Lookit, I want to drop these on your lap as much as you want to read them but it’s part of the Monday morning routine after a game. Here goes, then, in relation to the coverage on yesterday’s one-point loss to Galway at Salthill. Locals: Mayo Advertiser, Connaught Telegraph (match report, primer on qualifier route now facing us). Nationals: Irish […]
For this hugely experienced team of ours to lose one Connacht championship match to Galway might be regarded as unfortunate but to lose two in succession has to be viewed as downright careless. We allowed them to mug us in MacHale Park a year ago and today at Pearse Stadium it was primarily our own failings that saw them record […]
Photo: MichaelMaye.com The votes are in and counted for the first Man of the Match poll in this year’s championship campaign for us. Paddy Durcan’s powerful, energetic performance yesterday against Sligo won him the MOTM award on The Sunday Game last night and he’s come out on top in the poll here as well. Claiming 40% of the vote, Paddy […]
We’re off and running again. The first, and most important, priority today was simply to win and, with a flattering nine points to spare over Sligo in this afternoon’s Connacht SFC quarter-final at MacHale Park, we did that. The performance may have been less than impressive but it was good enough to get us the win we needed. There’s been […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Going into today’s final round of this year’s League there were two potential routes open to us for preserving our Division One status. For long stretches of this afternoon’s combustible clash with Donegal it looked as if we were going to have to rely on the fall-back option of Roscommon beating Cavan to keep us up. Eventually, though, we looked […]
Photo: MichaelMaye.com The votes are in and counted in the penultimate Man of the Match poll here on the site for this year’s League campaign. Once again we’ve a clear winner in the popular vote and this time round that player is Tom Parsons. The rangy Charlestown midfielder put in a superb shift for us up in Omagh yesterday, a […]
Photo: MichaelMaye.com We’re not safe yet but, whatever about that, the lads showed – like they did in Round 6 last year – that they’re far from finished. On a day borrowed from summer up in Healy Park, Stephen Rochford’s team put in their best performance of the year to prevail over the home team by the narrowest of margins. […]