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From a Galway pov the performance of the goalie was very encouraging.  This was a real problem area in the league. The running at Mayo was also encouraging . We might be able to beat Tyrone later on.

The state of the pitches is poor.
Two other signs of crap. 5 of the Swiss jerseys ripped and a ball imploded during the Switzerland France match.

Not a hope Leave will win, unfortunately.

You underestimate the ahem "working" class Brit.  Pure racism will get the leave over the line, the polls are a load of shite we see that time and time again.

Lots of them won't vote. Leave has no decent arguments.
Very like Trump.
Cameron has had a nightmare . This vote was supposed to unite the Tories . Love will tear us apart again.

Very very tough game to call.
Mentally a hugely different challenge for Galway having focused all their energy completely on Mayo for months.
Roscommon have a very dangerous set of forwards which worries me

They were good against Sligo but poor before that. They have a lot of potential but not the consistency . The maroon jersey should be worth at least 2 points .

Trump may not be a conservative Stew, but he is certainly a Republican - in fact, he is the presumptive Republican nominee (I only use presumptive because it is looking like he is going to face a big problem at the convention) and a clear majority of Republican primary voters elected him.

It is getting less and less plausible for you to compare the moral worth of a flawed* but experienced career politician and the gibbering, racist id of a party that has slipped into a chasm of paranoia, denial and ugliness. It stopped being pleasant a long time ago.

(Hillary is flawed IMHO because of her foreign policy and her support for the Iraq war. However it should be emphasized, that no matter how much it is claimed by Republicans, she has never been found guilty of corruption, fraud, treason, murder or whatever the scandal du jour is - despite multiple investigations)

He is not a Republican. He doesn't follow GOP doctrine. He is an outsider who beat the GOP field and he scares the bejaysus out of the GOP leadership who thought Jeb would run.

He is not a mainstream establishment fiscal Republican (on trade at least), but his rhetoric is very much part and parcel of the paranoid, conspiratorial, resentment wing of the party i.e. their talk radio enthusiast primary base.

He is not doctrinal on fiscal or culture issues. He doesn't have a problem with trans bathrooms or gay marriage. He is a maverick and a demagogue straight out of the 30s. The GOP doesn't know what to do.

There is some hope for us when my Kerry buddies laughed at me today when I said we were finished.

I think there is still one more kick in this bunch yet, you never know but it could be the best thing to happen this team.

We only played for 10 mins and still only lost by 3 and that gap was due to stupidity. If we play the qualifiers for even a half per game we will be in the quarters.

'If they're men they'll be back'' - Babs Keating.

These Mayo lads owe nobody else anything, but they owe it to themselves to respond to this and I expect they will.

of course they will. They underestimated Galway but they are still a very good team.
the next 5 years are going to be very interesting

And in some more good news:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/19/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-election-race-obama-surrogate

And also

http://wapo.st/2009qZI

It turns out that the way you win a nomination is very very very different from how you win an election. Currently trump running for president is likely to cause 2 very significant outcomes for US politics;
1. Democratic control of the Senate and Congress, with a Democrat for president, which would lead to supreme  Court legacy as well as significant immediate changes in US policy

2. A split in the Republican party which could take 10 years to fix, even with Koch brothers money, and that will be to a 10 year younger voting population, which is currently moving more and more socialist by the year.

Interesting times ahead.

younger people and minorities get nothing from the status quo so will not vote GOP.  Romney wrote a report on this after 2012. The GOP in its present form has no future.

Marco Tardelli on the Irish players in the Irish Times.  Loads of energy but a weak sense of tactics.....

Trump may not be a conservative Stew, but he is certainly a Republican - in fact, he is the presumptive Republican nominee (I only use presumptive because it is looking like he is going to face a big problem at the convention) and a clear majority of Republican primary voters elected him.

It is getting less and less plausible for you to compare the moral worth of a flawed* but experienced career politician and the gibbering, racist id of a party that has slipped into a chasm of paranoia, denial and ugliness. It stopped being pleasant a long time ago.

(Hillary is flawed IMHO because of her foreign policy and her support for the Iraq war. However it should be emphasized, that no matter how much it is claimed by Republicans, she has never been found guilty of corruption, fraud, treason, murder or whatever the scandal du jour is - despite multiple investigations)

He is not a Republican. He doesn't follow GOP doctrine. He is an outsider who beat the GOP field and he scares the bejaysus out of the GOP leadership who thought Jeb would run.

Ireland's record at the Euros is played 8 won 1. They have to beat Italy for a bit of respectability.

I remember a time when Kildare were the last team you wanted to get through the back door.

especially away . What a kip.

A comfortable yes vote imo  54% to 46%.

Have to say, I have been impressed with Cameron in the campaign. Saw an interview at the weekend with Corbyn ( first time hearing him|)  and was also impressed. Underestimate him at your peril. 

Bigger pond I know, but there seems to be a better calibre of politician over there.

Anything less than 53% to 47% will imply an actual Leave majority in voters resident in England and would not be very stable. Voters in Scotland, NI and ex-pats will be clearly Remain, and that's about 8 million voters. Wales might be soft Remain as well so even 46.5% Leave might still imply a marginal Leave majority in England.

Until thatcherism.is euthanised UK politics will be extremely volatile.

It wouldn't be fair for Galway to re emerge to compete with the Roscommon renaissance.
More novenas required.

If Mayo have the right attitude they can win the all Ireland . Galway had a similar experience when Ros beat them in the first round in 2001 but they used it as motivation.  Mayo might pick up a forward or two on the scenic route.

Galway also had a team who'd won the AI three years previously - no comparison imo

Mayo should have won the all Ireland at least once in recent years so it is valid imo

44 v 44 per the FT 12 unknown
I think in the Scottish referendum there was a surge towards  remain in the last 24 hours. People don't like venturing into the unknown when push comes to shove.