I have been meaning to write this since the end of the league, but various other priorities intervened. Now with the run up to Sunday week cranking up, it is worthwhile looking at what we have learned so far this year and looking forward into the summer. Stephen Rochford did a number of things in a similar way to last […]
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 […]
Photo: MichaelMaye.com I wasn’t sure if I’d done a quick stats piece at the end of the last year’s League campaign – like the one I’ve been doing every year after the FBD is over – but I checked earlier on and I did (it’s here). Which means it’s time for a similar piece on this year’s League. Which, in […]
Photo: RTÉ Right, time to pull down the shutters on the poll that’s been running here on the site for the last number of days on our Player of the League. Close on a thousand votes were cast in this poll – not the highest turnout ever recorded hereabouts, though up there close to the top nonetheless – but the outcome […]
It’s been a cracking campaign with plenty of ups and downs but like the on-field action this year’s NFL prediction mini-league competition is now over and we have a winner. A large round of applause, please, for Conor McGinty from Achill who emerged from the fray after yesterday’s final whistle at the top of the prediction pile. Conor didn’t have it […]
I went along to Croke Park this afternoon with no great expectation about seeing an upset in the big one. It was, to be honest, more of a scouting expedition – seeing as three of the counties in action were ones we’ll need to be beating in the summer if we’re to reach the summit (with the fourth a possible […]
The Divisional finals in this year’s National Football League are on this weekend but our 2017 spring campaign ended with that rumbustious tie against Donegal at MacHale Park last Sunday. Since then, a number of you have put forward the idea of doing a poll on our Player of the League and, sure, I’m all for democracy so here it […]
With all the regulation matches in the four Divisions in this League campaign played and all the promotion and relegation issues settled, it’s just the four Divisional finals that are left to be contested. That means that most of the predicting has been done too, with just those four deciders left to think about before this year’s prediction mini-league is completed. Long-time […]
Photo: Mayo Advertiser/Sportsfile The votes on the final Man of the Match poll of our 2017 League campaign are in and counted. There’s no doubt about the winner either – it’s Aidan O’Shea. The big Breaffy man hasn’t started a match for us all year and there was only 25 minutes left to play at MacHale Park yesterday when he […]
It’s Mayo News football podcast time again and this one is a bumper end-of-League campaign one. Starting off, host Rob Murphy and I go through the action as it unfolded at MacHale Park yesterday where we were joined in the packed stand by ex-Mayo player and RTÉ pundit John Casey. After the final whistle sounded, Rob gets Seán Rice’s thoughts […]