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How will the Michaela verdict affect Tyrone? Was heartbreaking news

Charlie Harrison in his interview i read on Hoganstand, comes across as fairly confident. He has no reason not to be i suppose, they disposed of Galway in their patch and their ff line looked dynamic at times. Charlies says, they have never been in better shape and seems to put that in the context without saying it as such , that they will match Mayo for conditioning, i'd have my doubts about that but we'll have to wait and see on that count.

Will there be more Sligo support than Mayo? I'm not sure how to gauge how many Mayo will show up, the Hyde is not that mouthwatering a venue for a match v Sligo , with the minors there too (an extra 1k) id guess maybe 8-10 k Mayo, conservative estimate maybe. Could be near full house, if the Rossies turn up in big numbers.

With the media interest in Conorgate id expect a late scramble for tickets from Mayo people, half out of interest, half to express their support to the team who are under significant scrutiny and pressure from this.

[Harte was in form in late league and got no game time at all v Leitrim and he didn t go away crying like a baby. A bigger loss if we were to progress imo.]

sligoman2 where have I shown overconfidwnce? Mayo are in disarray with Mortimer hogging the headlines.

I wouldn t bother 'deelin. It s how they like to think we think.

If anything there s fair amount of smugness among local Sligos about this one. They re not quite rubbing their hands together but........

As regards Conorgate. Chokin the little fecker wants with family statements and shite. Why should Horan have to explain every selection to him?

Harte was in form in late league and got no game time at all v Leitrim and he didn t go away crying like a baby. A bigger loss if we were to progress imo.

I liked Harte a lot as a player, he was showing good form but I wouldnt be totally happy with his match fitness during the NFL so I thnk it premature to suggest he should start based on form. As a matter of interest who would you replace if Harte started against Leitrim? Big loss to Ballina too.

Petulant effort by the Mort, reminds me of Adrian Sweeney I think it was refusing to get on the bus for Donegal cos he wasn't in the first fifteen, fair play to McGuiness he put an end to all that nonsense. When all this dies down he's going to regret it, chances are if things weren't going well on Sunday he'd be thrown in, Horan like any other manager would soon forget any personal differences if the game was going away from him. It wasn't like he was dropped off the panel and it's 20 man game now, he'd have gotten his chance.

I dont buy into this personal differences craic, it sounds like Mort just wanted to be mollycoddled.

So, Horan didnt ring him when he was out for a year with his knee - so what?
He had just taken the job and had bigger fish to fry than worry about players that wouldn't even be involved last year.
He had a look at Mort when he was good and ready and brought him in.

Also Mort would have definitely have started the next game if he showed constancy of current form but he wasnt happy with that and instead of being patient he chose to be self centred.

That's now 2 big blows for Mayo with 2 experienced players not available which reduces their options from the bench. I was surprised that Harte and Mortimer were not starting and would be much more fearful of Mayo if their full forward line was Mortimer, Moran, Freeman. Game plan is obviously a running game and Sligo middle 8 will have to stop Higgins and Mayo half backs by foul or fair means to. Taylor will add more mobility to Sligo midfield and played well when brought on against Galway. He can be very inconsistent though so hopefully this will be one of his good days.

Yeah that Sligo midfield will be a big test for Mayo on Sunday as they are both good fielders on their day.
The Leitrim midfield were non-existent if Mayo are honest about it, although Moran still had a good day.

Will it be Keegan or Boyle to take on Costello? That will be an interesting match-up.

he must feel very strongly for the Family to come out with a statement like that .
Mayo football was obviously a huge part of his life and its hit him very hard being squeezed out of for what look like reasons other than his own ability . IE different style of play, Horan looking for bulkier players etc
i don't think there is a conspiracy but i think dropping  ronaldson is a huge Mistake as well. it means we have dropped our 2 most skillful players . does not bode well for attractive football.
Maybe a recall for Ronaldson would help lift suspicion

jeez rosnarun could you give it a rest.Are you a spokesman for the Mortimer family?Conor Mort left the panel of his own free will and to say the dropping of Ronaldson is a huge mistake is total rubbish.A managers job is to manage and a players job is to play-end of story

Not only do you know nothing about county football Ros, you know nothing about club football either.

The statement about Shrue players... what a joke.
Shrule are at the bottom of their champiohsnip table beaten by Garymore a weakened Knockmore side.

Horan brought back Geraghty last year, and if he proved anything it was that he is not good enough any more.
Conroy never had it and Senior inter county level.
Ronaldson is simply too small. He is barely a 2 inches over 5ft.
Horan coaxed back Trevor and he had one of his best ever seasons.

The statement is pathetic  really, and highly, highly embarrassing.

Anyone have an idea, where I can watch this game online. Im in New Zealand and would hate to miss it

If TV3 steam it live it shouldn't be too hard to watch it on the web. You'll have to clone an Irish IP address but that'll be easy.A quick google search will throw a heap of sites that do this.

Can you do the same cloning of an IP to watch RTE playa ?

What's Aidan O Se's fitness like? Will he see a few minutes I wonder?

Hartey is a huge loss, and was always a guy you could bring in to midfield or the half forwards.

The problem with the whole "M" saga is that its putting huge pressure on Doc and Varley and the rest of the team.

It will either make Mayo or break Mayo. It all depends on the reaction of the players.
My blood is boiling about the whole thing, so the players must be leapin.

EDIT:
I also see that Sligo have named Tony Taylor midfield, adding a touch of experience to the middle

The word on the street is that Patrick Harte is out with a broken foot. That would rule him out for the Summer. He s had a ridiculous run of injuries.

The ould bench is thinning out.

Metatarsal, broken jumping out of his jeep.

[Alright so nothing like an inter-county footballer then]

Alright so nothing like an inter-county footballer then, I like the patronising angle you take too. Must me small man syndrome.

Closer than you think, or will ever know

Read the thread I already quoted exactly what he is getting, I know of no inter-county footballer that has his mortgage paid for by his CB.

By the way I think what the Sports Council does for Paddy Barnes is brilliant.

Wasnt there a few Armagh players "full-time footballers" in the past ?

It's very easy to sit behind a keyboard and judge players performances, life choices etc but if you had a chance to play inter-county football for your own county would you be prepared to sacrifice up to 20 hours a week to training and matches while trying to maintain a job. Completely abandon your social life and probably your family as well. Expose yourself and your decisions to the instinctive reactions given without thought to anyone who possesses a keyboard and the vitriol that often comes with those reactions. Expose yourself to TV pundits who will ridicule the game you love and your footballing imperfections and your human flaws as if they were Teles themselves, expose yourself to journalists who are more interested in the story rather than the game and who fuel the innuendo and the myths. Write down everything you eat, give up the food you love and replace it instead with a banana and a protein shake, make yourself available for random drug testing, make yourself available for your clubs benefit nights, your county's benefits night, your local charity benefit night. Miss your best friends wedding, your brothers stag, a dozen christenings and communions, a confirmation, a 21st, your favourite bands festival gig and countless work functions.

Could you make those sacrifices and dozens more, all just for a poxy grant and the dream, that for more than 90% won't come true, of a Celtic Cross?

20 years ago I would loved the opportunity but in today's age and knowing what I know I couldn't....

You do 80% of that at club level anyway 

Really so what have eaten this week?

How long do you have?
Fruit, Porridge, Pasta, Grains, lots of water, Jaffas before training, the odd coffee, balanced dinners, protein (whey) shakes, recovery shakes. Try and keep some balance and change it up now and then.
No red meat, alcohol, hydrated fats, or extra salt. I crave sugar a lot though so have to fight that.

What gym sessions did you and what were the exercises, what reps and load, did you measure your effort, did you put on any more millimeters of fat?

Only twice a week at the minute, sometimes 3 times if we have no game but the 3rd session would mostly be stretching. 
The programme is too complicated to explain to someone like you, but it mostly core and glute work with some light power movements. Moving onto a new program fairly soon.

You should have it all recorded so it will only take a couple of minutes for us to see.

No its not recorded, I dont need a diary as we are often assessed and screened before we move on.
Dont need to take diet notes either as different things work for different people.