Mayo GAA Discussion

Has a ref ever been starstruck by Roscommon before?

Often wrong but never in doubt.

We are poor but this ref should have stayed at home.

This Roscommon win today is a sweet revenge against the hardy bucs fella on Twitter who be slagging off the Ros.

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6 weeks off, not the worst thing.

Disappointing that it had to come at the hands of a loss to the Rossies but we can do with the break.

Mayo were never going to get the decisions they got last week

We deserved nothing from that. Beaten in midfield, forwards running into tackles constantly and too afraid to take shots on. Was a very poor display.

Nevertheless, the break might be useful. Need to get injuries right and just take a breather for a few weeks.

As for the ref - one of the most bizarre displays ever. Something needs to be done to address the faking of head injuries, Roscommon were at it all day today, trying to slow down play. Lots of teams at it too.

The ref saw right through Mayo's usual free fishing

Thought the same myself. Instead of being one down we very quickly became 3 down. Tough to watch, but thems the draws.

Two poor performances in a row now.

Getting feck all from the forwards where we were getting loads from them in the league.

A certain taste of a unexpectedly good league not translating to the championship off it.

Plenty to work on and still it would be a huge upset if they don't at least make a qf.

Two second seeds are Limerick/Clare and Sligo/New York.

Another will be Louth/Westmeath/Meath.

So the second seeds are hardly stacked.

Ah all our old friends who have been so conspicuous by their absence from the forum the past week are back I see.

There was always a danger of this today . No need to panic . The players should be given to the week off and allowed go on the piss to celebrate the National title they won against Galway last Sunday.

it’s prob too late to arrange the warm weather training camps Galway and Kerry had though

He left them for u20

Poor game, poor performance, poor result and poor weather.

The team were deffo flat after the League Final and the Rossies had a game plan that sucked to watch but was effective on the day.

I'm guessing the penalty was for a foot block (?) - my poncho left me with a slightly restricted view 😂

The second goal looked sloppy as well.

The last 10 mins were dire...we could have possibly taken a couple of points rather than trying to walk it into the goal.

Fair dues to the Rossies I guess....they were celebrating hard at the end

The penalty was as a result of a "forwards" tackle, by our center back.

Watched McStays post match interview, he literally couldn't give a flying **** about that match

Rochford never had much màs for the Connacht championship, happy enough for that to continue

Well done Roscommon, sickening to lose to them today but they deserved the win. Too many players had off days for us to win, particularly around MF, they absolutely cleaned us out on breaking ball.

In the long run, it may not prove to be the worst thing but it didn't feel like that walking out today

Re the ref. I was at the match, and thought the ref was shocking. Obviously didn't have the benefit of playback. But watched it back last night on TV, and I didn't see a whole lot wrong. In the first hop ball, I thought Aidan pushed the guy. And for the second one, he elbowed the other guy. It was prob accidental, but it was still right in front of the ref. There are always those skirmishes in a hop ball situation, and the ref normally lets them flow. But I don't think the ref yesterday was wrong to blow up for 2 frees. Aidan was very lucky he didn't get a black for a blatant block.

THere was some other challenges which could have been frees for Mayo - borderline stuff. But it was generally the Mayo players running into a bunch of Roscommon players and getting swarmed. Almot all refs will give a free out for that one.

It was a really poor performance by Mayo. Couldn't do anything creative during the last 15 mins to break down the Ros defensive unit. A lot of headless stuff, and many players afraid to take on a shot. Wouldn't have thought Mayo had an extra player for the final 15 mins.

I don't recall one decent pass into Aidan in the forward line in the whole game .