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I'm not Rosnarun biggest fan (no offence Ros)  but Ill back him up on this point. Sam long before you started posting on this board Ros made it clear about his thoughts on JOM as a manager for mayo. This was before he was nominated for election as a FG candidate. I remember debates over about maughan and calling for JOM myself to be appointed as manager and Ros was consistent all the way through that he did not want him there. I don't think it was politically motivated back then and i don't think it is now. All the politics is now is another stick beat him with. You know my views on JOM and the election but I dont want to go back into that.

Well said Mr Power.

where do we go from here...............................................some fall from grace.

Who do we blame for this shambles? The management? The players? The lack of Players? The structures setup in Mayo football? The election? Bev?

All I know is that JOM is getting off very lightly over this. I would love to have read some of the columns in the western (well one in particular) if Micky Moran had sailed the ship onto the rocks like this.

A complete shambles, I have no problem being knocked out of the All Ireland but some of the selections over the year have been baffling, fellows starting games then deemed not good enough only suddenly to appear again. The complete lack of experimentation during the league. I'm really at a loss to sum up how I feel.

We should just bite the bullet now, forget about all irelands etc for 3 years. Get the best footballers in the county from the ages of 19-23 (along with the core group of the mid 20's that are already in the squad). Put a program in place that will have in 3 years a large squad of player from the ages of 22 to 28 physically ready to compete at the required level. Look at the players that we will have available, devise a system that would suit the players that we have available and work towards perfecting it over the next 3 years. Forget short, its time to look long term now.

I'm ranting on a bit but it is time to start afresh.

Dont get us started on about Bev again................................Jesus its like Saipan all over down here!!! I'll count the time until sammy the fish says somthing!!!

If D Brady played full back there would not be one high ball played into him, any team worth their salt would just let it in fast and low and he would be eat for pace. You would go from a situation form where a high ball is 50/50 to a point where we would lose nearly all the ball going in. As said earlier its horses for courses. J Killcullen for the big target man and switch with heaney for a mobile Full forward.

But could you please stop going on about D brady for full back, he could have been sent off twice in the all ireland for fouling.

Will the Mayo Derry match be shown on Setanta during the week??

Is that confirmed that the match is not on TV? I hope it is otherwise I'm looking at a 515km round trip and that istoo far to go on a Saturday I'm afraid, the first Championship match in years I'll be missing!!

If we play Heany at 6 and J. Killcullen at 3 we should be alright. If Killcullen is getting done for pace then just switch him with Heaney. I'm surprised that J. Killcullen has not been tried out at 6 before, he has the size and the aggression for the position.

For the next day I'd go something like this.

                                   Clarke (O'Malley if fit)
L. O'Malley                     J. Killcullen                     Higgins
Howley                           Heaney                         T. Mort
                         McGarity       Harte
BJP                              Hanley                          Dillon
A. Moran                      B Moran                        C. Mort.

D. Brady hasn't the pace to start, but is a good option to bring on to "soften up" a few fellows if needed. Ideally I'd like to see Harte as a half forward and if the B Moran experiment is not working then I would move him to midfield  and get Harte to replace BJP.

If only we had a young Peter Ford or Kevin Cahill to call on.

any news on the line up? God help us is G. Brady lines up at center half back. Has anyone god odds on the handicap betting for this match??

Try Glasan student village. Its part of the GMIT and right beside the Race course.

saying!!

the rteason i call him a blushirt is the disgracefull way he has abused the position of mayo manager for his political ends. he had many chances to becaome mayo manager over the years but only choose to do so when running for the dail , and you accuse me of mixing sport and politics.

I have to agree with Rosnarun on that point.

Kiltane won in bangor 1-8 to 1-6, brutal game. Kiltane tried their best to kick the game away. worst game I've see in ages.
I'm looking for the Castlebar result.

How did the castlebar game go??

That Red headed publican only ever had one member of his family on the Minor side, and he has an all Ireland medal to show for it. I'm from Kiltane and I've never seen more then one player form our club in any given year line out for the county, Usually we done have any representation on the Minor side. Micky Sweeney was on it last year and after Hanley he was probably our most dangerous forward.

Bad news about Higgins, time for Howley I suppose, mind you I'd rather Howley on the half back line.