It turns out that penalty shootouts in Gaelic football are like buses – you wait forever for one to come along and then two arrive together. And so it was yesterday at Tuam Stadium where, just seven days after the novelty of seeing a spot-kick tie-breaker against Leitrim in Carrick-on-Shannon, a late, late goal by Galway forced Mayo into a […]
I didn’t think I’d have the time this morning to sort this one but I’ve managed to squeeze it in so here goes with the usual post-game set of links to the match reports and associated coverage I’ve been able to find relating to yesterday’s FBD encounter with Galway at Tuam Stadium. Locals: Mayo Advertiser, Connaught Telegraph. Nationals: Irish Times, […]
I wasn’t at the game myself but, by the looks of it, there was a bumper crowd at Tuam Stadium this afternoon to see this pre-season derby between ourselves and the neighbours. It may only have been an FBD League tie but, listening in from home on the radio, it seemed to me to have all the feel of a […]
It’d be a bit OTT, I know, to go full-on The Day Before The Game about tomorrow’s FBD semi-final between ourselves and the neighbours. It’s still only mid-January and it’s only the FBD, even if the exchanges in the comments from opposing supporters have bordered on the tetchy over the last 24 hours. The match has attracted a bit of […]
We’ve just named our team to play Galway in Sunday’s FBD League semi-final at Tuam Stadium (throw-in 1.30pm). Here’s the starting fifteen we’ve named: Mayo (FBD League Semi-Final v Galway, 13/1/2019): Rob Hennelly (Breaffy); Keith Higgins (Ballyhaunis), Brendan Harrison (Aghamore), David Drake (Ballaghaderreen); Colm Boyle (Davitts, captain), Michael Plunkett (Ballintubber), James McCormack (Claremorris); Donal Vaughan (Castlebar Mitchels), Diarmuid O’Connor (Ballintubber); […]
Fresh from our penalty shootout dramatics up in Carrick last Sunday, the next pre-season test for James Horan and his Mayo team comes this weekend. Galway provide the opposition in Sunday’s FBD League semi-final at Tuam Stadium, where throw-in is fixed for 1.30pm. Neither side will, I’m sure, be keen to ascribe any significance to this January derby clash. The […]
The New Year started in dramatic fashion at Carrick-on-Shannon yesterday for Mayo’s footballers. In what was the county’s first senior inter-county match in over six months, where James Horan took charge of his first game since returning to the position of Mayo manager, there was drama aplenty at Páirc Seán Mac Diarmada. This was capped off by a first-ever soccer-style […]
Life is starting to return to normal after the holiday period, the football is back – for us, after a too-long absence – and so it’s time too for the Monday match reports to make their return. As you’d imagine, there’s quite a bit of coverage about our match against Leitrim yesterday in light of the novel climax to that […]
Well, that sure started the year – and James Horan’s second stint in charge – with a bang. A dramatic 2-13 apiece draw against a feisty Leitrim team, capped by a first-ever penalty shoot-out in a football game in the entire history of of the GAA. Quite the start to 2019, that’s for sure. At half-time this afternoon at Páirc […]
There I was earlier on saying that naming teams in advance wasn’t really the done thing for the FBD. Well, James Horan and his selectors clearly had other ideas – as is their prerogative – and have decided to release details of the starting fifteen for Sunday’s FBD opener against Leitrim at Carrick-on-Shannon (throw-in 1.30pm). Here’s the team that’s been […]