Mayo GAA Discussion

Dr Mick Loftus has died.

Former GAA President, All Ireland final referee, grand uncle ( I think) of Connor Loftus, and the last remaining member of the 1951 panel.

RIP. The finish line for a truly legendary team and panel.

God bless Dr Loftus. A real good man that happened to be a hardcore Mayo man on the side.

R.I.P. Dr Mick

Your best best would be parking in Kiltimagh and just hopping on the monorail to Castlebar 😉

I normally park around the Moneen Road area...just make sure you leave the car pointed homewards

Hope mayo fans come out and watch the two best teams in Connacht do battle..will be a great occasion.

It depends what side you're coming from tbh. But in general, if you're going to be there early, and are ready to make a quick exit, then you can get parking fairly close.

Emphasis on the quick exit though. If you're one of the first out the gate it could be the saving of 30-40 mins.

You coming from Sligo or Galway?

Assuming all of the favourites win their provincials, I'd say the bext draw we could get today is:

Dublin/Sligo/Westmeath

While the worst draw we could get is

Kerry/Armagh/Donegal

So it's Kerry, Louth (assuming they don't beat Dublin) and Cork

20/21st May

Kerry/Clare v Mayo

27/28 May

Louth/Dublin v Cork

03/04th June

Mayo v Louth/Dublin

Cork v Kerry/Clare

17/18th June (neutral venues)

Kerry/Clare v Louth/Dublin (maybe Portlaoise? Or Croker if it's the Dubs)

Mayo v Cork (Salthill or Ennis?)

Not really

There was a lot of negative talk during the Super 8 about neutral games being in Croke Park and I even think that Croke Park was explicitly named in that setup i.e. One home, one away, one Croke Park.

Whereas here the terminology is very much "neutral venue"

Mental if they bring any of these neutral games to Croke park. Im assuming our game V Kerry will be on the Sunday? as Killarney doesnt have lights or might it be Saturday afternoon? Checked hotels for the Sat night minute draw was done, nothing even half reasonable to be had

Wouldn't be unlike the GAA to repeat mistakes of the past. Unfortunately they are not concerned for any economy outside of the M50. If we need an example, the qualifier games we had against Westmeath in 16, and last year against Kildare (the other game being Roscommon and Clare that day) were games that ideally should have been played at a provincial venue to lift a local economy. The latter was played the same day as Ireland played Scotland in the Aviva and the attendance was fairly paltry, as I recall only around 22K. If ever there was a good reason to bring games to provincial venues, that was it.

Instead, the lads who sell burgers and pints in Croke park are given the priority there.

I'm pretty sure the neutral venue games will ne provincial grounds.During the super 8s for example it never mentioned neutral grounds,it mentioned Croke Park specifically. I'd take that as a small sign that sense will prevail.

Are the preliminary QFs fixed for Croke Park? I assume they are,this means there's no real difference between finishing 2nd or 3rd in your group.In fact in some cases depending who finishes where in other groups it might be advantageous to finish 3rd rather than 2nd.Thats if I have any of the above correct!

Thats definitely the case or is now anyway, wouldn't put it past them to change it.

Well home advantage is a reward for coming second rather than third in the group,bso I'd say it's the way it will stay.

Does anyone ever get held accountable for things like the pitch! 300,000 spent on it only recently and it's now another major project, crazy really.

Mayo GAA on the lookout for two roles, Head of Finance and a Business Development Manager... I don't know which role would be the least secure 😂

https://twitter.com/MayoGAA/status/1653678281831628800?s=20

I was one of the people who forked out for a tile and would like a bit more of an explanation from Touhy.

Good bless your optimism. I would be very surprised if the contractor is footing any cost.

If my reading of the article is correct, the previous work was mainly to do with the surface... And they've now discovered a drainage issue.

The quotes from Touhy aren't incouraging.

"We have agreed a programme of work with Colman Warde and we’re getting costings of that at the moment for the main pitch,” explained the chairman.

“It will cost a considerable amount of money."

Only if the fault of the issue is actually with the contractor, then it all depends on if the effort was put into the actual contract with the contractor in the first place!

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