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 […]
Morning has broken in what’s set to be a significant day for us in this year’s championship. The longest day of the year may not have arrived yet but today’s clash with Galway has all the feeling of being a pivotal one and it’s one we need to be up for. Ourselves and Galway come into this game accompanied by […]
It’s been just over two weeks since I heard that news. I was working June 11, 2-11pm and there was no getting out of it. Why was I disappointed straight away? Because I knew that date was the one I had waited for since we beat Sligo. Actually, it was the one I had waited for since the draw was […]
Only two days to go to the big showdown in the west so it’s definitely worthwhile ladling out a second helping of the Mayo News football podcast for more chat ahead of the Galway game on Sunday. In this bonus episode, host Rob Murphy and I talk about Mayo’s team selection for the game as well as some other stuff […]
Photo: @RMcB5Foundation We’ve just named our starting fifteen to face Galway on Sunday a short while ago. Here’s the team we’ve named: Mayo (Connacht SFC semi-final v Galway, 11/6/2017): David Clarke (Ballina Stephenites); Chris Barrett (Belmullet), Ger Cafferkey (Ballina Stephenites), Keith Higgins (Ballyhaunis); Colm Boyle (Davitts), Lee Keegan (Westport), Paddy Durcan (Castlebar Mitchels); Seamus O’Shea (Breaffy), Tom Parsons (Charlestown Sarsfields); […]
It’s the biggest football match in the championship this weekend – the meeting of Cavan and Monaghan is the only other one likely to approach it in terms of intensity or pulling power – but so far at least it’s a very low-key lead-in to Sunday’s Connacht semi-final meeting between ourselves and Galway at Pearse Stadium (throw-in 4pm). I guess […]
As I mentioned on this week’s Mayo News football podcast (which, in case you haven’t yet listened to it, is available here), while our defeat to Galway last year may have cost us an historic Connacht six-in-a-row it gave us back a local rivalry that had in recent years fallen into abeyance. Just how strongly that desire for local one-upmanship […]
It’s all been a bit quiet from me here on the site over the past few days but, in my defence, I’ve been on the road more or less constantly of late. The Dubs and their ‘road trip’ the other evening are only trotting after me – I’ve been beyond the M50 a few times since midweek and I’ve clocked up more […]
Photo: boylantalkssports.com It’s been announced that Joe McQuillan will ref Sunday week’s Connacht SFC semi-final between ourselves and Galway. We’ve obviously had plenty of experience – good as well as bad, it must be said – of the Cavan official down the years. The most recent match we’ve played that he’s reffed was our League match against Roscommon under the […]
Photo: Boards.ie Counting down the days now to the Connacht semi-final against Galway. Maybe time for a poll on it? Nah, I leave that ’till a bit closer to the game. Let’s start with Cillian O’Connor, who did some media stuff earlier this week and who features in some coverage arising from this. The Irish Examiner has a piece (here) […]