Mayo v Donegal all ireland quarter final Sunday Aug 4 4.00pm

[Blowitupref]

From MayoGAA on twitter

Team: Hennelly, Cunniffe, Cafferkey, Higgins, Keegan, Vaughan, Boyle, AO'Shea, SO'Shea, McLoughlin, Feeney, Dillon, O'Connor, Freeman, Moran

Similar starting 15 to the 2011 team however two years older and wiser.

Bit lost here? Similar starting 15 to the 2011 team against who?

http://www.rte.ie/sport/gaa/football/2011/0819/283719-mayo/

[meathie]

Would any of the Mayo forwards get a game with us?

Haha! It must be awful dull to be out of the championship at this time of year.

I'd say the ypoty the last two years in a row (never been done before) Cillian O Connor might scrape onto the mighty meath team,you know the lad,scored 3-3 in 35 mins coming back from injury in his last game.

Look,this is the high end of the championship,the really top teams.A meath man really has no place at this table.

Would the fact that Meath have won 6 All Irelands since Mayo's last title not give him more right to comment on this 'high end' of the Championship than you possibly?

Try and conversion for screenexile.

Haha! Good to see some poor lad from the wilderness that is Roscommon football grimly cling to the coat tails of a county only slightly above them as they both look longingly upwards at a level they can only dream about.

Aw Kimbap so cute! I love when Mayo come out to play each year... the hope, the confidence,the slight arrogance, then... the disappointment....hoping for the same again to be honest. I dont get the arrogance at all, where does it come from? really? where?

[Kimbap]

Would any of the Mayo forwards get a game with us?

Haha! It must be awful dull to be out of the championship at this time of year.

I'd say the ypoty the last two years in a row (never been done before) Cillian O Connor might scrape onto the mighty meath team,you know the lad,scored 3-3 in 35 mins coming back from injury in his last game.

Look,this is the high end of the championship,the really top teams.A meath man really has no place at this table.

Would the fact that Meath have won 6 All Irelands since Mayo's last title not give him more right to comment on this 'high end' of the Championship than you possibly?

Try and conversion for screenexile.

Haha! Good to see some poor lad from the wilderness that is Roscommon football grimly cling to the coat tails of a county only slightly above them as they both look longingly upwards at a level they can only dream about.

Aw Kimbap so cute! I love when Mayo come out to play each year... the hope, the confidence,the slight arrogance, then... the disappointment....hoping for the same again to be honest. I dont get the arrogance at all, where does it come from? really? where?

Bet you wish Meath were coming out again to play this year 

[From the Bunker]

Would any of the Mayo forwards get a game with us?

Haha! It must be awful dull to be out of the championship at this time of year.

I'd say the ypoty the last two years in a row (never been done before) Cillian O Connor might scrape onto the mighty meath team,you know the lad,scored 3-3 in 35 mins coming back from injury in his last game.

Look,this is the high end of the championship,the really top teams.A meath man really has no place at this table.

Would the fact that Meath have won 6 All Irelands since Mayo's last title not give him more right to comment on this 'high end' of the Championship than you possibly?

Try and conversion for screenexile.

Haha! Good to see some poor lad from the wilderness that is Roscommon football grimly cling to the coat tails of a county only slightly above them as they both look longingly upwards at a level they can only dream about.

Aw Kimbap so cute! I love when Mayo come out to play each year... the hope, the confidence,the slight arrogance, then... the disappointment....hoping for the same again to be honest. I dont get the arrogance at all, where does it come from? really? where?

Bet you wish Meath were coming out again to play this year 

Ah now leave him alone. Sure it's been hard on the poor lad the last couple of years. A Leinster title to end the famine since 2001 in 2010 that feck all will acknowledge is not a bad return on 12 years of football. Sure we are only humble feed in comparison?

[From the Bunker]

From MayoGAA on twitter

Team: Hennelly, Cunniffe, Cafferkey, Higgins, Keegan, Vaughan, Boyle, AO'Shea, SO'Shea, McLoughlin, Feeney, Dillon, O'Connor, Freeman, Moran

Similar starting 15 to the 2011 team however two years older and wiser.

Bit lost here? Similar starting 15 to the 2011 team against who?

http://www.rte.ie/sport/gaa/football/2011/0819/283719-mayo/

Sound. Yeah nearly back to basics!  And there was i thinking we had moved on and brought in new players?

[BluestackBoy]

From MayoGAA on twitter

Team: Hennelly, Cunniffe, Cafferkey, Higgins, Keegan, Vaughan, Boyle, AO'Shea, SO'Shea, McLoughlin, Feeney, Dillon, O'Connor, Freeman, Moran

Similar starting 15 to the 2011 team however two years older and wiser.

Bit lost here? Similar starting 15 to the 2011 team against who?

http://www.rte.ie/sport/gaa/football/2011/0819/283719-mayo/

Sound. Yeah nearly back to basics!  And there was i thinking we had moved on and brought in new players?

The faces might be the same but they are a whole different proposition now. Hungrier, meaner, fitter, more focussed & experienced.

[Count 10]

Mayo by 4

[moysider]

From MayoGAA on twitter

Team: Hennelly, Cunniffe, Cafferkey, Higgins, Keegan, Vaughan, Boyle, AO'Shea, SO'Shea, McLoughlin, Feeney, Dillon, O'Connor, Freeman, Moran

Along expected lines, i expect Dillon in the FF line, maybe to swap with Moran. We have our first chocie 15 starting with a good subs bench, all there or there abouts fitness wise, fresh enough................can't ask for much more than that.

I d have Clarkie as first 15. But the rest are pretty much it apart from Conroy when fit and possibly Barry Moran. There ll be a few switches. If Freeman brings his A game it would be a massive boost to us. He is the joker in the pack imo.

[macdanger2]

Yeah, we could do with a big game from Freeman. Would be great if he can perform on Sunday

[Never beat the deeler]

Shamelessly lifted from another forum:


I think Gallagher and McGuinness are trying to deflect all attention from their team, and at the same time hoping that the Mayo lads take to the field frothing at the mouth and forget about playing football.

I'm sure if I can figure this out, Horan is wise to it, but I'd say they have succeeded to a large extent with part one, judging by the amount of print it has generated here and elsewhere.

I hope there's a sizeable Mayo contingent at the game on Sunday. I will be hoping my wireless can pick up some coverage so I can get a stream or at least mid west to find out what's going on.

Failing that, it'll be a long phone call to the aul lad

[ballinaman]

 
Just saw that....hilarious. Heard there have been 50,000 sold thus far. So I would hazard a guess at Maybe 15,000 Cavan, Donegal and Mayo and 5,000 Kerry. Probably will rise to 60,000 over today and tomorrow though.

[nrico2006]

Shamelessly lifted from another forum:


I think Gallagher and McGuinness are trying to deflect all attention from their team, and at the same time hoping that the Mayo lads take to the field frothing at the mouth and forget about playing football.

I'm sure if I can figure this out, Horan is wise to it, but I'd say they have succeeded to a large extent with part one, judging by the amount of print it has generated here and elsewhere.

I hope there's a sizeable Mayo contingent at the game on Sunday. I will be hoping my wireless can pick up some coverage so I can get a stream or at least mid west to find out what's going on.

Failing that, it'll be a long phone call to the aul lad

Gllagher and McGuiness haven't just randonly spouted off to the media about the McHugh injury and concussions etc, there is a reason behind it.  The referee is a normal man who will be really aware of all this talk during the week and if it buys you some extra protection from him then it has worked a treat.  A side effect of this talk is that it also hypes the game up a lot more than it would have been, Mayo will be fired up and maybe they will crack as per the norm when the pressure is put on.  If it works then the outbursts were worth it, if it doesn't then no damage done.  What was McGuiness' view on Leo McLoone taking out Joe McMahon a few years back when Joe had MM in his back pocket the whole game? 

[J OGorman]

you Tyrone boys aren't slow about getting the digs into Donegal...you've had your day in the sun, move along ;-)

[ck]

Donegal people would be best served not to defend The Jimmy and Rory show. They are bringing embarressing shame on Donegal, they are looking like fools themselves and clearly it's a ill thought plan to deflect attention away from a team who are not firing.
For me the media haven't the balls to nail Jimmy and Rory over these crazy comments and are more keen to give them a platform so as to keep it going and stoke the fire further. A good journalist would call it like it is (pathetic and desperate mind games to deflect attention) but we are not blessed with strong journalists in this country as they would prefer to sit on the fence.

[BluestackBoy]

Donegal people would be best served not to defend The Jimmy and Rory show. They are bringing embarressing shame on Donegal, they are looking like fools themselves and clearly it's a ill thought plan to deflect attention away from a team who are not firing.
For me the media haven't the balls to nail Jimmy and Rory over these crazy comments and are more keen to give them a platform so as to keep it going and stoke the fire further. A good journalist would call it like it is (pathetic and desperate mind games to deflect attention) but we are not blessed with strong journalists in this country as they would prefer to sit on the fence.

Wrong on every count ck wrong on every count.

1 They are doing this to fire their team up. Why would any manager spend the week before the biggest game of the year "deflecting attention from a team who are not firing" What an idiotic suggestion!!!

2 The media are giving them a platform because it sells papers, no other reason.

3 I think we have some excellent GAA journalists in this country who are no way slow to call a spade a spade.