Mayo GAA Discussion

It was the manner of the defeats that stood out. I remember watching the games (2005 and 2008) and the intensity of the tackles were very driven and also very impressive. For me it showed a driven agenda that they wanted to not only defeat them but do it in a manner that showed them up. At the time I wished Mayo would play like that and a few years later we started to.

Where did Aido play on Sunday? CHF?

Any word on a special train for Sunday?

While I wouldn't believe these lads of they told me it was Tuesday theres a rumour mentioned here that COC is going well in training

https://www.con-telegraph.ie/2022/03/28/diarmuid-oconnor-a-major-doubt-for-kerry-showdown/

How did he fair over all results? He had it all his own way with the exception of Tyrone?

What's the story with Harrison?

Sorry Pressrun,

I don't know the full story there so would only be speculating.

I know when he emerged on crutches he looked visible upset,really terrible for the lad and took the shine off the day for me.

Heard it was his ankle

Back in the day they weren't bad... though getting a pair of tickets to the '96 replay from John Melvin for doing a kids eye view on a few of the earlier games might have me a little biased there. Used to go out of their way to gather full reports from the underage schools games too, even before Gerald's had the All Ireland Final appearance, which was relatively rare at the time in the mid 90s.

In more recent years hard to describe what's happening there as sports journalism. A real shame. Every rumour printed as a story regardless of the (lack of) sources. Clickbait, virality, social shares, vanity metrics and the evolving revenue streams for print media haven't been kind to them and has seen a dramatic decline in the quality of their offerings. Would go out of my way to avoid clicking a link to them for sport at this point.

Thankfully Mid West did an amazing job for a long time keeping us up to date (was a genuine joy hearing Mike Finnerty there for years. Streets ahead as the best commentator in the country to my ears) and the Mayo News' offerings at the moment are up there with the very best of local GAA coverage I've seen in the country. Makes such a difference in enjoying sport having that available. If the GAA can fix the mess they've made with rights deals and get the streaming back to the level it was at during the early pandemic we could really be in for a treat.

100% agree with every word of this.

John Melvin is a gentleman and I would have always associated him with the Connaught in the past,there can't be much of an age difference between him and Aiden Henry but there's a massive gulf in class,respect and decency.

Midwest have always done such a great job and continue to do so.

We've never had it so good with coverage and analysis which only highlights the continued incompetence,false stories,bias and nastiness of the Connaught,the sad thing is it all seems to come from one bitter individual who seems to have been promoted beyond his capabilities.

The Mayo News podcast is absolutely top notch,they brought it to another level altogether now since they went to Patreon both in terms of increased output and quality.

Have to give a mention to Ah Ref aswell,great craic even if it's sporadic and yer man Enda hasn't a fcuking notion!

I saw that,I wonder will they open the upper tiers,much better view from anywhere up there than the corners below.Also the Hill doesn't seem to be open

Canal end doesn't seem to be open yet either.

Doubt the hill will be open

I'm told DOC had a hammer issue going into the Kildare game which was worsened. Four weeks isn't a lot of time to get right for championship

Hopefully nothing too bad, mainly from his personal perspective, I think he's a fairly hands on builder. It really is crazy and admiral what these guys risk. Most wouldn't be too affected by injuries on the work front, but I'm sure it would on him.

Harrison has lads working for him, not sure how well insurance is going to cover what his actual loss of income is

Ah Ref's whatsapp reporting COC on the bench for Sunday, ur man that provided that would be a reliable sort

Great news if its true

John Casey tweeted as much too.

Not really,season tickets from Mayo approx 5k,kerry maybe 2k and Galway/Roscommon about 1k each,that's 9k in total.Lower cusack,canal and hogan is over 30k (cusack 13.5k, hogan 12k,canal 6k) Season tickets holders will take up less than a third of the lower tiers,there's also an additional 3k in the middle tier and then I'm not sure what the corporate boxes hold but another few hundred there.

It's all down to expectations, I don't think they set any expectations of top-level analysis! It is what it is and it's very enjoyable, and shouldn't be just contained to the club scene.

He has a point about the dummy teams if you ask me. I can see why managers don't want to show their hand but they should really do away with it altogether at this stage.

I'm kicking myself for not tuning into it sooner tbh. I had wrongly assumed it would something like a Buff Egan / Banter Page type thing.

The problem with the dummy team is that if a few counties are doing it to try to throw off opposition, then others will have to follow suit or risk being called naive after a defeat. I do think we do it to some degree in the bigger matches ourselves, the session in between can be the reason for the change or a good excuse to not show all your cards... I don't think Horan is being 100% honest there, nor would I expect him to be either.

I don't think I've paid any real heed to a team announcement in years at this stage, it should probably be done away with at this stage but it does add something to the build-up I suppose.