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you are right lar. Your memory  is a bit dodgy.when maughan stepped down in 1999 Ford was the fav to get the job but when the time came for his interview  he refused to go as he had  found out that pat holmes already had the job.I think that certain county board members still held a grudge against him over the brian mcdonald affair.Peter fords first year in charge of galway was 2005 and they won a connacht final and a u 21 all ireland.I would have always liked to see him given a chance to manage mayo as he always struck me as a straight forward guy and one who knew his football inside and out.

Still cannot believe any body takes petersolanthegreat seriously, or believes anything he says.All of the mayo posters are very good but there is always some fool trying to ruin every thread.I do not know  how he escaped from the hogan stand and i wish they would bring him back

Just shows you how bad things are in Mayo when we cannot even come up with a better candidate than Maughan........Mayo God help us.

jeez saffronandblue ,your posts are way over the top as regards maughan.To say he was a complete failure is utter nonsense especially after the last 4 years of misery.The most we can ask for from any manager is to have the team very competive and play to the best of there ability and maughans teams usually done that.I for one would settle for that right now but it still seems to me that some of the knockmore posters would settle for 4 or 5 of there clubmen on the county team,rather than being successfull.

Jeez you could do with taking yourself back to the Hogan stand,peter as i think your posts would be more appreciated there.

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did not mean to rehash this whole saga again but a manager has to truly pick the players he believes will do a job for him andnot be paying heed to the media or the supporters as to how he should pick his team.To me it should not matter which clubs or area the players come from as long as they can do a job.i think we go on about the players that were not selected on various teams ,a little bit to much here in mayo and it is a little bit disheartening that the one man who came closest to landing sam and pulling mayo football out of the gutter is the one who constantly gets the most critiscism and yet the fiasco of the last 4 years is usually greeted with total indifference by a lot of mayo supporters.Lets leave it at that and get back to finding out who is going to take us to the promised land?

The underage structures are a pile of crap.  I have been teaching for years at secondary school level and in all that time I have seen the Mayo coaching staff coming in to the school on only a few occasions.  I don't see too many kids getting excited about what goes on at these development squad outings.  If anything it puts some kids off the idea of progressing their footballing careers as they take a knocking if they don't make the grade at under 15 level, when many will only be beginning to develop physically. 

There are only a small number of the same teachers who are training teams in the schools and the help they get is minimal.  Martin McGrath was the last decent coach that I have seen coming to the schools, he was enthusiastic and was ever present.  From what I can see, clubs train teams for about 3-4 months.  For the remainder it is down to the schools.  Any teacher will tell you that the first training session in September shows up the lack of training that takes place during the summer months.  Clubs need to do more at primary school level to get kids involved.  Even in Knockmore which is one of the larger clubs, the amount of kids available when you get to under 14 level up is extremely small. 

On a more positive note, Mr. Maughan, who is favourite to get the Mayo managers Job, will get the chance to look at Kevin O'Neill once more in action.  Maughan reckons that he was not up to intercounty standard.  Anyone who wants to know why he should never be allowed to manage Mayo again should come to see O'Neill V's Maughan on Saturday week.  Kevin is 10 years past his prime but he will still be the best forward on show in Mchale park next week........Not good enough....we shall see

This is the kind of stuff that drives me crazy.i have always got the impression that most knockmore posters on here would prefer 4 or 5 of their club players on the mayo team rather than winning the all ireland.the truth is constantly being twisted in an effort to suit their own agendas.does any one on here think that maughan would jeopordise an all ireland by not picking certain players. oneill,butler and staunton  all played for mayo pre 1996 and we were still well beaten every year and in fact oneill would have started the 97 final but he broke his leg 3 weeks before the game.I am from south mayo and have no connection to crossmolina but enough is enough and the fact remains that john maughan put the steel back in mayo football and made us genuine all ireland contenders the years he was in charge

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all over in mchale park.mayo 3.09 galway 1.10. good to win 3 in a row.darren coen m.o.m on midwest

declan oreilly is the co-commentator.i think he is an ex minor manager

Going on what Mid-West said (Tommy Marren, not sure who's with him), it sounds poor enough. They said there's a lot of nerves on show, but it's v hard to know with minors. Last couple of years they've generally improved they went along so there's hope yet!

another goal for mayo-coen

mayo 0.05  galway 1.02  25 min. big mistake from mayo goalkeeper

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