Happy Christmas to you WJ, all in admin,podcasters and contributors.
Great for us to have a place to vent,so keep up the good work and 2026 could be seismic for Mayo football and you will get to write the final chapter WJ.

Happy Christmas, John. Thank you for what you do.

Happy Christmas WJ and all here who long for the same thing. Time to get excited again.

Happy christmas everyone ! Can't wait for the Andy era. Hope you all enjoy the festivities .

Happy Christmas W J . What a service you provide for us all. On to 2026. Many thanks and best wishes to you and your family

Happy Christmas all. Thanks wj for an excellent service.

Happy Christmas to you and your family Willie Joe,hopefully we will have a wonderful year

Happy Christmas to you WJ and all bloggers.

Happy Christmas to all on here, I pray you have a happy Christmas and a safe, healthy and joyful 2026.
I hope ye get to lift the coveted Nestor cup in 2026 and should we fail in our back to back bid there is nothing would bring me greater joy than to see the canister being held aloft in the streets of Castlebar. Nollaig Shona daoibh go léir🌲🎅

Happy Christmas WJ and to all who frequent the blog. Here's to success and fun times for Mayo GAA in 2026

Thank you so much from all of us outside the country. The blog is huge for us and unless you are outside the county you'll never understand how much this platform means to us all.

Happy Christmas Willie Joe to you and all the Family. What a service this Blog is to those of us who live outside the County. Looking forward to the Andy era. He will bring great enthusiasm. Looking forward to 2026. Up Mayo.

Happy Christmas Willie Joe and many thanks for keeping this great show on road and to all contributors. And health and happiness in 2026,and much enjoyment from Mayo, under Andy, and, indeed, from all Mayo teams.

Merry Christmas everyone. Hope all involved with the blog and members have a peaceful Yuletide and a successful footballing New Year.

Mayo for Sam 2026....You heard it here first folks.
Happy Christmas WJ and thanks for your efforts during the year.
We'd be lost without ya!

Wishes returned with thanks WJ

Merry Christmas John & family, all the team here on the blog along with it's wider community & everyone else involved at all levels with Mayo GAA & Mayo LGFA.

A few 'fun' (and by fun I mean wildly inaccurate based on nothing but vibes) predictions for the year ahead...

POTY: David McBrien
YPOTY: John MacMonagle (really tight race this year - could easily be any of 6 or 7. If any of the u20s stay with the seniors for the year they could easily push)

Connacht: Mayo (I was going to say Galway so Jack has a clear "we were written off this year" in his back-pocket, but couldn't bring myself to do it).
Ulster: Tyrone (as always in Ulster it's pretty much a toss of a coin, themselves and Donegal neck and neck as favourites for me)
Munster: Kerry
Leinster: Dublin

Winner... I'm genuinely delighted to say I haven't a breeze.
Wide open again this year where any of 6 or 7 teams have a really genuine opportunity to step up, while any of 10 or 12 have the ability to have a big say in things. Not all those that might will step up, we'll likely see similar fancied faces towards the business end of the Championship, but with all sorts of thrills and spills along the way.

Kerry will deservedly be favourites, but I'll throw in on Tyrone again and figure Malachy will have upped the bar a couple more levels (his addition of Peter Hughes to the backroom team one I'd be incredibly envious of) and the younger lads will be better placed to add to that squad depth.

Happy Christmas WJ & crew for an excellent service and the amount of time you give to this blog.
Looking forward to ANOTHER new dawn '26

Thanks all. And keep it up. We will do it yet and when we least expect it. As I used to say when mine were young.........Mind the cars.

Thanks all. And keep it up. We will do it yet and when we least expect it. As I used to say when mine were young.........Mind the cars and God bless.

Happy Christmas everyone

For sure Mayo will be up there,I will invest my hundred euro for the seventh year ,although I believe that Kerry will be though,but I believe that players returning to the panel won't be trying for a few years,they will eat results now

Happy Christmas from Tuam.

I honestly think Mayo will start strong in January, dare I say a league title could happen.
Looking forward to it all starting up again.

God I hope we don't win the league.. with the Rossies waiting in the long grass in connacht .

Happy Christmas WJ.

Quietly excited and optimistic about the season ahead. Andy will be nothing if positive, and so far has been refreshingly honest.

Real blast of youth coming our way so we’ll need to be patient, and that’s not always easy. But hopefully the likes of Cillian returning can add that little bit of ballast when needed.

Hon Mayo.

Yes patience will be needed,I am old enough to remember Mayo winning the minor final in 71 followed by the 21 final in 74 but when beaten by Sligo after a replay the team was dismantled.
What a waste of talent.

Just a player that really seems to under the radar with this Mayo team at the moment is Donnacha McHugh for me he gave the best man marking display on David Clifford of the year in the League game in McHale park.
I think David had such a hard time with Donnacha there he stitched him up in Croker for the League Final getting him booked early and was harrasing the ref for protection and not forgetting his performance on Michael Murphy in Roscommon before he went off injured, Murphy was completely taking out of the game until he went off and then gets a massive 2 pointer to swing the game.

Sometimes a player's versatility works against him. Since Lee's retirement he has kind of become our nullifier, and maybe he's happy in that role but for me I'd like to see him given a position and given the time to bed in there.
If McB is to be at 6 then I'd be giving Donnacha the fb position. I think he could make that his own....,tough and abrasive,more of the dog in him than in Bric imo.

How many are we expecting at the Sligo game ?
2000 ? And how many can fit into Charlstown?

Happy New Year WJ let everyone who write on this blog including myself can look forward to a new dawn in Mayo football team under the stewardship of Andy .Thanks for all the work WJ in 2025

@Paddyjoejohntom
Not sure what capacity of Charlestown is but think around 3500 was the number going around for cross Westport semi final.
Hopefully get close to that for Sligo game

According to Humphrey Kelleher’s ‘A Place to Play’ book on GAA grounds, the capacity at Charlestown is 3,000.

In 1962 Connacht championship Mayo and Sligo played out a draw in Charlestown (Sligo won the replay). No idea what the crowd was but I was only eight and found it hard to see past the men in front of us. I think there was a fair bit of concrete seating in those days.

Fair chance game will be postponed on Saturday given weather forecast .

Happy Christmas to all on the blog and to yourself WJ and all your loved ones.
Wishing a safe, happy and healthy 2026 to everyone and may all our teams do themselves proud in the coming year.
Always believe 🙏💫
Mayo4everything.
Maigheo go deo.

Unless there are any Kiwi brethren out there, it'll fall first for me. Just turned midnight in Sydney, wishing you all a healthy and happy New Year!

Happy New Year all, including the mighty Willie Joe!

Willie Joe , Happy New Year to you and your family. JoeG , i was also at that match and I'd say that there was easily a crowd of 5k plus there. Awful game ! I nearly gave up following the green and red that day!!

Imagine the craic you'd have missed since Michael if you gave up that day. 😊
Happy New Year all.

Happy new year all! Here is to a better year for Mayo in 2026 . Really excited but patient also for the Andy era !

Happy New Year folks ,looking forward to seeing Kobe at 11 and Beirne at 13, and hopefully Mayo in Croker on the last Sunday of July!

Happy New Year to Willie Joe and all on this blog.

As a young lad remember great games in Charlestown, one great game Sligo and Roscommon, Aiden Brady, Gerry O Mally and if course Mickey Kearns, when game was over a few of us would walk around the concrete seats that went around the field and would find a few shillings that was dropped when fans were buying tubs of ice cream that was thrown across the seats and the money passed out to the seller. Never paid to get in either, went around the fields and came in from top end where there was no officials.

Is the Sligo game in Charleston pay at the gate or online tickets

Tedtoal. All official GAA games are prepay now. The days of paying at the gate are gone.

Happy new year to all put your money on Kerry I predict a Kerry V Armagh all Ireland final with an improved Mayo to bow out at the quarter final stage

Would like to see Andy experiment with ROD on the 40 during League, when you have the likes of Beirne, Cillian , Carr and Tommy to play inside now.I remember seeing ROD play for Belmullet v Westport at 11 in an Under 21 final a few years back.He played the role to perfection with pinpoint passes into the Belmullet FF Line it would free him up more and gives him more chances of 2 pointers, abit like Clifford in the All Ireland Final.

It was possible to pay with card at gate at recent crossmollina v Westport game