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the ref in the cork mayo game was determined to make it a close game. he can't claim he didn't see the strike cos he gave a yellow. mayo forward dragged down around the neck too and a yellow given when it was a black. he just didn't want to reduce anyone to 14 and then the penalty was the exact sort of situation he'd been letting play on whole match and then suddenly he's blowing it up for a penalty. very strange refereeing. part of me thinks there was something fishy altogether about it.

Faloon, had him a few times this year, very indecisive.

was genuinely one of the strangest refereeing performances i have seen in a while.

paul faloon is a very poor referee

sean o'shea seriously lacking pace. no agility about him at all.
thought it was interesting that mayo didn't really preoccupy themselves with containing clifford like many teams do. they left him to have at it and just backed themselves to outscore kerry the other end, which they did. there is a bit of complacency among the kerry front 6. they seem to sort of expect clifford to do it all and i sense mayo knew this complacency was there. the mayo backs were jaunting up and down the pitch knowing full well none of those kerry forwards would track them. having a talisman is a blessing and a curse - kerry will never be far off while clifford is fit but on the other hand, the balance of the team is totally off and a lack of responsibility from a few individuals rearing its head.

Roscommon deserved their win, there is no arguing that point IMO. They put their bodies on the line and got what they deserved in the end, fair play to them 👏
That was also the worst refereeing performance that I have seen since 2014. He was all over the shop, no consistency in his decisions whatsoever.

Mayo fans never complain about refs when they win.
As others have pointed out, 4 scores from play won't win a game.
Without COC on the pitch to win frees and convert them they lose a large % of their scoring totals

I am highlighting how inconsistent the ref was on Sunday, there is no doubt that Mayo were terrible all over the field, Roscommon deserved their win.
All players want is a ref to be consistent and that wasn't evident on Sunday. You could see how exasperated the players were getting at the end of the game.

roscommon were given 24 frees while mayo were awarded 10. the difference in tackling between the two teams wasn't great enough to reflect that free count. it's tough to ref in those conditions but i think the ref was determined to not seem like a homer and ended up going way the other way. roscommon time wasted something terrible the whole game, clearly part of their game plan, but i don't know how you ref that with the rules around "head injuries", teams taking advantage of it.

There were two fouls on Mayo forwards there and Roscommon went up and scored...

never saw a ref being star struck by roscommon

something needs to be done about the fake head injuries

[Kerry for Sam]

Lad who hasn't played much fball, that was a red.

it wasn't in a million years, pal. yellow at best. people acting like he went in studs up and broke heaneys leg or something. it was a collision that warranted little more than a yellow.

Thanks Kerry for Sam or what ever other alias you may be using nowdays.

what

Lad who hasn't played much fball, that was a red.

it wasn't in a million years, pal. yellow at best. people acting like he went in studs up and broke heaneys leg or something. it was a collision that warranted little more than a yellow.

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I don't know what more Mayo lads want, Reape was MOTM after, only conceded a point there and Heaney left the pitch, it's not like Reape got sent to the line unjustly or something.
There's more shite on social media with Mayo lads like yerman there whining about a bit of discussion on the Reape incident. Are they that upset over opinions that are irrelevant at this stage? Mayo won the match FFS, get on with it.

Some one said to me yesterday thet Galway have only won one game in Croke Park since 2001. That can't be true?

Yeah it's not true but sure you knew that well yourself.

An Fhairche Abu,

Please ignore the idiots on social media. A lot of them are kids, a lot others WUM.
Over the years I have found your analysis to be evenhanded and accurate.
I thought Reape could have/should have walked, it was late full stop. I hope Heaney is not badly injured.
As one Galway blogger posted yesterday, it was a game of small margins, Galway had 4 clear cut goal chances, if they got one of them, most likely result would have been different. If Comer had looked up for his chance A Galway player was running right thru at an empty net totally unmarked inside the the 14 yard line.
Matthew Tierney was non existent, never got into the game.
What's the story with Shane Walsh's inability to take frees with his right foot, some sort of injury ?.
Could be very critical come June or July.
Cooke as you mentioned is either a very lazy or bad tackler. Mayo's last point on the first half from a free, he let a Mayo man waltz around him between the 50-70, then ended up fouling him about 35-40 yards out.
As for my Mayo, a win is a win. As mentioned it has been a good league, however injuries may have taken their toll.
We could be without 4 starting backs for at least next Sunday, Coyne, McBrien, Hession and Brickenden. Certainly cannot be ignored. Roscommon's forwards are very decent, and if we have to face Galway in three weeks without them, I am not sure we have the replacements.
Positives, our forwards with the exception of Fionn McDonagh can kick scores, his role seems to be more of a defensive half forward if that isin't an anomaly. The movement of the forwards has been impressive and the lack of panic and giving that extra hand pass in tight quarters has resulted in a lot more scores. We do need Conroy on the field for longer, as it is unlikely that Cillian will be starting.
Aiden O Shea had been immense and truly unselfish all year.
Mayo are a work in progress, their tackling is frienzed and unselfish, management deserve a lot of credit for this, even yesterday, Galway had more than a few turnovers inside the 30 yard line.
I also thought Mayo got more from the ref than Galway, but given how we have gotten shafted by Deegan and McQuillan in particular, I will take it.
it is very possible that we will meet again in June or July.

no way should reape have walked. ref made the right call with the yellow. it would have been a yellow out the field. a red for that would have been crazy and completely overzealous.

It is an ambush waiting to happen.

hardly an ambush when everyone involved knows and played each other only a few weeks before.

Mayo do not miss Cillian O'Connor at all.

They did for the last 5 minutes. He'd have added composure.

i actually thought mayo were more composed than usual closing the game out

derry really lacked leadership when glass went off. that has to be a worry for them. no one stood up and took the reins and in fact, they played like they were down to 14 at times in that second half.

tbh for years o'shea was one of the most fouled players in intercounty football, lots of refs will let things go against a big strong man and he would nearly have to have 3 or 4 lads jumping on his back before a ref would blow the whistle. dublin used to cut lumps off him during the 6 in a row years and he rarely got anything. i was surprised he got those frees simply because he rarely gets them.

definitely agree on galway's cynicism. they often are very cynical and it's rarely talked about. there has always been bit of a media love in with galway football imo, lots of people romanticise them due to the 98 and 01 all irelands.