Connacht senior football championship 2024

[From the Bunker]

Roscommon have gone flat. Mayo's purple patch has killed the game.

[Blowitupref]

Mayo defence excellent. Roscommon not offering any goal threat.

Roscommon had at least three or four goal chances today and wasted them all, needed at least one to have brought that game to the wire.

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[Gael85]

Mayo defence excellent. Roscommon not offering any goal threat.

Roscommon had at least three or four goal chances today and wasted them all, needed at least one to have brought that game to the wire.

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Mayo defence excellent. Roscommon not offering any goal threat.

Roscommon had at least three or four goal chances today and wasted them all, needed at least one to have brought that game to the wire.

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The chances were after I posted. Enda
Smith had a bad miss after a good catch.

They closed out Diarmuid Murtagh excellently in second half too.

[From the Bunker]

McStays inside knowledge of Roscommon meant that he would know a plethora of their weak spots. Nobody knows the weakness of a team better than the teams own manager. And it's not so long since McStay was in the Rossie dressingroom.

The ambush of last year was not going to happen this time. Mayo did the minimum to stay in Division One. This date would have been larger on the horizon this year.

Both Galway and Mayo now meet to see who will be Number One Seeds under the guise of a Connacht title. Both have a lot of work to do. Galway are in bonus territory, as they won't be as bad as they were on Saturday and nobody will be talking them up. They will be able to drift into the final with little or no fanfare.

After the weekend displays, other counties that are not provincial champions will be hoping to end up in the Connacht champions group.

[Cunny Funt]

Deserved win for Mayo less wasteful team and made the least amount of mistakes. Will likely beat Galway in the final but will have to improve a lot to top group in the All Ireland series, not finishing 1st will mean another exit before the semi final stage IMO. With Buckley, Rochford on the management team improvement is very possible.

For all the media talk about Davy Burke it looks like a lot of their good work last year was more to do with now departed coaches Mark McHugh and Gerry McGowan. Would they have been as wasteful if McKeon, Ciarian Murtagh was available and Ben O'Carroll more up to speed? Losing two important players Harney, Murray to injuries today won't help matters and another last 16 exit looks likely.

[From the Bunker]

I like Davy Burke. It's a tough grind being a Manager of Roscommon. They mix it with the big boys regularly and are expected from that consistency to move to the next level. This next level is not easy achieve. Teams pop in and pop out of the next level regularly.

[armaghniac]

On the Sunday Game, there was a poor attendance at Sligo v Galway. The time wasn't ideal, but it shows that neither county is interested.

[Blowitupref]

On the Sunday Game, there was a poor attendance at Sligo v Galway. The time wasn't ideal, but it shows that neither county is interested.

Galway don't have the best of support, might bring out more for the final but will be well outnumbered in support for the home final in two weeks. Sligo support highlights the lack hope they had for that match.  Maybe with more performances like that one will bring out more support. Strong at underage with lot of good players to bring through yet.

[Owenmoresider]

On the Sunday Game, there was a poor attendance at Sligo v Galway. The time wasn't ideal, but it shows that neither county is interested.

Nearly 5k I think, and most of that was on the terrace where the footage comes from. Charging €30 for stand tickets doesn't help especially in a stand where the view from lower seats is far from ideal. Besides it's a very long time since Galway brought a decent crowd to Sligo for a game.

On the game, wasn't expecting that good of a performance from Sligo, gave them a proper game and were well worth the position they were in the closing minutes, one unforced error was all it took to lose it but we were flagging a bit before that, and had it gone to ET we were most likely sitting ducks. Certain flaws still exist and the difference in what the teams brought in off the bench is telling but there's a lot to be positive about for the Tailteann.

[Manning18]

On the Sunday Game, there was a poor attendance at Sligo v Galway. The time wasn't ideal, but it shows that neither county is interested.

Galway don't have the best of support, might bring out more for the final but will be well outnumbered in support for the home final in two weeks. Sligo support highlights the lack hope they had for that match.  Maybe with more performances like that one will bring out more support. Strong at underage with lot of good players to bring through yet.

Not sure Galway will be well outnumbered at home in 2 weeks tbh, certainly wasn't the case for the qualifier game last year.

Mayo's support seems to be tapering off in recent times. Approx 7k or so Mayo fans at a short distance championship game there today in perfect weather doesn't seem excessive. Thought the Mayo crowds at the last two quarter final weekends in Croker were paltry also, absolutely dwarfed by Armagh fans on both occasions those weekends. The self annoionted "best fans in Ireland" title certainly has to be put back on the shelf for the foreseeable, cringe-fest's in times square or not

Outside of occasionally Armagh and Dublin, no football teams fans can really hold a candle to Munster hurling teams at the moment

[twohands!!!]

Outside of occasionally Armagh and Dublin, no football teams fans can really hold a candle to Munster hurling teams at the moment

Not really fair comparing with the completely different setup in hurling.

The football provincials are not much more than a warm-up before the serious business starts with the group stages.

The Munster hurling round-robin has real jeopardy with every single game being critical given 40% of the teams taking part will be finished for the summer in a few weeks (and possibly even sooner depending on how results go).

[Captain Scarlet]

Mayo defence excellent. Roscommon not offering any goal threat.

Roscommon had at least three or four goal chances today and wasted them all, needed at least one to have brought that game to the wire.

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Mayo lost a fair few PUCK OUTs I see...Christ that is just sloppy.

[UpMeeyo]

Outside of occasionally Armagh and Dublin, no football teams fans can really hold a candle to Munster hurling teams at the moment

Not really fair comparing with the completely different setup in hurling.

The football provincials are not much more than a warm-up before the serious business starts with the group stages.

The Munster hurling round-robin has real jeopardy with every single game being critical given 40% of the teams taking part will be finished for the summer in a few weeks (and possibly even sooner depending on how results go).

This is definitely how fans view the provincials but the reality is you're probably facing a slow death if you don't win the province. The benefits of winning a province are massive - avoid Kerry, Dublin and Ulster champs in the groups, 2 in 3 chance of getting Clare and louth/Kildare as the seed 2. presuming you use this leg up to win the group you probably again avoid Dublin and Kerry and Ulster champs in quarter finals.

[Rossfan]

We looked like a tired jaded team yesterday.
Can't see major improvements in the next 4 weeks as we didn't see any in the last 4.
Davy will you pleeeaaasssse stop forcing Diarmuid to go back defending. Let him and Ben stay up front and be sharp and ready when ball comes up to them.
4 other forward no jerseys, 2 midfielders and a half back line should be enough back to keep the score down.

[Manning18]

Outside of occasionally Armagh and Dublin, no football teams fans can really hold a candle to Munster hurling teams at the moment

Not really fair comparing with the completely different setup in hurling.

The football provincials are not much more than a warm-up before the serious business starts with the group stages.

The Munster hurling round-robin has real jeopardy with every single game being critical given 40% of the teams taking part will be finished for the summer in a few weeks (and possibly even sooner depending on how results go).

But football fans aren't going to any games in those numbers is the point. If you took Armagh fan out of the All Ireland quarter final double header on the Saturday last year there'd have been less than 15k there. Similar for the Sunday double header if you took Dublin fans out. Those are exceptionally big games and nobody outside of an Armagh bandwagon will travel for them anymore

Hurling fans, especially in Munster, will travel for games currently tbf. Clare who are a small county have brought 35k+ to their last two semis. Limerick and Cork (hurling only) have huge support constantly