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Geezer is no doubt an unlucky manager. From the off Deegan was giving us soft frees, I think Andy bought the first pointed free when really he wasn't fouled.

The game was played in a sporting manner apart from some handbags at half time. Armagh will be back and will fancy an ulster title next year.

Anyhow we are the walking wounded after that so Cork or Galway in the draw would finish us I reckon.

With respect, but that's an awful lot of bollocks fitted into 1 post. I can only presume you watched on the TV while drinking a few pints in a bar.
Soft frees ?? .... i have never in all the games of football i have watched, ever seen a team persistently foul as much as Armagh did in the first half. FFS, Deegans hand was nearly up indicating an advantage for Mayo for half the bloody first half. If he had blown the whistle every time, then there would have been no play at all. Not a single repercussion for all this .... not even a tick. Cynical, dirty fouls. But good luck to them, they got it away with it  ... but don't come out with a complete BS of a 1st half analysis saying Mayo got soft frees

And in the second half .... what were the 2 Armagh frees near the end of the game for  - both of them close to the McHale Road sideline, one of which O'Neill kicked wide ? No more or less soft than the frees that Cillian kicked. Or are we only allowed to highlight a debatable free if it is scored ?

It must be changed this year because a guy in work told me he has 3 tickets and needs a 4th.

And extended family gang of 15 of us travelling.
Only have 2 tickets between us.
Although to be fair, we 'only' want 6!!

Given that there will be between 5-10,000 of us Mayo folk travelling out for this (there seems to be way way more than any other trip i can recall), then could we arrange for say 6pm on the Saturday evening in Times Square for a good aul blast out of 'Green and Red of Mayo' ?!!

Dublin only raised 56K last year in fundraising. ie Dubs are stingy

Not necessarily that they are stingy.
More that they don't need to do any fundraising given they don't have travel expenses worth worrying about plus no debt from developing a centre of excellence or
a proper ground.

Strangely, i don't think that's necessarily a good thing.
Putting your had in your pocket generates a stronger emotional connection.

[Equally there is no strongest team in reserve for a special gig v the Dubs.]

Mayo are 7/2 v the Dubs the next day
Nice price if the Dubs don't turn up again

A very nice price. Apart from Dublin no other side has performed consistently well in Croke park like Mayo have over the last number of years. Horan will likely pick his strongest and most experienced team for this game as he will know a win will likely stop Dublin from reaching the final which would give Mayo a much better chance to win a first national title for 18 years.

I just can't imagine James Horan is even remotely interested in winning the league.
Equally there is no strongest team in reserve for a special gig v the Dubs. I expect another bit of development in this game and see how it goes. In his first term, league games V Dublin, Horan played it fast and loose and so did the Dubs.
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True.
But i'm giddy with excitement at the prospect of Ryan O'Donoghue eventually being given a game and ripping up defences with his pace !!

Irish will be asked to erect hard border by EU. Irish will bend over yet again and erect border.

Their backs must be sore. They've been bending over for decades to either the EU or the Brits. And that lot that's there at the moment especially, a shower of spineless b**tards.

Take your tablets and go back to your cave.
The world of International relations is not one of your strong points.

Late to this thread....
So even if EU & Brits wanted a hard border and Irish government caved in, where, in economies on both sides of the border with near full employment, would you get the estimated 5,000 people who would be needed to man all border posts while knowing that the majority on both sides of the border don't want it and also knowing that there would be a lunatic fringe who would would do anything from take pot shots to bomb the border crossings ??

The link has a few characters wrong at the start

The Midland counties should be relying on their larger towns to produce players, however
Portlaoise only has one GAA club for 22000 people
Mullingar for 20000+ people has 2 football and one hurling
Athlone for 21k + has one hurling and two football

Where is the urban development plan in those towns? Non existent!

For Athlone, you are only referring to east of the Shannon there. On the west of the Shannon, you have a large chunk of the catchment areas of Clann na Gael and even a piece of St Brigids....... so 4 football clubs (including Garrycastle and Athlone), 3 of whom have competed on All-Ireland club final day while the 4th has the most Westmeath senior championships. And strangely, people still consider it a soccer town because of the history of Athlone Town ... despite them usually getting about 2 men and a dog at their home games.
Add to that in Westmeath, you have Castledaly as a senior club who are only a few miles outside the town boundary and Tubberclair & Caulry (both currently intermediate and occasionally senior) also about 4/5 miles out.

If the measure of most isolated club was by distance from the clubs main pitch to nearest neighbours pitch.....

Then, Belmullet GAA pitch to their nearest neighbours - Kiltane - at 23.3 km is, i reckon, the furthest.

Louisburgh to Westport a close tied second at 22.3 km along with Goleen in West Cork to Muintir Mhaire

Glencolmcille to Glencar 'just' 15.9km.

And while Aran Islands would obviously take the longest to get to (do Inishturk and Clare Island have active clubs?), it is ~15-16km as 'the crow flies' to Liscannor.

To get various pitch locations, then use https://www.gaapitchfinder.com/
Then use google maps to measure the distance between locations

3-17 from play.
That's what the Mayo ladies full forward line scored in a must-win game v Cavan the week after the walkout.
I think that was the achievement of the summer.

As we stood up to leave, he had one more question. If I wasn't the free-taker this year, how would I feel about it? I said I wouldn't mind if I was the free-taker or not, so long as the best free-taker on the team was the person taking them. That person, I told him, was standing in front of him. And, with that, I turned and walked away.

I'm really surprised they didn't pull this bit from the book.
It puts the free-taking episode in the Connacht Final into fuller context.

Pace yourself, Pricey.
The secret to a good wum account is subtlety.
You need to put in the hours before you get the pay-off.

I've hit the nail on the head and you know it! The only thing that's not subtle is the anti women/feminist views that are clouding people's judgement on this.

I don't think it is anti anything to ask what peoples perception of the Tierney interview would have been if that had been a bloke that was talking and with an emotion loaded voice.
The reaction / thought process for most would have been the along the lines of "FFS, will you toughen up" (with many acknowledging that the perhaps the managers approach left a bit to be desired).

Shouldn't feminism demand that we apply the same standards of judgement when its a girl ??

The reaction to Roy Keane shows that the same standards aren't being applied!!

Yes, Roy Keanes man mgmt methods leave a bit to be desired.
Equally, the commentary on Harry Arter was typically along the lines of he needs to grow up / toughen up

You can apply the same generalizations to Leahy and Tierney

Pace yourself, Pricey.
The secret to a good wum account is subtlety.
You need to put in the hours before you get the pay-off.

I've hit the nail on the head and you know it! The only thing that's not subtle is the anti women/feminist views that are clouding people's judgement on this.

I don't think it is anti anything to ask what peoples perception of the Tierney interview would have been if that had been a bloke that was talking and with an emotion loaded voice.
The reaction / thought process for most would have been the along the lines of "FFS, will you toughen up" (with many acknowledging that the perhaps the managers approach left a bit to be desired).

Shouldn't feminism demand that we apply the same standards of judgement when its a girl ??

If i gave my kids a choice to go on a day trip tomorrow (or overnight if needed depending on distance) to any place in the country (and they have experienced a lot of the interesting things and experiences the country has to offer) .... it would be Lough Key forest park in Boyle for Zippit and Boda Burg

No point complaining about tickets! I everybody has a chance to get a season ticket at the start of the year!

What ?!
There is a waiting list for a waiting list to get a season ticket in Mayo.

• Parents have started writing them into their wills.
• There was 2 season tickets included in a dowry by the parents of a girl from Belmullet when she got married last summer.
• The Novena in Knock this year is listing the most popular special intention as a a hope to one day be allowed buy a season ticket
• The only reason Enda Kenny resigned as Taoiseach is that he wouldn't have been able to make enough games and get his ticket 'stamped' with all the Brexit negotiations that he knew were on the horizon.
• There was a motion at last years Mayo GAA AGM to give the Rossie back Ballagh if the 2 tickets that Syrefus holds could be re-issued (he only bought years ago to deliberately not use them thus reducing Mayo crowd at big games by 2). It only lost by 1 vote once after Andy Moran said he would give it 1 more year.
• The only reason the Pope agreed to travel to Knock.....

..... ah, you get the picture.

At the same time nothing. Kildare were drew out first and therefore have home advantage as the rules state. If the GAA had an issue with the Kildare county ground regarding holding matches they should have made it known long prior to now.

Yep, if it was Kildare v Leitrim, the game would be on in Newbridge, no questions asked. The GAA were giving Mayo an advantage because they are so well supported. Similar to the Wicklow v any other Leinster team bar the Dubs would have gone ahead in Aughrim.

This should all be set out by the GAA prior to the draw, instead of hoping for the best. Likewise the super 8 should be set in stone.

And if Mayo have an advantage then it is merely as a by-product of the GAA striving to maximise revenue to invest back into coaching and infrastructure. Trying to maximise money is not a bad thing given where we know it ends up. All that needs to happen is a small change in mindset of trying to strike the balance between what is good for the game versus what is good for the players and supporters. Some balance also needed in the media & public when debating all this..... i don't recall seeing anyone ranting and raving about the hurling round robin format being elitist (Brolly and co) compared to the commentary on the Super 8's.