2018 All Ireland Senior Football Championship

[tazdedub]

Mayo are gone. Time has caught up with this team. The well has run dry.

[GeoffreyBoycott]

@GeoffreyBoycott

First Championship win over Kildare since 1953. Just Laois to get over now for a first Leinster Final appearance since 1944. Bring it on @myboyblue. Winners of that one, will be one game away from the Super 8’s.

@Cicero_Dandi

Neither will make the Super 8s Geoff.

I will offer my resignation on a plate if they do.

@myboyblue, who’s your preference as opposition for Laois next weekend in the game that will decide if @Cicero_Dandi has to resign from the forum? Tyrone or Kildare possibly?

[caoimhaoin]

They will in their fuck

[grapes]

What the fuck would you know you stupid cunt

[caoimhaoin]

Players lost did not help but ya it seems so now

Kildare have good footballers though

[caoimhaoin]

More than most really

[Blake]

Oh my fucking god

[Cicero_Dandi]

They gave it their all but the injuries to key players and their bodies breaking down on them has taken their toll.

Higgins, Keegan and Boyle were anonymous today and they’ve been crucial down the years.

Thought Paddy Durcan and Diarmuid O’Connor were outstanding for Mayo.

[myboyblue]

Kildare are coming like a train. Massive work at underage. They’ll break through yet. God willing I’ll be dead when it happens.

[caoimhaoin]

Well done

Were you there?

[caoimhaoin]

Ya just a lot of things have caught up on too many of them

2 midfielders big losses

[Blake]

I was, under the Sky cameras. Absolutely brilliant atmosphere.

[caoimhaoin]

They seem organized alright

[Cicero_Dandi]

@Ashman

Aidan O shea can’t travel at this level

With Parsons and SOS done for the year, they needed a big game from O’Shea and he just doesn’t have the fitness for 70 minutes of top level football, he flagged badly near the end.

[Copper_pipe]

@Ashman

Aidan O shea can’t travel at this level .

He might go to America for the summer

[myboyblue]

Outrageously so, S & C plain to see in all their development squads. They’ll get it right eventually.

[flattythehurdler]

The mayo bench, or lack of, did for them. No trust in the subs on a long hot night. It is the end of an era, and I’m a bit sad in truth. This mayo team was a great one, and they are done.

[Cicero_Dandi]

Yeah, added really nothing new to the squad since 2011 other than Diarmuid O’Connor and Paddy Durcan.

[Sidney]

Mayo were done up like kippers with that free against Diarmuid O’Connor.

Still they’d been consistently dicing with death in the qualifiers for two years, and they were bound to be caught out eventually.

They’re definitly gone this time.

Vindication for knowledgeable posters like myself and @Cicero_Dandi who knew this would be a very difficult hurdle for Mayo to cross.

@Sidney

In five qualifiers over the last two years - Fermanagh 2016, Derry 2017, Clare 2017, Cork 2017 and Tipperary 2018, Mayo have struggled to varying degrees. In two of those games, they were right on the brink of elimination, in two others, they only turned it around in the last 10 or 15 minutes. In another they were four points down at half-time.

All of those games were against teams they’d be expected to beat by 15-20 points if they played them in Croke Park in August.

If you keep giving teams those sort of chances, the odds are that sooner or later one them will take one.

I think Kildare are better than any of the five teams I’ve mentioned above, they’re probably on around the same level Cork were at for the qualifier last year, perhaps better than that. They have a year of Division 1 football under their belts, they competed relatively well against Dublin last year, they’re a reasonably young team, they have big players in key positions, they’re at home on a pitch they’re familiar with, the controversy over the venue is bound to have a positive effect on them.

If a gun was put to my head I’d still back Mayo to just about get there, but all the ingredients for an ambush are there. Extra-time wouldn’t be a surprise.

@Sidney

Mayo struggled badly against Tipperary for 52 minutes. They got a flukey goal which completely changed the game and Tipperary couldn’t last the pace.

Newbridge is a much tighter pitch than Thurles, therefore Mayo’s running game will be harder to implement, Kildare are unlikely to collapse in terms of fitness in the last quarter-like Tipperary did.

Mayo have a history of struggling in qualifiers and are down their first choice midfield pairing. Kildare have Kevin Feely who can dominate games at his best.

Kildare have two good wins under their belts and have to have a decent chance.

[caoimhaoin]

Ya underage has fallen off a cliff there

Not sure is that demographics or lack of structure