National Forum

Mayo GAA Thread

(Oldest Posts First) - Go To The Latest Post


Westport edge Cross in extra time.. Andy Moran has got to be considering what role Lee Keegan can offer his team next year, is their one more year left in Leeroy ?

Sad to see Kobe heading for the AFL, you would have to say Mayo would be a strong outfit if they had all their expats home from AFL and their best available at home all training for the county. The new curse is the AFL

harleys (Leitrim) - Posts: 323 - 12/10/2025 07:19:07    2639417

Link

AFL money can buy you a lot of things, but 80+ years of age looking back on your life wondering what if.
Give it all up for 1 chance as Willie Wallace would say.
Kobe Mullen Leroy…… TBC

Sportsfanatic90 (Westmeath) - Posts: 240 - 12/10/2025 23:37:45    2639628

Link

Replying To Sportsfanatic90:  "AFL money can buy you a lot of things, but 80+ years of age looking back on your life wondering what if.
Give it all up for 1 chance as Willie Wallace would say.
Kobe Mullen Leroy…… TBC"
He can go wherever his talent takes him, if he chooses, but not to the AFL before he's 18.

GreenandRed (Mayo) - Posts: 8273 - 14/10/2025 04:08:11    2639867

Link

I'm never in favour of hyping up young lads, however the horse has long bolted on this one. Kobe is a generational talent in the making. He has it all. If we lose him to the AFL it will be a fatal blow.

I'm beginning to dislike the AFL very much.

yew_tree (Mayo) - Posts: 11790 - 14/10/2025 07:03:22    2639868

Link

Ah bless, Mayo are learning what its like to lose players to other sports

Football's been the only show in town and Mayo have taken advantage (or haven't, depending on your perspective) of that for long enough

PressureKick (UK) - Posts: 313 - 14/10/2025 11:39:05    2639915

Link

Replying To yew_tree:  "I'm never in favour of hyping up young lads, however the horse has long bolted on this one. Kobe is a generational talent in the making. He has it all. If we lose him to the AFL it will be a fatal blow.

I'm beginning to dislike the AFL very much."
It wasn't the AFL that cost ye All Irelands

SixtiesKid (Galway) - Posts: 365 - 14/10/2025 12:22:19    2639923

Link

Replying To SixtiesKid:  "It wasn't the AFL that cost ye All Irelands"
What cost you lot v Armagh in 24? What cost you lot being knocked out by Meath this year then went and got a 20 point beating......
Ye are hardly ones to talk !

S1234 (Mayo) - Posts: 395 - 14/10/2025 12:57:09    2639932

Link

Replying To PressureKick:  "Ah bless, Mayo are learning what its like to lose players to other sports

Football's been the only show in town and Mayo have taken advantage (or haven't, depending on your perspective) of that for long enough"
What are you on about we already kmow what it's like we lost Mullin sure . What do you mean we have taken advantage taken advantage of what exactly? Silly comment .

S1234 (Mayo) - Posts: 395 - 14/10/2025 13:03:23    2639934

Link

Replying To S1234:  "What are you on about we already kmow what it's like we lost Mullin sure . What do you mean we have taken advantage taken advantage of what exactly? Silly comment ."
Football is the only popular sport in Mayo. It means you don't lose your best teenage athletes to other sports at anywhere near the same rate as other counties. It's why Mayo have scarcely produced a notable Soccer, Hurling or Rugby player in its history. (Calen Doris is about as from Mayo as Liam Gallagher)

Keith Higgins is a good example. A more talented hurler than footballer when he was younger, and in most counties would end up being solely a hurler. But in Mayo that was hardly an option so Mayo footballers got the good fortune of keeping him. It's not like that in a lot of counties where not only do you have hurling competing with football, you have semi professional Rugby and Soccer teams sniffing around your good minors once they show any bit of athletic promise

PressureKick (UK) - Posts: 313 - 14/10/2025 15:06:19    2639962

Link

Replying To PressureKick:  "Football is the only popular sport in Mayo. It means you don't lose your best teenage athletes to other sports at anywhere near the same rate as other counties. It's why Mayo have scarcely produced a notable Soccer, Hurling or Rugby player in its history. (Calen Doris is about as from Mayo as Liam Gallagher)

Keith Higgins is a good example. A more talented hurler than footballer when he was younger, and in most counties would end up being solely a hurler. But in Mayo that was hardly an option so Mayo footballers got the good fortune of keeping him. It's not like that in a lot of counties where not only do you have hurling competing with football, you have semi professional Rugby and Soccer teams sniffing around your good minors once they show any bit of athletic promise"
What exactly are we supposed to do? We don't pay our players so can't compete with the AFL bar for pride of that dream of hopefully lifting sam one day .

S1234 (Mayo) - Posts: 395 - 14/10/2025 16:57:07    2639985

Link

Replying To PressureKick:  "Football is the only popular sport in Mayo. It means you don't lose your best teenage athletes to other sports at anywhere near the same rate as other counties. It's why Mayo have scarcely produced a notable Soccer, Hurling or Rugby player in its history. (Calen Doris is about as from Mayo as Liam Gallagher)

Keith Higgins is a good example. A more talented hurler than footballer when he was younger, and in most counties would end up being solely a hurler. But in Mayo that was hardly an option so Mayo footballers got the good fortune of keeping him. It's not like that in a lot of counties where not only do you have hurling competing with football, you have semi professional Rugby and Soccer teams sniffing around your good minors once they show any bit of athletic promise"
Doris is from Mayo, Gallagher is from the same place as you

Cumann1 (Mayo) - Posts: 92 - 14/10/2025 17:34:13    2639990

Link