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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfdxS0CvjC0

This is the year to take down the Brolly.

C'mon Mayo!

Cannot wait to hear him after we bate ye into dust. He'll have to be careful not to do himself an injury with all the uncontrollable laughing.

Kildare: Leinster semi-finalists, All-Ireland quarter-finals.
Anything above that, be it beating Dublin or getting to the AI semis, would be a good season.

I think that's about right although I think we might exit the qualifiers early this year. Regardless I'd still be happy as this year can only be seen as a transition year. Whether that will appease those with unrealistic expectations remains to be seen.

I don't think there are that many around with unrealistic expectations to be fair. That boat sailed in 2010/2011 when we were not that far away.

Think you're right about the majority but there's a very vocal minority that go nuts even after league defeats. Shudder to think how they'll react to defeats this summer.

I hear you but that lunatic fringe seems to exist everywhere these days. Overall I believe we're no more demanding in Kildare than in most other counties. The current senior football management wouldn't have lasted this long if the Kildare following were as demanding as we're often portrayed.

I think ye should have dumped McGeeney  last year.

A Leinster U21 title, league semi and a bunch of senior-ready youngsters say you are very wrong.

Wouldn't you think that floot would have more to write about in Mid May with the football Championships really getting underway in 4 days time?
Picking imaginary teams is for filling space in November or December FFS 

Martin just knows the championship doesn't really start until we enter

I see Martin Breheny in the Indo has selected the Farney men's mighty forward Conor McGuiness for his mid-term All-Star team.

Must have some of that famous Jimmy blood in his veins 

What sort of team do Kerry have this year? Last year's team were the idiot savants of the championship, possibly the most amazing (for the wrong reasons) run to the AISFs I've ever seen. Even a young Tipp team should account for them unless there's some exceptional new additions to the panel.

Very good muppet . I think, so long as Ryle 'ovalball-head' Nugent is the head of sports at RTE, then the GAA will be associated with the gombeen man.

How much would RTE have to offer to get your sleek and futuristic head on the tv?

[Connaught]

Eamon O Hara - Man of Connaught

I knew he wore black and was quite a tanned man but I thought it was just a coincidence.

Delete that disgusting post Jinxy 

You sneer at Hanley's playing for Mayo, because of your own prejudice, and yet you have a problem with Jinxy?

It's not sneering to state a fact, Mupp.

[Would the Rossies feck off and leave Galway alone until after Sunday]

Would the Rossies feck off and leave Galway alone until after Sunday.

If we win, or especially if they win, you can talk of their terminal decline to your hearts content.

Syferus as in one poster! and don't get him started on Kerrys decline.

Sure we're all in decline apart from Roscommon according to Syferus.

Syfeen will get progressively more deluded building up to a crescendo on the Saturday evening before the Connacht semi final
And then silence

Only in your dreams. If last year's QF can't knock me back nothing will

[Would the Rossies feck off and leave Galway alone until after Sunday]

Would the Rossies feck off and leave Galway alone until after Sunday.

If we win, or especially if they win, you can talk of their terminal decline to your hearts content.

Syferus as in one poster! and don't get him started on Kerrys decline.

Sure we're all in decline apart from Roscommon according to Syferus.

The quaility of your posts are anyways 

Ah, sure of course Mayo would opt for the Aghamore man when the chips are down. Freeman has a big opportunity in front of him with Finian Hanley on the blocks.

You'd swear Galway were a team of Goochs who just happened to take too many sleeping tablets. Counties fortunes can shift on a dime - look at Mayo's 2011 championship - but I have to imagine even a lot of Galway supporters groan at this notion that they have so much potential that a return to the top table is little less than a done deal. One step at a time, Martin.

Christ, all he said was that Galway will soon awaken from their slumber. Probably something to do with the 2 u-21 titles in 3 years. Nowhere did he say that they were set for an immediate return to the 'top table'.

Of all teams in the country that should be wary about their prospects after two U21 AIs it's Galway. Carney is just feeding into the cliched perception that a team that was once good will always naturally return, as it it's somehow anointed by God. Galway have been in this 'slumber' for more than a decade and for at least the last five years their record is atrocious. That isn't under-performance, it's near-terminal decline.

Hardly. Not that long ago Galway once went 8 years without even a Connacht title. They only even reached one provincial final in all that time. 3 years after that they won the All-Ireland. Even during the last 10 years when we've been in a dismal slump, Galway have won 3 Connacht titles and been in another 3 finals (losing all 3 by a single point). So things have been much worse at times before.

These things can turn around quickly if the right conditions exist. I don't doubt for a second that we will be back as a serious contender again. When? I don't exactly know. It requires the right amount of talent coming through at roughly the same time, patience to allow that talent to mature and the right managment. A few talented veterans also helps. Something we don't have as much of now as we did back in the mid-90's.

Galway's sum total of victories on Irish soil since June 28th 2008?

Us. Last year. That's it. Nothing else, no one else.

You haven't won a single qualifier in nine years, losing to everyone from Wexford to Donegal to Westmeath to Antrim.

Like I said before fortunes can change in an instant in football but for people to try and categorise that sort of record as a 'slumber' is like saying Ariel Sharon is just having a bit of a kip.

Galway became a below average team. Welcome to the club.

The Carr drove us well for a while. Get's more flak than he deserves.

I always think it's a measure of how far Roscommon have fallen that they look back on Tommy Carr's time in charge as some sort of golden era.

In 2003 we had a good run in the qualifiers but that was more about the brilliance of Frankie Dolan than Carr. Before Carr took over we were established div 1 side by the time he left we were stuggling to win games in the lower leagues (still are)

Mayo and Galway had shalacked us in 2002 (a first in itself because we met Mayo in that, ahem, great AIQ run of their's) so it's not like he was taking on a team brimming with confidence. Carr's reign gets turfed in with Maughan's but at least Carr put some shape on us in the first two years of his term. Very few managers' terms end in glory and we'd be better served to remember that when judging our own.

You'd swear Galway were a team of Goochs who just happened to take too many sleeping tablets. Counties fortunes can shift on a dime - look at Mayo's 2011 championship - but I have to imagine even a lot of Galway supporters groan at this notion that they have so much potential that a return to the top table is little less than a done deal. One step at a time, Martin.

Christ, all he said was that Galway will soon awaken from their slumber. Probably something to do with the 2 u-21 titles in 3 years. Nowhere did he say that they were set for an immediate return to the 'top table'.

Of all teams in the country that should be wary about their prospects after two U21 AIs it's Galway. Carney is just feeding into the cliched perception that a team that was once good will always naturally return, as it it's somehow anointed by God. Galway have been in this 'slumber' for more than a decade and for at least the last five years their record is atrocious. That isn't under-performance, it's near-terminal decline. If they weren't wearing maroon jerseys the media would be rubbishing them at every chance they got, be it right or wrong.

Perception is king in the GAA media.

The Carr drove us well for a while. Get's more flak than he deserves.

I always think it's a measure of how far Roscommon have fallen that they look back on Tommy Carr's time in charge as some sort of golden era.

As I recall Mayo have never once rampaged through the entire Qualifiers. I'm sure we can put in a good word for you with Tom..

2002, actually. Winning Connacht a few times in the other years, the odd All-Ireland final. You know yourself - or at least, you might have read about it in the papers.

Was it not from R2?