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Sportsjoe are saying there are reports tha Kildare Co Board initially agreed to Croke Park and then did a u turn but who credible these reports are who knows?

Well something went down why the f**k didn't they come out straight away and say no.

[Supporters kicked up a fuss about Mayo v Kerry replay in Limerick a few years back but the county board had already agreed to it well before then.]

Real bad form this and you'd wonder did KCB have this sort of agreement already in place. Supporters kicked up a fuss about Mayo v Kerry replay in Limerick a few years back but the county board had already agreed to it well before then.

To be fair, that game was moved from one neutral venue to another neutral venue.
Apples & oranges.

Not saying they're the same just that county boards can sometimes be complicit in these things.

Real bad form this and you'd wonder did KCB have this sort of agreement already in place. Supporters kicked up a fuss about Mayo v Kerry replay in Limerick a few years back but the county board had already agreed to it well before then.

A right tough one for Mayo, SOS gone and our backs all over the place, throw in the heat with a lot of fellas over 30, the persistence with Cafferkey and Coen and you've a recipe for calamity.

WTF is it with RTE commentators getting the teams mixed up, they do it time and again. Marty mixing up  Galway and Roscommon, Canning saying Limerick put over the point to put the score at 10-8, it was Clare and the score was 11-7.

A lot of Mayo apologists for Diarmuid O'Connor are out in force today, but there is a fair body of evidence at this stage to indicate that DOC is more than fond of the dirt. He should have got a straight red in the league match against Galway for a ridiculous high challenge on Kerin and lets call out what the – which one replay angle clearly shows – calculated, premeditated elbow yesterday was: a dirty blow that there can be no excuse for.
The substantial amount of Mayo fans that applauded him off the pitch while castigating Conroy as a cheat would want to seriously cop themselves on. Not to mention the bizarre cheering when the change of Cafferkey was announced pre match, maybe they were excited about Barrett starting but how would Cafferkey and his family feel about that? I'm not trying to antagonise Mayo fans here, I was sat in the terrace with all my own Mayo relations and you couldn't fault their behaviour or that of the majority of Mayo fans but while there's a lot of backslapping given to Mayo fans by themselves and others for what they bring to the game, for a certain portion of them yesterday it was not a good look at all.

I agree with all of this. I was the good samartian yesterday and brought my oul fella and uncle along who wouldn't get to many games anymore at their age. Both of them referenced the behavior and edge to the Mayo fans which 'never used to be the way'. The torrents of abuse at the referee when at best they hadn't seen a replay, and at worst it was a clear elbow, was absolutely laughable. Less widespread but still there was abuse of Conroy who was quite clearly out cold or close to it, whether the elbow was accidental or not. That was really awful. Booing of free takers also.

Mayo fans have clearly been amazing and follow the team everywhere with such passion, and have this unreal pride with stuff like 'Mayo day' or throwing a Mayo jersey at every celeb they meet or how the Jersey is the only thing they'll wear abroad. Stuff that has the rest of the country cringing with embarrassment but you put up with it because it's Mayo and it's good natured and doesn't harm anyone. However there seems to be a blind spot that come with this specific side, from blind defense of player indescretions to referee abuse to complaining about the media. It's been very apparent recently, since 2012 or so and plenty of county's supporters have commented on it, the biggest probably being Donegal fans upset with Mayo fans behavior during the 2013 hammering. Have heard it from Kerry fans also, while the dubs and Ros fans can probably be taken with a pinch of salt. Still, it's been a fair fall from grace from being everyone's second team and the lovable gracious neighbor to being the set of fans people dislike most.

Leitrim supporters are far bigger w**kers than Mayo supporters in general.

I can't comment on Galway football supporters because they're such an endangered species.

Your posts dont normally make me laugh Syf, but that is a good 1.

Might be as well to ignore the smart arse who attempts to take over every thread on this board with his horse shit snidy remarks.

Someone's a bit edgy.

Not really. Just would like to be able to read posts about a game I'm interested in without reading stupid childish crap for once is all.

There was nothing 'childish' in what I said. You have a personal dislike that you want to wrap up in the clothes of reason, not the other way around. Good job derailing the thread, by the way.

Derailing the thread? You mean like you do in every single thread you contribute to?
I've made a total of 2 posts in this thread unrelated to the game and I won't be making any more...

To the Mayo lads on here - is Shane Nally still on the panel?
Or was it that he just didn't make the subs for this particular game?

He wasn't on the 26, he lacks pace for this level but has a good boot on him which is more than can be said for some of lads that were brought on.

Rochford has a lot to answer for with the way he's managing or mismanaging this team. The nonsense with naming a dummy team for a start, I mean wtf who's that benefitting? The league was the time to spring novices not in the melting pot against Galway. The subs, even some of the Galway lads were cheering when they saw Drake coming on. Is Barry Moran just a mascot now or what, he's either fit enough or not, yesterday was surely a day for him go come after Parsons went off. Stephen Coen how did he stay on the full game, he doesn't have the pace or speed of thought for this level of football. Also Conor Loftus needs to be taken aside and told that in championship football you need to get stuck in, you can't be wandering on the periphery the whole game. Some of our shooting and slow lateral build-up play was like root canal. Those McLoughlin misses from the frees were crucial, the whole ground seemed to know he isn't a freetaker except Rochford. Mayo are war weary now facing scorched earth with no supplies but with no choice but to go on somehow.

Surely to Christ Cafferkey and Coen aren't starting.

Lol at sean cavanagh. What a wonderful what a w a n k r

No need for that about a player that served his county with distinction.

I'll be checking nothing on your behest with your faux concern for another poster and the arrogance to diagnose.

[but I do think he needs help]

Tubberman wouldn't come across as an abusive poster to be fair Lar.

If you were to count the number of times, he abused me over the years, you might change your mind. In fairness, he hasn't done that for a while and maybe I should have let sleeping dogs lie. When Johnno took over, I think every single post I put up, pr the most of them anyway, were criticised by him. I did ask him more than once if he could point out anything I had to say that turned out to be incorrect. He hasn't and can't either.
I amnot the only one he found problems with either.
However, I should not have brought him into this argument with Syferus and I apologise for doing so.
Tubberman is one of the most constructive posters on this board and one of the most insightful ones also -when he sticks to the subject.
Syferus is a different matter and I'm very surprised that nobody has reported him to the mods. I am genuinely concerned because he is losing the plot in a big way. That doesn't really bug me as I don't take anything here personally but I do think he needs help and I am not being abusive or deliberately insulting when I say this.

You really are full of yourself coming out with stuff like that.

Are players now coming back to play too soon after injuries. McBrearty was back yesterday and though he played well, didn't appear to be fully fit. Keegan came back for Mayo sooner than expected after 2 hip operations, what are the chances later in the year that he'll tog straight away after rehab. We had COC playing a few years back with a dislocated shoulder, he dislocated it 3 times before surgery, and Henry Shefflin trying to play with a cruciate injury. This seems to be the case in particular with big name players, if anything these fellas should probably be given extra time to recuperate with all the wear and tear many of them endure.

Loftus will start in place of Cillian and be on the frees. Durcan will come in for Keegan. SO'S might start as well. Can't see anything else changing.

Can't complain much about those switches! If they happen!

Keegan is heading straight for surgery! No point in messing about I suppose!

Forgot about Durcan, though I wouldn't mind seeing Nally get a run as well.

[Well Higgins won't be back anyway]

Well Higgins won't be back anyway so I presume he'll start Loftus instead of O'Connor and maybe Nally will come in for Keegan if Barrett's not ready. The farce at full back will probably continue.

Why do you say that?

https://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/higgins-return-for-mayo-footballers-still-on-ice-36735236.html

Well Higgins won't be back anyway so I presume he'll start Loftus instead of O'Connor and maybe Nally will come in for Keegan if Barrett's not ready. The farce at full back will probably continue.