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4 played senior by my count:
7. Conor Moran (Burrishoole)
8. James Gill (Westport)
11. BJ Padden (Belmullet)
14. Alan Dillon (Ballintubber)

Gavin Duffy is now a professional rugby player as already stated, and James Gill also played for Ireland at underage as far as I know.
Gary Dillon (Alan's brother) is captain of Ballintubber team this year who are in the senior championshiop quarter finals.
Was Robert Moran on the senior panel for a while or am I mixing him up with someone else?

Missed the show last nite, but I said it from the moment this bomb went off that the brits knew about the bomb and it was allowed to happen so it would turn public opinion more against the I.R.A. Its my thought that the brits have/had a high ranking mole who organised this event for this very purpose. One thing that still bugs me about this whole thing is why would the provos target the center of omagh on that day (a holy day). What was the target for that day..... i don't believe that they would just set out to hurt there own people, (and not a policeman or solider hurt) there was more behind it the brits knew they only way to beat the I.R.A was to turn the public against them, and what better way to do it.

So it was the Brits fault, and the poor ould IRA (god love them) were being used - sure they hardly knew it was happening at all....

Hopefully there'll be a decent Mayo support at it, but it won't be easy to get the tickets of course 
I find it amazing that Mayo are practically being written off already, but that's not a bad position to be in, so we'll let the lads have a quiet build up and hopefully the lack of pressure will allow them to go out and show the rest of the country what they showed Kerry down in Limerick.

I was lying in bed (i.e. lying on a sleeping bag on the floor) on Katonah Ave in Woodlawn, Bronx. Was in NY on a J1 for the summer. Turned on the radio (had no telly) and heard them talking about a plane crash, but it took me a few mins to cop on it was the WTC. So I raced down to Behan's pub (first place I could think of with a telly!) and watched the towers collapse from there. Everyone was dumbstruck - barely a word spoken.
One of my friends had been working right beside the towers for some job and I didn't know if they were still working there or not so I was a bit worried myself!
I was meant to be working that day in Manhattan but they closed off all access to the island so I just stayed in the pub watching it all on the telly.
Was out on the street trying to ring home to tell them I was ok when a fighter jet screamed overhead - didn't know what was happening, I was sure there was another plane about to hit.
My parents were at a funeral in Connemara so I couldn't get through to them. Sept 11th was to be my last day of work and I had told them the first thing I was going to do was go up to the top of the WTC - my poor mother was in an awful state when she saw it on the news 
Anyway, when they reopened the airports I was on one of the first Aer Lingus flights home - Dad was telling me to "get the fck out of there, you don't know what's going to happen".
Oh, and the friend wasn't working near there anymore so he was fine too!

Is there much of a scramble for tickets? You would think that 1,500 would be plenty considering only 500 made it to the semi-final (first game) but the final will bring out a few no doubt

I wonder can we make an arrangement with our foes from the Kingdom to exchange support! The Tyronies will be out in force for both games I'd say

Game is on Setanta Oz for those of us out here. I'll need to be taking Monday off 

That 500 for the semi is the amount that got tickets through the clubs. I'm sure there were a lot of Mayo supporters who just bought tickets on the day or online through ticketmaster so I wouldn't place too much reliance on that figure.
I'm on the lookout for a ticket anyway, so anyone who's feeling generous can send me a PM 
Btw, the weather forecast is very bad for practically all of Sept 

Quote from: RedandGreenSniper on September 07, 2008, 11:20:35 AM
Very disappointed to here Breaffy lost. Can anyone who was at the game put a small report up? Deel Rover? Did Gardiner get a goal? One good note to the game so - he's in my fantasy football team!


Quote from: StoneWall on September 06, 2008, 09:27:38 PM
Crossmolina 2-10 v Breaffy 1-10
Ballagh 1-12 v Ballintubber 1-12

A draw is probably the last thing the county board wanted. I imagine the replay will not take place until after the All Ireland minor final as Ballintubber have 2 lads involved (even if one of them seems to be from Galway!).


Whats this craic about TUbber having a lad from Galway? Saw this somewhere else. Is it a joke or does someone really think its true? Ray Geraghty's from Ballintubber and Dean Gavin from Killawalla. Some result for Tubber, you'd have to think they might have had their chance though, with Hanley likely to start and the two Kilcullens might be back from suspension?


StoneWall, can you enlighten us with that Galway comment? Im from Ballintubber and have never heard of anything like that.

Going back to the game, I felt we were robbed. We lead all the way through and stayed 3 clear for most of the game. Each time they came close we pulled off with a point or two again.
They got their goal 3 minutes into injury time. A bit of a sickener, didnt think they deserved a draw.
It was a good performance on our behalf, although I feel we have played better against other teams this year. I still think there is more in us.
Ballaghadrreen looked shell shocked for most of the game. They brought on Hanley after just 18 minutes. He didnt look as fit as I thought he would be. But he probably did lift them a bit.
Andy Moran was fairly quiet for most of the game. His last ditch goal came form a long ball in over the top that met the finger tips of Liam Tunny (our defender). He couldnt get to it and Andy finished the goal well.
We showed great character in levelling the match again straight away. In the closing stages we squandered a few chances and took bad options from frees. We had the chance to close the game but we live to fight another day in 3 weeks. Looking forward to it.

I had us backed at 9-2 last week and thought it was in the bag. Backed the draw at 9-1 on Saturday morning to cover my ass but it feels like dirty money now! 
Bookies didnt even give us a chance, would have been sweet to collect if we one. One thing is for sure, we wont be at 9-2 the next day.

Think I know the reason for this Galway player confusion! During commentary for the minor replay, Mike Finnerty referred to Ray Geraghty as "the Cortoon man". Cortoon is the townland in Ballintubber that the Geraghty's are from. So someone obviously jumped to the wrong conclusion 
Anyway, as you said Abbeysider, that's a game Ballintubber really deserved to win. They lead for the entire game up until Andy Moran's goal in injury time. That was a real sickener, and at the time I didn't think we'd get a chance to level it.
But fair play to them, the Ballintubber boys won every ball after the goal. We even had our own goal chance, but Gavin passed to Geraghty and he was bundled out over the endline. Then we got a last second free and Alan Dillon kept his cool to pop it over (although getting it moved forward for Ballagh dissent did help!).
Great performances all over the field, probably unfair to list a couple because so many of them played great stuff. Hanley didn't make as much of an impact as I thought he would. But with another 3 weeks to get himself used to real football again (  ) he could be a different man for the replay.
But Ballintubber will know they are well capable of beating Ballagh - if they approach it like the minors did against Kerry, hopefully we'll get a similar result!

Well let's put a counter argument then ... would Mayo not have been better try and use someone like Austin O'Malley as a central figure in the FF line?

Up to now you were making some sort of an argument (badly, but you didn't make a fool of yourself), but that just shows you're either a complete WUM or have no knowledge of what you're arguing about.

I couldn't care less if your opinion is that the winner will come from the other semi - that's fair enough.
But you're declaring it as if it's a fact that the winner from Mayo v Kerry cannot win the final - that's what I was posting about. No need for the arrogant condescending talk.

entitled to you view bunker but the winner wasn't on view today.

Ridiculous statement. Not alone for declaring you already know who's going to lose the final (you must make a fortune in the bookies with your future-seeing super powers), but you're talking about minors here - hardly predictable stuff.
Mayo were given little chance today by many, but should have won the game. Were you going around before the 2006 minor final saying Roscommon would not win the minor final?
Had you also declared that Tyrone could not beat Dublin last weekend??

Mayo really should have won that game by a few points and in the end they could actually have lost it. Hope they don't think their chance is gone because they were definitely the stronger team. BJ Walsh was talked up an awful lot before the match but there wasn't much to rave about today - still a minor I suppose, so can blow hot and cold.
Mayo had some excellent performances, particularly from Keane, Cafferty and O'Shea and Aidan Walsh

Mayo 1-03 0-5 Kerry after 24 mins

Mayo have the majority of possesion - winning all the breaks. Really should have a few more scores on the board. Some poor shooting but playing very well overall.

Quote from: Tubberman on August 19, 2008, 08:56:53 AM
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Maybe so but he clearly saw Conroy, Boyle and Austin as part of his strongest team. Does that fill you with confidence as to how he might see his strongest team again next Summer come championship?
Yes; that is the sort of stuff that really worries me; Johnno is starting to lose his way. For instance, you should remember the case of Kieran Conroy when he first played at full back. According to the Great Man, he was a natural for the position. His instincts told him he had found the right candidate for the role. That's more or less what the Mayo News reported anyway.
F**k him and his instincts!

F**k you and your twisting (well, you started it).
Yet again you're putting words in someone elses mouth and reporting it as fact. O'Mahony never said Conroy was a natural for the full back role and that isn't what was reported either - it's the slant you decided you put on it. This is the actual quote:

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"Sometimes you just get a hunch about a fella and I just had a hunch about him playing in the full-back position. He also marked David Brady in a challenge game against Ballina recently and did well."

O'Mahony decided to take a chance to see if Conroy fitted the full back position. It looked good for a couple of games, but in the end, it looks like Conroy is only suited to playing against a particular style of player. Now if we're going to start fcking and blinding the manager for trying players out, he's in a no-win position from the start.


This is the third serious allegation you have levelled against me.
I answered the first two as comprehensively as I could and so far nobody, including you has seen reason to challenge either of my replies.
In the second case, I went so far as to post the statements of both JOM and of Sean Feeney and I invited readers to draw their own conclusions. You, so far, are the only one to insist that both statements should be taken literally.
Maybe you might answer one question for me?
If both persons meant exactly what they stated, who is going to decide JOM's future as county manager?
"It won't be my decision, it never is," said O'Mahony.
"He's there and if he wants the job it's his," was Feeney's reply.
Riddle me that one if you can.
You are now telling me that "yet again" I am twisting other people's words. (Yet again?? Was there another time?)

I picked out his judgment on Kieran Conroy as just one instance of his poor personal judgment calls. It was just one in a "litany of bad decisions" as another poster had described it.
Anyway, he followed his hunch and gave young Conroy an extended run in the position. (Had a hunch or followed his instincts? I suggest you are really nitpicking here.)
Poor Conroy got an almighty roasting from critics but Johnno followed his hunch; until he had to drag the lad off the pitch against Galway.
If the above statement is wrong, I invite any reader to correct me.

F**k him and his instincts!

I really thought the exclamation was a giveaway here.
I have always been scrupulous to give O'Mahony credit t where it is due.

Ever since he came back to the job in 2006, I have had some sympathy for the manager.

That was stated in one of my recent posts. But I also said:

Yes; that is the sort of stuff that really worries me; Johnno is starting to lose his way.

Tubberman: I stand over what I have posted. Any inferences you appear to draw are your business.

Lar, sorry for the late reply. I've been up the walls lately and haven't had time to catch up on the board until now. To be honest, I was v cranky that morning (nothing new to those who know me probably  ) and you took the brunt. I don't mean to be singling your posts out, but obviously I disagree with your interpretations of the quotes from JOM and Sean F.
You also said that JOM said that Conroy was a natural for full back - I was pointing out that he didn't say that, and I stand over that. However, there's no argument from me as to the success (or lack thereof) of that experiment, it's obviously not going to be the solution to our full back problems.
You're obviously extremely frustrated at the lack of progress - I am as well, but I still think (arguably it's blind faith!) JOM can mould a team that can actually function as a team rather than a few good individuals - which I think has been one of our main failings - for example Tyrone's first 15 individually wouldn't be any better than our own imo. 
I saw your post about the JOM "instincts" and thanks for clarifying what you meant - I took it up as an insult to JOM the man, and in fairness that would be completely out of character for you judging on your other posts.
Hope that clears it up - I promise to get cranky with someone else next time 

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Maybe so but he clearly saw Conroy, Boyle and Austin as part of his strongest team. Does that fill you with confidence as to how he might see his strongest team again next Summer come championship?
Yes; that is the sort of stuff that really worries me; Johnno is starting to lose his way. For instance, you should remember the case of Kieran Conroy when he first played at full back. According to the Great Man, he was a natural for the position. His instincts told him he had found the right candidate for the role. That's more or less what the Mayo News reported anyway.
F**k him and his instincts!

F**k you and your twisting (well, you started it).
Yet again you're putting words in someone elses mouth and reporting it as fact. O'Mahony never said Conroy was a natural for the full back role and that isn't what was reported either - it's the slant you decided you put on it. This is the actual quote:

"Sometimes you just get a hunch about a fella and I just had a hunch about him playing in the full-back position. He also marked David Brady in a challenge game against Ballina recently and did well."

O'Mahony decided to take a chance to see if Conroy fitted the full back position. It looked good for a couple of games, but in the end, it looks like Conroy is only suited to playing against a particular style of player. Now if we're going to start fcking and blinding the manager for trying players out, he's in a no-win position from the start.

It is very interesting indeed to note the body language when you read what Johnno had to say about his possible third year at the helm and also what Sean Feeney had to say in reply.
First, O'Mahony says something like. "My future is not up to me; it is the call of the county board to either back me or sack me. If it has no confidence in me, I will walk away."
Not one word of enthusiasm for the task in hand and not a dicky about plans for the future either. Does he feel another year under him will be better or worse for the state of Mayo football? We probably will never know as he isn't about to tell us.

What Feeney really said in reply was:
"We won't break our side of the agreement. He's there and if the f**ker wants to stay on he can do so. It's his decision one way or the other. Probably he can't do any worse than he's been doing fore the last two years and anyway we're getting quite a bad reputation for kicking managers out; however, if he can take a hint, he should do so"
Who will make the next move?

No Lar, that's not really what either of them said. You've made up a story there, we can all do that if we want. You've just taken a quote from a newspaper/website and decided that it really meant something else.

YESSS!!!!!  


Absolute nerves of steel from Padraig with the putter. 2 majors in a row  

An Irish legend.
Am sure I've woken the house with that roar