We should secure 8.
And Ryan and Kobe for p'soy.

Ryan should be a cert for player of the year. Beirne probably deserves young player of the year ahead of Kobe. He had more of an impact in the final. But Kobe will probably pick up the award. Wont complain either way.

2 hope, no way we will get 8. 6 at very most. Carney ROD Hession certs and probably 3 more

Hession, Carney, Jordan and Ryan are the four absolute certs for me. After that, one of Beirne or Kobe ends up with Young Footballer of the Year and the other takes an All‑Star. Then you’re probably looking at one or two more Mayo lads from that list getting in, but it’s genuinely hard to separate them all equally deserving.

Ryan should be Footballer of the Year, but you can already picture the Kerry media machine making plenty of noise to push their golden boy for it.

Five of our back line and keeper, the three full forward line and 11 in all nominated,
Who would have thought that after Roscommon game, Ryan should get poty and Darrahh ypoty.

Well-deserved nominations - we should sweep the boards. But watch how the POTY will be framed. The Kerry media mafia will be all over this one. David, the GOAT, being challenged by two Mayo upstarts; and shouldn’t O’Donoghue have got red anyway. Yada, Yada.

Kerry will see it as essential to get Clifford over the line on this one, and their efforts will be interesting to watch.

Congrats to all lads nominated, could have been more E McGreal despite short season as worthy a nomination as a couple of other county defenders selected.
Should likely break down Mayo 7, Kerry 3, Others 5.

Ryan has to win poty.
Clifford is a better forward than Ryan but pound for pound this year Ryan skins him for being a better player.
It probably doesn't work like that though.

Selection committee are the Dublin based media and don’t pick the player of the year the players vote the player of the year and the gpa pick the young player of the year it would be hard to see a player that wouldn’t make the all star team get young player of the year that would make a mockery of the awards but there is always talking points

Sam Callinan, Enda Hession, David McBrien, Jack Carney, Ryan O’Donoghue (POTY), Darragh Beirne and Kobe McDonald (one of those YPOTY probably Darragh).

McHugh, Flynn and Livingston unlucky to lose out. Kerry keeper gets it on a better final performance (IMO)

I've heard it mentioned b4 about one of kobe and darragh getting ypoty and the other getting allstar..how does that make sense?surely if one of them is presumed ypoty above the other then the same should stand regarding allstar award..I expect kerry goalie wins his position but it's livingstone for me all day long because make no mistake about it mayo wouldn't have reached crokepark without him and we wouldn't have any nominations

No Eoin McGreal yet Foley gets in? Utterly scandalous.
Hession and McGreal are the two best defenders in Ireland right now by a distance.

Livingston is a certified in my eyes
Don’t think Jordan will make
ROD had a huge influence in final
Clifford scored 1-06 but had not same impact and kicked two relatively easy two pointers wide.

Joe Brolly has an article in Sunday Indonesian extolling Clifford, Pat Spillane calls Clifford the GOAT and to top it all today’s Indo has a close up photo of that ‘tackle’ - talk about trying to influence the decision for Player of the Year!!
We have our enemies in the long grass - ‘snakes’ in other words

Well done Mayo nominees, absolutely delighted for you all, your families, & clubs. You have have given Mayo people the most precious memories, we have had the time of our lives following you. We thank you so sincerely.
And for the lads who didnt recieve a nomination you are held in the same regard..all heros in Mayo. Every single one of you are our All Stars..past & present.
Continued success on & off the pitch. Maigh Eo abú.

@Anyup, would be great to see Livingston get it, the positive impact he had when coming in was critical. However, I think Murphy will pip him for it. As an aside, quite unusual to see the 2 front runners for the keeper spot without a point to their names in the championship

@Liberal, McGreal should be there instead of Coyne. Coyne was close to being dropped for a good chunk of the season.

Separately, if you told me at the start of the season Jack Carney would be one of 3 players (alongside David Clifford) nominated for footballer of the year I'd have had you checked into the nearest medical facility! Such a crazy year!!

GBXI, I think I'm correct in saying that Jack Coyne kept his opponent scoreless in the last 3 matches of championship. If so, he's more than deserving on an All Star. Proving a lot of his doubters (including many here) well and truly wrong.

I think if we all looked back at what we said at the start of the season (say just before the Monaghan game), I think we would have to hang our heads In shame.

Good point Catcol.
There are people on this forum who made scandalous comments about some Mayo players after the Roscommon game.
The sort of comments they would have deleted since if they could.

@liberal, I hadn't heard that stat. But I look at the defence and he was nearly always at the end of the queue for the big man marking jobs each game. Doesn't take the ball out of defence like Hession or McGreal or McBrien.

Congratulations to all who have been nominated for All Stars as well as POTY and YPOTY. Great to see so many players picked from Mayo. Remember though, these awards count for nothing in the grand scheme of things. Celtic Crosses are the only currency when you play Inter County Football at the top level. For years we won loads of All Stars, but never the All Ireland. (I think we have the 4th most All Stars Awards since they began in the 70's). If you were to offer a player an All Star versus a Celtic Cross, I think all would opt for the latter. Nice to win, but not worth a lot.

Roll on 2027.

Catcol I had a look back at the Roscommon thread the other day. It's fair to say some of the comments have not aged well but we were in a fair state of shock. The second last comment on the thread was fairly prophetic, mind!

Darragh Beirne is YPOTY for me, all day, every day. The Kobe Factor as Mike puts it was immense this year, no doubt about it, and he really sprinkled magic and joy over the whole season, but Beirne made a bigger impact on the field. I'd go so far as to say there is no contest there.

Clifford has a legitimate claim on FOTY in my opinion, he is one of a kind (Spillane is right, he is the GOAT), but I think it's fair to say he wouldn't be the most popular winner - not through any fault of his own, I hasten to add. Ryan had the bigger impact in the final on the play in general - his workrate eclipsed Clifford's and I do think that has to count for something. We'll see if the voters are the sentimental types. I suspect they might be.

Absolutely thrilled to see Jack Carney nominated for POTY. What an endorsement for him, and what a journey he's been on over the last 12 months. Incredible.

I'd agree with Liberal Role in the Tie re Jack Coyne. He really struggled early on, but did the business at the business end. Eoin McGreal can feel a bit hard done by but he missed a good chunk of time, and I predict it won't be too long before we see him in a tux holding a statuette. And he's nailed on for a Club Star surely!

Another "pinch me" moment this morning with this announcement. If you'd told me in April we'd be arguing on here over whether we deserve 6 or 8 All-Stars, I'd have been checking your temperature. Let alone doing so as All-Ireland Champions.

Magic. Pure magic.

Way out West, I think some of the players that have previously won All-Stars would beg to differ about them counting for nothing - many of them have spoken about how much it means to them and their clubs. To have an All-Star on the mantlepiece and a Celtic Cross in the back pocket is surely a whole new wonderful world, though.

The Celtic crosses arrived ,Way out West so that point was relevant for the last 50+ years,but this year they are a nice 'extra' bonus.

Anne Marie. I wouldn't agreed with the no contest part but probably would agree beirne should win ypoty. Himself and kobe had completely different roles and I don't think beirne could have done some of the stuff kobe did where he contributed all over the field including some terrific fielding and kicking 45s but yes isn't it really a 1st world problem in gaa terms

ROD nailed on POTY. A single tackle won't diminish the year he put in.

We were poor against the rossies but in fairness to them, they were excellent. I for one think the performance they put in that day would have ran Kerry close on all Ireland final day. Although I am not convinced that they would have had the belief to get across the line.

There's a lesson there for us and our attempt to go back to back. It's really difficult to play the way we (and the Rossies) did week after week, and the new structure means you need a bit of luck to avoid teams who are peaking in May and June. You can list off the shocks from this year and in most cases it was teams with an eye on the big prize losing to teams who's goal was just to make it to croker, or in Down's case just play for Sam.

Celtic crosses are the currency not all stars. I'm sure Keegan would give up his player of the year and all stars for one celtic cross.
It's the players who decide who the poty is - not the media.
I'm fairly sure a few years ago a player got young poty award but didn't get an all star

Perhaps its because he is a fellow clubman but i Have to Agree with No doubt. To say it’s a no contest for Ypoty is doing a disservice to some of the performances Kobe put in this year all while under intense pressure and scrutiny none of which he let affect him . As well as scoring 1-28 the majority from play , his highlight reel of scores is off the charts, not to mention the times he came out to win possession when it was badly needed . I’m pretty sure i heard Andy say that he also assisted the most scores as well . Its going to be close between the 2 not that either of them will care as they have the all ireland medal in their back pocket.

FrosT - that's the beauty of the new system; it forces teams to focus on one game at a time.

Keeping an 'eye' on the prize won't work, it's just beat what's in front of you and adapt from week to week. I think that's what Andy and the lads did to perfection. They weren't looking beyond the next game, but they analysed where they were weak and was needed to rectify matters. This process accelerated once we got to Croke Park. We blossomed there, but again it was week to week. Donegal didn't do that, nor did Armagh. They'll be learning lessons for '27 of course.

Hession, Callinan, Carney, Donoghue definite all stars. One of Kobe/Beirne an all star, the other Young Player of the Year. McBrien or Flynn will get one. Probably Flynn because McDonnell (Louth) may get one. Donogjue Player of the Year.

Livingstone. Was terrific as soon as he got his place and won us games against Monaghan and Meath.
Coyne. Once he regained form he was as steady as a rock......and that speech!
McBrien put out fires so often and had a huge influence in the final.
Hession. The only surprise is that Enda didn't get a pity nomination.
Carney. A shoe-in and well deserved.
Flynn. Touch and go but would love him to get one.
Bierne. His impact throughout the championship and his final heroics deserve one and ypoty.
ROD. Nothing more needs to be said. Head and shoulders above all other pots contenders.
Kobe. I would give him one but the powers that be might feel they need to recognise others.

I couldn't really split Kobe or Darragh for YPOTY. Two brilliant players.

Some of the scores those lads put up were outrageous. Darragh selling a dummy against Louth in front of the hill. Kobes point at the end of the first half against Meath.
Scores you could watch back over and over.
Three Mayo Marquee scoring forwards.
What a time to be alive.

We are in dream land here. I woukd say Hession is our best player this year and should be in POTY short list. If you take year as a whole probably get it' his club form phenomenal. But most of time it goes to AL winners so Ryan hopefully will get it. McBrien ' Hession ' Carney ROD Beirne Callinan are my tips.
Beirne should be YPOY but I think Kobi will get it as the populist choice..

There’s one aberration in there (McCurry) who did unbelievable things in very limited time on the pitch. One other I think could feel hard done by us Enda Smith of Roscommon, a really top player who we struggled against. In the backs there’s a case for either of our lads. Coyne’s overall reading of the game and leadership is a factor, I saw him organising the team quite a bit. In the Dara vs Kobe debate, very close call, Dara got more scores but Kobe came deep to carry ball as well. On Ryan vs Clifford, I think the pundits on AI final day were giving it to Ryan even though I would agree Clifford is the the GOAT and has done unbelievable things as a forward this year. In the final I’d say Ryan had the greatest influence and maybe the semi as well. Clifford was scoring big in every game. Possibly Ryan but there’s a case for both. Jack is no 3 in the order.

McCurry indeed.
16pts in two appearances off the bench, maybe 40 mins in total and that after coming back from terrible back to back Achilles injuries.
He was super against us and even better against Kerry.
All Star for sure.

Give it to all of Mayo's 15 players, ah the All Stars matters little, its winning the All Ireland that will always stay with us.

My sense of the All-Stars is that they are too AIF-centric. Recency bias all over it. I cannot understand how it’s been accepted as fact that the keeper All-star is Kerry bound. Jack Livingstone made more quality saves in this year’s championship than has ever been made by any keeper in a championship.

If McCurry can't make the first 15 for Tyrone how can you make him an All Star!

I used to take the arguments about the All-Stars very seriously in the years where we came almightily close to winning Sam.
We've won it now. I couldn't care less about them now. We will win plenty of them and rightly so but I just think of the arguments now as a bit of fun.
The fans of Kerry, and every other contender for that matter, would much rather be in our position. We have the most important awards (in Sam and the Celtic crosses) here in Mayo!

9 first time nominees.
5 players in the 26 with previous nominations who missed out. 20 nominations combined.

Special shout out for Stephen Coen who I think would have gone close if he hadn't missed the final.

There's a big campaign emanating from the South West to get D. Clifford the FOTY, lots of chatter on social media, the Kingdom cohort of pundits weighing in, the usual stuff.

While he is undoubtedly a generational talent and the best forward in Ireland, IMO Ryan was the best playmaker, the best tackler and the driving force behind our championship victory this year, as well as contributing a hefty proportion of our scores. In comparison, Clifford doesn't stray beyond the 40. It has to be ROD, in my view.

Darragh Beirne got an unreal score from pretty much the sideline in the final, as well as nailing a brilliant goal. I would give him YPOTY over Kobe, as young Mac dipped a wee bit in the final compared with previous games, although still making a significant contribution.

Isn't it a great issue to have, all the same?

I would also give Livingstone the keeper's jersey, as he produced vital saves in all of the games we played in the All-Ireland series, must have prevented about seven goals against Monaghan alone. And he dealt very well with high balls into the square against Kerry, which has been a problem for us in previous All-Ireland finals.

Who really cares how many all stars we get this year. We've got over 40 AI medals. put up a list of all our all stars who got no medal . I'm thinking of mcDonald , Higgins, Moran, Keegan,Willie Joe etc. I'll gladly supply the medals for the chosen 15!

@it means nothing to me .I would agree with your all star picks but you may not be aware that david cliffords mother passed away in 2023.i haven't commented here since the all Ireland final .I haven't felt the need to as there is a great sense of contentment now after all the years of dreaming

@1985. How has that anything to do with what was said about All star nominations?

@dave Johnston. It has nothing to do with all star nominations

@1985: Fair enough, unfortunate bit of phrasing from myself there, all I meant is that he doesn’t tackle from the front as is expected from full forwards in other teams, these days. Of course, he does a lot of damage on the scoreboard, which is what he’s there for.

@michaelincork: I always felt Kevin McLoughlin was very unfortunate to be overlooked for an All-Star, given how important he was to a team which was at the business end of the championship almost every year for a decade.

They'll probably give it to DC.....

Ryan has an All-Ireland medal, a MOTM award from the final and his performance in that final will be regarded as one of the best performances in a final for ever more.

not bad

@it means nothing to me .I actually found the comment funny at first but unfortunately these days they can be taken the wrong way and used as ammunition. Totally agree with you on Kevin mcloughlin

@1985: No worries, I didn’t realize that Mrs. C is no longer with us, fine to redact it in my view. There’s always a puzzler in the All-Star selections, think maybe Dublin’s Kevin McMenamon never got one either?

Very sad news about Seamus Tuohy may he rest in peace. The poor man didnt live long to enjoy the fruits of his labour as county chairman.

RIP to Seamus Tuohy and condolences to his family and friends. A great GAA person and without a doubt he and countless others behinfd the scenes contributed greatly to our great success this year.

Congratulations to all the nominees. A lot of great stories of development, during the season (Jack Coyne, Daragh Beirne, David McBrien in terms of role and positioning) and also in terms of a player's overall career (Jordan is a stand out for me here). How many All Stars we should have and which of our two outstanding corner forwards deserve Young Player of the Year are incredible problems to have.

David Clifford is already a legend of the game and is very likely to be the best player I'll ever see play. But is he going to be PoTY every year til he retires? Ryan delivered his best performances of the year in the biggest games of the year and was utterly inspirational in getting Mayo over the line. It's hard to know what else he could do to deserve player of the year.

I'd also like to extend my condolences to the Tuohy family. A decent man was Seamus, involved in gaa all his life and always had the best interests of club and county at heart.
Ar dheis De go roimh a anam. 🙏

It’s very sad, very sad.

God rest the man. Many of us (guilty as charged). Give out about the workings of our glorious and complex association but not too many of willing to do the groundwork that helps improve it and keep it going for the success we've seen and most importantly the next generation. Hope the satisfaction of the allireland eased his passing . R I P

Condolences to Seamus Tuohy RIP . On the All Stars I would definitely think Hession McBrien Carney Flynn and ROD have outstanding chances . Livingstone, Calnan, Coyne , Beirne and Kobe are all in with a shout but I’d say we will end up with 6 or 7. The Kerry goalie, Foley and the 2 Clifford’s should get ones for Kerry. In an outstanding year for the GAA you would have to think that Louth and Westmeath will surely get at least one each. No doubt the Dubs will get one or two and beaten semi finalists Tyrone must have a shout while Monaghan could also sneak one so as there are only 15 to go around I reckon it could be 6 for us. I expect ROD to get POTY though I do think the best player in the country is Clifford ( 15 and 16 points in his last 2 club games) but I think Ryan was the most influential player throughout the year and played an incredible role on getting us over the line. On the YPOTY it’s so hard to know Both Beirne and Kobe were outstanding but don’t discount the Louth No 6 who was excellent all year. At a push I’d be inclined to go for Darragh Beirne

Unbelievable statement above about Mayo " doing at least three in a row" and " only having Kerry to fear ".

What about the likes of Galway, Donegal, Tyrone, Armagh Dublin,. plus there are others ?

This is the closest group of All-Ireland contenders in manys a long year, don't think anyone will do three in a row in football for quite some time tbh.

Not even Kerry themselves can do three in a row these days.

Ah look, some giddiness has to be expected after the end of a 75-year famine.

When the National League resumes and we become the target for everyone else, that kind of talk will soon disappear.

All the more reason to enjoy the sight of Sam visiting every corner of Mayo while it's happening :o)

Keegan and Mugsy on the beyond the 45 podcast gave 8 All Stars to Mayo. Mugsy rekons Paudie Clifford missed too much of season plus kept fairly quiet in AI by McGreal and doesn’t deserve one. They gave All stars to Hession Callinan McBrien Carney Flynn Kobe Beirne and O Donoghue. Be slot of talking points ahead of All stars but be very happy with 8

Livingstone had a great year cant be far from Allstar

RO'D, Carney & Hession the bankers.

Livingstone, Coyne, McHugh, Callinan, McBrien, Flynn, Beirne & McDonald all in with very good shouts. Optics and 'balance' in the picks will potentially play a role too outside of just performances, so nearly impossible to call how the panel might end up voting.

I'd probably expect:

1. Murphy*
2. Callinan*
3. Foley
4. Hession
5. Whittaker
6. McDonnell
7. McMorrow*
8. Carney
9. Kilpatrick
10. Scully
11. RO'D
12. P Clifford*
13. Beirne*
14. D Clifford
15. McDonald*

1 - You'd easily make a case for Livingstone and his saves being absolutely huge in the winning All Ireland run & he played his role to perfection for the team, but Kerry built their game plan around dominating the middle with the 4 big lads. It gave Murphy the kind of restart wins a team would have dreamed of at the start of the year. Hard to see his frequent high retention (despite it being a team effort and a tactical choice that had downsides elsewhere for the team) not earning him the pick, especially with the politics of Mayo lads expected to pick up others elsewhere.

2 & 7 - Super tight calls (with the other 4 spots relatively set in my mind). Could go with any of Callinan, Coyne, McBrien, McHugh, Breen, Devlin, Wallace, Burns, McMorrow or Byrne here.

12 - wouldn't be my choice, I'd go Stephen O'Hanlon (sorry Jordan!), but who I'd expect to win. Started every one of Kerry's Champ games & played over 85% of their Champ minutes, so Mugsy off on minutes being his issue IMHO. A lack of form after the injury in the early games back could hurt him, but being key in their QF, SF & once McGreal tired and got taken off him in the Final where he popped off will potentially be enough.

15 - Dylan Geaney might hold this & force a 50/50 call between DB & Kobe or one at 12. Before the final he'd have been a banker & hard to write a lad off when injury played such a big part in a quiet performance... but the weightings for Finals are so high, positive or negative, you could see himself and Breen paying a price and missing out.

Remember the days when awaiting All Stars was our only solace for the year? We said it back then that we'd give all the All Stars up for 1 Celtic Cross, well, here we are.

We were always told in the past that the All star winners usually come from the semi final and particularly the final with the winners getting the most.

There is no way in the world the Jordan Flynn should lose out on an All star, he was immense in the final and along with McBrien he marshalled and led the defensive set up out the field in the final 19 minutes, he put huge pressure on the Kerry kickers attempts for 2 pointers.

I don't think there should be many outside Mayo and Kerry, not a chance Foley from Kerry should get an Allstar, he had a disaster of a final and a very poor semi final only,
Kerry should have David Clifford, maybe Paudie, no Sean O Shea, maybe the goalkeeper, no defenders in the mix.

Mayo should get Beirne, O Donoghue, Kobe ( and young player of the year, Flynn, Carney, Hession, McGreal, McBrien, maybe goalkeeper, possibly Diarmuid O Connor.

At least 10.