It’s the day before our first real competitive match of the year and the pundits (i.e. the lads who get paid for doing this) are split about who they think will prevail at Ballina tomorrow. RTE (who I think got almost every prediction relating to us wrong last year) go for us, Hogan Stand go [...]
Fifty years of playing Derry
January 30, 2009 By Leave a Comment
What’s the use in assembling a results archive if you don’t use it, eh? In that spirit, I’ve spent a while today looking back over the records for the past half-century to build up a picture of how we’ve got on against the Oak Leafers. We haven’t done badly at all, as you’ll soon see, [...]
Oak Leafers name their team
January 30, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Defending NFL champions Derry have named their team to meet us on Sunday, according to this story in Hogan Stand. Here it is: Derry (NFL v Mayo, 1/2/2009): Shane McGuckian; Brian Og McAlary, Sean M Lockhart, Ryan Dillon; Paul Cartin, Joe O’Kane, Chrissy McKaigue; Fergal Doherty, Patsy Bradley; Enda Lynn, Barry McGoldrick, Sean Leo McGoldrick; [...]
Team for Derry match named
January 30, 2009 By 6 Comments
Match-day twitterings
January 29, 2009 By 3 Comments
Face the Ball mini-league developments
January 29, 2009 By 1 Comment
Things have moved on apace since I first mentioned the Face the Ball prediction website last week and put forward the idea of setting up a mini-league. Since then, those good people at Club Mayo Dublin have been in touch about the idea and, arising from this, we’ve decided to join forces to get a [...]
Time for a new poll, I think
January 28, 2009 By 4 Comments
No team ’till at least Thursday: blame it on Mort’s schnozzle
January 27, 2009 By 4 Comments
According to this report in the Mayo News, we won’t be announcing our team for Sunday’s NFL opener against Derry until “Thursday at the earliest”. It’s all due, it seems, to Conor Mortimer’s snout – the one that Mark Vaughan allegedly broke in two places the other week. The blonde one didn’t line out for [...]
Naming rights and the new economic reality
January 24, 2009 By 2 Comments
The poll that I ran on this site a few weeks back about naming rights at McHale Park produced an interesting outcome. The result proved to be surprisingly even, in that each of the three options listed attracted a roughly equivalent amount of support. On a first-past-the-post basis, the No camp – with 36% of [...]
Face that ball!
January 23, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Okay, given the day of the week what’s in it, I think it might be appropriate to bring something TGIF-ish to your attention. I got an email the other day from the creator (who, incidentally, is a Mayoman) of a website called FaceTheBall.com, which is a GAA (and rugby) prediction league website that he’s just [...]
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