So, we’re at the Divisional final stage in this year’s National League and at Croke Park on Sunday we’re set to face off against Kerry for the Division One title. The match is live on TG4, throw-in is 4pm and Noel Mooney of Cavan is the ref. This pre-game piece usually takes the same form, comprising a gallop through recent […]
Little did I think a fortnight ago, when running the rule over Kerry ahead of that upcoming Saturday night meeting with them in Tralee, that here we’d be contemplating a second March clash with them. This one in Croke Park to boot, for possession of the not insignificant matter of a National Football League title. Ahead of that game there […]
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 […]
It’s only three days to go now ’till our league clash with the Dubs but it’s deathly quiet out there, with little or no news about the game. In this world of 24-hour, non-stop news production, the lazy, lumbering hulk that is RTÉ isn’t often to be accused with being out in front with newsworthy tidbits (unless it’s about public […]
John Cuffe has beaten me to it, by posting details of this article in the Irish Independent today where it is stated that we’ve decided against making a formal complaint about the way Donal Vaughan was manhandled by that Cork ape as we “did not want it to be misinterpreted as sour grapes”. The article doesn’t specify what kind of complaint […]
You want to read about it but you don’t, I want to tell you about it but I don’t. And it’s Monday and will this fucking weather ever start to improve? Okay, here goes. Match reports: GAA.ie, RTÉ (I’ll get back to them in a bit), Setanta, Irish Times, Irish Independent, Irish Examiner, Mayo Advertiser, Breaking News, Hogan Stand. Post-match quotes: […]
It was cold, it was wet, we got bet. That’s a ghastly enough triptych for anyone to be going on with so there’s no need to tip into the mixture any other stuff about it being yet another Croke Park final defeat. And so I won’t. It’s a few hours now since the final whistle sounded at HQ and obviously […]
Okay – all the preparation has been done, we’ve had all the previews and some of us even had some pre-match pints last night. Later on today we have once more the privilege of seeing our county in action in a national final at Croke Park and from what I’m hearing there could be a decent enough Mayo following at […]
We’ve just named our team to face Cork in this coming Sunday’s National Football League Division One final at Croke Park (throw-in 4pm). The side shows just one change from the one that lined out against Kerry in the semi-final, with Ballintubber’s Cillian O’Connor starting at full-forward instead of Burrishoole’s Jason Doherty. Sunday’s team also bears a very strong resemblance […]
Cork have just named their starting fifteen for Sunday’s league final against our lads. The team they’ve named shows just one change from the side that lined out against Down in the semi-final the weekend before last, with Graham Canty coming in while Eoin Cotter drops out. Canty will line out in his usual centre-back position with Eoin Cadogan switching […]