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[The GAAGO option looks like the easiest as I already have HOLA.]

Cheers folks, hopefully get it sorted from that.
The GAAGO option looks like the easiest as I already have HOLA.

GAAGO would be the least stressful. Hola wouldn't be needed for GAAGO though tbrick

You can't use Gaago in Britian or Ireland in order to keep Sky happy, which is ridiculous.

I think that's why you use HOLA, to appear to be from outside both those areas.

EDIT; Ive just re-read and see you are replying to JoG2's comment.

ah right. What an awful balls that Sky deal was / is

[The Cork backroom team brought attention to it last year before the quarter final.]

James O'Donohoe played very deep in one All Ireland final. O'Connor was deployed as an out and out full forward in two. They are not really comparable.

I think you are taking things too much to heart if you are deeming what I'm saying about O'Connor as bashing. I feel he is overrated and I feel that he has a lot to prove yet, he has plenty of time on his hands to do so.

put down that shovel and step away from the hole

You've managed to get things arseways here as the only one digging the holes for themselves are those who are imagining  O'Connor being bashed, God help us if someone called him rubbish in this thread! Valid points have been raised as to his all round game in line with his reputation. That is not bashing.

You are the one running him down.

Failed to score from play in 2 All Ireland finals.

I don't think O'Connor is as good as made out in some quarters.

Do you think he is Mayo's greatest every player?

Do you think he is one of the top 10 forwards in the game right now?

I don't think he contributes enough from open play, I don't think defenders or managers would worry about him as much from open play as some of the other top forwards in the game.

Mayo fans know exactly how good he is from play. If we could spare him inside, he is by far and away our best passer and he would start every game at 11. He is a fantastic tackler, ask Neil Magee. Has has an unbelievable attitude, which explains his quick returns from bad injury, and scored 6 goals, including 2 hatricks the year he only played 89 minutes.

Incidentally none of his hatricks were from frees.

He won YPOTY twice, top scored in the Championship twice and is a current All-Star.

But in Sligo that would be sh*te.

I fail to see how I am running him down. I haven't said he is a bad player or useless. I said I think he has been overrated. I don't have the stats at hand but I don't think his scoring record from play is too hot for a player of his reputation, there was a post a few pages back that seemed to back that up. I don't think he is particularly quick or a particularly good ball winner or able to get scores out of nothing from play. Having an opinion on O'Connor not being a good a player as some allude to is not bashing him. I don't think O'Connor would make the Dublin or Kerry forward lines if I'm being honest. I don't think he is that good a tackler either, he fouls a lot but he gets away with it. The Cork backroom team brought attention to it last year before the quarter final.

They would, wouldn't they 

Jaysus you have some set on him.
Far from being overrated, this thread shows that a lot of people underrate him. But you re judgement is you re judgement and good luck to ye.

I don't have a set on him, I just happen to think he is overrated. Do you think he is one of the top 10 forwards in the game right now?

I think a lot of Mayo people are getting very sensitive of any sort of critisicm of O'Connor.

Do I think you are one of the top 10 broken records in the board? yes

Is Cillian O'Connor even the best player on the current Mayo panel? Keith Higgins? Aidan O'Shea?

Personally, I think Higgins is the best player on that panel.

And I'm not saying O'Connor is not a good player. Of course he is.

In 10 years time O'Connor may be the greatest Mayo player ever, but lets give him a few years first?

He may not be the best player on the team, but it would be hard to argue against him being the most important

[The GAAGO option looks like the easiest as I already have HOLA.]

Cheers folks, hopefully get it sorted from that.
The GAAGO option looks like the easiest as I already have HOLA.

GAAGO would be the least stressful. Hola wouldn't be needed for GAAGO though tbrick

there are ways tbrick

I posted on another thread about streaming Sky through Kodi (using Phoenix) either to a phone / tablet or cast it onto the TV using the likes of a chromecast or a lead. Can be a bit tricky and, like streaming anything there's no guarantee it'll work without any hassle. I tested all the Sky sports channels last night using Kodi and a chromecast and they all worked.

If you wanna go down this route, I'll write out a few instructions to help out

Or, less hassle would be to 'borrow' a sky logon from a friend / neighbour and watch it through Sky Go onto a laptop or desktop

So sad. Thoughts are with them all. Terrible tragedy

Down with Sky

Re watching Sky. I just tested casting Sky Sports through Kodi (using Phoenix ). Worked a treat. Maybe an option

last summer in Spain I ended up buying 2 qf games on Gaa go.  Apart from it being expensive, not working on a Kindle HD (ended up using another tablet), it was fierce stuttery. Was nowhere near an Irish bar showing the game, so better than nothing :-)

Those 3 defeats in 2002/03 must still be hurting.

Just the one where Ray Cosgrove missed the free. Although I still find it amusing how the greatest Armagh side of all time barely pipped one of the weakest Dublin teams in history.

On the subject of the game, I wasn't surprised to see Donegal look a lot stronger without that overrated waster Colm McFadden playing. I still wouldn't be too worried about Donegal's performance from a Dublin perspective, their game last year vs the Dubs was their world cup final. They won't be able to replicate it again so soon.

McFadden had a poor 18 months by his own high standards but I thought he was excellent against Tyrone

Why would Armagh supporters jeer Donegal when their own team was sat back with a packed defense when 10 points down?  Especially to the extent that Donegal wasted 8 minutes flinging the ball about, with no pressure exerted, amongst themselves around their half - back line and midfield!

Not saying either that it's not frustrating (Kerry did it to us for a couple of minutes late in last year's final), but you can't fault a team for playing keep ball when that far ahead.

It was actually Donegal supporters onto their own team to attack and put Armagh to the sword

Really?

Well that's idiotic too.

Game was won. Well won. And Armagh were camped in their own half. Team did the right thing.

I disagree. I'd want my team to keep pushing but there you go.  They played keep ball until some of the Armagh players lost the head and barge in and foul them.  Murphy would dander up to the free, take 90 seconds to hit it.......but here's the important bit.....he put it over!  As I said, frustrating to watch.

are you seriously lamenting about Donegal's tactics when 8/9/10 points up playing on your home pitch?

I'm saying it was frustrating to watch.  Do you enjoy watching a team pass a ball about on the half way line?

I enjoy a team rolling over at home without a whimper even less. your angst should lie squarely at the feet of your own county Mackers

Why would Armagh supporters jeer Donegal when their own team was sat back with a packed defense when 10 points down?  Especially to the extent that Donegal wasted 8 minutes flinging the ball about, with no pressure exerted, amongst themselves around their half - back line and midfield!

Not saying either that it's not frustrating (Kerry did it to us for a couple of minutes late in last year's final), but you can't fault a team for playing keep ball when that far ahead.

It was actually Donegal supporters onto their own team to attack and put Armagh to the sword

Really?

Well that's idiotic too.

Game was won. Well won. And Armagh were camped in their own half. Team did the right thing.

I disagree. I'd want my team to keep pushing but there you go.  They played keep ball until some of the Armagh players lost the head and barge in and foul them.  Murphy would dander up to the free, take 90 seconds to hit it.......but here's the important bit.....he put it over!  As I said, frustrating to watch.

are you seriously lamenting about Donegal's tactics when 8/9/10 points up playing on your home pitch? 

there's maybe 4 teams in the country who wouldn't currently get a tanking by Dublin @ HQ. Play defensive and get ripped in, real blood and thunder stuff.  Get the speedy boys on the ball during the counter. Hand out new motors with fuel cards  players, it'll add an extra 4% to their game

Derry should bring their walls with them.

Best to keep the head down for a few days

I thought the Ulster Championship didn't have turkey shoots?

More mythology

Why do you do it to yourself?  I don't like Big Brother. I wouldn't continuously watch it and then come on here lamenting about it. Do your wellbeing a favour and stay clear of watching the Ulster Championship