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Adams just said on Claire Byrne that he believed that the state was involved in the murders in the north, what a comment to drop

Cillian O'CONNOR found out today. Can kick frees from anywhere, but in open  play not a real top class forward. Mayo forwards in the 2nd half were as rubbish as they were the 1st day. Only difference no ref to give them easy frees. Once dubs stopped fouling Mayo forwards shown up for the poor finishers they are. Dubs subs made a huge difference. McManamon with another moment of magic. Mayo didn't have a forward who could do the same.

That would cillian o Connor who scored the same as brogan from play???

You wonder what it will take for Bryan Sheehan to get booked, persistent fouling

I would take the u-21's off him, we have been extremely poor at that grade for the last two years.

Still sick after the result, two years in a row knocked out by lower division teams. Age profile of the team not great either. Under age has been very poor to average at best. I think the worst is to come.

injured for a lot of the matches

at half time, things were looking bad. the wind was picking up and meath appeared to have the speed on our backs. plus i had to listen to the meath lads around me talking about how shite we were and that they were going up to div 1. On the plus side we were winning a huge amount of ball at midfield and niall had a great goal chance. the two earlier points looked to bury us, but after that we really dominated them and could if we had been more ruthless beaten them. the changes made a difference with donie further out and small kingston doing well in the corner. backs really improved timmons and paul begley excelled. the shape of the backs was better also. midfield did great especially JOL and we ended up forcing them to take short kickouts which didn't suit them .noticeable off the ball was that a lot of their players were cramping up and stretching and we seemed far fitter.

one gripe we should have hammered the weak link which was both their corner backs who were cramping very badly. ross got on a lot of ball and did well at times but we should have got a bigger return off the amount of chances we had. it appears that tom shiels has now jumped the queue.