|
|
 |
You are > Home > Gardiner injury blow adds to Mayo misery
|
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Gardiner injury blow adds to Mayo misery
BY MICHAEL GALLAGHER
THE bitterly cold wind blowing down the McHale Park tunnel did little to brighten the mood of Mayo followers after Sunday’s very disappointing defeat to Dublin.
The Green and Red had dominated possession but a crippling catalogue of wides had consigned them to their first defeat of 2010.
Throw in the emerging news that Peadar Gardiner had sustained a serious elbow injury, which will rule him out of action for a number of months and the sense of disappointment was becoming more stark by the second.
John O’Mahony emerged from the Mayo dressingroom to give his thoughts on the match and it was obvious that he also carried with him a sense of disappointment.
Predictably the first question posed by the waiting scribes dealt with the 18 wides kicked by his team over the course of the match.
“It’s hard to win a game when you miss that amount of chances. We must have had 70% of the possession, but we didn’t make it count and that’s frustrating. We have been putting over some good scores this year and the way Dublin play, you will get chances in certain situtaions but you have to take them. There was pressure on some of our kicks but we took some wrong options out there today and that’s very disappointing.
“We dealt with every other aspect of the game quite well, except when it came to scoring which, of course, is what matters most of all. We’d need a far sharper eye against Derry next weekend,” the manager explained.
The absence of top forward, Mark Ronaldson, due to suspension proved very costly to the Mayo cause and O’Mahony was quick to register that fact when questioned on the matter.
“Of course we missed Mark. He’s our leading scorer and was badly missed today. I don’t want to comment on his situation but his loss was a big one,” the bainisteoir added before turning his attention to the breaking news that Gardiner had sustained a serious injury.
“It’s just registering on the Richter scale for us right now. The word is that he has broken his elbow and he could be out for three months. I don’t know how it happened. I didn’t see it, but we're all very disappointed for Peadar.
“Ronan (McGarrity) injured his hamstring in the first half and had to come off. He’s been assessed at the moment and we don’t know the extent of his injury right now,” the manager concluded.
Meanwhile the Dublin manager, Pat Gilroy was counting his lucky stars. “We were blessed to get out with a win. Mayo missed a huge amount of chances. Some of the misses could be put down to pressure from our defenders but some of them were from frees and it’s fair to say that we were lucky alright.
“We had a lot of men behind the ball but that was more accident than design. It’s just the way the game panned out. Mayo were pushing forward and our lads funnelled back to cover them.
We have a lot to work on and will have to improve. We lost a lot of the ball around midfield and Mayo created a huge amount of chances. On another day they’d have been out of sight,” he added with a smile before urging caution from the masses of Blue and Navy supporters. “We’ve made a good start, but that’s all it is. It’s still early March after all.”
Main News Page |
Previous Page
|
|
|
|
Facebook
