Mayo GAA Discussion

Great to see Darren, Eoghan and Aiden (Orme) listed on the panel for today along with Michael, Robbie and Frank returning on the first 15. Positive signs.

https://twitter.com/MayoGAA/status/1639939416297811969

You get as many injuries in behind closed door games and training as you do in matches

Wow,surprised at that,especially Eoghan,great news!

So is Reape the number 1 for championship?

Hennelly looked rusty alright. Reape has really stepped up, it's his to lose from what I'm told.

Has the date and time for the League final been fixed?

Should be a decent final.

Sort of worrying that Conroy was nowhere to be seen today. What's the story there? I thought he might have gotten significant game time today since he hasn't really played a ton of football this year.

O'Hora seemed off the pace? He might struggle to get a starting place? Though he has been out for a while now too.

I'm not sure playing a forward at 6 is working great - we coughed up a lot of goal chances today; I'd like to see Coen there and have him holding the centre

Yeah, himself or Leeroy in there would make us a lot more solid

If it was not on yesterday on a TV station it unlikely. If it was you can watch on the Player but it's a pain between adds and buffering

No. Sadly.

We can get fantastic coverage of minor and 20s these days with streams available for every game.... but when it comes to Senior and the chance to do exclusivity deals with RTE/TG4/BBC we end up getting access to 3 games (Galway Kerry, Tyrone Armagh and Dublin Louth) out of the 16 games on the most exciting day of league football.

I'm sure it generates slightly higher revenue in the short term but the long term impacts are incredibly detrimental. From smaller counties missing out on better sponsorship deals to young fans missing out on access to potential heroes that might keep them playing the game there's so many indirect consequences of it that appear to get ignored time and time again. The period during Covid showed that the technical ability is there to do it perfectly now we just need myopic administration to realise that a small dent in ticket sales is absolutely worth it for a big boost in the overall health of the game.

The most recent rights deal was just renegotiated about 6 months ago so a couple of years to run on that yet. No harm mentioning any displeasure at the lack of access good and early so they've time to take the feedback on board before future renegotiations.

(Says a lot when I'm here complaining about it as a Mayo fan. We had 7 of our 8 league games shown live, likely to have similar coverage for Round Robin and knockout games due to the fanbase we bring, and even I can see how unbalanced the current system is when it comes to cracking games like Sligo Leitrim being ignored further down the ladder.)

You didn't miss a lot yesterday Par, fairly lack lustre from us, which is understandable, the game was there for the taking at one stage I felt but we didn't push on, kicked three wides in a row, I felt at that stage if we had got ahead Monaghan would have folded.

Probably told us a lot about our squad depth.

Callinan was excellent, Swanny looks way off the pace, DOC was awful at 6, which was disappointing, I thought it would suit him, Plunkett did well

Tuohy is still a young buck, physically he needs to develop, ok when hes surrounded by bigger lads but Monaghan bullied him at midfield. Much too early for Irwin to play senior for Mayo, he seems like a great talent but its just too early, a couple of years in with the panel will do no harm though.

Towey, IMO, isn't good enough for intercounty, lacking height, bulk and pace, we've seen lots of club players like this over the years, Durcan and Douggie from Castlebar would be two that spring to mind

Great to see Darren McHale back, I think he can be important for us from 11, I don't think we have too many with his vision, even if he did over cook some of his passes yesterday

What's the time frame for him expected to be?

I thought Callinan was very good, he'll be close to starting for championship I'd say. I thought we struggled on the breaking ball yesterday which is an area we have been doing v well on to date

Wouldn't be surprised with that, Diarmuid mops up / anticipates so much of that breaking ball.

I don't know but it required a scan.

I'd say that him out for league final and Roscommon game anyway.

Diarmuid is by some distance our most important and irreplaceable player IMO. He makes everyone else look better

33-1 for POTY, just saying

Fair play to Sam Callinan. He was playing on one of the earlier games in the league (I think he came on as sub), and it was all going wrong for him. Mistake after mistake. I thought this guy is nowhere near good enough. And then game after game, he started to improve and was Mayos best player yesterday - for me anyway.

It's a pity Towey and McStay couldn't grip the chance yesterday and put in a performance. I can't see either being an impact sub - someone you'd turn to in the heat of battle, looking to having a steadying influence. Both are too light and carry the ball into contact and then losing it. Must be frustrating for the other players.

Speaking of frustrations, there were a lot of kicks at goal landing short again - dropping into the keepers hands. I can understand the first half against the wind. But no excuses in the second half from 30 yards out. Darren Mchale kicked a point, but everything after that was woeful. A wide, dropping kicks short, bad passes. Mattie Ruane was kicking them into the Keepers hands as well. It would be interesting to see the stats we to which team in division 1 has kicks at goal that drop short. Cause we seem to do an awful lot of it.

Stephen Coen had a great first half. Must be his new tight haircut. But he seemed to be everywhere. Was more anonymous in the second half, but good performance overall.

Yesterday was good for Mayo. Got to rest several players, other players got a decent piece of game time practice. No harm that they lost - better than our second team beating Monaghan and have an overinflated level of confidence going into the league final/and then first round of the championship. The players that were trialed yesterday now have a greater understanding of the levels required, and hopefully it will encourage them to push on even further.

Tickets available now - Section 302 is the best available for anyone bringing kids so I might hang on until later in the week

No. I got caught with that for the U20 final v Kildare a few years back, had a 1 year old with me and they wouldn't let her through without a ticket. Luckily, I was able to buy one online rather than having to walk back to the ticket office - have no idea why it's not free for games where capacity isn't limited