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That Croatian defender Vida is in trouble again
after getting a warning yesterday a second video has emerged

[Galway's first half horror show]

Good to see the Rossies beat Armagh and make the super 8's. A loss here isn't the end of the world for either team as there's a decent chance that Roscommon, Tyrone & Donegal will win one game each given the way the fixtures gave worked out.

I'd like to think Roscommon's forwards have learnt from the Galway game but then again Tyrone will have learnt from Galway's first half horror show. I expect Tyrone to win but it won't be a shock if they don't. I just don't know where this Tyrone team are at.

Let's be honest the only horror show in that game was Roscommon shooting or should i say shot selection in the 2nd half. Was nothing horror about Galway's 1st half, Roscommon just played the better football in that half and deserved their lead.

Roscommon shot selection was truly awful for Galway game
They are in bonus territory now. can go out on Sat, enjoy the game hopefully win

I think Croatia are too nervous. England have a great chance.

England have greater confidence in their identity as a nation which belongs among the world's elite.

I hear there is a party at Charlie Tully's house if England win 
free booze

Can't believe England have had such a handy route to a semi and possibly final - had they played Brazil or France they would have got tanked, They have beaten Tunisia, Panama, Sewden and are in the World Cup semi!  Had Ireland that set of fixtures they could end up in the WC semi!

it happens
No one gave Italy a hope in 2006
in 1986 France had amazing team but fell in semi final

Croatia right back Sime Vrsaljko(Athletico Madrid) is out of semi final

Croatia Goalkeeper and Mario Mandzukic still getting treatment

Fair play to Kildare for wanting to host the match

This health n safety lark is a cop out

Mayo heading to the super 8

Only 2 teams have won a World cup outside of their own continent. Brazil and Spain (South Africa 2010)
Brazil don't look like a team that can do it. So it will be a European team. My money is on the Ze Germans. Or Belgium. Or England. No sorry definitely not England.

Germany 2014 too

Yes of course, sorry. Point still stands it's very difficult to look outside of the 2 or 3 big teams. Germany, Spain, Brazil.

After Cameroon 1990 wasnt an African team supposed to have won by now. The fact that Tunisia are the best team from the continent is rather worrying as they offered zip and should have been spanked about 5-0. If anything Africa has gone backwards after 28 yrs.
Germany may not even get out of the group. Can see Sweden winning 1-0 by scoring from a free kick or corner. Brazil and Argentina were poor so its there for the taking. As I said earlier England have a chance but expect them to go out on penalties in QF as usual to someone like Portugal.

I used to play in a league in London when I worked there
There was a Nigerian Team. Seriously gifted and athletic lads
They would play like Brazil for 30 minutes and then indiscipline and bad mistakes creep in.
leading them to lose the game.  By the end of the game they'd be fighting with themselves.
One guy even chased his team mate with a football boot at the final whistle
They had a reputation for starting strong and then falling apart

Watching last night I found it hard to cheer against England for once. There's no one on the team I really dislike and a few players I cheer for every week. The manager is as middle of the road and the exact centre of the white line in the middle of the road!

I had myself convinced I wouldn't mind seeing England do well this year. Like yourself I don't mind most of their players and Southgate is a likeable sort of chap.
Yet when they scored the winner in injury time I found myself shouting obscenities and the TV. So maybe I don't really want them to do well after all 

My friends were trolling England on Twitter by the 70th min
wayyy too soon which was hilarious
The look on their faces
I actually think that England team may fair better against likes of Belgium
Teams like Tunisia that park the bus seem to cause them problems

Roscommon are in a bad place and all the bravado from posters in here cant paper over that.  Very limited side  overall.

dont you mean connacht
its been painful to watch for years

Meanwhile back in the real world
https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2018/0515/963650-thomson-reuters-dublin/

Any chance ye'd move to Castlerea or Strokestown?

Dont think anyone will be moving west after the Apple disaster
Laughable news today about the m50. They plan more tolls and speed limits 
Its caused by urban sprawl and will only get worse no matter what these idiots propose

Listened to Colm Parkinson's podcast, changed his tune again and is a fan of what Galway are doing; He doesn't think their as defensive as the other pundits are making out and was more critical of Mayo's defensive tactics especially in the 2nd half.

It was the same with Wooly last year, raving about Galway and then he left Salthill with his tail between his legs. I was surprised how effusive he was in his praise. I don't think he even mentioned Sligo and Roscommon and he only spoke about Galway as a challenger to Dublin. Look, I think Galway have improved tremendously from last year and have an abundance of talent. But I think Galway and Sligo will be a lot closer than the experts think.

If Mayo had one more marquee forward they would have won that game easily
The waltzed in to the scoring zone unchallenged
Then again Mayo would already have an all ireland or two if they had the forwards

What'll the Hyde hold after the health and safety officers have a look? 21k I think in crap weather last year. I'd say 25k could be reasonably expected on a normal day with a bit more added interest this year

There was 18,287 last year. There was some 15,000 at the replay in 2016, at the venue it would be held in if for some reason the Hyde couldn't be used.

There is zero question about the Hyde being able to host the capacity required for a Connacht final between Roscommon and Galway.

Weird to mention H&S officers when everyone knows that's exactly why McHale, Salthill and the Hyde's capacity reduced in recent years.

I only mentioned H&S because of the lengthy discussion about McHale's capacity prior to Sunday. I think everyone was surprised at the low figure of 28k being mentioned beforehand. Perhaps the Hyde has an up to date capacity figure but surely there'll be a look taken prior to the first big game there in yonks.

We hosted CFs 2011, 2012 and 2015, hardly 'yonks ago'? There was probably close to as many at the Ros-Mayo league match two years ago at the Hyde as there would be for a Ros-Galway CF.

You never saw a good Galway team,  young man. You wouldn't know what sort of crowd it might draw.  There are 2 behemoths in Connacht football, not 1.
Galway can win Connacht titles with middling teams who go no further.  But every so often it can have a team that is the real deal. And you haven't seen the crowds when that happens.

True.
As ex Jarlaths man I agree

A lot of Mayo apologists for Diarmuid O'Connor are out in force today, but there is a fair body of evidence at this stage to indicate that DOC is more than fond of the dirt. He should have got a straight red in the league match against Galway for a ridiculous high challenge on Kerin and lets call out what the – which one replay angle clearly shows – calculated, premeditated elbow yesterday was: a dirty blow that there can be no excuse for.
The substantial amount of Mayo fans that applauded him off the pitch while castigating Conroy as a cheat would want to seriously cop themselves on. Not to mention the bizarre cheering when the change of Cafferkey was announced pre match, maybe they were excited about Barrett starting but how would Cafferkey and his family feel about that? I'm not trying to antagonise Mayo fans here, I was sat in the terrace with all my own Mayo relations and you couldn't fault their behaviour or that of the majority of Mayo fans but while there's a lot of backslapping given to Mayo fans by themselves and others for what they bring to the game, for a certain portion of them yesterday it was not a good look at all.

I agree with all of this. I was the good samartian yesterday and brought my oul fella and uncle along who wouldn't get to many games anymore at their age. Both of them referenced the behavior and edge to the Mayo fans which 'never used to be the way'. The torrents of abuse at the referee when at best they hadn't seen a replay, and at worst it was a clear elbow, was absolutely laughable. Less widespread but still there was abuse of Conroy who was quite clearly out cold or close to it, whether the elbow was accidental or not. That was really awful. Booing of free takers also.

Mayo fans have clearly been amazing and follow the team everywhere with such passion, and have this unreal pride with stuff like 'Mayo day' or throwing a Mayo jersey at every celeb they meet or how the Jersey is the only thing they'll wear abroad. Stuff that has the rest of the country cringing with embarrassment but you put up with it because it's Mayo and it's good natured and doesn't harm anyone. However there seems to be a blind spot that come with this specific side, from blind defense of player indescretions to referee abuse to complaining about the media. It's been very apparent recently, since 2012 or so and plenty of county's supporters have commented on it, the biggest probably being Donegal fans upset with Mayo fans behavior during the 2013 hammering. Have heard it from Kerry fans also, while the dubs and Ros fans can probably be taken with a pinch of salt. Still, it's been a fair fall from grace from being everyone's second team and the lovable gracious neighbor to being the set of fans people dislike most.

Leitrim supporters are far bigger w**kers than Mayo supporters in general.

I can't comment on Galway football supporters because they're such an endangered species.

Its because they keep losing to Ros
It does funny things to a person
Like Ros losing to Mayo every year for last 30 odd years 

Met some Leitrim supporters on a night out in Dublin
Soon as I mentioned Roscommon the abuse started (from a girl of course).
Not just banter I mean she was angry
Nearly ended in a punch up.  They ended up leaving, dragging the screaming
harpie with them after she got beer emptied on her head.
The Leitrim boyfriend thought about being a white night, made a few shapes, but then decided
he might get his ass kicked so they left.

If that was 2 northern teams playing they would be crucified for the  typical dour cynical Ulster football. Dreadful to watch. The negativity and off the ball stuff from both teams was a joke.

What is with the O'Connor brothers and the dirty elbows. COC would have been proud of that one and a straight red all day long.

That was a shocking injury for Parsons. No way he plays again this year never mind this summer. Long road ahead for Mayo again this summer and still reliant on the old timers

Looked like his knee collapsed
Very sad for such a great player