Mayo GAA Discussion

I think that team had reached the end of their life cycle and a rebuild had to be done, but to lose him over not being able to choose his own selectors (no matter how different times were, that will always seem to be incredibly stupid) was yet another reason why the County Board and Mayo football is one of the biggest obstacles in our quest for Sam. We're our own worst enemies at times. It was 5 years wasted and a lot of "what ifs" asked. Johnno was a smart operator though and never took a job where there wasn't the playing talent to make it a success. Fair play to him, he achieved a lot and deserves respect for doing so. It's just another one of those "what ifs" had he been left to finish the job in Mayo the first time around……

Great 90 minute interview with Aidan O Shea

Reinforced all my perceptions (positive ) of him and some of the negatives of supporters within our county

Spot on about Joe Canning. I couldn’t believe the abuse he used to get in some areas of Galway when the intercounty team lost. It was personal stuff . Very parochial mindset ! One of the greatest ever but it was like they were hoping he would fails so they could say “I told you so”.

Weird

It’s not as bad towards OShea and has definitely softened this year but there was an element of jealousy about it as well

The GAA doesn't want people with personalities outside the game because they can't exploit them.

Boyler was never under-rated in Mayo, he was everyones favourite player!

Doherty and to a lesser extent McLoughlin were possibly under-rated alright

I'm not talking about as a player. I'm talking about the GAA making more of their personalities off the field. O'Shea is very popular with kids, he generates conversation and instead of GAA people taking advantage of it, it's treated as some terrible thing to even have a personality outside of the game. D

If you listen to his interview this week, he says he never does anything outside of the permission of the set up and always runs things by the team. He also criticised the notion that players should be unavailable in the run up to games and they discussed the fact that very few other sports have such a terrible relationship with the media as GAA does - this allergic reaction people have to players even doing an interview ffs. There are two semifinals this weekend for example, and hardly a word spoken about either of them all week. Barely any build up or excitement. It's bad for the promotion of the games to have players and managers unavailable, rejection of media etc. And not only that, if a player does make themselves available, they get criticised by other GAA people. Aidan had people criticising him for even talking to some kids who wanted his attention because it's a "distraction". Completely ridiculous stuff.

Galway deserving winners today.

Once again, instead of playing a dangerous game of keep-ball with a 1 point advantage, galway went up the pitch and got themselves a 2 point cushion with 3 minutes to go to see out the game comfortably.

That's why they are well ahead of us.

mayo should feel sick looking at how this year is playing out, even if they had their big chance a few years ago and blew it

of course we were good enough to beat them!

A combination of poor refereeing and over-conservatism is why we lost. we turned down scoring opportunities which would/should have seen us win relatively comfortably.

Our inability to close out a game cost us against Galway, Dublin and Derry.

We were good enough to win all those games, and with the right approach, we'd be good enough to win the All-Ireland this year. Galway and Armagh!? Does anyone think we couldn't beat them!??

I disagree, I think there's a difference between the players being good enough, and the coaching,/game plan being good enough.

see donegal where they were last year to where they are this year. Still not the finished article, but mcguinness made a massive difference in a few months

sorry got my wires crossed

yes any interview he dose he comes across very well , a really sound guy by the sounds of it , he is entitled to whatever he gets on the side , , the people complaining about it are the ones that were at home during the winter watching the champions league or coronation st, while the rain was banging against the front window of the house

it was the likes of aidan that was out in that rain training, so if he's not entitled to something now forget about it

A Galway victory would be a massive embarrassment for Mayo.

You can add a very average management team, lack of quality forwards, aging players to that as well. It is unbelievable that after what was witnessed over the last few years, people would cop the hell on. Disillusion stuff tbh

we'd be good enough to win the All-Ireland this year. Galway and Armagh!? Does anyone think we couldn't beat them!??

In an All Ireland final?

I'd say we couldn't beat them.

We've never stepped up in an All Ireland final and beaten a team we should beat.