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Some win for Roscommon Hurlers in Croke Park against Mayo. We were rank outsiders 6/1 to win today. Enjoy the celebrations lads well done to all. The_analyser (Roscommon) - Posts: 4069 - 31/05/2025 14:55:25 2613752 Link
Congrats. Mayo will wonder how they lost that with 20 wides but the rossies played to the end and dug it out. Good luck v Meath. Not much hope for us v Tyrone but as the rossies proved in this game anything is possible. Hopefully this weekend is a better one for Connacht. yew_tree (Mayo) - Posts: 11606 - 31/05/2025 16:51:51 2613768 Link
5 points behind at half-time 0-16 conceded it wasn't looking good 1st half to our lads credit we battled back to earn a draw 2nd half. We probably should have won a number of wides and a penalty saved. Need a draw or win to reach the knock out stages. Meath in the box seat for 2nd with their much better scoring difference but have Kerry to play. Best wishes to Niall Higgins who got a dislocated shoulder. Madness the Meath player who injured him didn't get a black at least. The_analyser (Roscommon) - Posts: 4069 - 31/05/2025 20:04:49 2613802 Link
Well I don't know what I feel after that. Definitely best performance of the championship. Showed great fight to come back into it. Improved in a lot of departments. Pity Enda missed the penalty, thought he did very well and got some form back. Worked our goal chances very well. Apart from one soft free I thought we got little or nothing of 50 50 decisions. Though we were lucky Meath didn't win it at the death. Losing kickouts was killing us again in the first half. Thought we were very slow to try a few short ones. Maybe it's a confidence thing and when you haven't won a game in a while but some decision making at crucial times let us down. We seemed to be going for two pointers and at one stage playing a pass across for a goal near the end when a point would have been enough. Enda, Brian Stack, Ronan Daly and Murray I thought all led by example. Hope it can drive them on for the Cork game and give them some confidence. FullOfPorter (Roscommon) - Posts: 146 - 31/05/2025 20:48:01 2613815 Link
Replying To The_analyser: "5 points behind at half-time 0-16 conceded it wasn't looking good 1st half to our lads credit we battled back to earn a draw 2nd half. We probably should have won a number of wides and a penalty saved. Need a draw or win to reach the knock out stages. Meath in the box seat for 2nd with their much better scoring difference but have Kerry to play. Best wishes to Niall Higgins who got a dislocated shoulder. Madness the Meath player who injured him didn't get a black at least." Hold on a sec, that happened right in front of me, it was 3 lads from each team pulling and dragging at eachother, Higgins just hit the ground awkwardly when both players grappled eachother to the ground. A lovely ground the Hyde. Exciting finish, a draw probably fair altho as you say Rossies def hit more wides and missed pen so may feel they left it behind. Smith was immense. Meath took the easy option of points too much in first half when goals were definitely on at times. southmeathgael (Meath) - Posts: 998 - 31/05/2025 21:01:15 2613817 Link
Replying To The_analyser: "5 points behind at half-time 0-16 conceded it wasn't looking good 1st half to our lads credit we battled back to earn a draw 2nd half. We probably should have won a number of wides and a penalty saved. Need a draw or win to reach the knock out stages. Meath in the box seat for 2nd with their much better scoring difference but have Kerry to play. Best wishes to Niall Higgins who got a dislocated shoulder. Madness the Meath player who injured him didn't get a black at least." Ya we battled well in second half and enda stepped up thank God. I think enda has missed his last 3 penalties and before that he never missed. We could have won and we could have lost. Meath or roscommon won't trouble any of the top teams I'm afraid when it boils down to the real knock out football if we get that far. If we are all honest it was two division 2 teams giving it a right go and we can't question the effort our lads gave today. Cork next and any ideas where that will be played dave1988 (Roscommon) - Posts: 1256 - 31/05/2025 21:04:36 2613819 Link
And also fair play to hurlers great win dave1988 (Roscommon) - Posts: 1256 - 31/05/2025 21:31:56 2613828 Link
Just checked back there, did we only get 6 scores in the second half? FullOfPorter (Roscommon) - Posts: 146 - 31/05/2025 21:35:16 2613830 Link
Replying To dave1988: "Ya we battled well in second half and enda stepped up thank God. I think enda has missed his last 3 penalties and before that he never missed. We could have won and we could have lost. Meath or roscommon won't trouble any of the top teams I'm afraid when it boils down to the real knock out football if we get that far. If we are all honest it was two division 2 teams giving it a right go and we can't question the effort our lads gave today. Cork next and any ideas where that will be played" I'm not aware that the neutral venue for Cork v Roscommon has been fixed. I do recall Roscommon playing Cork at underage in O'Moore Park in Portlaoise so I'd say that's a possible venue. Cork have some big strong players but they have no clinical finish at all. Ros hammered them by the Lee in the League if that's a pointer to anything. I agree this evening in The Hyde was two Division 2 standard teams going at it and neither will trouble the top table. Best wishes to Niall Higgins with his injury. endgame (Roscommon) - Posts: 2443 - 31/05/2025 21:38:37 2613831 Link
Replying To FullOfPorter: "Just checked back there, did we only get 6 scores in the second half?" Yes And We didn't score after 61 mins Wouldn't be getting carried Away rossy15 (Roscommon) - Posts: 654 - 31/05/2025 21:44:33 2613836 Link
Replying To rossy15: "Yes And We didn't score after 61 mins Wouldn't be getting carried Away" Nobody is getting carried away.. More relief that we hadn't another non performance. Good spirited 2nd half but we blew it last 10 minutes. Cork are beatable but we'll have to give a performance again. Seanfanbocht (Roscommon) - Posts: 2365 - 31/05/2025 22:43:54 2613860 Link
Replying To rossy15: "Yes And We didn't score after 61 mins Wouldn't be getting carried Away" You getting carried away with your style of negative posting was never going to happen anyway. Gaa_lover (USA) - Posts: 3631 - 01/06/2025 00:02:20 2613877 Link
Replying To southmeathgael: "Hold on a sec, that happened right in front of me, it was 3 lads from each team pulling and dragging at eachother, Higgins just hit the ground awkwardly when both players grappled eachother to the ground. A lovely ground the Hyde. Exciting finish, a draw probably fair altho as you say Rossies def hit more wides and missed pen so may feel they left it behind. Smith was immense. Meath took the easy option of points too much in first half when goals were definitely on at times." Happened in front of me you weren't looking at it right. Higgins was dragged to the ground with a strong pull on his arm that dislocated his shoulder he called for attention before he hit the ground. Should have been a black for the Meath player and he scored 2 points after that incident. The ref not stopping play to deal with it and before the injury happened was madness and the linesman turned a blind eye to the whole thing was poor also. @dave1988 I agree Ourselves or Meath are unlikely to trouble the top teams but and if one or both of us reach the last 8 we can consider it a good championship. Sounds like Tuesday for the Cork game before we'll know Portloaise or Ennis the likely venues. The_analyser (Roscommon) - Posts: 4069 - 01/06/2025 00:17:59 2613880 Link
Replying To The_analyser: "Happened in front of me you weren't looking at it right. Higgins was dragged to the ground with a strong pull on his arm that dislocated his shoulder he called for attention before he hit the ground. Should have been a black for the Meath player and he scored 2 points after that incident. The ref not stopping play to deal with it and before the injury happened was madness and the linesman turned a blind eye to the whole thing was poor also. @dave1988 I agree Ourselves or Meath are unlikely to trouble the top teams but and if one or both of us reach the last 8 we can consider it a good championship. Sounds like Tuesday for the Cork game before we'll know Portloaise or Ennis the likely venues." If either of us make it to croker on all quarter final weekend we will get thumped we are both very much in the worst 8 of the 16 than anywhere near the top table teams. OhtobeARossie (Roscommon) - Posts: 1798 - 01/06/2025 09:51:13 2613924 Link
That was a better display. Real feel of disappointment when we didn't score in the last play. We had four clear opportunities to go ahead in the last seven minutes. However we were Absolutely cleaned out in midfield with hardly any breaking ball won so a draw is maybe fair enough. I don't understand the loss of love with Doyle.Fair play to Stack who stepped up and won a ball to break Meaths momentum and Cunnane who fielded for the last of Roscommons scores I think. Carrol needs to mix it up though. He's too comfortable in the jersey considering Brady hasn't got one minute all year which is madness.I thought neary was outstanding . He drove us on and that drove up the middle just before half time gave us a lift. Enda was very good today. He turned over a few key balls and his two pointers were top class. Burke to me has settled a bit on the line. No harm someone else doing the media afterwards too. I would have brought in cox instead of cregg or o carrol who looked nervous the last fre mins and missed very scorable points. That's hindsight though and you can't blame him for some of the opportunities missed by our forwards in the closing minutes. The crowd constantly shouting to kick it in during the first half against a gale wind at time was very annoying. Passing it around until the opponents lose concentration and gaps open is the exact right thing to do in that situation. We need to beat cork by six points or more and hope Kerry beat meath by ten plus. It's very possible. Ros2013 (Roscommon) - Posts: 538 - 01/06/2025 10:20:08 2613928 Link
Replying To The_analyser: "Happened in front of me you weren't looking at it right. Higgins was dragged to the ground with a strong pull on his arm that dislocated his shoulder he called for attention before he hit the ground. Should have been a black for the Meath player and he scored 2 points after that incident. The ref not stopping play to deal with it and before the injury happened was madness and the linesman turned a blind eye to the whole thing was poor also. @dave1988 I agree Ourselves or Meath are unlikely to trouble the top teams but and if one or both of us reach the last 8 we can consider it a good championship. Sounds like Tuesday for the Cork game before we'll know Portloaise or Ennis the likely venues." If there is not much of the difference between the two locations with respect to the centre of the two counties surely the committee should take into consideration the fact that many of the supporters of both teams live and work in Dublin, and if there are train lines available. Also remember that home games are really away games for these supporters over the league and championship. Dublin to Ennis 245km, Dublin to Portlaoise 109km. Portlaoise wins that argument. (saves 272km on return journey) The same logic applies to all county teams. Just a point worth considering! letsgetgoing (Roscommon) - Posts: 748 - 01/06/2025 10:32:26 2613931 Link
I suppose there's no where that match will be available for full viewing. Definitely positives, upped the intensity and work rate and the players looked liked they had fight in them. Thought by and large we defended OK in the second half but that was made a lot easier with Meath having to kick into a strong wind. The question is can the team build on that. While a win would have been brilliant a defeat would have really been demoralising and continued the rutt so it was good to arrest that. The team didn't fall away as they did in their previous 4 or 5 games minus London. Still loads more room for improvement. I know it's a more open game now, but opposition forwards seem to turn our men and sell dummies too easily for scores. Some of that 1st half Meath run of scores also came from them on top at midfield as well. And the winning of breaking ball is still an issue for us for long spells in games. I can see the merit in the slow build up play and possession style when we were against the wind but again we are very reluctant to counter at speed when conditions are suitable. While some of the goal moves were very good, it feels like we still aren't getting a full tune out of the forwards we have. Not sure if that's a confidence issue. Decision making/unforced errors, a few times our players needlessly brought the ball into contact around the middle of the field and got turned over or trying to play an outrageous handpass. Also we had a line ball at one stage where it was kicked into a 50 50 scenario. Everyone makes mistakes but that sorta stuff puts us on the back foot so unnecessarily. Huge praise has to go to Enda Smith. Despite missing the penalty still dragged us back into that game. I think we should still have a plan B for Enda because the Division 1 teams will man mark him tightly and won't let him have the reltively free roll he got yesterday. If we have the luxury of meeting a Division 1 team again this year! I know Mayo were operating in Division 1 but look at the way they were able to turn around their performance levels. I'd love to see Roscommon build on yesterday and get some confidence back. Momentum is huge if they could ever follow that up with a win against Cork. We owe them one for that game in PUC. FullOfPorter (Roscommon) - Posts: 146 - 01/06/2025 10:40:36 2613933 Link
Fantastic win by our hurlers. Didn't expect them to defeat Mayo in what is a major achievement. Great to see them celebrate in The Hyde. Well done to all involved. Ros2013 (Roscommon) - Posts: 538 - 01/06/2025 10:42:25 2613934 Link
Replying To OhtobeARossie: "If either of us make it to croker on all quarter final weekend we will get thumped we are both very much in the worst 8 of the 16 than anywhere near the top table teams." Look neither ourselves or Meath are top teams but Meath bet the Dubs and could have came away with a Leinster title had they been more clinical. There is no exceptional team out there. Everyone is beatable on a day if you've your homework done and performance levels are right. Look at Mayo, well beaten by Cavan and everyone writing them off. They go up to Omagh and give Tyrone a scutchin who had beaten one of the favourites. FullOfPorter (Roscommon) - Posts: 146 - 01/06/2025 10:48:07 2613935 Link
Replying To OhtobeARossie: "If either of us make it to croker on all quarter final weekend we will get thumped we are both very much in the worst 8 of the 16 than anywhere near the top table teams." Agreed and another point to make about what Analyser says that it'll be a good championship for Meath and Roscommon if they make an All Ireland quarter final. Roscommon and Meath are currently at different stages of development or should be. That's a young Meath team building from underage success and I'd expect them to be a serious senior force in a couple of years. Roscommon though have a lot of players near the end of their career, Davy Murray, the Murtaghs, the Smiths( ( Enda 31 in August) so Roscommon would expect to be well ahead of Meath in terms of ambition. Hard to call the Cork game. That Cork team has plenty of raw talent but they must have missed at least five clearcut goal chances against Kerry. No clinical finish to them at all. Whatever happens against Cork, Roscommon are nowhere good enough to challenge any of the top teams this Summer. endgame (Roscommon) - Posts: 2443 - 01/06/2025 10:53:00 2613938 Link