I came across some numbers recently from a Gaelic statistics website and I was shocked with what I saw. MacHale Park has not been a fortress for the Green and Red when it comes to the National Football League. The study done by Gaelicstats.com (here) has assessed every point gained in the National Football League by all eight teams in […]
As the dust began to settle after our All-Ireland semi-final defeat to Kerry a fortnight ago a few contributors to the debate on gaaboard.com from outside the county expressed some puzzlement over the general feelings of satisfaction being voiced by the Mayo lads over how we’d done against the Kingdom. How could we possibly be happy having just lost an […]
I’ve finally got my act together and uploaded some pictures onto Flickr, including a number taken at the match on Sunday. The last time I’d put any pics up before this morning was after the FBD match with GMIT back in the depths of January – we sure have come a long way since then. Included in this glut of […]
I haven’t all that much to say about yesterday’s league final, which we watched on TG4 from here in Mayo. Anguished howls emanating from my little Dub ricocheted around the ancestral home for a few minutes after the final whistle sounded but as soon as the jelly and ice cream appeared, all was well with the world again. The result […]
I know everyone has probably switched off what with the holiday weekend and all that (I know I have as we’re spending a few days down on home soil, although I was woken up at 6am this morning by the cuckoo’s call) but don’t forget that there’s one final mini-round this weekend to end the facetheball prediction mini-league. There are […]
Starting off the Spring Series of guest appearances here on the site, I’m delighted to welcome back Edwin McGreal who provides his thoughts on where we’re at following James Horan’s first league campaign at the helm, with thoughts now turning firmly towards the summer campaign. ‘We are where we are.’ A phrase that is fast becoming the cliche of post-Celtic […]
I’ve just done the draw for the grand prize in the Setanta competition and the lucky winner is Patrick Rochford. Patrick wins a year’s free subscription via satellite to Setanta Sports. Congrats to Patrick and thanks to everyone else who entered over the course of the league campaign. In the interests of (limited) transparency I did an audioboo of the […]
A mare of a Monday lies ahead for me so this one needs to be quick. So quickly here are a number of reports on yesterday’s defeat to Monaghan: Mayo Advertiser, Independent, Times, Examiner, Hogan Stand, RTÉ, BBC, Setanta and Breaking News. That’s more than enough for you. Here – I’ll save you even more time. The best one to […]
This match could have been a classic. If we hadn’t beaten Cork last weekend, thus rendering as irrelevant the outcome our final match of this year’s NFL campaign, today’s clash with Monaghan would surely have been a real blood and thunder affair. Instead, it was a meeting between a team that was really bulling for a result and one that […]
At some point in the wee hours last night, details of the Mayo team and subs for our final NFL match of the season, against Monaghan up at Inniskeen tomorrow (throw-in 2.30 pm), were published. And here are those details: Mayo (NFL Division One v Monaghan, 10/4/2011): David Clarke (Ballina Stephenites); Cathal Hallinan (Ballintubber), Alan Feeney (Castlebar Mitchels), Keith Higgins […]