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We certainly haven't a good record against Mayo in the championship over the last 30 years. No argument with that. Only three wins 1991, 2001 and 2019 and all by a single point. Roscommon haven't easily beaten Mayo in the championship since the Connacht Final 1980 in Hyde park when we won by 14 points. Mayo are favourites on Sunday and entitled to be. A huge performance is needed from Roscommon on Sunday. We're absolutely the underdogs.
endgame (Roscommon) - Posts: 2164 - 03/04/2023 13:16:02 2468520 Link 1 |
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Huge performance needed and even more so with our most experienced midfielder gone. Is E Smith wasted at midfield or is it a case of no other option now?
MachaireConnacht (Roscommon) - Posts: 784 - 03/04/2023 13:51:51 2468538 Link 0 |
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It won't be unusual for one Div 1 team to beat another in a Championship match. Galway in 2001 was fairly serious yet started off with a defeat at home to a Div 1 Roscommon in the Connacht championship. The loser on Sunday has 6/7 weeks to prepare and get back on the horse again i would expect all three Connacht teams to fare well in the All-Ireland group stages this year.
Yondu (UK) - Posts: 845 - 03/04/2023 14:31:13 2468563 Link 1 |
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Best of luck to the team on Sunday. We'll need everything to go our way on the day to get a result. The start will be crucial as we can't afford to be sitting back until the opposition get a bit of a lead. If we had started better in our defeats in the league we might have won another game or two. Rossieforever (Roscommon) - Posts: 85 - 03/04/2023 14:32:04 2468564 Link 0 |
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Strokestown best players are either overseas (Cathal Compton, Sean Mullooly) with the county U20s and are lads in their 30s. McGann on the panel last year was unable to commit.
The_analyser (Roscommon) - Posts: 3755 - 03/04/2023 15:40:09 2468585 Link 0 |
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Big congrats to our senior hurlers Saturday for winning the division 3B league final. Also congrats to 5 members of the team who made it onto team of the week. Maith thú! Rossie20 (Roscommon) - Posts: 8 - 03/04/2023 21:18:02 2468672 Link 0 |
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It was Division 3À!! Seeing as winners of B get promoted to A why not just call 2A Division 2, 2B Div 3 and so on?. Seanfanbocht (Roscommon) - Posts: 1417 - 04/04/2023 11:28:19 2468740 Link 0 |
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Fair play to the hurlers and new management for turning around a dire situation. I don't get the A and B craic with the hurling leagues. Any word on injuries ahead of the Mayo game at the weekend? Have Ros played any challenges since the Donegal game? MachaireConnacht (Roscommon) - Posts: 784 - 04/04/2023 11:53:13 2468746 Link 0 |
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Sorry about that got it wrong was sure it was 3B but 3A is even better again!
Rossie20 (Roscommon) - Posts: 8 - 04/04/2023 14:56:50 2468811 Link 0 |
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Keogh and Neary named to start. Hand named in the subs. Best of luck to Roscommon U20s tomorrow evening against what's likely to be a strong Sligo team.
endgame (Roscommon) - Posts: 2164 - 04/04/2023 18:59:41 2468884 Link 1 |
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Roscommon U20 team named. The_analyser (Roscommon) - Posts: 3755 - 04/04/2023 19:40:34 2468894 Link 3 |
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Will be a tough one. Ros and Sligo were the 2 best Minor teams in Connacht in 2020 and 21. Leitrim gave Galway a good run for 50 minutes (6-7) but must have ran out of steam losing 0-6 to 2-9. Galway have 15 days to prepare for the Final while if the winners tomorrow reach it, that will be 3 big knock out games in 15 days. Why couldn't this week's games be on Friday, you'd treble the attendances. Seanfanbocht (Roscommon) - Posts: 1417 - 04/04/2023 20:44:09 2468913 Link 0 |
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For Rossies living away from the county (like myself) the under 20's match tonight against Sligo at 6.30pm is being streamed live on the Connacht Gaa website. Cost is 10 euro. letsgetgoing (Roscommon) - Posts: 506 - 05/04/2023 13:50:27 2469058 Link 1 |
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Ethan O'Reilly is a massive loss, as is Shane McGinley if he's deemed not fit enough to start. Best of luck to the team. reffingmad (Roscommon) - Posts: 371 - 05/04/2023 17:27:18 2469130 Link 0 |
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Terrible start costs the u20s. Listened to it on the radio. What was the reasoning behind not starting Shane Walsh or O Cregg? Shocking decision not to start your strongest 15 available unless they were carrying injuries. MachaireConnacht (Roscommon) - Posts: 784 - 05/04/2023 20:03:14 2469157 Link 1 |
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Have to say that under 20 performance tonight was very disappointing. Sligo fully deserved their victory but that Ros team looked shockingly coached truth be told. Sligo winning every kick out in the first half and persisting on going long each time was criminal and something should've been done to stem the tide before the gap got to 9 points as we were never coming back from that. Primrose_and_blue (Roscommon) - Posts: 68 - 05/04/2023 20:12:45 2469158 Link 1 |
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Hard luck to our u20s this evening Rossie20 (Roscommon) - Posts: 8 - 05/04/2023 20:18:57 2469161 Link 0 |
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Unlike last year we can't have any complaints about that U20 championship exit to Sligo but I'd question why we didn't play close to our capabilities until we were 9 points behind and why Walsh, Oisín Cregg didn't start. Conor Hand probably should be starting also but given 15 minutes? Then the bizarre tactics throughout the game left me scratching my head all game. The_analyser (Roscommon) - Posts: 3755 - 05/04/2023 20:23:41 2469162 Link 1 |
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The under 20's never got out of the blocks tonight and went 9 points down (10 to 1) in the first half before they started to play. They showed much more aggression all over the pitch in the second half, pressed the Sligo's kickout and picked up much more breaking ball around midfield. They got it back to one point but probably went for goals too early as there was over 5 minutes of injury time. Had a couple of goal chances in the second half and will be very disappointed to lose by 4 in the end. letsgetgoing (Roscommon) - Posts: 506 - 05/04/2023 20:32:40 2469163 Link 0 |
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Hilarious post. You say if the game was next week it would be 50/50. My good man the game was yesterday evening,, you were never in the lead not even level at any stage. Ye had injured players, so had we that's football. We scored the last 3 points to close out the game. We actually threw ye a lifeline by coughing up 1.1 in first half injury time.I wish you luck on Sunday against Mayo
eoinog (Sligo) - Posts: 1656 - 06/04/2023 07:58:05 2469181 Link 0 |