You only sing when they’re losing.
Aidan O’Shea and Mayo have put together three wins in succession. Aidan O’Shea has strung together three monstrous performances. The critics of Aidan O’Shea are nowhere to be seen.
It was only a couple of months ago where it felt like his body was lying there like a carcass for anyone to come feed off it. He was still coming back from injury, Mayo had just avoided relegation and they were headed for defeat in Galway.
For anyone willing enough, it was open season and Aidan O’Shea, for whatever reason, was free pickings.
Selfies were just the tip of the iceberg. What about his tweets? What of the endorsements? Then, sure while we’re at it, blame him for last year’s All-Ireland.
Three tough games through the qualifiers and Mayo are back in Croker and none of these guys are saying anything.
On The GAA Hour on Monday, Colm Parkinson asked a very valid question. Where are you now?
“Isn’t it gas with all the Aidan O’Shea critics, that they’re like mice now,” Wooly said.
“There’s not one of them who would turn around and put their hand up and say, ‘I might’ve gotten it wrong with Aidan O’Shea – he’s not about himself, he’s a team player, he’s a worker, he’s a brilliant bit of stuff.’
“No, they’ll wait in the long grass until Aidan has another bad game and then they’ll be back out again digging a poor fella that does nothing but put his body on the line for Mayo.
“Where are these mouthpieces now that are kicking him about selfies and things like that? Where are they now?
“Why don’t they just tweet or write an article saying, ‘here, I might’ve gotten it wrong about Aidan O’Shea’?
“These fellas don’t do that. They stay quiet when they’re wrong.”
The Aidan O’Shea chat appears on the Performance of the Week slot where three Mayo men receive a nomination. Listen below from 53:13.
