Mayo V Sligo - Connaught senior final - July 15th

[Farrandeelin]

Munnelly is in New Zealand. Kilcoyne is working in England and will return for club championship games only.

[magpie seanie]

Leathan le leathan; caol le caol.

I said this one day in work when one of my colleagues was struggling to spell Caitriona. Well they thought I was from outer space! No-one had ever heard the term!

[moysider]

Leathan le leathan; caol le caol.

I said this one day in work when one of my colleagues was struggling to spell Caitriona. Well they thought I was from outer space! No-one had ever heard the term!

They would have heard but choose not to listen. It s very uncool to try to learn Irish.

[Mayo4Sam]

Seanie.....do ya have his name, if ya do just post his initials.......I'm intrigued.

As for Mayo........we are struggling to field two corner forwards. If we can get McGarity anywhere near fit Move AOS to 11 and Cillian into the corner instead of Varley then we will be ok, we might not win it but it will take a really good team to knock us out.

All we can ask for any year is to be competitive and get the best out of what we have, thankfully under Horan we are that.

If Horan takes AOS out of midfield he should be shot. From what I've seen of AOS this year before Sunday was that he has learned to take the right option when passing and Sunday only confirmed this. His fielding is impeccable, although he shouldn't be trying to line up the 10yard run he got for his first kickout on Sunday, his picking of passing options was brilliant, the pass to Keegan invited him to get going and resulted in the point and his fitness and strength levels are better than ever. I can't remember being this excited about a Mayo player in a long time.

I listened to the minor match on Shannonside, the commentator was some craic, "marshmallows are soft, that was a marshmallow free", "he's in the Bronx, New York, he's gone down a blind alley"

[Syferus]

Seanie.....do ya have his name, if ya do just post his initials.......I'm intrigued.

As for Mayo........we are struggling to field two corner forwards. If we can get McGarity anywhere near fit Move AOS to 11 and Cillian into the corner instead of Varley then we will be ok, we might not win it but it will take a really good team to knock us out.

All we can ask for any year is to be competitive and get the best out of what we have, thankfully under Horan we are that.

If Horan takes AOS out of midfield he should be shot. From what I've seen of AOS this year before Sunday was that he has learned to take the right option when passing and Sunday only confirmed this. His fielding is impeccable, although he shouldn't be trying to line up the 10yard run he got for his first kickout on Sunday, his picking of passing options was brilliant, the pass to Keegan invited him to get going and resulted in the point and his fitness and strength levels are better than ever. I can't remember being this excited about a Mayo player in a long time.

I listened to the minor match on Shannonside, the commentator was some craic, "marshmallows are soft, that was a marshmallow free", "he's in the Bronx, New York, he's gone down a blind alley"

Willie Hegarty, Roscommon underage coaching officer. Mastermind of your demise. Ouch.

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Can anyone solve an argument? What age is Eamon O'Hara?

He s 36 and will be 37 before end of year.

37 and playing in a Connaught final. I thought those days were over. Impressive stuff.

[Syferus]

He was still a big presence. Clearly not hugely mobile but he spoiled Moran and O'Shea and let Sligo gather far more ball in the middle than they had for the previous 20-30 minutes. People are all gung-ho in praise for Moran and O'Shea but for me the most remarkable midfield performance of the day was O'Hara.

[Lar Naparka]

Seanie.....do ya have his name, if ya do just post his initials.......I'm intrigued.

As for Mayo........we are struggling to field two corner forwards. If we can get McGarity anywhere near fit Move AOS to 11 and Cillian into the corner instead of Varley then we will be ok, we might not win it but it will take a really good team to knock us out.

All we can ask for any year is to be competitive and get the best out of what we have, thankfully under Horan we are that.

If Horan takes AOS out of midfield he should be shot. From what I've seen of AOS this year before Sunday was that he has learned to take the right option when passing and Sunday only confirmed this. His fielding is impeccable, although he shouldn't be trying to line up the 10yard run he got for his first kickout on Sunday, his picking of passing options was brilliant, the pass to Keegan invited him to get going and resulted in the point and his fitness and strength levels are better than ever. I can't remember being this excited about a Mayo player in a long time.

I listened to the minor match on Shannonside, the commentator was some craic, "marshmallows are soft, that was a marshmallow free", "he's in the Bronx, New York, he's gone down a blind alley"

Willie Hegarty, Roscommon underage coaching officer. Mastermind of your demise. Ouch.

I once recorded a few minutes of one of Willie's commentaries and posted the recording to a few relations in America. They wanted to know if they could buy the DVD somewhere.
I hard a hard job convincing them that Willie takes himself seriously and was only doing his job!

[ross4life]

Seanie.....do ya have his name, if ya do just post his initials.......I'm intrigued.

As for Mayo........we are struggling to field two corner forwards. If we can get McGarity anywhere near fit Move AOS to 11 and Cillian into the corner instead of Varley then we will be ok, we might not win it but it will take a really good team to knock us out.

All we can ask for any year is to be competitive and get the best out of what we have, thankfully under Horan we are that.

If Horan takes AOS out of midfield he should be shot. From what I've seen of AOS this year before Sunday was that he has learned to take the right option when passing and Sunday only confirmed this. His fielding is impeccable, although he shouldn't be trying to line up the 10yard run he got for his first kickout on Sunday, his picking of passing options was brilliant, the pass to Keegan invited him to get going and resulted in the point and his fitness and strength levels are better than ever. I can't remember being this excited about a Mayo player in a long time.

I listened to the minor match on Shannonside, the commentator was some craic, "marshmallows are soft, that was a marshmallow free", "he's in the Bronx, New York, he's gone down a blind alley"

Willie Hegarty, Roscommon underage coaching officer. Mastermind of your demise. Ouch.

I once recorded a few minutes of one of Willie's commentaries and posted the recording to a few relations in America. They wanted to know if they could buy the DVD somewhere.
I hard a hard job convincing them that Willie takes himself seriously and was only doing his job!

Willie can be a good laugh alright but nothing beats this guy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POHuXU01bOs

[Syferus]

Seanie.....do ya have his name, if ya do just post his initials.......I'm intrigued.

As for Mayo........we are struggling to field two corner forwards. If we can get McGarity anywhere near fit Move AOS to 11 and Cillian into the corner instead of Varley then we will be ok, we might not win it but it will take a really good team to knock us out.

All we can ask for any year is to be competitive and get the best out of what we have, thankfully under Horan we are that.

If Horan takes AOS out of midfield he should be shot. From what I've seen of AOS this year before Sunday was that he has learned to take the right option when passing and Sunday only confirmed this. His fielding is impeccable, although he shouldn't be trying to line up the 10yard run he got for his first kickout on Sunday, his picking of passing options was brilliant, the pass to Keegan invited him to get going and resulted in the point and his fitness and strength levels are better than ever. I can't remember being this excited about a Mayo player in a long time.

I listened to the minor match on Shannonside, the commentator was some craic, "marshmallows are soft, that was a marshmallow free", "he's in the Bronx, New York, he's gone down a blind alley"

Willie Hegarty, Roscommon underage coaching officer. Mastermind of your demise. Ouch.

I once recorded a few minutes of one of Willie's commentaries and posted the recording to a few relations in America. They wanted to know if they could buy the DVD somewhere.
I hard a hard job convincing them that Willie takes himself seriously and was only doing his job!

Willie and Donie Senior always have half a dozen bottles of cider at hand for games. I heard they drank one of Marty's shandies by mistake at the Galway game. Not a pretty sight.

[IolarCoisCuain]

He was still a big presence. Clearly not hugely mobile but he spoiled Moran and O'Shea and let Sligo gather far more ball in the middle than they had for the previous 20-30 minutes. People are all gung-ho in praise for Moran and O'Shea but for me the most remarkable midfield performance of the day was O'Hara.

Have the Rossies forgiven O'Hara at last? He was the most hated Sligoman in Roscommon for years for a while there.

[seanog]

He was still a big presence. Clearly not hugely mobile but he spoiled Moran and O'Shea and let Sligo gather far more ball in the middle than they had for the previous 20-30 minutes. People are all gung-ho in praise for Moran and O'Shea but for me the most remarkable midfield performance of the day was O'Hara.

Not at all in agreement with that, his boldest move of the day was to pick the lightest Mayo player on the pitch and give him a good dig with his forearm on the ground (kevin mcgloughlin).

Moran was motm with most pundits, O Se was instrumental when coming on and you talk of presence , well that was midfield presence at best.

[Syferus]

He was still a big presence. Clearly not hugely mobile but he spoiled Moran and O'Shea and let Sligo gather far more ball in the middle than they had for the previous 20-30 minutes. People are all gung-ho in praise for Moran and O'Shea but for me the most remarkable midfield performance of the day was O'Hara.

Not at all in agreement with that, his boldest move of the day was to pick the lightest Mayo player on the pitch and give him a good dig with his forearm on the ground (kevin mcgloughlin).

Moran was motm with most pundits, O Se was instrumental when coming on and you talk of presence , well that was midfield presence at best.

What I mean by 'remarkable' is it was more impressive to see a 37 year-old still having as much impact as he did against such a good midfield pairing. Obviously over the course of the game Moran was MotM and O'Shea probably did more.

[sligoman2]

Does this look eerily similar to the content of this years Connacht final thread. I had a good laugh reading it earlier today

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A day that will live now in the memory