Mayo GAA Discussion

Complete non performance really....shocking amount of missed chances.

Hard to know if Tyrone even played well tbh but they did enough to win so fair play

DOC shuda taken the pen. Needed a cool experienced head not a young lad.

Alright feel free to say it a few dozen more times so...

i think a mayo lost the game- could have been closer at least at the end - by going into contact and holding onto the ball until there was three or more Tyrone players around the Mayo player. This was happening frequently throughout the match and mainly between the Mayo full and half forward line. The end result in most cases was the ball being held onto too long, the ball being turned over or the ball was thrown. This played right into Tyrone’s hands in that it could buy time to get its defense fully organized in case it is needed to defend further and take the wind out of the Mayo sails.

I’d say that Tyrone practiced the above to the n’th degree to make sure that it would have a high rate of success.

i cannot understand why Mayo ‘play around more’ with the ball, move faster towards the Tyrone goal and release the ball as soon as two ,max, tacklers are drawn. Mayo’s best chance for getting scores against a team like Tyrone with the way it’s defence was set up was to run quickly at its defence when they break out and not give time to Tyrone to get fully organized.

Commiserations guys...I never thought you'd lose it today. Your fans are fantastic and so disappointing that your players left you down again... hopefully you'll be back..

There will always be a few. Genuine fans and GAA people wont be gloating cos we all know how it feels to lose, either following our counties or from playing the game and losing club finals.

Very hard luck to Mayo. Nothing else to be said.

Too much sentimentality in Mayo. Rochford had his chance and wasnt able to do it either. Seems to be a backroom team of coaches and former players who know nothing but how to loose an All Ireland final.

Don't know at what point Mayo abandon the in house coaching set up and go for an outside perspective.

I keep starting to type something and then I just give up.. I'm since 1989 waiting for my mother to see a Mayo team win an all Ireland.. obviously she's waiting much longer but 89 is the first heartbreak I remember.

Disappointed for you all. I'm beginning to wonder if I'll ever see a Mayo team lift Sam.

Rochford made plenty of mistakes himself eg 2016 but was also unlucky. Don't think you can blame Horan too much for today. 4 of our starting forwards and our 2 midfielders didn't turn up.

Didn't take the chances that would have given them the mental edge when it mattered. Instead each miss swung the game towards Tyrone.

They need a different game plan anyway.. one that isn't based on marauding defenders having to turn back on themselves as soon as they reach the opposition 45

The penalty miss reminded me of Rashford in the euros final where he does the stutter in the run up in the hope the goalie will go early in one direction. The problem is when the goalie stands his ground, the kicker has lost any momentum to strike with power, so must place it very accurately which is very difficult when you've taken your eyes off the ball to watch the goalie.

It seems like an unnecessarily high risk option when the goalie he was facing was no Donnarumma, far safer to pick a corner and strike it hard and accurate.

You'd wonder it wasn't something rehearsed and discussed in training.

Yeah, I watched it a couple of times and agree with your assessment of it. Its 2 definite reds. I agree, a yellow a piece would have done as it was just 2 lads not wanting to give an inch but as the rules are, it was 2 definite reds.

A football team has no realistic chance of winning Liam in fairness.

Does everyone realize how difficult a Gaelic football penalty is. The man hit the post. You can’t get any closer to scoring. Having said that I would have loved lee Keegan to have taken it what a player that man is thought he was outstanding. Don’t know where next for Mayo heartbreaking stuff