Best of luck to Ballina and Moy Davitts today Westport are a good said but I expect Ballina to edge it

Good luck to the Ballina lads think they will do it by 3 or so. Be some party in Ballina tonight if they do !

Don't let the weather put anyone off travelling today. Beautiful morning in Castlebar.
Best of luck to all 4. Looking forward to a great days football.

Hoping for 2 good games, looking forward to the intermediate final as these are team that like to attack first and defend when they can. I going with Bohola Moy Davitts but it will be tight. Think Ballina will win the senior, I think they have just two many weapons but Westport have blooded some new talent like Joey Holmes they are still missing Fionn McDonagh Mark Moran Oisin McLaughlin, if they can win senior without them players I tip my hat to Pat Holmes

Pepsi or Coca Cola should open a plant in Breaffy

A good contest....tough on MD's again. Small margins but a bit more composure shown by Kilmeena late on and congrats to them.

I thought kilmeena where the better team especially from 1 to 15 plus subs, moy davitts very reliant on individual talent in the forward line and when ronan Clarke went off it was the big moment unfortunately for them. Very exciting game though.

Why was Ronan Clarke taken off? He’d a really good first half, much quieter second half. Was it tactical or enforced?

Great game of football. Some fine young footballers on display. Fair play to both teams playing football in the right way. Good luck to Kilmeena.

@Roco88: He went up for a high bouncing ball and was limping/tending the back of leg just after (not sure if he'd hurt it earlier than that or was in the jump, but the first I noticed it). Looked like a tweaked hammer. Went off a few minutes later.

Clarke was pulling on his hamstring so it might have been injury related. Cian McHale was very quiet, I that that kevin Ryder and Cormac o Malley dominated Ryan Kenny and Padraig Ruane. Cormac o Malley should be look at Mayo U20 don’t think he play for the U17 think he had a ACL injury.

Leroy totally taken out of it.

The tackle on keegan is one of the types of tackles that should be punished more often so dangerous, diving on the standing leg as he's kicking for a point.

Gwan Westport

Some finale, fair play to both sides. Replay is a wonderful result for the rest of the county. Thought Westport had it. Is Keegan out for next week?

Just watched it back, there is no way the Westport disallowed goal around the 60 minute mark was a square ball.

Fair play to Frank Irwin that took some nerve to get it level at the last minute.

A tale of Two square ball calls.

The free given to ballina to level it up is a free the ref would never have given if it wasn't a last kick of the game to level it up. Westport done something really well in where they pressed high and stopped ballina from playing keep ball. Entertaining game.

Great fightback by Westport, they look very fit, feel that they will take more from this today than Ballina. They look more of a team as Ballina seem very dependent on Evan Regan but will be another tight battle.

Fair dues to Kilmeena, quick return to the top rank again.

Ballina were also down to 14 men which gave westport that come back . Wont be the same next week as it will be a wake up call to Ballina who also went into 2nd gear in thev2nd half . It was a square ball for westport .

@Clare

Westport were ahead when the lad was black carded, so the come back happened against 15 men.

Maybe just maybe, Westport are better than them. Like they were last year only for a late blow up.

It was a square ball. Gonna be tough for Westport though against a bigger town that can even rely on the Killala crew as well.

It was a pity such a leader in Lee Keegan was injured in a collision after what I thought the ball was kicked. I suppose he was just unlucky OHora was so committed to the block..

Ref performance in both games was poor imo. Maybe decisions balanced out but a lot of pulling dragging let go. Callinan and Thornton outstanding for Ballina, Finbar, joey Holmes future Mayo players. Subs worked well again tho the Keane rob from Clarke was illegal? Both teams deserve another crack, but leave the ref at home.

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Excellent contribution All41.

I thought the call was right for Westport, but felt Ballina caught a break as second man appeared be in before ball.

That was a bonkers finish...I thought both had it at stages in the last 5 minutes...
Westport will learn there's a time to play keep ball.

Whatever happens from here Westport have shown incredible resilience in every knockout game so far, a commodity is doubted they had, responded to massive adversity today in a game ballina looked to be playing entirely on their own terms and without their spiritual leader in leeroy. God forbid they ever start a game well though.All to play for now.

When is the winner out in connaught, because schedule is getting v tight

Did anyone else have problems streaming the Ballina Westport game….was fine for first half but terrible for the second half. I have good internet connection.

No, stream quality was very good all through for me.
Clare, you don't have to personally come on and argue every single point that could be construed as a negative for Ballina.

I have to say, Westport really impressed me today. They've displayed a lot of character and work ethic this year, which they wouldn't have been known for previously!

@Supermac: The winner will play North London Shamrocks (beat Tir Chonaill Gaels today 3-7 to 0-13) on the weekend of November 8/9th (so a fortnight from next weekend).

From there the winner plays the winner of Pádraig Pearses and St. Brigid’s for a semi-final on the weekend of November 15/16th, and the Senior Final on the weekend of November 29/30th.

https://connachtgaa.ie/fixture-details-for-upcoming-connacht-club-championships-finalised/

@Tubberman

I don't come on and argue every negative point to Ballina I have not posted on this in a few days my god.

Well feckit anyway..moysiders losing out to kilmeena again..tough one but thats sport.

Ballina got out of jail today I thought.

Was the Westport goal ruled out for square ball? Seemed harsh to me.

Ballina to be fair, showed lots of resolve to level it. But I just got the sense that Westport were the better team once they got to parity around midfield. And if they can break even there next weekend, I think they might finish the job next weekend

@Clare
You have not posted on this in a few days???
Really…..

The square ball rule is different for an incoming ball from general play or a set piece, ie free, 45 etc. When a ball is kicked in from open play, the player cannot be inside before the ball is kicked, from a set piece you cannot be in before the ball(the old rule).

Thoroughly enjoyed both games and will watch them both back today to see if any of the "controversial" calls were wrong. I'm totally neutral on both these games but I was sitting between a Westport man and a Ballina native and both were 100% sure on the square ball calls in their sides favour. Unfortunately it's a rule that is almost impossible in many cases to be confident on as you'd need two sets of eyes to be watching the ball and the attacker at the same time.
Hopefully Keegan and O'Hora aren't too badly injured because the game needs big characters.
Other than the usual suspects I was impressed with Ben Doyle and Luke Doherty. Should be a great replay next weekend if the weather holds up.
Can't agree with too much criticism of the refs because a game that's allowed to flow is far better than continual stop start stuff and didn't notice the players complaining.

@JoeG: The camera doesn't catch the square (or where Evan was standing, Ben was fine) as the ball is being kicked from open play for the Ballina one, so the replay won't be much help deciding there.

The Westport one was correctly ruled out. Player entered the square before the ball from a sideline kick, so correctly given as a free out.

A messy rule for sure. Even with the benefits of replays it's a tough and often subjective call. Very little chance for refs or umpires to attempt making it with anything close to accuracy.

Westport will feel both lucky to get the draw after the start they had...and aggrieved at their goal being disallowed after a similar Ballina goal.... and also the dangerous tackle from the side on Keegan who was wide open with his leading leg extended , hopefully its not too serious...however great credit to Ballina they dug it out to get the draw and that's what champions do....and if they have O'Hora back next week it will be the spark they were missing...
Feel for BMD....so close and yet so far, but again great credit due to Kilmeena....what a team....and club....

Ref very good in senoir game bad on intermediate game

Both refs let a fair bit go but I thought they were both pretty fair and balanced and couldn't see that they favoured one team over the other.
To me it's always a much better spectacle when the ref isn't overly finicky....but then I was there yesterday as a neutral so...

I thought ref allowed too many 'rucks' to develop and good and well if you came out with the ball. But I'm not arguing two hops, nothing worse than finicky and no continuous play.
The call to award Evan regan the free from the wrong position at end of first half for three back infringement could have been very controversial.
I could be corrected on that, maybe TSU would clarify, my understanding is that the free should have taken place from where the infringement took place.

@Ontheditch: That reading of it is spot on.
Mike even mentioned it on the comms after half-time, so probably a few in the media tower agreeing there too.

You could see Brick making the same point to the ref, pointing back at the half-way line. Always some potential for a breach to have happened much earlier than a whistle and the ref might have been playing advantage for a while before finally calling it (you'll often see/hear crowds or even players getting real angry at a call not being made while the ref is giving the side every possible opportunity to take a free pop at a score)... but hard to read that one and the way it played out as anything other than a slip on the call.