Photo: Mayo Mick The perils of drawing any conclusions from challenge matches are well known and so, I guess, the fewer inferences that are made about our well-being arising from today’s 5-12 to 0-16 victory over Cavan in Ballina, the better. It was a match with nothing at stake which afforded both teams the opportunity of trying a few things […]
Well, it looks like summer has finally arrived in these parts but, don’t worry, I’m sure it’ll be hammering down with rain again by the time the Bank Holiday weekend comes around. Whatever about the weather, though, it’s a weekend with some football action to look forward to. I’m planning to head for Croke Park with the kids to catch […]
As has already been noted in the comments, we won this evening’s challenge match up in Enniskillen where we overcame Fermanagh on a scoreline of 3-14 to 1-12. Because it was only a friendly tie, there wasn’t the usual tsunami of social network updates for this one but the redoubtable @fermanagh4sam (see, they’ve got their own Nigel) kept the world […]
Our challenge match season is set to be a bit of a short one this year, with the only fixture in the diary coming in the form of a trip to Brewster Park, Enniskillen, this coming Saturday for a match against Fermanagh. We haven’t seen much of the Erne County in recent years – our last competitive fixture against them […]
So it appears that it’s two steps forward but maybe three (or more) steps backwards in relation to injuries within the squad as we start to gear up for the challenge of facing Galway in the first round of the Connacht championship next month. Once more, as this report in the Mayo News confirms, it’s club matches that have proved […]
While our semi-final opponents in this year’s Connacht championship were making themselves known over at soggy Ruislip this afternoon, closer to home our challenge match campaign continued apace. Today’s official reopening of Ballaghaderreen’s GAA pitch was the excuse for today’s run-out as James Horan had another look at his options ahead of our championship opener. I’m sure the irony wasn’t […]
Yesterday wasn’t just a bumper one for the weather (though it sure was that, in this part of the world at any rate) as there were a load of club championship matches down for decision on home soil. Colm Gannon has done an excellent summary of the weekend’s action in the first round of the senior club championship in the […]
This is just a quick one to confirm that there’s a challenge match against Westmeath – who are already out of the running in Leinster, having been felled by a late, late Louth winning goal last Sunday – scheduled for tomorrow week (June 3rd) in Ballaghaderreen where throw-in has been set for 4pm. The match will form the centrepiece of […]
There was much more than football involved in today’s proceedings at the Robert McCallion Memorial Pitch in Swinford – the centrepiece of which was the dedication of the Swinford GAA ground to the memory of the late Garda Robert McCallion, performed by local legend Dr Padraig Carney – but the football part of it was still interesting enough and it […]
The league campaign is over and the championship campaign has yet to begin which means that, for us at least, we’re now facing into the twilight zone that is the challenge match season. This particular season used to be all the rage one time but ever since those sourpusses in Tyrone decided that they weren’t going to play any challenge […]