Okay, it’s a full week on now from our Championship exit and so it’s time to start thinking about our 2019 Player of the Year. This award was first instituted here on the blog back in 2014, when Cillian O’Connor picked up the inaugural honour. Diarmuid O’Connor won it in 2015, Lee Keegan did so in 2016 and Andy Moran […]
So it’s over. Yesterday finished for us way worse than feared, certainly after that stirring first half performance the lads put in. At that stage it began to look as if it might become one of the truly great days for us but by the end our hopes were smashed and our Championship run was over. It’s been a hell […]
The time is now ticking down rapidly ahead of Saturday evening’s pivotal Super 8s clash between ourselves and Donegal. This All-Ireland quarter-final Group 1 Phase 3 meeting between the counties throws in at 6pm that evening in MacHale Park. Meath’s David Gough is the ref for it. Thinking about how to frame this background piece on Donegal, the logical point […]
We’ve successfully negotiated our way through the qualifiers, encountering and overcoming far tougher opposition on the way than we had to do on previous backdoor runs. Our 2019 Championship odyssey now shifts back from straight knockout to three guaranteed outings over the next four weeks in the All-Ireland Quarter-Final group stage, aka the Super 8s. Our first opponents in Group […]
Both the Connaught Telegraph (here) and the Irish Independent (here) have now confirmed the news that will have already filtered through to many of you this morning, which is that midfielder Matthew Ruane broke his collarbone in training yesterday evening. No matter how you dress this up, it’s a massive, massive blow for us. First and foremost, of course, for […]
This day week the first shots will be fired in our 2019 Championship campaign. Often, it’s ahead of the start of summer action each year that supporters’ thoughts start to turn to the match-day gear they’d like to wear into battle. For those contemplating such sartorial choices this year is a bumper one on the jersey front. It’s easy to […]
Lee Keegan is all over the media at the moment, having taken part in a promotional event yesterday to launch the National Féile competition. He had plenty of interesting things to say. In the piece with him on the RTÉ website (here) he talks about the successful League and looks ahead to how we’re shaping up for the summer. He […]
This year’s National Football League campaign was a hugely successful one for Mayo, yielding the county’s first national title for eighteen years while at the same time providing valuable match experience to a host of new players. But the League is now over and so attention is already turning towards the summer. In this episode of the Mayo News football […]
Every year for the last few years I’ve done a wrap-up post on the League campaign that’s just ended for us, detailing the players used, who scored what and all that. This is the 2019 version, here are the ones from previous years – 2018, 2017, 2016. A slight statistical oddity this year compared to the previous three years relates, […]
Okay, it’s time to wrap up the poll on our Player of the League for 2019. A great League campaign it proved to be for the county, one in which several players stood tall for us. None more so than Aidan O’Shea. His switch back to midfield was one of the undoubted successes of this spring campaign, where he forged […]