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2 year deal sensible but the real work is only starting now. What he has done thus far was good. Next seasons challenges get much bigger.

[We are very fortunate than we have a very grounded lowkey manager in Mark Dowd]

Not to clog up the board with Ballagh stuff, but with parish rules, players like Andy Moran, despite growing up supporting Ros, never had the choice to play with Roscommon. I do agree the hype is really just media hype, since when were Mayo supporters last outnumbered by Ros supporters in Castlebar - although Mayoman John Prenty can take some credit for that. The danger for us now is the media is hypeing us up a bit, and you just know they are waiting for things to go South and then exclaim: ye thought ye had the All-Ireland won in May. We are very fortunate than we have a very grounded lowkey manager in Mark Dowd and in captain Diarmuid Murtagh. One game at a time as the man said.

And had the cop on and bravery to appoint him.

I hope United's money men hold firm with Barcelona regarding. The fee agreed last year is an absolute pittance - Rashford is worth at least twice that. If Barcelona are crying poor mouth then they should be told where to go. I'd prefer to bring him back to United than have the complete piss taken. Or get a proper fee on the open market. United need lots of players to maintain where they are in the league (you'd hope for better naturally) and play in Europe (and assumjing they don't get knocked out at first stage of cup competitions.

I'd only seen it once at the time, the excuse of Comer not hearing the whistle probably doesn't wash from him.

Hurson did miss 2 blatant black cards, the one on Comer was a rugby challenge and he completely missed the deliberate trip on McDaid around the 50 minute mark where Walsh scored a 2 point free.

But the big take away from the gam is the kick out stats that were 34-19 in Roscommons favour, Galway would have been hammered against Kerry/Donegal/Armagh with that level of incompetency. Galway had to work a lot harder in the 2nd half to get their scores as opposed to Roscommon did in the 1st.

Roscommon's 2 first half goals are horrific from a Galway point of view, far worse then I first thought. I was very surprised to see O'Flaherty start, from giving the ball away to his half arsed attempt at stopping Henneghan its not good enough. Didn't get Roche starting, could have understood if he drifted out but he didn't and he was no scoring threat at all!

Just hope McDaids injury isn't too bad, he was one of Galway better players if not the best.

But well done to Roscommon, at 6 points down they looked beaten but kicked a couple of great scores to get them back in it.

Bingo,
Roscommon #6 blatant trip on McDaid.
Marty Morrissey says he was clearly tripped, he never even mention a thing about a Black card , which is the penalty for a trip.
Walsh kicked a massive two pointer from the resulting free, Marty morrisey was more worried about telling everyone that he was kicking in the direction or Roscommon town , than mentioning that it was against the wind and it put Galway back Up By a point
Unreal
He sucks as a commentator, he missed so many vital passages, he seems to have his stupid prepared marks ready before the game starts and then just inserts them when they have no real relevance to the action.
One major advantage on physically being in Croke Park in the summer.

He is as useless as tits on a bull.

Couldn't agree more and sums up RTE's approach to gaelic football. A game for boggers - shure they all love Marty...he's wild craic.

It was the opposite when they met in Tuam which was unusual for this Sligo team who are decent in that area.

I thought it was a really fast paced, intense battle. Obviously as a Sligo man I'm gutted for our lads - we undeniably had the chances to win and will rue them for a while. Clearly Galway also had chances they missed and both teams defended pretty well.

Disappointing from a Sligo perspective to not advance but some players with potential and some of those are tall/strong which is something we badly need. We always seem to be smaller than our Connacht rivals every time we play and demographics can only explain some of that. Important we continue developing these players so they become good u20's with a chance at making senior.

Need to view that table in the context of no European games and no league cup or FA cup games. Finishing in the CL places, from where things were when he took over is a good achievement all the same. Still conceding too many goals despite having a decent keeper.

Reality is that further significant investment in the squad is needed to maintain this position in the league, never mind get back to challenging for the title. Premier league is so physically demanding that players need to be rotated or they will get injured. At times this season United have been down to the bare bones even with only the league to play in. I think the recruitment has been more successful with the new assholes running it. I think 4/5 new starter quality players needed which won't be easy.

Carrick will probably get the job. I don't see anything out there that's likelier to work. Holland is an experience and good coach. I've never bought into the manager being the problem, bar Mourinho who should never have been appointed and Amorim who got sucked into a war with the media which led him to make self harming decisions.

This "screening" thing is going to become a huge problem in the football. For Kerrys first goal the player passed the ball to his own man and then just ran straight into the Cork defender taking him out. Then the free man passed it in and they got a goal. That was a clear foul to me anyway. A few key decisions went against Cork on the night.

I saw a clip of this one. It should have been a black card. Hard to understand why refs don't deal with blatant cases like this.

For a screen in basketball you have to be set - you cannot run into someone. I don't see an issue with the same in gaelic football - I don't see why anyone should have to "get out of the way" but we have a rule to deal with deliberate body collisions that should be enforced.

If we're going off what's happening in basketball moving screens are pretty much legal at this point

As is travelling which is another comparison but if we keep digressing we'll be here for a year.

My point is the rules are there to deal with it. Why do we need a big media furore so the refs get told how to implement or focus on a certain aspect?

This "screening" thing is going to become a huge problem in the football. For Kerrys first goal the player passed the ball to his own man and then just ran straight into the Cork defender taking him out. Then the free man passed it in and they got a goal. That was a clear foul to me anyway. A few key decisions went against Cork on the night.

I saw a clip of this one. It should have been a black card. Hard to understand why refs don't deal with blatant cases like this.

For a screen in basketball you have to be set - you cannot run into someone. I don't see an issue with the same in gaelic football - I don't see why anyone should have to "get out of the way" but we have a rule to deal with deliberate body collisions that should be enforced.

Thankfully Galway got the job done even though losing would have been the same to them unless they got thumped.

Commentators said a neutral venue for semi final? I'm not sure how it works. A welcome boost. Has been a tight championship with exception of Leitrim who will be decent next year.

If Mayo beat Galway by less than 7 points ,Sligo are out and Mayo will play Galway in the semifinal

The way it is for the U20 Connacht group stage and I guess it's the same for U17

"If three teams finish on the same number of points, results between those three teams, and not scoring difference, will decide the placings"

On that basis any win over Galway would send Mayo into the semi final.

 

I have you now, yes. Thanks.

Sorry - I'm a bit confused here. Are we talking about U17? If we are, how Sligo do against Leitrim obviously hugely important but nobody has mentioned it above.

Bad and all as United are they're just 3 points behind last year's winners who spent almost half a billion in the summer. 

Liverpool's worst run of form since the 1950s and we're still ahead of a team that had definitely turned a corner a few months ago after a rare win at Anfield 

Welcome back Seanie !

This is aging well. 

A bizarre conclusion to a bizarre era.

To be fair to Amorim - he got a lot of toxic pricks out the door and there has been some (painfully slow) improvement. A lot of that is having a competent goalkeeper perhaps but I do fell the passing has been better in the last 4 to 6 weeks and the team look a little bit more like they know what they're doing. However it often feels like once a step forward is made a step back comes immediately. How he set the team up against Wolves was a total disgrace. Playing Fernandes centre of midfield all season is inexplicable. He gives the ball away so much and just hasn't got the awareness of danger to play there. He has great qualities obviously but a gaping hole in the centre of midfield is unsustainable. His handling of Mainoo has ben a total disgrace. He's clearly the best central midfielder at the club. I lost faith in him a while back and the way he handled himself in the last interview left himself open to this.

However, it must also be said that the guys running the club are a bunch of idiots. There's no evidence that they have improved things one iota since they have arrived. They don't seem to have a clue what they are doing and definitely don't seem to understand Manchester United. 

So it's back to square one (?) with the prospect of taking over at United looking less and less appealing to prospective candidates. Maybe it's not square one but certainly still a good bit away in terms of overall quality. I hope the next manager is actually given time. With the way the club is being run it's hard to be hopeful.

Bad and all as United are they're just 3 points behind last year's winners who spent almost half a billion in the summer. 

Well done to the winners and thanks to Oakleaflad for organising again. See ye in August!