Mayo GAA Discussion

Every year I hear the same thing about Tyrone

Every year I say they not only offer no goal threat but that they seem to have absolutely no interest in even creating goal chances .

Goals win games .

Mayo in 2017 were in there prime , Dublin are in serious decline its there for everyone to see , just look at there bench

As much as Id love to see Mayo win, I think Dublin will score at least 2 goals and win by 5/6 points.

I'd imagine they would laugh down the phone at you if you rang looking for a ticket. Can't see them being set up to take 20,000 phone calls and personal details to send to clubs for collection. It would be a logistical and admin nightmare. I'd be genuinely surprised if there is any truth at all to that.

Each club will be given an allocation and it's up to them to let members register their interest and have a draw or whatever way they deem fairest.

Example in my club, we got 10 tickets for the Tipp game and got 4 for the Cork game. They'll probably get about 30-50 for the semi final.

Totally but I think what you will see is a gradual decline of Dublin and then a rebuild will happen, a bit like what we are going through.They are definitely not at the same level currently but that's not to say that they can't drive it to that level for a game or two. We would be very foolish to think that they are in a big decline because they are not. If anything I would say they look a bit tired in their play and I think this is why we have not seen as many goals from them. The way they play the ball from side to side until they get an opening/player off the shoulder in a pocket of space is very impressive.. a bit like treating a team like an elastic band to a degree.

They are still the team to beat as Kerry have played nobody and we have only played Galway who put it up to us and got a great second performance out of us.

I hope your right obviously , but i cant see it to be honest , something is not right in that Dublin camp , anyway we will find out soon enough.

I'm not buying that Dublin have regressed as much as has been portrayed. I think they have perhaps regressed slightly, but I don't see that Mayo have improved sufficiently to bridge the gap in any case, particularly without Cillian but also given we're operating with a makeshift full back line.

I'd be very pleasantly surprised if we were to win, but I have no expectations that it will happen, truth be told.

Maybe not serious decline but compared to winning margins in the past 2 years of 15,16 and 21 against the same opposition suggest they are not operating at that level now

Well Comerford hasn’t been tested yet, easy enough to look good when you’re playing Wexford, harder when Mayo or more likely Kerry are doing a full court press and you have to find Fenton out on the wing. Time will tell if he is able for it.

No doubt though that Dublin are weaker without Cluxton, IMO the most influential footballer I’ll ever see, the one irreplaceable player for Dublin.

The absolute ****

On the match, it’s probably the first time in a few years that when we talk about match-ups we’re not just talking about who from Mayo will pick up who from Dublin. They’ll have to give real thought to do they try and spoil Ruane with McCarthy, who picks up ROD, Conroy and Durcan, Mullen and what they do with AOS. Good position to be in

I hate you right now

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Do when know when the general sale tickets will be released?

Midwest Radio today said ticket requests are still being processed by the clubs.

Mayo GAA said there was technical difficulties at the weekend with clubs not getting their allocations.

They're awaiting news from croke park about when online general sale tickets will be available.

Our club were assured of the number they ordered, but a neighbouring club did not get the number of tickets they asked for. They would be a bigger club, but still. All club members should be looked after.

Got an email at 6pm there with the link but they said tickets had to have been bought by 1pm. Now in an online queue. Apparently there's a mix up where people got double the amount of tickets they ordered.

Bit of a **** up really.

I got tickets as they went through the main site after all that

Sly move....