Galway GAA discussion thread

Worthwent14

Conroy and Kavanagh will likely be roaming for kickouts and giving the goalie extra options and also create space for him to kick it into. Workrate must be upped 100% by everyone starting in the forwards. We need to make ourselves difficult to break down. Cummins will be our go to man he will win ball and create space bringing conroy Walsh and the big scorers into play and he was brilliant last year v cork before injury. I fear Kerry will negate Walsh so cummins and Martin will be very important. O curraoin needs to bring more to the team because if he isn't catching the ball he is a liability and a passenger. Would prefer to see someone like steede in there ideally if we had him and a proper kickout plan but o curraoin just needs to bring more to his all round game like the goal he scored for example. Think id keep the same team altho not too sure about Healy. Was very poor for first goal and is very small whereas Breathnach has prior form in croke park and is a bigger presence. A Varley may have a big role to play yet with his speed and ball winning skills could be a shock hero

TheCoolWay

Drop Bradsshaw

aidan24326

TheCoolWay wrote: »

Drop Bradsshaw

Care to elaborate?

Personally I think he is weak defensively and a bit headless but there's no use just saying 'drop him' unless you're going to qualify that statement, and unless you can suggest a better alternative (we're not exactly blessed with defensive options at the moment).

keane2097

How are the confidence levels lads? Nobody really seems to be considering the possibility of a Galway win, seems like a good situation to come into a game under.

O.A.P

I just hope we give them a game, if Kerry beat us at least make them work hard for it.
Galway play well in Croke park as a rule and I'm a bit nervous about them falling apart this time.

Naux

keane2097 wrote: »

How are the confidence levels lads? Nobody really seems to be considering the possibility of a Galway win, seems like a good situation to come into a game under.

Kerry are very overhyped I think. Cork were very poor and Clare put up a good show V Kerry so a Galway win is not an impossibility.

Should be a cracking game anyway.

spiritcrusher

Anyone try to get Cusak tickets yet? It's the only sideline stand doing the student refund but tickets.ie only have Hogan and Davin stand tickets for sale. Can Cusak be got in Super Valu? Don't fancy being down in the corner again like I was last year.

donnem33

spiritcrusher wrote: »

Anyone try to get Cusak tickets yet? It's the only sideline stand doing the student refund but tickets.ie only have Hogan and Davin stand tickets for sale. Can Cusak be got in Super Valu? Don't fancy being down in the corner again like I was last year.

i tried to get cusack stand tickets in supervalu literally just a few mins ago but it wasnt coming up on their system for any available. surely they cant be all sold at this stage of the week could they?

Diabhal Beag

How much is the student rebate for the Cusack? Half thinking of heading Hill.

donnem33

Diabhal Beag wrote: »

How much is the student rebate for the Cusack? Half thinking of heading Hill.

€10 rebate for cusack and davin stand

Fireball07

Lots of people talking about Anthony Daly as next Galway hurling manager. Thoughts if true?

donnem33

Fireball07 wrote: »

Lots of people talking about Anthony Daly as next Galway hurling manager. Thoughts if true?

i reckon daly could do with a break from the game tbh. hes been with dublin for the last 6 years..its a long time!

as long as its not johnny kelly or tony keady i wont mind. there is a serious u21 team this year that wont reach its potential with those 2 in charge..which is a great shame!!!

Worthwent14

I wouldnt say no to daly but he does probably need a break. Give Cunningham another year so we can save up for daly

djPSB

donnem33 wrote: »

i reckon daly could do with a break from the game tbh. hes been with dublin for the last 6 years..its a long time!

as long as its not johnny kelly or tony keady i wont mind. there is a serious u21 team this year that wont reach its potential with those 2 in charge..which is a great shame!!!

What has Daly achieved as a manager that makes people rate him so highly compared to Cunninghamñ

donnem33

djPSB wrote: »

What has Daly achieved as a manager that makes people rate him so highly compared to Cunninghamñ

to be honest im kinda wondering that too. fair enough he has raised the profile of hurling in dub, won a league and leinster championship. with the investment that was received, i believe the return over the last 6 yr has been minimal.

in fairness to cunningham he won a leinster and was a puck of the ball away from winning an all ireland. This year he has blooded a few new players who have great potential. The players played for him this year, and from talking to a few of the lads on the panel, the players were happy with him. Id be inclined to give him one more shot this year

Fireball07

donnem33 wrote: »

to be honest im kinda wondering that too. fair enough he has raised the profile of hurling in dub, won a league and leinster championship. with the investment that was received, i believe the return over the last 6 yr has been minimal.

in fairness to cunningham he won a leinster and was a puck of the ball away from winning an all ireland. This year he has blooded a few new players who have great potential. The players played for him this year, and from talking to a few of the lads on the panel, the players were happy with him. Id be inclined to give him one more shot this year

He did win a league title and a Leinster title with a Dublin team who aren't blessed with loads of great hurlers. He was also very unlucky with Clare in 2005... okay, it's not the most encouraging thing to hear of almost winning, but he is a very decent manager and last year Dublin were up there with the best. The every 2nd year thing is very odd, but I think Galway will improve under him.

threeball

Worthwent14 wrote: »

I wouldnt say no to daly but he does probably need a break. Give Cunningham another year so we can save up for daly

Dalys a very tactically niave manage which has cost him dearly over the years. Can be a bit wayward on the man management on occasion which is the opposite of what this county needs too. We need a man to bind this team together and get past the inter club bs that has blighted us. No county can have the spread of regular club all irelands we have and not have the players. Its the cohesion of the team and buy in to a common purpose that needs to be addressed. I'd have thought Donal o grady before the mess earlier in the year with limerick.

donnem33

threeball wrote: »

Dalys a very tactically niave manage which has cost him dearly over the years. Can be a bit wayward on the man management on occasion which is the opposite of what this county needs too. We need a man to bind this team together and get past the inter club bs that has blighted us. No county can have the spread of regular club all irelands we have and not have the players. Its the cohesion of the team and buy in to a common purpose that needs to be addressed. I'd have thought Donal o grady before the mess earlier in the year with limerick.

ya i would have thought donal o grady aswell, or perhaps john allen. a man id like given a chance is donal og...i know he has not much experience and probably wont take the job but i believe he would be good. terrific analyser of the game

threeball

The problem with hurling is the limited number of successful counties and therefore proven managers. Out of the eight managers you could talk about theres at least 4 that alot of players and fans wouldn't fancy, Cody included. Its a crap shoot after that to pick an internal man or pick up a guy who had success with the likes of antrim and see what he can do with one of the biggest selection of players in the country

donnem33

i think a man they should go after is martin fogarty from kilkenny. he was part of codys backroom teams and he appears to be a very astute individual. he had a part of play with the westmeath camp this year so i presume that he would be available

TheCoolWay

aidan24326 wrote: »

Care to elaborate?

Personally I think he is weak defensively and a bit headless but there's no use just saying 'drop him' unless you're going to qualify that statement, and unless you can suggest a better alternative (we're not exactly blessed with defensive options at the moment).

Because you could clearly see in the last game that he wasnt back marking his man for at least two of the goals. Poor attitude too i'm hearing from members of his club.

Bring back Sice lols

Worthwent14

Don't think there's any realistic alternative to brashaw at the moment unfortunately. Hopefully next season Duane Sice Doherty fahy will all be available to give us realistic options in the halfback line.

spiritcrusher

TheCoolWay wrote: »

Bring back Sice lols

Christ, don't mention the war. I know a fair amount of Corofin people who are extremely bitter Sice isn't on the team, "Besht player in the county lasht year and he not on the team...".
I think Sunday's toughest call for Mulholland will be do you start O'Donnell who may not be 100% but is our most experienced CB, and is by no means a rock in defence anyway, or risk a fully fit Daithi Burke who hasn't played a huge amount of football lately and certainly has never some up against anything like a Kerry forward line?

aidan24326

keane2097 wrote: »

How are the confidence levels lads? Nobody really seems to be considering the possibility of a Galway win, seems like a good situation to come into a game under.

Confidence in the Galway camp should be decent after what was for the most part a good performance against a useful Tipp team (the game was effectively won long before the defensive meltdown at the end).

Galway tend to play well in Croke Park too, so there's reasons to be hopeful and reasons to believe that Galway can be competitive and give this Kerry team a good test. But realistically a Kerry win is the most likely outcome and odds of 1/4 reflect that.

djPSB wrote: »

What has Daly achieved as a manager that makes people rate him so highly compared to Cunninghamñ

In fairness he probably achieved about as much as he could with the players at his disposal. Whether Cunningham did likewise is very debatable.

TheCoolWay wrote: »

Because you could clearly see in the last game that he wasnt back marking his man for at least two of the goals. Poor attitude too i'm hearing from members of his club.

Bring back Sice lols

I agree that Bradshaw is defensively suspect. Our defence in general is weak but we don't have a whole lot in the way of alternatives either, and management seem tactically weak in terms of implementing a proper defensive system.

Some of the scores conceded in the last 2 games have been unbelievably soft and there's been little or no progress made in that department. It was the exact same situation last year where Mayo and subsequently Cork sauntered through our defence for soft scores, and Cork would have had about 6 or 7 goals but for a bit of luck and some great goalkeeping.

Worthwent14

Cork would have had about 6 or 7 goals but for a bit of luck and some great goalkeeping. - this is why we need Breathnach in goals sunday he was excellent v tipp and cork last year and has experience of playing in croker and is a bigger keeper than Healy. I hope im wrong but i feel Kerry will expose this on sunday. I've seen him let in goals for his club that taller keepers would have stopped and thats what worries me about him

TheCoolWay

Worthwent14 wrote: »

Cork would have had about 6 or 7 goals but for a bit of luck and some great goalkeeping. - this is why we need Breathnach in goals sunday he was excellent v tipp and cork last year and has experience of playing in croker and is a bigger keeper than Healy. I hope im wrong but i feel Kerry will expose this on sunday. I've seen him let in goals for his club that taller keepers would have stopped and thats what worries me about him

awkward...

Utopia Parkway

Galway team v Kerry

Tom Healy
Donal O'Neill
Finian Hanley
Joss Moore
Gareth Bradshaw
Gary O'Donnell
Paul Varley
Fiontain O'Curraoin
Tom Flynn
Michael Lundy
Shane Walsh
James Kavanagh
Michael Martin
Paul Conroy
Danny Cummins

Mulholland Out.

He hasn't learned a thing since he took over.
Hand passing is needless, not working on a system that hits players with pace.

Still no defensive system, trying to man mark without spare backs is criminal.
We were the only team playing without spare backs.
We manned up, Kerry held their forwards central and were able to just make simple runs into the corners with acres of space for the kick.

Nothing done either on kickouts, players were just standing static until Healy kicked it long.

He got his gallant loss against Cork last season, we didn't improve this season and I wouldn't count two 7 point losses as an improvement.
Two sets of AI winning young lads to work with.

Need someone who can organise a defence to come in, work on moving it with pace and developing a kick out stragedy.

Another woeful year for Galway GAA....

Stanza2

gilberto_eire wrote: »

Mulholland Out.

He hasn't learned a thing since he took over.
Hand passing is needless, not working on a system that hits players with pace.

Still no defensive system, trying to man mark without spare backs is criminal.
We were the only team playing without spare backs.
We manned up, Kerry held their forwards central and were able to just make simple runs into the corners with acres of space for the kick.

Nothing done either on kickouts, players were just standing static until Healy kicked it long.

He got his gallant loss against Cork last season, we didn't improve this season and I wouldn't count two 7 point losses as an improvement.
Two sets of AI winning young lads to work with.

Need someone who can organise a defence to come in, work on moving it with pace and developing a kick out stragedy.

Another woeful year for Galway GAA....

I have to say that this team is better than the manager and by quite some distance ! The tactics are just woeful. The difference in the way the two teams played into the wind won Kerry the game. We were kicking the leather off the ball from the 45 in the first half into the strong wind, wide after wide. Kerry in the second half when under pressure kept the build up going until they were within 20 yards and popped it over for crucial scores. We did not even use our full forward line at all in that game. Cummins and Martin who are ball winners never got one delivery of quality, JOD from Kerry had class supply that allowed him to turn and score or supply a score. Big high balls into the two boys when balls into space were required. At half time I expected Cummins and Martin to create and score with the wind at their backs and plenty of space instead we get Armstrong on who has no pace to speak of on for Cummins (who's confidence must be shot to bits, don't know why he started him as he obviously does not rate him) and then takes Martin off shortly after to bring Hoare on ? We needed pace and goals so we bring big target men on. Even when we got it back to 2 points I thought we might go on and win it, the wind was a big difference playing into the Davin end, but no defensive system and they pop down and score when they want. The boys do not lack effort or ability but our structure is sadly lacking and coherence at all, just do not understand it. Shane was played all over the place more in hope than anything that he could get us out of the s##t. If we had played smart football with all the pocession that we had, that game was there for the taking. Do not know what the wide count was for both teams, but it must be heavily in Kerry's favour. I seriously do not believe that our players are worse than Kerry's or many other counties, but the management is rubbish. Hate saying it, but we are not the best team in Ireland, but we are better than that display today and Mulholland is not getting anywhere near the best out of them.

Fireball07

threeball wrote: »

The problem with hurling is the limited number of successful counties and therefore proven managers. Out of the eight managers you could talk about theres at least 4 that alot of players and fans wouldn't fancy, Cody included. Its a crap shoot after that to pick an internal man or pick up a guy who had success with the likes of antrim and see what he can do with one of the biggest selection of players in the country

But there are club managers, colleges managers, U-21/minor managers as well as coaches within intercounty set-ups... obviously it can be hard to identify how well they'll step up to the higher grade, but I suppose you interview them, see how well they talk, look at their record and take a gamble.


There aren't that many proven managers, that is true but teams do have to take a risk every now and then.