Roscommon vs. Mayo - Connacht SFC Semi-final (Dr. Hyde Park, June 8th 2014)

[Syferus]

nope

Then you don't know the rules. It was a foul by the Mayo-man. If he did haven't his arm in an illegal position nothing else could have happened.

[Shrewdness]

Syferus, why do you say we're on the tougher side of the draw?

[Zulu]

Right, the Roscommon man grabbed the arm of the Mayo tackler and dived to try and win the free but the ref got it wrong according to you. Fair enough I understand now.

[Ballaghman]

Strangely happy with that win. Much more enjoyable than last years cakewalk and I think it will bring us on an awful lot. Some unneeded panic is setting in with some people over the half forward line and McLoughlins positioning. I think today was a good day to try out the two young lads, it will stand to them. Having watched the game back, they weren't great today but they looked nervous (Conor especially) and made some poor decisions as a result but it was their debut. Andy and to a much lesser extent Dillon looked hungry when they came on and made good contributions. I'm next to certain Kevin Mc will be half forward again when we get to croker, lets try a few things out before things really heat up. We were pretty much septic today and still won, that's all that's needed at this time of year. We should know this by now, of all counties that penny should have dropped for us at this stage!

[Ballaghman]

100% agree with Zulu. The ref made some mistakes today but Daly tried to get Doherty booked by grabbing his arm. It's an old trick but fair play to Kinsella, it was a good spot.

[Syferus]

Syferus, why do you say we're on the tougher side of the draw?

We're in 2B irrc, so we'll face one of the winners of the ties between the teams in 1B:

Leinster - Westmeath, Louth, Carlow
Ulster - Down, Cavan, Monaghan/Tyrone
Munster - Clare/Waterford
Connacht - Leitrim

Ideally we'd like Down to draw Cavan or Mon/Tyrone to thin the herd a little and keep some teams we'd fancy in the running.

1A contains:

Leinster - Wicklow, Offaly, Laois, Longford
Ulster - Fermanagh, Derry
Munster - Limerick
Connacht - London

Basically only Derry should be beating us of the teams in 1A.

[Shrewdness]

The draw for rounds 1A and 1B take place tomorrow morning at 8.30am.

[IolarCoisCuain]

Congrats to both teams. To Mayo for coming back to win when it looked like it was slipping away from them. To Roscommon for making little of the Div 1 and Div 3 status of the two teams. I feel it was a game we left behind us. We gave gave away some very silly frees to let Mayo back in when we were 2-3 points clear..Some of our shot selection was poor with Kevin Higgins being the main culprit. He played well overall, but needs to consider his options better. Have to say that i was very disappointed with the performances of both D Shine and Cregg today. Cregg's lack of scoring in last 3 games is a concern. My final point for now is a question... Did John Evans blunder by not starting the Under 21's?

Hard for Cregger to score from playing a sweeper role for much of the game in fairness.

We all know why Diarmuid and Enda weren't starting and it didn't have anything to do with form. Both will start the next day, particularly with Donie likely out - the ladeens in the know seem to fear it's a cruciate, so he could be in a race to be fit for 2015, nevermind the next day.

Conoreen and Keenan would be big boosts if they were fit for the next day.

We don't all know why Diarmuid and Enda didn't start. I, for one, haven't a notion. Why didn't they start if it had nothing to do with form?

[Syferus]

Congrats to both teams. To Mayo for coming back to win when it looked like it was slipping away from them. To Roscommon for making little of the Div 1 and Div 3 status of the two teams. I feel it was a game we left behind us. We gave gave away some very silly frees to let Mayo back in when we were 2-3 points clear..Some of our shot selection was poor with Kevin Higgins being the main culprit. He played well overall, but needs to consider his options better. Have to say that i was very disappointed with the performances of both D Shine and Cregg today. Cregg's lack of scoring in last 3 games is a concern. My final point for now is a question... Did John Evans blunder by not starting the Under 21's?

Hard for Cregger to score from playing a sweeper role for much of the game in fairness.

We all know why Diarmuid and Enda weren't starting and it didn't have anything to do with form. Both will start the next day, particularly with Donie likely out - the ladeens in the know seem to fear it's a cruciate, so he could be in a race to be fit for 2015, nevermind the next day.

Conoreen and Keenan would be big boosts if they were fit for the next day.

We don't all know why Diarmuid and Enda didn't start. I, for one, haven't a notion. Why didn't they start if it had nothing to do with form?

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[macdanger2]

Would I be right in saying we didn't create a single goal scoring chance??

Sos for motm I reckon

[muppet]

Would I be right in saying we didn't create a single goal scoring chance??

Sos for motm I reckon

For both Kevin Mc's point late in the first half and Aiden O'Shea's bad wide early in the 2nd, if there was a runner he would have been in on goal. Last year Cillian or a flying Donie Vaughan might have popped up in these positions. But today it didn't happen once.

[lynchbhoy]

If I was a mayo man I'd be hoping that mayo were not fully at the races and gearing themselves to peak later in the season
If not the worry is they are very flat and not as hungry or as intense this year as they need to be if they are to challenge for Sam

Roscommon look like they are a coming team, could be a reversal in next years Connacht championship

In a way , losing today and a run through the qualifiers might have stood mayo in better stead if they are as shaky again next day out
Time will tell

[From the Bunker]

As I said earlier. Satisfied with today's performance. To not play so well, go behind at an important juncture and to squeeze out a win was very uplifting. Anyway, the celebrations at the end told you most of the Mayo lads knew they were in a battle. I have stopped listening to post match postmortems on Midwest. Billy Fitz seems to be always worried about how bad we are. Anyway, we are into the Connacht final. We wont be unbackable in the final this year and that will suit us more. Galway/Sligo from todays performance won't know what Mayo they will be facing.

[Shrewdness]

Diarmuid Murtagh and Andy Moran would have proved a point to their respective managers.. Must be rare for Mayo's half back line to score nothing in a game.

[bucko]

Maybe it's just that Mayo don't do good performances in the Hyde. Looking at results there back as far as 97 would suggest that.
97: Connaught final v Sligo; favourites to win, struggled and nearly got caught at the end. Some dodgy refereeing in our favour as well.
2001 v Roscommon; 2 pts up into injury time, then David Nestor's moment of madness down at the graveyard end resulted in Gerry Lohan goaling down the other.
2001 v Westmeath; lost the qualifier after extra time
2002 v Limerick; scraped out by a single point in the qualifier
2011 v Ros: in the wind and rain it came down to dead ball shoot out between Cillian O'Connor and Donal Shine, Cillian edged it.
2012 v Sligo: a dogfight of a game, edged it by 2 in the end despite having plenty of possession and opportunities.
Today a similar story to 2012. The Hyde definitely doesn't seem to bring out our best....