Mayo GAA Discussion

Mayo team named

1 Colm Reape Knockmore

2 Jack Coyne Ballyhaunis

3 Rory Brickenden Westport

4 Enda Hession Garrymore

5 Stephen Coen Hollymount-Carramore

6 Conor Loftus Crossmolina Deel Rovers

7 Donnacha McHugh Castlebar Mitchels

8 Matthew Ruane Breaffy

9 Diarmuid O’Connor Ballintubber

10 Fionn McDonagh Westport

11 Jack Carney Kilmeena

12 Jordan Flynn Crossmolina Deel Rovers

13 Aiden Orme Knockmore

14 James Carr Ardagh

15 Ryan O'Donoghue Beal an Mhuirthead

You called it!

No way will Brickenden have the physicality for Comer.

I'd say only Cillian,Paddy,Tommy C,o Hora,Eoghan Mac and Hennelly to add to that starting line up.

We have to try out new lads but we should have a really strong bench tomorrow aswell.

Plunkett and Harrison if they can get back aswell should start and maybe McBrien.

Reape is still learning his trade, the odd poor decision is there but he's improving all the time. Excellent under a high ball

Entertaining start. Thought Reape was awful for the goal, no presence whatsoever.

That black card "time management" from Galway was a bit of a joke

The amount of balls dropped short is ridiculous.

Tackling has been great. Four balls dropped short - three of which were poor - is very disappointing considering there is little wind. Pressure yes but a lack of composure in truth.

Bob Tuohy is such an exciting prospect and you can feel the crowd buzz when he is on the ball. Aidan Orme is not county level at all and won't be (nothing to do with the Galway goal, little he could do about that). Just my thoughts.

Shocking goal to concede. Imagine if Hennelly was in goal for that - the meltdowns would be chronic.

That aside, defensively we’re doing better than I anticipated. We should be ahead or at least level - 4 dropped short with 2 of them being very scorable.

we’ll need to improve in the second half.

Some point by ROD 😎

The defence did well imho but as ever with Mayo the problems are further up the pitch.

Not convinced by Carr still.... he'll score the odd spectacular goal/point but no consistency. And we've probably seen enough of Orme now to say he's not going to make it. I'll be happy to be proved wrong by both of them

Some point from O'Donoghue but a lot of indecision in the forward play and frankly shocking at the back at times. And yet we still could have won (and maybe should have, the final Galway free wasn't a foul).

Jason Doherty is a tremendous tackler and ball winner. Orme lacks a bit of strength on the ball for me and he's too hesitant when the shot is on.

I thought the backs played very well.

None of the wide open spaces we have seen recently from Mayo.

As regards the forwards, I hope that a full forward line for the championship would be made up of Conroy, O'Donoghue and Cillian.

As we saw tonight the latter two know how to get the scores.

And you'd know Buckley is back in town with some of the tackling.

Agree on the tackling. That was a huge positive. We were great in the tackle. Could see a huge difference even from last year.

dunno. I was always a fan. I thought when he started he was a scoring machine (which he was) that then seemed to move on to other parts of the game which he did and did very well. Him always being a scoring machine is something I’d question - he probably wasn’t going to be consistent enough at that but by god could he deliver elsewhere and we really could do with him or a similar replacement who would do the same job. My point is he was always going to be a talent whatever way he ended up. When he came on the scene I think he scored 4 goals and then did a number of similar scorings in his early outings in the league. But like any player in that vein, opponents will have the work done to prevent that in the future.

I’d like to think Orme had the same sort of credentials. He’s a work in progress and I’m not going to rule him out yet; I’ve high hopes for him. I’m going to go out on a limb for him and I think he’ll come good yet.

if he doesn’t though I think McStay has other options to work on. There’s a few others like his own nephew or young Irwin that are rightfully champing at the bit for a bit of intercounty experience so if Orme isn’t up to it, there’s a few there ready to take the position.

Work in progress.

Harsh on McBrien I think - Comer was almost anonymous in second half.

Carney quieter than I had hoped alright, but he's still a relatively new player, would persist with him above likes of McDonagh who doesn't seem have learned anything over past 4 years.

Buckley is back I expect a huge improvement in tackling.

I know its early days, but I would still have massive concerns about our forwards this year. I didn't see any evidence of a plan for our forward play last night and I thought there was a great deal of indecision and a lack of confidence in shooting from most of the forwards bar O'Donoghue. Much the same as last year when we were blaming it all on Horan. I would have big doubts about some of the personnel and I don't know if we're going to see anything different from them. Carr, while he has flashes of brilliance, is so inconsistent and has a tendency to just put the head down more often than not. Orme isn't the answer either.

Roscommon looking down and seeing Mayo and Galway. And there are no mountains in Ros!!

Not sure I'd agree on that, they highlighted Loftus for the first goal last nite, how have Galway managed to isolate our corner forward and their half forward on the edge of the square. That situation shouldn't have been allowed to happen, he needs to be passed onto a back the closer he is getting to goal and I'd have that as the No. 6's responsibility. A cuter player would have been able to block Tierney and Reape should have cleared him out of it and made him sorry for coming near there. I said on Saturday that Reape can have the odd wrong decision and that was a good example, he is only in goal three years, I'm not sure you can learn all you need to that quickly.

On Orme, I think its outrageous that lads are writing him off so quickly, hes 22 and has started 8 games for Mayo but apparently lads have seen enough of him. What I see is a player who wins every ball that goes into him, doesn't matter if its high or low he'll win it. A lot of the ball he got on Saturday he looked up and there was no run inside so hes back to recycling the ball. His shooting and his decision making around shooting needs to improve but that will come with time. His work rate and kick passing are outstanding.

I see Hennelly is transferring to Raheny, probably not good news for @PARlance, even though Breaffy seem to have a great replacement I would take it to mean Hennelly doesn't see Breaffy winning a county title

Robbie has been travelling over and back for 10 or 12 years now and made his reasons clear on the podcast. Long story short - he's living in Dublin, the split season extends the travel period considerably for him and he just recently got married and no doubt has plans for his family and his career.

Hard to blame the man.

It's not like he's doing a correspondence course where he wants to be closer to the post box for sending off his homework and got a bag of cash for transferring. 😉