Maggiepie (Sligo) - Posts: 237 - 13/04/2026 18:23:31    2666235

Seriously spooked by the reaction to some of my comments. I genuinely can't see how I have been so offensive. I will leave the forum with my tail between my legs. Genuinely apologise if I was out of hand.

SligoScot (Sligo) - Posts: 80 - 13/04/2026 18:59:15    2666245

Shocking performance yesterday and poor sligo crowd nainly down to the price of a stand ticket Id imagine very short-sighted. Chopping and changing the team all league has come home to roost. Harte surely get a run now in goals going forward. Big improvement and reset needed for Tailteann Cup. Only positive is we have given lot of younger players a chance in the league. As well to stick with them at this stage as will benefit in the long term. Need to focus on working 2 pointers as we don't seem to have grasped the new rules at all. Day of winning matches by single pointers are long gone.

SuperSligo (Sligo) - Posts: 60 - 13/04/2026 19:34:11    2666247

Maggiepie (Sligo) - Posts: 237 - 13/04/2026 21:10:41    2666258

A tough day for Sligo yesterday, beaten by a better coached and more hungry and spirited Leitrim team. That was my take away having listened to Ocean FM whilst in holidays. Sligo have regressed badly it would seem and for supporters to be asking big questions is very understandable.
That all said, fair play to a very young Leitrim team on their first win over Sligo in 16+ years.

PeterQ92 (Donegal) - Posts: 181 - 13/04/2026 23:49:18    2666286

A few weeks back I posted a comment after watching Sligo play that they were not physically strong, mentally weak with no hunger or aggression in them and wow people are only now realising this.

This can't be coached, Sligo should have being like wild calves let out the door in Markeviz pk at 2.50pm rearing to go. I've seen it in their faces when they lose possession, there is no hunger to win back.

Looking at the likes of Armagh and Tyrone they look bulked and eager to win at all costs.

I said it before, our lads need bulking with supplements or extra chicken fillets along with heavy lifting.

If you can't physically match your opponent then your wasting your time.

sillymoocow (Sligo) - Posts: 19 - 14/04/2026 14:01:33    2666366

Faithfulmeath (Meath) - Posts: 57 - 14/04/2026 22:42:11    2666462

Southsligoman (Sligo) - Posts: 18 - 15/04/2026 07:40:29    2666480

Now that the dust is beginning to settle after the weekend it is time to wish Leitrim well against Galway and we need to radically look at our performance. Firstly I don't believe anyone was arrogant in the run up to the game. When we play Mayo/Ross/ Galway they always believe that they will beat us. When we turn them over now and again (minor last week) I don't call them arrogant for expecting to beat us. We expected to beat Leitrim but we didn't and the next time we play them we also expect to beat them and they probably feel the same way about playing us.

When the team was announced I have to say I was completely fooled. I never expected that team would be starting. After all the hot air over the last few months about building depth in a squad we were about to take the field with no fullback as Lyons was out . I am not privvy to what goes on at training but I would have great time for Conor Johnson.
Rossa Sloyane is better than at least 4 of the starting defenders.
Gavin Gorman did ok in the few league games he played but he got dropped for Sunday and a clearly unfit Cummins (who I have great time for) started midfield. Luke Towey who seemed to have found his mojo back at wing back at the end of the league was put into midfield a position he was tried earlier in the year and it didn't work out. So we went into battle with a makeshift midfield against a very strong Leitrim pair. MC Nulty scoring 1.06 tells us how that experiment Our corner forwards were withdrawn at half time which bluntly means that their selection didn't work out. A very out of sorts and dejected captain left the field shortly after. He has a lot of football played, he wasn't going well but I would have put my house on him to score the free Deignan missed. Words fail me when it comes to the last passage of play. These young players that have been introduced are learning nothing in this environment. They confidence in the team is on the floor and I'm not sure if they are capable of winning another game this year. I think a parting of ways with the mgt might be the best thing for all concerned. This is coming from someone who has consistently backed every manager Sligo had over the years. I was very happy after the game against Westmeath even though we lost but since then we have been a mess.

eoinog (Sligo) - Posts: 2375 - 15/04/2026 10:35:54    2666507

I see some posters are not trying to find excuses by blaming injuries. Lads cop on.
Carabine hasn't kicked a ball for Sligo in 2 years.
MC Guinness has played nothing this year
O Connor has only done a few minutes
Mullen played a bit earlier but nothing in the last few games.
The only player from the league panel that was missing was Evan.
I wasn't surprised by the result.

Taypot (Sligo) - Posts: 258 - 15/04/2026 15:09:19    2666589

SligoScot (Sligo) - Posts: 80 - 15/04/2026 15:20:25    2666591

Have reflected a lot on what supporters here have said as well as read and listened to the managements response in the media and a few things to note. This really was a case of Leitrim playing at their best (to their credit) and at our worst due to us being completely at sea due to poor team selection and tactics. It's been well documented how we let the likes of Prior and McNulty run riot which shouldn't be the case given the inside knowledge our management have or should have on Leitrim football scene. Morale among our lads is low and is evidenced in how we failed to respond to the first half goals in particular, we were in control of the game when the first went in playing against the wind but it didn't ignite any fight back at all.

Like other posters at the beginning of the league I was heartened by the performance in Westmeath a game we should have won given the amount of wides we had but also when I think back, management in that game forced on an unnecessary sub in added time which took an age and the referee saw the gamesmanship, played over the additional time announced and Westmeath scored twice to win the game by a point. From then on it was all downhill as we witnessed various experiments of players starting or not and we all know how the rest of the league went.

So onto the Tailteann Cup…well the new format won't suit us, because ya could get drawn against the likes of Westmeath or Clare away some of the upper end teams and it's hard to see a victory at current levels. Then you're into the defeated pot of teams and again with low morale it could all be over after two games.

I'm not a fan of joint managers I feel that there needs to be one boss on the sideline and should Sligo not get to at least a QF this year then the current set up cannot come back in the same guise next year in my view. We can list out all the players injured as an excuse but the game management and team selection has been woeful. As one poster said while Murphy wasn't playing well on Sunday he'd have been a good shout to score one of the two final frees. Taking off two lads at half time was an admittance the line got it wrong from the get go with team selection. I was disappointed that the media didn't probe that a little more in their interviews with management.

Sligoman1234 (Sligo) - Posts: 673 - 16/04/2026 06:57:53    2666682