Mayo v Fermanagh, Saturday July 09, 2016 McHale Park

[Dubhaltach]

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

Not true. We bate Cavan in a Saturday evening qualifier in Castlebar back in 07. Still, the Saturday record is definetly not great.

[joemamas]

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.

Tom Parsons looked injured V Galway, but considering SOS and Barry Moran were also carrying knocks or out, there were not a lot of options. He was way off the pace, and did not play three weeks earlier V London.

[FermGael]

What us the hold up in announcing the throw in time ?

[mayo.mick]

What us the hold up in announcing the throw in time ?

Whether it will be shown on sky sports 1/2/3/4/5 ?

[muppet]

What us the hold up in announcing the throw in time ?

We don't want yous to know.

[Lar Naparka]

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.

But they were all during the reign of John, the Chosen One, weren't they? Them games  count for sweet fa as, back then, we wouldn't bate Catty Barry, never mind a real county football team.      .

[Farrandeelin]

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.

But they were all during the reign of John, the Chosen One, weren't they? Them games  count for sweet fa as, back then, we wouldn't bate Catty Barry, never mind a real county football team.      .

Longford was yes. Fermanagh was under Maughan mk2. Westmeath was under Holmes mk1. As has been said, Mayo have a poor record in the backdoor.

[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.

But they were all during the reign of John, the Chosen One, weren't they? Them games  count for sweet fa as, back then, we wouldn't bate Catty Barry, never mind a real county football team.      .

Longford was yes. Fermanagh was under Maughan mk2. Westmeath was under Holmes mk1. As has been said, Mayo have a poor record in the backdoor.

It's not that backdoor that's worrying me, but how dysfunctional we were against Galway. I expected with a new management and all that we would be set on keeping the provincial run going - it was the kindest route this year. Mayo management must have been sickened coughing up that run without much resistance.
No easy way to put it - we fucked up to an extraordinary extent. Based on recent league and championship performances Fermanagh and Galway not much different. We will have to wait now until we see if there is a response. I hear the team came out of London game and training on top of the ground and players were flying for their clubs last weekend.

[muppet]

Andy Moran scored 2-5 in the first half last weekend!

[larryin89]

Totally agree with moy,  monumental f**k up to throw away provincial dominance  and such a lethargic effort  , both management and players have to take the blame but manager needs to address why he let complacency set in. 

Would of predicted an early exit but im a devil  for the rumours and im hearing they're rarin to go to put it  mildly.

[FermGael]

I have a great memory of a backdoor game against Mayo in Sligo in 2003.
Hopefully more of the same on Saturday week.

The two teams will know each other well enough having played in a challenge  match earlier on the year.  In fact I think they play each other near enough every year.  Both teams were not full strength for that game but they will be familiar with each other.

What Mayo do with Aiden O'Shea will be interesting.  We have a very strong midfield and Mayo will know this.  Eoin Donnelly IMO is the best about at the minute.

Its very similar to the Donegal game for Fermanagh.  We went to Ballybofey and showed we could live with them for a half.  Similar to Monaghan last year. We have to play for the full 70 minutes.  We have the players, we are capable but its down to belief. We have to work extremely hard defensively but must also work in the attacking side of the game.  No point in being too negative.  We have to hit Mayo where I believe they are weakest and that is in the full back line.  We played Galway this year in a very important league game for both teams and got the draw and we should have won.  We played most of the second half with 14.  Mayo have not been overly impressive this year and IMO there is nothing to fear.  Its a game we can win.....

[Syferus]

Fermanagh would never be able to beat a D1 team in the championship.

[bucko]

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.

Tom Parsons looked injured V Galway, but considering SOS and Barry Moran were also carrying knocks or out, there were not a lot of options. He was way off the pace, and did not play three weeks earlier V London.

At least Parsons, SO'S and DO'C had an excuse to be off the pace, be it injury, lack of training/fitness/match practice. The other supposedly fit players, with the exception of Boyle had no such reason, whatever the explanation for that is I don't know. Whatever is needed a major change in attitude at the very least is required.

[TomFun]

Fermanagh  Roscommon would never be able to beat a D1 team in the championship.

Fixed that for you

[mayoman dan]

Hearing that Andy Moran will start.Hope he dosent replace Regan who needs to be persisted with IMO.Clarke needs to be between the posts hes a safer option.Any word on injuries? When is Barrett expected back?