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Match reports from yesterday

It sounds like there were pluses and minuses to be taken from yesterday’s performance at Ballinlough. The Indo’s match report gushes about Alan Dillon’s seven-point haul but as No One Shouted Stop! mentions in his report ( a point that PJ also raised when we spoke after the game yesterday), he kicked at least as many wides as well. The […]

The perfect result

This most certainly couldn’t be how one might describe my airline travel yesterday and today (two hour delays in either direction because of that 777 that crash-landed just inside the perimeter fence at Heathrow on Thursday) but instead relates to our result today coupled with NUIG’s win over Sligo IT. We beat the Sheepstealers handily enough today (according to my […]

Sheepstealers on Sunday

This morning’s papers confirm that our final FBD outing for 2008 will take place this Sunday when we face Roscommon at Ballinlough (throw-in 2pm). The FBD seems to be the only place where we encounter the Sheepstealers these days as we haven’t met them otherwise since the Connacht semi-final back in 2005. So while Johnno and John Maughan have locked […]

Team from yesterday

Here’s the team that lined out at Charlestown, courtesy of new Mayo GAA blogger No one shouted Stop! (the more blogs, the merrier, in my view: now all we need are a few blogs from other counties to join in the fun) who, unlike myself, was at yesterday’s game. The team was: Shane Nallen; John Brogan, Billy Joe Padden, Aidan […]