Connacht senior football final Galway v Roscommon July 10th

[mayo.mick]

Angelina Nugent ‏@AngelinaNugent1  6m6 minutes ago
Connacht Final replay Sunday at 3.30pm! Looks like Mayo game stand alone Saturday-not confirmed yet.

[westbound]

Scheduling it for Sunday ensures that the losers have the bare minimum recovery time for the qualifier match on the 23rd.
The winners of the Mayo/Kildare match aren't out the following weekend and don't play until the 30th I think, no reason they can't play on the Sunday instead, I don't want to hear about the Kildare minor match, we are talking about Senior games here.
Disgraceful decision.

Don't be ridiculous. In what world would it be ok to fix a kildare minor leinster final in croke park on the same day as a kildare qualifier in castlebar.?

I agree that the CF loser will have a difficult turnaround for the following weekend, so it just makes it more important that we win it!! 

[Syferus]

Is John Prenty taking the f**king piss. Done to try and get as much money as possible with no thought for the teams.

..that said it suits me better than Saturday. CF has become as close to an old school provincial final. Win it or your season is as good as over.

[Maroon Manc]

3:30 Sunday? What a joke.

[Il Bomber Destro]

Neither team would get by an Ulster first round. The angry grey minions Longford must be hoping for these guys in the draw. Twice the team. Black weekend for Connaught football.

Bullshit comment rosconmon beat the bollox of Cavan last two years in championship that's same Cavan team that brought Tyrone to replay. As I said unless you were at game and seen conditions first hand don't consent cause your only making yourself look like a clown

Roscommon have been dumped out of the Championship by three different Ulster teams in the past three years, none of whom have won any of the past 5 Ulster titles.

[An Fhairche Abu]

Scheduling it for Sunday ensures that the losers have the bare minimum recovery time for the qualifier match on the 23rd.
The winners of the Mayo/Kildare match aren't out the following weekend and don't play until the 30th I think, no reason they can't play on the Sunday instead, I don't want to hear about the Kildare minor match, we are talking about Senior games here.
Disgraceful decision.

Don't be ridiculous. In what world would it be ok to fix a kildare minor leinster final in croke park on the same day as a kildare qualifier in castlebar.?

I agree that the CF loser will have a difficult turnaround for the following weekend, so it just makes it more important that we win it!! 

A world where the Seniors are inestimably more important than minors, minors from another province at that. Match has been changed from Saturday to Sunday as a result of Mayo's qualifier draw. This is the Connacht final we are talking about here, not some qualifier.

Syferus is correct that the replay is now an old school do or die contest for both counties.

[sid waddell]

GAA supporters never fail to disappoint in calling a decision over fixture scheduling "a disgrace". 

Some things should never change.

[Chéad rogha]

I'd say a decision on the Mayo Kildare qualifier had more to do with sky having rights to these qualifiers than anything else. That is the pick of the games next weekend so was always going to be fixed for Saturday evening.

[Tubberman]

If the Connacht Final replay was fixed for the Saturday, with the Mayo qualifier in the 'traditional' Sunday afternoon timeslot, there'd be people bitchin as well.

[Rossfan]

Bitchin about things GAA is a traditional part of the Irish Summer, a but like a wet day in Salthill

[westbound]

I really don't understand the complaints about this.

This is the only REASONABLE solution.

Maybe have the game at 2 oclock instead of 3.30 but that is splitting hairs.

You CANNOT expect kildare to play their game on sunday with minors in leinster final.

I'm not sure if mchale park is big enough to hold this double header (my guess is it probably isn't -38K capacity 25K from connacht final and >13K for qualifer exceeds capacity) but it's also not reasonable to expect mayo and kildare to pay Connacht final prices for a qualifier. And factor in that mayo season ticket holders would nearly fill the stand we'd have difficulty getting any significant amount of stand tickets for ourselves and galway. We'd have plenty of giving out about that if that was the case!

Keep in mind that if Galway or ourselves had been good enough to win yesterday then neither team would have to worry about a 6/7 day turnaround.
Also, keep in mind that if we had a ground capable of hosting a connacht final there'd be no problem!

I do agree though that winning the replay is vitally important now to avoid the 6/7 day turnaround, but I don't think playing at 3.30 on sunday instead of saturday evening is gonna make much difference in reality. The qualifier could be pushed back the following week until the sunday and it still 7 days to recover.

Hopefully Roscommon won't have to worry about the 1 week recovery!

[macdanger2]

Who's call was the venue?? Roscommon's? Surely it could be played in salthill on Saturday

[Rossfan]

Once a decade is enough to go to that place

[manfromdelmonte]

Who's call was the venue?? Roscommon's? Surely it could be played in salthill on Saturday

The wind tunnel is worth 2/3 points to Galway.

Ros win their last Connacht final in Castlebar

[GalwayBayBoy]

Who's call was the venue?? Roscommon's? Surely it could be played in salthill on Saturday

The wind tunnel is worth 2/3 points to Galway.

I could believe that only Galway's home record the past 3 years or so has been pretty poor. Nearly all their best performances in league and championship have come away from home.