Mayo Club Football.

[Cllr Willie Power]

That's funny, I could swear there's more than a few clubs left off that list - or do the smaller clubs not count? 

[muscles magoo]

That's funny, I could swear there's more than a few clubs left off that list - or do the smaller clubs not count? 

In fairness Willie the author did justify his selection/omission policy at the outset....

"WHICH clubs to include was always going to be difficult as well. We considered limiting it to senior and then realised that, in our opinion, some intermediate clubs were stronger than some senior. In the end we are ranking the 40 teams in the newly formed Divisions 1 and 2 of the County League. All Senior and Intermediate clubs fall into these and most of the serious Junior championship contenders.
We felt going any further would complicate things as we would be discussing a lot of 'B' teams who, as most observers will know, can be wildly different from one week to the next. There are exclusive Junior clubs omitted by this criteria but there had to be a cut-off point; ranking every one of the 59 teams currently entered (and there will be more B teams before the league starts) just would not be feasible."

[Cllr Willie Power]

Apologies Muscles, misread/overlooked that bit 

[westmayo]

Fair play to Edwin, I think it's  well thought out and researched article. It's not just thrown together for the sake of it. The rankings seem to be accurate enough and it will be interesting to see will the season pan out along the he has ranked it.

[eoghan rua]

hey im new to the board here but have been readin it for years!! would just like to say that tourmakeady are playin eoghan rua, coleraine who are from the north coast in derry on sunday in the all ireland intermediate final. we are definately not from tyrone!!!

[mayo51]

tourmac 0.3 eoghan rua 0.2 h.t    killila 1.5 greencastle 0.12  f.t

[An Gaeilgoir]

Final score Tuar Mhic Eadaigh 0-6, Eoghan Rua 1-4. Heartbreak for our lads.  The last kick of the game won it for Eoghan Rua. We have no conplaints really. We dominated both physically and footballing wise for the entire first half but kicked 9 wides,some it has to be said poor wides. Eoghan Rua got the important goal after 10 mins. of the second. We eased our way back into to the game and went a point ahead with 7 to go. but two games in a week stood to Eoghan rua and they finished the stronger team. The game overall was poor in quality but i suppose the prize of a final in Croker was in the back of all the players minds. Well done to Eoghan Rua and well done to Pat Burke for the great adventure over the past 8 months. It is great to see Tuar Mhic Eadaigh back near the top of Mayo football after all the bleak years of having no teams over 18 due to the curse of emigration. You've done us all proud!

[AbbeySider]

Clubs will come first

EXCLUSIVE
EDWIN MCGREAL
CASTLEBAR

MAYO manager John O'Mahony will put the interests of clubs at the top of his priority list for the 2007 season. Speaking at a Mayo GAA Board delegates meeting on Monday night in Castlebar, O'Mahony said that players should be available to clubs for the majority of the week running into club championship matches. Furthermore, clubs would have their county players for all league games and that past problems of players being over-trained on the weekends of league matches would not be repeated.
"There'll be no question, as in the past, of county teams training on the morning before the club would play. That won't be happening. If there are league games on a particular Sunday we will be training on the Saturday morning but it certainly won't be heavy stamina. We feel it is important that there is co-operation there."
Elaborating on the plans ahead of club championship games, O'Mahony did put the caveat in that a trip through the back-door would change the best-laid plans.
"The first round of the club championship is on May 27 which is the week after Mayo play Galway. I would hope that we would meet the players once (afterwards) from a county perspective and that would be the Monday or Tuesday night. We wouldn't have them then until the following Tuesday night again. Hopefully we will be able to continue that right through the season. Now, if we find ourselves in a back door situation, we'll have to look at that."
Moving on to talk about the mood in the county, O'Mahony was keen to stress that football followers remain on an 'even keel' when it comes to the Mayo team.
"There's a lot of talk about how we will do this year. A lot of it is wild talk to a certain extent. I think it's important to realise that nowadays you don't get anything soft in Connacht. The big, big day for us is May 20. It's important that we keep an even keel on it. I don't want people to go into depression when we lose just as I don't want people to get too excited when we beat the likes of a Kerry team still recovering from the All-Ireland celebrations."
O'Mahony also told those present in the Welcome Inn Hotel that he had looked at 50 to 55 players to date and was running short-term plans hand in hand with long-term objectives. He added that a number of the Mayo U-21 winning team of last year had been put on weight programmes but were not actively training with the side.
After O'Mahony had finished – and with no questions forthcoming from the floor – Pat Fitzgerald of Gaelic Telecom addressed the meeting. Ironically, he was subjected to much more intensive questioning from delegates.
County Board Vice-Chairman, Paddy McNicholas went on to read out the rules that clubs must comply with for the Mayo championships. McNicholas explained that many of the new sideline regulations for inter-county games will be extending to club championship. He also explained that scoring differences, and not play-offs, would be used to separate teams tied together in the group stages of the championship.
No date was given for a championship draw but it was confirmed that the first round of the championship will take place on the weekend of May 27. For the championship there would be four seeded teams based on semi-final placings last year (where Tourmakeady are now senior, the team relegated to Intermediate, Kiltimagh, will now replace them in this regard).

It was also confirmed that the Mayo GAA leagues will start on St Patrick's weekend with games being spread out over the Saturday, Sunday and Monday. The second round will take place the following weekend, the weekend of March 25 with rounds three, four and five all pencilled in for the weekends of April 8, April 22 and April 28 respectively. There will be no games on the weekend of April 1 due to the  Mayo U-21's being in action while the Mayo senior squad will be on a team holiday on the weekend of April 15.

[AbbeySider]

West Mayo Centenary Cup Semi Finals, Sun 04 Mar at 12:00

Baile an Tobair v Buireas Uamhaill, Ref: D. Harrington in Baile an Tobair – Clogher pitch

Cathair na Mart v Tuar Mhic Éadaigh, Ref: J. Feeney in Cathair na Mart

[muscles magoo]

Anyone know how last nights championship draw went?

[westmayo]

Senior Championship

Group A                Group C
Ballagh                 Crossmolina
Shrule                   Ballinrobe
Garrymore            Burrishoole
Claremorris          Moy Davitts

Group B                Goup D
Ballina                  Knockmore
Charlestown        Tourmack
Westport               Castlebar
Louisburgh           Kiltane
                                Breaffy


Intermediate

Group A           Group B
Kiltimagh         Ballintubber
Kilmeena         Bonniconlan
C'Chomain      Hollymount
Belmullet         Swinford

Group C           Group D
Ballyhaunis     Parke
Kilmane           Aughamore
Davitts             Ballina B
Mayo Gaels    Crossmolina B

[Farrandeelin]

Group D looks the Group of Death! Plus it's the group with the extra game in it so each team will have a bit of a lay-off when the games commence.

[muscles magoo]

Group A will be interesting as well with the three South Mayo teams involved. I think this is the third year in a row that Shrule and Claremorris have been drawn together in the group stages.

Belmullet v Cill Chomain in high summer will be lively in the intermediate championship whle Parkes odds will have come in a bit following that draw I'd say.

[StoneWall]

Looking at that draw...

Senior Championship...Ballina

Quater Finals
Group A Ballagh, Shrule
Group B Ballina, Charlestown
Group C  Crossmolina, Moy Davitts
Group D Knockmore, Castlebar

Relegation
Garrymore, Ballinrobe, Louisburgh, Tourmack (The long season will catch up on them)
               
Intermediate...Ballintubber
Quater Finals
Group A Belmullet, Kiltimagh
Group B Ballintubber, Swinford
Group C  Davitts, Ballyhaunis
Group D Parke, Crossmolina B

Relegation
C'Chomain, Bonniconlan, Mayo Gaels, Ballina B

Any dates for the games?

Any word on the junior draw?

[westmayo]

First round of games May 27th, week after Galway game

Junior
Group 1            Group2
Balla                 Killala
K'More B          W'Port B
B'Tubber B      Ardnaree
C'Town B        Aughamore B
B'Mullet B       Kilmovee
Ballycastle     Lacken
Kilfian              B'Robe B

Group  c                 Group d
M'Gownagh          C'Bar B
Carrowmore         S'Ford B
E. Gaels                Islandeady
Lahardane           M'Davitts B
X'Molina C           Neale
Ballycroy              C'Morris B
Ballagh B             Breaffy B
Ardagh                 Achill