Mayo GAA Discussion

Mayo GAA sold corporate packages of 10 tickets for €5900. I think its fair that they are in an impossible situation but when they chose to go that route to make money rather than looking after loyal fans be it season ticket or clubs i think its ridiculous!

May have slipped under the radar but McCarthy got a one match ban for his elbow on DOC. Small wasn't punished.

I don't believe they advertised it. One of my friends had spoken to Mayo GAA about it through twitter but we couldn't bring ourselves to do it. Not a notion how many they were selling.

Small really displayed a nasty streak in the semi final. Every time a Mayo player went near him he had a fist or elbow up , eg on DOC. There's playing on the edge and there's a dangerous nasty streak that could seriously injure someone and he falls into the latter category.

Small plays on the edge, I didn't comment at the time but I felt he was entitled to go for the McLaughlin hit, he mistimed it and should have gone. The real issue with that hit was Conor Lane and nobody else, Scully even flagged it to him, it was a disgrace

We're mighty in Mayo at getting offended when it happens to us, not so great when its our lads, see the hit below from Boyler, we all loved it, 10 times worse than what Small did. Comer's shoulder is in a different postcode. People and glass houses, we call it commitment when it our lad, nasty streak when its someone else.

Not sure I can blame the county board for selling the corporate packages. Zero gate receipts for over a year while the county has had two runs to the final, albeit with shortened seasons. Thats a lot of cheese out the door to fund the team and no gate, no season ticket money back and I'd imagine sponsorship hard to come by

On the tickets, I'm still very confident that tickets will come up Saturday morning, they always do. Less people have travelled home from abroad from what I can see, less people will travel on spec. We're short four in our house, I think they'll show up

So why are you whinging about Small?

Did you notice at the semi final - the only foul play that was replayed on the big screen was Basquel's black, literally went blank for everything else. Talk about trying to influence the ref

He wasn't long backing down from Keegan though.

Nice one!

Ya jammy fecker!

I must have every cousin, every former college mate, every former business acquaintance/customer text at this stage.

Even people I don't like!

Best to leave the past in the past and that includes any suspensions that McCarthy and Small got or didn't get.

Point of order on the Boyle/Comer shoulder - AFAIR Boyle received a yellow card for that challenge, play was stopped to deal with Comer (who was able to continue on playing after) and Galway got a free from that incident. Quite significantly different to how the Small/McLaughlin incident was dealt with by the officials.

I'll take Km79's place on the list Yop, if that's ok.

Doesn't look good. All contacts have come back negative so far.

Question - Anyone have any idea of where to go or what best to do in order to be in with a chance of picking up a ticket around Croke Park on SAturday?

Any tips?

Boyles hit was not in the face, it was not exactly shoulder on shoulder but he didn't take the head. Cunniffe hit was shoulder on shoulder - this was totally fair. Nobody is crying about the tackle. The problem is it was a sending off as it was a dangerous hit and Lane make a bollox of it.

After the 2006 SF it was decided that Dublin get the Hill to warm up in.

This is like most things in Irish society a bit of a fudge.

The way it's administered is that the dressing rooms are allocated in alphabetical order, with the one closest to the Hill being assigned to the team first alphabetically, and that team then warming up in front of the Hill.

So Ath Claith is usually first alphabetically so they get that dressing room, and the Hill.

For extra credit can anyone tell us when it was the case that Dublin did not get the Hill to warm up post 2006 ?

As for coming out second I don't know how true that is.

If you recall the 2016 final Dublin came out and Mayo burst out right behind them, that's because Dublin were late coming out and wanted Mayo to delay their coming out on the field also, Mayo said no and ran out at their allotted time, right after Dublin.

It really set the tone for the day

Non football query, anyone know what the crack is getting a pint in Croke Park hotel after the game? They werent letting anyone in day of the Dublin game. Have a pass for official car park behind there but they wont open it until an hour after the game so if we lose dont fancy hanging around the car for an hour with 3 equally depressed mates, if we win not a single **** will be given, probably still in CP after an hour anyway.

My hope of a ticket(s) seem to have gone unfortunately, will make a few last minute calls but looks like TV at home as well.

From a hardcore group of about 10 of us who go to everything we had 3 tickets between us this morning,now we have 9.A few had given up and were in a bad way.

Keep the faith and good luck to all waiting to get sorted.

A lot of tickets are making their way into the rights hands this evening. I didnt think it would happen ! Best of luck to everyone still waiting. Ye will get one

There is a very small amount of tickets going to clubs tomorrow. Senior clubs getting 7, Intermediate clubs 5 and Junior clubs 4.

Not a lot but better than nothing.

This will be the 2nd allocation to clubs this week.