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As my suicidal teen daughter left for school this morning she said "Shit. I forgot to take my medicine this morning".

I said, "Is if for your face?"

She said, "Its for my low self-esteem dad"

I said. "....your not taking anything for your face?"

The Greeks just passed their bill for the latest tranche of money and austerity by 4 votes

It was 17 votes as far as I read?

The last member of the 1936 AI winning panel passed away.

Funeral arrangements:

Tuesday, from Quinn's of Glasthule to St Joseph's Church, Glasthule, arriving at 6pm. Funeral Wednesday after 11am Mass to Shanganagh Cemetery. House private. No flowers please

"Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam dílis"

http://www.mayonews.ie/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5572&Itemid=81




Here is a podcast interview from 2008


http://chalkandcheese.podomatic.com/

It'd be funny if the joke was'nt on us for electing the likes of him.

We didn't, they did though. System is wrong.

I agree Dillon and Moran were poor on Sunday

I don't know what game ye lads were watching. Moran was involved in most of our scores in the 2nd half and won a huge amount of dirty ball throughout the game. Dillon's shooting wasn't great but otherwise he had a good game.

Thank God you're not a selector.

im sure dublin were the first ones to bring it to the table alright..........how lazy and inept is that argument

I'm just keeping with the theme of the thread that's all...

Agreed. Hate to see it from anyone including the Dubs

I don't want to be sounding too controversial but I'm sure the majority of people on this board would agree that this chiding the opposition was started and brought into the GAA by the Dubs.

It's a bit rich for a Dub to come on now and highlight the opposition doing it. You wouldn't see this carry on in Connaught!

It may have not been as bad if Dillon had calmed everybody with his first free which was relatively easy.

James Horan referred to this alright on the SG but didn't go into too much detail. I think the plan B was for the players to sort it among themselves, plan C was for the goalie to come up. Plan C worked! We need a new plan A though.

I think Dillion made the same error in the county final  from a 20 yard free.

Do freeman or doherty take frees at club level? Its a simple enough problem to fix, we need someone for the close in frees from the left and the right. The goalie is our obvious freetaker for the far out ones and for the 50's.

Christ thats a poor Galway team. Mayo by 5 or 6. Could be even more painful than that for Galway and we could open the floodgates altogether and win by 10 to 15.

My prediction last week was right. The 2 O'Shea's should be very proud of their performances today and Ronan Mac played well also when he came on.

Our backs were very good also.

The conditions didn't suit some of our forwards but we never looked in danger of loosing this game as we dominated all over the field.

Hopefully we will have the momentum and mindset now to go to Hyde and beat what will be an organized and very physical Roscommon side. I think we have the better forwards to win it.

The first half was dominated by both back lines and this added to the poor conditions made for poor viewing. We upped our game in the 2nd half and that 2nd half was as good as any match played so far this year.

Christ thats a poor Galway team. Mayo by 5 or 6. Could be even more painful than that for Galway and we could open the floodgates altogether and win by 10 to 15.

[We would be aswell to start the O'Shea brothers in mid-field the next day, trevor mort at CHF,]

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Mayo complacent

Nothing to do with complacency. It's the players and skill set that was wrong. JH needs to drop at 7 to 10 players from that starting team / panel. In fact a team that goes out and disgraces the jersey the way they did on Sunday all need to be dropped aka the Mayo team v Sligo (and lost) in the 70's. However that is too much a nuclear option in the modern era.

Its probably too late in the day to recruit a whole new panel so he might just have to do a Mick O'Dwyer this year and leave the 7 to 10 poor players on the bench for the rest of the season.

Bottom line is we still don't have a championship standard full back line, midfield, CHB, CHF or full forward.

We would be aswell to start the O'Shea brothers in mid-field the next day, trevor mort at CHF, and howley at full back and bring back Geraghty. I would start Gardiner and McLoughlin also. Luck enough that panels are so big these days.

Happy enough with that team and some of the changes were as I predicted after the London game. Pity Howley is injured. Who will take the frees?

Armstrong out. The hammer.

He just got his Casino Planning Permission....

Crazy decision.

I wonder who made it? Mickey Moran mentioned on the SG that it was decided to play against the wind in the first half.... I think maybe the players overruled him. May not have made a difference to the outcome but I would think that if you are the underdog you take whatever advantage is going when you get it.

Couldn't believe that Leitrim opted to play against the wind in the first half? That was a really bad decision.