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Often heard the word gobdaw.
It means someone isn't as bad as a gobsh1te, more of a nice eejit type.

And then you had the gibbadauns, too. Plenty still roaming the countryside.

This JBM goal pretty iconic in GAA history
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JN3-z2jntkE

Any transparency into how they pick songs. Literally everyone knew that was awful from the minute it was first aired. Who are the judges at RTE along with Louis Walsh that thought it had a chance. Hope they are not on some fat payrolls.

I've very quick to 'pick' on a lad who rounded on his own players after a match? What Dineen did was worse than anything McStay has done.

I don't recall Dineen personally identifying any player. Both McStay and McHale have done that.

McStay's biggest problem in the media is he's been too honest, that he doesn't just offer the trite nonsense you hear from others.

Being honest or using the media to his advantage. When Niall Daly left the panel, McStay said that he left because he wasn't willing to fight for his place on the team. Now that to me smacked as using the media to set this agenda and in my opinion greatly disparaged Nial Daly. On the other players,  he described them as the players who had failed in the past. Honest, or setting an agenda?

Shannonside never retracted Gay's xenophobic rant as far as I'm aware, which was the only condition they needed to meet for relations to be repaired. Why they haven't says more about them than it does about McStay, to be honest.

Calling that xenophobia is as bad as those who wanted Stephen Fry charged for blasphemy. I'd use that word for real xenophobia (ie racists who don't want refugees on their shores). What happened on Shannonside was a co-commentator expressing the opinion that he didn't like Mayomen in charge of Roscommon, based on the amount of players they'd alienated. Everyone agreed it was a daft comment. But it was an opinion and for McStay and Roscommon County Board to ban all interviews with Shannonside was an over the top move.  And the interview with Marty after the match in the hail was another example of using the media to make all the focus on his place of birth and not address the frustration of Roscommon supporters losing talented players like the Dalys. The ban is more absurd given that the Mayo players objected to McStay and McHale because of comments McHale made about them in the media and McStay said god bless their sensitive souls or something to that effect. Well god bless his own sensitive soul.

Where you got the idea that the Daly situation is the personal criticism I'm talking about, lord only knows. What I'm talking about are the cheap shots at McStay without any evidence besides he was born in Mayo is beyond me.

One person said it, and hardly if anyone agreed with him. As people have said, now older people who depend on radio for their news and updates from management are denied that because of a big hissy fit over one man's comments.

As I said, I believe McStay has a very talented bunch of players at this disposal and should be contending for a Connacht title this year. I disagree with Gay Sheerin and believe he is very committed to the cause and always has been ver pro Roscommon as a media pundit. But I'd question his man management. The panel could be a lot stronger and he needs to find a way to build bridges with players like the Dalys again.

My only agenda is for Ros to have their best players on the panel, properly trained for Senior IC football, with some semblance of a game plan and tactics.
I haven't seen much evidence of that this year but live in hope.......
Meanwhile you continue with the hero worship and attack anyone that doesn't blindly have the same view.

What you call hero worship is done who has continually criticised our defence and lack of conversion up front.

The real problem you have is I'm not a walking caricature that's willing to make snide comments or basically attack the manager on a personal level because of a few bad results.

Some here would do well to remember this is just sport and we're talking about actual people.

McStay's inability to retain the services of, for example, the Dalys is not a personal criticism - it's a valid criticism of his management. Kevin has not been slow to make snide comments in the press himself, labelling the players who have not come back as responsible for some of the results last year, even though neither Ronan or Conor Daly were involved in the New York, Galway and Clare fiascos. And Niall was one of our consistently best performers.

You yourself are very quick to pick on Nigel for his criticism of players in the press.

McStay as a media pundit spent a lot of his time disparaging referees - and loved to have a good old whinge at the ones that "wronged" Mayo. Indeed, when he won the All-Ireland with Bridget's, he criticised the ref in his post-match speech for being biased because he was from Armagh.

He also criticised the Mayo players as sensitive souls when they objected to him and McStay

So hopefully he'll understand if we criticise some of his failings as a manager, and the inability to hold on to some of the better players is up there. BTW, has he still blacklisted Shannonside for Gay's criticism?

Like all supporters, hope he can prove us wrong this Summer. He still has a wonderful set of players at his disposal and we should be expecting better than we are getting. But it could be a lot better with a full panel.

Half time New York 0-09 Sligo 0-11. Sligo experienced players kicking important scores from play and Sligo have the wind advantage in the 2nd half now.

According to Ocean FM, NY have the wind advantage in second half.

The reaction in Mayo to this has been and continues to be head in the earth stuff. Ye are the reason lads like AOS/SOS and COC/Dillon felt so entitled that they thought they were bigger and better than the people brought in to manage them. Acting like AI winners off the field, but something far less on it.

If in business, a manager does not have the support of his/her most talented employees, then that manager would be likely toast. You seem to go out of your way to defend managers who have lost the dressing room. You are definitely County Board material.

You realise they were four up on Dublin in the second half of an AISF replay, right? Keep trying.

That doesn't change the fact that the players were not going to row in behind the management - when that happens a manager is, as I said, toast in any walk of life. The county board could, of course, have ignored the players' wishes as many county boards tend to do until the situation deteriorates. But when you don't take the right decision early, the world will give you a bigger kick in the gob down the road.

The reaction in Mayo to this has been and continues to be head in the earth stuff. Ye are the reason lads like AOS/SOS and COC/Dillon felt so entitled that they thought they were bigger and better than the people brought in to manage them. Acting like AI winners off the field, but something far less on it.

If in business, a manager does not have the support of his/her most talented employees, then that manager would be likely toast. You seem to go out of your way to defend managers who have lost the dressing room. You are definitely County Board material.

Has anyone ever stayed in Ashford Castle, what was it like?

Good while ago with the missus. Found the rooms dated with wallpaper geared towards grandmothers, the food excellent and the grounds lovely, in particular the view of Lough Corrib.

Given that blind harper Turlough O'Carolan grew up and composed his music in Roscommon, could go with any of his magnificent airs.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EBiTDLpTUxY

Great game, but I'd see the defeat as a blessing in disguise for Dublin. The bigger fish is the three-in-a-row. Never got the sense that Dublin were putting too much into the league this year and were sluggish in many games. They may have felt they peaked too early last year and just about got over the line against Mayo, who themselves lived dangerously but improved as the year went on. That said, had a couple of decisions gone Dublin's way yesterday, they'd have pulled off a narrow victory, despite Kerry dominating for a long spell of the second half. Could be like 1977 - young Kerry team win the league, but we remember what happens in the championship.

Ref doing well here.
Needs to keep a firm grip on proceedings.

Up Ros.

I'm sure the Dublin media will be crying about something the ref did in the morning even if they end up hammering Kerry.

The best first half against Dublin and Kerry in Croke Park a Roscommon man has had in awhile.

From a Sligo viewpoint I'm genuinely worried about the New York trip. If they're as good as they were last year I think they'll beat us. I'd assume that would give Mayo a bye into the semi as there's no way they'll travel. You just don't know what NY will be like until well through the game. Will be some bittersweet history made with lads who came up through our underage ranks in the club on opposite sides which never happened before and I hope doesn't again.

We were iffy at best during the league. I couldn't see any evidence of progress or a plan/system. Hard to see that being put in place but having the new blood of several U21's on board might provide a spark.

I'm nearly sure there was something of a rule change for this year, that if New York did win a preliminary match, they would not be able to play. Whoever they beat would play in their place. Roscommon had a lucky escape from the Bronx last year!

Very lucky. Saved by Senan Kilbride who came on as a sub and scored a marvelous point from the sideline and Maurice Deegan blowing up a minute early. I felt the management should have encouraged Senan to stay another year, as he is only 31. However, the problems New York exposed in Gaelic Park, and Kerry exposed in the league semi just before that persist to this day. Arguably our defense has gotten much worse as FOD had some idea about defending. I wouldn't read too much into the defensive display against Cavan due to the way Cavan played a team of grannys could have kept the Breffni at bay.

Mystifying why Assad would turn to chemical weapons at this point within the overall context of where the military and environment has moved to.

Is it though? Has used them before. Has Russian support and all indications up to now is that Trump supported him, while Obama was never going to intervene. He would have thought no consequences. Now he knows Trump could bomb without a minutes notice, make that 30 mins notice as Russia were informed first.

Kevin Walsh managed Sligo teams still beat Mayo and Galway in championship football. I've lost track of the number of well funded Roscommon managers that have failed to achieve that since John Toibin last did in 2001, despite all the successful underage teams we produced compared to Sligo. And Kevin has a couple of All-Ireland medals to boot. Sy, sometimes as the saying goes it's better to say nothing and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.