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Sorry, had to add the poll with six picks

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Numbers 8 and 9

I plan to set up polls for each set of positions to get our definitive team of the year!

Down again this morning.

What's the story?

Come on lads even a Mayo man loves the whole occasion!

Former Dublin player / panalist Tómas Mulligan passed away last night ( Aged 30 )

Tómas played most of his Football and Hurling with Good Counsel in Drimnagh and more recently with Ballinteer St. Johns and Round towers.

Puts the goading and banter in perspective.

Think he played midfield for the Dubs around Tommy Carr's time.

We're entering into major hype season on the ticket issue.

Do you know of any genuine supporter of their county missing out on their team's big day simply because they could not get a ticket?

Ok, so what do our posters drive, or what do you imagine they drive?

With an imaginery €60k what would you buy?

Me, i'm in a Ford Focus 03 at the mo. Its ok and will hopefully upgrade in 2008.

My purchase:

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Can anybody tell me how this works. I have seen links before but can never get them set up.

Basically I want to watch Man U v Pompey tomorrow night online. Any tips for what to do?

Remember 2001. We do in Mayo. Galway, Sligo and Mayo all in the league semis. Tyrone flying in the group stage and have to withdraw. Roscommon play Mayo instead and Pat Holmes delivers the league title.

Now in 2007 F&M is in England again. If it strikes rural Ireland counties may fall one by one. Travel forbidden, and the only team allowed turn up in Croker on All Ireland Final day will be the Dubs. Plus instead of an allocation of 7,500 tickets and the media furore that would go with it they would get 82,500, to watch Collie Moran collect Sam.

Far-fetched maybe, and most definitely more than cheeky!!

Brolly fails to cover himself in glory again

Michael Commins

SUNDAY Game panellist Joe Brolly may well have hot ears this week. Mayo supporters are up in arms over a blistering attack launched by Brolly on Mayo All-Star player Conor Mortimer. The Derry man described Mortimer as being "no good anyway", and that Michael McGoldrick had put him "in his pocket and fed him on farts".
The comments that have raised the ire of many genuine Mayo supporters are contained in the current issue of the acclaimed Ulster GAA weekly publication, Gaelic Life. In an article reflecting on the recent Mayo v Derry match, Brolly wrote: "Bellaghy's Michael McGoldrick was easily the best player on the field, and does everything right. He put Conor Mortimer in his pocket and fed him on farts, as we used to say in primary school. Conor is no good anyway, the sort of boy Adrian McGuckin had in mind when he said he distrusted boys with 'dyed hair and trendy clothes that scored 2-5 in friendlies'."
While Conor did not enjoy one of his better days in Celtic Park last Saturday week, Mayo followers are proud of his achievement in winning an All Star award in 2006 and also being the top scorer in the '06 championship, something that could hardly be achieved by a player who was "no good anyway". He is the holder of three Connacht senior medals with Mayo and a Sigerson Cup medal with DCU, and along with Ciaran McDonald, is Mayo's most recognisable player nationwide.
Mayo GAA secretary Sean Feeney said yesterday (Monday) that the criticism was "way over the top". He said there was no substance to a lot of comments and it was a pity that sections of the media were heading that way. "Unless you're controversial, they don't want you on The Sunday Game. Sometimes you just wonder what depths people will descend to in order to become controversial and stir it up. Conor's best way to answer Joe Brolly is to return to top form again."
Former Mayo senior player and current Mayo junior football manager, Billy Fitzpatrick, who is the chief gaelic games match analyst with Mid West Radio, has also sprung to the defence of Conor Mortimer.
"Joe Brolly has no right to talk about any player in that way. It's not right to go pulling people apart like that. Conor had a great year last year and you can't argue with that. Any player can have a downturn in form and come back very much again.
"People can easily forget his great days, you can be king of the palace one day and come under fire the next. That kind of personalised criticism is very unfair. People have a life to live outside of football too and those comments can hurt. It's an amateur sport and you don't become a bad footballer overnight."
Referring to Enda Muldoon's 'lobbed' goal over the head of Mayo goalie David Clarke, Brolly said it was "a hilarious delight that genuinely had us laughing in the aisles".

RTÉ Sport's new midweek GAA programme The Road to Croker with Des Cahill makes its eagerly anticipated debut on RTÉ Two and RTÉ.ie/sport this Thursday and will run for ten weeks as The Championship reaches its climax this September.

A weekly, hour-long programme with a mix of reviews and analysis, discussion and debate with plenty of colour and character, the ten-week series will bring viewers news on all the emerging national storylines of the Championship further strengthening and complementing RTÉ's comprehensive Championship coverage.

Celebrating the grassroots of GAA, The Road to Croker will be broadcast each week from a different GAA club from around the country.

The show will also be available live and on-demand within the island of Ireland, so if you miss it on the night, you can always catch up with the programme here on the RTÉ website.

In the build-up to this weekend's Leinster Senior Football final, Des will kick-off the new series from St Oliver Plunkett's Eoghan Ruadh GAA Club in Dublin.

Home to four of Dublin's star players, including the Brogan brothers and Jason Sherlock, the club was recently promoted to Division 1 in the National League.

Among the studio audience of club members and supporters on the night will be Bernard Brogan Senior. The former Dublin football legend will chat with Des about how playing for the county in the 1970s compares to the current day as he looks back at his own experiences and compares them with those of his sons Alan and Bernard, current member of the Dublin panel.

Special guests joining Des on the night include former Dublin star and current Wexford manager Paul Bealin, while Donegal's former All-Ireland winning manager Martin McHugh will also be joining Des for a preview of next weekend's Ulster Senior Football final.     

On the eve of the Ulster Football final, Frank McNally of The Irish Times will also be musing on the dilemma of being a Monaghan man in Dublin.


And following Sligo's success in the Connacht Football final on Sunday, key players Eamon O'Hara and Kieran Quinn make an appearance with the Nestor Cup.



Clarinbridge in Co Galway is confirmed as the venue for Pregramme 2, where former Clare star Jamesie O'Connor and former Tipp hurler and current Offaly manager John McIntyre will be featured.

From the same production team that made Breaking Ball, The Road to Croker with Des Cahill begins this Thursday, 12 July on RTÉ Two and RTÉ.ie/sport at 8.00pm.

16 teams standing. Anyone know what is the set-up for the QFs. I think it is an open draw but if not it is Connacht v Ulsterseeded, and Leinster v Munster seeded.

Therefore

Cork, and Galway will be joined by the losers of Laois/Dublin and Tyrone/Monaghan to face one of:

Mayo v Derry
Donegal v Westmeath
Louth v Kildare
Meath v Fermanagh

So lets say for arguement Tyrone and Dubs win it should look like

Kerry v Laois/Qualifier
Dublin v Cork/Qualifier
Sligo v Monaghan/Qualifier - a great chance for someone to have a shot of getting to the final.
Tyrone v Galway/Qualifier

Kerry, Dublin, Cork and Tyrone look the only potential winners at this stage with possibly only Donegal resurrecting their season from the 8 out next weekend.

Typical GAA to bring back a ref such as Collins who I though was diabolical again in the Dubs/Offaly game.

Hidden away since the Ulster Final fiasco of two years ago he is now back in the big time.

Anyone know why there is a tendency to start matches 2/3 minutes before the scheduled time?

Listening to him doing the co-commentary yesterday he really is hard to listen to.

Could not understand how he could get himself "up" for the game after such a disappointing defeat the night before

3,998 empty seats yesterday - what's the story?

Well done to JOM for being elected, getting votes all over the place.

I am not saying he should be replaced in Mayo, or that he should step down but what is likely to happen.

It is probably accepted that a dual accomodation was reached last October when the County Board needed JOM, and he need to the GAA.

The same attention to detail with which he is credited and focus were very obviously missing for the Galway game. That is understandable in the midst of an election.

But now that he will be working in Dublin on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday most weeks, and running clinics in Mayo will he decide to continue, and if so how will his capability to do the big job that is required be affected?