Mayo fans have been told to 'cop on' by the County Board's secretary, who hit out at 'absolutely disgusting' abuse aimed at players after the Westerners' All-Ireland final defeat to Tyrone last month.
Dermot Butler said some of the comments on social media in the wake of the final were 'absolutely appalling' and slammed people calling for James Horan to leave his role as manager.
Butler made the comments at a county board meeting on Thursday night, while at the same meeting Mayo chairman Liam Moffatt denied stories that two of Horan's backroom team, Ciarán McDonald and James Burke, had stepped down from their roles.
Butler is quoted in the Mayo News as saying: "I find it absolutely disgusting that these very same people that were ringing me, begging me for tickets in the week leading up to the final, and telling me what great supporters they were, can turn on our county players like that.
“It just baffles me.
“As soon as the match was over, ‘McDonald and James Burke are gone’. ‘Horan has to go’. ‘Bring in Jim Gavin’. “Will we ever cop on to ourselves in this county?
“Some of the comments that went up on social media were absolutely appalling.
“These are amateur players that give up a lot of their family time to bring us on the crest of a wave for the last 10 or 12 years. And for some of them to be treated like that, I find it absolutely disgusting.”
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