Mayo GAA Discussion Thread

Rightwing

I would say this is the real final.

Mayo can win it, probably the best Mayo team in decades, the problem is, probably the best Dublin team in decades too.

Dublin by 5+

ColeTrain

Time for cool heads lads. We're more than capable of winning today, just need to keep our composure. I think Darragh O'Se said before about us, "Mayo need to stop playing like they are parked on a double yellow line". Big task ahead of us but let's hope we come out the right side.

Big Pussy Bonpensiero

Call me Al wrote: »

Just a heads up APCOA are already taking reg numbers at SuperValu Maynooth, so park very carefully.

If anyone is going to Maynooth I'll have ye know that parking in the college in free until late September. Only a 10 walk from there to the train station.

Loafing Oaf

ColeTrain wrote: »

Time for cool heads lads. We're more than capable of winning today, just need to keep our composure.

Okay I'll do my best!:P

blinding

Best of luck to Mayo today.

I hope the Dubs have a good day too but just not as good as Mayo.

nuac

yop wrote: »

Should be a cracker, got the new tan and all ready for the game!
i have a sneaky feeling we could have a draw, I can't separate the 2 teams, maybe the team who get 2 goals will win it, but the 1st 10 minutes will be a flat out period.
Going to be emotional tomorrow with the #13for13 and respect to the Dubs for asking their fans to take part.

Not a good move to bring a Black and Tan, no matter how new, into CP:).

Anyhow enjoy the match. All of Mayo now engaged in quiet meditation and prayer.

cocoman

David drake starting ahead of the bird. WTF?

maximus15

strange move alrit!! . wil giv dem benefit of the doubt for now

sean mac

great chances for mayo when on top for first 20 minutes of second half, unfortunate that it has ended like this

blinding

A handy draw for Mayo………PHEW ! ! !

blinding

This game will probably bring on Dublin as it has been their first serious test this summer.

Mayo will have to be absolutely brilliant next week. They may be able to do this but they will have to.

Nidgeweasel

blinding wrote: »

This game will probably bring on Dublin as it has been their first serious test this summer.

Mayo will have to be absolutely brilliant next week. They may be able to do this but they will have to.

It will do. But Mayo were dreadful for the vast majority of that game. You can improve tenfold for next week and there'll be no surprises left from the Dubs re: kick outs etc and Diarmuid Connolly may well miss out.

I still think Dublin should win the replay but you'll have a better chance next week than this week if that makes sense.

Fr Tod Umptious

Got out of jail in a big way there.

Cluxton was cat from dead balls and that saved Mayo.

Some terrible wides early in the second half, really depressing.

On a positive note Andy Moran really lifted them when he came on, as did Barry Moran I thought.

And Cillian O Connor was superb from dead balls, kept them alive.

Nidgeweasel

Fr Tod Umptious wrote: »

And Cillian O Connor was superb from dead balls, kept them alive.

Outstanding he was. A rare nugget of gold in a steaming pile of ****.

JohnBoy26

Fr Tod Umptious wrote: »

Got out of jail in a big way there.

Cluxton was cat from dead balls and that saved Mayo.

Some terrible wides early in the second half, really depressing.

On a positive note Andy Moran really lifted them when he came on, as did Barry Moran I thought.

And Cillian O Connor was superb from dead balls, kept them alive.

His decision making was for the most part woeful imo. He coughed up possession too in the final seconds of the match when mayo were in with a chance of getting the winning score.

mass_debater

We'll see do the Sunday Game highlight the all the cynical play and systematic fouling, the headbutt on O'Shea in the first half that should have seen red or the Brogan point that was at least 2 foot wide.

ultrapercy

mass_debater wrote: »

We'll see do the Sunday Game highlight the all the cynical play and systematic fouling, the headbutt on O'Shea in the first half that should have seen red or the Brogan point that was at least 2 foot wide.

What about Coopers violent act of thuggery in 1st half on DOC? only a yellow for an ugly assuit.

Shurimgreat

We were definitely carrying a few passengers in the forwards.

The AOS tactic at full forward works against average and poor teams. Dublin had it sussed early on. He's too good a player to be isolated in there and away from play. He'd be better off further out the field, or else put in another big man beside him.

We almost left the subs too late. Bring them on earlier the next day.

Dublin are there for the taking if we do it right and don't make bad decisions on the field and on the sideline. I still fancy Dublin to win though.

Looking forward to the replay and this Mayo team once again showed it is different to Mayo teams of previous decades and ready to go out on their shields for the cause.

lukesmom

Delighted they drew and it's not over for Mayo. I really think they will beat Dublin next Saturday.

Tipp man here giving my 2 cents folks.

Ive never stepped foot in Mayo mores the pity but i was rooting for Mayo today as if they were my own county. When they got the equaliser today i jumped all around the sitting room celebrating as if i was one of your own. And it made it all the sweeter given the adversity that ye faced today. Dublin clearly had their stall set out to stop Mayo's forwards from getting into any sort of rhythm and some of them had no interest in playing football. Mayo stuck to their principals and gameplan and thankfully were rewarded. I hope ye can go on and finish the job next day out and hopefully ye will finish the missed chances next time around

For all of the criticism that Mayo receive for falling at the final/penultimate hurdle, like ourselves in Tipperary with our hurlers they keep coming back for more year on year. They have the same bouncebackability of our own hurlers and the spider in the famous Robert de Bruce story.

You can be immensely proud of the bottle they showed today and they done the memory proud of that young man who sadly died in the road accident last week .

I myself had the obituaries wrote after the (wrongfully allowed) second goal went in and i bowed the head in sorrow when Dublin went 7 points up. I could never ever have envisaged the next 10 minutes to transpire.

Here's hoping you nail it next week and set yourselves up for the final. And i think that this time ye may just get over that line.

Momentum certainly with ye.

km79

Cillian delivered on the big day as predicted
We are blessed to have him . He is so mentally strong .
Job will be finished next week

PARlance

Got out of jail today.

I thought the lads on the sideline were very slow to make decisions. Letting them have every kick out clearly wasn't working, a bit depressing seeing us resort to that. Pressurize the kick out and then fall back if needed.
Subs were brought on far too late into the game.

We would have lost that 9 out of 10 times with 7mins to go.

km79

km79 wrote: »

Cillian delivered on the big day as predicted
We are blessed to have him . He is so mentally strong .
Job will be finished next week

Best player for Mayo today was Tom Parsons imo. Immense. He won some amount of ball and surged forward each time

washman3

Do Mayo folk think that the replay should be brought out of Croke Park.?
Should Thurles be considered? or dare I say, The Gaelic Grounds in Limerick.?

TCDStudent1

Deleted User wrote: »

Best player for Mayo today was Tom Parsons imo. Immense. He won some amount of ball and surged forward each time

Thought himself & Diarmuid O'Connor were fantastic in general play.

Doherty & McLoughlin were absolutely dreadful in general play today.

mirrorwall14

washman3 wrote: »

Do Mayo folk think that the replay should be brought out of Croke Park.?
Should Thurles be considered? or dare I say, The Gaelic Grounds in Limerick.?

You know the tickets are already on sale? Though I did think that was funny on the Sunday game that it should be in limerick

PARlance

washman3 wrote: »

Do Mayo folk think that the replay should be brought out of Croke Park.?
Should Thurles be considered? or dare I say, The Gaelic Grounds in Limerick.?

Hopefully not, I've got my tickets for Croke Park

Loafing Oaf

mass_debater wrote: »

We'll see do the Sunday Game highlight the all the cynical play and systematic fouling

They did in fairness. Whelan was trying to defend Connolly, Cooper et al but it was clear without them having to spell it out that the Dubs were much the bigger culprits.

Blackjack

Loafing Oaf wrote: »

They did in fairness. Whelan was trying to defend Connolly, Cooper et al but it was clear without them having to spell it out that the Dubs were much the bigger culprits.

In all honesty, Whelan was reasonably unbiased. Its bound to be hard for a commentator dealing with that sort of ****e today and remain impartial.
I thought he did remarkably well given this evenings antics.
Keegan wasn't blameless in that incident either, as it happens, but he got a yellow, should probably have been a black but lets ride that luck as it usually goes the other way. .
Cooper should have seen the line for that flyinging boot IMHO.
MDMA probably unlucky - a soft black if Ive seen it.
Bastik however - yeah - he knew what he was at and he deserved to go.
Philly McMahon - better I don't comment.

Stinicker

Mayo did good considering the best efforts of the referee to beat them. Apparently criticism of this particular referee isn't welcome on boards so I'll spare people my stinging judgement of him, however any Mayo man with two eyes and a brain could see who he favoured and what he did and more importantly what he didn't do. With a different referee next Saturday Mayo will prevail.

seligehgit

Definitely got of jail today.

BonnieSituation

seligehgit wrote: »

Definitely got of jail today.

But we got out of jail more.

Watch it again. Tis a cracker.

Fr Tod Umptious

BonnieSituation wrote: »

But we got out of jail more.

Watch it again. Tis a cracker.

No.
Dublin threw it away, Mayo got out of jail.

yop

Happy and disappointed, more disappointed than happy, or maybe the other way around!
1st half was shocking, lacklustre. Drake experiment was a bad idea and didn't work. Decision making and not pushing up on the kick outs was as poor as I have seen from us. COC and Parson stood head and shoulders above everyone else. DOC deserves a mention also.
We have to learn from this game to move the ball fast, left to right passing across the pitch allows teams to get back.
They game was there to win at the start and end of the 2nd half and we should be annoyed at that. Of course 7 down with 7 left was an incredible comeback, those who left with 10 to go deserve a kick in the ass.
Ref had a tough job, can't say I was too impressed with him. But no matter what game we talk about, each week the ref has a big part to play. Linesmen are useless, my granny could wave a white flag, the amount of off the ball stuff was unreal.
Blacks that weren't and blacks that weren't given. I suspect Connolly to get off based on the Keane farce, but McMahon deserves a stint on the line for the headbutt.

Back at it again next Saturday, pity its on at 5 and not at 3, but such is. On we go.

homewardbound11

Any word on Vaughan .

Fr Tod Umptious

yop wrote: »

Happy and disappointed, more disappointed than happy, or maybe the other way around!
1st half was shocking, lacklustre. Drake experiment was a bad idea and didn't work. Decision making and not pushing up on the kick outs was as poor as I have seen from us. COC and Parson stood head and shoulders above everyone else. DOC deserves a mention also.
We have to learn from this game to move the ball fast, left to right passing across the pitch allows teams to get back.
They game was there to win at the start and end of the 2nd half and we should be annoyed at that. Of course 7 down with 7 left was an incredible comeback, those who left with 10 to go deserve a kick in the ass.
Ref had a tough job, can't say I was too impressed with him. But no matter what game we talk about, each week the ref has a big part to play. Linesmen are useless, my granny could wave a white flag, the amount of off the ball stuff was unreal.
Blacks that weren't and blacks that weren't given. I suspect Connolly to get off based on the Keane farce, but McMahon deserves a stint on the line for the headbutt.

Back at it again next Saturday, pity its on at 5 and not at 3, but such is. On we go.

I would be surprised if they both overturned Connelly and ignored McMahon.

One of them is going to miss the game I reckon.

McMahon got a lot of attention on The Sunday Game, the CCCC rearly ignore it when it gets that much attention

yop

Fr Tod Umptious wrote: »

I would be surprised if they both overturned Connelly and ignored McMahon.

One of them is going to miss the game I reckon.

McMahon got a lot of attention on The Sunday Game, the CCCC really ignore it when it gets that much attention

I think Philly will get a couple of games and Connolly will get off.

yop

homewardbound11 wrote: »

Any word on Vaughan .

Shoulder, but no idea of severity

flasher0030

yop wrote: »

Happy and disappointed, more disappointed than happy, or maybe the other way around!
1st half was shocking, lacklustre. Drake experiment was a bad idea and didn't work. Decision making and not pushing up on the kick outs was as poor as I have seen from us. COC and Parson stood head and shoulders above everyone else. DOC deserves a mention also.
We have to learn from this game to move the ball fast, left to right passing across the pitch allows teams to get back.
They game was there to win at the start and end of the 2nd half and we should be annoyed at that. Of course 7 down with 7 left was an incredible comeback, those who left with 10 to go deserve a kick in the ass.
Ref had a tough job, can't say I was too impressed with him. But no matter what game we talk about, each week the ref has a big part to play. Linesmen are useless, my granny could wave a white flag, the amount of off the ball stuff was unreal.
Blacks that weren't and blacks that weren't given. I suspect Connolly to get off based on the Keane farce, but McMahon deserves a stint on the line for the headbutt.

Back at it again next Saturday, pity its on at 5 and not at 3, but such is. On we go.

What exactly was the Drake experiment. In the Nally, so couldn't get a proper view of what his role was. Was he playing some type of sweeper role. And why play someone in that type of role that has hardly played all year.

Why didn't mayo go man to man on for Cluxton kickouts - at least on the Dublin full back line? So that when he kicks it long, Mayo supposedly would have the upper hand in midfield, but in the event that Mayo didn't have get midfield possession, one of the half forwards would have sprinted back to make up the sweeper role. Similar to Donegal tactics, but not to the extreme that they take it.

The slow build up that Mayo did yesterday is no good for our forwards. Doherty and McLoughlin don't have the strength or the pace to make dashing runs to meet the ball. Cooper had McLoughlin in his pocket for the whole game, and Doherty had an off game. Cillian O'Connor offered very little from play - when he did get it, he kicked a lame ball to Cluxton from 10 yards (albeit from the left foot). Mayo forwards don't have the pace, strength or shooting skill to play that type of game.
To play to their strengths, I think they should look again at the A O'Shea target man role, but beef it up a bit. They need to keep the other forwards in beside him, making small off the ball runs, to wrong-foot the defenders, so that it allows O'Shea to offload immediately, or even just to knock the ball down to someone.

Sounds easy I know. But it needs to be with a bit more purpose. The 5 high balls that were launched into O'Shea in the first half hour were headless. No plan. It was a case of "right big man, here you go, lets see what you can do now".

I also think Ronaldson should have been given a run for the last 6/7 minutes instead of Mickey Sweeney. Has more experience, and has an eye for a point when the game was wide open, and Dub defenders weren't hangin off the Mayo guys.

Anyway, all sounds so easy on paper.

BonnieSituation

Fr Tod Umptious wrote: »

No.
Dublin threw it away, Mayo got out of jail.

This could go on.

Cartman78

Am I alone in being slightly frustrated with AOS yesterday?

He seemed to gleefully take the ball into contact every time yesterday, even when a pass or lay-off was clearly the better option.

Overall mixed emotions after the game - huge relief and pride following the comeback but also a nagging sense that we didn't really play well and missed chances at key times during the game.

Anyway, hope the Dubs will be tired and deflated on Saturday. I think if Mayo play to full potential we can come out on top

TCDStudent1

Cartman78 wrote: »

Am I alone in being slightly frustrated with AOS yesterday?

He seemed to gleefully take the ball into contact every time yesterday, even when a pass or lay-off was clearly the better option.

Overall mixed emotions after the game - huge relief and pride following the comeback but also a nagging sense that we didn't really play well and missed chances at key times during the game.

Anyway, hope the Dubs will be tired and deflated on Saturday. I think if Mayo play to full potential we can come out on top

Why would they be any more tired than Mayo?

Cartman78

TCDStudent1 wrote: »

Why would they be any more tired than Mayo?

No specific reason really I guess.....maybe more mentally and spiritually drained after bottling a 7 point lead against a team playing well below it's par

ultrapercy

AOS will have to get some change off the ref the next day. He caught the ball clean above his head on a few occasions and was pulled and dragged as he attempted to solo or hop and the decision went against him. He is some ledgend he took more verbal and physical abuse yesterday than most players experience in their career and he didn't loose the cool like the thug conolly. There was one confrontation between the 2 in the 2nd half and conolly was quick to exit the stage, he prefers his big hits from the blind side.Mayo were physical yesterday and often cynical but they never stooped to cowardice like Cooper, McMahon et al, even for that alone I'm proud of them.

keane2097

Ye have a real diamond in Diarmuid O'Connor.

keane2097

keane2097 wrote: »

Ye have a real diamond in Diarmuid O'Connor.

They badly need more new forwards.

Jippo

keane2097 wrote: »

Ye have a real diamond in Diarmuid O'Connor.

A lot more useful than the his brother that is for sure.

yop

Jippo wrote: »

A lot more useful than the his brother that is for sure.

Ha ha ha

km79

ultrapercy wrote: »

AOS will have to get some change off the ref the next day. He caught the ball clean above his head on a few occasions and was pulled and dragged as he attempted to solo or hop and the decision went against him. He is some ledgend he took more verbal and physical abuse yesterday than most players experience in their career and he didn't loose the cool like the thug conolly. There was one confrontation between the 2 in the 2nd half and conolly was quick to exit the stage, he prefers his big hits from the blind side.Mayo were physical yesterday and often cynical but they never stooped to cowardice like Cooper, McMahon et al, even for that alone I'm proud of them.

Very proud of the way he didn't react to non stop provocation of many types !
In some ways maybe he is a little too nice but he is so big refs are nearly looking for an excuse to card him so he has to be extra careful
I predicted Cillian would be the man for us yday as I thought it would be a tight tense game
I think Aido will win a more open game for us Saturday
Also I don't know where the talk of Connolly getting off is coming from
It happened right in line with me
He punched him at least once in the face

Murphy14

Connolly will get red reduced to yellow on same basis that Kevin Keane got his reduced on appeal