hail last week (with Marty playing the sympathetic parishioner - "Was it  Gay Sheerin?") to Comical Ali this week. I predicted last year he'd be gone before the championship. I hope I am right but doubtful if he thinks that's a moral victory.

If we get rid the players better be planning on self-organizing their training because no one in the right mind wants to manage Roscommon.

Good. It might stop the know it alls in the county going after the customary high profile wafflers.

McStay called it "a moral victory". Funny, I thought we were hammered myself. He's now gone from playing the persecuted martyr in the hail last week (with Marty playing the sympathetic parishioner - "Was it  Gay Sheerin?") to Comical Ali this week. I predicted last year he'd be gone before the championship. I hope I am right but doubtful if he thinks that's a moral victory.

Think it's time for Roscommon County board instead of demanding an apology  to apologise themselves to Sheerin. It's scandalous that we are allowing Maughan The sequel to unfold before our eyes.

I see Irish Mirror published his name and picture.

I see Mcstay is firing back at Gay Sherrans comments during the week and rightfully so.Sherrans comments were extremely ignorant and clueless and if fellows like him have any say in the running of GAa affairs in Ros then they are truly fooked.

I thought the same but there seems to be a right few eejits running around Roscommon. Bringing a guys county of birth into the discussion says more about Sheerin than anything else.

Gay's comments were completely over the top and out of order, and unfortunately distracted from the valid points he was trying to make. Really 11:30 pub talk. That said, McStay did too much crying about it. This is a man who after winning the All-Ireland no less with Brigids had a go at the Armagh ref, implying he could not be partial because Bridgits defeated Crossmaglen in the semi-final. It came from the exact same illogical place that made Sheerin proclaim McStay's heart could not be in Roscommon job because he was from Mayo. So less crying to your friend Marty Kevin and do something about our sieve-like defending.

[I would expect Mayo only missing the O Sheas to win comfortably.]

O Byrne cup is pre season lads. It's a competitive league and championship unbeaten run.

If Dublin play as selected I would expect Mayo only missing the O Sheas to win comfortably.

Oh, really?

Dublin's second 15 might well be the second best team in Ireland.

The only thing that should concern you tonight is that same Mayo side gave Roscommon a trimming last Saturday and the majority of their scores came from play.

It would have to give great cause for concern. Not one Mayo forward scored from play tonight whereas they cut get through our feeble defending like a dose of the salts. McStay and Nchale should be forced to watch both matches 24 hrs a day for the next two months in hopes they might learn something.

who is mcstay starting the JE didn't?  who is not county standard maybe we should bring back Nally.

the 2 dalys left mid year last year. niall walked because he was dropped. they might have physical strenght but too soft to fight for their place.

They are not too soft. They played with distinction for Roscommon across all grades. Players will go out and die for a good manager. We don't have that in Roscommon right now. And I see you are going with the line McStay told the media. There's a player in the half back line with no pace they are all a hundred times better than. Enough said.

very true rossfan as we never loss to Mayo!!! Evans/Kearns did no f**king better

you enjoy your moment

Actually they did much better. They inherited a team stuck in Div 3 and continuously made them better. We are going in opposite direction under McStay. People use the Sligo and Fermanagh defeat as a stick to beat Evans and Kearns but Sligo have beaten Mayo and Galway several times since our last championship victory over them in 2001. That is just nonsense arrogance from Roscommon supporters. Sligo are always capable of beating us in Markevitch Park. Same Fermanagh team were unlucky not to beat Mayo in Castlebar last year, and in our defeat to Fermanagh we still played good football and controlled the game until lack of fit players in the end. And Kearns came close enough to beating a much stronger Mayo team in championship than what we had to face tonight.

McStay should have been removed last year when it was clear the panel was divided over his return. The 3 Dalys are all better than what we had defending tonight and they have physical strength too.  McStay has players starting than Evans correctly knew are not county standard - and certain people had the knives out for Evans because he would not pick them. It was a political appointment and we are dealing with the consequences now. If we run him, the press and public opinion will come down heavy on us. But reality - he has to go. A small county like ours cannot afford some of our best and experienced players sitting at home. It's simply an awful state of affairs that the current management has created.

Well done to Mayo- have a lot of very promising young players. I'd hate to think what result might have been if they were at full strength. But having said that, beyond some talented forwards kicking good points, we were beyond useless. The gap is very wide right now.

It's going to be a massacre

While I have some reservations about the McStay/McHale management setup and their inability to keep our  best players on panel (eg Dalys), seeing the beginnings of some of the underage swagger emerging in the style of play. Don't think this will be a massacre and in fact we are in with a good shout of winning what should be close either way. Disagree with the odds, think we'll eek out the narrow win.

http://www.rte.ie/sport/gaa/2017/0215/852782-wo/

Looks like it's Mayo's time to get a few headlines again.

Can you really blame Freeman for finding out about these pressing work commitments when Andy Moran at 47, or whatever age he is, is favoured at FF ahead of him?

Surely you of all people knows Andy's age more than the rest of us.

To quote the sawdoctors, whose original drummer was from Ballagh - after Andy jumped about kissing the plain of the yews crest in Kiltoom, all his lovin' is gone.

Shocking management skills by McStay telling media that Niall Daly left because he wasn't guaranteed a starting place. I doubt that's the full truth and a poor attempt by manager to portray himself as innocent party and player as guilty party. A young experimental Donegal team scored 16 points against us, and should have been 1-22 - and the manager is at this crack with one of our best if not best backs. Monaghan and Cavan despite the snore fest yesterday are likely stronger than Donegal. Still a lot of positives yesterday but will never get anywhere with the amounts we are conceding.

Find out the full truths before going on a national forum slating the manager.

All public domain Oliver thanks to the manager speaking to the media.

The truth is McStay went to the media and painted a picture that Niall Daly went off in a huff because he wasn't starting, and further that he was now taking time off to decide whether he wanted to fight for his place. That's a shocking thing to say. It was very similar to what John O'Mahony did in the media with Ciaran McDonald, didn't want to attend trials to fight for his place. Niall Daly and his brothers have played for Roscommon all through under-age, and have always fought for their place. They don't need to be belittled like this in the media - especially by a manager whose championship record so far is getting hammered by Clare, and hanging on to beat New York by a point.

Shocking management skills by McStay telling media that Niall Daly left because he wasn't guaranteed a starting place. I doubt that's the full truth and a poor attempt by manager to portray himself as innocent party and player as guilty party. A young experimental Donegal team scored 16 points against us, and should have been 1-22 - and the manager is at this crack with one of our best if not best backs. Monaghan and Cavan despite the snore fest yesterday are likely stronger than Donegal. Still a lot of positives yesterday but will never get anywhere with the amounts we are conceding.

Great Niall is back but still an awful situation McStay has let develop with the Daly brothers. He should fix this while he has time. Many a management floundered on taking an unnecessary hardline with players: Johno with Ciaran Mac, Maughan with Frankie. We need our best players on panel. Move on lads.

Fair play to them. They were once the perennial losers who became the aristocracy. Worth staying up for.