I doubt he’ll mind. Amusing choice of words though. I had a right chuckle at that.
A very practical reasoning for Mayos forward play, or lack of.
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Would the same not apply to say Donegal? Remember reading before about 5 of them driving from Dublin to Donegal a couple of times a week. Not ideal obviously, but you just have to get on with it.
Wasnt McGuinness flying them? Shur it’d be mad to be driving. Jim Gavin got Ciaran Kilkenny a helicopter for a few day trips.
It never stopped Munster Rugby. But then again they were brave and faithful so nothing was impossible
Shur the drive from Cork to Limerick destroyed Munster Rugby. Set them back years. Thank God thats over now.
Kerry, Donegal and Mayo are all windswept Atlantic counties a long way from anywhere of consequence yet continue to be the main challengers to Dublin.
Tyrone is hardly the bright lights either.
Meanwhile Meath and Kildare continue to languish among the ranks of the also-rans.
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+Wicklow & Louth
Donegal started looking after them thpugh did they not? The trips to NYC were a big help.
Kerry uncompareable. 6 of them 50 mins drive and they miss nothing.
Only 1 session a week is a massive disadvantage
Kevin McLaughlin was robbed twice from behind and on both occasions Dublin scored . They scored from a poor kick out after one of the scores too. He was good but is more energetic and game rather than pacey. Mayo need pace. Tyrone have that but MH needs to think more offensive
That’s another crock of shit in fairness. The amount of fellas getting money for writing these pseudo scientific treatises about the GAA is laughable at this stage.
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It’s a dressed up way of statin’ the bleedin’ obvious.
That doesn’t change the essential truth at the heart of it, that Dublin have a big advantage in terms of the location of their players, with colleges and work on their doorstep rather than on the other side of the country to where their inter-county team is.
It doesn’t mean it’s an insurmountable disadvantage for other counties to overcome, but it’s a distinct disadvantage for sure and only a fool would think otherwise.
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It is an advantage but I think Ed is overstating it. When you take out the students, the teachers and the lads that are fulltime based in mayo is there any players actually left?
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Just too much for your little mind
Some amount of shite in that.
Stevie McDonnell learned how to kick points with his left foot in the space of a few months. Benny Tierney learned how to kick a ball in the space of a few months.
Bollocks, bollocks, bollocks.
As the famous old Boston College basketball coach of the 1970s Irving D. Schindler once said, “Pick out some obscure and historic references that will be hard to disprove so you’ll appear to be making profound points to the gullible muldoon readership of The Cork Examiner.”
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A real lCk of team preperation understanding from the desk jockeys here.
Not surprising.
What is surprising is it rattles them so much.
At least a dozen more.
You can talk all the turkey you want…mayo had two opportunities to beat a dublin team that are clearly gone stale and couldn’t do it! Dubs won by pure grit and fuck all swash buckling football…I mean a team going for 2 in a row outfighs a team breaking a 60 year curse. .horrendous.
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