Replying To eoinog:  "A big game this weekend and Sligo GAA are having face painting and meet and greet with the players before the game. You couldn't make this up. Maybe the Co Board are hoping that they will create a carnival atmosphere and people won't mention the state of the pitch."

Replying To S1234:  "All the Galwgions on here cheering on Sligo is so sad ! There's no way mayo will loose to Sligo."

Replying To eoinog:  "Rightly or wrongly the Co Board have decided that the league will be finished according to the Master fixtures. One club who couldn't field due to covid appealed to Connacht and lost. Personally I don't understand why all players can't take a bit of responsibility and get vaccinated. There are walk in clinics the last couple of weekends. Close contacts can't play if not vaccinated, casual contacts can play irrespective of having the vaccine or not. Training is deemed casual contact so obviously players are still traveling together to games and training which is against the rules. It looks like the better managed clubs continue to play without any hassle. Covid is in every club it's about how you adhere to rules I like several other posters who were unhappy that the fixtures took so long to get published and when we get to see them along come Croke Park and fix the Dublin v Mayo game on a Sat evening which makes a mess of the fixtures. Brilliant to see Sligo minors in an All Ireland semi final. That will also impede on the fixtures for that day which are already on the website"

Replying To Sligonian:  "Your post is just about balanced enough I will give you that but has inaccuracies. If you look back through my posts I actually do give McEntee credit when we win or he gets the team and changes right. He is not fully to blame when we lose or win. But some of his decisions for us have annoyed me and I feel just held us back. I don't think pointing them out is disrespectful towards him. I agree with your point on S&C as a basic minimum starting point but that is player driven. Under Taylor we have 10 or so even using the gym in scarden compared to 100+ different players on S&C from 17 up now. That's the underage success bounce. Whatever Senior manager is charge will benefit from that and have us in a better place. When McEntee took the job over I said 2 things I would judge him on outside of results in terms of improvement was the pace of the team to stay with runners from deep and not conceding goals. The last minute Galway goal was a 5 on 2, and Antrim missed 2 easy goal chances. This is even with the quality of players at his disposal improving drastically. I am not sure of our defensive set up. I would add certain players in the defence wouldn't be near my 26 squad and that's a problem for me. Every game I see them make mistakes, not cover back or read danger but are the first to join in attack. If I was an opposing manager I wouldn't fear the our defensive structure at all, in fact I see loads of holes in it. McEntee doesn't buy into Sport psychology, so Caroline will never be involved as long as he is there. That is very frustrating because mindset is very important. I honestly believe she would want to be involved with Sligo with the right set up, but I can't speak for her. The Molaise link is below the belt and not accurate, I've always been county first and always will be and objective in my analysis. I grew up in the unamalgamated club. I never said McLoughlin was a top forward in the province. Did you read the comments on Lally who from our rival neighbouring club. Keaney's performance in the county final deserved more of a chance than 1 Connacht league game on astro turf and January challenges when he's flat out with sigerson. Would anyone argue that point given his underage performances too? Will every underage player be judged the same way in January. Not many will make it through if that's the player pathway. Now players do need to have the right attitude, be coachable and train better in those months but from my knowledge McEntee has his favorites and was reluctant to bring through players. His team selections are conservative and he rarely changes it up unless forced to so its hard to breakthrough. Canice would not be starting if certain injuries hadn't happened as an example. This is year 4 of McEntee and year 6 of Keane's coaching so Rome certainly wasn't built in a day. Lastly, I actually think McEntee being manager is part of the reason for the lack of interest in the seniors which actually isn't right. Sligo people should support the Seniors regardless of who is in charge imo. It should be an interesting to see how we get on for the remainder of the season. Bumblebee, would you keep McEntee on for another year if a McGowan/Mark McHugh/Currid ticket was available and achievable? Do the remaining Tailtean results have any impact in that decision in your opinion?"

Replying To Bumblebee123:  "Great post breaking ball. In one sense, I see what the CCC was thinking but as westvoice aluded to, their tenure has been very poor. They hoped to get more league games with county players. I said earlier on in the year ot wouldn't work because a lot of the country players would travel with the split season and that's exactly how it has happened. There are guys on that who never played adult football so why would they be making decisions on how it is ran? So here's my plan to help adult club football in Sligo. 1. Release master calendar right after intercounty fixtures are confirmed and agree them with player reps as suggested by breaking ball. Get the backing. 2. League fixtures should be released in january once master calendar is confirmed. Championsip fixtures with weekend dates should be released by easter. This doesnt seem important bur again, groups of 5 means everyone has a bye. This is important info that clubs need to know. Dates and times should be at least a month in advance. There's no excuse (with the exception of the last round of tailteann understandably). 2. Make the warm up league four or five separate 6 team competitions (2 groups of 3 with winners through to a final). 2 games is enough and let teams pick their own challenges e.g, coolera, carry, Mary's, John's, molaise, DRP play in the joe bloggs cup. Don't need to go past that. 3. Start the league in late April. Play a couple of rounds. Play a round after Sligos first champ game so if they get knocked out and there is a 3/4 week gap to tailteann, county lads might get released for a game. Then when tailteann/aa starts, give a mid season break to clubs in early June. A 3 week break with the last one left for back games. This will allow club players a chance to break before a heavy secondary part of the season. Starting earlier allows this break plus a couple of weekends for back games. 4. Play div 1 and 2 games on weekends sligo have games on a saturday/sunday. Not a friday when sligo are training. This will allow sligo management to release players who are not in gameday 26. On training weekends , they train Sunday so lads won't be released anyway. These weekends, play friday/Saturday. And get rid of 5pm Sunday games. 5. An extra division. I think there are some junior C teams in the county. And I think division 3 is a bridge too far for some junior b teams. So why not have division 1 (10 teams), (10 teams) and divisions 3, 4 and 5 (all with 8 teams and additional couple in div 4 and 5 if needed). This could keep it more competitive in junior and encourage more to play. We need bigger numbers. Lot of clubs not bothering with second/third teams. 6. Increase media coverage of the league. Ask clubs for pictures and get them our there. I think the Sligo PRO shares them but can we get them on the papers? 7. Leave a gap between league final and championship. Being in a final almost hinders a team starting championship the following week. We've seen it countless times. 8. The above would allow clubs to put in requests much earlier and leave fewer excuses for changes. CCC should have ex players on it. Simple as. Lot of praise for Sean Carroll here but I think the CCC have been an absolute shambles."

Replying To Sligonian:  "I have to take back my optimism for the minors, one of the worst halves of football I have ever seen. Mayo 3-9 Sligo 0-5 at HT. Mayo are not impressive which tells you all you need to know. Feeney, Lang and Donoughue carrying the fight, fair play to them. Very disappointing after such a strong finish the last day. Nowhere near the same work ethic or intensity being shown today."