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Was at an U-15 club match last week, and an adult entered the field and squared up to the players. GAA dont want to fix this, if they wanted to it would be fixed by now.

I think the Super 8s is going to prove toxic as time goes on for teams like Roscommon, outside the top 4 without realistic chances of a final.
In the "old" format, if they lost a provincial final, beat Armagh in the back door and then say lost by 4 or 5 points in a quarter final it would have been considered a decent season with something to build for next year.
With the new format the last memory is of three high profile games lost, the next season then seems very difficult. I think that is the potential negative to the super 8s, teams who didnt have the quality would be one game and out in the quarters, now they have to endure three which makes them feel they are miles off.
I hope they bin this after the three years and go back to the old system. The problem with the championship is not at the top, its at the bottom.

And her comment, in her own words on the answer to the freetaker situation just adds to the whole underlying belief that this was mainly about player power no matter what it has now morphed into in some peoples heads.

Now that things have settled down, does anyone have close to full story why Roachford wasn't kept on ? did the county board want him out ? or did horan make it know that he was interested in coming back and they decided he was a better option going forward ?

high stool talk alert with this but sure take what you may from it. There's a couple of wealthy backers to the county team, they weren't happy with last season and the general direction Rochy was going so they were threatening to pull the plug on the finances. They wanted Horan back to keep the funds going and the chairman knew what side his bread was buttered on so set about the required work.

Ask them yourself. A Mayo man was running the country until last year.

The very same GAA players are all able to find work in Kerry. Don't think I need to ask a politician why the Mayo ones can't.

No they're not, they are all in CIT and UCC taking 10 years to do degrees or teaching in schools in Kerry. Ironically if it wasn't for Cork education institutions, Kerry would be f*cked.

Are the Rossies not getting the Dubs ladies lad?

http://www.hoganstand.com/Article/Index/291266


Mayo ladies county board are set to appeal the leniency of the suspensions given to eight Carnacon players by the LGFA's National Appeals Committee.
The All-Ireland champions will play Moy Davitts on Sunday for a place in the county final with their eight suspended players set to see four-week bans over apparent player welfare issues expire on Friday.
Last night the board voted 27-5 in favour of an appeal to the perceived leniency of the suspensions handed down. The appeal is expected to happen tonight.

Seems this story hasn't run its course yet.

Spiteful decision.

It has been spiteful from the get go. The county board (made up of 32 people) are just club delegates who are completely jealous and fed up with the same team winning everything.
Any excuse really.

Just mix powdered Hardstation with a Mayo LGFA thread and you get an instant expert. C'mon man, you took the wrong tact at the start and dug in. Come out of the bunker.

Physician heal thyself. Mayo board (other clubs) are not interested in anything other than having Carnacon knocked out of the championship. They are determined to have them play a tough game minus the 8 as it's the best chance they have of getting them out.
If you want a cup that bad, go up the town and buy one.

And your not interested in anything other than repeating the same shite all the time. We get it, your either one of them or related to them or a club member. Your gone well past boring at this stage.

Horan doing videos talking about Adventures, Quests and Odysseys. "Brand Mayo". Some amount of cringe. It's not the presidency he's taking over

He seems to have you rattled anyway 

My eyes rattled from cringing?

"Brand Mayo". He's the manager of an average rural county's amateur football team, not the owner of the Dallas Cowboys. Quests and Odysseys is even stranger again. Perhaps he's a World of Warcraft fan

who are hugely popular and successful in fundraising allowing them to compete at the top level of football for the last decade from our impoverished county rather than whinge about dublin.
Welcome to footballs real world

Should he not be trying to extract less money from people in one of the countries more impoverished counties rather than more? Brand Mayo, sounds like a racket to take yet more from loyal fans. I do agree that Mayo's fundraising from far afield has been phenomenal from a county that wouldn't exactly be known for big businessmen abroad.

Dont worry about us lad, we have plenty of big businessmen at  home and abroad. And by big businessmen I mean big as in the type with money not big as in fat lads who eat burgers. Not sure which you meant.
Another positive is that we werent found with our hands in the till like one of our neighbours!

Im just gonna throw this in here. A lot of us have this clown on ignore but when people keep quoting and answering the gobshite it makes the ignore button useless. Will ye please for the sake of this board just ignore the idiot

Good idea, done

I took it that he means age is not a factor in Mayo doing well or not; as in we have enough good quality footballers available (some of them not household names yet) for James Horan to have a competitive team next season. There is plenty of life in the "older" lads as well, some of whom while seemingly around forever are still only late 20s.
Having said that, Andy Moran should have retired "at his age" but won an extra all start and player of the year award when he was supposed to be on the rocking chair.

Will ye have a manager in time for the NFL  or will ye wait till the Tanned One departs the Biffos in March?

Dunno, sure the tanned one might go back to ye. He likes swanky buses that man.

I think if that happens, it will embolden the Mayo CB to give Solan the gig. younger upcoming manager wins out over lad who had his chance already
Donie Buckley is probably the key to that whole thing if hes as good as the way the mayo players raved about him

Solan revealed to the Irish Examiner that a former Mayo senior footballer is also on the verge of joining his ticket and that he has an "experienced coach" lined up to train the Dublin-based Mayo players. 

Any ideas as to they might be?

Maurice Sheridan is probably the former Mayo footballer. I've heard him mentioned by a few people.

Yeah Maurice Sheridan is what I've heard also. DB is in for the Commercial Director position whenever it actually gets opened

Don't know a huge amount about him but wouldn't be getting too excited about him, he was somewhere else as well but don't think he has won anything of note as a coach.
Solan as well has Enda McGinley, lives in Antrim we hear, 5 hour drive to Castlebar. According to the Mayo news the angle with McGinley is that he has won 3 senior all Irelands but also translated underage IC medals into senior and has seen how that is done. The pitch is that he would be useful in trying to help the young Mayo talent to convert their underage success into senior. Don't know if he has been involved with other back room teams has he?
You'd have to imagine James Horan will now have to come out with some elements of his back room team. This battle is also being fought in the local process I think and Solan has put his cards on the table early. Personally I'm not too excited about his backroom team but I knew feck all about Donie Buckley back in the day either, indeed conventional wisdom from some in Mayo at the time might have been sure if hes any good why did Kerry let him go.

Sure that's straight of the 1920s robber barons' handbook.

The "libertarian" "tax is theft" nonsense, that essential services should be at the mercy of the charity of the rich rather than be funded by a proper redistributive tax system.

I would have hoped that people had moved beyond this simplistic nonsense. It's the kind of thing you expect to hear from anti-"gub'mint" nut jobs in the US.

He  doesn't run his business from here and he's not tax-resident here. Should every emigrant be screwed by the Irish Revenue just because they'd the balls to succeed abroad?

Well the good ole IRS want US citizens to file tax returns with them annually no matter where they live and if its over a certain amount will take a cut even after you have paid tax to the local gang wherever you live.