Mayo GAA Discussion

Wonder if the changes just disrupted the rhythm of the team a bit just when they were getting settled, even though it is important to get game time into different players.

On the positives - Carney was very lively again, Cillian was very solid and Tommy Conroy looks sharp after his long lay off. However, the manner in which Ros were able to waltz through the middle time and again just isn't good enough. Number 6 hardly anywhere to be seen each time.

They'll learn things from that game, for sure, but there were some poor mistakes and some old failings - a lack of ruthlessness when out in front, soft goals, plus this thing of passing to a man under pressure or carrying the ball directly into traffic only to get turned over or concede a free.

2-7 conceded.

What did he do?

Very disappointed with yesterday, thats a game we should have won by 15 points and they had the chance to win it with the last kick of the game. Not nearly good enough.

Thought Carney, McDonagh and Diarmuid were all very good.

Carr should have had 7 points from play, hes so wasteful, if he can't kick off his left from 25 yards out then he shouldn't be doing it, he really needs McStay to lay down the law with him, that he needs to cut out these brain farts if he wants to start.

Cillian is still brilliant technically and a great man to let the ref know when hes being fouled but he looks slow, first time I've thought hes not a started.

Matty Ruane is sloppy in possession and his "tackles" are ending in frees most of the time now. Flynn was anonymous but he is allowed an off day. Conor Loftus is not providing cover for his defence.

I don't think we'll see the best of Tommy Conroy this year either, very hard to come back in year 1 from such a serious injury. He's also in danger of falling into the Richie Feeney vortex, he didn't play for so long that Mayo supporters have built him up to be David Clifford, hes still a young buck learning his trade

Hopefully yesterday is a wake up call. Looks like it'll be galway in the league final if they win next weekend, based off yesterday they'll beat us. Ideal for them really, we have championship the following weekend while they can go full bore and have a rattle at it

Some video from the match here;

Nice to get the win but plenty to work on. I thought DOC and Carney were very good. Carr got 3 nice points but missed 2-3 others.

The goals and the way Roscommon were able to come back from 8 down without really playing great was worrying though - maybe better to learn these things now rather than later in the year. I thought it was odd that AOS spent so much time around the middle when he came on rather than going in to FF, not sure it worked that well although he caught one great kickout.

Hard to see us not making the final from here, even if we were to lose the last two, chances are that we'd make it. I presume McStay will continue giving gametime to some of the younger & returning players - wouldn't mind seeing Conor McStay get a start. Galway & Roscommon will be fairly happy too, although they both probably need another point to be safe

Yesterday's game settles the hennelly Byrne debate for me. For both goals, iv never seen a goalie make himself so small. He's the same age as hennelly so, imo no point in leading him down the garden path any further.

Disappointed ins Aos contribution when he came on. Didn't really play the role of a forward. That being said he was nailed on for a point and the ref gave a free out for double hop. A bizarre call from what I could see.

It's an interesting take.

I'd tend to agree to a certain extent but on the other hand winning something like a Connacht championship would be good for the young players.

On the worse seeding thing, three of the second seeds are going to be a Leinster team unlikely to be called Dublin, a Munster team not called Kerry and Sligo\Leitrim or London.

Can't see why Mayo would not finish 2nd with the likes of them in a group.

That's true, I forgot about that.

We've had enough goalkeeper debates on here to do us a lifetime, we don't need a new one. Was there ever really a Hennelly Byrne debate?

Looked bad from that angle but I'd say he got more ball than leg... And Matty was nothing if not looking for it tbh.

Sean let himself down there for sure. Similar to when Aidan O'Shea had to cheat to beat Fermanagh a few years back. Zero excuses and a bad look for the sport.

Disgraceful carry on from Galway.. Keep at that and they won't win Sam for 75 yrs.. Or more...

Ah in fairness he made bits of us any time he was in full forward. He was unstoppable there in 2015 too. A lad that can field high balls is still a valuable commodity.

Playing them in a league final wouldn't be bad experience either!

There sure is. Of course that didn’t get the same level of notice from the trolls

https://twitter.com/inphojames/status/752245287327072256?s=46&t=ykVB3m4Gr-33Rm_rENBb4A

That prompted me to check the odds for the league. My flutter is mainly confined to the grand national these days so I might be missing a trick but I was surprised that it took so long to find odds for the league.

None of the Irish ones seem to have odds. William Hill have us 4/5 on followed by Rossies and Galway. But Kerry 10/1 and Tyrone 50/1 are huge odds for outright winners.

Kerry especially imo, Galway and Roscommon up next for them, if they start to find some form, they could easily find themselves in the final by accident. Yera.

Those final spot(s) is fairly wide open I would have thought.

Wasn’t referring to you as a troll but if you look at the photos you can see it was a trip. Again those photos didn’t make it to the Sunday game commentary at the time and they were ignored, even though they show the trip clearly. That was the point I was making. It was a different angle which Marty Morrissey didn’t have on his iPad to show the Fermanagh manager after the game, and that particular incident has been bandied about as a dive when it clearly wasn’t.

I’ll admit my purple nurple reference was perhaps a little inflammatory. And for what it’s worth I don’t care for the feigning of injury to get players sent off from any players, and that includes mayo players.

its something that’s rarely punished - I’ve only seen someone getting penalised for it once, a Kildare player in the league game last year in Pairc Seán getting a yellow for acting injured. The ref even dismissed the medical team running onto the pitch and gave the lad a yellow card, can’t recall which Kildare player it was.

Refs do certainly need more assistance when it comes to the appropriate decisions but by the same token need to start penalising players that are acting the maggot. That includes lying on the ball to slow down play as well.

To be fair to AOS, that is not part of his game. The Fermanagh incident got plenty debate before, but there is pictures out there that show contact! I don't think anyone in their right mind could argue against Cillian acting the maggot in that clip, he did the same thing to Tom Flynn in Pearse stadium a few years back if i remember correctly. Darran O'Sullivan in the replay in 2017 if i remember correctly too??The list goes on! Definitely in the same bucket as Sean Kelly's effort at the weekend.

I'd definitely agree with you on the punishment! They have to start clamping down more on that type of behaviour!

Genuinely surprised you don't have more acknowledgement for this post. Very funny. Kudos

There's nothing more whataboutery than lads defending O'Shea throwing himself to the ground like a lad that was turfed outta the Castlecourt Hotel. I'm sure there's probably even a JPeg out there that doesn't make Sean Kelly look like a diver from Sunday but it'd still be waffle. Doesn't mean he didn't completely exaggerate things in a unsportsmanlike manner. Lads might want playacting gone but seemingly not in the last 10 minutes of a championship match.

I might've been sore over the world's softest trip if ye didn't score two own-goals later that year. These things even out and I've no doubt there'll probably be a soft red card in Sean Kelly's future.

Best of luck for the year ahead and hopefully we might get ye in the Connacht semis.