Every chance of a victory today
Not a vintage Kerry team

It will be interesting to see what management have learned from last week and the problem down the right channel through which Donegal could have had 5 or 6 goals. If that's not fixed it could be 2022 all over again Also can we improve at Midfield we need to dominate there to starve the superior kerry forwards. Kickouts al a problem for us but also for a lot of teams. Probably more in hope than expectation...Mhaigh Eo a bu..

Great build-up for the final today, Willie Joe. Thanks.
Best of luck to everyone later on this afternoon. A good solid performance and no injuries would be fine.
The tanking we got in HQ three years ago really did put the cosh on any optimism the team might have had for the championship ahead back then.
It would be extra special though to get our hands on the new "corn" given the Kerry connection.
Maigh Eo Abú!

Kickouts and the midfield battle will be the key component today:
Lose and it could be a long day
Win midfield and their back line can definitely be got at

The big thing with Mayo is energy, if we can bring that energy, intensity and chaos we can trouble them.

Would expect Fenton Kelly to start and pick up Gavin White. Hession on the Paidi should be a great battle. Croke park and the new rules definitely suit the forward players unfortunately.

Unfortunately meaning- they have a superior scoring forward line to ours.

Will need similar from Carney and Co this week to pull off a win

Here's hoping we get a great game today and with any chance the result as well

Mayo should have a lot more supporters there then Kerry as I expect not many from Kerry will travel, hopefully these supporters can get behind the team and help them get over the line.

Such a nice sunny day here ! Best of luck guys think we will do it we have every chance better that we are underdogs to safe travels all !

There is an element of the unknown here, as you highlight WJ, we have won tight games this year, and winning the midfield battle will be key. The unknown is whether we can step up again as Kerry will be gung-ho to win this. We will know alot more about our championship chances this evening but I think that Mayo will surprise many today with their performance.

Have to agree with Lahanman. We nèed a fix for our left hand side and get a return from kickouts/breaking ball. Dress rehearsal for championship and great to get the outing in Croke Park

Donegal have been doing that to most teams lads. They're seriously fit and organised. Let's just focus on this one today. Keeping Clifford quiet is a tough task but essential.

It will all depend on our defense containing Kerry attack. The evidence last week would suggest we will not be able to. But if we have learned some lessons we might just do it. Good luck to the lads.

Given the circumstances, it is hard to see past a comfortable kerry win and that's okay. We had to win last week and we did....just
I think if you were ro ask the squad where they would prefer to be today, I'd imagine a week off would be the honest answer.
All this 'winning is a habit' stuff is grand yes but in the circumstances, its not the be all.
Obviously I don't want a bad loss today as the usual stuff will be thrown at us (I see brolly has already started) but the loudest of criticisms usually come from our neighbours and let's be honest they aren't exactly showing us how it's done in finals....
Let people big kerry, Donegal and Galway up and write us off... so what...
We are slowly improving, have found a few fellas since last year and have a few good performances at underage. The year is long and today will be forgotten about either way by Wednesday.

If we bring a good shot of the unhinged today, we will win.
Up Mayo.

@moose 79 can see where your coming from but don't agree it will be close today.

It's a national title kerry are gun ho to win this as othrrs said to . They have a winning mentality.

It's time we did to.

Go all out for it today our guys are wll able to out ot up to kerry and we have proven that will be there waving the flag hope there is a decent mayo crowd. ! Mayo to sneak it!

Unfortunately will have to watch this one in Torremolinas as holiday booked when it looked very unlikely we would make it to the final! Found an Irish pub showing it. One we ca win and should forget about Sligo for today. Let's not make it easy for Kerry especially as they will consider the new cup theirs. Up Mayo.

Anything that's not won clean from kickouts today (either side)we need to be under it before it hits the grass. That gets the roar from supporters,gives a team huge energy and deflates the opposition. Have we the personell in that area to read the breaks and react quickest? Well we'll see, but I think that's the platform we need if we're to push on.
We need to play a bit different today I think, with a half eye on Sligo, that means less running from deep,more quick early ball. Not a time to be flogging ourselves.

I'm playing an old record here but we have to make sure we Mind the House. No soft goals. An over my dead body mentality to conceding.
Dublin AI semi 21
Kerry in Killarney 23
Galway 23 league final

No goal conceded and game won.

I think we are going to suprise a few today

I think so too KM79

I would not be shocked if we won this. This is not a super kerry team but there is Clifford.

Brother of mine here and ticketmaster won’t let him buy a ticket , I’ve tried for him also same thing , what on earth is the story with ticketmaster , my gawd it’s fuckin ridiculous

Great atmosphere around a good few mayo people around already..pints , sun, banter and mayo winToday would be great! : )

Enjoy Clare

@james Fleming. Did you get sorted with you ticket from Fatty Boom Batty.

Nope

Best of luck to all today. A really difficult assignment against a Kerry team who gave last year’s AI winners and runners up a good tanking in their last 2 matches. Would be great to win but I think that is unlikely. In the event that we don’t win I just hope we play well and pick up no injuries. We are so reliant on a small few players for scores and it’s imperative that we keep those lads fit for the big tests ahead. Maigh Eo Abu

As a neutral I think ye will ship a similar beating to us last night. 8 or 9 points id say. Mayo focus should be solely on Sligo next week, you cannot take them for granted. Mayo support in Castlebar is the greatest asset to an under dog team. If ye ye are tired or leggy, the groans from the crowd are like oxygen. Like it was for us in 2023. Staying injury free and keeping a bit of juice in the tank is the order of the day. Don’t lose the heads on here if ye get a trimming. League winners are forgotten at 12.01am tonight.

Any sub list

Two changes - Conor Reid and Eoghan McLauglin start instead of Darren McHale and Davitt Neary.

New York Tommy - the match day 26 was released last night.

Thanks Willie

Yerra, Kerry and Jack wouldn't be much interested in winning this I'd say.

Good luck everyone today! I’m really looking forward to the game.
Kerry bring out the best out in us.
I agree with the poster above who said it’s great to be back in Croke Park (seeing we weren’t there last year for Championship as WJ pointed out)..
Joet, your post made me laugh and I have to agree.
Enjoy, everybody! Maigh Éo abú!

Hopefully Neary not injured. Was looking forward to seeing him tear up Croke Park.

Good start
Very hard tell the jerseys apart

Need McBrien on Clifford now.

Clifford gets frees a lot quicker than Aido

Kickouts are killing us

Would ye kick the fucking ball in!!!!

It’s awful stuff.

Nearly half time and Mayo haven’t kicked the ball forward!!

Taking out two forwards before throw-in for a midfielder and a wing back tells the opposition we're afraid of them. Neither change has worked. McLaughlin getting on ball in situations where you would want a forward. Our kickouts are disastrous.

Shambolic from Mayo.

Why did we start reid? It's completely messed up our balance in the froward line and that's not reids fault as he's a natural midfielder.

Fucking ridiculous
Take the handy point
They are well beatable
We are beating ourselves with stupidity
Starting with team selection. No other serious football team starts a player who can’t do the basics.
Running really fast is not enough at the top level

Still think we will win though .

Well we were as bad a the start of the Armagh match

Back to the old Rochford / Donegal model. The fast ball is working for Kerry, will we ever learn?

Absolutely ridiculous
Take the handy point
They are well beatable
We are beating ourselves with stupidity
Starting with team selection. No other serious football team starts a player who can’t do the basics.
Running really fast is not enough at the top level

Still think we will win though .

Kerry seem content enough to let us play the ball around their 50, as we seem to lack the guile to create goal chances. Hard to see us getting back into this without at least one major.

We don’t seem to have anyone who could keep David Clifford quiet, alas.

Reape’s head seems to have gone, that moment of madness with Clifford could have been much costlier.

Being cleaned out in midfield...some terrible wides and our backs are being distroyied by the slick kerry forwards.
To be honest I don't think there's a whole lot we can do about it...just not good enough.

Not looking good at HT. Too many mistakes and wides from Mayo so far. Big improvement needed to make a game of it. The wide from Ryan at the end was a crucial one. Big difference between 3 down and 5 down.

DOC, Loftus, Conroy and Durcan walk into this team

We have reverted to our sideways football.We need to go direct. Too open at the back
Aidan is keeping us in it. Not over yet.

Mayo doing OK but passing the ball back to Kerry on 3 occasions is very hard to watch & short kick out to a player standing waiting for the ball to come to him is criminal, dispossessed & Kerry get soft goal, my god they make life hard for themselves, out from that they are playing well, big improvement needed second half.

Kick outs are key. Mayo struggling on their own kick outs which is giving Kerry the impetus. Pauric Clifford’s influence is light years ahead of what it was in Castlebar.

As poor an all as Reid was playing, he wasn't alone. Giving a young lad the curly finger 2 minutes before halftime will hardly be great for any young lads confidence. There are more senior players out there that were playing no better.

Mayo might have more coaches than the Kansas City Chiefs, but they still haven't taught the players how to kick pass a football.

I think we're doing ok, defence is holding up well but attack not clicking

I'd expect Ryan to break free in this half if he's not carrying a knock, that will change everything. Need DMcB to thunder into this,if he's not put back on Clifford. Paudie playing puck.

Km79, there's plenty of average players on both teams. Have you seen the muck from Micheal Burns and Paul Geaney at the other end? Eoghan make will always make mistakes because he tries to make things happen as opposed to passengers like Coen, Irwin, and McBrien. Eoghan also had 3 turnovers while keeping Gavin White very quiet. You should be looking at Reape, gave away a goal and nearly another tap over free for Clifford.

Take the learnings management. Any amount of them . Mclouglins pace suits croke park but it' ends there. Reape with another school error. He's better than that.

Goal gave them momentum. Some very poor shooting

That half was a hard watch.

If it’s more of the same style of play in the second half i’ll happily give the Sligo game a miss next weekend.

For me mayo are playing ok and I thought defence doing ok. In fairness the mistake for the goal and a couple of frees on clifford added to our bad wides are the difference imo. It's not like we getting destroyed all over the field tho admittedly our retention from kickout is poor.

Ryan can’t be taking on those 2 point frees unless he has a very high conversion rate from them, he’s right on his distance limit there and has to strain at them to make the distance which costs accuracy. Shot in the arm there for them to come away with nothing conceded after us getting the gift of a cheap free. EML is a liability in possession when the opposing team are in his face and he is surrounded. Paudie Clifford is causing all sort of problems too it seems to be McBrien that’s tracking him. Maybe McHale can help us pick up a few breaks from the kick outs we are well beaten in that area.

Anyone know why we're not seeing any two point attempts, thought there would be lots in a windless Croke Park, we've turned down multiple chances

If we stop making mistakes, we could quite easily come back into this.
Kerry are looking good but they have to be tired and may fade in last 15.

Not at the Races first half. Kerry more direct and quicker getting the ball forward, whereas we are slow and predictable. No Kick-out strategy and we are getting cleaned out in midfield. On top of that, we gift them a goal, with a terrible Kick-out and I have counted at least two passes direct to a Kerry player, under no pressure. We need to change second half and put in a performance, whatever about the result.

Ye’re getting nothing from Coldrick

Can't blame this one on Coldrick I don't think. A questionable few decisions. How many times have we given the ball away at this stage. Just well behind at this stage in all areas.

And then we score a goal and a 2 pointer within a minute?

I’ve been critical of Eoghan McLaughlin’s shooting before, but that’s a fantastic finish and badly needed. Topped off by the two pointer from Ryan.

We have to show blood to buy a free. David Clifford might be the best player in 20 years but how he gets away with the rugby hand-off push every single time is beyond me. It buys him the extra meter every time. Now O'Donoghue gets dragged to thr floor and no card...it's what black was invented for........ahhhhh

Turnovers are a killer. We work so hard to get it into the forward areas only to hand pass it to a Kerryman.

The protection Clifford gets is unbelievable.

We all know David Clifford is a fantastic footballer, but he is also very annoying and looks for frees every time he's touched, and Coldrick and most other refs duly oblige-meanwhile Aido, especially and Ryan are pulled and dragged and get nothing. Defenders have to be allowed to defend, even against Clifford.

I think that the normal MOM vote should be suspended after that performance and I blame the system of play, rather than the players!!….

We must be in heavy training.

Sadly a very routine win for Kerry. Bulled and toyed Mayo chasing shadows for a lot of that game.

Player of the Match poll is up.

It's a miracle we haven't lost this game by around 15 points, the difference in the attack of both teams it was like we where playing 2 completely different sports, did we ever kick the ball once into the forwards? We have aidan in there try a long one at least, our midfield completely cleaned out, mattie was outplayed, I actually felt sorry for our defense the pressure they where on because we couldn't win any kickouts.

One big worry for me is the form of sam callinan, you wouldn't even know he was on the pitch he must be carrying some sort of injury.

Same old failings reappearing, alas. Scoring 1-12 won’t win you many finals, and while you can never question the effort or bravery of our lads, we are fairly limited technically. Far too many wides and a couple from right in front of the posts is a killer at this level. We also passed the ball to Kerrymen on at least three or four occasions, simple mistakes.

Kerry also hand passed a couple of goal chances over the bar, so this could have been a worse loss than it ultimately proved to be.

We are where we are.

Championship wide open.
We never got to the speed of the game,all 50/50 balls went against us.
Eoghan Mc Laughlin gave away an amount of ball in the first half.
Now for Sligo

That should have been much worse. Sligo won't be worried watching that. So many poor performances all over the pitch. Sickened by that showing. Kerry miles ahead of us
On another note, Clifford very disappointing today. Constantly whinging and trying to get lads booked for having the audacity to tackle him.

That's it 2 hops. Heavy training.
Went as expected. I don't know what was going on with Matty but he wasn't at the races.
Unfortunately mayo will win nothing until we find forwards that can turn and shoot from distance. For now we are taking off 6ft plus lads and bringing on lads that get pushed out of the way.
Disappointing but there was no way mayo were going to go full tilt at this. As I said before it'll be forgotten by Wednesday.

Kerry in first gear, missed a power and took points when 3 goals were on. We are so far behind it hurts.

How can the system of play be blamed for a player missing easy point efforts from 30 yards or for a player handpassing straight to a kerryman? We not good enough yet anyway.

Disappointed but glad to get a game in the big house, biggest worry for me, outside of the poor return on scoring chances, was the press, pitch looked big on the short Kerry kickout. But fair play to Kerry, well deserved victory

Coldrick gave us nothing but we were AWFUL and I don’t think it made any difference.

The only positive I can say is that the players never gave up. That’s all. Some credit for that. But our middle sector were wiped out and none of them had any positive impact. Only possible excuse for Jordan is mental/physical fatigue. I don’t know how he can be expected to be right for championship with no break.

Our strategy. A throw back to previous seasons. Shyte.

Kerry fully deserved win. And did so with relative comfort despite missing tonnes of chances.

A bad day at the office.

Some terrible wides especially that one by Darren maybe not fair singling him out the lads gave their all we just dont have enough quality in our attack its an age old problem but we have to keep at it. We'll have enough for Sligo and Leitrim but after that id be concerned.

Last 22 minutes, very frustrating. Try hard, plenty effort. Could have been worse, hopefully Reape back soon. Connaught championship all that matters before this match and even more now

I don’t understand our kick out strategy, is it down to terrible performance in centre field or bad kick outs ? We were absolutely annihilated on kick outs . Kerry deserved their win that’s for sure but my god they’ need congratulating on the way they’ve manufactured this incredible protection for Clifford compare it to what Aido gets it’s like two different sets of rules

We are the very definition of insanity

Agree 100% its the system of play and look at how Andy Moran has Monaghan forwards coached! It is beyond as to why Andy was not encouraged to be part of the coaching staff?

Is David Clifford okay? I hope he didn't get hurt injuring Colm Reape.
Kerry were better, deserved to win, but the ref refused to apply barging or steps to Kerry who could just run into and keep rugby barging tackles.
To not issue a card to Gavin White or David Clifford was absolute Green and Gold jersey stuff.
At our end we have more steps than Riverdance and in their defehce we' were forced to prove the free.
Kerry were better but some of that scoreboard gap was that reffing style of worshipping at the Kerry altar of purist football.

Perhaps we need to rest Jordan till Connacht final

Fair play to Phillips, really thrown in at the deep end and made a good save, kickouts weren't great but that was the case all day. Will a broken or dislocated finger/thumb keep Reape out next weekend, I'd imagine it will.
A few extra minutes for Diarmuid is good I suppose. Apart from that not too many positives but it's all about champo now.

A game we did'nt want, but I hoped that we would gain something from it, but I'm not something that we did, except emphasize the gulf and highlight all of the areas that need to be fixed. Kerry looked fitter, sharper and more tigerish and tighter in defence. They were quicker and more direct in transition. We were too slow, lateral and predictable. We were cleaned out in midfield, starved of primary possession and our Kick-out strategy, if we even have one, was a disaster. Kerry got their scores much easier and we got nothing from an embarrassing amount of attacks. I lost count of the number of our misplaced passes-shocking. We did'nt have many who could be happy with their performances, except Aido, Ryan, Enda and Jack.

WJ, small point in the context of the game but for completeness Eoghan McLaughlin & Conor Reid names not on the poll.

Aidan gets zero protection and always penalised in the wrong. One of the best tacklers out there.
I wish we would just go direct. Thought we would when the shit hit the fan but maybe it didn’t hit hard enough. Anyway better performance won. Was a bit of a boring match really.

Who the hell is training this team. They are good footballers but one of the basics your taught as a young lad is 'do not wait for the ball to come to you.' Go to the ball. Hence the goal and several turnovers. The sideways ball is gone. Direct fast ball as Kerry played today is the way to go. However it has been a useful exercise. But we need to change the coaching. I wish I knew who is responsible. Get rid of him. Rochef,ord? Don't know the training sessions. But we are in trouble and it is not the players. A great bunch of lads. Shite coaching staff. Potential but no sideline.

And as for that ridicolous Mayo Jersey seriously Elverys is thst the best ye could do?

Lots of learnings but will they be learned? Neary was unquestionably our player of the league up to his injury, and he hasn't got much of a sniff since. We don't kick the ball. Look at how quickly Kerry do it..the space is there but only if you move it quickly. Perhaps we weren't bothered about it today. If so, fine.

But if we went out hard for this, then this is extremely concerning. We played a full midfield, half forward line if midfielders & got absolutely eaten alive by a relatively small Kerry middle 3rd. Unforgivable.

Unless we sort our own kickouts, we are going nowhere this year. We are decent on opposition kickout to my eye, but we are struggling on our own & this is nothing new.

And we need to move the ball quicker. We butchered so many opportunities by slowing it down & going lateral

@Willie Joe: Eoghan McLoughlin appears to be missing from the man of the match poll.

Typical that the negativity is again aimed at management. We do not have a good standard of midfielder at the moment and you simply will not beat strong opposition without it. We got absolutely cleaned at midfield yet again. It was the same last week against a second string Donegal team. We haven't had a properly imposing midfield since the first Horan era. It's going on years now as a problem area. There'll be no serious talk of All Irelands until it's sorted.

In terms of Clifford - he's a fantastic talent, but could do less of the yapping at the ref and trying to buy frees. That nonsense is beneath him.

I’ve forgotten this match already. Still in Division 1. Time to move on.

When your starting forward line consists of 4 midfielders, a wing back and only one natural forward - you are not going to score much.
I can't understand how McHale is deemed a better forward to bring on ahead of Boland.

We failed to use the space for kickouts , I don’t know how many times there was ample opportunity for someone to dash to cussack stand side but every time it went out the hogan into a clatter of bodies and Kerry were way more dogged in the loose ball which is very concerning

Brutal. No semblance of any game plan, or even a kickout strategy. Sligo will be licking their lips watching that.

Is there such a thing as a kickout strategy with any team when the press is on? It's as simple as kick it long to where most teammates are hope your team can win possession. Sometimes i think the goalie gets a raw deal when all he can do is kick long most of the time

Why is McStay persisting with McBrien at centre back - anonymous today with game passing him by.
He needs moving to full back immediately to give the defence some stability &where he’s most comfortable

And davitt neary is on the pill twice WJ

Just after noticing the poll shows number of voters. Right now 64 votes cast by 30 voters. Interesting that average is just over 2 selections per voter

A respectable defeat. Not to unhappy with that. That is the level we are at. Kerry in control at all times. Great to see AOS have a. Big game at headquarters. He is an incredible servant of Mayo .

Can someone please explain to me how Martin Carney came to the conclusion that both Donnach McHugh and Enda Hession had good games today? One was sent off for persistent fouling and was absolutely skint alive for every ball whilst the other was marking (allegedly- more so following) Padi Clifford who came away MOTM. What on earth was he watching?

Got a real lesson in forward play today. Our handpassing and unforced errors were shite. You can see Kerry have natural forwards on the field and played some lovely ball. We are all robotic and manufactured. No fluency and innovation in the attack outside ROD.

Joe O’Connor also had an excellent game in the middle today for Kerry. Bad day at the office for us.

Long kick everytime only job.

When the kick pass stats were sent into the WhatsApp group it was very telling as well, chalk and cheese us v them.

The replacing two forwards with a midfielder and defender was an interesting choice.

Onwards and upwards though. The real stuff starting soon.

Awful from managing my opinion. Ridiculous changes before the start. No kickout strategy such as kicking high to Hession who was being marked by Joe O'Connor, crazy stuff. Our front six consisted of one forward in Ryan. Irwin plays mf for Ballina. Aidan is a converted midfielder although he actually did well. Eoghan is a wing back. Reid is a midfielder as is Jordan. Too frustrated now and eager to head for home but if we should meet Kerry again the GAA could save a few euro on the referee and just give the whistle to David Clifford.

That was a hard match to sit through, no intensity much, Mclaughlins goal the highlight of the game.

Disappointing performance but wonder was 100% given. Could have been hard training etc over the last few days. I wouldn't be too worried.

Concerning about goalkeeper. Adrians kickouts held up/floated a bit more and we struggled to win around the middle

I find eoghan McLoughlin very frustrating. I would have taken him off after 25 mins as 2 bad turnovers and gave away soft free and then he showed why on the team with the goal. His workrate is super but at this stage I think the mistakes outweigh the good.

Not a lot of positives. Enda Aidan and Jack performance, and Adrian Phillips getting game time and making a save are my positives.

Yes, I forgot to mention, the referee was giving anything that looked remotely like a foul to David Clifford, a Kerry defender attempted a pull down and hold on a Mayo player in the second half, under the rules this is a straight black card, not even a yellow was shown.
Craziness management decision of the day, the Mayo nr 3 was left on D Clifford after he received a yellow card in the 1st half.

Game panned out exactly as expected. And lots of comments panned out as expected as well Could not for the life of me see Mayo winning that game . For starters we are not as good as Kerry and then we are out next week while they train in Portugal The insanity is expecting us to win that game We have nobody nearly as good as the Clifford’s and our better players did not play as well today. We were honest and relatively competitive. I expected Kerry to be more than 6 points better. No doubt the usual experts will blame the management, the system, the ref, the players, the pitch and the weather. The fact is we did incredibly well to stay in the Division and reasonably well not to be hammered today We missed a number of easy point chances but Kerry created goal chances and only got the one we gifted them

@The bruiser
Re: eoghan mcL I'm inclined to agree, it's so frustrating as he capable of some things noone else in the squad can do, like he remains one of our best goal threats by punching holes cutting in from the left, but the amount of sloppy turnover and basic skills letting him down time and again and he's long enough around now to have ironed out that rustiness.

This game will soon be forgotten but some thoughts.
- McBrien at 6 experiment should quietly be parked, I'm not sure what it offers that he couldn't provide at 3
- paudie clifford ran amok all day long. Who was picking him up
- Jordan looks in need of a rest
- Good to see AOS finally score in a final, 1st score in 14 croke park finals an astonishing stat. I don't know why kerry persist with putting Dylan casey on him tho as AOS has won that duel handily a few times
- Kerry were hardly ominous themselves, some weaknesses there too (as there is with all the contenders tbf)

....that Mayo jersey was an absolute shocker. Apart from the fact it was ugly as soon it made the colour clash even worse to my eyes.

We were OK in the first half. Soft goal allowed Kerry to keep us at arms level length thereafter. Still we managed to bring it back to three but never looked like kicking on. Midfield not contesting enough on the kickouts. It's not all down to Reape. There's no Dohertys or McLoughlins in there able to sweep up breaking ball. Kerry much better in midfield and just about better in all other sectors. We looked 6 points the worse team. Too many soft turnovers from players who should know better at this level. Flynn looked a bit gassed, could do with a couple of weeks off. No doubt a fit Paddy and Tommy will slot back into the team when the time comes.

As some posters here repeatedly tell us, the league doesn't matter in the slightest. Hope they will go easy on the team in that case

Thanks Bruiser - bit of a malfunction on the poll, like our performance! Sorted now.

Don’t understand the big negative reaction after this , we were way outsiders outsiders for this one and a 6 point defeat to a a Kerry side with the quality of forwards as the Clifford’s can’t be a surprise. At least we didn’t take a hammering. We have to keep working at it, find a few scoring forwards and keep the faith. I see all the criticism about David Clifford ( and do agree about how he gets away with the hand offs all the time) buts let’s call it as it is he’s a generational player and we would love to have him in Mayo….

Call me naive but I don't think we went with our main kickout strategy there today because there's no way you repeatedly kick the ball out to an area where there are only 2 or 3 Mayo players v 4 or 5 Kerry players who were there to gobble up any breaking ball. I genuinely don't believe we gave a toss about today's game because of that. I'm not forgetting some of the awful mistakes we made when attacking though. We have a lot to work on, especially when it comes to handpassing and general decision-making when we're in attack. Lads running into traffic over and over again was so frustrating to watch. Also, it really saddens me that Tommy Conroy is out, we never seem to have a full deck to choose from, and he is a Rolls Royce of a player on his day. Imagine the damage he'd do now that there's more space in the defence. Hope we get to see him in action at some stage this year.

On a totally separate note lads what’s the story with the attendances. 21k today and 11k yesterday. People are definitely tuning out of county football. There seems to be more appetite for club and county underage at this stage

I'd be more glass half full than glass half empty based on that performance. We are capable of better....but I'm still struggling for positives other than that. I'd be giving management the benefit of the doubt for another few weeks yet, at least.
Kerry will get found out by better teams too.

Not to be flippant, or harsh on some Mayo players but I wonder did some players find it hard to distinguish the difference in jerseys today, some of the passes that went to the opposition were hard to explain...
A quote from Paudie O'Shea in his time with Westmeath came to mind today when Gavin White brushed one of our subs aside with the ease that you'd swat a fly.....not a good look.

The midfield problem has been there for a few years now and for some reason people seem to equate Matt ruane scoring and his abilities as midfielder.when he doesn’t score he offers very little else.The lunacy of kicking every kickout out the hogan stand side is beyond belief.one in particular kicked out to enda Hession.The keeper may as well have held a sign up to tell Kerry where he was going.Now I am sorry but the management have to take responsibility for this as they are the people in charge of producing a tactical plan.obviously you can’t legislate for players making passing errors but what went on in the second half concerning the kickouts was a total embarrassment with mcstay looking on like a spectator

2 hops - I was thinking the exact same before throw-in when the players were in the parade. We need to bring back the white away kit ASAP. It will never happen though, for some ridiculous reason.

Agree Big Mike. The popularity of attending games is decreasing. I didn't bother travelling today and that's the first time I can remember making a decision not to go in at least 20 years. I also gave up season ticket this year but have gone to 2 home league games and both u20 games. Have also attended all of my clubs games this year. I think the poor football played by most intercounty senior teams last few years put me off initially and then I started looking at the cost of tickets etc.

Look at the value for the rugby yesterday. 20 for a ticket and Connacht put in effort to entertain supporters with music/ fireworks etc. I think GAA could learn allot about how to put on a show from yesterday

This is an interesting topic and will probably get lost here but would be interested in other views

Analysis simple, football beats handball. Would someone that knows management let them know. Well done to Mickey Harte and co
Beautiful forward play. It's a pity we haven't him. We don't have a clue in the forwards and defence was too open. Running up the field and no one at home.

The smaller crowds are the reality of the condensed season being played out in front of us.

I thought we played well today - our tackling was amazing. We had good intent, speed and fitness. We won kickouts well in the first fifteen minutes or so and made hay then. Aidan knows how to kick (though we shouldn’t be relying on him long term.) I’m proud of him. When we won kickouts and had possession, we had some slick interplay in the Kerry D. This shows we’re coaching at a high level.
In addition, we never gave up.

However, we were killed on kickouts from about 15/20 mins on. Kerry were winning ours and theirs and that caused most of the damage.

Then, when we did have the ball, we had difficulty scoring. It’s a historic problem so we’re aware of it. Added to that, Kerry were very motivated and focussed today. They defended like demons and stopped us from scoring.

Even when we played well, we made a lot of passing mistakes in the first half and this cost us scores. At this level, we get punished for mistakes. Kerry’s handling was quite flawless.

The lucky goal they got from a Reape/Mayo mistake went a long way to their win.

Kerry are gearing up for an All-Ireland this year, it seems clear to me. They played very well today.

I do believe we had a good showing in general. There’s lots to learn from. We are not back the pack. We need to put more accurate scoring threat into the team and do much better on kickouts. Onwards we go.

So disappointing mayo crowd outnumbered kery ones to we made silly mistakes that goal in killed us.

But sure league doesn't mean anything apparently..

Thankfully Kerry just scored 19 times from their 35 shots including wasting a few goal chances and worrying stat is Mayo lost half of their own kicks out. Not a good day at HQ another example of how far the current bunch are off the Mayo team of 2012 to 2017 who was ultra competitive with leaders and warriors throughout the team

And fair play to our sub goalie on his first inter-county outing on saving a goal that would have given Kerry a greater winning margin, if scored. There were positives amid the Kerry win.

Mayo were brutally bad, but so were Kerry, only difference is Kerry’s forwards are 40% more efficient in front of goal compared to ours. And they have Clifford. Yet we kept with them, keeping it to a six point game in the second half, had a purple patch in the middle of second half clawing back a seven point defecit to within 3, with a goal. Thought we might kick on, but lost our way again. Stupid misplaced suicide short passing cost us today. And bad decision making. Kerry was there for the taking but with no fluidity in attack, extremely disjointed spells of gameplay, and not one direct long ball into that full forward line or O Se, what do you expect. Our kick outs and Midfield were not great today. However when we ran directly at them for the goal they were defenselessly suspect on many occasions, but we catered to them with lateral and backward passing. We have good strong, pacey, physical players. However they let themselves down by not taking easy chances when they came. Don’t understand why O Connor is not starting, he is way more attack minded than Coen. Think Kerry are very good but in no way are they the killer team of the past. Very close championship this year. However I don’t think Mayo are quiet at the top 5 table in terms of quality, but we are not far away either. Let’s hope we improve 30% come championship, if we do we will match anyone. I would fight hard for a Connaught Championship, anything else is bonus territory.

An error strewn performance in many respects. How many times did we lay off a ball straight to a Kerry player? Is colour differentiation an issue amongst some players? I’m not being facetious saying that either, it could be a legitimate issue? I think each team’s away kit needs to be a monochromatic contrast to their actual kit.
That aside, it’s a league final, it would have been nice to win, but I’m not losing any sleep that we didn’t. Kerry looked sharper and fitter today, hungrier to win each ball. We looked sluggish. Jordan definitely needs a breather, Ruane seems to be struggling a bit for pace too.
There’s zero point in catastrophising over this game. A game that we really didn’t want to be in, if we’re honest. The GAA need to realise that ridiculous scheduling is ultimately making a mockery of competitions. Even the championship feels like a rushed spectacle come June/July. Penalty shoot outs to facilitate bad decisions!

David Clifford is amazing but it can't be illegal to tackle him....
We don't have ball winning middle 3rd.Thats the issue.In a game like that should AOS not be brought out.Regardless of age he is the only one who can impose himself.I think the age thing is over done in his case and surely there is a way to manage his reserves.
I feel Kerry will win it this year.The new rules suit them....they are the best around I think.
I thought the sub goalkeeper who I didn't know at all has a kickout like David Clarke

@swallow swoops are there !

Also I paid 60 for 2 tickets it steep......no student tickets in Hogan and only a 5 euro discount for student in Cusack....not great value.
Only got to 3 games this year 4 if I count Monaghan

*agree

I think you might have a point there on the colour differentiation. It could well have been the case in relation to the balls turned over when Eoghan passed to a Kerry player. The GAA have so much work to do to get this issue sorted. What they're doing currently is utter amateur hour.

It was a very poor kickout by Reape which handed Kerry the advantage which they never surrendered, he saved a certain goal later which I suppose evens it out. Mayo turned back from a scoring chance too many times throughout the match as they didnt have the confidence to shoot whereas Kerry are playing fast ball which gives the forwards more space. Everything Kerry does goes through Paudie Clifford, the day he is marked out of a game Kerry will be in some trouble.

I do admire Ryan's confidence. I love the fact that he plays like this all the time. If he misses a chance it never seems to effect him. He is our best player so will always need him. The rest of the forward line is very weak indeed. We kicked so many bad wides today, definitely would have learned something from the game. Looking forward to see Daviitt Neary play a full. He has the potential to light up the championship.

Are the Kerry lads better coached in kicking the ball or have Kerry lads a different foot structure to Mayo lads. No point blaming management if it's the latter. Looked like the teams were playing 2 different sports today.

A different foot structure!?

Brilliant!!

What are you saying @The west is best....some of our lads have hooves or paws...a tad harsh that.

Nothing wrong with paws, 2 hops!

Not great for the 2pointers@Swallow.

@the west

Kerry have been the benchmark for kicking the ball for as long as I can remember. If you ever listen to Tomas Ose or Pat Splainne on the Sunday game they speak about how they play “football”. Tomas Ose said that before every training session before they start, the players spend half an hour kicking to each other off both feet. We don’t train players like that. We just find runners and hopefully develop footballers whereas we should be finding footballers and building their fitness to an elite level.

We were never completely out of the game but never looked like winning it either. Kerry held us at arms length really. And probably had another couple of gears in them. They probably left a couple goals behind them as well.

That Mayo jersey won't go down as a classic anyway.

Ah look, it's two teams not really going at it. It's after the lord mayor's show thing etc.
Don't overthink this one lads. Not a great game but the big one starts soon.

What did the kick pass stat finish up at in the end?
It was Kerry 25, Mayo 5 last update I seen.

In terms of the doubt about needing to play this game we must definitely did need it, the younger lads needed it and we met a hungier Kerry team in the wide open spaces and management have an awful lot to take away from it and work with.

We may have disguised our true tactical intentions a little bit and could indeed be heavy legged from intense training but we can't have any excuse for the hesitantly to shoot, turnovers and misplaced passes throughout the game.

No, there’s not enough elevation with paws for 2 pointers, 2hops. Paws bring speed.

Highlight of today was Delia on the bridge again in Kilcock flying the Mayo flags. As for the match, enough said!

Kerry cleaned up at midfield with high fielding & got 80% of breaking ball, that stat means Mayo are on the back foot for a lot of the 70 minutes but defence played well considering all the turnovers & missed passes that destroyed Mayo's attacks. Midfield has to improve big time & forwards has to try & come up with more direct attacks, when they did go direct they got good scores, they will get it right yet hopefully.

Our keeper need a break...his confidence seems to be at an all time low. He's not helped either by the lack of movement from players not making themselves available for the kick out.
If they don't sort out a kick out strategy they won't be going anywhere in the championship.

I thought the tone was set for the midfield performance today from the throw up when Carney was swatted away and left on his arse. Not aggressive enough for starters

So frustrating watching mayo today. Feel like I’ve been watching that performance for the past 15 years. Mayo back and over up top, no guile, poor execution of kicking and picked off time and again

Unless these u20 forwards develop we will have to put up with more of the same in the next few years

Greennred Hayshed, I hope we've been cleverly disguising our tactical intentions the past 3 years. Be right up there with the Trojan horse manoeuvre.
At least we should on paper have 2 games against (and no disrespect meant) lower tier opponents, before get to the meatier side of things to try and get going again. The team appears to be pretty much set, so let's buckle up and see what happens. No unbeatable team out there.

I would not blame Reape for the goal. The full gack was standing waiting for the ball to come to him and two kerry players raced to the ball and goal. Thereafter he had to go long but our midfield were non existent and that has been a problem for ages. Forwards could not execute 3 yard hand passes time after time. Forwards could not kick points from close range. I watched the div 2 final and there were 5 or 6 2 pointers scored. EMC is a good player but I think he came late to the game shows lack of cuteness at times. I still voted him for him as potm. Players did give their all and no lack of effort. In truth Sligo will not fear us we are a very average team.

Draw a line on that and move on. Important match coming up in Castlebar in a short week. No psychological damage done today and the league is now in the rear view mirror. Connacht title is a realistic target and it would be great to lift the Nestor cup again and anything after that will be bonus territory. There is no utterly scary team in it this year, so momentum would be an important factor, avoiding injuries to key players and building out a panel.

Well our main keeper seems like he got injured so he will have a break I would say.

It was very frustrating watching mayo today .

@Vaaldam: The defender can't enter the arc to field the ball, the forwards can (& did).

That pass wasn't on.

The jersey reminded me of the infamous Man U grey jersey which they switched at half time because the players couldn't see each other. Please let us never wear it again!!

Commiserations.

I'm going to be brutally honest here and no offence is intended.

Kevin McStay would want to watch that game again because Cliffords marker ( Hession ? Open to correction) was consistently fouling him and he should have been booked.

Bring 6.2 Kevin doesn't mean different rules apply to you.

Lads Aidan OShea is a fine player from good Kerry stock however what's the point of him playing in there and you don't launch it in to him.

ODonoghue was a lucky boy not to see red at the end and that would've been very costly next week as Mayo without him look toothless upfront.

Kerry left 2.7 or so out there and the scoreline was flaterring i felt.

I wasn't overly enamoured with Kerry and our failings of last year were still evident with poor wides.

Mayo have fine athletes but the lack real killers going forward.

One side note, Every county my own included has gobshites but what I saw today with some Mayo supporters would embarrass any county.
One lad dressed as a rooster head to toe in green and red was obnoxious beyond words and another calling the ref a Meath Cxxx infront of young kids was another.

I'd words with one and I don't care what jersey is on your back you act with respect to others.

Anyway,

Best of luck in the Championship and please God we'll meet again in the summer.

I see people talking as of the team may have been heavy legged from intense training, correct me if I'm wrong but with such a condensed Season, straight into championship next weekend, would all heavy training be done already?

Disagree with Green and Red there. Spillane in particular is very partisan about how great Kerry are so I’d pay no heed to that.
However some problems highlighted today which can be put down to coaching and it will be a tall order to iron them all out during the 25 championship, if we could iron out 2/3 of them out, then in with a chance.
1) Middle third cleaned out. Solving this requires players positioning correctly and outnumbering the opposition. Several times our fielders broke it in the direction of other Mayo players but Kerry often had 2 vs 1 on the ground. Have we players to do that, Davitt Neary, Diarmaid?
2) Reape’s kickouts. Several times he kicked to a Mayo man in a good position but outnumbered. Could see the risk before he did it. The goal was a gimme. I’m suggesting the sun was a problem in the 1st half but doesn’t explain the 2nd. Just like the Ros game where there goalie kept kicking to the same crowded area. Kerry’s kickouts kept getting better from a a poor start with more and more short ones as the game went on. We had far fewer short options (runs). Also there has to be strategies and calls especially when opponents have the press on, decoys, clustering in the middle and breaking, overloading one side and breaking on the other, drawing in and over the top to opposite 50, not one of these are being deployed. Hand signals should be used.
3) Inside runs not happening. When Andy played for us he would break both sides multiple times until he lost the defender. Ryan is capable of this, guessing Irwin could be coached to do it, Tommy C on return only needs 1 or 2 of those runs to lose a defender and the outside players need to look for the kick pass which isn’t happening to a great extent. I hope it’s not the coaching because Kerry identified the kicking game from the off this season and showed how well it works.
Several players looked tired, Jordan subbed but could just as easily have been Mattie or Jack. Bad day when all 3 are off.
Ps few complaints here about Hessian for our MOM because of P Clifford’s impact but he was our best player over 70 (Aido good for majority of the game but understandably faded) and Enda on loads of ball and linked a lot of play. Marking is partly zone defense so can’t be blamed for all P Clifford’s impact. McBrien was also very quiet. In fact a lot of our players were below their best, it is possible there was a very hard session or 2 to prepare for Sligo. Hope so. Today’s starters mostly need rest and recovery this week. Subs and fringe could do an early week hard session. Reape will surely be out for at least 1 game, maybe more.
Ps2 Coldrick not as bad as people said. About 5/6 marginal calls went against us but a couple for them too. Only 1 or 2 bad mistakes where Aido should have gotten a free.
I normally say support management and team. Team may have had some fatigue but have to be critical of management today. Coaching wise Monaghan would beat us handy in a championship game based on this weekend.

Said the same thing about colour of jerseys. If I was having trouble, then I suspect some of the stray passes were that reason. Both teams were quite dark. And one team a variation of the colour we normally play in. I know some kid designed that jersey but it has no connection to Mayo colours at all.

No way did Ryan I d deserve a red at end .

Do what if a gut wants to dress head to toe in green & red ...

Was outside croker these kerry ones going by isn't it great we have the game won and title sealed especially on division 1 and we are all ready for championship cocky much like and said this on front you g mayo supporters to gids both ways like.

Was not our day and there was done cursing from the mayo crowd in hogan stand today don't blame them I was cursing to sure

But this won't decide our season wd will be back.

*so what

And actually reape was tackled is well by a kerry gut for that goal in to .

Reg was nit great either to be honest .

Shuffley deck

Kerry have always been the best kick passers of the ball with perhaps the exception of the great Dublin team. You can dismiss Splainne if you want but you can’t dismiss what you see on the field. Kerry are a million miles ahead of us. As West Kerry said, we had Aiden inside and not one high ball in to him. We have been programmed to run the ball, we don’t work on kicking it. Kerry are excellent kickers, one bounce wing side of the attacker, never have to break stride.

Must have been harping on about our keeper situation a bit much. Got several messages today saying " I hope your feckin happy now:.
Me bad.
Davitt Neary will be our bright star this championship.

Omg West Kerry to hear about the few ( I hope) obnoxious Mayo supporters. There is absolutely no need for this kind of behaviour towards rival fans- apologies!

Kerry beat us today playing in 2nd gear. I thought that Hession, McHugh, McLoughlin Callanan, Coyne, Aiden, Ryan and Neary ( as a sub) tried very hard. Most of our forwards are midfielders for their clubs and thus we have little or no penetration and don't know how to score.

Midfield were completely outclassed- possition 90:10 maybe!
We had 6 or 7 players that were innocuous/missing today!

Where was Fergie B today? Why did we not rotate at half time?

Towey should be starting surely?

We need a reaction v Sligo next week as they will not fear this very average foireann Mhuigeo!

I have been hearing these excuses for 40 years about heavy training loads and not showing our hand .at what point over the last 3 years has this management shown this master plan especially on the kickout.we no longer have big ball winning midfielders so there has to be a plan to gain possession.The facts of the last 3 years show there is no master plan.unfortunately we are a very ordinary team at the moment a combination of not having sufficient quality of players and a very average management team

A few slightly Mayo tinted glasses on the Reape injury. He got it giving Clifford a bit of rough treatment. Not for the 1st time, got away with one in 1st half when he could have seen either red or a free in. I know Clifford was moaning a bit but I’d save he’s a bit black and blue tonight, definitely got a few hits. McHugh did about as well as he could given the quality of some of the ball and position received. No goals conceded and turned him over a few times and did concede some frees a few very marginal and 1 or 2 probably unnecessarily. Keeping him to 4 or 5 from play is a good day especially given the amount of ball going in.

@WestKerry can’t disagree with much of that. Mayo were incredibly poor today and are toothless without Rod. Kerry won despite only playing above average.

A few comments..AOS gets fouled like Clifford all the time but gets a fraction of the protection David gets. It’s happening years…like some peculiar national joke. Incredibly frustrating

When Rod was hauled to the floor by the Kerry defender, Mr Coldrick showed no card. Your thoughts on that decision? It was a big call at a time when Mayo had found some momentum.

With the new rules easier to press kick outs which means the team with high ball winners have a huge advantage. Kerry were on a different planet to us in that department today. On a different note the best team on display the weekend was Monaghan. Are we heading for a 3rd year in a row of a Division 2 team winning Sam.

Shuffly deck, what incident did you think could have been a red? Hardly the one he got a yellow for?
I thought ref done fairly well overall few dodge decisions both ways, but nothing earth shattering.

Match report and Final Whistle pod now up.

Agree above about Monaghan, thought they were outstanding yesterday.
I think Sam will be heading North again this year , Donegal, Tyrone all in fairly good shape. The league really counts for nothing.
Mayo were poor today, they offer so much in the tackle and winning dirty ball, but their shooting was terrible.
Jordan Flynn takes so many pot shots in games for very little return.

That's a mad stat I read here earlier. Today was Aidan o Sheas first score in 14 finals at Croker... ?

Think donegal will take Sam this year .monaghan are you and coming thanks ti Andy moron.

Disappointing today but sure only league as they say
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We must pick ourselves up for sligo next week ..

West Kerry Some valid points especially about our obnoxious supporters.Fotunately very few of them post here However Clifford whom I regard as one of the best players I have ever seen does get some amount of frees for very little and R O Donahue was silly with his late tackle but no way was it a red card. Ye were ok today and no more We weren’t great and no less. P Clifford was outstanding and I don’t really know who was marking him. Better team won No surprises I could have written this post last night as it panned out the way I expected Move on . Hope Kerry lads don’t get too much sun in Portugal this week

That's twice you've called Andy a moron today, Clare!

Shuffle Deck, you’re wrong about Reape’s injury. He got it catching a ball (from going over the bar), and if I’m not mistaken Clifford tackled him afterwards.
Also, can someone also explain why a player with the ball can shove a defender in a ‘hands off’ fashion and it’s not considered a foul?

I think that is very clever by McStay. Clifford won’t get those frees again this summer. I’m not convinced by Kerry I have to say. I was at the Kerry Armagh game last summer where Armagh ran them into the ground. I’ve not seen anything to convince me that they’ve improved. I think it’s fairly open this year. Ulster will be some minefield, Donegal, Armagh, Tyrone, add Monaghan to that. Impossible to pick a winner. Dublin and Kerry then completely undercooked.

@westkerry.why is O'Donohue lucky what did he do wrong i can't recall from tv. Regarding both cliffords they're class acts and I'm afraid persistent fouling will follow them everywhere and it would be negligent if players didn't try stop them. Btw the younger lad needs to stop whinging as frustrating and all as it must be and let his natural talent do the talking. After watching that today I think there's a couple of teams out there better than kerry and we in the 5 to 8 bracket.

@Eighty Five: Slightly mistaken. Clifford illegally shoulder charged him within the small square, no tackle, hence the free out.

For the hand-offs... poor judgement by refs. If it was the other way around it'd be a free in a majority of the time. Just poorly enforced.

No Doubt

High challenge on Paul Geaney.

Red all day, very lucky.

West Kerry I would have to see Ryan’s tackle again but don’t think it was obvious red card .by the way what did you make of gavin whites tackle on Ryan.has the black card been abandoned

Wrest Kerry and gamgerchager very fair comments by you both always,well done today,but hopefully we will meet you later in the season

1985,

Gavin could have got a black for that.

https://x.com/MortimerMurphy1/status/1906436162027196734?s=19

Right west Kerry first angle doesn’t look good

Gavin Whites pull down on ROD a black all day. White knew he was going through for a possible gosl chance and wasn't going to let him pass. How the ref didn't even give him a yellow card

@wilie Joe apologies there my typos & pints to blame there!!

A few slightly Mayo tinted glasses on the Reape injury. He got it giving Clifford a bit of rough treatment. Not for the 1st time, got away with one in 1st half when he could have seen either red or a free in. I know Clifford was moaning a bit but I’d say he’s a bit black and blue tonight, definitely got a few hits. McHugh did about as well as he could given the quality of some of the ball in and position received in front of the posts with options to go left and right. No goals conceded and turned him over a few times and did concede some frees a few very marginal and 1 or 2 probably unnecessarily in that he had help nearby. Keeping him to 4 or 5 from play is a good day especially given the amount of ball going in.

Goalies need to stand up for themselves . Every other goalie do the same in Reapes situation.

Now Reape is out I'd say v sligo will we question the kick outs with a a goalie

With no game time?

It's midfield our issue. Mattie ruanne cant do it on his own.

The amount of abuse to us by kerry supporters today it goes both ways....

We will come back unfair kery get to Swan off for 3 weeks yet wd we have to go again
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This won't define our season ..

Clare the issue in midfield is our inability to win possession in the air .Matt ruane is not a ball winner.his strength is scoring which was neutralised today

A bad game.
Kerry win a game that no one in the league really wanted to win
Zero jeopardy.
Both teams capable of way more.

I think David Clifford is the best player I have seen in the last 20 years. I am also neither a Mayo man or a Kerry man.I thought today and for the last few years that Refrees are giving David a lot of easy frees. Colderick today gave them. You could not look at Clifford but it was a free in. He is at the ref all the time looking as if it is a crime to tackle me. Also when are refs going to cop on to him when he gets possession the first thing he does is puts the ball in one hand and uses the other had to directly push his marker away with a hand off. This is a foul. This is in the Rugby game but not part of GAA football. The frees given to him today were not given the far end .

There were a few halfwits about in the stands alright. I felt the most sensible thing I heard all day was from an elderly gentleman on the way home when he said he didn't fancy either team for Sam judging by their displays, but that both were holding back.

@1985 your right there .

Thought the ref gave unfair calls is well yesterday.

We looked exhausted .

This game will be forgotten about soon enough but kerry ones saying this is the worst mayo team ever untrue .but sure we will bounce back

Just worried about our goalie situation now no game time given to the sub goalies like..