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2 pens is a 6 point swing. Instead of been 5 down it would be 1 up. That changes the course of the game.

Game swung on 2 penalty decisions after half time.  A stonewall pen to Tourlestrane not given and a dubious one given to PP. Rossfan 4 points for Tour forwards henry was plsying wing forward. Its a recurring theme at this stage Sligo teams getting shafted by referees.

2 more goals concede already.

I'm with Sligonian on this one. I cannot understand the Paul Taylor love-in around the county and amongst some of the Sligo posters on here. He is a nice and popular guy around the county but as the County senior manager he should be judged on results and performances. Results are 9 defeats from 9 games. They won their first challenge game against Limerick lately. Some of the performancea have been atrocious especially defensively conceding 5-16 against Louth and 15 goals during the league. He is out of his depth unfortunately, tactically naive and selecting players out of position. He should never have talen the job. A few years managing Harps or another club senior club team should be the minimum requirement for stepping up to manage a county side.
Young players will not commit and make the sacrifices if a young inexperienced manager is their leader. They require some structure, experience provided by a manager with pedigree rather than rhe cheap alternative.

Did anyone really believe that the decision would go Sligos way.

Ballintubber in a bit of bother here , although as I type tourlestrane have a man sent off . Very low scoring game 0-5 to 0-4 in favour of tubber.

And what a disgraceful decision it was too. Turned the game back in Ballintubber favour.

How? Ballintubber were winning by a point when he was sent off and won by a point in the end

They basically kept possesion for the majoriry of the remaining 15 minutes rather than try and kick on and try and play a bit.

That's a spectacular response Mano

Thanks

Ballintubber in a bit of bother here , although as I type tourlestrane have a man sent off . Very low scoring game 0-5 to 0-4 in favour of tubber.

And what a disgraceful decision it was too. Turned the game back in Ballintubber favour.

How? Ballintubber were winning by a point when he was sent off and won by a point in the end

They basically kept possesion for the majoriry of the remaining 15 minutes rather than try and kick on and try and play a bit.

Big opportunity missed. Unfortunately started without a few players (L Gaughan and Surlis) and then G Gaughan got injured early on. Ballintubber are very ordinary. How on earth did they beat Castlebar? Diarmuid OConnor carried them over the line. Cillian was anonymous from play,  McIntyre won that duel easily. Harsh sending off helped them keep possesion of the ball for large portions of the last 15 minutes and bore to death those in attendance.

Ballintubber in a bit of bother here , although as I type tourlestrane have a man sent off . Very low scoring game 0-5 to 0-4 in favour of tubber.

And what a disgraceful decision it was too. Turned the game back in Ballintubber favour.

Even if we take it that the lads playing now aren't seeing the benefit of that money surely you have to see that the current crop of Elite players were taking advantage of the money pumped into the grass roots in the last 10 years!!!

That's exactly it, they weren't!

Every lad would be coached by parents during their club careers. Then when they go onto Dublin development panels, they'd be coached by unpaid ex Dubs players.

While there's the odd exception, the vast majority of the paid coaches are young people, with little or no experience. They wouldn't be let near the senior teams or better underage teams. Most of their time is spent going to National Schools giving PE classes to primary school children and encouraging them to join the club where the parents take over. They'll run classes "train the trainer" type for the volunteer parents have little/no experience to teach them the basic skills and how to teach the basic skills. Nothing about tactics, etc. The parents with senior playing experience or who have coached for a while would tend not to go with those, as they'd know more than the young paid coach.

Yes these young coaches who have probably gone through a rigorous selection programme which would demand a lifetime in the GAA and a University education then upon obtaining the role they are delivering the the best funded coaching programme the sport has ever seen!!

I was in Dublin 2006 and Enda McNulty was the Coaching officer for Ballyboden and they had 2 at that stage for one club. . . You can't tell me that the younger lads on the Dublin team have not been receiving the benefit from it it's crazy to suggest otherwise!!

Well I'm telling you, its the truth.

My son played for 5 years and had two sessions with a GPO. Both in the same week after the two parents over the team had a row and both walked away. My nephew has played for 7 years and has never had a session from a GPO. His team has two parents who both played senior for our club, as would be reasonably common throughout most clubs.

How many Enda McNultys do you think there are? 50 spread across the Dublin clubs? Like think about it, who are they and where do they go? On a salary somewhere in the mid 20s EUR? About 3 or 4 years ago I remember hearing there were 4 ex-county players coaching as GPOs in Dublin. I don't know the current number, but I'd find it hard to believe its much different. Anyone any good at it will move into something else where they can make a career within a very short time.

I know the one player from my club that's on the senior panel never got a single training session from a paid coach while underage. I'd say that's more common than not. The Mun lads, of which there are lots, would be the same. I'd say Crokes and Boden lads might be the only exception and even then I'd say there were better ex-player coaches doing most of the training and all for nothing .

The GPOs predominantly coach weaker children. That is a fact, and that's the whole point of the GPOs. Saying funds given per player playing is a complete nonsense. It's funds per child not playing that is the point of it. And the lads that need the extra persuading are usually the lads who haven't got the whole heap of natural ability or natural eagerness. Maybe you'll pick up the odd swan, but very few I'd wager.

Thats not what i witnessed when i lived in Dublin and was involved with a club at nursery level in up and coming West Dublin club. The GPO would be in the schools every week and would take a session with nursery once a month and give instructions to the mentors and other volunteers. The club encouraged its members to attend GAA courses. In 2 years i attended 3 courses. It was given by 3 different GPO's, one was a current Leitrim footballer, another by Johnny Coopers brother and the GPO of the club. To say GPO dont get involved with training of young players is false. They mentor all the club volunteers in drills and preparation and get involved in training themselves. Difference in Sligo is night and day. Only 2 GPO between all Sligo clubs.

I would have thought surviving a division that Derry couldn't would have been considered an achievement for a county like Sligo.

Galway are way ahead of alot of counties including Sligo - Galway finished top of Div 1 and gave Dublin a fair rattle in the final - they are the first team in the Super 8 - Sligo where never going to beat Galway so does it really matter whether its by 4 points or 20 points - Sligo would need to have had their eye on progressing through the qualifiers against teams at their level.

I think there is a deeper problem than the manager in Sligo if the fans are wishing their team are defeated!

I agree there are many issues with Sligo football and the Sligo senior management in one of them. Offaly, Wexford, Westmeath were also in the division. Derry were missing their Slaughneil players for the duration of the league and are not the force they were a few years ago.

Any manager who will not answer phone calls from the under 20 management in the weeks leading up to the under 20 campaign does not care about Sligo football. We had a good under 20 team this year but 3 of them couldn't play as they played the London game. The u20 goalkeeper was sub goalkeeper for seniors and wasn't released.

It was the manner of the defeat that disappointed Sligo supporters. The lack of passion, fitness from the players, naivety of the management, lack of a game plan.

[Most want Corey gone s]

General sense of apathy in Sligo at the minute. We are county with very few fanatics who live and breed Sligo football.

Most want Corey gone so a win comes with his tenure getting a boost. I still want us to win. This younger crop need more big game experience.

For both teams this could be the draw after - winners of Leitrim v Louth then play Laois to get to super 8s. 

Is this not his first year in the job?

Yeah seems harsh - what has he done wrong?

4-21 to 1-12
Surviving division 3 by skin of teeth
Refusing to allow the under 20's in the squad play with their age group.
Refusing to communicate with under 20 management.
Revolving door of backroom team.

Time to get a local back in charge who cares about the future direction of Sligo football and not the short term.

On what planet should a team at Armagh’s level be overlooking Sligo at Marky Park? It’s definitey not this one.

Presumably one where Sligo's home pitch is not referred to as "Marky Park"

Its Markievicz Park not Marky Park. You don't have to be from Connacht to know that

Kevin Walsh doesn't have a clue.

Ros up a 1pt, we had goal disallowed and hit post to go 9 up, hit loads of wides, need to be more accurate second half but if we had carrabine, o Connor and gaughan we would of destroyed this roscommon team , Red og with 2-1 for us

Sligo are utterly pathetic. The problem is so are we on the evidence of that half. One of the worst halves of football I've seen in a long time. They're all young lads but either team is going to get well beaten next weekend, the amount of wides and basic errors in perfect conditions is something to behold.

Also, we're missing at least three of our best players from this group too so whatever about your loses, we have just as many.

Reality is both teams are missing numerous players because of unavailability, injury and Leaving Cert. Sligo missing 4 due to senior and 3 other starters due to Leaving Cert. Im sure Ross are similarly affected. Stronger counties will have better replacements. A once good competition has been destroyed by GAA officialdom.

Well it didn't help that Cake put three of his best players on the bench. Once Ruane and Murphy were brought on we were a far better side. Sligo got to 2-01 and despite kicking away something in the region of fifteen points didn't score for about 30 minutes in the match.

Still not good enough to bother Galway without a truly special performance, though.

I'm sure he had a reason for putting them on the bench. 3 Sligo lads, one was on the bench and 2 others not in the 24 for missing training last weekend.