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I hear T More is injured and likely to be replaced by Lee Keegan.
P Gardiner might be struggling also, hamstring injury in a club game weekend before last.

Darragh O Sé seems to think that Mayo will park the bus a la Donegal against Kerry in his column this week.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/sport/2011/0810/1224302182064.html

Extract:

Donegal will do that and I wouldn't see anything wrong with it at all. Neither Donegal nor Mayo will get any criticism here for how they set up in the two semi-finals. These are huge journeys those two teams are on and the last thing they should do now is change their style just because they're in the semi-final. They have to believe they can go and win the All Ireland now and do it their own way.

See, trouble in the Kerry camp. "O'Shea backs Mayo" the Sun can exclusively reveal. Although his fecken Uncle backed us before and that didn't end too well for us.

Ahh Sure they're not too bad .... but we wouldnt want to be gettin too carried away.

So does that mean they're not opening Centra's yet? 

Can Mr Canty drop off Sam at the county bounds sometime this week.thanks.

Twas up in HQ last Sunday before the match, that must have known twould be staying there. What do Cork do now? Do they get it back for the next month so they can flake around to the last few national schools, or are they not allowed? Some jackeen buck threw it in behind the counter in the museum, I never seen the likes of it. Such casualness, if thats a word.
Anyway I didnt touch it, I'll wait till September 19th in Castlebar

What are they going to do about the jersey clash this time ? Since we have a divine right to win the AI I think Mayo should switch. What do ye think ?

Back to the provincial jersies I reckon, we never play well in them red yokes. The yellow Mitchells jersey that Rob Hennelly was wearing the last day would be even worse, given the connotations of that colour and 2006 and all that. Actually why dont ye stick to the blue yoke ye wore against Limerick? Ye were moving well in that, and we as the underdogs could stick to our traditional green and red. How about that?

On a related but different subject, I've started my research into the enemy by procuring a copy of Jack O'Connors book. I avoided it to date as my good friends around Firies and Castlegregory said "Yerraha, tisnt much of a read" but sure I cant be coming on here and the likes without my research done.
Anyway I'm on page 4, and I've read so much about the hurt of 2005 that I'm allready thinking that we were quiet right to lie down in 2006 and perhaps given that there is so much hurt around from last years quarters that it would be only right to do the same again this year.
Poor Jack, how much hurt can one man take? And Micko snubbed him as well you know!
C'mere, Mikey, whats the story with young Quirke there, is it all really about injuries or is there a bitten of hope there for us bucks to latch on to of  much unrest in the Kerry camp?

Lads I think we are being a bit over optimistic about the performance of the Mayo backs the last day, that 2-6 could and probably should have been 4-6, Cork missed two very easy chances after the Mayo backs left their respective men and went for the man with the ballball. Now I think this was a tactic, as in they were trying to swarm the man in possession but that's a defensive tactic that's been around for about 10 years now and while somewhat effective, good forwards know it means that someone else is unmarked and try to get the pass in just when the backs are committed. That is what Cork were doing the last day and if we're using the same tactics its what Kerry will do but they will probably be more accurate and we'll be punished.

The reason I say this is because alto of the discussion here is based around the fact that we can do well against the Kerry forwards based on the Cork defensive performance. Cork got 53% of the ball, most of that in the first 25 minutes so yes we did do well to keep them to 2-6, but perhaps not as well as we think when you look at the game again. It was poor accuracy that stopped those other two goals and not great defending. 4-6 against an understrength Cork attack, even if we had managed to outscore them and still win is probably a more accurate reflection of our backline at the moment. that's the way I'd be looking at it. Not trying to be negative but after a few days the result glosses over failings. Watch that game again with the mindset that we had drawn or lost, we might not be as optimistic at the performance of the Mayo backline.