Mayo v Fermanagh, Saturday July 09, 2016 McHale Park

[twohands!!!]

Fermanagh at home it is. Need to have the heads and tactics right for this one.

will be a good test . No excuses for them , im hopeful galway was just a blip and we have the strength in depth to deal with them . I mean its only fermanagh

Derry, Cavan and Armagh all beat Fermanagh in the league.
Meath, Laois, Antrim and Wexford are the 4 games they have won this year between league and championship.
The first 3 wins were all home games so the only away win they have is against Wexford (a Division 4 team)
If Mayo don't win this after the Galway game, it will surely be the end of the road for a fair few individuals.

[seafoid]

Fermanagh are handy

[twohands!!!]

Fermanagh are handy

That's about the limit of it - handy ; any side with any notion whatsoever of seriously contesting Sam whatsoever shouldn't be bothered by them.

[larryin89]

Do people think mayo have any notion on sam.  Id be secretly a very optimistic type of supporter but even i conceede on that notion for 16 . A qf would be a fairaachievement at this stage and thats not acting the goat either

[twohands!!!]

Do people think mayo have any notion on sam.  Id be secretly a very optimistic type of supporter but even i conceede on that notion for 16 . A qf would be a fairaachievement at this stage and thats not acting the goat either

Given Mayo's form over the last few years between championship and league, you simply can't discount them based on one game against Galway.

The key thing is their attitude to the qualifiers - 6 teams have won Sam through the qualifier and all of them have had a positive attitude to being in the qualifiers. How much worse would the Mayo players be feeling if they were done for the summer and they were looking at waiting around until next May for their next championship game?

[moysider]

Fermanagh are handy

That's about the limit of it - handy ; any side with any notion whatsoever of seriously contesting Sam whatsoever shouldn't be bothered by them.

In the past we ve lost qualifiers to Fermanagh, Westmeath and Longford. Not a record that would fill you with confidence going into this one.

[From the Bunker]

Do people think mayo have any notion on sam.  Id be secretly a very optimistic type of supporter but even i conceede on that notion for 16 . A qf would be a fairaachievement at this stage and thats not acting the goat either

Given Mayo's form over the last few years between championship and league, you simply can't discount them based on one game against Galway.

The key thing is their attitude to the qualifiers - 6 teams have won Sam through the qualifier and all of them have had a positive attitude to being in the qualifiers. How much worse would the Mayo players be feeling if they were done for the summer and they were looking at waiting around until next May for their next championship game?

All six had an AI in the bag from previous years except Cork in 2010? Thing is, 2010 was a strange year, none of the Provincial winners made the AI semi finals!

[Cunny Funt]

Fermanagh at home it is. Need to have the heads and tactics right for this one.

will be a good test . No excuses for them , im hopeful galway was just a blip and we have the strength in depth to deal with them . I mean its only fermanagh

Derry, Cavan and Armagh all beat Fermanagh in the league.
Meath, Laois, Antrim and Wexford are the 4 games they have won this year between league and championship.
The first 3 wins were all home games so the only away win they have is against Wexford (a Division 4 team)
If Mayo don't win this after the Galway game, it will surely be the end of the road for a fair few individuals.

Did you conveniently leave out Fermanaghs draw v Galway in Tuam? Any qualifiers Mayo have lost have been on the road home advantage should be enough to see Mayo win this game.

[seafoid]

Do people think mayo have any notion on sam.  Id be secretly a very optimistic type of supporter but even i conceede on that notion for 16 . A qf would be a fairaachievement at this stage and thats not acting the goat either

I do.
I think they will have great vengeance and furious anger if they meet Galway later on

[mayo.mick]

Fermanagh at home it is. Need to have the heads and tactics right for this one.

will be a good test . No excuses for them , im hopeful galway was just a blip and we have the strength in depth to deal with them . I mean its only fermanagh

Derry, Cavan and Armagh all beat Fermanagh in the league.
Meath, Laois, Antrim and Wexford are the 4 games they have won this year between league and championship.
The first 3 wins were all home games so the only away win they have is against Wexford (a Division 4 team)
If Mayo don't win this after the Galway game, it will surely be the end of the road for a fair few individuals.

Did you conveniently leave out Fermanaghs draw v Galway in Tuam? Any qualifiers Mayo have lost have been on the road home advantage should be enough to see Mayo win this game.

Home advantage hasn't been much use to us lately going by the stats!

[Farrandeelin]

Has the time been confirmed for this?

[larryin89]

. 7pm im reading over on the blog farr

[Farrandeelin]

. 7pm im reading over on the blog farr

Cheers Larry.

[Hound]

Do people think mayo have any notion on sam.  Id be secretly a very optimistic type of supporter but even i conceede on that notion for 16 . A qf would be a fairaachievement at this stage and thats not acting the goat either

Vulnerable in this one, but Diarmuid O'Connor makes a massive difference, and of course you'll need Cillian to be back to being a 90%+ man with his frees.

A lot of players not on their A game, but you don't need to fix everything straight away, just enough to get by this game.

Would it be fair to say Tom Parsons hasn't scaled the heights he did last year? I thought he was brilliant, but seems to have dipped from the limited amounts I've seen of him in 2016.

[highorlow]

A stat I heard before the Galway game is that we have never won a Saturday evening championship game.