It is said that you can get used to almost anything. At half-time in the recent semi-final I was talking to two of my three sons (both Dubs) about the likely All-Ireland final between Dublin and Kerry. It was a pragmatic conversation where I expressed the desire that the Dubs would win that final, just so we could have another […]
As we gradually edge our way out of the madness, induced by Covid lockdowns, the mind turns slowly back to football. For years, Mayo GAA has been a passion that has consumed us when the action was underway and that gave us serious withdrawal symptoms when the year’s action was over. Throughout the last twelve months, the radical changes in […]
It’s hard to keep up with all the comments on this blog, and after last Saturday, I didn’t really have the heart for it. We’ve been here before. In the league, we started like a steam train. We were brilliant. The odds in Paddy Power began to fall and we started to believe, maybe…….just maybe! And then the wheels came […]
Photo: Irish Mirror (Inpho/Donall Farmer) It’s two months that have passed since Mayo’s defeat at the hands of Kildare but the blood-letting of the past week has ensured that, even on All-Ireland final week, Mayo is still the biggest GAA story in town. But let’s take our eyes off Mayo and look at this final before framing it in the […]
Every year at this time there is a long discussion on what we have learned so far this year. After the rollercoaster that was 2017, this year’s discussions are no different. So let’s go for it. The lads from the 2016 U21 team are bedding down into the squad and coming more to the fore in consideration for a first […]
I wrote two articles earlier this year on how this year was progressing, one after the league (here) and one after the Sligo game (here). I’ve just re-read them and you can see the progression in the team between the two articles. It amuses me that, in all of the analysis of the national level pundits, they have missed a […]
I always find it amusing how different people can watch a game and come away with completely different views of it. The positives I took from the game against Sligo were as follows. We set out to play in a different way to how we did previously in that we kick-passed the ball much more, we ran more from deep, […]
I have been meaning to write this since the end of the league, but various other priorities intervened. Now with the run up to Sunday week cranking up, it is worthwhile looking at what we have learned so far this year and looking forward into the summer. Stephen Rochford did a number of things in a similar way to last […]
It hasn’t been on anyone’s radar all year as there has been a different story in Dublin and, let’s face it, that’s where the national media go first to get readership/viewers/listenership. The national media tell us that Dublin are blessed with what is probably the best football team of all time. Radio and television experts from all parts of the […]
It doesn’t seem long since the FBD league started in January but it’s nearly as far back in the past as a potential trip to Croker on 18th September would be in the future, thereby leaving us at mid-term of the footballing season. So what’s going well, what’s unclear and what’s on the “could do better” list? Back in December last, […]