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 […]
Image: Seaofgreenandred 2013, with its soaring highs and crashing lows, is almost behind us: two weeks tomorrow is New Year’s Day and once the lads get back from Dubai shortly after that the FBD will have started up and the first of those Club ’51 banners will have been unfurled. But before all that, the above infographic – which comes […]
Photo: Mayo Mick The GAA have today announced that Maurice Deegan will take charge of our All-Ireland semi-final against Tyrone on Sunday week (throw-in 3.30pm). The weak-as-water Laois whistler needs no introduction to Mayo supporters, given the total bags he made of the two national finals we were involved in last year, and he certainly wouldn’t have been my choice […]
I was at a chilly Croke Park with the kids this afternoon for the league final between Dublin and Tyrone, where the small people with me got to see their county clinching its tenth NFL title following a one-point win over the swarming Nordies. The Dubs deserved their win today, I thought, and their league triumph has to be viewed […]
It’s a week on from our league semi-final defeat to Dublin and I’d intended to set down some thoughts before now on the match and the league campaign and all that. However, work and normal life got in the way and now it’s already seven days on from then and with a work trip starting tomorrow I’m not going to […]
It’s a cracking Monday morning weatherwise here in the capital and the Jacks have a bit of a swagger about them this morning too. That extends to our own house – my small Dub missed the match yesterday, as he had a friend’s birthday party to go to, but will, like the Kerrymen, be there for the decider. Here are […]
I can’t recall the full ins and outs of what combination of results last weekend would have kept us in Division One but would also have kept us out of the semis but, trudging out from Croke Park this evening having seen the lads get utterly hosed by Dublin, I couldn’t help but thinking that it would have been far […]
It’s always great to welcome a guest new contributor to the site and so I’m delighted to give the floor to Mike Kelly who argues that we need to do three things tomorrow in order to beat the Dubs and qualify for the NFL final. Anyone who has followed this year’s National League will know that the current Dublin […]
Dublin have named their team for tomorrow’s NFL Division One semi-final against our lads at Croke Park (throw-in 3.45pm). Well, to be more precise they named their team last night but the pints I ended up having last night combined with this morning’s U8 hurling have meant that I’ve only got around to posting details now. Here’s the Dubs’ starting […]
We’ve just named our team and subs for Sunday’s league semi-final with the Dubs at Croke Park (throw-in 3.45pm). Here are the full details: Mayo (NFL Division One Semi-Final v Dublin, 14/4/2013): David Clarke (Ballina Stephenites); Kevin Keane (Westport), Ger Cafferkey (Ballina Stephenites), Chris Barrett (Belmullet); Lee Keegan (Westport), Donal Vaughan (Ballinrobe), Colm Boyle (Davitts); Jason Gibbons (Ballintubber), Seamus O’Shea (Breaffy); […]