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Much like Galway have been missing from September ever since, I suppose! And let me remind you that Mayo have won their last adult football All-Ireland more recently than Galway. But that doesn't suit your narrative, so you'll probably run it down. Maybe Galway's fairweather support will even deign to travel the hour or so up to Castlebar, you never know. Gleebo (Mayo) - Posts: 2208 - 26/02/2019 23:15:51 2168536 Link 0 |
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Well, given that Galway haven't beaten Dublin since 1934, you're not on particularly firm ground here. Mayo last beat Dublin seven years ago. Not great reading from my perspective, but they've been genuinely competitive against them in that period. Galway, also failed to beat Dublin in three attempts last year, including getting thrashed by them in the championship. Yet we're supposed to believe that they're contenders for Sam? Not on recent form, I would suggest. Gleebo (Mayo) - Posts: 2208 - 26/02/2019 23:28:28 2168539 Link 0 |
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The sh*t talking is really getting boring at this stage. Yeah Mayo are a disgrace not winning an All Ireland in going on what seems like a hundred years and it could well be another hundred. Galway themselves are nothing to write home about with 7 titles and the last one nearly twenty years ago. Not very impressive for a county with a population of a quarter of a million. And yeah I know you have hurling but so have Kerry. We won this, ye didn't win that, playground stuff. And while we're laughing and pointing fingers at each other, the Dubs are laughing at us all. Because they can!
Llaw_Gyffes (Mayo) - Posts: 1113 - 26/02/2019 23:40:33 2168541 Link 0 |
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well theres one thing for sure rhudson (Galway) - Posts: 1478 - 27/02/2019 00:37:29 2168551 Link 1 |
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Most of the Mayo fans will also travel from their homes/jobs in Galway to Castlebar to watch the game too I'd say
The_DOC (Galway) - Posts: 710 - 27/02/2019 08:40:50 2168572 Link 3 |
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haha your really getting stuck for digs now..
tommy132 (Mayo) - Posts: 603 - 27/02/2019 09:38:50 2168588 Link 0 |
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Stuck for digs? Me? Never! See ye Saturday, I'll give ya a lift up if your stuck? The_DOC (Galway) - Posts: 710 - 27/02/2019 10:16:20 2168601 Link 1 |
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I agree with you. Awful amount of silly talk. I do think though the population issue is not a consideration particularly when half the county don't play big ball. Hardly accurate comparing to Kerry who are football only bar a very strong pocket in North Kerry. Also do we not have 9 titles. Anyway as you say boring conversation and surely Mayo and Galway should be more concerned that their teams perform in 2019 rather than petty squabbling.
kiloughter (Galway) - Posts: 1947 - 27/02/2019 10:24:52 2168609 Link 0 |
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Unlikely, Mayo people are an adventurous, cosmopolitan lot that are spread far further than the borders of Connacht. Take the upcoming game in New York, where 4-5k are estimated to travel. Or indeed any league away game... Indeed, if one particular Mayo man hadn't come down to coach your footballers, there may not have been any All-Irelands for Galway in 1998 or 2001. Something a lot of Galway people seem to have forgotten amongst the slagging... Gleebo (Mayo) - Posts: 2208 - 27/02/2019 10:38:15 2168620 Link 0 |
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It wouldn't be the week of a Galway mayo match if there wasn't digs and sh*ite talk about titles etc. It's part of the craic and hope it never changes.
tribesman125 (Galway) - Posts: 173 - 27/02/2019 12:08:18 2168648 Link 1 |
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I always thought McHale Park was huge, haven't been down a in few years right enough. Even on TV it looks a very wide pitch. Not arguing, you have been there a lot more than I have so il take your word for it. Tight call this one. Il go for Mayo, home advantage and after the disappointing performance against Dublin I think Horan will have them up for it. The_Fridge (Tyrone) - Posts: 2088 - 27/02/2019 12:41:31 2168653 Link 0 |
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There he is!!!!!! took you a while.
The_Fridge (Tyrone) - Posts: 2088 - 27/02/2019 12:42:59 2168655 Link 2 |
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MacHale Park would be tight enough even within County Mayo, Crossmolina's pitch for instance is around 12 metres longer. It was my home pitch when I was based in Ireland, played once in Ballyheane ( a few miles down the road) and couldn't get over how big it was in comparison. I remember playing in Tuam Stadium for a colleges' game some years back and thinking it was bigger too, but it could be a slip of the memory. Gleebo (Mayo) - Posts: 2208 - 27/02/2019 12:53:14 2168657 Link 0 |
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Brilliant jockey can't win on a bad horse (as John O Mahony's couple of spells with Mayo will shows) Horan would of won All Ireland's with that 1998, 2001 which shows how good they were.
SamandLiamSoon (Galway) - Posts: 600 - 27/02/2019 13:19:32 2168667 Link 2 |
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A poster from Laois (named Cully) put this up in 2010 (PUC and one or two others may now be a bit different): Rk County......... Name.................................. Len. x Wid. Tot. Area 01 Tipperary..... Semple Stadium................. 145 x 90 13,050 01 Galway......... Pearse Stadium................. 145 x 90 13,050 01 Antrim.......... Casement Park.................. 145 x 90 13,050 01 Roscommon.. Dr Hyde Park..................... 145 x 90 13,050 01 Clare............ Cusack Park....................... 145 x 90 13,050 01 Offaly............ O'Connor Park................... 145 x 90 13,050 01 Donegal........ McCumhaill Park................ 145 x 90 13,050 08 Sligo............. Markievicz Park.................. 142 x 90 12,780 09 Kilkenny........ Nowlan Park...................... 145 x 88 12,760 09 Cork.............. Pairc Ui Rinn...................... 145 x 88 12,760 11 Dublin........... Croke Park........................ 145 x 88 12,716 12 Cork.............. Pairc Ui Chaoimh............... 144 x 88 12,672 13 Carlow.......... Dr Cullen Park................... 145 x 87 12,615 14 Armagh......... Athletic Grounds................ 143 x 88 12,584 15 Wicklow......... O'Byrne Park.................... 145 x 86 12,470 16 Mionaghan.... St Tiernach's Park............. 142 x 87 12,354 17 Wexford........ Wexford Park.................... 142 x 87 12,311 18 Leitrim.......... Pairc Sean Mac Diarmada.. 142 x 87 12,300 19 Laois............ O'Moore Park..................... 142 x 86 12,212 19 Tyrone.......... Healy Park......................... 142 x 86 12,212 21 Cavan.......... Breffni Park........................ 143 x 86 12,184 22 Longford....... Pearse Park...................... 138 x 88 12,144 23 Fermanagh.. Brewster Park.................... 145 x 83 12,035 24 Kerry............ Fitzgerald Stadium............. 144 x 82 11,808 25 Meath.......... Pairc Tailteann.................... 135 x 87 11,745 26 Derry........... Celtic Park ..........................138 x 84 11,614 27 Dublin.......... Parnell Park....................... 141 x 82 11,562 28 Westmeath.. Cusack Park...................... 140x 82 11,514 29 Louth........... Drogheda Park................... 138 x 83 11,437 30 Waterford..... Walsh Park........................ 142 x 80 11,360 31 Limerick....... Gaelic Grounds................... 137 x 82 11,234 31 Mayo........... McHale Park....................... 137 x 82 11,234 33 Down.......... Pairc Esler.......................... 138 x 81 11,120 34 Kildare......... St Conleths Park................ 135 x 80 10,706 Mayo don't play all that well in McHale Park given their preference for fairly open football. You can see too why Kildare were so determined to keep the game in Newbridge last summer... big difference between Conleth's and Croker. Pericles (Mayo) - Posts: 2521 - 27/02/2019 13:25:41 2168671 Link 0 |
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You're getting carried away lad...it's February. Galway played different styles against different opposition last summer. We saw very good attacking play against roscommon, Sligo, Kildare and to a lesser extent Dublin.
Rocky.Road (Galway) - Posts: 374 - 27/02/2019 14:21:51 2168685 Link 0 |
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Ah yes, it was all down to the Messiah from Mayo. A statement to rank with up there with "Mayo paved the way.... ' after '98. If our success in that period was all down to O'Mahony, I don't recall his 2nd coming in Mayo bringing you to the promised land. Ailteoir (Galway) - Posts: 863 - 27/02/2019 14:35:10 2168691 Link 1 |
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Yes. Battle of the WUM's. Who's going to win? Tight one, Belclare's been around a long time but the young wipper snapper Visred is out to take his crown. Il go Belclare's experience to win out. The_Fridge (Tyrone) - Posts: 2088 - 27/02/2019 15:08:38 2168702 Link 2 |
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Didn't say it was all down to JOM, but funny how they didn't win any Sams immediately before or after his tenure... O'Mahony took Mayo to their first senior final in 38 years, managed them to an U-21 All-Ireland win and won a Nestor Cup with Leitrim, so aside from a bad second spell with Mayo in which he had political distractions, I don't think it's a credible argument to say he was a bad manager. Refusing him any credit is simply churlish. Gleebo (Mayo) - Posts: 2208 - 27/02/2019 16:56:34 2168737 Link 0 |
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Given the quality of the players on that panel, there's a good argument to be made that that team underachieved. But other than that, yes, you are correct, Galwegians have never paid due homage to O'Mahpney. We should pay for a statue in Knock or something. festinog (Galway) - Posts: 3097 - 27/02/2019 19:41:46 2168775 Link 0 |