Roscommon GAA Discussion Thread

spiralism wrote: »

Thought Ultan was absolutely class today, pipped DMurtagh for MOTM for me. Thought both the Lennons did well today too.

Still issues to work out, Cork's physicality absolutely killed us at times, we still really struggle with that sort of game. That's not a good Cork side and we made work of it.

Goalie is a major worry. We've been going back and forth between Lavin and Featherston and the kickouts have been a disaster all year. Two hop balls given away today from not kicking it out long enough, absolute junior B stuff that. McStay clearly doesn't fancy either of them.

Forwards are still a bit too static at times and it's infuriating. Thought Cathal Cregg made a big difference when we came on, he's a hell of a creator and we were able to kick on and put the game to bed from there. We're a totally different team from an attacking standpoint with him in the lineup.

All said and done, we got promoted in third gear for a lot of the campaign and with work to do yet. Won a lot of close games as well which is good for the team's development, as will another year of playing in the top flight

Back in division 1, yeoooo

megadodge wrote: »

Listen, I get where you're coming from and that would often be my line as I hate negativity, but the bottom line is if Cavan were better finishers we would have lost that game. Numerous turnovers and very poor defending kept Cavan in it, despite brilliant attacking play from Roscommon that should have had us out of sight.

At the moment Roscommon are like a really flashy, powerful, offensively-minded boxer who has numerous highlight reel knockouts against lower opposition but takes punch after punch in delivering them. Sooner or later he comes up against one of the bigger hitters and his 'knock out or get knocked out' strategy ends up in tears. Very entertaining for the neutral, but I'm not neutral - I want to see Roscommon win every game they play and the current method of defending is not going to allow for that.

Syferus wrote: »

Nah. TOR does a very different job to Enda even in midfield. He's a glue player that nullifies his man and breaks ball for others to win. His work-rate is also excellent. It was telling that McStay chose to bring TOR back on when Compton got black carded as it tells you he feels midfield needs the balance of a workhorse midfielder alongside Enda who is more attack-minded.

Enda is a wing forward first, a full forward second and a midfielder third in my opinion.

rossie1977 wrote: »

Smith moved into the corner at the start of the second half in the fbd final. He absolutely roasted the Galway marker. Lennon has been terrific at full- forward so I wouldn't go about changing that until it stops working. Very intelligent footballer who shows well and brings others into the game. Really the only thing missing so far is scores and he sometimes opts to pass when he could score himself. But the guy is only 19 and once he gets more confidence I think he will become a regular scorer.

Starting line-up Sunday averaged 23.7 years old, in comparison the Galway starting team was 24.7 (14 of them anyway as I don't know Duggans age) and Dublin was 27.2 so this is still an incredibly young inexperienced team Roscommon have. I would love us to have a defensive strategy and I can't remember any of those minor or under 21 sides of 2011-16 (where 90% of the current team originated from) having a defensive strategy either and that cost us a couple of all-irelands at those levels during those years due to our naivety. I remember being at Ted Webb (under 16) in 2014 and galway played the most incredible coordinated defensive strategy and totally bamboozled us despite the fact we had beaten them in the early rounds so really we need to be working on defensive set-ups early not trying to get these guys set-up when they are 22-23.