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In fairness Down were bizarrely fixated in going for goals all match long when they could have popped over about 7 or 8 easy points instead. They did create a fair few goal chances though but took none of them due to a combination of good goalkeeping but mainly poor shooting.

Well, he still had to stop them...and that he did..many do not...and it made the difference. He and the team deserve a lot of credit, but they must now press on and win the final.

ahh...what a great win....showed massive maturity in the second half. And what about the Slingerman? Unbelievable..! Underdogs ....no problem.

[Great achievement only if you win finals! history only remembers the winners (u21 2006 is your only win from those finals)
shocking stats

Shocking as it may be, its still great to be there...our time will come, hopefully sooner rather than later. Looking forward to two great games tomorrow. And a word to the Mayo supporters...someone pointed out earlier this will be far from a sell out, so tickets will be easy to come by....go and support them!

What's the obsession about where people are from?

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: Welcome to the board

Cheers Stephenite...its great to have a place to talk about the ga.
Cant get enough of it and can't wait for Sunday's minor match.

So Dempsey should have been sent off with Coyle instead of McHale, can we blame Dempsey for the loss then?

I don't think so, we really lost it the first day...I'd rather not roll over these coals again..

..... He must make significant progress in the next 2 years (which won't happen imo) for him to be seen as a successful manager in many peoples eyes.

I agree farrandeelin, but how do we characterize progress? IMHO, he must at least get to the final in 2010...win if possible, but absolutely must win it inside two years. My feeling is, that is we flop in the C'ship next year, he's out and MOD is in.   

Any truth to what I heard ...JOM has got a new two year deal?

Care to tell us ur club mister mayor?

No club now, living in exile for quite a while but still stay in touch with the scene, through the web and weekly phone calls home!

I m hopin for somebody like Dempsey to pull through and give us a future. At senior we re only threading water, or maybe slowly sinking but leave JOM there yet cause we could jump into a fire.  Unlike any Mayo manager I ve ever seen before, Dempsey seems to be practical and he knows his game. Optimistically, he  goes about addressing situations[like  not being able to win a ball in midfield v Ros in Salthill] instead of talking shite or ignoring the problem and hoping things will work out, which sadly has been our way. My experience of Mayo is that we wade into trouble even though the DEEP WATER has been well sign posted and yet management repeatedly thickly refuse to deal with obvious flaws. If we were a business we would be in receivership. A restaurant we d be shut down. Chef would be on cctv scratching his hole before he tossed the salad.

First post on this board lads. Interesting discussion. I think Dempsey is pragmatic in his approach (as you correctly pointed out Farrandeelin), which seems to be working, versus the approach with the senior's. That said, if they get past Down, they will be up against a very powerful Armagh team.

The seniors demolition of Ross was impressive, but only from a score line perspective. They simply weren't up to that level of competition and made mayo look good. In the Galway game, the first signs of kinks in the armour were exposed. Against an average Galway middle third we failed to dominate (Mcgarrity fielded only two balls the entire match!). The kinks in the back line were not so obvious in that game, but I'm a firm believer in winning the mid field battle, or at the very least having a split decision. Winning the mid field battle allows you to dictate the pace, style and complexion of the match. Demonstrating weakness is a loosing strategy and other teams (such as meath) exploit that weakness and capitalize on it. We got bullied by Meath in the middle. If we are to be in with a chance in the future, we must develop a long term strategy for this area of the field and build around it. We have the nucleus of the full forward line in AOS and he will grow into that position and make the players around him better. We need to do the same in mid field and at full back.