I see the lads at Club Mayo Dublin have already accepted that the 2009 campaign is a completed work and so have begun compiling some stats on senior matches played this year. In the same vein, then, here’s some complementary data in the form of the 2009 championship scorers’ table: As most Mayo supporters will be aware, Conor has been […]
There’s an interesting interview with Johnno in today’s Indo where he calls for the assessments made on referee’s performances to be made public. He does so in light of Joe McQuillan’s spectacularly awful performance the last day but, in doing so, he’s at pains to point out that he’s not holding the ref, the bollix, accountable for our defeat by […]
Oh man: it’s like having a hangover without the benefit of getting drunk in the first place (I thought about doing so last night but then thought better of it). Could it have … did it really … oh, holy fuck, it did. Well, here we are again at Heartbreak Junction and all I can offer you this morning is […]
At the end of the day, it’s the little lad I feel sorry for the most. Having seen his beloved Dubs getting hammered by the dastardly Kerrymen last Monday, he gamely pitched up at HQ today (with his two older sisters also in tow) to shout for his ould fella’s county. He’d even practised his roaring on the way up […]
Well, here we go: it’s a bit after nine in the morning and, in just under five hours, battle with the Royals at HQ will get underway. For the first time in ages, I’m not faced with hours behind the wheel before and after the game and instead we’ll head off from here a bit before one in the afternoon. […]
Tomorrow could be one of the bigger days for the county in recent years, offering as it does the opportunity for us to return to the All-Ireland semi-finals for the first time in three years and for only the third time this decade. It’s an opportunity we can – and should – grasp with both hands and, while I’m confident […]
Meath still haven’t named their starting team for Sunday but this is understandable, I guess, seeing that most of their attention this week will have been focused on the situation relating to their captain Stephen Bray. His CHC hearing took place at Croke Park last night and the Indo is reporting this morning that the CHC imposed a four-week ban […]
The starting line-up for our All-Ireland quarter-final clash with Meath at Croke Park on Sunday has just been announced. Here it is: MAYO (All-Ireland quarter-final v Meath, 9/8/2009): Kenneth O’Malley; Donal Vaughan, Ger Cafferkey, Keith Higgins; Peadar Gardiner, Trevor Howley, Andy Moran; David Heaney, Ronan McGarrity; Pat Harte, Trevor Mortimer, Alan Dillon; Aidan Kilcoyne, Barry Moran, Aidan O’Shea. So, once […]
All roads lead to the capital at the weekend but ahead of Sunday and all that lies ahead, we’ve taken ourselves off in the opposite direction for a few days. There’ll be plenty to chew over in the next few days but I think we really need a team announcement to spark everything off properly. We should have this, I […]
Another day’s football, another afternoon where events on the field made nonsense of all the professional and amateur punditry (including my own yapping here) that goes on around the championship. In this regard, it’s only fair to point to the prescient analysis put forward by An Spailpín, both back in June and again last week where he warned us clearly […]