i hear there is some breaking news in the mayo press tomorrow about the superleague and the way it's being run by the league this year, could get interesting i'd say.
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i hear there is some breaking news in the mayo press tomorrow about the superleague and the way it's being run by the league this year, could get interesting i'd say.
nothing in the con tel
Any sign of the divisional teams of the season yet???
im sure fahy and s&f will be expected to fill the premier team of year
and maybe one or two from clewbay
Sean curry possibly from the boro.Quote:
Originally Posted by jim_bob
ya thats true plus some from other i have not seen enough games to predict
I would be interested in hearing people's opinions on the 8 team per division format after it's first year. I spoke to a member of the Mayo League committee shortly after the plan was put into place and he said to me that the reason behind it was to make things 'more competitive'. He was referring to the Super League in general, but I guess he had the whole League in mind, why else change the structure of every division otherwise?
Anyway, from a Fahy perspective, I think we have to finish above S and F and Manulla to stay up next year. It's a big ask. S and F have proven they can beat anyone on their day and Manulla are a really well run, established Super League team. My point is that I realistically foresee the promoted teams going back down year after year, while the 'big six' stay up. Am I wrong in thinking that that's the opposite to 'competitive'? I realise that Claremorris broke the trend this year but they are still a club from a large town. It seems increasingly daunting for a club like Clew Bay or Kilmore to get there, let alone stay up for a second season, considering they have Swinford and Ballinrobe, fresh from a year at the top, to contend with. It felt cruel for Fahy to come four places from the bottom and still be relegated, but now it seems even tougher for smaller teams to even get a crack at the top division.. Has anyone a counter-argument? How is this making the league more competitive?????
The Mayo league are probaly delighted with how the league went well with so many of the divisions not won till the last day of the season.The 8 team division made it harder for us too stay up this season it meant that we went a month with no soccer and with 4 teams coming down from the superleague it made it very hard. What hampered us was injuries which meant we only had a full team once when we beat S&F at home. Have Fahy much of youth system say at U16 and U18's level possibly S&F would have advantage there.Quote:
Originally Posted by FahyForever
Do people not think that €10 for aldults,€5 for OAP's and kids free is very excesive in these economic times for Sundays's Connaught Gold cup and sheild finals, other than the referee's fees what other expense is there.
Any word on this years oscar traynor panel or manager??
Just on the off chance Fellas Im looking for 2 tickets for liverpool v Man city if anyone around mayo can help would appreciate it!
I see from the Mayo League website this morning that Alan Gough has left ballina... another short stint with a mayo club. Micheal Hutton also taking over as oscar traynor manager this year.
Best wishes to Derek Glynn (Daisy) from Claremorris .... hope he alright and get back playing footy as soon as possible.
What happened him?
Mayo FAI Round 3.
1. Westport V S & F / Clew Bay
2. Castlebar Celtic V Bangor
3. Claremorris V Killala
4. Manulla V Partry
5. Mulranny V Urlaur
6. Ballina Town V Charlestown
Round 4.
4 V 6
3 V 5
1 V 2
All the Super League teams with home advantage :confused:
and kept apart in round 5 except Westport V Castlebaar Celtic possibly, FIX is itQuote:
Originally Posted by Back n the game
They might be at home but these games are far from bankers. S&f or clew bay will put it up to Westport, Bangor have had a great year and partry seem to be very good in cup competitions. Claremorris only just beat Ballyheane and Charlestown are capable of giving any side a good run on their day. I think we will see at least one upset in these games.Quote:
Originally Posted by Round Tower
when will round 3 be played?
It just shows Mayo youth football is strong ...... In the FAI Youth cup ... the west section, the last four remaining teams are from mayo, even though the section is mayo/sligo/leitrim/donegal. The 4 teams are Westport Utd, Castlebar Celtic, Ballyheane and Kilmurry .... well done to all involved
Very good alright, Ballyheane beating Letterkenny and Westport's win v Buncrana being the most impressive I think. Celtic got 2 byes, which is unfortunate, but nothing you can do. Boyle Celtic did not send a team down.Quote:
Originally Posted by swinfordfc
Kilmurry won 5-3 away to Snugb and 3-2 away to Conn Rangers. 2 brilliant wins for them which builds momentum nicely. Well done to all
Ballyheane hammering of Letterkenny Rovers was very impressive in fairest ..... def the stand out one ....
Interesting snippet in The Mayo News today..
http://www.mayonews.ie/index.php?opt...&Itemid=100008
Anyone able to shed any more light on it?
Who is over the Masters soccer side?
Has the squad been named?
Will it be a hybrid effort a la the compromise rules..??:)
I think they should make it a hybrid game.
1. Only allowed to tackle as per the finely tuned gaelic tackle.
2. Not allowed to handle the ball, but can only run with the ball if you soccer solo it down the field.
3. 15 aside.
presentation night
are the mayo league goin to announce the teams of the year before the dinner dance? or
do it on the night and have only half of the winners there.
From my reading of it it they will be announced on the night. so does that mean every team with their full panels's will attend in the event that one may or may not be picked?Quote:
Originally Posted by jim_bob
they should announce it a week before hand so that the winners can attend if they can.
but its the mayo league anything could happen.
i know from clewbays previous awards over the years the players who get awards do attend on the night to pick them up.
so its gonna be guess work for all teams this year.
They will be announced at the start of the week before hand. The league would hardly expect all teams and players to attend. Any predictions on the Teams of the Year??
Mayo League Annual Presentation Night
The Mayo Association Footbal League Presentation night will take place in The Welcome Inn Hotel Castlebar on Friday Night 18th November at 9pm.
The teams of the year, from all divisions, will be announced on the night.
Player of the Year, Goalkeeper of the Year, Goalscorer of the year.Hall of Fame, Secretary of the year, and many more awards will be presented.
The Special Guest of Honour will be announced closer to the night.
Above was taken from the Mayo F.A.I web site
Fair point. Only the mayo league would do this sort of thing!
any word on the oscar traynor panel lads? do we know whos on it yet?
Round 4 27th November
Manulla V Ballina Town
Claremorris V Urlaur
S&F V Celtic
Just a match report on yesterdays game between Ballina and Charlestown which I think has an effect on every soo called smaller clubs throughout Mayo.. First half of this match in truth seen Ballina dominate possession wise and chances created. First two of their goals scored after two identical goalmouth scrmbles which were very soft goals to concede. Charlestown then went up the pitch and were denied a stonewall pen when our winger was pulled back in front of goal and it was waved away by the ref, Ballina then went straight down the pitch and were awarded a deserved penalty which they converted before being denied a further 3 goals by great goalkeeping before Charlestown got straight back into game and pulled one back before half time. CUE the second half and some of the most biased refereein decions you are ever likely to see. Charlestown immediately went out attacking and would have been 5-3 up only for some very poor finishing having 3 one on ones with keeper missed (two having rounded the keeper) but shortly after got it back to 3-2. The ref then sent off a Ballina lad but little were we to know he was gonna fill in for him for the rest of the game. After this Charlestown were denied 3 stone wall penalties and every decision possible went against us. In only one penalty incident our striker crossed in the ball for an open goal and the defender used 2 hands to block the ball, when we asked the ref why it wasn given he said there were two men there and he didnt know which one handled it, funny thing was the defender was standing about 10 yards from the nearest Ballina or Charlestown player,unbelievable stuff. From then on we hit the crossbar twice and were clearly not going to get a chance to level as Ballinas new player was having a blinder and it finished 3-2. Ballinas bench embarrisingly admitted we deserved to win the game and couldnt believe we were not given at least 3 clear penalties (they were 60 yards from the action aswel) I go on this rant because this is meant to be one of the best refs in Mayo and he was never going to give us a chance to win the game from the off. It is public knowledge he does not like a member of our squad that was on the bench and some decisions seemed to be given to infuriate him more than anything. another possibility is he just did not want to see a lower division team progress to the next round. He during the game was even talking to one of the Ballina players telling him how he reffed a castlebar game recently and they were not great and Ballina would beat them next year.....very professional..... We as a team over the last few seasons have grown up and decided to just get on with things and not question decisions when atal possible but when faced with a game like this it is a wonder we play at all. If only Mayo had 20 Damien Mc Graths a good fair unbiased ref not afraid to make big decisions. On another note good luck to Ballina a very good side in rest of competition, in truth we wanted a crack at beating ye more than we wanted to progress to the next round. Rant over:-)
Please not 20 Damien one is bad enough if you are a Celtic supporter. Who was the ref?
2nd time in 2 seasons the same ref has been given this fixture. 1st time he sent Charlestowns keeper off and Charlestoen had only 1 player on the bench along with the manager and the ref held up the game having a row with the manager about organising a lines man for the far touch line even tho Ballina had about 15 people in the dug out. His report stated he was abused by the players and that the club brought the game into disrepute (a total lie, but the league are always going to side with the ref even tho Ballina defended Charlestown behaviour). He is hell bent on looking after the "super league" teams and on sunday the only shame was that there wasn't recording of the game or a referee assessor at the game to witness the embarrasing nature with which the Division 1 side were treated. He is a joke and has treated this club with contempt ever since he attended a function in years gone by and was berated by the league and the referee's society for going. Only way forward is to ask for a change of ref if he is appointed in the future or have a referee's assessor at the game to prevent further discrimination at his hands. After all he's the only one there getting paid!!!!
I was talking to someone that was at the Manulla Partry game and he said that some of the refs decisions were just comical. Its pretty unfair on players to have to put up with this but their isnt exactly a queue of people looking to become refs. I think most players just want the game to be fair.
On reading that report, one does have to feel very sorry for Charlestown. I've been to contentious games like that before and it is very easy to get infuriated. The West United v Westport United game in the Connacht Cup in 2009 sticks to mind.
I never tought him as of the top referee's in the county,maybe its because he referee Super-league games he taught to be one.On a side note there was areport in to-days Western People on the game and there was no mention of these penalties that was not given but did say that Ballina was given a hard game.
The report from the western was totally wrong and from the looks of it the reporter went home after the first half thinking ballina wud romp home, he reported two sent off so i would think if he was at the game he wud know only one ballina man seen red....... They should stick to what they are good at......Reportin on Gaelic hahaahah
Do they report on football, anytime I looked at it its all about GAA which they do very well
They had reports on the Ballina/Charlestown, Celtic/Bangor Hibs,FAI cup final and a no of youths games,Soccer is normaly poorly covered with maybe a 3/4 page with GAA 3 or 4 pages.Quote:
Originally Posted by Closing Time
RIP Brian Keane from Ballyglass football club who died today aged 25 in a car crash. thoughts are with your family, wife and kids. sadly missed Brian. RIP.