FBD 2024

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stephenite

Would Kevin McStay have allowed this to happen? Chickens coming home to roost earlier than expected maybe


Rossfan

I see rhe herrins and rhus are workin overtime at puttin us in our places :P
Of course if Galway win thoul FBD it will be a sign they're back "where they belong" but us winning it - sure it's only thoul FBD and ye'll feck up in the Summer.
Davy's given us a dream to cling to
We're going to bring home the SAM

seafoid

Quote from: Rossfan on January 20, 2015, 10:27:07 AM
I see rhe herrins and rhus are workin overtime at puttin us in our places :P
Of course if Galway win thoul FBD it will be a sign they're back "where they belong" but us winning it - sure it's only thoul FBD and ye'll feck up in the Summer.
I wouldn't be that excited about th'oul FBD really. It is January not July. We are still rebuilding.
"f**k it, just score"- Donaghy   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbxG2WwVRjU

Syferus

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James Horan not impressed way that Mayo got beaten up in the physical encounter - like anybody with a bit of sense he doesn t mind the score.

'every melee was started and finished by a Roscommon player whilst Mayo were second in everything - and that was a surprise'.

2 things stand out for me in this.
Pat Holmes, with his previous, could have done without a beating of this nature from Ros. You can make of that what you want.
Roscommon have shown intent early and if Mayo cant respond next time, forget about it.

Only one thing stands out to me in the above - Jamesy boy giving C&H a bit of the boot in the first brave weeks of January, still only weeks removed from their controversial appointment. Don't like to see the last man in the hot-seat rabbiting on about the team and his successors like this. But given it's Mayo I'd be glad to see it continue all year.

Is Horan auditioning for a Sky or Sunday Game gig?

Oh, and us being physical - again handbags at the point in the match when it had started to look very bleak for Mayo - would be a response to our meakness against Armagh last July and feck all to do with Mayo, a team we coped plenty well with last year.

Eh? Armagh?

I'm sure JH has no agenda with the incoming. Why would he? He played with the new boys and had walked away.
Now apart from Horan I ve had feedback from a few who were there. You re the only one that has used the 'handbags' shite. Looks like Ros decided to bring an edge and we didn't and got beaten up. Like I said Holmes cannot be happy getting ambushed like that again. It s not a catastrophe for us; more like an itch when he was appointed that has developed into a twitch.
James Horan was in no way bitchy in his column about the new Holmes era. He pointed out us being bullied out of it last day but that was only a fraction of a very thorough analysis imo.

It was nearly all pulling and dragging. One of the Mayo lads decided to front up to our keeper while a melee was happening at midfield and he got fûcked into the net. Anyone could tell you that was the extent of nearly all of it. The worst even the Mayo supporters could must at the match was complaining about DO'C being took to the ground in one of the melees. Some of the Mayo players must have been awful excited about the Conor McGregor fight such was the desire of one of the Rhus to mount a Roscommon player on the ground MMA-style. You'd swear Mayo sat back and lost their nerve at the totally-unexpected physical exchanges in a football match. They didn't.

The match was well over by the time most of those 'physical' encounters occurred so if we had some agenda to send a message we wouldn't start be it after we'd pretty much won the match by, y'know, playing football.

Horan doesn't need to be bitchy or even mean ill to prove a massive distraction; he's the yard stick C&H will be judged against and the stick they'll be beaten with if they fail. It's hard to see how him talking benefits Mayo at all. Horan has made a severe miscalulation if he doesn't think every word he says against the Mayo seniors carries massive weight both in and outside Mayo. He's walking an incredibly thin tightrope if he wants to be a straight-talking gunslinger. I think he's already fell off the tightrope if that was his reaction to an FBD league game.

The amount of bullshit you can type on a continual basis is staggering.
You seem to be under the impression Horan has some hidden agenda and is trying to mind-f**k someone with every word he utters or types. You were on that rubbish last year as well after every interview he did.
As for the MMA and "mounting" blather, you've lost the run of yourself completely, especially when you try to sound condescending about Ros winning an FBD game in January. Remember who the reigning FBD winners of the past two years are, buck?

Having got that off my chest, the place would be duller without you, especially when Ros flatter to deceive in summer :P

Horan doesn't need to have a hidden agenda to do damage with his punditry, nor was I claiming he had by analyzing the game. Perception is not something he has any control over. But let it continue, it's no skin off my back. I'd just be very uneasy had a beloved manager of our's (like FOD) taken to writing a column that regularly talks about the fortunes of the team he'd just left. It's like Fergie sitting in the stands watching on as Moyes tried to fashion his own identity - at best it's a distraction, at worst it invites unflattering comparisons.

moysider


Horan had to get along with his own share of criticism. Holmes and Connelly are big boys and knew what they were getting themselves into.

If James Horan expressing surprise that Mayo were thrown around the field is the worse they get this year, they wont be doing too badly.

Horan's team got knocked about badly a couple of times first couple of years and it made men of them and they made sure it didn t happen again.
Connelly has a reputation of being a blood and guts man, so last Sunday must have stung. So lets see what happens. Personally I d like a situation where there was a defo no.1 in charge. Pateen spoke to the players after the SIT match. Does that mean he s no.1? Probably not.

criostlinn

You know what.

Dont let me ever hear anyone say the FBD league is dead. This competition was reborn on Sunday. To see the delight in the Roscommon players eyes on the final whistle, well it would bring joy to any man. It just goes to show how wonderful the game of football is that on any given day anything can happen.
So the Ros have put down a marker for the year ahead. Just like they did last year and teh year before that.

Altogether now. We are Ros, We are Ros, We are we are we are ROS

Syferus

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Quote from: criostlinn on January 21, 2015, 01:18:31 AM
You know what.

Dont let me ever hear anyone say the FBD league is dead. This competition was reborn on Sunday. To see the delight in the Roscommon players eyes on the final whistle, well it would bring joy to any man. It just goes to show how wonderful the game of football is that on any given day anything can happen.
So the Ros have put down a marker for the year ahead. Just like they did last year and teh year before that.

Altogether now. We are Ros, We are Ros, We are we are we are ROS

It seems like everyone in Mayo are awful perturbed by an FBD game. More talk of markers being thrown than a stationary shop. There was a time (last year) when ye could lose this game without losing your heads completely. Methinks some part of you is very worried that the glory days are over for a while, FBD or no FBD.

weareros

Mayo not perturbed about losing a FBD league. It's that a young Roscommon team beat them in the physical stakes. As one commentator on Willie Joe blog (great blog btw) said it was awful to see a Mayo team fu(ked about like that. That's the stuff of Mayo's worst nightmares and brings back to the surface the "laddeens" description that the county board chairman had immortalised a recent Mayo team with after an All-Ireland hammering to Kerry. Horan had done a great job in changing that, making Mayo a physically imposing team which they will continue to be and the real reason Mayo beat Roscommon last year is because they were a better conditioned team and were able to use that physical strength to turn over possession in last ten minutes. The physical domination by the young Rossies stuck in the craw on Sunday and the ref got booed in the end - so who really took the game too serious. We will now have the bizarre situation of a bit of needle should Ros and Mayo meet again in the championship. And the reason for the needle? Oh just some spillover from a meaningless January FBD game.

seafoid

Would it not have made more sense for Ros to play the handbags ace when it matters , rather than in January?
There'll presumably be pictures of Rossies all over whatever gym Mayo use all the way to the summer.
A great focus for them. 
"f**k it, just score"- Donaghy   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbxG2WwVRjU

Rossfan

Davy's given us a dream to cling to
We're going to bring home the SAM

seafoid

Quote from: Rossfan on January 21, 2015, 09:01:48 AM
You conceding already Seaf? :D
If Ros couldn't beat the students the Sunday before last we must have a glimmer of hope
"f**k it, just score"- Donaghy   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbxG2WwVRjU

Syferus

Quote from: seafoid on January 21, 2015, 10:19:02 AM
Quote from: Rossfan on January 21, 2015, 09:01:48 AM
You conceding already Seaf? :D
If Ros couldn't beat the students the Sunday before last we must have a glimmer of hope

He means that if you think Mayo are going to be training hard for a Roscommon rematch it means you think they're a shoe-in to puncture the Kevin Walsh era beforehand.

Rossfan

Correct Syf. Us Ros bucks understand these things :)
Davy's given us a dream to cling to
We're going to bring home the SAM

Tubberman

Quote from: Rossfan on January 21, 2015, 10:52:21 AM
Correct Syf. Us Ros bucks understand these things :)

Ye're as giddy as spring lambs!
Sad reality is they're probably bound for Athleague... :P
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

Shrewdness

Have been a bit surprised at the reaction of some Mayo people to the so-called physical stuff last Sunday. Under James Horan, Mayo frequently lived on the edge with their physicality, and the Mayo fans lapped it up.. No Ros player was sent off last Sunday, which shows that the ref witnessed nothing outside the rules. The young players on this Ros team have no fear of Mayo, no psychological baggage. Many of them have success at minor and U-21 over Mayo in recent years and came damn close to senior victory last June.. These lads are busting a gut to impress John Evans, who recently said he wants Ros players to be lean and mean.. It was only The FBD with neither team at full strength. Mayo are still top dogs in Connacht, and are one of less than a handful of teams with any hope of winning Sam this year.