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Replying To jm25:  "Ah yeah it was fairly nailed on he'd play senior same with Conor Mortimer Sam Callanan Aidan ose at that age too were in same bracket it's not extra ordinary.

What I'm disputing is more then one here has said on here is he's destined to be a superstar at senior level

Michael Meehan is another at that age who had done a lot more for jarlaths caltra and Galway underage then Kobe has yet and his senior career until towards end was underwhelming.

For every Marty Clarke mcbrearty Clifford there are numerous players who don't come through

Ask anyone in Galway 30 years ago who is the surest 17/18 year old that will be a senior for Galway you likely wouldn't have been told Savage Joyce Donnellan or Clancy as no 1"
I said he was going to be a top senior player and I stand by that. I don't care about posters talking rubbish. Ye lads are worse for debating with him.

Meehan was class and even though he was hampered by injury he was still class in an average enough Galway team at that time.

Aidan O Shea has been brilliant for Mayo even if he has had some bad days. Conor Mortimer was good but thought he was Clifford. Sam Callinan is very good and will be back to form at some stage but you are throwing out random names. Not even sure why you included them. McDonald a better player at his age then the ones you mentioned. For a variety of reasons some of which are obvious.

TheFlaker (Mayo) - Posts: 8640 - 16/11/2025 22:29:27    2644895

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Replying To brayballer:  "No you did nt.You stated he would probably be better than Clifford.Big difference between probably and potentially."
Lol

S1234 (Mayo) - Posts: 524 - 16/11/2025 23:49:06    2644905

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Replying To jm25:  "More sides then a 50p coin"
I think that poster is best ignored. Ballina doing what I thought they would do. Mayo Senior club football is a joke. Our junior and intermediate championships are much more entertaining.

yew_tree (Mayo) - Posts: 11820 - 17/11/2025 06:13:47    2644915

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Replying To yew_tree:  "I think that poster is best ignored. Ballina doing what I thought they would do. Mayo Senior club football is a joke. Our junior and intermediate championships are much more entertaining."
Lol

S1234 (Mayo) - Posts: 524 - 17/11/2025 09:55:36    2644939

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Replying To TheFlaker:  "I said he was going to be a top senior player and I stand by that. I don't care about posters talking rubbish. Ye lads are worse for debating with him.

Meehan was class and even though he was hampered by injury he was still class in an average enough Galway team at that time.

Aidan O Shea has been brilliant for Mayo even if he has had some bad days. Conor Mortimer was good but thought he was Clifford. Sam Callinan is very good and will be back to form at some stage but you are throwing out random names. Not even sure why you included them. McDonald a better player at his age then the ones you mentioned. For a variety of reasons some of which are obvious."
Callinan is class had a weird year last year still very young but is he not a good example to Kobe?

Did a serious job man marking Shane Walsh a couple of times when what 18 ?? and looked like been another great mayo defender now in early 20s struggling for form and a place on mayo team

Didnt go well v Bridget's yesterday

jm25 (Galway) - Posts: 1752 - 17/11/2025 10:14:29    2644950

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Replying To jm25:  "Callinan is class had a weird year last year still very young but is he not a good example to Kobe?

Did a serious job man marking Shane Walsh a couple of times when what 18 ?? and looked like been another great mayo defender now in early 20s struggling for form and a place on mayo team

Didnt go well v Bridget's yesterday"
Sam Calinan is back in form this year. Your right when you say not a good example to Kobe though.

In fairness the whole of Ballina didn't go well yesterday not just Calinan.

S1234 (Mayo) - Posts: 524 - 17/11/2025 10:55:43    2644964

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Well lads just wondering what sort of team Kiltimagh are? Our champions Aughavas won yesterday and play them in Connacht Final. Would be huge for a Leitrim club to win a Connacht title , would be the first football team to do so, but id imagine any team that comes out of Mayo will be strong.

JimmyNail (Leitrim) - Posts: 309 - 17/11/2025 11:07:55    2644974

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Replying To jm25:  "Callinan is class had a weird year last year still very young but is he not a good example to Kobe?

Did a serious job man marking Shane Walsh a couple of times when what 18 ?? and looked like been another great mayo defender now in early 20s struggling for form and a place on mayo team

Didnt go well v Bridget's yesterday"
Different type of player. Never talked about in same way as Mullen and Hanley. Kobe is a 6ft 3 athletic freak who can kick long range frees. And can score off either foot. There's a reason he is talked about a little differently.

TheFlaker (Mayo) - Posts: 8640 - 17/11/2025 11:20:26    2644981

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Replying To JimmyNail:  "Well lads just wondering what sort of team Kiltimagh are? Our champions Aughavas won yesterday and play them in Connacht Final. Would be huge for a Leitrim club to win a Connacht title , would be the first football team to do so, but id imagine any team that comes out of Mayo will be strong."
Kiltimagh had 45 on the panel for the county junior final - they are an intermediate team who had a bad season last year.
Could go all the way in the junior All Ireland if they have the desire for it (which was a problem for a long time)

tirawleybaron (Mayo) - Posts: 1647 - 17/11/2025 11:33:52    2644985

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Replying To JimmyNail:  "Well lads just wondering what sort of team Kiltimagh are? Our champions Aughavas won yesterday and play them in Connacht Final. Would be huge for a Leitrim club to win a Connacht title , would be the first football team to do so, but id imagine any team that comes out of Mayo will be strong."
I watched Kiltimagh in their quarter final in Mayo.
Should have won that game a lot more comfortably than they did.
They're a strong team (as Croans the Ros champions were too).
A word of caution - Carna-Caiseal the Galway champions were a very average side. They won the Galway junior very unexpectedly coming from the weaker side of the draw (avoided a few stronger teams in the North on the way to the final as the Galway c'ship is divisional up to the county final). Lost a promotion play off then to a senior club's B team, so they remain junior for next year.
Kiltimagh would be a big step up in class from them.

galwayman2 (Galway) - Posts: 1332 - 17/11/2025 11:41:49    2644987

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Replying To TheFlaker:  "Different type of player. Never talked about in same way as Mullen and Hanley. Kobe is a 6ft 3 athletic freak who can kick long range frees. And can score off either foot. There's a reason he is talked about a little differently."
Mullen kinda came from nowhere in 2020 played in a stinking day v Galway u20 missed the last peno.

Nobody seen an all star ypoty that day coming later that year.

McLaughlin Galway midfielder was way more hyped and I think has been for afl trials but barely strung a run of games since.

He could be another Fenton who knows but just cool yet jets on a lad so young there's a lot to put on his plate

I'm sure he's well grounded if he's anything like his father

jm25 (Galway) - Posts: 1752 - 17/11/2025 11:46:28    2644989

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Callinan I thought was one of Ballinas clear stand out players yesterday. The main problem for Ballina yesterday was their game plan and poor match ups, Roscommon Gaels did similar against Brigids recently and suffered a similar defeat.

O'Hora for example who was a late inclusion to the starting team seem to be in no man's land with the role he was given with a lot of the game roaming around the half forward line, surely he should be in a set position in the spine of defence?

The_analyser (Roscommon) - Posts: 4206 - 17/11/2025 12:13:23    2645002

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Replying To jm25:  "Mullen kinda came from nowhere in 2020 played in a stinking day v Galway u20 missed the last peno.

Nobody seen an all star ypoty that day coming later that year.

McLaughlin Galway midfielder was way more hyped and I think has been for afl trials but barely strung a run of games since.

He could be another Fenton who knows but just cool yet jets on a lad so young there's a lot to put on his plate

I'm sure he's well grounded if he's anything like his father"
You seem to think I am calling him a great. I am not. I am saying he would be a senior starter and a free taker from the ground so he's a loss full stop. Argue away with other posters who want to compare him to x,y or z, I won't be doing that.

Mullen did not come from nowhere. Again was seen as a definite senior starter as a teenager.

TheFlaker (Mayo) - Posts: 8640 - 17/11/2025 12:57:55    2645014

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Replying To TheFlaker:  "Different type of player. Never talked about in same way as Mullen and Hanley. Kobe is a 6ft 3 athletic freak who can kick long range frees. And can score off either foot. There's a reason he is talked about a little differently."
Callinan was a Mayo senior player at a younger age than Hanley, who came on for a few games at 19. Hanley was a good prospect after he left but he was by no means the most hyped young player in Connacht at the time, never mind Ireland. Mullen seems to have gone from being a good player coming off a poor year for Mayo, to the best defender in Ireland in the time he's been away

We see these underage superstars all the time and for every one that comes along and has a decent career like Aidan 0'Shea, there's many more that fall by the wayside. Ruari Canavan did the most freakish things as an underage player outside of Clifford in the last decade. He comes from even better stock than McDonald given who his father is. And he's still struggling to get a starting position for Tyrone. That's not to say he won't make it into a top forward, but it often takes quite a bit of time. Galway saw that with Meehan who was another insane underage player, winning motm in club all ireland finals at 18, as well as hogan cups and u21 all irelands. It was far more likely McDonald would follow a similar route than a Clifford who's the one big outlier recently. If he ends up coming back then the time away from that scene as a young adult could stand to him if anything

PressureKick (UK) - Posts: 323 - 17/11/2025 13:33:38    2645018

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Watched game back after being there live and Callinan had a very good game, the one player you would pick out from Ballina and say yeah , he is inter county standard. Murray at midfield had excellent second half.
Ballina have a bit of a legacy with basketball like tactics and seemed to choose marking space. Never going to work against Brigids whom you need to mark as tight as you can man to man as long as you have the energy for it. We got unbelievable space to work with yesterday and will always be devastating in those circumstances.

facethepuckout (Roscommon) - Posts: 226 - 17/11/2025 14:12:54    2645034

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Replying To PressureKick:  "Callinan was a Mayo senior player at a younger age than Hanley, who came on for a few games at 19. Hanley was a good prospect after he left but he was by no means the most hyped young player in Connacht at the time, never mind Ireland. Mullen seems to have gone from being a good player coming off a poor year for Mayo, to the best defender in Ireland in the time he's been away

We see these underage superstars all the time and for every one that comes along and has a decent career like Aidan 0'Shea, there's many more that fall by the wayside. Ruari Canavan did the most freakish things as an underage player outside of Clifford in the last decade. He comes from even better stock than McDonald given who his father is. And he's still struggling to get a starting position for Tyrone. That's not to say he won't make it into a top forward, but it often takes quite a bit of time. Galway saw that with Meehan who was another insane underage player, winning motm in club all ireland finals at 18, as well as hogan cups and u21 all irelands. It was far more likely McDonald would follow a similar route than a Clifford who's the one big outlier recently. If he ends up coming back then the time away from that scene as a young adult could stand to him if anything"
Jesus lads I am talking about Mayo starters. I am not saying all these players are all time greats. Please stop replying with stupid posts as if I am saying Mayo lost the greatest players in Ireland. Does that clear it up?

TheFlaker (Mayo) - Posts: 8640 - 17/11/2025 15:27:40    2645059

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Replying To TheFlaker:  "You seem to think I am calling him a great. I am not. I am saying he would be a senior starter and a free taker from the ground so he's a loss full stop. Argue away with other posters who want to compare him to x,y or z, I won't be doing that.

Mullen did not come from nowhere. Again was seen as a definite senior starter as a teenager."
Never said nowhere but similar to magic Thompson this time last year nobody had him earmarked as senior starter that yr or ypoty pre covid.

Is kobe playing schools? Muiredecks I presume.

Mayo have some really tidy forwards coming through and I'd see Lydon Beirne as certs for senior in next few years.

if I was a betting man he will be back by 21

jm25 (Galway) - Posts: 1752 - 17/11/2025 15:28:18    2645060

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Replying To jm25:  "Never said nowhere but similar to magic Thompson this time last year nobody had him earmarked as senior starter that yr or ypoty pre covid.

Is kobe playing schools? Muiredecks I presume.

Mayo have some really tidy forwards coming through and I'd see Lydon Beirne as certs for senior in next few years.

if I was a betting man he will be back by 21"
Not sure who in Mayo you know but Mullen was earmarked as a starter all the way through.

TheFlaker (Mayo) - Posts: 8640 - 17/11/2025 16:01:09    2645074

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Replying To TheFlaker:  "Not sure who in Mayo you know but Mullen was earmarked as a starter all the way through."
We will leave it talking over possibilities and intangibles

jm25 (Galway) - Posts: 1752 - 17/11/2025 16:31:25    2645082

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Replying To PressureKick:  "Callinan was a Mayo senior player at a younger age than Hanley, who came on for a few games at 19. Hanley was a good prospect after he left but he was by no means the most hyped young player in Connacht at the time, never mind Ireland. Mullen seems to have gone from being a good player coming off a poor year for Mayo, to the best defender in Ireland in the time he's been away

We see these underage superstars all the time and for every one that comes along and has a decent career like Aidan 0'Shea, there's many more that fall by the wayside. Ruari Canavan did the most freakish things as an underage player outside of Clifford in the last decade. He comes from even better stock than McDonald given who his father is. And he's still struggling to get a starting position for Tyrone. That's not to say he won't make it into a top forward, but it often takes quite a bit of time. Galway saw that with Meehan who was another insane underage player, winning motm in club all ireland finals at 18, as well as hogan cups and u21 all irelands. It was far more likely McDonald would follow a similar route than a Clifford who's the one big outlier recently. If he ends up coming back then the time away from that scene as a young adult could stand to him if anything"
One of the reasons Meehan took awhile to 'settle in' 2003-2006 was because PJ was 'managing' back then too 'under' Peter Forde, and with himself and Donnellan back in that era imo, there was no room for another golden boy. PJ didn't appear to appreciate what he had in Meehan until about 2008, and by then his legs were going. 'Lost in Transition' could be the chapter in all their books, dealing with the 2004-2010 time frame. By 2011, Mayo would be too good for us for a number of years.

Pope_Benedict (Galway) - Posts: 4472 - 17/11/2025 16:38:39    2645084

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