We can forget about points difference and scurrying around at Ballinlough on Sunday trying to find out how Leitrim are getting on to see if we’re still on course for a place in the FBD final. This is because head-to-head results are, I’m reliably informed, the deciding factor in determining respective table placings (as they have been in the league […]
The Mayo News is out and there are a few pieces in it worth mentioning, relating both to off-field and on-field issues. Taking the former first, County Board Vice-Chairman Mike Connelly in an interview with Mike Finnerty has clarified that all the money raised by the Cáirde Mhaigheo initiative will go directly towards the county’s football and hurling teams and will not […]
Reports in the national media on FBD matches tend to be on the pithy side but Danny Kirby’s goal haul at Ballinrobe yesterday earned him headline treatment in all three of the main dailies today. Here they are: Times, Indo, Examiner. As usual, though, if it’s a proper match report you want the day after (or, indeed, the evening of) […]
I only ever get to see FBD matches in the flesh the odd time, saving those 320-mile round-trips for when the league resumes in February. I happened to be back in the county last weekend which enabled me to take in the match in Ballyhaunis but today’s encounter with GMIT at Ballinrobe was never on my radar. What a pity: […]
The team that’ll play GMIT in the FBD League at Ballinrobe tomorrow (throw-in 2pm) has been named. Here it is: Mayo (FBD League v GMIT, 15/1/2012): David Clarke (Ballina Stephenites); Eoghan Reilly (Castlebar Mitchels), Ger Cafferkey (Ballina Stephenites), Michael Walsh (Ardnaree); Peadar Gardiner (Crossmolina), Keith Higgins (Ballyhaunis), Lee Keegan (Westport); Barry Moran (Castlebar Mitchels), Pat Harte (Ballina Stephenites); Conor O’Shea […]
It’s like the buses – you wait four long months for a match (if you ignore that jaunt to New York for the FBD World Series final in October) and then two come along together. This Sunday, the lads play their second match in the FBD League and this weekend’s opponents are GMIT with the match set for Ballinrobe with […]
It may only be very early in January, it is just the FBD but nevertheless it sure is great to have the football back again. Matches at this time of year always tend to have a raw, elemental feel to them and today’s opening outing in the 2012 FBD was pretty much of that kind. The exchanges were often hard […]
We’ve named the starting fifteen to face Leitrim in our opening FBD match at Ballyhaunis tomorrow (throw-in 2pm). Here it is: Mayo (FBD League v Leitrim, 8/1/2012): David Clarke (Ballina Stephenites); Keith Rogers (Knockmore), Eoghan Reilly (Castlebar Mitchels), Lee Keegan (Westport); Peadar Gardiner (Crossmolina), Donal Vaughan (Ballinrobe), Colm Boyle (Davitts); Barry Moran (Castlebar Mitchels), Seamus O’Shea (Breaffy); Kevin McLoughlin (Knockmore), Pat […]
With our opening FBD match – our first competitive fixture since the All-Ireland semi-final against Kerry more than four months ago – almost upon us, James Horan has been speaking with Colm Gannon in the Mayo Advertiser about the new year of football that lies ahead and what sort of planning is taking place at the minute. The manager has […]
From what I hear the wind was fairly howling at the new Connacht GAA Centre of Excellence (aka Prenty Park) this evening where the 2012 FBD League got going with a double-header under the lights. In the evening’s opening match, Alan Mulholland got his reign as Galway manager off to a successful start with his new charges seeing off IT […]