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[What will see next the castleconnor lads defecting to ballina.]

TG, agree with alot of what you say in the last 2 posts. We need a performance of monstrous propostions all over the pitch and in particular from the guys in the middle third. And if Maguire doesnt start (meaning mcnamara is a definite starter), we are effectively a man down from the word go. Add to that, the inexperience of gaughan & mchugh. It makes for a huge task ahead on sunday. BUT, I'll still be travelling to mchale park quietly confident and I think the added incentive of the dreaded Tommy Murphy can lift our lads to the heights required. Also as seanie points out, mcpartland & sweeney off the bench are useful options for the last 20.

I heard the same as steve08 about mcguire not starting, but what can I say i see him look as sharp as ever last week and in one of the sligo papers he reinforces that by saying hes fully fit. All i can say i'll be annoyed if he doesnt start.

Mayo have twice as many clubs as us, they have ballaghdereen in ros now they have bellaghy in Sligo. What will see next the castleconnor lads defecting to ballina.

Our county board will want to have a serious look at this if they have sligos best intersts at heart...

Ya seanie was some preview on tv3 last night alright. Did any of think mortimer comments were strange regarding last yr? "We didnt buy into the new ideas last yr because we were so used to other methods, but this yr we have" not a great enditement of JOMs training method and tactics.

Sligonian, I presume the above was said with tongue in cheek! Cos if you ask any castleconnnor man, Ballina have been taking their players for years...

Who are those players? Just wondering as I don't really know anyone who is living in Sligo playing for Ballina.

Ah here, f**k this pile of shite...

If frig works I'm grand though.

A proper f**king **** of a bastard!!

surely mayo as a team that contested 2 of the last 4 all-ireland finals would be raging hot favourites to beat a team that has been relegated to div 4?

i think we are 7-1 on Indiana , to tell you the truth bar the board here i haven't spoken to anyone that has mentioned the match which for championship week is unreal i know o' mahony wanted to lower expectations well he has definitely achieved that and to tell you the truth i preferred it the other way at least there was a buzz around the place

Yes Deel, it's been exceptionally quiet for a championship week. Don't know if there are many people going to travel or not. It seems that it's kind of gone stale as people know that there's no AI in this team.

Full-back line, I cannot see K Higgins lining out in No 4 position. I'd say he will swop with Nallen to be honest. If he swops I'd be confident enough of our half-back line doing the job on the day. I'd say Parsons will do alright in the middle for us, along with McGarrity who should lead by example as team captain. Hopefully Harte will do well at no 11. If he doesn't then as Barney said the journalists will have a field day comparing him to McDonald. Happy with the inside forward line. It's nice to give Austin O'Malley a chance at no 14. Hopefully he will continue his league form. Still worried about the fullback line though. It wouldn't be too much of a shock if Sligo were to win. In fact, I wouldn't be shocked at all.

Clarke

Boyle, Conroy, Nallen probable full-back line

Cunniffe, Heaney, Higgins

McGarrity, Parsons (the only part of the team that has itself picked)

Harte, Moran, Trevor

Conor, Austie, Ronaldson.

That's my stab at a team picked on the basis that Dillon is injured. If he's fit enough, Andy Moran will swop with Ronaldson. Not at all happy with the full-back line I've picked but nobody is happy with that area. Heaney will probably end up at no. 6 with Cunniffe and Higgins flanking him, but seen that Cunniffe is more at home in no 6, maybe himself and Heaney might swop... Oh I don't know how we'll line up!

Knockmore people said..... the b***ix of a manager

....Maughan was never liked in Knockmore by anyone after that..... in Maughan's second spell as manager, there were people who wouldnt go to Mayo games when he was managing.

And I thought it was only Ros people who didnt like the *******

Haha, maybe it's the saffron/primrose and blue jersey people that dislike Maughan!

Because they are annoyed that Galway don't play their home games in Tuam Stadium I think.

PS Iolar, you're dead on about Sligo wanting to beat Mayo. It's as good as an All-Ireland (or Connacht) to some of them and that dislike of Mayo intensifies around Enniscrone and the general Tireragh area.

PPS, Leitrim not doing too bad despite Marty Morrissey *can't think of the right expression* over Padraic Joyce the whole first half.

Knockmore people said, and probably always will, that along with Butler and Kevin Staunton, O'Neill was overlooked by the b***ix of a manager

That's true. Maughan was never liked in Knockmore by anyone after that and when Mayo played Sligo in one game in Maughan's second spell as manager, there were people who wouldnt go to Mayo games when he was managing. I think it was in 03 as these people were all at the AIF in 04.
I agree with Deel Rover for once! When myself and my dad talk football, we inevitably get angry about O'Neill and McD not being in the panel together, but sure what can you do?

I keep dreaming about a girl from college. She texted me today seeing how I was getting on and I see we have CV's sent out to 3 of the same schools for a job in September!!!

[we will be alot better on june22nd than any league game]

[wow cant really add anything to that. Send a few of friends a PM or 2 and get them to explain it to you. Maybe your a wum either....

Nope im not a WUM at all. I just thought it was funny that you went to such lenghts to say league was no indicator of a teams form but then used the league as an indicator of a players form. But you  backtracked clarified your position (without previously doing so) so i thank you for that.

This isnt an unusual occurance on here. People trying to twist your words to make themselves feel like theyve caught you out or make themselves think there right. Keep living in that fantasy world, alot of guys do. Ive explained myself once above and that is enough . I wont go over it again as I cant make it any clearer. I havent backtracked, we will be alot better on june22nd than any league game. There i said again .

You seem fairly confident about that alright. We'll see on the day how it goes. Any chance that there might not be an improvement from the league?

You're right Lar. It was 97. Mayo were to play Laois I think it was a week or two before the semi-final. Knockmore didn't release O'Neill, like all other clubs don't release their players before they are out of the club championship. Maughan issued a warning that he'd never pick a Knockmore man again. However, he backtracked on that when he picked Munnelly in the 04 semi-final against Fermanagh. I do think it is a pity that Staunton, Butler, O'Neill weren't given a chance to play for Mayo for that reason.

Ballina only had 3 subs at the weekend.

Christ, how many of us here spent time in Muredachs!!!

Good mates equals even more motivation. I for one hate losing and especially to mates.

On a sidenote I changed my profile picture just so Mayo lads and Galway lads remember what the nestor cup looks like could be while before ye see it again.

Hold on to that picture Sligonian just in case its another 30 odd years before ye manage to get a look at Nestor again 

I assume you are brimming with confidence for Sunday week seeing as ye are the team going into battle with the most settled side 

Sure Sligo bucks are always bloody confident. I lived with a sligo fella for the past 2 years and this year since the draw was made, he constantly lets me know how Sligo are gonna win. I sincerely hope he's wrong!

JOM said this year that maybe we might win an All-Ireland when we least expect it. Well, that's how I feel (least expecting anything) so that's keeping me going anyway cos I'm like a lot of the Mayo supporters on here, very pessimistic.

Barry Regan reportedly gave Conroy a roasting in the Ballaghaderreen/Shrule match. Doesn't bode too well for our full back position. I also have a sneaking suspicion, that Nallen will start inn the fullback line. I know I am very critical of him, but he was excellent on Sunday catching most kickouts around the middle of the field.

I see the French are threatening us now to vote yes . Well I definitely will not be told what to do by the French, Germans or anyone else. If Ireland votes no, will the EU accept our democratic result? Probably not as they are not real democrats. If they were there would be referenda in all EU member states.