NFL Division 1 2024

[seafoid]

McDaid is fabulous.

Cost Galway the game, idiot stuff.

He made the Kelly goal. That's probably more important. For later on.
It's good to be in Division 1.

[Rudi]

McDaid is fabulous.

Cost Galway the game, idiot stuff.

He made the Kelly goal. That's probably more important. For later on.
It's good to be in Division 1.

Hes a serious player, no doubt about that, but why did he have to pull O Shea down & hold him down, when he was not in a threatening position.

[twohands!!!]

A draw is far closer to a loss than a win in a 7 game league.
A point a piece benefits the other 6 teams far more than Galway and Mayo.

[Cunny Funt]

Any Mayo ones able to offer some insight on why Conor Loftus is now a starting CHB, when he's not a county standard player?

One of McStays traits as manager has been playing a forward in defence. Harsh to stay he's not county standard or be it he hasn't reached the promise as a underage player

[gallsman]

Good couple of tough games to start the year. Galway will be annoyed at having given it right back to O'Donoghue after the poor attempt from the sideline, especially as Kevin McLoughlin seemed determined to make sure Mayo didn't win when he came on.

[seafoid]

A draw is far closer to a loss than a win in a 7 game league.
A point a piece benefits the other 6 teams far more than Galway and Mayo.

there will probably be more draws

[Captain Obvious]

A draw is far closer to a loss than a win in a 7 game league.
A point a piece benefits the other 6 teams far more than Galway and Mayo.

there will probably be more draws

More than likely. Round 1 last year had three draws in this Division.

[tonto1888]

Happy to get the win in Monaghan tonight. Poor first half. Excellent start to the second half. A lot to work out. Entertaining second half overall

[An Fhairche Abu]

Draw a fair result although we should have sneaked it, two poor giveaway scores at the end. Soft free for Galway to take the lead but Mayo got about three of those themselves. Mayo better team in general, Galway had flashes but clearly flagged after HT when Mayo upped it, tough night for football to be fair.

Will judge Galway at the end of the league, very hard to know where they are at currently given the late return. Injury to Finnerty is bad for Galway and a disaster for his college given his Sigerson form. Culhane in a boot apparently according to Maurice Brosnan of the Irish Examiner.
Cooke showed glimpses, that clipped pass into Sweeney near the end was next level and although he won't be called upon for frees once Walsh returns showed what he has in the locker, some kick off the deck in that weather.
Sean Kelly is just a great bit of stuff and tough as nails, himself and Daly the key men. Dessie might just be a really top club player who can't make the jump to IC, not putting the hand up bar the Derry league match last year. The other new Moycullen lads on the team tonight looked more the part.
Slack black card from McDaid but that has happened him in league games before, cost Galway in Tralee in 2020, once he's right for April I don't mind.

Will we ever solve the goalkeeper situation and kick outs? I feel like it's just going to be never ending at this stage, so many of our restarts are total 50/50 situations. I know there is more logic behind how that is managed and the stats behind the effectiveness of them even if you lose possession but other teams just seem to retain their own kick outs so much easier.

[From the Bunker]

Tough evening for Dublin Joe! Most of his frees were guess work for him for both sides. Modern players have learned how to dive, fall, exaggerate the the tackle on them and feign injury. It's a nightmare for referees especially in slippy conditions. The Black card is still not the finished article, but it is a help in stopping some certain dark arts. But you often feel most lads that get one get it for the wrong reasons.

A good point for both sides. Especially Mayo who have a really terrible record in McHale Park.

Galway are a lot smarter under Joyce. Their kick-outs are more planned and their time wasting during Black card sin bins was clever. Maximum time was used up when any player got contact to receive treatment and when taking frees.

I'm still not convinced, either team will trouble Dublin, Kerry or Tyrone later on in the year.

[Captain Obvious]

Tough evening for Dublin Joe! Most of his frees were guess work for him for both sides. Modern players have learned how to dive, fall, exaggerate the the tackle on them and feign injury. It's a nightmare for referees especially in slippy conditions. The Black card is still not the finished article, but it is a help in stopping some certain dark arts. But you often feel most lads that get one get it for the wrong reasons.

A good point for both sides. Especially Mayo who have a really terrible record in McHale Park.

Galway are a lot smarter under Joyce. Their kick-outs are more planned and their time wasting during Black card sin bins was clever. Maximum time was used up when any player got contact to receive treatment and when taking frees.

I'm still not convinced, either team will trouble Dublin, Kerry or Tyrone later on in the year.

What makes you convinced those two will be much better than last year?

[Blowitupref]

Tyrone team for tomorrow as expected plenty of changes from the McKenna Cup final

Niall Morgan
Micheal McKernan
Cormac Monroe
Padraig Hampsey;
Cormac Quinn
Peter Harte
Niall Devlin
Brian Kennedy
Richard Donnelly;
David Mulgrew
Conn Kilpatrick
Conor Meyler
Cathal McShane
Mattie Donnelly
Darragh Canavan

Subs -  Benny Gallen,Frank Burns,Conor Cush,Rory Donnelly,Ryan Jones,Nathan McCarron,Peter Og McCartan,Darren McCurry,Kieran McGeary,Emmett McNabb,Niall Sludden.

[From the Bunker]

Tough evening for Dublin Joe! Most of his frees were guess work for him for both sides. Modern players have learned how to dive, fall, exaggerate the the tackle on them and feign injury. It's a nightmare for referees especially in slippy conditions. The Black card is still not the finished article, but it is a help in stopping some certain dark arts. But you often feel most lads that get one get it for the wrong reasons.

A good point for both sides. Especially Mayo who have a really terrible record in McHale Park.

Galway are a lot smarter under Joyce. Their kick-outs are more planned and their time wasting during Black card sin bins was clever. Maximum time was used up when any player got contact to receive treatment and when taking frees.

I'm still not convinced, either team will trouble Dublin, Kerry or Tyrone later on in the year.

What makes you convinced those two will be much better than last year?

Don't think they are world beaters, just better than Galway/Mayo.

[GalwayBayBoy]

Probably a fair result in the end although Galway won't be happy with the two giveaways for the final 2 Mayo points. Young Sweeney in particular took the completely wrong option in trying a kick pass out of defence in the dying seconds. If he just held on to it he would probably have been fouled. If he had just booted it off the pitch altogether it was probably all over. Just don't kick it directly to their main forward. A costly mistake for him to learn. Just don't repeat it.

Good game though. Mayo clearly had much more in the legs than Galway had. You would have expected that before the game given how late Galway got back together. Made a difference down the stretch. You could see some of the Galway lads blowing a bit late on. Last Galway free to go ahead looked more like a slip than a foul but Mayo got a few very soft ones themselves from Joe during the 2nd half. He also missed a Galway 45 after the Mayo keeper touched a high ball wide. In fact every official seemed to miss it. Overturned a Galway sideline to make it a hop ball which Mayo won late in the game as well. He was just all over the place with his decisions. For both sides.

Finnerty injury a big worry now. Looked like he kicked the diving Mayo player on the follow through after he kicked a point. Or maybe the Mayo lad landed on him awkwardly. Was hard to see. With Culhane in a moon boot already that is two form forwards who could miss a lot of the league. Shane might only be back for the last couple games as it is. Not sure if Dessie is going to get many more chances. He's just not cutting it at the moment. Not sure why PJ doesn't seem to want to use Owen Gallagher at all. He's a big lad with a burst of pace over the first few yards and usually makes good decisions. Yet, can't get off the bench at all. Even as a sub.

McDaid is such a fabulous player. Mayo were well warned though as every time he picked up the ball there were 3 or 4 descending on him straight away. They weren't going to let him make any of those driving runs but he was still very good apart from the brain fart for the black card. Bit of a worry seeing a big strapping on his knee though. You'd wonder how fit he really is at the moment. For a lad who's had injury troubles in the past.

[Tubberman]

McDaid is fabulous.

Cost Galway the game, idiot stuff.

He made the Kelly goal. That's probably more important. For later on.
It's good to be in Division 1.

Hes a serious player, no doubt about that, but why did he have to pull O Shea down & hold him down, when he was not in a threatening position.

Especially as the ref was already playing advantage to Mayo from what I saw