Green and Red

It’s all change again in the NFL 2010 prediction mini-league, with only two contestants holding onto the same place they were in the previous week.  (Unfortunately for them, the positions in question are 24th and 25th).  The big news this week, though, is the meteoric rise all the way from tenth to first of ontheroad, whom many of you will know in his guise as a long-time contributor to discussions hereabouts.  Joining him at the top of the tree is rayosilke, who was, of course, runner-up in last year’s championship competition and tucked in behind them is Mick C, completing what looks like, for now at least, a three-horse race.

But, of course, in this zero-sum game world, for every up there must be a down.  This week’s fall guy is my Mayo GAA blogging colleague nooneshoutedstop who has tumbled all the way from top spot to thirteenth.  Like the lads on the field, though, there’s precious little time for moping about what happened last week as there’s another batch of predictions to be filled out for this weekend’s fourth round of games.

By the way, when you’re filling out the predictions you might notice that Westmeath appear twice on the list. (God love them, the Lake County are hardly able to give a match to one county at a time right now, let alone two).   The first match listed for them (where it says they’re away to Tipp) is incorrect – it’s Meath that are up agin the Stone Throwers.  Westmeath instead face Laois in what’s likely to be a dour relegation tussle at Cusack Park.   My thanks to Albany for spotting this error, which no doubt the Face the Ball lads will correct shortly.

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Right, that’s enough moping about all those wides yesterday – our next match is almost upon us.  On Wednesday evening in Cloone, our U21s begin the defence of their U21 Connacht title when they take on Leitrim (throw-in 7.30 pm) and, courtesy of Club Mayo Dublin, here’s Ray Dempsey’s first team selection at U21 level:

Mayo (Connacht U21 Championship v Leitrim): Robert Hennelly (Breaffy); Pat Mulchrone (Burrishoole), Shane McHale (Knockmore), Kevin Keane (Westport); Lee Keegan (Westport), Eoghan Reilly (Castlebar), Sean Prendergast (Claremorris); Shane Nally (Garrymore), Ger McDonagh (Castlebar Mitchels); Cathal Carolan (Crossmolina), Kevin McLoughlin (Knockmore), Jason Doherty (Shrule-Glencorrib); Neill Douglas (Castlebar Mitchels), Aidan O’Shea (Breaffy), Alan Freeman (Aghamore).

There are plenty of familiar names in that line-up, with a good number of these lads having played on All-Ireland day at minor level either last year or the year before.  This team will surely have more than enough firepower to see off Leitrim on Wednesday night but the worrying thing, I guess, is that four of the starting fifteen also lined out (three of them from the start) for the seniors against Dublin last weekend and there’s a strong likelihood that they’ll be expected to play in the NFL matches against Derry on Saturday night and against Kerry the following weekend.  Assuming the lads beat Leitrim, however, they’ll be facing Roscommon in the Connacht U21 semi-final on Paddy’s Day, which means that some or all of this quartet could be asked to play five matches in three weeks.

That’s just plain stupid and, given that this match scheduling was known for months, was also completely avoidable.  We’ve a great chance to do well at U21 level this year but a bit of forward planning in terms of the numbers of matches some of the lads are being asked to play wouldn’t have gone amiss.

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It wasn’t just our unbeaten record in 2010 that we lost yesterday: Johnno has confirmed – to Keith Duggan in the Times – that the injury suffered to Peadar Gardiner is a broken elbow and that the Crossmolina man now faces three months on the sidelines. This means that not only will he miss all of our remaining league matches, he’s also unlikely to be back in time for our championship opener with Sligo in early June. Peadar lasted less than ten minutes yesterday and the damage was done when he took a tumble onto the granite-like surface. As the photo shows, he was in obvious pain as he made his way off.

It states in the Indo match report that Ronan’s injury is a hamstring one and I guess that could mean we’ll be without him for three or four weeks as well. I’d say it’s doubtful enough that he’ll be fit for the Derry or Kerry games but hopefully we’ll have him back to face Monaghan.

While we’re on the topic of match reports, aside from those ones in the Times and the Indo, there are others in the Mayo Advertiser, Hogan Stand, Gaelic Rising and on the RTÉ website. TIALTNGO also has some thoughts on how and why we allowed the Dubs to mug us. Speaking of mugs, I could do with a rather large one filled with coffee right now before I face this mountain of work that’s in front of me. Aren’t Mondays just great?

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Well, that was the unbeaten run that was. Any game where you shoot eighteen wides is a game you deserve to lose and it felt somehow inevitable, appropriate even, that our profligacy in front of the posts at McHale Park this afternoon would cost us today’s Division 1 match against a hard working and determined young Dublin side.  It eventually did though Andy Moran came close to snatching a sensational winning goal from a free right at the death but his effort was deflected onto the bar and over to seal a one-point win for the visitors.

Eighteen wides.  320 miles behind the wheel.  Give or take a bit, that’s one wide for every eighteen miles I covered today, most of it in glorious spring sunshine.  Dublin, in contrast, recorded only three wides all day – that’s one for a little over every hundred miles travelled.  I bet they enjoyed their day behind the wheel a bit more than I did, especially the return leg.

Eighteen wides.  Several of them of the truly horrendous variety, including one from Trevor Mortimer, totally unmarked from about twenty yards out in the first half, a necklace of missed frees in the first half (more about them in a bit), an awful miss from no more than ten yards out by Neill Douglas early in the second half, a shockingly inaccurate second half ’45 from Andy Moran that had the distance but was closer to the corner flag than it was to the goal when it went over the end-line and then some abject shooting late on by a very tanned Conor Mortimer.  We had every kind of wide under the sun today and a few more besides and it goes without saying (but I may as well say it anyways) that it all made for pretty painful viewing.

The news that Alan Freeman – who was on the starting fifteen in our last NFL match, against Tyrone – was taking Mark Ronaldson’s place at corner-forward was predictable enough, given Johnno’s reluctance to engage in change for change’s sake.  The Aghamore man was, in any event, fully deserving of his starting place and – wides apart – he performed fairly okay for us today.

Within two minutes of the throw-in, he already had an assist to his credit, offloading to Seamus O’Shea who thumped over the day’s opening score.  That was, however, also our last point from play in the opening half, a period where we played with a fresh enough wind at our backs.  From the off, we decided that Route One was the only way to go and, with the surfeit of possession we were winning around the middle and further back from our effective closing down of Dublin’s attacks, there was plenty of this kind of ball hoofed in.

99% of it went to waste and the most wastage occurred at the hands of Aidan O’Shea.  Most of it he failed to catch, what he did catch he fumbled and what he didn’t fumble ended up in shots that went nowhere.  And still we kept raining the ball into him, even in the second half when we now had the wind against us and a piercing sun in our eyes.  It was pure kamikaze football.

It was also noticeable that while we hobbled towards half-time adding frees from Enda Varley (who got two in that half – here’s the second one he scored) and Alan Freeman, the Dubs were getting all of their five points from play (their entire afternoon’s total would end up coming from play).  Their impressive economy of thought and movement every time they got near our posts contrasted greatly with our more aimless hit-and-hope approach.

By half-time, our wide count must have been close to ten and our miss count included two desperately poor attempts from frees by Enda Varley and Aidan O’Shea, the latter ending up being deflected out for a ‘45 that Alan Freeman then screwed wide.  We needed to sharpen up significantly in the second half and we needed to come up with a better attacking plan than all those Hail Mary balls we were lamping into the unhappy Aidan O’Shea.

So what did we do on the restart? More high ball into nowhere in particular and more wides, lots more of them.  Neill Douglas made a great interception from a lazy pass out of defence but, all on his own no more than ten yards out, he blasted it wide.  Dublin were now defending tigerishly and our lads’ tactic seemed to be to try to burrow through the swarm cover, a tactic that quite correctly won precious little sympathy from the ref.  Andy did, though, win a close-in free for a quite theatrical dive, which Enda pointed but we then followed this up with further wides from Chris Barrett and Andy from that awful ’45.

It was starting to look like that kind of day when suddenly, out of nowhere, we scored quite a stunning goal.  Tom Parsons, a bit too quiet again today, rose to claim a majestic mark and then offloaded quickly to Keith Higgins (at least that’s who PJ reckoned it was) and he put Enda Varley clean through.  The Garrymore man confidently rattled the net to put us a goal to the good with ten minutes played in the second half.

This should have been the moment where we put all that crap shooting behind us and seized control of the contest.  Instead, though, we let them back into it.  A good breakout from the back – led by Keith Higgins – ended up in our fumbling the ball, ceding possession to them and conceding a point converted superbly by Dublin’s impressive midfielder Ross McConnell.  Worse was to follow as the Dubs carved us open in their next attack, with sub Bernard Brogan put through one-on-one with David Clarke (at the game I thought it was Keaney but it was Brogan) and he finished with ease to edge the visitors back in front again.

Andy then levelled with our second (and final) point from play but soon afterwards Trevor Mort lost the ball out round the middle and McConnell was there to snap it up and fire over a wonderful score from a long way out.  That was the signal for the Dubs to perk up their lugs and hit for the finishing line and further points, from McAuley and Keaney, put daylight between the sides.  The Dublin following on the terraces at the bacon factory end had now found their collective voice and were in good spirits as those final, decisive points were knocked over into that end.  All we could do, meanwhile, was gaze at the alluring backdrop of a snowcapped Nephin.

We did pull one back when Aidan O’Shea – still battling gamely – was fouled and Alan Freeman slotted the free over. Alan then gave way to the tanned Mort but all he did was remind us that he’s not exactly infallible from frees either.  In the end, it all came down to a late, late free from Andy Moran who – fair play to him – went for the goal that would have secured a wholly undeserved win for us but it got deflected over and so the Dubs prevailed by a single point.

Our desperate shooting today will be the most talked-about feature of today’s game and so it should be but, in retrospect, we can, I suppose, recognise that our failings in the forward department were amplified by Mark Ronaldson’s absence.  Not only was Ronaldo our top scorer in the NFL to date, he was the chief marksman in the whole of Division 1 and we really missed his attacking prowess today.  We’ll miss him equally badly up in Celtic Park next Saturday night.

The other mitigating factor was the early injuries suffered by Peadar and Ronan – which saw both of them gone from the fray with only twenty minutes played -  and whose loss certainly upset our rhythm.  We missed those surging runs that Peadar loves to go on and while Seamus O’Shea thrived at midfield, his absence further forward didn’t help us either, even if Neill Douglas did put in a decent shift in that sector.

In terms of good points, I thought that we were sound enough defensively, with Keith, Donie Vaughan, Kevin McLoughlin and Trevor Howley our strongest performers at the back.  Ger Cafferkey had a few early wobbles but he improved as the game went on.

Seamus O’Shea was superb around the middle and was, by some distance, our best player today. He’s as strong as a bull and once he gets moving, it takes a hell of a lot to knock him out of his stride.  His emergence is a real plus and you can sense that he’s on the cusp of becoming a key man for us.  Tom Parsons was less effective but he worked hard and his part in the goal was a significant one.

The forwards were, as you’d expect with that wide count, all over the shop but, as PJ noted afterwards, it was the newer guys who did better.  Varley, Freeman and Douglas were the three who showed most for the ball and they could have done with more support from the other guys when they were getting all that swarm attention from the Dublin backs.  Andy’s performance was nothing like the stellar shifts he’d put in against Galway and Tyrone while Trevor Mortimer had a complete stinker and should not have been left on after half-time.  Aidan O’Shea had another very poor outing and I really think it would be in everyone’s interest if he were now allowed to concentrate on his U21 duties over the next few weeks.

So, now that we’ve got this rather rude reality check, we’ll get a chance to see what this team really is made of.  Those wins over Galway and Tyrone never meant we were world beaters and today’s one-point loss to the Dubs doesn’t mean we’re a bunch of chumps either. Two tough away matches are up next and, if we lose in both Celtic Park and in Tralee, we could, I guess, find ourselves facing Monaghan at McHale Park in three weeks time with relegation worries on our minds. Going into today’s match, most of us were, I think, under the assumption that our graph is an upward one.  After today’s setback, we now need to show over the course of our remaining four league matches that this really is the case.

MAYO: David Clarke; Donal Vaughan, Ger Cafferkey, Keith Higgins; Peadar Gardiner, Trevor Howley, Kevin McLoughlin; Tom Parsons, Ronan McGarrity; Andy Moran (0-2, one free), Seamus O’Shea (0-1), Trevor Mortimer; Enda Varley (1-3, three frees), Aidan O’Shea, Alan Freeman (0-2, frees).  Subs: Chris Barrett for Gardiner, Neill Douglas for McGarrity, Barry Kelly for Mortimer, Conor Mortimer for Freeman, Mikey Sweeney for Aidan O’Shea.

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We still have to go out tomorrow and prove them all correct but the world and his spouse clearly expects us to do one on the Dubs tomorrow.  RTÉ, the Times and the Herald all say we’ll win it, we’re holding solid at 8/13 with Paddy Power and 79% of you (91% if the dunnos are excluded) have predicted that we will indeed do it.  Right – better get to it, then.

I share pretty much most of this optimism, even if I also concur with TIALTNGO’s view that, win or no win, we still can’t be wholly sure how we’re shaping up this year.  My own outlook is a simple enough one – we’re putting out a settled and largely experienced side whereas Pat Gilroy is still experimenting widely with his team.  With four games and a draw from our first five matches of the year, we’re on a bit of a roll at the moment and while the upcoming trips to Derry, Tralee and Cork will make the maintenance of this unbeaten run difficult to pull off over the coming weeks, we should, I think, have enough in the tank to do the business tomorrow, not least because we’re once again playing them on our own patch.

There’s very little being said about the game up here – down at the mini-leagues in Vins this morning there was hardly a mention of it.  No more than ourselves, the Dubs lads are hugely wary of getting their hopes up and they’re realistic enough to know that the road back to redemption from last year’s annihilation by Kerry is likely to be slow and painful.  They’re happy enough with the start they’ve made to the NFL but a few of the Dublin fans I’ve spoken with are sharply critical of what they see as an overly negative style of play, one that’ll be hard to put to good effect in high summer.

If the Dubs try such an ultra-defensive approach with us tomorrow, they may have cause to regret it because we’ve been moving the ball at a good old clip in our matches to date and we could end up making hay against their backline.  Mind you, our own defence still has a few question marks over it so it might not be all one-way traffic.  Still, if it comes to a shoot-out, I’d be confident enough about our ability, Ronaldo or no Ronaldo, to come out on top.

I’ll be spending most of tomorrow on the road, covering the guts of three hundred miles to get to Castlebar and back.  I remember feeling more than a little peeved when I got back from Ballina after last year’s corresponding fixture as the quality of football was such that it certainly didn’t merit putting in all those miles but I’m hopeful that tomorrow’s performance will.

I’ll be doing my now normal ringside post-match audio after the final whistle sounds and then, later on, a full report on the day’s action. Till then.

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We’ve just named the starting line-up for our NFL meeting with the Jacks at McHale Park on Sunday.  The team shows only one change from the side that started our last NFL match (against Tyrone) but, due to events in that match up in Omagh, the starting line-up for Sunday won’t be same as that which we’ve named tonight.  Mark Ronaldson is on the team in his now usual corner-forward position but last night’s CHC decision to confirm his month’s suspension means that, unless he decides to take his ban appeal a stage further, a replacement will have to be named on the day.  The only other change from the Tyrone game sees the expected return of captain Trevor Mortimer at the expense of Alan Freeman (who could, of course, end up taking Ronaldo’s spot).

Here’s the team and subs we’ve named for Sunday:

Mayo (NFL Division 1 v Dublin): David Clarke (Ballina Stephenites); Donal Vaughan (Ballinrobe), Ger Cafferkey (Ballina Stephenites), Keith Higgins (Ballyhaunis); Peadar Gardiner (Crossmolina), Trevor Howley (Knockmore), Kevin McLoughlin (Knockmore); Tom Parsons (Charlestown Sarsfields), Ronan McGarrity (Ballina Stephenites); Andy Moran (Ballaghaderreen), Seamus O’Shea (Breaffy), Trevor Mortimer (Shrule-Glencorrib); Enda Varley (Garrymore), Aidan O’Shea (Breaffy), Mark Ronaldson (Shrule-Glencorrib).  Subs: Kenneth O’Malley (Ballinrobe), Kieran Conroy (Shrule-Glencorrib), Alan Feeney (Castlebar Mitchels), Liam O’Malley (Burrishoole), Chris Barrett (Belmullet), Barry Kelly (Ballaghaderreen), Neill Douglas (Castlebar Mitchels), Mikey Sweeney (Kiltane), Alan Freeman (Aghamore), Ger McDonagh (Castlebar Mitchels), Lee Keegan (Westport), Shane Nally (Garrymore), Alan Dillon (Ballintubber), Conor Mortimer (Shrule-Glencorrib).

The obvious talking point from the above is the return to the squad of both Alan Dillon and Conor Mortimer.  With one place still to be filled, there’s obviously a good chance that one of the two tanned amigos could start on Sunday.  The other point of note is that Johnno isn’t yet making any allowances for those who will be on U21 duty on Wednesday week, with both Kevin McLoughlin and Aidan O’Shea retained in the starting fifteen and a clutch more of likely U21 players named amongst the subs.

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It’ll come as no surprise to anyone to learn that Mark Ronaldson’s appeal against his four-week ban fell on deaf ears last night – here’s confirmation of the news from Midwest.   We should hear later on about who is being drafted in instead of Mark for Sunday.  One diminutive Shrule-Glencorrib man for another, perhaps?

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Pat Gilroy is first out of the traps with his team announcement for Sunday’s NFL clash with our lads in McHale Park.  The Dubs have five changes from the team that beat Derry at Parnell Park in their last outing, with Stephen Cluxton, Philly MacMahon, Ger Brennan, David Henry and Paul Flynn all coming in instead of Michael Savage, Rory O’Carroll, James Brogan, Tiernan Diamond and Blaine Kelly.  Dublin’s line-up is as follows:

Dublin (NFL Division 1 v Mayo): Stephen Cluxton (Parnells); Paul Conlon (St Vincents), Michael Fitzsimons (Cuala), Philly MacMahon (Ballymun Kickhams); Paul Griffin (Kilmacud Crokes), Cian O’Sullivan (Kilmacud Crokes), Ger Brennan (St Vincents); Eamon Fennell (O’Tooles), Ross McConnell (St Oliver Plunketts/Eoghan Ruadh); Alan Hubbard (Ballymun Kickhams), Paul Flynn (Fingallians), Kevin Bonner (St Brigids); David Henry (Raheny), Michael Darragh MacAuley (Ballyboden St Endas), Kevin McManamon (St Judes).  Subs: Shane Supple (St Brigids), Conor McCormack (St Mary’s, Saggart), Neil O’Connor (Naomh Barróg), Hugh Gill (St Vincents), Kevin Nolan (Kilmacud Crokes), Paul Casey (Lucan Sarsfields), James Brogan (St Oliver Plunketts/Eoghan Ruadh), Denis Carrigan (St Mary’s, Saggart), Darren Magee (Kilmacud Crokes), Colm Murphy (St Judes), Tiernan Diamond (St Vincents), Bernard Brogan (St Oliver Plunketts/Eoghan Ruadh), Dean Kelly (Trinity Gaels), Brendan McManamon (St Judes), Paddy Andrews (St Brigids).

That’s a chunky old subs’ bench, both in number and in heft.  In terms of the former, it’s a full fifteen so maybe Pat is looking to bend the rules and pull the same stunt that he did at that challenge match against us in Portmarnock last May where he fielded entirely different teams for the two halves.  While the appearance on the bench of ex-Ipswich ‘keeper Shane Supple is grabbing the headlines, there are two Brogans hidden in there too, as well as a couple of the Vins’ lads and Paddy Andrews.  Apparently established players such as Barry Cahill, Conal Keaney, Bryan Cullen, Denis Bastick and Mossy Quinn are all, for one reason or another, unavailable for selection while Rory O’Carroll is on U21 duty.  Never mind, the lot of them wouldn’t have fitted on the bus anyway.

I understand we’ll be naming our starting fifteen later on this evening.  There’s still no word about how Mark Ronaldson’s appeal went last night but I guess we’ll know when we see the teamsheet.  I see that our old pal Pat McEnaney (who’ll have to retire at the end of this season under the new age limits being put in place for refs) wants the disciplinary process speeded up and tightened up and, while we’ll all go to our graves disagreeing with his  decision to send off Liam McHale in the 1996 replay, I think it’s obvious that what Pat has to say on this issue makes a fair bit of sense.  They could also, while they’re at it, do with putting in place some kind of communications policy in this area because, as things stand, trying discover what’s going on with suspensions is akin to attempting to unearth the Third Secret of Fatima.

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Sunday is drawing ever nearer and with it our first competitive meeting with the Dubs since that excruciating NFL encounter down in Ballina almost twelve months ago. (The challenge match between the counties in Portmarnock last May doesn’t count, I reckon). For us metropolitan Mayo people, there’s nothing quite like a clash with the Jacks to get the juices flowing and while Sunday’s league set-to doesn’t have the same cachet as that never-to-be-forgotten 2006 encounter, it’s still a match to look forward to nonetheless.  Then there’s all those split loyalties to contend with – my two girls are siding with me for Sunday but the little bucko is sticking resolutely to his blue corner.  The official line we’re all holding to is that we hope it’s a draw but I can’t see myself sticking to that once the ball is thrown in at McHale Park.  It’ll do for now, though.

With only a few days to go to the match, the arrival of my 2010 Club Mayo Dublin membership card in this morning’s post was as well timed as it could have been.  Enclosed with it too was a nice letter from Mary King which pointed out that all of the profits made by Club Mayo go exclusively towards the preparation of the county teams.  The money raised in this way helps to fund things like panel training weekends and a scholarship scheme for the Dublin-based players, as well as meeting the cost of gym membership for players based up here.  This is exactly the kind of stuff that needs to be funded and the ability to contribute in some tangible way to this is, I’d say, the reason that most of us who are members are more than happy to continue as such.

There’s also a match day promotion taking place on Sunday which may be of interest to some of you, especially those of you with chisellers who are under 16.  The County Board will be raffling four O’Neill’s footballs at half-time on Sunday and the draw is open to all kids who are (a) under 16 and (b) in attendance at McHale Park for the match.  To enter, all you (or they) need to do is complete the form (double-click the image on the left to get a full-size copy of it which you can then print) and hand it to one of the stewards on duty at the ground before half-time. The draw will then take place at half-time and the winners will be presented with their footballs by Johnno and some of the players immediately after the match is over (and, one assumes, after the pitch has been cleared following the obligatory post-match invasion of the hallowed turf).

Remember, if you want your kid(s) to enter, he or she must be at the match on Sunday in order to do so.  As Sunday will be just a daytrip to the west for me, my little midgets won’t be coming with me (can you imagine what the “are we nearly there yet?” chorus would be like if they did?) so that leaves the field clear for others to scoop the prize.

No word yet tonight on how Mark Ronaldson’s appeal went but there might be something on the RTÉ sports news a bit later.  If there is, I’ll post a quick update here (or on Twitter) to confirm what the crack is on that but I suspect we all know already what’s going to happen there.

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The Mayo News reports that Johnno, who was out and about on TD duties at the time, was involved in a car crash near Swinford on Saturday evening but, thankfully, Johnno was able to confirm to Mike Finnerty in the Mayo News that no damage was done.

On the football front, Johnno confirmed that Mark Ronaldson’s appeal has yet to be heard and that, as a result, there’s a chance that he might still be eligible to play against the Dubs on Sunday.  The downside, of course, is that the clock would then be wound forward and he’d be missing for four weeks from the date of the FBD final which would mean he’d miss the Kerry game instead.  I dunno about the rest of you but I’d sooner have him on the field against the Kerrymen than have him available to face the Jacks but I’m afraid we’re in the hands of the Hanging Judges of the CCCCCCCCCCCCCC on this one.

Johnno also talked a bit about the Dublin game and, as is his wont, he did his usual thing in talking up the opposition.  ”They were very impressive against Kerry” he says and they “ground out a win against Derry” so “we know we’ll have to up it a notch again next Sunday”.  True too, Boss, too true – sure, it’s probably not worth our while turning up at all at all.  But wait, what’s this?

But we’re at home and if we can play with the same attitude and commitment we showed last month, we’ll have a chance.

That almost sounds like optimism, doesn’t it? Are you sure the oul’ nut didn’t get a bit of a knock on Saturday evening there, Johnno?  Might be an idea to get it checked out, just in case, like.

Elsewhere in the Mayo News, Alan Dillon talks about the great time himself and Mort had in the sun these last few months while the rest of us were getting our nuts frozen off us.  He says he enjoyed the time away (which I sincerely hope he did) but has come back “more driven than ever” about playing for the county.  That’s the right attitude to have – though it might be prudent to ensure that it’s not Johnno that’s doing the driving.

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