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Tom Flynn and Gareth Bradshaw the latest injury concerns for Galway, no end to the injuries for either side by the looks of things.

€25 for tickets for the open seats (North Stand).
I'd expect the Rhubarbs season ticket holders will fill the covered stand.

Supporters were charged €30 for stand tickets for the Mayo v Galway Connacht quarter final last year more proof if ever needed that the Connacht GAA overcharge.

If you were to buy a stand ticket on the day of the Connacht final it was going to set you back €40!

Gone again

Or maybe not.

What has happened?

Some problem with his esta form meant he didn't get to Boston before the deadline and can't play now.

i think  O Shea is ok it was just precautionary he was going around signing autographs with the boot on him saturday night after he game.

What's the latest on Keegan's injury?

Will either team have a fit midfielder on show, Aidan O'Sheas foot in a cast and Keegan is out.

Was just about to ask about Keegan - where'd you get the above info?

In the CT.

https://www.con-telegraph.ie/news/roundup/articles/2019/07/01/4176351-mayo-midfield-injury-jinx-strikes-again/

Cheers for the link, not the news though 

If AOS is out, we're rightly f*cked, you'd be looking at Coen and Vaughan in MF

We're not too flush with midfield options ourselves at the moment, Tom Flynn is battling injury too I think.

Well what a surprise, Galway Mayo. Will the home away arrangement apply here I wonder?

I'd expect Mayo to win this one but Paddy Tally has a serious amount of experience playing against and studying Mayo from his couple of years in Galway so you never know. Mayo should have too much for them but it might not be as easy as some predict.

Am I right in saying the winners of this round are all drawn to play each other in the next round and the winners of those games play the beaten provincial finalists?

[Be interesting to see how Galway react from this defeat. I remember plenty tipping Donegal to beat them in the round 4 tie two years ago and Galway walked that match.]

Roscommon won because they were the hungrier outfit and when the game was in the melting pot, their appetite was in stark contrast to the galway one.

Alas, I fear hunger and honest application may only get you so far, and there is a strong possibility that the Rossie will not win another game, in fact, I dare say, many will view them as a weak link in the Super 8s and those coming through the qualifier route will be hoping they are in the Rossie group.

Hunger is only a small part in any upset win. What I saw of Roscommon's last two wins was they defended and attacked better than their opposition and look a far more organised unit that what they were last year. Going into last eight off the back of beating the NFL and what was the defending Connacht champions in MacHale Park and Pearse Stadium is a strong position to be in and their first game will be in Hyde Park I believe?

Be interesting to see how Galway react from this defeat. I remember plenty tipping Donegal to beat them in the round 4 tie two years ago and Galway walked that match.

That was the first match Ian Burke started in I think and we had a change of keeper for that game too. There's no easy teams coming through the qualifiers, to be honest I wouldn't be too hopeful of making the super 8s, every bit of football seems to be coached out of this team.

[the only way he can stop a forward is by fouling, he rarely makes a decent tackle.]

Can't help but wonder has Sean Andy been badly coached at senipr level. I remember seeing him at minor and thinking he was the best out and out full back i could remember watching. He was excellent at u21 too but seems a liability at senior.

He had a decent year last year but throughout the league this year and into championship he's a liability at full back, the only way he can stop a forward is by fouling, he rarely makes a decent tackle.

I remember seeing him in an U21 game (can't remember who it was against) and he was absolutely dominating the lad he was marking but it was pretty much all based on his physical advantage - catching high ball over the forward's head, just being physically too strong and fast for the forward to compete with - can't help but think he never developed the full range of proper defensive skills underage because he didn't need to as he pretty much always had the phycial advantage over opponents - now he's competing with forwards that he doesn't have a physical advantage over he just doesn't know how to defend them without fouling.

That's it in a nutshell, think it was against Dublin he really stood out in an u-21 game, he was marking Con O'Callaghan I think and did a job on him.

I think all in all our forwards had a nightmare, Mike Daly was about the best of a bad lot and he was taken off 

Another Friday, another rumour in rumourville.

Heard the same rumour from a more reliable source this eve.

What rumour are you talking about?

Clarke walking? I heard this rumour also!

Can't help but wonder has Sean Andy been badly coached at senipr level. I remember seeing him at minor and thinking he was the best out and out full back i could remember watching. He was excellent at u21 too but seems a liability at senior.

He had a decent year last year but throughout the league this year and into championship he's a liability at full back, the only way he can stop a forward is by fouling, he rarely makes a decent tackle.

Ian Burke seems to be taking an awful lot of flak for the forwards performance on social media, he didn't have his best day but he's missing having that big full forward beside him, added to that the ball into him was cat bad. The way the forward line was set up was never going to suit Burke's game. Well done to Roscommon and Anthony Cunningham by the way, they outplayed and outfought this Galway team again today.

That was a shambles, and it began with the announcement that Lavelle and Cooke were playing. Lavelle is a disaster on kick outs, Cooke hasn't played since March and you could see he wasn't match fit. Fiontán was another one who wasn't able for the pace of this game, he was given the run around more than once. Shane Walsh was left up front as finisher for Ian Burke to feed but that didn't work, Burke needs someone like Comer or Martin Farragher beside him. We needed to drive on after half time and that was the time to introduce runners like Molloy and McDaid to give Ros something different to think about but again our management wait until something goes wrong to react. Waiting until the 70th (?) minute to bring on Farragher and Molloy was an insult to those 2 players. The attitude of the whole team is wrong, this constant negative football is draining to watch, it must be horrendous altogether to play. Once Roscommon went a point ahead that was it, Galway gave up. We have serious talent in that panel but it's being wasted completely by Walsh and his constant negativity and bad management.