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Seriously how does Cafferkey keep making the team?

How many attacks,  Whitey ? It looks like a clear dog whistle to law and order types.  I see elsewhere they are blamed on Soros. How much is fake? The misogyny is not. The anti Latino stuff is not. The antisemitism is not.

I feel sorry for decent conservatives like you and Stew. The next 4 years will be hell. Mayo might look very attractive

Dunno Mayo's a fairly dark place right now too.

Stories flying around Mayo today, if one cares to listen to them.
Like goalies only became aware of the switch the morning of the game.

Clarke isn't going back.

Rochford is considering his position.

Sigh. Disappointment with ensuing bullshit. Standard Autumn in County Mayo.

+1 to that. We love to find a scapegoat or some other reason for a loss.
The rumour was going round the morning of the game, Clarke knew at the latest on Thursday, possibly even Wednesday, I have that on decent authority. It was obviously on their mind towards the end of the drawn game even.
As for Rochford stepping down. I've heard the opposite and while that decision will haunt him for a while he'll do everything he can to make amends next year. It was a ballsy call, it looks stupid in hindsight and it completely backfired but Clarke was dicey in the first game so I can see the logic. I still wouldn't have changed keeper though but that's just a fans opinion. Rochford will bring them on again next year, he looks top class. The perennial problem of finding scorers is still there and needs to be sorted if we're to cross the line next year.

Yes. Clarke knew on Thursday evening. I assume Hennelly did as well?

Hennelly knew much earlier.

There's no getting around the goalkeeper change it was a ludicrous call, we have no recognized full-back so Clarke was vital in this regard, the backs trust him under high ball he commands the square. It led to the concession of a number of scores and unsettled the team. Keegan would probably have gone on to be motm if he hadn't gone off, he should never have been put in that position. If the management were so daring as to drop Clarke how come they didn't have the balls to whip Hennelly off at half-time, he was in meltdown mode at that stage.

Can't understand why Hennelly started. Hadn't played since June v Galway. Mind boggles.

Distressing. This disastrous selection will have a chapter all of its own in Keith Duggan's next book.

Lads I was told by someone close to the panel after the drawn game that Clarke would definitely not start, this was only a couple of hours after the game. I said I found that hard to believe, when the team was first announced I thought we were in the clear..

[This particular mare started at 10am with 'rumours' about Clarke being dropped.]

That was awful. Just when you think you've been through all the nightmares possible in Mayo football, it gets crazier and more bizzare. This particular mare started at 10am with 'rumours' about Clarke being dropped.

I'm back at home, half-way through a fridge-pack and hoping against hope that I will wake up in the morning and I dreamt it all up.

That was out 2 hours after the drawn match, we'll always find some crackpot way to lose.

Mayo team unchanged.

Is either side going to bother naming their teams for this match, I would have thought that with just over 24 hours to go that they would have named their starting fifteen by now.

I thought the Dublin team was supposed to be named last night?

Oh I see he's only a nasty bollocks of a footballer, that's alright then, ffs cop on would you.

[He's a nasty little bollocks."]

Give it to me, big boy. This is just exactly how I like it. Oh, yeah. 

Sigh. I thought you might actually be interested, oddly enough, in a discussion.

How about a kick in the balls instead, discussion my hole, all you want to do is spew invective against a great player.

Woohoo, another one! I had no idea COC had such a large fan club! Invective? I'm impressed you know what the word even means. Pray tell, what invective have I been spewing?

A "great" footballer?! f**k me, maybe that's why Mayo can't win things. Considering that as great. Great my f**king hole. Tell me what other players you think are great and who he ranks alongside

You're looking for rational discussion after abusing a player and you're too dense to recognise it?

Right, so now it's abuse to express an opinion on the quality of a footballer or express dislike of aspects of their playing style. Yet you offer me "a kick in the balls". But I'm the one who's dense. Well done.

As for looking for rational discussion, it's a discussion board, that's exactly what I'm looking for. Shouldn't be that much of a surprise. I can't legislate for the utter idiocy of some though, so I guess I was a bit naive there.

Below is you expressing an 'opinion' as you call it, no abuse there are you for real?


"O'Connor is most certainly a coward. As mentioned previously, he's a bad f**ker for sneaky hits off the ball. While he was hit a nasty wraparound by McAuley, it a only came after he tried to throw the shoulder in. He's a nasty little bollocks."

Give it to me, big boy. This is just exactly how I like it. Oh, yeah. 

Sigh. I thought you might actually be interested, oddly enough, in a discussion.

How about a kick in the balls instead, discussion my hole, all you want to do is spew invective against a great player.

Woohoo, another one! I had no idea COC had such a large fan club! Invective? I'm impressed you know what the word even means. Pray tell, what invective have I been spewing?

A "great" footballer?! f**k me, maybe that's why Mayo can't win things. Considering that as great. Great my f**king hole. Tell me what other players you think are great and who he ranks alongside

You're looking for rational discussion after abusing a player and you're too dense to recognise it?

Give it to me, big boy. This is just exactly how I like it. Oh, yeah. 

Sigh. I thought you might actually be interested, oddly enough, in a discussion.

How about a kick in the balls instead, discussion my hole, all you want to do is spew invective against a great player.

I have the onerous task of organising tickets for my sister, father (who will probably get one anyway) and wife also. This thread is not just for me, but for everyone else hoping to get tickets as the scramble is well and truly underway already. It's great to be worrying about this stuff though.

You mean for the game next week?

We ground out the win but the play acting at the end deserved to be punished, a man and a point up we should have been more positive. Defence was a lot stickier than usual, the right decision was made to drop Keane, a disaster waiting to happen, too slow and fouls far too much. Unconvinced about the contribution of Dillon, he got a lot of ball but apart from the long ball into O'Shea, he had two awful efforts at scores. Doherty did little either and picked up a needless yellow and seemed to be petulant in general.  Boyle's score before half-time was magic, it was one of those scores that drives a team on. Our defence is in much better shape especially with Higgins back but up front is still a worry, we need more from the likes of Doherty and McLoughlin when he pushes forward.
It wasn't one of Cavanagh's best days in a Tyrone jersey but he's entitled to that, has any man scored more crucial scores for his team over the last 15 years.

Are Ross any further on than they would've been with Evans, I think not.