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I'm heading along tonight as a neutral with me season ticket...thinking of bringing my nephew (u-16) but does anyone know if he'll get in okay as he doesn't have a season ticket?? I presume it wont be a problem but no doubt there is a rule somewhere!

I'd be looking at the principle of the thing. But there's also the fact that Club Mayo haven't tapped into any sort of sizeable Dublin funds - something alluded to by a member on mayogaablog.com. I would hope more funds can be raised now in Dublin from central fundraising. If I'm wrong I'll gladly stand corrected.

Sizeable Dublin funds?? Mayo have had some terrible Championship runs since Club Mayo was formed culminating in an embarrassing defeat to Longford in 2010...If any Committee member tried selling me membership as I left Pearse Park that day I would have probably laughed at them! coupled with the worst recession in the history of the state, it's not as if lads were queueing up to throw them money?? I know several lads who worked in Dublin in the boom times and have now either came back to Mammys cooking while readin the Mayo News and listening to paul claffey shite on on Mid West or else have emigrated...

Should be an interesting game Saturday night under lights!

Heading to Leopardstown later today...just looking through the card and it is going to be very hard to pick winners I think! anyone any fancy's?

Just watching the Sunday Game here.....Spillane would really annoy youu...as every poster has said here, the conditions were absolutely terrible...and he still has to have a dig about it being a bad match....

Did Hayes say much on TV3 after the match after his Newstalk  comments during the week?!

I see the Club Mayo guys have a bit of pre-match entertainment lined up for tomorrow...looks good..

http://www.clubmayo.ie/442.php

[I hopes he brings his own panel to the NY game if he is let.]

Andy Moran. Conor and Trevor Mortimor, McGarrity, Clarke, Liam O Malley, Gardiner, Dillon,  and BJP were on the 2004 panel/team that got whitwashed by Kerry, they were around again in 2006 along with Keith Higgins, Barry Moran, Pat Harte, and Howley. Throw in the league final loss to Donegal in 2007 and the pasting to Cork recently and tell me how many more chances does that particular group desreve.
Patently most of them are scarred from defeats such as the above listed along with various Minor and U21 losses as well. My hope is that Horan will remove most of them from the panel and do it quickly. My personal preference for the lads to say would be Barry Moran, Clarke, Howley (corner back), and thats it. The rest wont get better but they will stop other lads coming through. I would like to see Michael Conroy get a proper run along with Jason Gibbons.
Time for the boots to do the talking and not the T shirts.

Its very hard to argue with you johnny. I even went as far as to say the panel should have been disolved after the exit from the championship just to draw a line under the last 4 years.
I expect changes but some of those players may yet have a role to play. In the past no. of years the team was badly prepared, selected and set up. There was no evidence of coaching, no shape and tactically we were clueless. In other words we were a rabble. Under new management that know their game a lot of those players may well have a lot too offer still. We ll see. However I would suspect that anybody that doesn't have the stomach for it will be left behind with little fuss.

I hopes he brings his own panel to the NY game if he is let. I suppose he can't play lads in this that lined out for the colleges in the competition earlier? What line up would ye like to see?

I'm open to correction here but I think he has to bring the panel who were named for the FBD League campaign this year...he cannot bring new names in for this "trip"

Mayo star hits out at County Board on Twitter

Mayo's Alan Dillon
30 September 2010

Mayo football star Alan Dillon criticised the process to appoint a new manager on Twitter last week, before James Horan pipped Tommy Lyons to the job.

Former All-Star Horan, who has made waves by guiding rank outsiders Ballintubber to the Mayo SFC final this year, was appointed as John O'Mahony's successor on Wednesday night.

Lyons, who has managed Dublin and Offaly in the past, had been regarded as the hot favourite for the job having been the subject of a flood of bets with bookmakers last week.



The process to find a new manager has attracted plenty of criticism in the county, with candidates such as John Maughan, Mick O'Dwyer and Tommy Carr ruling themselves out before interviews took place.

And Dillon, an All-Star in 2006, made his feelings known via popular social media site Twitter by writing, "Hope everyone appreciates how our County Board operates...just listen to Mike Finnerty on Mid West.. Cheap buck to be made and Tommy Lyons is 1/10 on before the interviews are complete.. Nothing amazes me about the whole process.."

Unreal!!


Was that you Peter texting in to OfftheBall this evening??!!

Good interview I thought by James Horan....He's really putting the emphasis on getting players in a decent state of mind for matches with good preparation....Ciaran Murphy should be made sing the Green and Red of Mayo some night! 

I hope Lyons gets it.
Just to get him off the telly.

Sure why not give him the Meath job so?

We don't like outsiders.

Or insiders Jinxy judging by the last few years of Meath managers! 

I think someone said this on a previous post on this thread but we really are getting our just reward for what we did to Mickey Moran and John Morrison...I wonder what do they think of the current goings on?!

Cian Ward was on offtheball on Newstalk the other night and didn't sound too happy with the current goings on.....

Fair play to the Mayo lads for getting to back to back All-Ireland Finals...that is a serious achievement no matter what grade!

If anyone is around on saturday night, I see the lads over at www.clubmayo.ie have a bit of a shindig organised in Bewleys Hotel Ballsbridge. Bit of music, bit of food and plenty craic to kick the All-Ireland weekend off! And I hear they have a few tickets being raffled off for Sunday as well!

As if the Connaught Final wasn't enough Bannon is making a b**lox of this game as well....I've said it before, but the standard of refereeing this year is pathetic...Serious need for it to be looked at.....

RTE are saying he has a "tummy bug"...McGuigan comes in for him...

sorry for going off topic lads but if anyone is interested, the lads in www.clubmayo.ie are having a bit of an event the Wednesday before the Connacht Final in Dicey Reillys on Harcourt Street...Bit of a Table Quiz, plenty prizes and maybe a bit of a chat about the upcoming match from a guest or two...

more details on the link above....