Mayo GAA Discussion

Not to get too off topic but I think the feeling at the time was Rossie delegates led the Connacht counties to vote against Keady. Most casual Galway fans are unaware of the debacle though, or at least weren't till his passing.

On-topic there very front row tickets are on sale for Sunday on ticketmaster. Not amazing from a vantage point but might do the job

I have a lot of friends in Galway as well.

They're all from Mayo.

I never get the "shouting" for other counties thing, I wouldn't shout for anyone bar ourselves... there are some counties that I wouldn't mind seeing win a game, that would vary depending on circumstances, opponents etc.

Very classy

Crikey that took a turn. I apologise for bringing it up. It was a spiteful move from county boards who were afraid of hurling spread within Connacht at the time but had nothing to do with fans and indeed fan relationship between Galway & Mayo was probably at it's highest in the early to mid 90's after that. RIP

I've being told it's coming either this evening or early tomorrow morning

I've removed the post now. It was meant as a joke but in hindsight it was in very poor taste and I'm not sure how i thought it could be taken as even the slightest bit funny. I did not mean to offend so I apologise to all for it and I certainly meant no disrespect to Tony Keady or his family as he was somebody I had great respect for! Sorry all!

Tickets are up now for the special train

More tickets on sale on gaa.ie including lower hogan

Banned or goes missing like his team. A clown of the highest order

Screenshots are perfectly fine. Its what I do when I buy tickets for my siblings and myself. For some games we only arrive at different times and have never had a problem with QR codes on a Screenshot.

Must be, I've never had a warning like that pop up and I've used them for gakes and gigs for a long time now. I've sent screenshots to them for the game on Sunday again as we are all traveling from different parts of the country.

Given our handling the last day I can't imagine its a positive

That is a system that Ticketmaster are rolling out. But from what I have read (and I started some thread about it somewhere on Boards.ie myself), it is not in Ireland yet. I got in to gigs and sporting events recently with just the QR code on a whattsapp message. The "fraud detection" method that ticketmaster refer to is constantly changing code behind a specific QR code, so that if it was sent to you right now by whattsapp, you should be able to get in. But in a half hours time, the coding behind it will have changed, and a whattsapp scan of the same QR code will not work. At least, I think that's the way it is. I'm no IT whizz.

I follow a different cycle, mid week is usually my high point, it'll be downhill from here once I start to look at Kerry.

I had a good laugh at the recent Ah Ref podcast... Ref came out with a line, something along the lines of "ah Jesus, here I am talking myself into believing that we're going to fcuking win the game again"...

Never heard as many rumours flying around in the lead up to a game as I've heard this week. Injuries, falling outs, the whole lot. You'd be hoping a lot of it is just idle WhatsApp talk.

The forecast is poor enough for Sunday. I was fearing a fast game tbh as I think Kerry could get the run on us in those conditions, so even though I hate standing in the rain, I'll take anything that might keep the scores down.

Is it ever any different. Heard stuff as well and I think there may be some basis for it but the problem is that it grows legs and becomes a lot bigger and blown out of proportion.

It will be interesting to see has Horan learned anything after the Kildare game. He was ruthless when he came in and he needs to do it again on the team selection.. big calls. I do think he has gone soft, so not sure if he will make them. If not we are doomed imo as we can't be carrying players who don't deliver properly. Hope ROD is back, we need him so bad.

That's the only rumour I have heard so far and anyone that I have heard saying it have claimed its all over twitter!

The prick on Twitter is unfortunately just repeating rumours that have been flying around all week. He doesn't have anything more substantial than the idle gossip that's been doing the rounds everywhere, he's just trying to dress it up like he has some sort of inside scoop that's more significant than just random pub talk. But I've heard different versions of basically the same stories he's talking about. First I heard it was that O'Donoghue was fit and ready to go, then it was that he was fit but basically Horan doesn't favour him, then it was that he was touch and go, and now it's that he's definitely out. You wouldn't know what to believe. For what it's worth, I did hear from someone reliable last week that he would play. Now, something may have happened since that has set him back, I'm not sure.

Had also heard the Mullin rumour, but the version going around earlier this week was that he hasn't been participating in training at all due to injury, now people are saying he got injured just recently in an AvB game. Again, who knows. Haven't heard anything truly reliable on that, so would take it with a pinch of salt. He has really struggled for fitness this year though, so it's not beyond the realms of possibility I suppose.

If you were to base any prediction on the form we have shown this year, no not a hope.

If you were to base it on the players we have and what they are capable of we definitely have a chance.

If we play like we did in the last 10 minutes against Kildare then I honestly don't think Kerry would be fit for us, but on the other hand I don't think we can play like that for longer than 10 minutes based on what we have seen so far this year!

I think it can be distilled down to something very simple.

The Mayo backs are not good enough to keep the Kerry forwards at bay and the Mayo forwards are not good enough to win a shootout.

If Mayo have to rely on backs coming forward to score it only exacerbates the above.

I've been of this opinion since the one point loss to Kerry in Tralee.

Now we could talk about intangibles like Kerry not having a hard game yet etc but I still think it comes down to the above.

The only way Mayo can win is if they upset Kerry's new defensive system early on and build on that.

Kerry have basically gone with a blanket defense since Tally or whatever his name is arrived.

Attack the weaknesses in that and you could break Kerry.

But Mayo are not know for breaking blanket defenses.

I hope I'm wrong but at the same time I don't mind too much of they lost.

I'll look forward to a 2023 with a healthy full forward line with maybe a new manager and new ideas.

In very simple words.... he is too slow in mind and body. He can still do a role but not 60 odd minutes of a game, maybe last 10 minutes when someone is running out of energy. Time for Flynn to show us what he is made of as he is the present and the future for us (currently). If AOS and Coen are not benched then forget about it.