Mayo GAA Discussion - Part 4

mayo.mick

Coillte_Bhoy wrote: »

Thought when you said it was to suit TV Seems a ridiculous time if it's not for live TV

I'd assumed, given they put it down for 7pm that it was Sky dictating what match they would show. According to Cahir O Keane on twitter though, 2 live games can't be show at same time. So in this instance it wasn't sky's fault. No reason that they couldn't have have scheduled it for 3 or 5, would have made a big difference to travelling supporters. Sunday not an option with 6 day turnaround. If it goe's to extra time....

jr86

mayo.mick wrote: »

No reason that they couldn't have have scheduled it for 3 or 5

As Hulk hands pointed out Down are already playing a hurling final earlier that day

charlie14

recyclebin wrote: »

Time to end the provincials and the qualifiers and go for 4 geographic regions of 8 teams. Otherwise you are always going to get these fixtures that are nightmare for supporters to get to.

Ulster supporters like their provincial championship, as do the players. It is the most competitive province and Ulster players rate an Ulster medal second only to an All Ireland medal.
I doubt considering the distances supporters within Ulster often have to travel to support their teams in their provincial championship, they will look kindly on one off qualifier games as a compelling argument for change.


4 geographical regions of 8 teams would be a meaningless league that would do nothing to solve the problem of weaker teams getting demoralising hammering either. At least with the present system the weaker division 3 & 4 teams get some encouragement with home advantage in the qualifiers.

Beagslife

Apt for the day that's in it but Jim's well thought out proposal is worth another look nearly four years on to the day that is was published.

Tiered Championship Proposal

I posted this in the Championship thread as well. Relevant to the above I think.

Fr Tod Umptious

seligehgit wrote: »

We have every right to complain when scheduling the game to a more convenient time from this arbitrary scheduling would be more logical.

But it's not arbitrary

It's taking into account that Down hurlers are playing earlier in the day in CP.

seligehgit

Fr Tod Umptious wrote: »

But it's not arbitrary

It's taking into account that Down hurlers are playing earlier in the day in CP.

As other posters have mentioned the core hurling support within Down is not that particularly big.

What about fixing it for Sunday?

ProudDUB quite eloquently expressed my sentiments so I've pretty much said my piece on this topic.:)

seligehgit

GAA chief explains reasons behind Mayo v Down throw in

http://www.mayonews.ie/sports/33844-gaa-chief-explains-reasons-behind-mayo-v-down-throw-in-time

seligehgit

Round 4 of the Connacht minor league.

Mayo v Galway

Mac Hale Park

Friday 14th June 2019 at 19.30

PressRun

Well, fixture time aside..
Apparently there was a challenge match. Anyone hear how that went?
Also heard tonight that Cillian is very much back in the mix.

km79

https://www.rte.ie/sport/gaa/2019/0612/1055037-mayo-hit-out-at-late-throw-in-time-for-down-game/?fbclid=IwAR2ARLVos8ASwsgEeQERNDnPdO0eSzhO6l9YMGq2ezVi1nsmU2QC4vGhUlw

Mayo county board requested a 3pm throw in apparently and assumed that would happen

A good point made about player welfare too.....

Audioslaven

km79 wrote: »

https://www.rte.ie/sport/gaa/2019/0612/1055037-mayo-hit-out-at-late-throw-in-time-for-down-game/?fbclid=IwAR2ARLVos8ASwsgEeQERNDnPdO0eSzhO6l9YMGq2ezVi1nsmU2QC4vGhUlw

Mayo county board requested a 3pm throw in apparently and assumed that would happen

A good point made about player welfare too.....

Totally, its a joke. Lots of fans can't make it because of the time. Worse again is that Prenty is on the CCCC!! What is he at!!!

muddle84

PressRun wrote: »

Well, fixture time aside..
Apparently there was a challenge match. Anyone hear how that went?
Also heard tonight that Cillian is very much back in the mix.

Mayo beat Clare 1-13 to 0-11 apparently. Some bits about it on twitter

flasher0030

Audioslaven wrote: »

Totally, its a joke. Lots of fans can't make it because of the time. Worse again is that Prenty is on the CCCC!! What is he at!!!

Because Prenty is a Yes man. Always has been. He's like Shane Ross. Loves to be in the limelight, but good for nothing.

It's some joke.
The Down hurlers and fans are accommodated for. Tick
The (irrelevant) shoppers are catered for (can't be inconveniencin them) Tick
The Down underage and fans are catered for (playing on Sunday) Tick
So screw the Mayo players and fans. Absolutely zero consideration or concession given. How could Prenty just sit there and agree with this.

The shopping thing is like something from Father Ted. Would be comedy Gold if it wasn't so blood boiling. If Newry can't facilitate a game in early evening (i.e. 5 o'clock) on a Saturday, then move it somewhere else. And staging it at 7 bells to accommodate a couple of hurling fans to come back from Croke Park.

Hope to God they hammer the fu@kers.

Mayo Messi 11

Where on twitter did you see this muddle84?

Stoner

You'll be ok, better playing angry anyway

ureds

In other news Mayo LGFA have had their development officer quit.
A difference of opinions between Co Board , managers and development.

Frozen Veg

Stop moaning about the time.

First of all Down hurler's are playing earlier that day and therefore there cannot be a clash and rightly so.

Second of all if Mayo had beaten Roscommon this wouldn't be an issue. A much nicer fixture v Galway on Sunday was on the cards.

Thirdly, Mayo fans had no issue making it to New York, even singing the Green and Red of Mayo on the Times Square steps, so surely no issue making it to Newry.

The high horse brigade

Frozen Veg wrote: »

Stop moaning about the time.

First of all Down hurler's are playing earlier that day and therefore there cannot be a clash and rightly so.

Second of all if Mayo had beaten Roscommon this wouldn't be an issue. A much nicer fixture v Galway on Sunday was on the cards.

Thirdly, Mayo fans had no issue making it to New York, even singing the Green and Red of Mayo on the Times Square steps, so surely no issue making it to Newry.

Nobody has an issue making it to Newry, the issue is the safety of fans from the Western parts of the county getting home at 1-2AM which could easily be avoided with a kickoff even 2 hours earlier

Frozen Veg

The high horse brigade wrote: »

Nobody has an issue making it to Newry, the issue is the safety of fans from the Western parts of the county getting home at 1-2AM which could easily be avoided with a kickoff even 2 hours earlier

There are rooms available at very very reasonable prices much cheaper than they would have been in New York.

Newry is only one hour from Croke Park, it's not timbooktwo.

PressRun

Frozen Veg wrote: »

Stop moaning about the time.

First of all Down hurler's are playing earlier that day and therefore there cannot be a clash and rightly so.

Second of all if Mayo had beaten Roscommon this wouldn't be an issue. A much nicer fixture v Galway on Sunday was on the cards.

Thirdly, Mayo fans had no issue making it to New York, even singing the Green and Red of Mayo on the Times Square steps, so surely no issue making it to Newry.

Bit of a difference between a trip to New York that was years in the making and that many saved for and made a holiday out of and a trip up the country at a week and a half's notice. The round trip to Newry is nearly as long as the flight to New York.
But I'm sure the people sneering about this are well aware of all that already.

But sure, I don't think anything is going to be done about it now.

The high horse brigade

Frozen Veg wrote: »

There are rooms available at very very reasonable prices much cheaper than they would have been in New York.

Newry is only one hour from Croke Park, it's not timbooktwo.

Oh it really is the trip of a lifetime then so

glack

Time to move on folks....

Back to the football - article on Cillian needing a further surgery in the Mayo News has me really worried. Free taking is a major concern - particularly if we revert to playing Clarke in goals. Winning frees or 45s aren't giving us the scores they should be.

PressRun

glack wrote: »

Time to move on folks....

Back to the football - article on Cillian needing a further surgery in the Mayo News has me really worried. Free taking is a major concern - particularly if we revert to playing Clarke in goals. Winning frees or 45s aren't giving us the scores they should be.

I heard he's back playing? Played the challenge match against Clare supposedly.

glack

PressRun wrote: »

I heard he's back playing? Played the challenge match against Clare supposedly.

I hope that’s true.

PressRun

glack wrote: »

I hope that’s true.

Fairly sure it is. He will be on the panel the next day, I would imagine.
Apparently the challenge match was interesting enough. I'm very curious to see what happens now up in Newry.

muddle84

Mayo Messi 11 wrote: »

Where on twitter did you see this muddle84?

https://twitter.com/RefComeOn/status/1138142767492804609?s=09

Carol25

Anyone else hear a rumour that David Clarke has walked from the panel...hopefully rumour is all that it is..

yop

Carol25 wrote: »

Anyone else hear a rumour that David Clarke has walked from the panel...hopefully rumour is all that it is..

Heard it, but nothing confirmed.

Mayo masters playing Laois in Roscommon tomorrow if anyone is up that way.
Game at 3pm

Bunny Colvin

How did the minor go lads?

Westernyelp

Bunny Colvin wrote: »

How did the minor go lads?

Mayo 0-11
Galway 2-12

ureds

Westernyelp wrote: »

Mayo 0-11
Galway 2-12

Galway beating us at all age levels nowadays both in male and female football.

seligehgit

Bunny Colvin wrote: »

How did the minor go lads?

Bad night at the office

Mayo 0-11 Galway 2-12

Galway well deserving of their win.Struggled up front all night.

Gabriel Irwin's son Frank started inside at full forward and David Brady's nephew Dylan Thornton started i lar na pairce.

All the star performers on the Galway team,their number 8 James McLaughlin was immense.Similar in style to Peter Cooke.Absolutely cleaned us out in the middle.

Number 14 Tomas Culhane tormented us scoring 1-5,similar in style and build to Michael Daly.

We can still progress if Sligo beat Roscommon.

Anybody hear we lost to the rebels last weekend?

km79

http://twitter.com/JoeMcCormack123/status/1139628806979956736

charlie14

km79 wrote: »

http://twitter.com/JoeMcCormack123/status/1139628806979956736

Still one to go in Connacht.
Sunday 1pm Galway v Mayo Junior Final Pearse Stadium.

Always_Running

seligehgit wrote: »

Bad night at the office

Mayo 0-11 Galway 2-12

Galway well deserving of their win.Struggled up front all night.

Gabriel Irwin's son Frank started inside at full forward and David Brady's nephew Dylan Thornton started i lar na pairce.

All the star performers on the Galway team,their number 8 James McLaughlin was immense.Similar in style to Peter Cooke.Absolutely cleaned us out in the middle.

Number 14 Tomas Culhane tormented us scoring 1-5,similar in style and build to Michael Daly.

We can still progress if Sligo beat Roscommon.

Anybody hear we lost to the rebels last weekend?

A senior challenge? i think they (the rebels) played Roscommon last weekend in a challenge and won.

seligehgit

Always_Running wrote: »

A senior challenge? i think they (the rebels) played Roscommon last weekend in a challenge and won.

Yes that's what I heard tonight but I'm not too sure it was not more than mere speculation.

I'd given it some credence as the supporter involved appeared very knowledgeable re Mayo GAA.

windy shepard henderson

seligehgit wrote: »

Yes that's what I heard tonight but I'm not too sure it was not more than mere speculation.

I'd given it some credence as the supporter involved appeared very knowledgeable re Mayo GAA.

I believe Cork have been flying in challenge games, they beat Dublin in a game played a few weeks back in tipperary, they also beat Galway around the same time

It's obviously impossible to know what type of teams were out but it does look like they are at least taking things seriously again

Utopia Parkway

seligehgit wrote: »

Number 14 Tomas Culhane tormented us scoring 1-5,similar in style and build to Michael Daly.

Interestingly enough the lad is actually from Kildare. His father is from Galway so he's opted to play for Galway but I think his home club is Clane in Kildare. He's a talent alright.

km79

Got a text this morning to say Matthew ruane has broke his collar bone
That’s not great news.........

Fr Tod Umptious

km79 wrote: »

Got a text this morning to say Matthew ruane has broke his collar bone
That’s not great news.........

Certainly not
Short at midfield as it is

What is a regular collar bone injury, minimum 2 months out ?

km79

Fr Tod Umptious wrote: »

Certainly not
Short at midfield as it is

What is a regular collar bone injury, minimum 2 months out ?

Yeah more or less

seligehgit

km79 wrote: »

Got a text this morning to say Matthew ruane has broke his collar bone
That’s not great news.........

A disaster.

km79

Has anyone else heard it ?
Really hope it’s ****e

seligehgit

km79 wrote: »

Has anyone else heard it ?
Really hope it’s ****e

Did not hear diddly squat up at the game last night,when did it supposedly happen?

Reliable source?

km79

seligehgit wrote: »

Did not hear diddly squat up at the game last night,when did it supposedly happen?

Reliable source?

Not really !
Third hand info so fingers crossed it’s rubbish

RedDevil55

km79 wrote: »

Has anyone else heard it ?
Really hope it’s ****e

Didn't hear it... Connacht Telegraph put up a picture of him and Conor Loftus yesterday opening an ebs branch in Castlebar. Looked fine then so unless it just happened yesterday evening.

Would be a disaster if true.

glack

Apparently happened at training last night. Sounding like it’s true.

RedDevil55

Ah well, 2020 is a new year

PressRun

It is true as far as I know.

seligehgit

Yikes hard to find any positivity atm.

I did hear all other injured parties were fit for action..Cillian,Fionn and Donie.