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. […]
Photo: Irish Independent (David Maher/Sportsfile) It was far from vintage stuff from our lads yesterday and the overall Man of the Match was Cavan’s powerful midfielder Gearoid McKiernan but the poll here on the site has delivered a clear result on our best performer in yesterday’s match. Danny Kirby, who polled 67% of the votes cast, has been chosen by […]
Well, whatever that looked like in the flesh I have to admit that, from the sofa, it didn’t make for comfortable viewing. Back on home soil after that chastening defeat to Dublin some sort of redemption should have been forthcoming. Instead what unfolded – for me on the TV – was another alarmingly inept performance, one that gave a game […]
Photo: MichaelMaye.com Another game in this year’s League campaign and another Man of the Match performance from goalkeeper David Clarke. From the second match in a row, he’s the runaway winner in the MOTM poll, this time securing 56% of the popular vote. Here are the main vote-getters in this week’s poll: It wasn’t a trouble-free performance from our All-Star […]
We came into tonight’s League meeting with Dublin on a small wave of optimism. We left it crushed and broken following an utterly abject performance, which saw us beaten all over the field by a Dublin team shorn of several championship regulars. As reality checks go, this was as brutal and unforgiving as they come. I’d had a good day […]
Photo: @MayoGAA Right, there’s no need to drag this one out any longer: by a large margin (some 54% of all votes cast) David Clarke is officially our Man of the Match from last night’s National Football League win over Roscommon. The big Ballina netminder was also chosen last night as MOTM by live broadcaster Eir Sport. Although our scoring […]
When you win, the miles fly by. I’m not long back in the door having covered the guts of 500km travelling down to and back from Castlebar for this evening’s Round 3 NFL match against Roscommon but a productive trip it sure was. There was a nice air of anticipation in the rapidly-filling stand at MacHale Park earlier tonight as […]
After a week’s break, the National Football League resumes this weekend and our Round 3 tie is another one under the lights. After the long trek to Tralee last time out, this one is back on home turf with Roscommon the visiting opposition at MacHale Park this evening. Throw-in is set for 7pm. We’ve had a so-so start to this […]
Photo: MichaelMaye.com You, the people, have once again spoken and, not for the first time, the message you’ve imparted is loud and clear. By a wide margin, you’ve decreed that our Man of the Match from yesterday evening’s League Division One Round 2 tie down in Tralee was Andy Moran. It’s a richly deserved award for the evergreen Ballaghaderreen attacker […]
I will, please God, turn 55 later this year. I’m ashamed to say that it wasn’t until this evening that I first attended a Gaelic football match in Kerry. I’ve followed Mayo far and wide down the years but somehow, before tonight, I never managed to make it to see us playing in the Kingdom. Tonight’s enthralling NFL Division One […]