Not on the day. But you can prepare them better for it. A failing of horan too was dealing with Mayos game management. It can be improved.
Ine major problem have is a couple of selfish forwards, and not in a good way.
Not having Seasmus OâSeâs head right was a massive issue. They were reacting to dublins niggling which is exactly what the dubs wanted. You can prepare for that.
Would you fuck off. You are a quack - plain and simple. You cannot micro-manage ever small detail down to the nth degree. If Seamus OâShea did something as stupid as that then thatâs a failing on his part.
Itâs time these Mayo players looked inward and accepted the blame lies with them. The scapegoating of the management team is disgraceful. It says a lot about the mentality there.
The truth of this is somewhere in the middle. Yes, the players play the game, but they seemed ill prepared for the predictable Dublin niggle, especially in the replay. Itâs irrelevant in any case. The management have lost the bulk of the squad and should resign. Right or wrong, it is what it is.
Funnily enough, I think Tyrone would have stood the best chance of taking Dublin in that final. Philly and co would be a lot better behaved against Tyrone as theyâd be warier of the consequence of their constant Off the ball niggle against another team with a psychopathic bent.
Mayo lost because they imploded, it was as simple as that. I was at the game and with 15 minutes to go it looked like Dublin had ran out of ideas. Mayo had the chance to jump on their necks at that stage but didnât. The management team canât go out and do it for them then. If they kept their levels up in that last 15 minutes then they would have won the game.
It looked to me like it started with panic on their own kickouts tbh, and the jitters set in from there. It doesnât really matter as far as current management goes.
To be honest all the same, I donât think a Micky Harte team would have panicked like that. I think a team takes some of its character from the manager.
Mayo werenât as fit as recent years.
Is that the players fault?
When you spend 21 years involved in coaching/training/management come back to me.
Its always down to management. You have to carry the load. You always have to ask:
Why are my team not doing what i wanted?
Am i asking them either collectively or individually to do things they are incaoable of?
Those answers are down to you. You cannot put square pegs in round holes. And you have to have humility. If its not working, do something else.
Egoâs & stubborness exist with us all, but need to be managed carefully.
Once they cross the line its all over. But up to then its all about the preperation. Which management controls.
I didnât see that with mayo management.
How do you know they werenât as fit as previous years? There certainly didnât seem to be any issue with their fitness, just their mindset.
They were playing far more in fits and starts. They were not moving as well and vitally they had more injuries.
They didnât really, Kev. They had no more injuries than you would have expected at that time of the year.
Players making basic mistakes they wouldnât normally make is not down to management. Managers donât go onto the pitch and play the game for them. You are like a janitor trying to claim importance for high level boardroom decisions.
Reacting like SOS dod is totally down to management. He hadnât done that before in my memory.
He was not focused on the right things. Of course it his partially his responsibility however it ultimately falls on management to identify that. If course they probably encouraged mayo to ânot take any shitâ or some loose talk like that.
The biggest problem though was tactically. It was a mess.
They didnât. You made the assertion, so itâs up to you to name those injuries.
They did.
They didnât.
Times a thousand. Jinx. No comebacks.
No its totally down to Seamie OâShea, you utter spastic.
Was what Philly McMahon and Jonny Cooper did in the drawn semi-final totally down to Jim Gavin?
How about the Davy Byrne incident?
Or the biting incidents?
Or anything involving Diarmuid Connolly?
Heâs a quack. Iâve never came across anybody with the deluded levels of self importamce that Kev displays. An idiot with a God complex.
Kevinâs biggest problem is that he tends to see everything as a black and white issue.
I canât think of any other posters who do thatâŚ
Kevinâs problem is that he thinks he thinks other people are responsible for personal failings.
That is justâŚ
I donât knowâŚ
Iâm speechless