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Mayo Request To Play League Final On Saturday

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i remember when winning the league was big now teams try to avoid it

highdropingball (Donegal) - Posts: 99 - 25/03/2023 12:39:52    2466429

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Replying To ForeverBlue2:  "No need for changing any game… Everyone knew the fixture list long before the league started including Mayo…. Just a self entitled rant by McStay who just loves yapping"
Everyone knew the fixture list apart from the GAA itself. It's down for Saturday on their own website.

Haven't heard McStay mention anything about it, but sure that makes no difference to you.

MayoDan (Mayo) - Posts: 414 - 25/03/2023 13:16:59    2466441

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Replying To PressureKick:  "The Connacht fixtures were made by Connacht council. Why don't you take that up with the CC chairman, who incidentally is a Mayo man

The league final has been set in stone for months (and indeed years) at this point. It's the second game on the Sunday along with the D2 final. It's the absolute height of arrogance to try to change that 8 days out from the game, and inconvenience multiple other teams in the process. Some team gets 6 days rest so Mayo can get 8. Incredible"
2019 the division 2 final was on the Saturday so it's not set in stone. 2023 is a whole new fixture schedule anyway so just repeating what was done previously makes no sense.

MayoDan (Mayo) - Posts: 414 - 25/03/2023 13:18:55    2466443

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Replying To highdropingball:  "i remember when winning the league was big now teams try to avoid it"
I think ye tried to hard.

Mfs (Mayo) - Posts: 251 - 25/03/2023 13:30:09    2466447

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Haha....just had a look at this thread and the whining and whinging is hilarious over a trivial matter. Too many children being allowed access to screens I'm afraid.

ponga (Mayo) - Posts: 647 - 25/03/2023 13:31:28    2466448

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Replying To nicko94:  "Yeah stupid remark... what victim card are you referring to?

Is there a single event in any of the All-Ireland finals that Mayo people keep referring back to as an injustice?

No there isn't..

So what actually are you on about? Such a silly comment. Explain it for us all here now that you've said it. I bet you won't."
Eh, blaming 72 years of failure on a fictitious "curse" maybe?
One lad I spoke to even blamed it for two of your Audi ambassadors running into each other in Limerick in 2014...

streaker (Galway) - Posts: 497 - 25/03/2023 13:34:30    2466450

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Replying To PressureKick:  "While that comment was harsh and I don't agree with it, are you personally joking or are you a teenager?

There are countless incidents in countless games that Mayo fans constantly refer back to. Take 1996 as your starting point

Even 2 posts below your comment you've a fan still complaining about a game being fixed in Limerick 9 years ago"
I could pick any county in the country and say the same for them in regards to playing victims? like why are Mayo in anyways special in relation to this? I could say Galway are victims because they complained about X, Cork are victims because they complained about Y, but I don't because that it just ridiculous stereotyping based on my own bias.

How can you stereotype a county/football team/fans? do you know every one of them? have you tracked all of their complaints since origin of the GAA? have you compared their levels of 'playing the victim card' compared to other counties? lets see those data sets then if you have, because then we can actually talk like adults.

The previous comment I was referring to is like something you'd find on YouTube comments or Facebook comments. The fact you tried to add your own deeply flawed logic to it and then refer to me as a teenager is just hilarious.

nicko94 (Mayo) - Posts: 68 - 25/03/2023 13:42:09    2466453

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Replying To PressureKick:  "While that comment was harsh and I don't agree with it, are you personally joking or are you a teenager?

There are countless incidents in countless games that Mayo fans constantly refer back to. Take 1996 as your starting point

Even 2 posts below your comment you've a fan still complaining about a game being fixed in Limerick 9 years ago"
Just to show you how deeply flawed and biased your logic is (and the galway commenter)....

Pick any county for me ....

I can get back to you with copy and pastes of comments blaming officials/ blaming college fixtures/blaming all sorts for their teams losing...

I would have an infinite supply of comments of people playing the 'victim card'...

So remind me again....why is Mayo somehow special in this regard?

nicko94 (Mayo) - Posts: 68 - 25/03/2023 13:57:14    2466458

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Replying To yew_tree:  "Some amount of bull being talked here mostly by our salty neighbours. Why should Mayo think of other teams? Didn't hear too much sympathy when we were sent to play An All Ireland semi final v Kerry in 2014 in a Munster venue we were very unfamiliar with at the time.

Anyway the fact is the GAA have made a balls of the fixtures. No way should championship start the week after the league finals. I've always said anyway the team that finishes top should be league champions. But it is what is and I'd much rather our current position then to be fighting relegation."
I think the records will show that i was equally vociferous in calling out the injustice to Mayo in 2014. I try to be consistent in terms of what is fair. But you have now reminded me about the outcry from Mayo supporters at the time, and they were right, because it was unfair...but the same Mayo supporters are saying now that they dont care about the fairness of the turnaround times, as long as its suits Mayo best . The same word keeps springing to mind...selfishness

anotheralias (Galway) - Posts: 839 - 25/03/2023 13:58:52    2466459

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Replying To streaker:  "Eh, blaming 72 years of failure on a fictitious "curse" maybe?
One lad I spoke to even blamed it for two of your Audi ambassadors running into each other in Limerick in 2014..."
Right...

Will I delve into the current Galway thread or the ones of old? I wonder how many comments will I be able to find blaming everyone except their team for their losses over the years? If you stick around I can copy and paste them to you here or send on your email even.

Even if I find dozens/hundreds of comments... I still wouldn't stereotype a whole county as one that plays the 'victim card'.

Ridiculous logic.

nicko94 (Mayo) - Posts: 68 - 25/03/2023 14:12:36    2466464

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Replying To streaker:  "Eh, blaming 72 years of failure on a fictitious "curse" maybe?
One lad I spoke to even blamed it for two of your Audi ambassadors running into each other in Limerick in 2014..."
https://hoganstand.com/Forum/Details/111756?Latest=1#Latest (Galway fans are blaming the referee for soft frees that 'cost' you lot the Ireland against Kerry) does this mean Galway are bad for victim blaming? or that just a special title for Mayo...

https://hoganstand.com/Forum/Details/111648?County=National&PageNumber=0&TopicID=111648 so are all the counties represented in this long thread complaining about venues bad for victim blaming too? or again is that just a special title for Mayo...

That's just from five minutes of looking.

nicko94 (Mayo) - Posts: 68 - 25/03/2023 14:21:47    2466471

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Replying To nicko94:  "Just to show you how deeply flawed and biased your logic is (and the galway commenter)....

Pick any county for me ....

I can get back to you with copy and pastes of comments blaming officials/ blaming college fixtures/blaming all sorts for their teams losing...

I would have an infinite supply of comments of people playing the 'victim card'...

So remind me again....why is Mayo somehow special in this regard?"
Exactly. We've seen Jack O'Connor blame the referee after losing to Donegal this year. P Joyce moans about something after every defeat, including the All Ireland final last year.

Imagine if James Horan or McStay did something similar? We'd never hear the end of it.

MayoDan (Mayo) - Posts: 414 - 25/03/2023 14:36:02    2466476

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I assume anotheralias = tomsmith

Immer (Mayo) - Posts: 31 - 25/03/2023 15:08:44    2466484

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Replying To endgame:  "I think Mayo are being overestimated based on League form but I'd still make ye strong favourites against us on Easter Sunday. Davy Burke needs more time with Roscommon to bring through players from the team that got to the U20 All Ireland final in 2021. Also we have a poor record against Mayo in Castlebar and indeed in The Hyde also. Yes we won in Castlebar against the odds in 2019 but Roscommon's previous championship win there against Mayo was in 1986. We haven't beaten Mayo in a Connacht Final in Castlebar since 1979. That was our great 4 in a row Connacht team who were also League champions that year and could or should have been All Ireland champions the following year. I think Galway will win Connacht this year despite the hype about Mayo and indeed the hype about Roscommon early in the League when we won 3 games in a row."
I'd still have us favourites for Easter Sunday Endgame, but not as heavy favourites as the league form suggests. I remember that great Roscommon team of the 70s well. I started going to matches in the 70s, a barren decade for us. A brilliant Roscommon team and Gerry Fitzmaurice from Glaveys, about 6 miles from my home place. Old traumas has me programmed to never underestimate ye!

GreenandRed (Mayo) - Posts: 7324 - 25/03/2023 16:58:38    2466524

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Replying To PoolSturgeon:  "For any "normal" thinking county, you're right, tomorrow's game ought to be a challenge match. Basically they should be fielding their fringe players and giving the majority of their first team a rest weekend. But this is Mayo.....for some inexplicable reason they want to go all out to win a match that has no consequences for them just because they want to turn McHale Park into a fortress. Now making it into a fortress for championship matches makes sense but doing so for what for them is an inconsequential league game is pure lunacy."
You obviously haven't seen the Mayo team named for tomorrow.

MayoDan (Mayo) - Posts: 414 - 25/03/2023 17:17:54    2466534

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Replying To GreenandRed:  "I'd still have us favourites for Easter Sunday Endgame, but not as heavy favourites as the league form suggests. I remember that great Roscommon team of the 70s well. I started going to matches in the 70s, a barren decade for us. A brilliant Roscommon team and Gerry Fitzmaurice from Glaveys, about 6 miles from my home place. Old traumas has me programmed to never underestimate ye!"
Incredibly Mayo didn't win a Senior Connacht title throughout the whole decade of the 1970s. Not a lot of people know that.! Galway dominated the first half of the 70s bar '72 which Roscommon won and Roscommon dominated the second half of the 70s. Sligo won a rare one in 1975 winning a replay in Castlebar.

endgame (Roscommon) - Posts: 2154 - 25/03/2023 17:32:00    2466538

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Replying To PoolSturgeon:  "For any "normal" thinking county, you're right, tomorrow's game ought to be a challenge match. Basically they should be fielding their fringe players and giving the majority of their first team a rest weekend. But this is Mayo.....for some inexplicable reason they want to go all out to win a match that has no consequences for them just because they want to turn McHale Park into a fortress. Now making it into a fortress for championship matches makes sense but doing so for what for them is an inconsequential league game is pure lunacy."
'For some inexplicable reason' 'pure lunacy' - said poolsturgeon from his sofa.

You ever think ...that maybe all those involved know an ungodly amount more than you do?

Your view of things as merely a spectator gives you zero information on how the players feel day to day...for all you know all the usual starters could be dying to play again tomorrow and in great shape to do so....

Actually no.. poolsturgeon knows all ...maybe somebody should get you a position on one of the backroom teams instead of wasting your wisdom on Hoganstand.


(Also the starting team has been named and its a second string team, so that goes against everything you were raving about)

nicko94 (Mayo) - Posts: 68 - 25/03/2023 17:56:13    2466544

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Replying To nicko94:  "Just to show you how deeply flawed and biased your logic is (and the galway commenter)....

Pick any county for me ....

I can get back to you with copy and pastes of comments blaming officials/ blaming college fixtures/blaming all sorts for their teams losing...

I would have an infinite supply of comments of people playing the 'victim card'...

So remind me again....why is Mayo somehow special in this regard?"
My god you really are on some ramble. Instead of crying about why 'some' other counties in Ireland perceive you as complainers about incidents, why don't you look internally at your fans as to the reasons that's the case.

Pat McEneaney recieving threats in the mail post the 96 all Ireland. A fan running onto the pitch in Limerick in 2014 and needing to be restrained. An orchastrated social media campaign against Diarmiud Connolly. Coining a nickname 'Dublin Joe' about a referee just trying to do his job. Thats just a few examples

PressureKick (UK) - Posts: 208 - 25/03/2023 18:13:54    2466549

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Replying To PoolSturgeon:  "For any "normal" thinking county, you're right, tomorrow's game ought to be a challenge match. Basically they should be fielding their fringe players and giving the majority of their first team a rest weekend. But this is Mayo.....for some inexplicable reason they want to go all out to win a match that has no consequences for them just because they want to turn McHale Park into a fortress. Now making it into a fortress for championship matches makes sense but doing so for what for them is an inconsequential league game is pure lunacy."
BS post (not your first mind you, but usually you keep your lack of knowledge and information to the hurling), as Mayo has named only about 3 regular starters and the other 12 or so are fringe players.

foreveryoung (USA) - Posts: 1902 - 25/03/2023 18:38:36    2466553

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The amount of outsiders triggered by Mayo is hilarious. If they don't do well in the league they are criticised for not building momentum etc. If they do well and try and keep winning they are slated for looking good early in the year. He has used a heap of players and has made a load of changes again on Sunday. They will probably still win as players are playing for places. At this stage I don't care.

TheFlaker (Mayo) - Posts: 7882 - 25/03/2023 18:47:26    2466555

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