It’s Wednesday night already, with another weekend barrelling in our direction. While it’s still a few weeks before the Senior team are back in action, there are a few games on this coming weekend involving Mayo teams that are worth shining a light on.
Taking them in the order they’re set to be played, the first one occurs on Friday evening. This is a match in the Connacht Minor football Championship where, in Round 4 of the round-robin stage, Mayo travel to Seán MacDiarmada Park in Carrick-on-Shannon to play Leitrim. Throw-in there is 7pm on Friday.
Following last Friday’s narrow loss to Galway, the match the next evening against Leitrim provides Seán Deane’s charges with an excellent opportunity to get their provincial campaign back on track. A win in this one and in their final group game, against Sligo, will book us a place in the provincial semi-final. Victory there would then set us up for a rematch with Galway in the Connacht final.
Tickets for the Leitrim game are available to purchase here. Tickets cost €10, which is the same amount as for a match pass to watch the game online. Details on the live stream of the game are available here.
On Saturday, it’s the turn of the county’s U17 hurlers. They’re taking on Meath in the quarter-final of the Celtic Challenge, a game that’s fixed for Balyvary hurling club, where throw-in is midday on Saturday.
On Sunday, the county’s women footballers open their LGFA Championship campaign. They do so with a Connacht final against near neighbours Galway, a match that’s the curtain-raiser to the Connacht SFC final at Hastings Insurance MacHale Park.
Because that Galway/Sligo Nestor Cup decider throws in at 1.45pm, this means that the LGFA provincial final has an early start, throwing in at MacHale Park at 11.30am. Tickets for this Connacht final double-header are available to purchase here and you can also pick them up at selected Centra and SuperValu outlets.
The best of luck to the three Mayo teams in action over the coming weekend.
Just wondering if others are experiencing online problems buying tickets for the minor match in Carrick tomorrow night?
Coveyexile – I just bought my ticket for tomorrow evening’s game without any trouble, the online process for it worked fine.
Just saw yours WJ…after an hour on the blower to someone in South India the ‘glitch’ got sorted and tickets accessed…God be with the days when you could just ‘rock up’ to a turnstile and pass a tenner to a live human being ?
Them days are long gone cove.
A bit daft money isn’t taken at the turnstile anymore but once you enter inside you can buy a match program,tea etc with money.
Its like waiting for the leaving cert results, waiting for the Gaa to tell us the dates and times of the 3 games coming up. Any white smoke yet ??
Nice sunny evening here in Carrick for the Minor game.
@wj, keep us posted please..
Mayo leading by 1-7 to 0-8 HT. Bit fortunate to be ahead, we’re ragged and careless in possession, in trouble at midfield and Leitrim missed a penalty. Great solo goal for us by Colm Lynch. This one is very much in the mix.
Just following on twitter. Not looking good. Any wind there WJ.
Nothing to speak of, Nephin.
Thanks WJ. No excuses so.
1-13 to 0-9 up midway through the second half. We’re much more in control now.
Goal for Leitrim, 1-14 to 1-10 now, 8 minutes left. Not out of the woods yet.
1-16 to 1-10 up, three minutes of normal time left.
1-17 to 1-13 FT. That was far from impressive but Leitrim deserve credit for battling as hard as they did.
Seemed nervy , Leitrim scored the last three points.
Watched the second half. Mayo result was never in doubt even when Leitrim got a goal. Mayo reeled off fine scores after that.
Agreed job done but wasn’t the most impressive display by Mayo, leitrim decent it must be said. Semi final will be Mayo v Roscommon in MacHale Park. The rossies chances dealt a big blow with Niall Heneghan scorer of 3-4 v leitrim getting a straight red card tonight and will miss that match in two weeks.