Mayo Football and Hurling - Discussion pages

[Tubberman]

Zulu, this is a different thing altogether for the Mayo county board to develop their own stand. €400 was meant to guarantee free entry into all home games, not just a selected few. I wonder did they charge €15 for the bloody FBD as well on top of the €400?? I wouldn't be one bit surprised

Yes, they did!! It's a complete joke - spend €400 and then have to pay again on the gate.... I don't have one of these tickets thank God.
James Waldron said the FBD wouldn't usually be played in McHale Park and so was never incuded in the package of games that the ticket applies to    €400 should get you into any bloody game in the place.

€15 was a rip-off for an FBD final anyway - same price as a National League game.

[AbbeySider]

Zulu, this is a different thing altogether for the Mayo county board to develop their own stand. €400 was meant to guarantee free entry into all home games, not just a selected few. I wonder did they charge €15 for the bloody FBD as well on top of the €400?? I wouldn't be one bit surprised

They did, I read a letter in one of the papers about it.
But im still trying to figure out how many and what games you do get into with a Season ticket.

I think the county board have really shot themselves in the foot with this one.

[AbbeySider]

Zulu, this is a different thing altogether for the Mayo county board to develop their own stand. €400 was meant to guarantee free entry into all home games, not just a selected few. I wonder did they charge €15 for the bloody FBD as well on top of the €400?? I wouldn't be one bit surprised

Yes, they did!! It's a complete joke - spend €400 and then have to pay again on the gate.... I don't have one of these tickets thank God.
James Waldron said the FBD wouldn't usually be played in McHale Park and so was never incuded in the package of games that the ticket applies to    €400 should get you into any bloody game in the place.

€15 was a rip-off for an FBD final anyway - same price as a National League game.

I was going into one FBD game at half time because I was late.
The bastards charged me €15... full whack. I was sickened.

[Tubberman]

Zulu, this is a different thing altogether for the Mayo county board to develop their own stand. €400 was meant to guarantee free entry into all home games, not just a selected few. I wonder did they charge €15 for the bloody FBD as well on top of the €400?? I wouldn't be one bit surprised

They did, I read a letter in one of the papers about it.
But im still trying to figure out how many and what games you do get into with a Season ticket.

I think the county board have really shot themselves in the foot with this one.

Took the report below from The Mayo News site.


€400 stand tickets didn't cover FBD final


Daniel Carey

Die-hard Mayo supporters who bought long-term seats in the new McHale Park stand were told their tickets did not entitle them to admission to last Sunday's FBD League final.
At least 150 long-term tickets have been bought since Mayo's fund-raising drive began, but those who purchased seats – at €400 a pop – had to shell out an additional €15 to see the weekend meeting between Mayo and Galway, because the game was under the auspices of the Connacht Council.
"We went up to the gate with the [long-term] tickets and we were told that they weren't accepting them, that they weren't for FBD [League] games," one affected supporter told The Mayo News yesterday [Monday].

"There was a crowd gathering behind us so we didn't push it – we just basically had to go back and buy the €15 tickets. I understood from what they were saying that these tickets were good for all matches in McHale Park. It's not a big thing, but they'll shoot themselves in the foot. It's bad PR on their part."
Responding, Mayo GAA Board Chairman James Waldron said that FBD League matches 'were never listed on the package' of games to which long-term ticket-holders were offered admission.
"The McHale Park stand tickets are for home National League games, inter-county championship matches at home, and club championship matches. That's it. Sunday's game was a Connacht match, and the FBD would rarely ever be played in McHale Park anyway... FBD matches were never listed on the package."

[Farrandeelin]

Pure and utter bullshit of the highest order. You'd think they would have let people in for free for that game.

[Tubberman]

No mention of hurling either - so no answer for highking.
Surely if the ticket applies to NFL games, it should apply to NHL games as well. Did anyone think this one out at all?
So many PR gaffes from the Co Board over the last few months with the press box, floodlights, now this.
Abbeysider, you fancy a new challenge?? 

[AbbeySider]

No mention of hurling either - so no answer for highking.
Surely if the ticket applies to NFL games, it should apply to NHL games as well. Did anyone think this one out at all?
So many PR gaffes from the Co Board over the last few months with the press box, floodlights, now this.
Abbeysider, you fancy a new challenge?? 

It would take a team of accountants, economists, engineers, politicians, counsellors, behaviour specialists and physiologists years to sort out the mess the county board created!

[Farrandeelin]

Trevor Mortimer is pleased with how Mayo have performed so far in the national football league.

The Connacht champions put their defeat to Dublin behind them with victory in Derry last weekend - their third win of the campaign to date. And their captain believes that everything is going pretty well so far in terms of using the league as a springboard for the championship.

Speaking to the Mayo News, he says: "We're satisfied with our performances so far.

"We don't want to be kicking 20, 30 points in games at this time of the season. We're training for the championship and we're happy enough with our performances so far."

[Farrandeelin]

John O'Mahony admits he'd love to guide Mayo to a national football league final.

The Connacht champions have made a great start in Division One - with three wins from four outings - and their manager concedes that an appearance in the decider would appeal to him, even though it's not a main priority:

"The only thing that is in our control is to go to Kerry next and give it everything we can. And we'll do that.

"If, at the end, we can be there, I'd love to get to a league final. The thing is: if there's a sniff of it, we'll go for it.

"Usually I think in these leagues that about seven points is usually safety and that's the first watermark.

"Then, of course I'd love a day out in Croke Park."

[mortified]

any score from the Geralds game?

[Tubberman]

any score from the Geralds game?

Not a good day for the mayo schools.
St Gerald's lost by 11 points - double scores.
Davitt College lost by 20 points.
but one good result from a connacht point of view, st attracta's of tubbercurry won.

Just heard Angelina giving the scores, but didn't hear the details. They wouldn't make good listening anyway I'd say...

[Tubberman]

Heard from someone last night that the Newry team targetted the St Gerald's players before the match. I have no idea if this is accurate but what I was told is:
The Newry team went down to the end of the pitch the St Gerald's players were warming up and some sort of scrap started. The end result was the St Gerald's goalkeeper ended up with a broken jaw and other players were targetted and unable to play their usual game.
This was the story I was told in a pub, so it could be exaggerated. The mid-west report I heard mentioned that the St Gerald's goalkeeper was injured in the warm up but didn't give details. Was anyone at the match to give a first-hand report??

[AbbeySider]

Heard from someone last night that the Newry team targetted the St Gerald's players before the match. I have no idea if this is accurate but what I was told is:
The Newry team went down to the end of the pitch the St Gerald's players were warming up and some sort of scrap started. The end result was the St Gerald's goalkeeper ended up with a broken jaw and other players were targetted and unable to play their usual game.
This was the story I was told in a pub, so it could be exaggerated. The mid-west report I heard mentioned that the St Gerald's goalkeeper was injured in the warm up but didn't give details. Was anyone at the match to give a first-hand report??

The story I heard is that they broke Fankie Walsh's (St Gerald's Keeper) finger before the game and he couldnt play. There is something to the stories but I guess it will all come out soon.

[mrhardyannual]

2- 15 to 1-08 suggests a comprehensive defeat no matter what happened before the game. If Tubberman's melee actually happened it is surprising that it wasn't front page news on the national papers who love to highlight such incidents especially if there are Ulster teams involved. A shut mouth is best when beaten like this - we have wallowed in excuses for too long.

[Farrandeelin]

Mayo defender Donal Vaughan has backed team-mate Aidan O'Shea after his crucial goal in Sunday's win over Monaghan at Castlebar.

O'Shea has come in for some criticism as of late regarding his performances and Vaughan, who put in a 'Man of the Match' display against the Farney men, has rushed to the young attacker's defence.

"I know Aidan's been getting a lot of criticism lately but I never had my doubts," said Vaughan.

"He had a massive year last year, and coming off it, there was a lot of expectations on him, which wasn't fair for a young lad. He's only 19. I knew he'd come good. He's a fantastic player so hopefully that goal will give him confidence to drive on for the rest of the year."

Mayo travel to Pairc Ui Chaoimh on Sunday week to take on Cork in their remaining game of the NFL campaign as they look to seal their place in the Division One decider alongside either the Rebels or third-placed Dublin.