Mayo GAA Discussion

Does every club in Ireland get two final tickets this year like in normal years?

I agree with this. We didn’t play well at all against Dublin for the first hour. Tyrone were quite strong today and took their chances well despite losing a huge percentage of their kickouts.

I don’t understand how the bookies have us as favourites - those odds should be a lot more similar for both teams than they are at present and I’d be shocked if they don’t end up being a lot more similar or even a reverse of the current status by game day.

PP have us as 4/6 and Tyrone at 6/5, that’s a bit of a spread but your point is valid re the handicap.

From what I can gather though bookies generally tend I throw out the handicap odds to see which way the money blows and then adjust accordingly.

I’d be more than happy with a 1 point win all the same.

Hard to know what to make of that, David Clifford and Sean o Shea the only one to show up for Kerry yet they could still have won only for some bad decision making with the square ball 'goal'. Not the final we were expecting but I am sure we will be well prepared for it in 2 weeks time.

meath man here.really hope that mayo can finish off the job now,there's only so much heartache any county can take.Have done a massive thing for Gaelic football in beating Dublin twice in ten years and only a kick of the ball in it so many times.where would football be if dubs got seven in a row.Anyway great credit to mayo for stopping that and from six points behind,it really is some achievement.massive sympathy for cillian O'Connor missing out sport can be really cruel. Great to see Kieron McDonald involved on the sidelines one of my favourite ever players.would love Aiden O'Shea to score 1.4 or something and take away mom trophy.so unfairly criticised over the years I feel hope his day comes had so hoped he would leave Philly mac on his arse when he came on at the end.He is subjected to pure thuggery game after game but it leaves space for others cause he is such a handful.Hopefully mayo are capable of getting 2 maybe 3 goals that's what wins games. Kerry goal yesterday instead of square ball and they would of gone on to win well. It can be worth so much more than 3 points. COME ON MAYO !!!!

so rare it's never happened before at senior level.

Don't think the extra two weeks wait did any great favours for Kerry, a lot of any game is what's between the two ears. Pressure and expectations, assumptions.

Mayo are now in same boat and arguably likewise disadvantaged. Another challenge.

Tommy Conroy and ROD have got the treatment from Dublin. It will be no different with tyrone. They just need to do it for longer and with AOS in FF, we have the option to go long inside. He needs to be a right bull inside to bully tyrone. We can also pull him out into half forward line at times if we come under pressure and need to hit long ball out from hennelly. The amount of long ball hit by Tyrone yesterday was unreal when they were getting beatening to it all. We are definitely more mobile in midfield than Kerry so if we press like hell there could be alot of 50/50 balls.

Also on Kerry yesterday, they didn't spread the play like we do so I would expect us to play the hold possession better till we get a chance. Tyrone love this tight play and turned over Kerry alot. It will be an interesting final now and this is a great chance to finally nail this drought to the wall.

"In many ways hard to be believe Kerry lost the game,lorded the middle.Morgan had a very poor day at the office and will be subjected to a severe examination with our high press.So we can definitely target dominance in the middle 1/3."

It's hard to know what to make of this point. I've read up a fair bit on the match yesterday. Big concensus is that Moran wasn't up to much. And Jack Barry had a nightmare game. But yet there are lots of comments that Kerry dominated midfield. Is it cleaning up the breaks?

I don't think we'll see him near 14, there's too much to lose by that. If he's in at FF and Tyrone win the first few balls into him then it gives them a huge uneeded boost.

He'll float in the middle third imo, starting at 11. We really need to target their kickouts and he'll play a huge part in that.

One thing that I forgot to mention earlier was that Tyrone break very well from the back but they do so very centrally. Aidan at 11 should be expected to try to stifle those breaks.

Thats what I have been thinking. Said it to a few Kerry lads during the week at work that Tyrone will be decent enough and you write them off at your peril. They are very skillful and very well drilled. Seems I was proved right.

When you look at this years championship it is very hard to really forecast a winner. Looking at Mayo v's Dublin Mayo were awful for 40 minutes yet despite a very good second half when Dublin had ran out of steam there was still only a score in it. It seems teams are not playing the full 70 minutes but vital when they do they get the scores. Mayo were majestic against Galway but what will happen the next day is anyones guess.

Im not a fan of over analyzing the opposition. I think Mayo have the players to beat Tyrone IF Mayo go and play their own game. By that I mean use the natural ability of their players, Durkan, Ruane, McLoughlin O'Connor need to take on Tyrone from the off and attack them. That is the one thing they dont like, Dublin "out tyroned" and they didnt like it. They will concede frees. What I did see in Mayo was the level of conditioning and fitness and this will be invaluable. A few Mayo lads will be targeted but not necessarily the smaller lads. Tyrone will pick an area they feel they can dominate and work from there.

I think Mayo have the squad to win. Hope you get sorted with tickets and the good fans get looked after.

There's plenty of things to question AOS about, his temperament is not one of them.

One of the coolest heads around when confronted with the dark arts.

More !

Out of curiousity why does it make it harder to get a ticket as its Tyrone

I've posted a few time here over the last decade, most recently last December 19th, about how Mayo really need a break when it comes to All Ireland finals.

Every year we have either come up again Kerry hurting from another Tyrone defeat of Dublin the greatest team of all time.

Even in 2012 it was v a Donegal team that had caught lightning in a bottle and were a juggernaut.

I wished for the kind of thing Cork got in 2010, or Galway in 1998.

But this year it looks like Mayo may have had that sort of luck.

Don't get me wrong, Tyrone are a solid Division 1 team, they are no slouches but they are far from the monster we are used of meeting in finals.

So the onus is really on the Mayo players to step up and play to their full potential on the day, there is no place for them to hide now, they need to close it out.

I think Kerry getting through would have been the break. There was never anything to fear from Kerry except fear itself. Tyrone is a very unusual tactical dynamic for Horan to deal with. For the first time ever in a big game there is no standout match ups. We will face a team who play similar in possession to ourselves with hard running half backs, Tyrone have an added element of scoring fullbacks. If AOS plays FF its straight into Tyrones bag he'll be harassed and fouled all day and won't get a free. Mayo need forwards scoring from 35 or 40 yards out because inside that is a quagmire, cul de sac. Tyrone persisted with losing their own long kickout all day long as they were happy to let Kerry have the ball to run it into their venus fly trap of a back line. Mayo must be much more clever and not carry the ball into tackle at any cost and try to set up scorable distance attempts. It's a really tough task for Mayo, you must hope managerial experience will count, a bit of luck wouldn't go astray either. 50/50 game I'd say.