Mayo GAA Discussion Part 2

PressRun

The ref was poor for both sides, to be fair. He gave Dublin a couple of dodgy ones too.

RD10

He's some man alright. I honestly don't think mayo have ever had a player as hard working as diarmuid. Up and down the length of the pitch every single match. Absolutely empties himself every game.

seligehgit

RD10 wrote: »

He's some man alright. I honestly don't think mayo have ever had a player as hard working as diarmuid. Up and down the length of the pitch every single match. Absolutely empties himself every game.

Where does he get the engine??He has pace with an amazing acceleration,can pick the ball up on the run,excellent at both hand and foot passes.He is what we need at senior level in terms of taking a score,his workrate is mesmerising.He is well on his way to becoming the complete footballer.

He is a more natural and superior footballer than his older brother and that's saying something as Cillian is no slouch in quality terms.

Anyway it's not all about one footballer,hopefully these lads will bring home some silverware.They appear to have that winning mentality that we are so often accused of lacking and never say die attitude.

PressRun

Does anyone know when was the last time Mayo beat Dublin at any level?

Well that was all a bit mad. 6 up to 4 down and win by a point in injury time.

Maigh Eo abú!

#seesaw

cocoman

PressRun wrote: »

Does anyone know when was the last time Mayo beat Dublin at any level?

2012 senior AI semi final ?

PressRun

cocoman wrote: »

2012 senior AI semi final ?

I was thinking it may have been then, but wasn't sure if the minors or U21s had beaten them at some point between then and now.

seligehgit

cocoman wrote: »

2012 senior AI semi final ?

Yes I believe that's the last time we beat them at any grade....minor,under 21 or senior in any meaningful championship contest.We haven't played them at minor or under 21 level in recent years.We have not been reeling out too many under age Connaught titles in recent times.

Kristopherus

Superb performance all round by Mayo. Knuckled down to the task brilliantly when Dublin looked likely to take command.

Well done, Mayo !!!!!

Fr Tod Umptious

Well done Mayo

Great to see the guys of 2013, and some of 2014, get to the final at the next level up.

Cork in the final.

Hopefully we can keep our recent winning form against that county up, also a repeat of the final 10 years ago

cocoman

Fr Tod Umptious wrote: »

Well done Mayo

Great to see the guys of 2013, and some of 2014, get to the final at the next level up.

Cork in the final.

Hopefully we can keep our recent winning form against that county up, also a repeat of the final 10 years ago

Cork in the final so we may be back on the road to Limerick again.

Fr Tod Umptious

cocoman wrote: »

Cork in the final so we may be back on the road to Limerick again.

Ennis it was the last time

Rawhead

Diarmuid is the real deal, he's Mayo's mvp and he's only 20. Mayo needed to beat Dublin today, the fact it was 2012 since we last beat them shows how dominant they've become. I think Kerry need to beat Dublin in the league final, not cause I've any love for Kerry, but they need to put a halt to their dominance.
I'm not anti Dublin, I was delighted in 2011 and cheered Cluxtons point over the bar, but I'd hate to see a Scottish Premiership develop. On any given Sunday, 3/4/5 teams need to be capable of beating each other, which isn't the case right now.

Bunny Colvin

Great heart shown today.

Diarmuid O'Connor will be as valuable to Mayo as Ciaran McDonald was. Focal point to everything we did today, if he wasn't intercepting balls in his own square, he was scoring goals at the other end. A work horse and has the technical ability to match.

km79

the importance of winning a big game late on like this cant be understated especially the way the game had gone.
This group of players will bring this never say die winning mentality through with them especially if they deliver a second AI title
I honestly can't get over how much DOC is progressing
Gives me great hope for the summer

yop

I'm out of the country so no access to the game but it sounded an immense win even more so the fact we returned from a big lead into what looked like a defeat. That's two games on the bounce now we've taken it to end and won. Now need to once and for all close out the pre final performances and continue them to an ai final win. Doc has been superb all year
Delighted for him

gigantic09

Days like today would take years off a man,a joy to behold.my heart goes out to Tommy Carr now that neither his beloved Dublin or Kerry will be in the final.

Kristopherus

gigantic09 wrote: »

Days like today would take years off a man,a joy to behold.my heart goes out to Tommy Carr now that neither his beloved Dublin or Kerry will be in the final.

I thought Tommy Carr was/is a Tipp man:)

gigantic09

Kristopherus wrote: »

I thought Tommy Carr was/is a Tipp man:)

He never tips Mayo anyway,thats for sure :-).

Stoner

Kristopherus wrote:

I thought Tommy Carr was/is a Tipp man

No he's from Dublin, so is his brother Declan who played for Tip alright.
They had a pub on Prussia Street/ Stoneybatter for years

eastmayo

It was a brilliant display yesterday. This team never gives up.stayed in tullamore last night everyone delighted mayo won.

seligehgit

yop wrote: »

I'm out of the country so no access to the game but it sounded an immense win even more so the fact we returned from a big lead into what looked like a defeat. That's two games on the bounce now we've taken it to end and won. Now need to once and for all close out the pre final performances and continue them to an ai final win. Doc has been superb all year
Delighted for him

Yop i think some of our Dublin colleagues thought you might have gone further afield to never return if we'd lost yesterday's contest!:D

DDC1990

gigantic09 wrote: »

Days like today would take years off a man,a joy to behold.my heart goes out to Tommy Carr now that neither his beloved Dublin or Kerry will be in the final.

Beloved Kerry... Tommy Carr? Having a laugh right?

Kalyke

Just got to Ballina for the last 2 minutes of the game...and what a 2 minutes!!! On a negative note.... very disappointed to be in a sports pub on the outskirts of the town and the Indian Premier League cricket on the big screens!! GAA relegated to 2 small screens over the food counter. (With no sound) Shamefull!:mad:

PressRun

Cork will be very tough to beat in the final. They look dangerous going forward, very goal hungry from what I could see. They got all their scores from play yesterday too.

lukin

Fr Tod Umptious wrote: »

Ennis it was the last time

No offence to the good people of Clare but I hope it isn't played there as it isn't a nice venue. Limerick would be perfect but it's a good bit nearer to Cork than Mayo.

TCDStudent1

lukin wrote: »

No offence to the good people of Clare but I hope it isn't played there as it isn't a nice venue. Limerick would be perfect but it's a good bit nearer to Cork than Mayo.

I have been to many hurling matches in Ennis. Just a couple of football matches. But I always found it to be a wonderful town for a match. Great atmosphere there.

lukin

TCDStudent1 wrote: »

I have been to many hurling matches in Ennis. Just a couple of football matches. But I always found it to be a wonderful town for a match. Great atmosphere there.

The town is grand I just don't like Cusack park.

eigrod

Port Laoise or Tullamore would probably be better as a venue for final than Ennis.

cocoman

Will venue and time be confirmed tomorrow?

gigantic09

DDC1990 wrote: »

Beloved Kerry... Tommy Carr? Having a laugh right?

He reckons Dublin and Kerry are miles ahead of everyone else and never misses an opportunity to castigate and belittle Mayo.He conveniently forgets that we provided Dublin with their toughest challenge last year and Kerry the year before,not to mention that last years final was one of the poorest in recent times.

DDC1990

gigantic09 wrote: »

He reckons Dublin and Kerry are miles ahead of everyone else and never misses an opportunity to castigate and belittle Mayo.He conveniently forgets that we provided Dublin with their toughest challenge last year and Kerry the year before,not to mention that last years final was one of the poorest in recent times.

He'll jump on whatever bandwagon is rolling early in the year, so if they win the All Ireland later he can say "I told you so".

He's a Dub so he's always going to love them, along with Westmeath and Roscommon.

Kerry are rolling now so he's behind them, but after losing to Roscommon he said we were going nowhere.

He famously went on radio the day of the Kerry v Westmeath qualifier a few years ago, and gave out stink about the referee and how he favoured Kerry, and that Westmeath deserved better, even suggesting they should have won. When quizzed further it turned out that he had missed all of the first half of the game because he was watching the Connacht Final, which was delayed by half an hour AFIAK.

Sums him up as a pundit.

gigantic09

Hes a sort of an Eamon Dunphy type so,but at least Eamon is good craic when hes on.

PressRun

I don't really understand these "pundits" who have grudges against certain teams and I understand even less why they keep getting paid to give their opinions. I get that people have their favourites, but if someone can't even summon up any vague semblance of objectivity when analysing a game, then they shouldn't be doing that job.

yop

seligehgit wrote: »

Yop i think some of our Dublin colleagues thought you might have gone further afield to never return if we'd lost yesterday's contest!:D

Oh did they now....must toddle over to the Dublin thread....:)

ProudDUB

Nothing to see here....move along now....move along...have yiz no homes to go to at all, at all, at all....whistles innocently...:P

PressRun

Btw, do people think Sharoize Akram will make the move to senior level in the next year or so?

LeoB

PressRun wrote: »

The ref was poor for both sides, to be fair. He gave Dublin a couple of dodgy ones too.

The referee gave Dublin a few very handy frees but in the end I felt he robbed them. In the first half he gave a very soft free in particular to Dublin and 1 in the second half. When Dublin were went ahead I felt he brought Mayo back into the game. Two wrongs dont make a right. Fair play to lad for having the bottle for the last few frees. The last one I would given the other way. But thats how the cookie crumbles. But if that was a senior match the Ref would have had a few paragraphs all to himself. Inconsistent.

But better overall balanced team won on the day.

Just on D.O'C. He is a fine player but now needs minding. I can only imagine what the local papers will say about him. It can destroy a young lad as we have seen in the past with many good young players. Con O'Callaghan has been kept fairly quiet by Dublin and is another exceptional talent to look forward to.

ProudDUB wrote: »

Congrats you lot.

That DO'C is some man for one man.

( Insert obligatory grumble about the ref here

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D.O'C was superb. Great display and a great effort from both sides.

On the Tommy Carr punditry, lads grow up. He wants to be like Pat Spillane but is not in the same league at all. Him and Martin McHugh and Martin Carney should be put out to grass.

And he is a TIPP man, wants to be a dub though!!

PressRun

The ref was poor (seems to be becoming an all too common sentence at this stage), but I don't think I'd go so far as to say Dublin were robbed. Dublin were out on their feet by the end having expended so much energy trying to get back into the match after their poor first half. Mayo had built up momentum and found a second wind, and they were on their way to getting a least a draw going into the last 10 minutes or so. If the last free hadn't been awarded and the game had gone to extra time, I think Mayo would have gone on and won it anyway. That all said, Mayo are going to need to be better again and avoid these mid-match lulls to beat Cork, imo.

On Diarmuid O'Connor and the local papers, I think that horse may have bolted. Unfortunately any exciting talent in Mayo football tends to receive a fair bit of local media attention. It seems to come with the territory. I'm not a huge fan of it myself, but I think Diarmuid has a good head on his shoulders and can probably deal with it better than most.

Cosmo Kramer

PressRun wrote: »

Btw, do people think Sharoize Akram will make the move to senior level in the next year or so?

He certainly has the ability but I don't think he's got the physicality yet that is needed for senior football. However, that's not too surprising as he is one of very few on the team who is only in his first year out of minor, so he'd have another two years with the 21s if they weren't disbanding the competition.

Personally I think they should be looking at getting him involved with the senior team's S+C program this year so that he might be able to make the step up for next year's division 1 campaign.

cocoman

Fr Tod Umptious wrote: »

Ennis it was the last time

Venue for U21 final confirmed for Ennis.
6pm throw in.

mayo.mick

Is the U-21,s definitely being scrapped and replaced with U-20?

seligehgit

mayo.mick wrote: »

Is the U-21,s definitely being scrapped and replaced with U-20?

I believe so,it was ratified at Congress.

Oldtree

got this this am

Following discussions between the London County Board and the Connacht Council Mayo GAA can confirm we have received a limited allocation of tickets to cover players, management and sponsors for the upcoming Connacht Senior championship game on May 29th in Ruislip.

The size of this allocation means we cannot supply tickets to our clubs nor will we have tickets for sale through Elverys MacHale Park. Unfortunately this means some fans may not have access to tickets. We will endeavour to work with the London County Board and the Connacht Council and should more tickets be become available we will notify clubs immediately.

Green_Tae

Another uber-dramatic one-point victory for the Mayo u21s. While it's always good to see the Dubs getting beat I would be a tad concerned going forward, e.g. what did the manager say to those lads at half-time, they looked catatonic in the second half? I think they'll really have to perform in both halves to beat Cork. The Rebel's No.11 for example is a lot better than anything Dublin had and will need watching.

Good team this Mayo side - another exciting bunch of attack minded backs emerging onto the scene, particularly Akram who was very busy. Shame Cian Hanley's not there but they're good enough to win anyway.

seligehgit

Padraig Hughes from Armagh is the referee for the All Ireland under 21 football final.Not a huge fan as he tends to overly fussy and whistle happy which tends to be a hindrance to the possibility of a free flowing contest.

charlie14

seligehgit wrote: »

Padraig Hughes from Armagh is the referee for the All Ireland under 21 football final.Not a huge fan as he tends to overly fussy and whistle happy which tends to be a hindrance to the possibility of a free flowing contest.

If he refs like that at home he must put in some very long days.;)

seligehgit

Tickets on sale for the All Ireland under 21 football final.


https://secure.tickets.ie/Listing/EventInformation/29839/eirgrid-gaa-football-all-ireland-u21-final-cork-v-mayo-cusack-park-ennis-30-April-2016

eastmayo

Well done to the mayo ladys today.great come back to win by 1.great few weeks for mayo football. Long may it continue!

PressRun

It was looking very ominous for the ladies there for a while. Fair play to them for pulling it back!