Mayo Club Football.

[AbbeySider]

I see Tom Parsons has been picked for the International rules team. This will probable impact on the County final date with Charlestown being involved. The Cross V Ballagh game is next weekend and the final scheduled for the Sunday after October 19th. The first test is October 24th so depending on when the international team leave then it could push back the final date.

I think Ballagh will beat Cross but Charlestown will win the final especially if Ballagh have to play 3 championship games 3 weeks running.

definately won't push back the fianl date stonewall international rules has no impact the lads on the other thread said the team is flying out on the 18th county final is the 19th so tom must be flying out on a later date. No chance of Hanley heading back during the week 

I could be wrong but I have a memory of a club that lost home advantage in a Championship County Semi final because the county board put back the fixture (3 times) due to a player missing because of the International Rules.
Of course it would make sense for Parsons to fly out after the county Final but logic is not always applied in these situations.
If Ballagh win, and they had the option, would they play 3 weeks in a row or would they like it put back coupled with Charlstowns excuse of Parsons leaving ? 
If Cross win id say they would favour playing it sooner rather than later, regardless.

[AbbeySider]

Any predictions for the Intermediate final?

Aughamore are a serious up-and-coming team. Their U-21s are very strong this year and they seem to have won a lot of titles in Bord nA nOg in the past few years. A lot of those players would be breaking onto the first team.

Kilmane are doing very well considering they are missing Brain Maloney, Pat Kelly but I think Aughamore will shade it.

[dodo]

Any predictions for the Intermediate final?

Aughamore are a serious up-and-coming team. Their U-21s are very strong this year and they seem to have won a lot of titles in Bord nA nOg in the past few years. A lot of those players would be breaking onto the first team.

Kilmane are doing very well considering they are missing Brain Maloney, Pat Kelly but I think Aughamore will shade it.

Would fancy Aughamore to win by a few points, they play a tidy game of football and have good players all over.

Would guess that a county intermediate title with their home club would mean a lot more to Brian Maloney and Pat Kelly than winning the All Ireland club with St Vincents. Their loss is a big one to a small club and fair play to Kilmaine for getting this far at least !

[RedandGreenSniper]

Very hard to see past Aghamore really. Kilmaine have really surpassed themselves in getting this far. Came out of the Group of Death (Tourmak, Kiltimagh, Davitts and Hollymount) without the aforementioned Maloney and Kelly. They were close to going senior in 2004 after beating Mitchels in the Intermediate quarter-final before Breaffy beat them in the semi. They seem to have went downhill from there but are back on track this year.
Be interesting to see if Paul Doherty gives another top performance to put him in the reckoning for a senior calll up.
Also keep an eye on Alan Freeman. He's only in his first year out of minor but if he keeps developing the way he is, he won't be far of the Mayo squad either.
I reckon Aghamore could win by about eight points

[furboot]

minutes to go - Ballaghadereen lead Crossmolina 3-05 : 0-09

[ardmhachaabu08]

is crossmolina match finished ??

[furboot]

Finished -= Ballaghadderen 3-07 : Crossmolina 0-10

[ardmhachaabu08]

there goes my accum!! lol   shudda read up on page before, papers tipping ballagh to beat them

[furboot]

fro http://www.clubmayo.ie...........
Senior Club semi final: Ballaghadereen 3-07 v Crossmolina 0-10
- 3 goals in under 3 mins. in 2nd half for Ballaghadereen was the difference
(goals from Andy Moran, Barry Regan and  ? Conway (?))
- Crossmolina awarded penalty in injury time - saved from Brian Benson
Man of the Match - Stephen Drake (Ballagh)
Ballaghadereen now play Charlestown in final next Sunday

[furboot]

Intermediate Final - half time

Aghamore 2-01 : Kilmaine 1-04

All Aghamore scores from Alan Freeman but didn't score for lat 13 mins of first half.
Kilmaine stayed in touch and better team ending first half - Paul Doherty playing well

[furboot]

again courtesy of http://www.clubmayo.ie

Favourites Aghamore win by 1 point
--  Aghamore 3-05 : Kilmaine 1-10

outsiders Kilmaine came so close !!!

[OirthearMhaigheo]

Great win for Ballagh yesterday. It didn't look likely at half-time as Cross seemed to be dominating in vital areas but they're a team full of goals and that was the difference in the end. It will be a nice juicy all-East final now, can't wait!

[stephenite]

Ballina Stephenites promoted, in circumstances as farcical as the committee room shenanigans that got them relegated in the first place apparently. They needed to beat Ballintubber to go up, Ballintubber showed up with 10 players so the points were in the bag, apparently we gave Ballintubber the numbers to make a team and proceeded to race into a 16 point lead.




Ballina Stephenites lost by 2

[Davitt Man]

Ballina Stephenites promoted, in circumstances as farcical as the committee room shenanigans that got them relegated in the first place apparently. They needed to beat Ballintubber to go up, Ballintubber showed up with 10 players so the points were in the bag, apparently we gave Ballintubber the numbers to make a team and proceeded to race into a 16 point lead.




Ballina Stephenites lost by 2

This just proves the league is a joke, burrishule couldnt field a team a few weeks ago for a league game against Breaffy now ballintubber do the same. Ballina a few years ago had to play Liam Higgins in goals to make up the numbers.

Ever since they changed the format and kept league and c\ship status seperate the league has been treated poorly.

County Board have to wake up and do something about it

[rosnarun]

Well done Ballaghaderren,
Football is all about take your advantage when your up and the clincal  way the buried the 3 goals was very impressive.
not sure it was the best use of hanley  following Mcdonald 9who was the class of the day)around .  but when you win everything is right . he looks to have got a wee bit muscle bound in his time abroad but there are some serious players on that team andy of course but Barry kelly and kilcullen looked county class and it a crying shame MotM Stephen drake isn't a county regular.
other than Cmcd Cross never really got into their stride . too many Tired heads im afraid . most of those lads are playing senior since about 1994/5 .  as the next generation are drifting away . the likes of henry Mcloghlan , mark leonard should now be central to the team but we have the likes of Barry heffernan gerry o malley and pat McAndrew making combacks not a good long term plan.

Now im not bitter But is this the first time the best Club team in Roscommon has played the best club team in Sligo for the mayo county title?