Mayo v New York

Exam commitments has ruled three Mayo players out of next month's Connacht SFC opener against New York at Gaelic Park.

Kenneth O'Malley, Mark Ronaldson and Seamus O'Shea won't be making the trip to the Big Apple, while Conor Mortimer will also miss the game due to a hand injury.

Manager John O'Mahony will fly out with the bulk of his panel on Thursday, May 7 - three days ahead of the showdown with the Exiles. Leaving Cert student Aidan O'Shea will travel the following day, while third level students Tom Cunniffe and Kieran Conway are due to arrive on the Saturday.But O'Malley, Ronaldson and Seamus O'Shea definitely won't be travelling.

So missing four players but thankfully the only serious one who will be missed there is Mortimer and he didn't even make the first team at the end of the NFL so should be a pretty handy tie anyway.

Cant see anything other than a comprehensive victory here for the big apples. The word cakewalk springs to mind

Agreed Mossbags! If we take the usual line taking when discussing Dublin's failings then surely a 'county' with over 19 million people will hammer a county with 124,000 people .............

Ah no as John O'Mahony said, we shouldn't take them for granted. Every team is capable of a surprise. Hey London look okay this year. The players of London and New York put just the same amount of effort and dedication in as the rest of Ireland. I don't think they deserve to be written off and ridiculed by the media and some supporters as they do.

LilMaighEo wrote:Ah no as John O'Mahony said, we shouldn't take them for granted. Every team is capable of a surprise. Hey London look okay this year. The players of London and New York put just the same amount of effort and dedication in as the rest of Ireland. I don't think they deserve to be written off and ridiculed by the media and some supporters as they do.

Yah agreed! Give NY footballers the green card!!

LilMaighEo wrote:Ah no as John O'Mahony said, we shouldn't take them for granted. Every team is capable of a surprise. Hey London look okay this year. The players of London and New York put just the same amount of effort and dedication in as the rest of Ireland. I don't think they deserve to be written off and ridiculed by the media and some supporters as they do.

sorry lil but having played there and won a championship out there they put about as much effort in as maybe a junior b club side over hear, there are some great players in NYC but they would rather have 10-20 bottles of bud than run around the pitch for the county team, no interest in really training to try and win agame against one of connaughts finest, pity because if they did..............................

I know for a fact that the London players put in a huge amount of effort, and I'm sure the New York players do aswell.

LilMaighEo wrote:I know for a fact that the London players put in a huge amount of effort, and I'm sure the New York players do aswell.

ya just look at all the trophies they w........oh sorry...ehm....

EstherMayo1951 wrote:

LilMaighEo wrote:I know for a fact that the London players put in a huge amount of effort, and I'm sure the New York players do aswell.

ya just look at all the trophies they w........oh sorry...ehm....

Winning trophies isn't everything. It's commitment and pride that matters.

LilMaighEo wrote:

EstherMayo1951 wrote:

LilMaighEo wrote:I know for a fact that the London players put in a huge amount of effort, and I'm sure the New York players do aswell.

ya just look at all the trophies they w........oh sorry...ehm....

Winning trophies isn't everything. It's commitment and pride that matters.

And when that doesnt work for them-20 bud bottles will!!

EstherMayo1951 wrote:

LilMaighEo wrote:

EstherMayo1951 wrote:

LilMaighEo wrote:I know for a fact that the London players put in a huge amount of effort, and I'm sure the New York players do aswell.

ya just look at all the trophies they w........oh sorry...ehm....

Winning trophies isn't everything. It's commitment and pride that matters.

And when that doesnt work for them-20 bud bottles will!!

You have no proof of that and it's a stereotypical attitude to have to brand them all like that.

Lil they certainly don't put in the same effort as alot of clubs, nevermind the other inter-county teams. My cousin played with London for a bit and said it was amazing the difference in effort, preparation etc. even between that and the club back home. Maybe they're improving but still a world away from actually competing.

LilMaighEo wrote:

EstherMayo1951 wrote:

LilMaighEo wrote:

EstherMayo1951 wrote:

LilMaighEo wrote:I know for a fact that the London players put in a huge amount of effort, and I'm sure the New York players do aswell.

ya just look at all the trophies they w........oh sorry...ehm....

Winning trophies isn't everything. It's commitment and pride that matters.

And when that doesnt work for them-20 bud bottles will!!

You have no proof of that and it's a stereotypical attitude to have to brand them all like that.

Ya, i'd say it's just their defence that do it.......
Anyway, I'm very confident going into this match, even though seamus o shea, mark ronaldson and kenneth o malley wont be available, they arent first teamers for Mayo, so this wont damage mayo's play. However Conor Mortimer wont be available because of his hand injury, but still i dont think this will be detremental. Austin O malley has been playing exceptional shtuff for Mayo, he never takes the easy point-he's very artistic! Parsons and mcgarrity are brilliant at midfield, and these are one of the best midfield pairings on the county scene. Their defence isnt bad, and their forwards are improving. Andy Moran played great stuff for ballaghdereen the last day v Knockmore and he is a talent to behold. Overall, I think we're going to do well. New york though have some good players, with the like of Kevin McGeeney on their side who's an excellent forward.
Essie's Biased, yet accurate verdict:
Mayo:cheers:

Ah we're bound to win hopefully! I just worry how Mayo's season will be affected if we lose players like O'Shea and Parsons to aussie rules. They'll be imperative players to our season and will be very much needed in the run-up to September.

Crazy but valid thought-could the mayo and new york game be cancelled because of the swine flu??????!!! The swine flu has been confirmed in New York and with the game less than 2 weeks away, it's a worrying possibility. Mayo would prob get a bye......

LilMaighEo wrote:Ah we're bound to win hopefully! I just worry how Mayo's season will be affected if we lose players like O'Shea and Parsons to aussie rules. They'll be imperative players to our season and will be very much needed in the run-up to September.

Are these two defo gone?? O Shea could be the difference for Mayo this year while Parsons is developing into a truly top class inter-county player. Would be huge loss's to any county and wouldn't be seeing my dearest neighbours go too far this year if these two are allowed slip thru the net.

EstherMayo1951 wrote:Crazy but valid thought-could the mayo and new york game be cancelled because of the swine flu??????!!! The swine flu has been confirmed in New York and with the game less than 2 weeks away, it's a worrying possibility. Mayo would prob get a bye......

Lucky break there for Mayo if this turns out to be the case. We all need a bit of luck avery now and then.

mossbags wrote:

LilMaighEo wrote:Ah we're bound to win hopefully! I just worry how Mayo's season will be affected if we lose players like O'Shea and Parsons to aussie rules. They'll be imperative players to our season and will be very much needed in the run-up to September.

Are these two defo gone?? O Shea could be the difference for Mayo this year while Parsons is developing into a truly top class inter-county player. Would be huge loss's to any county and wouldn't be seeing my dearest neighbours go too far this year if these two are allowed slip thru the net.

I have a feeling that the Aussies may have lost a bit of confidence in the two after their quite dismal performance with the U-21s recently. Ofcourse Parsons and O'Shea are brilliant players but they were under huge pressure in that game because they knew the scouts were at the match - which I think is really wrong because it's enough with them taking our players but with them affecting an important match aswell grrrr - so they didn't play well in that game. However, Parsons did recently attend a training camp in Dublin and both wouldn't turn down an opportunity to play in Australia.
Obviously, Hanley wasn't enough of unbelievable talent for them and they have to take our next two big prospects.

I'd say Peter Fitzpatrick had more to do with O'Shea and Parsons' poor performances than the Aussie scouts did...

Anyway, what do you honestly think, will one or both of them be going down to Oz? If they are would it be immediate or in a few months? I need to know.

mid-mon man wrote:I'd say Peter Fitzpatrick had more to do with O'Shea and Parsons' poor performances than the Aussie scouts did...

Anyway, what do you honestly think, will one or both of them be going down to Oz? If they are would it be immediate or in a few months? I need to know.

He wasn't the main reason for their bad play. Those scouts were and they wouldn't think twice about taking two players from the one team either. If one of them is picked the other will go too. There very alike and both great players so I can't see just one of them going.

It's more likely to be June or July before we find out if they're going and they'll pobably be gone soon after that, before August or the start of September. I hear that O'Shea is hoping for the call and it kinda fits in aswell cos he doesn't seem to be paying a lot of attention to his studies if he's going off to New York so he doesn't seem that pushed about the Leaving Cert. Maybe that's a sign for his belief that he'll be called up.

It's not enough that they took Hanley, they have to have Parsons and O'Shea aswell like.

In fairness Lil it's a bit much to be saying the scouts put them off their game that much. Fitzpatrick completely dominated them in this game and should get the credit. I don't see why a couple of people watching you would put you off, how on earth are they supposed to play in Croker? Anyway, you say O'Shea is hoping for the call, if anything then he'd have upped his game and put on a show for them.

By the way, didn't realise O'Shea's only doing his Leaving now, some going for him to be starting the Mayo seniors already!

mid-mon man wrote:In fairness Lil it's a bit much to be saying the scouts put them off their game that much. Fitzpatrick completely dominated them in this game and should get the credit. I don't see why a couple of people watching you would put you off, how on earth are they supposed to play in Croker? Anyway, you say O'Shea is hoping for the call, if anything then he'd have upped his game and put on a show for them.

By the way, didn't realise O'Shea's only doing his Leaving now, some going for him to be starting the Mayo seniors already!

Not only that but he's playing in mayo's match v new york on the 10th, little less than a month before the LC-thats dedication for ya!!

EstherMayo1951 wrote:

mid-mon man wrote:In fairness Lil it's a bit much to be saying the scouts put them off their game that much. Fitzpatrick completely dominated them in this game and should get the credit. I don't see why a couple of people watching you would put you off, how on earth are they supposed to play in Croker? Anyway, you say O'Shea is hoping for the call, if anything then he'd have upped his game and put on a show for them.

By the way, didn't realise O'Shea's only doing his Leaving now, some going for him to be starting the Mayo seniors already!

Not only that but he's playing in mayo's match v new york on the 10th, little less than a month before the LC-thats dedication for ya!!

Dedication surely, or perhaps carelessness? As Lil says it would appear he doesn't care much about the Leaving. Mind you, the way things are in colleges nowadays with sports scholarships, he'll probably get in wherever he wants due to making a name for himself over the last year. He'll probably end up in DCU if not Austrailia.

mid-mon man wrote:

EstherMayo1951 wrote:

mid-mon man wrote:In fairness Lil it's a bit much to be saying the scouts put them off their game that much. Fitzpatrick completely dominated them in this game and should get the credit. I don't see why a couple of people watching you would put you off, how on earth are they supposed to play in Croker? Anyway, you say O'Shea is hoping for the call, if anything then he'd have upped his game and put on a show for them.

By the way, didn't realise O'Shea's only doing his Leaving now, some going for him to be starting the Mayo seniors already!

Not only that but he's playing in mayo's match v new york on the 10th, little less than a month before the LC-thats dedication for ya!!

Dedication surely, or perhaps carelessness? As Lil says it would appear he doesn't care much about the Leaving. Mind you, the way things are in colleges nowadays with sports scholarships, he'll probably get in wherever he wants due to making a name for himself over the last year. He'll probably end up in DCU if not Austrailia.

Do we really know whether he cares about the LC-do we really??? Also, i prefer to think of it as dedication:D