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Galway GAA discussion thread

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,016 ✭✭✭Hulk Hands


    Kojak wrote: »
    Minor and U-21 All-Irelands are all well and good to win, but that should not be the limit of young hurlers' aspirations - they should drive on to win a Senior. But for some reason they seem content to rest on thir laurels....

    It's not that.....college, drink and the craic is too plentiful and too much of a temptation in this great county of ours


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,925 ✭✭✭aidan24326


    A mixed weekend. A fantastic and very welcome win for the U-21 footballers. Best result from a Galway football team in a long time. They really ground it out and showed the kind of heart and determination that's been sadly lacking in our senior team over the last couple of years.

    As for the hurlers, hugely disappointing yet again. People are slagging off McIntyre for not knowing our best 15, but I wouldn't knock him too much. The problem is that Galway have a huge amount of players that are in or around the same sort of level, but there's very few that actually stand out. We have more 'good' hurlers than any other county, but what we're missing is those few great players that make the difference.

    Think of the last Galway team to win an All-Ireland. Pete Finnerty, Tony Keady, Joe Cooney, Martin Naughton, Eanna Ryan, Michael Coleman, Hopper McGrath etc. That's what it takes. And the players we have now just aren't living up to that standard. A league that started well has ended with a whimper, and it's hard to know what to expect now ahead of the championship. A Leinster semi against Dublin is going to be a serious test that's for sure.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Kojak wrote: »

    There was a bet taken out in a bookies a few years ago in Galway that Joe Canning would never win a senior All-Ireland with Galway dfuring his career. I think that that bet will, unfortunatly, come true.

    Please tell me you meant that tongue in cheek?

    You do realise he's 22, so your saying we won't win one for 10years?. Really not giving a chance to some lads who would still be in primary school.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,387 ✭✭✭h2005


    well it`s 23 years since the last one


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,925 ✭✭✭aidan24326


    I see my selection of Joe gantley didn't go down so well! I'd stand by my other picks, but I appreciate Gantley is a controversial inclusion alright. He's done well when coming on as a sub though.

    Really hard to know where the hurlers are headed at this stage. All the same old failings are there, and after 7 league games and with the championship round the corner we're no closer to a settled team.

    Anyone know where the U-21 final will be played?


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,801 ✭✭✭✭Kojak


    Please tell me you meant that tongue in cheek?

    You do realise he's 22, so your saying we won't win one for 10years?. Really not giving a chance to some lads who would still be in primary school.

    I was 100% serious when I said that. How long has it been since we won a Senior All-Ireland - 23 years this september. Galway produce great minor teams but rarely translate that into U-21 success (we only have to win 2 games to be u-21 champions but we have only done it twice) in comparison with 5 minor all-irelands since the turn of the century. Galway don't know how to develop these good underage players into top-class inter-county seniors.

    I would love to say that I am wrong with regard to galway not winning a Senior for the next ten years, but the signs are not good. Look at 2008 and the defeat against Cork - it was pure sickening. One man scoring 2-12 but the rest of the players could only muster 3 points between them. Then the year later, they let a 3 point lead slip against Waterford and lost by one. So you would have thought that Galway would have learnt their lesson for the next season. But surprise, surprise they go and do the same thing against tipp last summer. Put simply, Galway are doomed to keep making the same mistakes over and over again, and until they rectify that Galway won't be anywhere near an All-Ireland title.

    If by some highly unusual occurance they were to win the title this year, I will put my hand up and say I was wrong - but somehow I doubt I will be doing that.....


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,801 ✭✭✭✭Kojak


    aidan24326 wrote: »
    Anyone know where the U-21 final will be played?

    According to Galway Bay FM yesterday, the final will be played in Marckeviz (sp?) Park in Sligo on the weekend of the May bank holiday.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2 PJ Holmes


    Sadly I agree a bit with Hulk Hands, I think for the hurlers the drink culture has had a damaging effect for our minor and u21 teams. Of the past minor teams which have won all-ireland's to many of the talented players have faded away to become medicore-good club players. You can see much of them every week on nights out in Ballinasloe,Loughrea and Galway; not too mind college nights during the week aswel.
    Plus the the big three when it comes to the business end seem to have just that more passion and leadership levels.
    Really and truly what other players show the inspirational qualties to spur the team in the tight situation besides Joe C and Damiem Hayes.
    We need more players with charismatic qualities like the players of the eighties; the Keady's,Finnerty's,Connely's,Cooney's and Haye's.


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    h2005 wrote: »
    well it`s 23 years since the last one

    History has no reflection on the future.
    If it did Cavan's U-21's wouldn't have made the final, and since we haven't won a game in that grade for 5 years, we wouldn't have made it either if that theory had legs.

    Why didn't it matter?... because those U-21 teams didn't play 5 years ago, or the year after etc.... they are their own teams not bound by others.
    aidan24326 wrote: »
    I see my selection of Joe gantley didn't go down so well! I'd stand by my other picks, but I appreciate Gantley is a controversial inclusion alright. He's done well when coming on as a sub though.

    Gantley has always done well coming on as a sub, would be just as good an option as Callanan in the corner, who had a shocker the last day(at one point he failed to take control of an easy ball that could have lead to a goal).
    Kojak wrote: »
    I was 100% serious when I said that. How long has it been since we won a Senior All-Ireland - 23 years this september. Galway produce great minor teams but rarely translate that into U-21 success (we only have to win 2 games to be u-21 champions but we have only done it twice) in comparison with 5 minor all-irelands since the turn of the century. Galway don't know how to develop these good underage players into top-class inter-county seniors.

    Again to start, a team in 10 years will have 14 odd lads who aren't even playing now, bit harsh to say they won't win anything because of history alone.

    I agree with your points on the 2008-2010 games, one mistake I believe the lead we through away to Waterford was more like 6-8 points instead of 3.

    Also those points relate only to the current squad, and you confirm that by stating ''if they win it this year''..... but that's not the point I argued in relation to Cannings career which has around 10years left.

    Yes this current team and management mightn't win one(we're nearly guaranteed a 1/4 every year so you only have to win 3 games which isn't that many in fairness, it's no WC anyway) but you agreed with Canning NEVER winning one, not just this team, that's the only point I argued on which I think is a bit daft.

    It would make as much sense to bet on a particular number never coming out in the lotto, it's all based on assumptions, you don't know what tomorrow will bring.

    We could end up with a 5 a row in team in 5 years, past results don't stop that from happening, give the future a chance before ya knock them, for gods sake they haven't even played MINOR yet.

    Lastly we've won more then 2 U-21's, we have 9.
    Yes we start in the semi's but your going in against a team with 2/3/4 wins which negates the advantage.
    At the same time, KK wouldn't have much competition in Leinster so they nearly get the same deal as us.

    I don't agree that we're not producing the players, if we weren't producing them they wouldn't win Minor and U21 titles, if you're involved in the underage set up, and someone says you're not developing them I'd say you'd feel like screaming from the roof tops ''WHAT MORE DO YE WANT ME TO DO''.... the problem doesn't come until they're adults, maybe they stop putting the work in, after all it's an amateur game, you can't force the lads to follow orders like a professional club.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,302 ✭✭✭Martin567


    meriwether wrote: »
    I think its becoming clear to me that McItyre has no idea what his 15 will be for the Championship, and we at the end of the league.

    Farragher will be back in Midfeild, but who will be with him? One of the two in mid today, or will Kevin Hynes slot back?

    Who is the half foward line? Choose from Tannion, Harte, Donnelan, Andy Smith, Eanna Ryan or Cooney Jr. Is this a wealth of talent, every managers best nightmare? No, this lot is every managers worst nightmare. With the exception of Ryan, and Cooney of whom it is too early to judge, they are poor.
    If this seems unfair criticism, ask yyourself how many of these would make the Tipp or KK half forward line. Answer? None. Andy Smith wouldn't even get on either panel.

    In the full forward line, its Joe, with an ageing and injury prone Hayes, and one of Callinan, Healy, Gantley and a few others.

    Basically, the only forward of six who is guaranteed to get into Tipp/Cats foward 6 is Joe.

    And thats why there will be no Liam McCarthy this year, or indeed any year from this particular group of players.

    As for football, great news in the U-21s over the weekend.
    Allied to the fact that our Minor tean should be strong this year due in part of Jarlaths getting to Hogan final, the future is possibly bright.

    Being from Kilkenny, I have to say that the Galway hurlers are a complete mystery to me. Clarinbridge were hugely impressive winners of the Club All Ireland a few weeks ago with the Kerins brothers in particular truly magnificent on the day. I know they are both the wrong side of 30 but you would think that any county which could discard players of this calibre must be overflowing with top class forwards. Back in 2007, Galway went toe-to-toe with Kilkenny for 60 minutes of the All Ireland Quarter Final. That was the year before Joe Canning joined the panel. Yet, in the 2008 Quarter Final against Cork, the entire team apart from Joe only scored 3 points. How can there be such a difference from one year to the next?

    Galway are constantly at a similar level or better than Kilkenny at Minor but, from my perspective, the players then seem to simply disappear. Back in 2005, Galway beat Kilkenny in the U21 All Ireland. That Kilkenny team included John Tennyson, John Dalton, PJ Delaney, Michael Fennelly, Michael Rice, Cha Fitzpatrick, Eoin Larkin, Richie Power & Eoin Reid. How many players have come through from that Galway team as they should all be in their prime now, aged about 26-27?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,230 ✭✭✭spideog7


    Martin567 wrote: »
    Back in 2005, Galway beat Kilkenny in the U21 All Ireland. That Kilkenny team included John Tennyson, John Dalton, PJ Delaney, Michael Fennelly, Michael Rice, Cha Fitzpatrick, Eoin Larkin, Richie Power & Eoin Reid. How many players have come through from that Galway team as they should all be in their prime now, aged about 26-27?

    They probably all had to emigrate, much better land down in Kilkenny and Tipperary, unless you can start selling stones you won't make money farming in Galway!!

    I haven't seen any of the games this year unfortunately, hopefully I'll see the championship matches. You wouldn't be too concerned about a poor performance in the league if they were putting together a good team and doing a bit of experimenting to figure things out. But if they're going to field the same lads in the same positions or worse yet they don't even know who they're putting where then we're in trouble alright. There's no guarantees in Leinster this year either, we might end up wishing we stayed in Connacht.


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    spideog7 wrote: »
    I haven't seen any of the games this year unfortunately, hopefully I'll see the championship matches. You wouldn't be too concerned about a poor performance in the league if they were putting together a good team and doing a bit of experimenting to figure things out.

    There hasn't been a ''Connacht'' for years, we were only being shafted for years before that being put straight into the qualifiers with teams who already had used their ''extra life''.
    We weren't getting a second chance as it was(Unless we lost the first game against a Laois/Antrim :rolleyes:).

    The problem isn't the losing as such.
    It's the manner of the losses.
    It was akin to watching the footballers for years, constant kickouts to the middle where 90% of the first ball and breaking ball was just picked up by the opposition with no alternative being sought(then you can add it all the space we give the oppositions backs while we're getting swamped and hooked and blocked all over)

    Also bar injuries we went with our strongest team for all games, we prob' took the league serious in that regard more then any other county.
    Next to no new players were tried out bar one or two U21's from last year.
    Martin567 wrote: »
    Back in 2005, Galway beat Kilkenny in the U21 All Ireland. That Kilkenny team included John Tennyson, John Dalton, PJ Delaney, Michael Fennelly, Michael Rice, Cha Fitzpatrick, Eoin Larkin, Richie Power & Eoin Reid. How many players have come through from that Galway team as they should all be in their prime now, aged about 26-27?

    Pardon my ignorance on any of these who haven't being involved in senior, I hail from the hurling stronghold of the city centre :rolleyes:

    A Ryan - Never heard off him
    P Flynn - Never heard off him
    A Gaynor - Never heard off him
    K Briscoe - Never heard off him
    G Mahon - Featured in this yrs league after a year or two off the panel
    B Cullinane - Failed footballer
    D Collins - Mainstay in the team
    B Lucas - Never heard off him
    A Garvey - Never heard off him
    J Gantley - Gets runs as a sub
    A Callanan - Usually starts but does to invisible for most games.
    E Ryan - Getting game time since last year
    N Healy - Former starter now sub(where he's even lucky to be IMO)
    K Burke - Never heard off him
    K Wade - No longer wants to play for the county afaik


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 15,238 ✭✭✭✭Diabhal Beag


    I'd like to know more about why Keril Wade doesn't want to play. What's the scéal there?


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 33,170 CMod ✭✭✭✭ShamoBuc


    Kojak wrote: »
    According to Galway Bay FM yesterday, the final will be played in Marckeviz (sp?) Park in Sligo on the weekend of the May bank holiday.


    The U-21 football final is the curtain raiser at 2 for the NHL final at 4 Croke Park May 1st


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,925 ✭✭✭aidan24326


    ShamoBuc wrote: »
    The U-21 football final is the curtain raiser at 2 for the NHL final at 4 Croke Park May 1st

    Really? I heard it was Markiwiecz Park. A Croke Park double header would be great.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,016 ✭✭✭Hulk Hands


    Absolute disaster of a decision. Making both sets of fans head up to Dublin, and all the expense it brings? Shocking.

    They'll end up charging €25-€30 now as well, where it would have been about a tenner in Sligo. They'll give the excuse of getting great value with a double header, but to be honest I can think of a whole host of things i'd rather be doing than watching Kilkenny and Dublin in the league, a game we already get to see 3 times a year as it is.

    If the game was in Sligo I could probably sell it to the parents to let me take a few hours of studying for my final year exams starting the week after. Not a hope now :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 570 ✭✭✭Starie1975


    Hulk Hands wrote: »
    Absolute disaster of a decision. Making both sets of fans head up to Dublin, and all the expense it brings? Shocking.

    They'll end up charging €25-€30 now as well, where it would have been about a tenner in Sligo. They'll give the excuse of getting great value with a double header, but to be honest I can think of a whole host of things i'd rather be doing than watching Kilkenny and Dublin in the league, a game we already get to see 3 times a year as it is.

    If the game was in Sligo I could probably sell it to the parents to let me take a few hours of studying for my final year exams starting the week after. Not a hope now :(

    Same as buddy. I was going to take my mother to it. Sligo would have been perfect for both teams. Why do the GAA keep shoting themselfs in the foot. Fecking money money money.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    I somewhat disagree with ye.

    Firstly this is about the players, and I'm happy these lads are getting to play in Croker, I'm sure they'd have picked it themselves.

    Also Sligo wouldn't be closer for everyone, you're assuming everyone's travelling from North Galway, I'd imagine that West would be the same as the city and that Dublin would be quicker.
    If it's not then I'll just speak for the City and Dublin is closer.
    And what about any fans from East Galway?.
    Sligo over Dublin wouldn't suit everyone in the county

    Lastly it's one day.... it's a final.
    When was the last time an adult(Minors aside) football team from Galway played in Dublin?... some of ye should consider yourselves fortunate ye don't follow Galway United as the closest match is in Sligo and that's a fortnight travel.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 570 ✭✭✭Starie1975


    I somewhat disagree with ye.

    Firstly this is about the players, and I'm happy these lads are getting to play in Croker, I'm sure they'd have picked it themselves.

    Also Sligo wouldn't be closer for everyone, you're assuming everyone's travelling from North Galway, I'd imagine that West would be the same as the city and that Dublin would be quicker.
    If it's not then I'll just speak for the City and Dublin is closer.
    And what about any fans from East Galway?.
    Sligo over Dublin wouldn't suit everyone in the county

    Lastly it's one day.... it's a final.
    When was the last time an adult(Minors aside) football team from Galway played in Dublin?... some of ye should consider yourselves fortunate ye don't follow Galway United as the closest match is in Sligo and that's a fortnight travel.

    I'll give you that one.:D

    Good luck to the boys.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,230 ✭✭✭spideog7


    There hasn't been a ''Connacht'' for years, we were only being shafted for years before that being put straight into the qualifiers with teams who already had used their ''extra life''.
    We weren't getting a second chance as it was(Unless we lost the first game against a Laois/Antrim :rolleyes:).

    Yea but they shouldn't be needing the second chance because they'd essentially "won" the games that the other teams had lost. I was and still am all for going in to Leinster, but it was meant to develop the team and it hasn't done that. The Kilkenny vs Galway Leinster final was the big one everyone was looking forward to and now it's been and gone and we haven't come within an asses roar of Kilkenny.

    We've had great challenges in Leinster and everyone expected that to stand to team but we've only ended up in the same place, getting so far and showing some real class, then just not showing up for a big match or not showing up for the last 10 minutes of it. I still think the team has great potential but they need to show up for 100% of the championship, they won't and don't deserve to win it otherwise.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,706 ✭✭✭premierstone


    spideog7 wrote: »
    Yea but they shouldn't be needing the second chance because they'd essentially "won" the games that the other teams had lost. I was and still am all for going in to Leinster, but it was meant to develop the team and it hasn't done that.

    You were hardly expecting it to have a huge effect overnight, the benefit of being in Leinster will take time and untill they move the minors and U-21 in aswell its a joke of a system.


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    spideog7 wrote: »
    Yea but they shouldn't be needing the second chance because they'd essentially "won" the games that the other teams had lost. I was and still am all for going in to Leinster, but it was meant to develop the team and it hasn't done that. The Kilkenny vs Galway Leinster final was the big one everyone was looking forward to and now it's been and gone and we haven't come within an asses roar of Kilkenny.

    We've had great challenges in Leinster and everyone expected that to stand to team but we've only ended up in the same place, getting so far and showing some real class, then just not showing up for a big match or not showing up for the last 10 minutes of it. I still think the team has great potential but they need to show up for 100% of the championship, they won't and don't deserve to win it otherwise.

    Why in Gods name would we not need a second chance?...
    You do realise Tipp won it last year after losing, you don't see them asking to leave Munster so they end up in a situation where that loss would have finished their year.

    So it's better to have to win 4-6 games on the bounce then have a shot at Leinster which brings you straight into a semi final if you win it, or into a 1/4 if you come runner up, or still even 1 step ahead of our previous route by losing a semi final.

    Sorry there's no logic to that, it doesn't matter if we haven't won the AI yet, can't expect that after 3 years we'd have won the thing.

    The bottom line is we get the same chance that any other team gets, we lost a game before the 1/4's we get a second chance, how having none is just as good beggers belief :\

    You're also forgetting one thing, in the 3yrs in Leinster we've had one manager, we're not there 20years with 4/5/6 managers, maybe McIntrye is the problem.

    You can't expect that from entering Leinster we should have been guaranteed an AI after such a short space of time.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    You were hardly expecting it to have a huge effect overnight, the benefit of being in Leinster will take time and untill they move the minors and U-21 in aswell its a joke of a system.

    Agree.... I don't see his logic.

    It's not as if we leave we're back to the old days of a Semi-Final, if that was the case I'd agree with him. Leinster gives us a second chance, the older system didn't.... no brainer really.

    We're thrown into the 1st round of qualifiers and we have to beat 5-6 teams on the bounce which no-one else has to do unless they lose a game in their province.,.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,230 ✭✭✭spideog7


    Why in Gods name would we not need a second chance?...
    Because it's their second chance on games we didn't even have to play, it's not the second chance that's the benefit it's the extra game.
    You do realise Tipp won it last year after losing, you don't see them asking to leave Munster so they end up in a situation where that loss would have finished their year.
    They wouldn't have ended up in a situation where that match finished their year, they would have ended up in a situation where they never had to play that match, they still had to win every match after that.

    Although I suppose in one way you have a point because even though we didn't have to play the extra match we "lost" it by default.
    You were hardly expecting it to have a huge effect overnight
    No I don't expect huge changes after 3 years in Leinster, if they never went into Leinster I'd still expect them to be in the All Ireland. I don't think that's unreasonable for a team that claims to be in the top tier and who would be third in the country by many peoples standards.


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    spideog7 wrote: »
    Because it's their second chance on games we didn't even have to play, it's not the second chance that's the benefit it's the extra game.


    They wouldn't have ended up in a situation where that match finished their year, they would have ended up in a situation where they never had to play that match, they still had to win every match after that.

    Although I suppose in one way you have a point because even though we didn't have to play the extra match we "lost" it by default.

    Have you been following the All Ireland the past 10 years?.
    I'm not trying to be smart and I'm not really sure what your point is but it sounds to me you like you think we gave up having an automatic semi final place to join Leinster?

    That hasn't been the case for years.

    We either had to win through a number of rounds of qualifiers WITHOUT a second chance (unlike the Leinster and Munster lads) or there was a two year period where we had to come through a four team group(we got the easier one, but again all the other teams had a chance in their provinces before entering that)

    So your take on entering Leinster is so way off the mark, we've been forced into the losers qualifiers since 2002.

    The only way we accepted the invite into Leinster was because the clubs and players realised we were handicapped having to enter do or die games against teams that already had a loss behind them.

    Trust me there wouldn't have been ANY chance we'd have voted to enter Leinster if it meant giving up a semi final place.

    We voted to enter Leinster as it gave us the same chance as any other team, instead of one loss meaning exiting the championship, it meant entering the competition where we were the previous 6 odd years.

    A Leinster final means either a semi place or at worst a 1/4 final place, whereas in the old system for us, we'd have had to win 2 on the bounce to just make the 1/4.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,230 ✭✭✭spideog7


    We either had to win through a number of rounds of qualifiers WITHOUT a second chance (unlike the Leinster and Munster lads) or there was a two year period where we had to come through a four team group(we got the easier one, but again all the other teams had a chance in their provinces before entering that)

    My point is here, you said that we didn't get a second chance, the way you put it made it sound like if we lost the qualifier we were out, but if the other team lost the qualifier to us then they got a second chance, which is not the case. We joined at a stage where no matter which team lost they were out, so neither team in that game had a second chance. Now granted the other team got there by losing and we got there by default (so essentially I see what you mean but we have a semantic disagreement).

    Have you been following the All Ireland the past 10 years?.
    I'm not trying to be smart and I'm not really sure what your point is but it sounds to me you like you think we gave up having an automatic semi final place to join Leinster?

    That hasn't been the case for years.

    To be honest they've changed it around so many times that half the time I wasn't sure what format it would take until they were making the draws. I was aware that we weren't guaranteed a semi-final (but even if they were I'd still rather see them in Leinster than not have a competitive match until August).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 570 ✭✭✭Starie1975


    From Twitter today.

    @GalwayFootball Galway Football
    Galway footballers will have Cancer Care West on the front of their jerseys after failing to find a replacement sponsor to Aer Arann


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    My heart...

    When I saw Cancer and footballers... I taught it was announcing a current squad member was sick.

    Good cause.... better to promote something positive then leave Gaillimh on it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 15,238 ✭✭✭✭Diabhal Beag


    Fair play to them. That's a very nice gesture and looks a lot better.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 570 ✭✭✭Starie1975


    I agree, good cause and hopefully get people fundraising for them. I know I will.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,436 ✭✭✭c_man


    I think it's a great move. Cancer Care West is a fantastic organisation. Hopefully it raises awareness of it, I know I wouldn't be familiar with them only for all the good they've done a close family member of mine over the past few years.


  • Registered Users Posts: 49 RightHalfBack


    I wonder will the new Jerseys be in the shops in time for Sundays game? ill be upgrading from the old Tommy Varden one.


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,801 ✭✭✭✭Kojak


    Fair play to them. That's a very nice gesture and looks a lot better.

    Agree 100%. It will hopefully bring a lot more attention/support to this great cause.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 570 ✭✭✭Starie1975


    Here it is lads. Sorry about the poor quality.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 15,238 ✭✭✭✭Diabhal Beag


    Not a fan of the jersey overall.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 570 ✭✭✭Starie1975


    Not a fan of the jersey overall.

    My main problem is the funds. Sponsorship money was on the table at the start of the year by a super Galway business man but it was refused. The county football board want 2,500 of every club as a levy.

    Good cause and a great idea but is it a cloaking device? What does everyone think?


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    I wouldn't bet on that being the actual jersey too.

    Maybe it was just put on an old maroon shirt to get some perspective.

    That jersey, material and all looks about 20yrs old.

    If it is the jersey though it's at least some change, the past 3 odd have been identical.

    I didn't upgrade since the second last Tommy Varden one, the following one was the exact same but with massive writing of Tommy Varden, and the Aer Arann ones weren't much different either.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 570 ✭✭✭Starie1975


    I wouldn't bet on that being the actual jersey too.

    Maybe it was just put on an old maroon shirt to get some perspective.

    That jersey, material and all looks about 20yrs old.

    If it is the jersey though it's at least some change, the past 3 odd have been identical.

    I didn't upgrade since the second last Tommy Varden one, the following one was the exact same but with massive writing of Tommy Varden, and the Aer Arann ones weren't much different either.



    http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/sport/2011/0426/1224295459770.html


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 570 ✭✭✭Starie1975


    new.jpg

    This is a better photo.


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    Giving them a good beating already.

    Looked over when the first goal went in, I hope we keep it up and bury them so far they don't believe it's even worth trying to come back.

    11 points at the minute, but teams have thrown that away before, two goals and it's game on again.
    So we need to keep up this intensity... KK hurlers style ruthlessness


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 15,238 ✭✭✭✭Diabhal Beag


    ****it its great to have an All-Ireland in football again. Great showing from the lads.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 33,170 CMod ✭✭✭✭ShamoBuc


    very good win for ye.


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,801 ✭✭✭✭Kojak


    Great win for the lads today - its exactly what Galway football needed after the poor league run by the Seniors.

    The centre forward Mark Hehir looks like a real prospect. He never seems to loose his cool and is willing to pass it to the man in space if he is better positioned.

    I was surprised at how far ahead Galway were in comparison to Cavan, as it looked from before the throw-in that Cavan had the physical advantage over Galway. But after 10 minutes, you could see that Galway had the more footballing ability than Cavan.

    If Mulholland gets the Senior job in the next few years, IMO he would be the best man to get the most out of these players and also the lads who won the Minor All-Ireland in 2007.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 279 ✭✭Pocaide


    huge win for Galway Football so badly needed after our league campaign but looking at our history after winning previous U-21 All Irelands we dont seem to kick on from winning those titles, hope I am proved wrong this time


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,251 ✭✭✭✭Lemlin


    Well done to Galway today. Ye were by far the better team. Danny Cummins and Mark Hehir look like real prospects and kicked some fantastic scores between them. Tomas Flynn was also very good.

    Hopefully players from both teams can progress to senior level and get our counties back to competing, although we've alot further to come than ye for that!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,379 ✭✭✭O.A.P


    Lemlin wrote: »
    Well done to Galway today. Ye were by far the better team. Danny Cummins and Mark Hehir look like real prospects and kicked some fantastic scores between them. Tomas Flynn was also very good.

    Hopefully players from both teams can progress to senior level and get our counties back to competing, although we've alot further to come than ye for that!
    Hopefully, we will see. Ye were not at the races today for what ever reason and I hope ye can build on the experience.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,251 ✭✭✭✭Lemlin


    O.A.P wrote: »
    Hopefully, we will see. Ye were not at the races today for what ever reason and I hope ye can build on the experience.


    I think the pressure got to the lads on the day. For most of them, it was their first day playing in Croke Park.

    This team are used to leading too and, as I said before on the Cavan thread, hadn't quite the composure to come back from going behind. Hopefully they will learn that.


  • Registered Users Posts: 35 galwayboss


    Great display by the lads on Sunday from 1 to 15 they were top class felt sorry for Patrick Sweeney being taken off at half time he scored a goal and set up at least 4 points they could have given him another 5 or 10 minutes. hopefully most of these lads can progress to top class seniors great to see something positive around Galway football after a couple of hard years


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,925 ✭✭✭aidan24326


    galwayboss wrote: »
    Great display by the lads on Sunday from 1 to 15 they were top class felt sorry for Patrick Sweeney being taken off at half time he scored a goal and set up at least 4 points they could have given him another 5 or 10 minutes. hopefully most of these lads can progress to top class seniors great to see something positive around Galway football after a couple of hard years

    Mulholland gave a run to a few subs, which is the right thing to do when you know the game is more or less in the bag.

    The winning teams of 2002 and 2005 didn't push on at senior level, and some of them (the likes of John Devane, Cathal Blake, Niall Coyne, Barry Cullinane, Fiachra Breathnach etc) turned out to be pretty ordinary in the end. So hopefully this year's crop, especially standout performers like Flynn, Hehir and Cummins can make that next step.


  • Registered Users Posts: 280 ✭✭dartsfan


    aidan24326 wrote: »
    Mulholland gave a run to a few subs, which is the right thing to do when you know the game is more or less in the bag.

    The winning teams of 2002 and 2005 didn't push on at senior level, and some of them (the likes of John Devane, Cathal Blake, Niall Coyne, Barry Cullinane, Fiachra Breathnach etc) turned out to be pretty ordinary in the end. So hopefully this year's crop, especially standout performers like Flynn, Hehir and Cummins can make that next step.

    With the exception of Devane, I don't think there was much expected of any of the players you've mentioned above. They weren't really stand out players.

    What's disappointed me most from those teams has been the likes of Bergin, the Burkes, Blake, Nickey Joyce and Armstrong who never developed into top intercounty players. They've been good servants, but not AI winning material.


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