Failing to bring on Fallon in the 96 final after getting man of the match the previous day. If we could have only brougth him on for the last ten minutes. But apparently he was not one of the five named subs on the day and if he was brought on the county board could have been fined around five hundred pounds. That was on top of not playing O'Neill and McDonald that day. And we wonder what the curse on Mayo football is. If we had won that day how many finals might we have won since. Even more maddening is our failure to learn from past mistakes.

xxx (Mayo) - Posts: 1275 - 10/07/2008 12:03:39    46195

xxx
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46195 Even more maddening is our failure to learn from past mistakes.

Maybe thats out curse xxx.
My best was in 2004 Semi against galway being down a good few at half time and having to listen to a few cocky galway lads, then watching them leave early as mayo began to shine :-D

Worst was sitting in the Cresent Pub in the Na watching Ballina in the AI club final (i think it was 1999) and loosing out in that game. I was hart broken for the boys that day but we marched on... ;-)

FromTheNa (Mayo) - Posts: 583 - 10/07/2008 14:12:57    46313

Best moment for a Mayo supporter:
The run up to the 2008 Connacht Senior Football Final.

Worst moment for a Mayo supporter:
The 2008 Connacht Senior Football Final.

;)

festinog (Galway) - Posts: 3148 - 13/07/2008 19:14:05    47495

Sundays game definately goes into "the one that got away" category
festinog - dont tell me you werent worried when mayo scored that goal :-P

FromTheNa (Mayo) - Posts: 583 - 14/07/2008 11:39:13    47745

From the Na, I honestly dont think Galway were too worried when Mayo scored that goal. There was still plenty of time left and no need to panic. If anything the goal did ye'z no favours as it put you ahead with nothing to chase for, perhaps believing ye had done enough. U were well on top at the time of the goal but fell to pieces again in the last 5 mins when close games are truely won and lost.

mossbags (Galway) - Posts: 1089 - 14/07/2008 14:04:52    47971