Mayo by a country Mile.

Two Finals TWO hammerings.

Definitely not Armagh One All Ireland and 7 ulsters....isnt that something like 6 more titles than Mayo...maybe more?

Armaghgeddon (Armagh) - Posts: 539 - 03/09/2008 17:12:46    92048

Possibly Armaghgeddon, if you know nothing about GAA.

patrique (Antrim) - Posts: 13709 - 03/09/2008 18:16:34    92120

OK, a team that could be winning all Ireland's but is consistently failing?

Well it has to be said but only one team truly fits that bill this decade, and I know it may be the wrong time to say it, but that is Waterford. In the top 3/4 all decade this is their first final, having managed to lose to Wexford and limerick the two years they were expected to maybe go all the way.

patrique (Antrim) - Posts: 13709 - 03/09/2008 20:24:53    92162

Definitely the Dubs since about 1997 on. Mayo never had it to bottle it.

dingle1 (Clare) - Posts: 805 - 03/09/2008 23:29:48    92248

Mayo ... by a long shot ... it's a given ... in fcat the title of this should be "Biggest Bottlers (except Mayo)"

FarneyBoy (Monaghan) - Posts: 151 - 04/09/2008 09:47:05    92374

DUBLIN. Mayo have made three AI finals since '97 thats more than armagh, cork and the same as tyrone

Keane16 (Kerry) - Posts: 306 - 04/09/2008 11:27:10    92541

Keane16
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92541 DUBLIN. Mayo have made three AI finals since '97 thats more than armagh, cork and the same as tyrone

yes and won none

samin10 (Armagh) - Posts: 2434 - 04/09/2008 11:42:32    92564

Ya i know but the fact is they have come up against the might of the kingdom all 3 times. And i know before you say it ye beat us bla bla bla. I think you have to admit mayo have had more of an impact than ye in the championship over last 10 years.

Keane16 (Kerry) - Posts: 306 - 04/09/2008 11:48:10    92579

i have to laugh at the armagh posters, must be sickening to see your neighbours getting further in the all-ireland series and all your "coveted" ulster titles mean absoulutely nothing in the scheme of things when watching in the chair. I will be in croke park cheering on my county in the minor final samin, where will you be? i will give you a wave on the telly. Maigh Eo Ábu.

saddam (Mayo) - Posts: 414 - 04/09/2008 12:22:38    92612

In the period from 2000 - 2008

Mayo: 4 Connacht wins, 1 NFL win, 1 U-21 win - Achieved with what most people on this board and around the country consider an ordinary bunch of players.

Armagh: 7 Ulster wins, 1 All Ireland, 1 NFL, 1 U-21 - Achieved by a team that most Armagh and Ulster people hail as one of the great teams of our generation.

Absolute bottlers Armagh. Let's look at the players you had - McConville, Hearty, Bellew, McGeaney, Toal, McGrane, McDonnell, Clarke, Marsden.

Now go on with yourself and get back to your bottle factory.

Keano (Mayo) - Posts: 412 - 04/09/2008 12:23:25    92615

ill give him a wave too but only during the minor match ive better things to be doing at 3.30 than watching tyrones demise

ball-boy (Mayo) - Posts: 4211 - 04/09/2008 12:25:48    92621

saddam fair play to you, maybe see you there, give a wave to ballboy he will be watching on his plasma that the dubs paid for :) i am not one bit sickened, do i wish it was armagh, yes. But my conscilation is that it is not mayo and therefor it will be worth watching. i have family in tyrone who i have went to alot of trouble to organise tickets for, so all being well i will be there cheering them on against both mayo and kerry, although i might not bother with the minor game cause its already a certainty that tyrone will win that.

Keane how do you figure? big deal we have come up against the kingdom 4 times in championship football over the past 8 years, unlike mayo we have managed to beat the kingdom. if getting to a final and then getting slaughtered in the final is an influence on the championship then you are right.

1999 ulster chapions beaten narrowly by eventual champions meath in all-ireland semi final
2000 ulster chapions beaten after two and a half games by eventual champions kerry in all-ireland semi final
2001 beaten by eventual chapmions galway in quater final by a point
2002 ulster champions, Beat tyrone, donegal, dublin and kerry on way to winning all-ireland
2003 beaten narrowly in all-ireland final
2004 ulster chapions beaten by a point by fermanagh
2005 ulster champions and beaten by injury time point by tyrone in semi final who went onto win well against kerry in all-ireland final
2006 ulster champions, well beaten in the end by kerry who went onto win all-ireland at a canter (might as well been the final)
2007 poor year
2008 ulster champions well beaten in end by wexford

now compare mayo's for a laugh, got a couple of handy runs to all-ireland finals and got humiliated.

samin10 (Armagh) - Posts: 2434 - 04/09/2008 12:46:32    92663

keano thats priceless, first of all you compare trophies, not much of a comparison. then you list players who apparently in 2002 were over the hill and finished, catch a grip man.

if bottlers mean underachieving then i agree we should have won more all-irelands. personnally i think bottling it means getting to the latter stages and completely freezing ala mayo 2004 and 2006, getting completely humiliated which is something that never happened to armagh.

samin10 (Armagh) - Posts: 2434 - 04/09/2008 12:52:16    92676

keano spot on mate, when will they ever learn their place, armagh a bunch of nearly men and that how they will always be remembered- imagine being about 6th best in your provience- thats embarassing. mayo have always being there even since before football was invented in 2000

ball-boy (Mayo) - Posts: 4211 - 04/09/2008 12:52:32    92678

I'm sure samin10 has better things to be doing than watchin Mayo clowns waving from Croker during a minor match.

derfil1 (Kildare) - Posts: 1612 - 04/09/2008 12:56:30    92685

ah bless sam have ou bought a tyrone jersey now too to go with your mayo one- all ireland sundays mayo and kerry playing and armagh gone for well over a month out of everything- sound about right doesnt it :)

you crack me up sam you really do, id say you might even believe what post thats whats so funny about it, beaten by wexford and still taking a good game- oh my god, please sam you have the floor please by all means embarass yourself

ball-boy (Mayo) - Posts: 4211 - 04/09/2008 12:57:48    92690

i will reply in an hour or so when i decode you're post.

samin10 (Armagh) - Posts: 2434 - 04/09/2008 13:04:29    92698

ah bless sam, just run and hide and stop making excuses when you have been proved wrong for about the millionth time- 2 constants in life- death and you not having a clue :)

ball-boy (Mayo) - Posts: 4211 - 04/09/2008 13:09:56    92704

samin10 - you asked somebody to compare Mayo's All-Ireland record with the Orange Order Armagh. Right so, I surely will young lad:

Mayo: 3 x Senior
4 x U-21
6 x Minor
11 x NFL

Armagh: 1 x Senior
1 x U-21
1 X Minor
1 x NFL

You're not really in the same league as us Kiddles. And what's funnier is that you blew the only top-class panel you ever had by being bottlers.

Keano (Mayo) - Posts: 412 - 04/09/2008 13:14:44    92712

mayo.

OLLIE (Louth) - Posts: 12224 - 04/09/2008 13:31:19    92731