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Replying To Sligoman1234:  "Very disappointing to finish to what otherwise was a good improvement. But the line have to take the blame for this one.

We were 8 up I think At one stage 16-8 and decided to take off Cummins and Quinn who had very good games and would have had another 5/6 mins surely in them to get ya closer to the end game. The subs in made no impact. There appeared to be huge complacency on the management to think the game was done and dusted with 15 or so minutes to go. With 2 pointers now you cannot take it for granted with such a long period of time left but I'm sure the good number of Fermanagh supporters who headed for the car are wondering how they clutched a draw.

Lyons in goals was a positive but need to keep to the shorter kickouts. At the end we had a free out and the shout from the line was kick it down the field, we lost the possession and it was the next play that resulted in the levelling score.

Some good scores kicked but would be annoyed at how close some lads were to getting 2 pointers, 1/2m inside the arc and plenty of distance on it. Overall an improved performance but a point left behind us. I did fancy our chances for the win tbh beforehand and we still need two wins to stay safe at minimum. Anyone know why McEntee wasn't on the pitch?"
Cummins came off after 70mins? Game was turning at that stage and better get legs on to stem the tide.

BreakingBall123 (Sligo) - Posts: 94 - 02/03/2025 12:16:15    2594087

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On the subs - Mullen for Towey is running power for running power, like for like I would say
Lally for Quinn , big man for big man…Quinn a better shooter, Lally better all round
Gordon for Doherty - worker for a worker
Kilcoyne for Cummins - a defensive substitute as well as the Lavin for Spillane one…

Disappointing result but suits the narrative for a lot of posters here. The fact is if they made no subs and ran out of steam ye would be crying too…

BreakingBall123 (Sligo) - Posts: 94 - 02/03/2025 12:26:57    2594091

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The positive from the game is that we finally picked what looks like a stronger 15, why it's taken so long is the question. While the subs backfired it's hard to argue that they looked like good changes in theory. Probably too many changes at once, introductions need to be spaced out more.

MrUnderhill (Sligo) - Posts: 81 - 02/03/2025 12:45:51    2594098

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Replying To BreakingBall123:  "Cummins came off after 70mins? Game was turning at that stage and better get legs on to stem the tide."
Quinn was taken off at with about 15 mins to go. Cummins was about 10 mins later I thought and he didn't show any signs of tiring in my view. Lally came in for Quinn and took a simple shot from 30m that landed dropped short into the keepers hands with about 7/8 mins to go.

We lacked killer instinct and as I said with 2 pointers teams do not fear being down by margins that last year would see ya run the bench. 7 points up with 65 min on the clock…and no goal conceded someone has to take the responsibility for that and I think it was tinkering with the team too early.

Sligoman1234 (Sligo) - Posts: 468 - 02/03/2025 12:53:01    2594099

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It was definitely a point dropped. In hindsight the substitutions were a mistake and didn't work and we lost momentum. However if we didn't make the substitutions and we drew we would all be asking why didn't we introduce fresh legs. The lads that came on are seasoned footballers who have been at the coalface of the team for the last few years. It wasn't as if they were young lads thrown in to make their debut. The players at the end of the game should have had enough experience to see the game out. Once again we failed to score a goal which is mind boggling at this stage as we all assumed with the extra space we would get goals. Staying in Div 3 is completely in our own hands. If we win our remaining games we are safe. If we win 2 but lose to Antrim we are gone. If we beat Antrim and one other game we will be ok provided Antrim don't get any point when they go to Kildare for the last game. The crunch game is the away trip to Antrim

eoinog (Sligo) - Posts: 2031 - 02/03/2025 16:11:26    2594142

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I'd say the plan before the game was to take off Towey, Spillane etc at a certain time due to the minutes played and lack of gametime up to now due to injury. Bringing on Lally, Mullen etc.. shouldn't weaken the team either so it was sound logical plan. No issue there. However if Quinn , Towey and Spillane are going well showing no signs of tiredness and team has rhythm you don't disrupt that unless other team starts to show signs of getting on top which wasn't the case at 16-8 up. I would defer to the lads at the game but you have to adapt and trust your eye's and it looks a mistake now. Its not a hindsight thing, most in the crowd knew at the time.

Just looking at the table, staying up is in our hands and very much achievable with Antrim losing yesterday. They seem to have a discipline problem with sending's off costing them against Offaly and Laois. Corrigan won't be easy but we are more than capable of winning there. We have to hope the management prepare us properly and get the best out of us. Not sure what mentality we have going into the Clare match as that seems not as consequential and a free hit. Leitrim are improving with a very young team but at home you'd expect us to have too much. I would be positive enough about our chances of staying up.

Sligonian (Sligo) - Posts: 1787 - 02/03/2025 23:41:03    2594305

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Replying To Sligonian:  "Just spoke to a few at the game. Very frustrated with Management. Unnecessary changes at a vital time, way too early. Took our running power out of the game. McEntee was not on the field against Laois either.

They took a few risks with the 4 changes to start and got the tactics right but in game you have to see it through and this management always seem to find a way to make mistakes that hold the team back. The players and fans who go to the games deserve better and have done for about 5 years."
In all fairness man, I enjoy your posts but this one is simply rubbish and sorry to say it highlights your football knowledge. On this forum, people (Including yourself) have stated that Sligo Management are too slow in making changes, then , when they do and the result goes against them - it is the management's fault. As you highlighted you were not at the game so these opinions are not your own. All we know you could be speaking to a biased opinion.

When is someone going to ask the question to the players? Management cannot go on the field and play the game for them, the group have be disappointed themselves with the final result. "McEntee was not on the field against Laois either" - no idea what this comment means ? Took a risk - Why did they take a risk? Players did not start because they were not playing well, does mean that Management keep starting lads that are not performing.
I am not on this forum to slate anyone but sorry - had to call you out this time.

Overall I was very happy with the performance to be honest, I have been at all Sligo games this year, this was their best performance (Bar last 7 mins) . Clare beating Kildare last Sunday means we probably need 3 wins from our last 3 games to be confident of staying up.
Great to see a huge Sligo support there, I would say we matched and probably had more fans than Fermanagh.

RealSouthSligo (Sligo) - Posts: 113 - 03/03/2025 10:17:01    2594353

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Replying To RealSouthSligo:  "In all fairness man, I enjoy your posts but this one is simply rubbish and sorry to say it highlights your football knowledge. On this forum, people (Including yourself) have stated that Sligo Management are too slow in making changes, then , when they do and the result goes against them - it is the management's fault. As you highlighted you were not at the game so these opinions are not your own. All we know you could be speaking to a biased opinion.

When is someone going to ask the question to the players? Management cannot go on the field and play the game for them, the group have be disappointed themselves with the final result. "McEntee was not on the field against Laois either" - no idea what this comment means ? Took a risk - Why did they take a risk? Players did not start because they were not playing well, does mean that Management keep starting lads that are not performing.
I am not on this forum to slate anyone but sorry - had to call you out this time.

Overall I was very happy with the performance to be honest, I have been at all Sligo games this year, this was their best performance (Bar last 7 mins) . Clare beating Kildare last Sunday means we probably need 3 wins from our last 3 games to be confident of staying up.
Great to see a huge Sligo support there, I would say we matched and probably had more fans than Fermanagh."
I've been fairly supportive of the management all throughout his tenure and agree with you that they have faced unfair criticism at times. However, in this particular game I feel that the changes came to early on, in particular Quinn's case. It was definitely their best performance and deserved a win given how long they had controlled the game for. Yes players have to take responsibility on the field, but they also need to be coached how to see out the game, or those who come on need to have clear instructions and be ready to take on the pace of the game. You need to keep the foot down with the new rules, Derry found that out yesterday against Donegal.

Throwing on lads perhaps for the sake of giving them a run out or "resting" fellas who put in a great shift and thinking the game was done and dusted, was not a wise move. I ask the question about McEntee being gone from the line as I'm wondering is it a suspension or preferential decision to get an aerial view of the game.

We have to get at least 2 wins now, but the key one is against Antrim. Obviously you want to go out and win every game but beating Antrim at this stage is a must more so than Clare.

Sligoman1234 (Sligo) - Posts: 468 - 03/03/2025 10:59:00    2594373

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Replying To RealSouthSligo:  "In all fairness man, I enjoy your posts but this one is simply rubbish and sorry to say it highlights your football knowledge. On this forum, people (Including yourself) have stated that Sligo Management are too slow in making changes, then , when they do and the result goes against them - it is the management's fault. As you highlighted you were not at the game so these opinions are not your own. All we know you could be speaking to a biased opinion.

When is someone going to ask the question to the players? Management cannot go on the field and play the game for them, the group have be disappointed themselves with the final result. "McEntee was not on the field against Laois either" - no idea what this comment means ? Took a risk - Why did they take a risk? Players did not start because they were not playing well, does mean that Management keep starting lads that are not performing.
I am not on this forum to slate anyone but sorry - had to call you out this time.

Overall I was very happy with the performance to be honest, I have been at all Sligo games this year, this was their best performance (Bar last 7 mins) . Clare beating Kildare last Sunday means we probably need 3 wins from our last 3 games to be confident of staying up.
Great to see a huge Sligo support there, I would say we matched and probably had more fans than Fermanagh."
Sligoman1234 gives a fair balanced reply to you RealSouthSligo.

My posts get edited heavily especially on McEntee. But I was just responding to Sligoman1234 saying McEntee was not on the line. He was in the stand the last 2 games. Not sure why.

Football knowledge is not about posting on here. Every game has its own merit and adjust accordingly. You see things in game or you don't. You may not have seen my other latest post before but the changes looked preplanned and I get that but you have to adapt. As I said I defer to others who were there including you but you are the first person to absolve them for the changes. I was critical before on how we close out games. Galway having a 5 on 2 advantage in injury time being another example last summer, we were 14-11 up in that game. Closing out games should be coached into you. 16-8 up how do we close out the game. We were outscored 3 pts to 11 in the last 10-15 mins so something went wrong and its hard not to look at the changes. Fermanagh have the highlights of all their scores on youtube. We don't seem to have much interest defending the new D. Several defenders overran their cover and Lally and McGuinness who were marking space let the keeper in behind for the last score. We had trouble covering their keeper by the looks of it. Things like that should be second nature to the defenders by now. Some of the Sligo players looked out on their feet where as Fermanagh looked like they had plenty in the tank. Did we take off the wrong players and why did we tire and are we conditioned correctly would be questions I'd have.

The players do need to look at themselves but when as everyone know's my view on the management it's hard to look past them for me. I feel very strongly that they have got an easy time the last few years whereas some of ye think the opposite. If you look at this year so far I think its fairly obvious they are not as good as some his loyal followers had thought.

Sligonian (Sligo) - Posts: 1787 - 03/03/2025 16:57:56    2594505

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I doubt very much that the substitutions were preplanned, that would very amateurish. The management have access to stats from GPS pads and stats packages. Surely such decisions are based on this data. My issue with the management however is that it has taken until game 4 for them to realise that the goalkeeper is not suited to the new rules and to shakeup the midfield pairing. This resulted in our best performance, most points scored. Hopefully its n
ot too late but if we go down the blame will lay squarely with McEntee and Co.

Anto (Sligo) - Posts: 374 - 03/03/2025 21:08:58    2594577

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Replying To Sligonian:  "Sligoman1234 gives a fair balanced reply to you RealSouthSligo.

My posts get edited heavily especially on McEntee. But I was just responding to Sligoman1234 saying McEntee was not on the line. He was in the stand the last 2 games. Not sure why.

Football knowledge is not about posting on here. Every game has its own merit and adjust accordingly. You see things in game or you don't. You may not have seen my other latest post before but the changes looked preplanned and I get that but you have to adapt. As I said I defer to others who were there including you but you are the first person to absolve them for the changes. I was critical before on how we close out games. Galway having a 5 on 2 advantage in injury time being another example last summer, we were 14-11 up in that game. Closing out games should be coached into you. 16-8 up how do we close out the game. We were outscored 3 pts to 11 in the last 10-15 mins so something went wrong and its hard not to look at the changes. Fermanagh have the highlights of all their scores on youtube. We don't seem to have much interest defending the new D. Several defenders overran their cover and Lally and McGuinness who were marking space let the keeper in behind for the last score. We had trouble covering their keeper by the looks of it. Things like that should be second nature to the defenders by now. Some of the Sligo players looked out on their feet where as Fermanagh looked like they had plenty in the tank. Did we take off the wrong players and why did we tire and are we conditioned correctly would be questions I'd have.

The players do need to look at themselves but when as everyone know's my view on the management it's hard to look past them for me. I feel very strongly that they have got an easy time the last few years whereas some of ye think the opposite. If you look at this year so far I think its fairly obvious they are not as good as some his loyal followers had thought."
When did you last attend a Sligo game?
When have you consistently gone to Sligo games either inter county or club?
You pick up your poor knowledge from u tube snippets of games, "friends" that you supposedly in touch with, newspaper articles and radio interviews. You name drop stuff about players regularly, even mentioning lads that you believe made mistakes in the last few minutes the last day. You consistently bring up the Galway match because it was one of the games televised. Of course Galway were pushing up on us in the final minutes, they were losing the game. We were well set up until a mistake was made. These things happen. Steven Gerrard slipped and cost Liverpool the premiership.
You are critical of the mgt for every day of the last 5 years yet your knowledge of football thought that Sligo would win the All Ireland at U 20 this year when everyone knew they were a pale shadow of the previous 2 years. Would you care to mention your input to Sligo teams ?
Also critical of Markievicz Park,Co Board and anything else that moves in Sligo Gaa. All coming from a person living thousands of miles away. It would be great if the administration of this forum would at least remove some of your multiple accounts. It would be a bonus if they were all removed

Taypot (Sligo) - Posts: 94 - 04/03/2025 07:57:40    2594605

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Replying To RealSouthSligo:  "In all fairness man, I enjoy your posts but this one is simply rubbish and sorry to say it highlights your football knowledge. On this forum, people (Including yourself) have stated that Sligo Management are too slow in making changes, then , when they do and the result goes against them - it is the management's fault. As you highlighted you were not at the game so these opinions are not your own. All we know you could be speaking to a biased opinion.

When is someone going to ask the question to the players? Management cannot go on the field and play the game for them, the group have be disappointed themselves with the final result. "McEntee was not on the field against Laois either" - no idea what this comment means ? Took a risk - Why did they take a risk? Players did not start because they were not playing well, does mean that Management keep starting lads that are not performing.
I am not on this forum to slate anyone but sorry - had to call you out this time.

Overall I was very happy with the performance to be honest, I have been at all Sligo games this year, this was their best performance (Bar last 7 mins) . Clare beating Kildare last Sunday means we probably need 3 wins from our last 3 games to be confident of staying up.
Great to see a huge Sligo support there, I would say we matched and probably had more fans than Fermanagh."
A very sensible post.

Between playing and coaching, the experience would be extremely lacking in relation to both by the posters on this forum. You can't win. I've made it to all bar one of the games so far and this unsuprisingly this was their best performance. McEntee has taken plenty of deserved slack for their setup and I'd still have certain gripe over their defensive shape the last day, but was glad to see the fight is still there.

johncreilly (Sligo) - Posts: 144 - 04/03/2025 08:57:49    2594610

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Next Sunday is an awkward match. It would be great to win to get momentum for the trip to Antrim but unless we have a heatwave we know what the condition of the pitch will be. Going hard for close to 80 minutes on a gruelling pitch, when our next week's opponents have a free weekend isn't ideal preparation for our biggest game of the year. Clare are still in the mix for promotion so they will come with all guns blazing.

eoinog (Sligo) - Posts: 2031 - 04/03/2025 10:35:04    2594627

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Replying To eoinog:  "Next Sunday is an awkward match. It would be great to win to get momentum for the trip to Antrim but unless we have a heatwave we know what the condition of the pitch will be. Going hard for close to 80 minutes on a gruelling pitch, when our next week's opponents have a free weekend isn't ideal preparation for our biggest game of the year. Clare are still in the mix for promotion so they will come with all guns blazing."
I think you have to go for it because we need some more confidence and to show signs we are improving and start to build momentum. Obviously if the game gets away from us you run the bench. I think if we beat Clare then a draw in Antrim could save us too so you may as well try to improve your chances. Clare lost to Antrim earlier in the league. Big few weeks coming but very much in our own hands.

Sligonian (Sligo) - Posts: 1787 - 04/03/2025 16:55:32    2594730

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Replying To Sligonian:  "I think you have to go for it because we need some more confidence and to show signs we are improving and start to build momentum. Obviously if the game gets away from us you run the bench. I think if we beat Clare then a draw in Antrim could save us too so you may as well try to improve your chances. Clare lost to Antrim earlier in the league. Big few weeks coming but very much in our own hands."
Would you still get rid of Quinn?

Bumblebee123 (Sligo) - Posts: 74 - 04/03/2025 18:43:57    2594759

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Replying To Bumblebee123:  "Would you still get rid of Quinn?"
In all fairness to the lad he gets a lot of abuse but he was very good the last day. I was delighted for him, with all the abuse he receives. Impossible to drop him with the way he played on Sat and need another big performance from him on Sunday. Not many other lads holding their hand up to replace him either.
Performance v Fermanagh was good, result not as good but we should have momentum. On the flip side, so will Clare after getting a result v Kildare.
We are usually difficult to beat at home, we were in the Kildare game until the last 5 mins but its all about the 2 points on Sunday.

Lets all get out to support the lads and I hope we have a big crowd at home.

RealSouthSligo (Sligo) - Posts: 113 - 05/03/2025 09:47:44    2594841

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Quinn should start against Clare. He has earned it.

As I have said in the past, I have a lot of time for the likes of a David Quinn as I know within the squad there is no one more passionate about Sligo Gaa than him and he never lacks effort or heart. It is always great to see someone like him play well but we need consistency. He has big scores in him so I hope he keeps it up and wish him well.

Sligonian (Sligo) - Posts: 1787 - 05/03/2025 17:38:13    2594931

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A big game this weekend and Sligo GAA are having face painting and meet and greet with the players before the game.
You couldn't make this up. Maybe the Co Board are hoping that they will create a carnival atmosphere and people won't mention the state of the pitch.

eoinog (Sligo) - Posts: 2031 - 06/03/2025 00:00:00    2594964

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Replying To eoinog:  "A big game this weekend and Sligo GAA are having face painting and meet and greet with the players before the game.
You couldn't make this up. Maybe the Co Board are hoping that they will create a carnival atmosphere and people won't mention the state of the pitch."
I don't see an issue here. Promote games to kids gets adults at games. As long as it's being promoted in schools all week as well. Should be done more often in my opinion. An open training session wouldn't go astray either. It's a big game yes but that attitude in GAA to put teams behind an iron curtain should change. Although you took issue with one of the intermediate finalists trying to promote their game. Again I didn't see an issue at the time. I don't think teams should be ridiculed trying to promote themselves. The pitch is a totally separate issue.

BreakingBall123 (Sligo) - Posts: 94 - 06/03/2025 15:19:24    2595067

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Replying To BreakingBall123:  "I don't see an issue here. Promote games to kids gets adults at games. As long as it's being promoted in schools all week as well. Should be done more often in my opinion. An open training session wouldn't go astray either. It's a big game yes but that attitude in GAA to put teams behind an iron curtain should change. Although you took issue with one of the intermediate finalists trying to promote their game. Again I didn't see an issue at the time. I don't think teams should be ridiculed trying to promote themselves. The pitch is a totally separate issue."
Tbf there's very little promotion of upcoming games on social media in comparison to other counties. That's on a regular basis not just this one. Also the team being a top secret doesn't help. I know that's the managements doing but it doesn't show much respect for the fans who travel all the time not to even know who is meant to start. And as for buying a programme, no point anymore when there's 4/5 changes to most county teams including who is wearing what number now before throw in.

Sligoman1234 (Sligo) - Posts: 468 - 06/03/2025 15:51:29    2595076

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