Mayo v Galway NFL Division 1. 7/2/2010

[Farrandeelin]

Might as well start this thread. It will be my only thread starter for a while so I may as well start off with a bang.

Galway have been racking up huge scores in their FBD campaign. Mayo haven't,so form suggests Galway. However it is in Castlebar and Mayo won't want to lose the game there.

My own feeling is that Mayo will struggle in this game and Galway to win easily.

[SLIGONIAN]

Might as well start this thread. It will be my only thread starter for a while so I may as well start off with a bang.

Galway have been racking up huge scores in their FBD campaign. Mayo haven't,so form suggests Galway. However it is in Castlebar and Mayo won't want to lose the game there.

My own feeling is that Mayo will struggle in this game and Galway to win easily.

Would ye want to lose it in Galway? FBD form will be irrelevant. But way to try and make Galway favourites.

[Farrandeelin]

I'm just saying it as I see it Sligonian. I honestly think Galway could be a surprise package this year in the championship as well. Along with Down in Ulster.

[SLIGONIAN]

mayo and galway games are never won easily. Why so negative?

[Cosmo Kramer]

Sounds like Galway are a bit further along with their training...

Mayo would really need to be winning this in terms of the league because we have a tough fixture program this year and only have two other home games.

But I don't see us having a good league campaign this year and Kernan will want to lay down an early marker as Galway manager, so I reluctuntly have to go for a Galway win. 

Hopefully I'll be more upbeat by the time the Connacht Championship comes around.

[SLIGONIAN]

Sounds like Galway are a bit further along with their training...

Mayo would really need to be winning this in terms of the league because we have a tough fixture program this year and only have two other home games.

But I don't see us having a good league campaign this year and Kernan will want to lay down an early marker as Galway manager, so I reluctuntly have to go for a Galway win. 

Hopefully I'll be more upbeat by the time the Connacht Championship comes around.

But sure ye dont have a hope in that, if I was ye I wouldnt bother turning up like us in 2008

[GalwayBayBoy]

I'm just saying it as I see it Sligonian. I honestly think Galway could be a surprise package this year in the championship as well. Along with Down in Ulster.

I'll believe it when I see it. Not that we don't have the potential but who knows how the whole Joe Kernan thing will go. I've heard they have been training like savages but you just don't know until you see them in action a few times. FBD doesn't count for much really and even league football can be deceiving.

[Barney]

While I think Mayo will be toe-for-toe with Galway if they meet later in the Championship I see this as quite a comfortable win for Galway.

Worrying factor for me is that there has been nothing new tried at corner-back in the FBD - Liam O'Malley and Donal Vaughan at best are not corner-backs, and from another point of view are not good enough to play at this level. Keith Higgins isn't a corner-back either. A Galway forward line in form will expose these difficulties.

We're also short of Kilcoyne, Mortimer and Dillon up front, relying on Ronaldson for scores against a top class intercounty team is too much and we are probabaly going to struggle in this area early in the season. Stereotypically our forward line is always sub-par but at the moment it is our best area of the field.

Add in new manager bounce and post-season training  ; and a fair bit of motivation after our two defeats of them last year and it all adds up to it being the turn of the Tribesmen and a 5/6 point win.

[GaillimhIarthair]

Add in new manager bounce and post-season training  ; and a fair bit of motivation after our two defeats of them last year and it all adds up to it being the turn of the Tribesmen and a 5/6 point win.

There was no "collective" post season training Barney    That is currently banned by GAA HQ 

[RedandGreenSniper]

Add in new manager bounce and post-season training  ; and a fair bit of motivation after our two defeats of them last year and it all adds up to it being the turn of the Tribesmen and a 5/6 point win.

There was no "collective" post season training Barney    That is currently banned by GAA HQ 

Cute-hoorism not limited purely to the Kingdom so?

[southsidejohnny]

Thats what four years of having a manager like O Mahony does to the supporters. Remember his aim , "To dampen the expectations of the Mayo supporters". Reading the first post it would appear that Johnno has succeded beyond his own dismal expectations.

[Farrandeelin]

To be honest johnny, I have no hope in him delivering the ultimate prize. I don't think he will repeat the Connacht victory he just about won at the end last year either. Then again, maybe it is his plan, to suck all hope from us and then pull off a masterstroke...

(I wish!!!)

[heineken_on_tap]

Seems like a make or break year for Johnno so. I still rate him highly as a manager, maybe the players need to stand up this year and take a more responsibility for their own performances

[muppet]

Mayo will not only beat Galway but they will win Sam this year.

The AIF will end with Donal Vaughan scoring a last minute goal after a 100 yard solo run.

[RedandGreenSniper]

Mayo will not only beat Galway but they will win Sam this year.

The AIF will end with Donal Vaughan scoring a last minute goal after a 100 yard solo run.

Nah, it will be Liam O'Malley.