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Have to laugh when Mayo pull a big victory off , the revert to "there's no all Ireland in Mayo " by the opposing supporters is ridiculous. We just knocked ye out of the championship for goodness sake

Well I tell ya this much we'd win an all Ireland if we had to play your lot in the final .2019, 2020 , 2021, 2023 and some still say the tide has turned out west .

Stand tickets available now. strange way of doing business

Can never figure out the way ticketmaster operate , is it because they are the only show in town in this field , it's brutal like .

Callinan in for donnacha mchugh, Cillian makes the 26 , no other personnel changes .


Mayo (All-Ireland SFC preliminary quarter-final v Galway, 25/6/2023): Colm Reape (Knockmore); Jack Coyne (Ballyhaunis), David McBrien (Ballaghaderreen), Padraig O'Hora (Ballina Stephenites); Sam Callinan (Ballina Stephenites), Conor Loftus (Crossmolina Deel Rovers), Paddy Durcan (Castlebar Mitchels, captain); Stephen Coen (Hollymount/Carramore), Matthew Ruane (Breaffy); Diarmuid O'Connor (Ballintubber), Jack Carney (Kilmeena), Jordan Flynn (Crossmolina Deel Rovers); Aidan O'Shea (Breaffy), James Carr (Ardagh), Ryan O'Donoghue (Belmullet). Subs: Rory Byrne (Castlebar Mitchels), Tommy Conroy (The Neale), Jason Doherty (Burrishoole), Enda Hession (Garrymore), Fionn McDonagh (Westport), Darren McHale (Knockmore), Donnacha McHugh (Castlebar Mitchels), Eoghan McLaughlin (Westport), Kevin McLoughlin (Knockmore, Cillian O'Connor (Ballintubber), Bob Tuohy (Castlebar Mitchels).

No bother an fhairche Abu , understand now . Grma for your reasonable reply .

Are they both not named in the team or am I missing something , surely if we are to deal in facts , the fact is Galway management have named both to start on Sunday , one side of your mouth is saying one can't rely on whisper/rumour and the other is saying we can't take team selection as truth either . Nobody from the Galway camp has said Kelly or comer won't be playing . Sin E

Shur we shall wait and see , why wouldn't Sean Kelly play though if only a knock , doesn't strike me as a lad who'd be whinging about a bit of bruising .

Loftus will of course play in defence , mcstay has hung his hat on that one and can't see him admitting to it not working out in the potential last game of the year . My main concern is cillian tbh . We might need something left side to win this , Paddy Durcan in ff give Sean kelly something to think about , when you're thinking things like such as a supporter ya know it's not going right . It reminds me of days going in against Kerry, what will we do with donaghy , who will take gooch . It's a loser mindset we are putting too much emphasis on nullifying the opposition cause in reality we probably don't have the talent they do .

As it gets closer the confidence is starting to dwindle , will travel in hope rather than expectation.

How do I know ? For a starter both are named .
Sean Kelly played last week and went off with an impact/contact injury that has came from several reports including Barry cullinane on mayo news podcast last night .
All indications are Damien comer has been rested with a view to the knockout stages , all evidence points to he was good to go last week bar a bit of a fook up with paper work .

So I larryin89 of sane mind will confidently make an assessment of all available evidence and say both will be part of the Galway team on Sunday . Now if you think that is talking shite that's your opinion which you are entitled to but I beg to differ .

I really don't understand the fuss over Sean Kelly all week , it was a bit of a contact injury , I certainly knew he would be available . Comer is not even injured.

Stop talking shite like a good lad.

Excuse me ?whats shite about stating he is available when he is or are you going to persist with personal insults ?

I really don't understand the fuss over Sean Kelly all week , it was a bit of a contact injury , I certainly knew he would be available . Comer is not even injured.

It's a sellout ?

Is this the first real knockout game between Galway and Mayo since the back door qualifiers were introduced?

Not a sellout as ticketmaster have put them on sale again . Odd balls

I think it's the first knockout game in Connacht where supporters could go since Ciaran Mac come on in tuam 99 , never forget that roar when he sailed one over , there were people on top of the roofs of houses lookin in . Glorious days of a very special fixture .

It's a sellout ?

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Both comer and Kelly will line out Sunday , sin e .

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I'm only going by what John divily told me this morning . Perhaps he was telling lies I dunno

I only backed them to help finance drowning my sorrows , it's a win win of sorts , I'll frame the docket if they don't pull it off .

[Both teams probably threw away any chance of getting to the AI final last Sunday given the road left to travel]

Both teams probably threw away any chance of getting to the AI final last Sunday given the road left to travel now, hard to know which was the worse butchering of the prime position each team was in to top their groups, Mayo's probably a more spectacular collapse but Galway's just as bad really given the context.

we got the worst team out of the hat anyway, Mayo are a really good team and Galway are in serious bother with the injury situation.
If Comer and Kelly are unavailable I don't see how Galway can get a result, they are just too important to the team, along with the underrated McHugh. If Comer plays last Sunday and I think we have the feet up this . Mayo's record in knock out matches between the two counties when it's do or die as well is formidable. Hopefully this match will see Galway making a real stand and not a 2019 like situation.
Regardless, the eternal question remains "will Galway bate Mayo?".

Wouldn't necessarily agree with this.  The winner of the game on Sunday will get good momentum for going into the quarter finals and while they will get a difficult game in quarters a win next weekend and I would expect last weekends results will be largely forgot about.  As things stand, the winner of the groups would like to avoid the winners of this one.

Not enough recovery time for Galway (assuming the favs win ) to get right for a qf against a top side . Galway had a very good chance of all Ireland glory this year but I'd be surprised if they followed through now simply because they didn't win their group .