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McStay was right about Daly the ref though, he ruined the game, blew for free after free and half them werent frees at all.

[Quarter-final dates remain uncertain]

Quarter-final dates remain uncertain 
THE draw for the quarter-finals of the Mayo senior and intermediate football championships will take place on Monday, August 31 in the TF Royal Hotel, Castlebar.

Its a killer having to wait two weeks to know who you are playing !!!

Its all because of that shambles in the intermediate group between belmullet swinford & davitts.

Does anyone know why Davitts handed a walk over to Belmullet anyway?? If you ask me Belmullet & Swinford should progress and punish Davitts for handing a walk over to belmullet.

In fairness they didn't hand anyone a walkover. Davitts V Belmullet was originally postponed due to the death of a young lad in Ballindine. It should have been played within 13 days but because Mayo were playing the Connacht final this couldn't happen and Belmullet were awarded the game and the points.

It does raise again the thorny issue of getting games, especially championship games postponed/called off etc in these circumstances.

Ok thanks for the update, sounds like this could have been handled alot better given the circumstances

[Quarter-final dates remain uncertain]

Quarter-final dates remain uncertain 
THE draw for the quarter-finals of the Mayo senior and intermediate football championships will take place on Monday, August 31 in the TF Royal Hotel, Castlebar.

Its a killer having to wait two weeks to know who you are playing !!!

Its all because of that shambles in the intermediate group between belmullet swinford & davitts.

Does anyone know why Davitts handed a walk over to Belmullet anyway?? If you ask me Belmullet & Swinford should progress and punish Davitts for handing a walk over to belmullet.

[Quarter-final dates remain uncertain]

Quarter-final dates remain uncertain 
Monday, 17 August 2009 
Quarter-final dates remain uncertain


Mike Finnerty

THE draw for the quarter-finals of the Mayo senior and intermediate football championships will take place on Monday, August 31 in the TF Royal Hotel, Castlebar.
The knock-out stages of both championships will then commence on either the weekend of September 12 and 13, or September 26 and 27 — depending on whether or not the Mayo minor footballers reach the All-Ireland final on September 20.
Charlestown, Castlebar, Crossmolina, Knockmore, Shrule/Glencorrib, Ballaghaderreen, Ballintubber and Kiltane were confirmed as the eight quarter-finalists in the senior championship last weekend. The draw for the quarter-finals will be open to the public.
MEANWHILE, in the Intermediate championship, a play-off is required to decide who progresses to the quarter-finals from the ultra-competitive Section 2.
Davitts, Belmullet and Swinford have all finished level on four points after the group concluded last weekend. However, because Belmullet's 'win' against Davitts was achieved without the game actually being played, the head-to-head rule and scoring differences cannot be used to decide the group.
Paddy McNicholas, Chairman of the Mayo GAA Activities Committee, confirmed to The Mayo News last night that a draw for the play-offs between the three clubs would be made tonight (Monday).
The first two teams drawn out at the Activities Committee meeting will face-off with the winner going through the last eight. The loser will then get a second chance to qualify against the remaining team (who only get one chance).
McNicholas also admitted that no date for the play-off has yet been decided due to the Mayo minor's involvement in the All-Ireland semi-final against Down on August 30, and a round of Mayo senior hurling championship matches next weekend.

Does anyone know when the draw is on?? or when the next round is??

just read a bit of the western people jesus its a gas paper wondering were peoples expectations too high well they can have a look at themselves first ffs . also the personal vendetta that the editor has against mort really needs to stop . like him or love him he is an amateur player who has giving up a lot to play for mayo , yet  the editor continues to have sly digs at him every week, is it just because he did an interview with the mayo news ? if it is laffey would want to cop the fcuk on 

The western is slipping. Im getting texts from people that there are no fixtures printed so people are wondering if the club games are even on at the weekend.
Also they got some games and table standing wrong as of late but that could be the CB's mistake

http://www.hoganstand.com/Mayo/ArticleForm.aspx?ID=116187

Did anyone see when Mort walked up to take a free early in 2nd half, Dillion comes over and asks for the ball to take the free and Mort kicks the ball at Dillon in digust because he wasnt allowed take the free, you cant have that petty behaviour going on in a quarter final.

Thank god they got rid of Bernard Flynn, he was a disaster!

Is ouzo like sambucca or am i thinking of something completely different

Ouzo is a greek drink, its very like sambuca but harder to drink

Just wondering is Ouzo sold in Ireland??

Yeah, I couldn't believe the heading in ths sports pages of the Western yesterday when I opened it. The thing is, there's people who know nothing about football who 'buy in' to the hype that has come around and it is really annoying.

That article by Hennigan is a joke! Have they no cop on at all and keep a lid on things never mind banging on about an all-ireland final and us only in the quarters yet

[It's only a group game for crying out loud!]

Results:

John's 1-15 Tubber 0-8

I was at this game in ballymote saturday evening, i travelled from Mayo to watch it.

Firstly there were two games on and NO PROGRAM provided at the game. Thats poor for a c\ship match.
Secondly why was a kid 15\16 the linesman for this game, this is very dangerous. This is c\ship were talking about when things can get heated, you need your experience officials at these games. What would happen if this kid was hit or hurt during a game.

Anyway back to the game, poor standard and St Johns always looked in control. Tubber are missing a good few from last years team and subsquently look a very different team to the one that brought them to the county final last year. St Johns have a strong outfit and totally dominated midfield have a few dangerous hard working forwards

St Johns should top this group now.

No program? I highly doubt there was a program at any of the games this weekend - certainly none at St Molaises and Castleconnor - and from what I'm hearing none at the other double header in Tubber - It's only a group game for crying out loud! As for the 16 year old linesman - there was another youn lad at the game I was at - did a terrible job, nearly causing a row on a couple of occasions - I can't understand why they'd let a young fella be involved in an important game like that.
As for the game - well I haven't seen Molaises in action before so I wasn't sure of what to expect - nothing tremendous to write home about I'm afraid... although that's a lot more than what can be said for Castleconnor - I understand that they've lost a few players since last year... but they were truly diabolical - it seemed like even the basics of the game were tough at times.

Group games in the mayo c\ship, you get a program and the national anthem before most the games!

Results:

John's 1-15 Tubber 0-8

I was at this game in ballymote saturday evening, i travelled from Mayo to watch it.

Firstly there were two games on and NO PROGRAM provided at the game. Thats poor for a c\ship match.
Secondly why was a kid 15\16 the linesman for this game, this is very dangerous. This is c\ship were talking about when things can get heated, you need your experience officials at these games. What would happen if this kid was hit or hurt during a game.

Anyway back to the game, poor standard and St Johns always looked in control. Tubber are missing a good few from last years team and subsquently look a very different team to the one that brought them to the county final last year. St Johns have a strong outfit and totally dominated midfield have a few dangerous hard working forwards

St Johns should top this group now.

Fair play for heading but you could of picked better match ups, such as Marys Curry, Coolera Tour.

Where was mcnamara playing and howd he do? Mcgarty, Harrison, stenson, scanlon, patrick greene would be there main men i presume, there hardly starting young o hehir yet.

Was McGee playing up front for Tubber?

On the 16 yr old, we are very well mannered in Sligo towards refs and linesmen so dont worry. Ive seen this young lad do a few matches and he isnt the best. I would wonder whats he at that age being a linesman, shouldnt he be playing still, can he play or is useless and wants to be involved like most refs?

I went to this game because i know a lad from Johns so i said i would go down for a look, i was at the sligo county final last year and was impressed with tubber for most that game so i was expecting a good game but i learnt that tubber a missing a few from last years team. Kelly was at 11, he was fairly quiet but their full forward was handy and won some good ball early on but the supply soon dried up. Im not sure which lad was McGee, again a simple match program would have helped here.

For Johns, McNamara was at wing back and held his own, he didnt push forward enough for me seen as he is a county wing back.
McGarty had a very good 2nd half and is full of running, Stenny worked hard on the 40. Scan was the main man for johns, he tormented the tubber rear guard. Charlie was injured and didnt tog

Results:

John's 1-15 Tubber 0-8

I was at this game in ballymote saturday evening, i travelled from Mayo to watch it.

Firstly there were two games on and NO PROGRAM provided at the game. Thats poor for a c\ship match.
Secondly why was a kid 15\16 the linesman for this game, this is very dangerous. This is c\ship were talking about when things can get heated, you need your experience officials at these games. What would happen if this kid was hit or hurt during a game.

Anyway back to the game, poor standard and St Johns always looked in control. Tubber are missing a good few from last years team and subsquently look a very different team to the one that brought them to the county final last year. St Johns have a strong outfit and totally dominated midfield have a few dangerous hard working forwards

St Johns should top this group now.

i reckon it could be the 15th alrite, the county board would be keen to have the club c\ship at the quarter final stage come sept.