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Another great lad and footballer is dead 15 years in the next few weeks Ronan Maughan god be good to him puts football into perspective doesn't it

jeez time flies cant believe its that long
wasnt there also a cup for me old mates kenneth mulkearns and sean O'malley may not have been foorball cup and of course in Keenagh we have the Mickey Lydon cup  for our lad that will be going 20 years next year.

Billy and the Longford crew must have been spreading the good word back in 2004!

Do ye not see the Longford cast-off jersies on the lads who wouldn't kick snow off a rope?

not cast offs that was just longford

God the bit about padraig Garret bring its all back.A Giant in everyway, keeping it to even football he was a major loss to 1st to crossmolina and later after his 'Transfer' to Lahardane due to a boundary mixup . SO many of lads of his era passed on prematurely it  brings a lump to the throat. But its good to see him still remember like this I hope the adrain Garvey cup in the School is still played for too
God Bless both of them
RIP

if you want to know that Pri*k  Rice's real views on mcdonald go back and read early 2004 articles in which he impuned bith his fotball ability and goodname . of course hea had to change his tune in ala dunphy so I reckon hes is now just sticking the knife in while he can

You are not getting my drift with that one, ros

I get your point but my one is . dont ask a straight question if you wont like the answer. By forcing Mcdonald into a corner all you would do is further cut off his route of return. when dealing with people you have to take personality into account .
to mangle a phrase by Babs Keating ' trainers who cant deal with  throughbreds  only win donkey derbies'.

you have to play the hand your dealt . and almost all mayo's best forwards are smallish  they have to play to that. Better to have a ready made replacement and the lad  has class written all over him. you could makes a decent team from all the forward  hastliy dumped in recent years . Conroy,regan ,casey,durcan, costello,benson. and others that got even less time. i thought Durcan in particular had a lot more to give.
wonder if moran still considered a possible full forward?

Ronaldson - tried really hard, but not up to it at this level.

And has been given a good 10 minutes to prove it
Jeez lads give a guy a chance . players need time to develop and it often the slow startes that develop the best . not every one can start off at midfield in an allireland semi ala Heaney Neither Nallens of Ciaran mcdonald 1st efforts were very promising
I rmember looking at nallen in particular and wondering was it family reputation that got him onto the Squad.
May have lost too many good propect from such flippant attitudes

"There is no wriggle room left, Ciaran; I want a yes or no and I want it now."

IS THERE ANY OTHER ANSWER TO THAT QUESTION OTHER THAN f**k YUOU
that's the kind of blueshirt diplomacy that bruton ended The 1st IRA ceasefire with within a few months of being taoiseach.
The point of the exercise is to get the best team out not to show whose boss and try and humiliate players

great is a term too lightly used these days.
great footballers were mick o connell,jimmy keaveney ,peter canavan, maurice fitz, jack o shea, etc etc etc. with all due respects to the current kerry team there are only 2 on it in that bracket, gooch and daragh o se.

now here is a perfect example of irony children. he wasn't even the best player in that full forward line.

go on fill us in with the scorers. i wouldn't woory too much about the performance. challange matches are odd things. were there any odd patterns to mayos play? often times they use these games  for experimentation. how was o'shea?

were kiltane declared champions for a while in 1995 before cross were allowed  to beat garrymore(always a pleasure) fot the second time in 1995 over the PJ loftus affair? and went on to play corofinb in the connaght club championship . or ami putting 2 different events together

the issue for me is not wheter Ciaran Mcdonald at 33 is still good enough to play for mayo but what sort of leader  is the aging o'mahony. counties are always losing talented player galway still havent recover from donnellan early retirement not tyrone from canavan belated going,
Its time he put this issue to bed one way or another and not let it distract from Championship preparations. It grand for us to be talking baollix about it but I hope the players aren't as confused as we are about it. Lets face it Mcdonald wont be back unless we get beat by Sligo and if that happens we(and O'mahony's tyranny) are fecked anyway.
The manager has spoken so now let it be on his head.

I doubt it in this case. I reckon it was the Cross managegment team that advised him what to do.

hes f-cked so.

the story basically boils down to o'mahony bottled it. he didn't have the guts to be the man who ended McDonald's inter county career. how could he face the electorate again.
After 15 years playing for mayo Ciaran was entitled to at least a phone call and not jump up and down  with excitement like a ambitious Minor when he received the text to come to a practice match.
its the type of management that would make you fear sligo

not wanting to monitor the quality of hardstation story
only i heard it about it happened to christy ring about 50 years ago with the addition of yer man looking dubtfully at ring and asking 'what kinda of sums' to which Ring replies 'hard sums'

comparing individual player is a fun excercize but has littleng on the outcome of most matches.
that is where managers come in  a team has to become more than a sum of its parts and that is why Mayo have got to 2 of the last 4 all-irelands. I have often heard the comment mayo played above then selves to get there . But that is what good managers acheive and that is where JOM has failed so badly sofar.
and leaving out you best player just makes the sum that bit smaller in the 1st place