Mayo v Kildare, Round 3B Football Qualifier July 16, 2016

[ballinaman]

What's story with the next fixture? Next weekend or the bank holiday weekend.

Can be any of three days - Saturday, July 30, 2016 to Monday, August 01, 2016

Grandest....couple of weeks eases the pressure so.
Looking at the permutations....drawing Westmeath will be key....losers of Ulster would mean going through Dublin in 1/4s and Kerry in semi final ...

[giveballaghback]

Ye have yere share of handy (home) draws got, luck runs out here id say.

[seafoid]

Intinsity is fixable.

Yes it's Intensity

Not in Mayo or Galway

[Maroon Manc]

DOC has turned into some player, heard many a Mayo man question what he was doing in the team after the league campaign in 2015 even I wasn't sure after seeing a couple of league games last year. He's certainly eclipsing his older brother who looks desperately short of match sharpness although he's had a lot of serious injuries for someone so young.

[seafoid]

Colm O Rourke in the Sindo sez Mayo are a busted flush. Dressing room material like what do you think of that Joe Brolly.

[Farrandeelin]

What's story with the next fixture? Next weekend or the bank holiday weekend.

Can be any of three days - Saturday, July 30, 2016 to Monday, August 01, 2016

Grandest....couple of weeks eases the pressure so.
Looking at the permutations....drawing Westmeath will be key....losers of Ulster would mean going through Dublin in 1/4s and Kerry in semi final ...

Kerry are in opposite side. Donegal, Tyrone and Dublin all in our side. Can't see us getting past quarters at most. That's if we do get WH.

[Jinxy]

What's story with the next fixture? Next weekend or the bank holiday weekend.

Can be any of three days - Saturday, July 30, 2016 to Monday, August 01, 2016

Grandest....couple of weeks eases the pressure so.
Looking at the permutations....drawing Westmeath will be key....losers of Ulster would mean going through Dublin in 1/4s and Kerry in semi final ...

That's when you want to play them.

[Kuwabatake Sanjuro]

DOC has turned into some player, heard many a Mayo man question what he was doing in the team after the league campaign in 2015 even I wasn't sure after seeing a couple of league games last year. He's certainly eclipsing his older brother who looks desperately short of match sharpness although he's had a lot of serious injuries for someone so young.

He is a class act alright but he had nobody marking him in the first half last night. I think it was Emmet Bolton who was supposed to be on him but the only time I seen the two of them together was when Bolton swung the boot at him for the goal which he waslucky not to be sent off for.
Sad to think that could be his last act in a Kildare jersey as he was a great servant to Kildare football down the years but his legs have gone.
Keith Cribben did better on DO'C in the second half but unfortunately looked to be badly injured again, with a bit of luck it is only a pulled/slightly torn hamstring as he has had a terrible time with injuries.

[seafoid]

2 Munster One Connacht one Ulster team left standing in the qualifiers after round 3. Leinster finalists Westmeath are D3. Has Leinster football ever been this bad?

[Lar Naparka]

Glad to have won but not optimistic about the future....
The tendency to lift the foot of the pedal when totally in charge has now become a habit and not an occasional lapse.
This collective loss of concentration at crucial stages of the game has been there since James Horan took over but things are going from bad to worse.

Against Galway, Mayo, after an indifferent start, took firm control of proceedings in the second quarter. Going in at half time , you could tell by the body language of the heron chokers that they were expecting the inevitable. But a Galeway goal after a bad kick out and slack defending saw Mayo go completely off the boil.
Ditto against Fermanagh when the visitors got a string of unanswered points and the outlook was not great at the half way mark.

Yesterday saw the same thing all over again.
What's the odds that they will all nod of to sleep against who ever comes up against us? Luck ran out against Galway and neither Fermanagh nor Kildare had the firepower to finish Mayo off when they had control of proceedings.
It could well be a case of the higher you go, the tougher it gets and I wouldn't fancy either Donegal or Tyrone in the next game.

Intinsity is fixable. The thing for Mayo is scoring from possession in the last 5 minutes

If it's fixable, why hasn't it been fixed long ago?

It's been a problem since the departure of Deppity John. It was there during his reign too but it usually happened when the ref threw in the ball and only ended when he blew the final whistle. 
Scoring freely when the result is not in doubt is no big deal. Scoring  ditto when the opposition is taking the fight to you and the result is in very much doubt is quite another matter.

[From the Bunker]

Colm O Rourke in the Sindo sez Mayo are a busted flush. Dressing room material like what do you think of that Joe Brolly.

What did he have to say about Galway? Was he impressed with their performance last weekend?

[seafoid]

Colm O Rourke in the Sindo sez Mayo are a busted flush. Dressing room material like what do you think of that Joe Brolly.

What did he have to say about Galway? Was he impressed with their performance last weekend?

I think he is still fighting 2001

[From the Bunker]

Colm O Rourke in the Sindo sez Mayo are a busted flush. Dressing room material like what do you think of that Joe Brolly.

What did he have to say about Galway? Was he impressed with their performance last weekend?

I think he is still fighting 2001

Ah, Colm likes ye fancy dans. He's never picked Mayo to win a Mayo/Galway championship game. If you think he has a problem with Galway, you should listen to his sub-text comments about Mayo. Not that you'd know anything about sub-text comments about Mayo, Seafoid!

[seafoid]

Colm O Rourke in the Sindo sez Mayo are a busted flush. Dressing room material like what do you think of that Joe Brolly.

What did he have to say about Galway? Was he impressed with their performance last weekend?

I think he is still fighting 2001

Ah, Colm likes ye fancy dans. He's never picked Mayo to win a Mayo/Galway championship game. If you think he has a problem with Galway, you should listen to his sub-text comments about Mayo. Not that you'd know anything about sub-text comments about Mayo, Seafoid!

I hate patronising shite about Connacht sport. That is why the pro 12 result was so good.
Mind you Meath has become a diol trua , an object of pity, recently. None of the Meath gods could stop it 

[Lar Naparka]

Colm O Rourke in the Sindo sez Mayo are a busted flush. Dressing room material like what do you think of that Joe Brolly.

Where did he say that?
Not in my Sindo he doesn't.