Galway GAA discussion thread

Diabhal Beag

Just a heads up lads. Go Pearse Stadium for tickets for Sunday. Much better than tickets.ie.

from_atozinc

Diabhal Beag wrote: »

Just a heads up lads. Go Pearse Stadium for tickets for Sunday. Much better than tickets.ie.

sure Salthill will be thronged

threeball

TCDStudent1 wrote: »

Yes, so would I to a point. It would be nice to play somebody different for a change though.

I never understand the logic of people saying "oh that is a good draw for us" when their team avoids a top team. I go to club matches almost every week, go to Galway matches all through the year. I want to see the players I watch so much throughout the year come up against the likes of Brogan & Connolly from Dublin, or, Cavanagh & Donnelly from Tyrone, or O'Donoghue & Cooper from Kerry etc. I want to see them pit themselves against the best in the country. In a way, I am a little disappointed that we are playing one of Tipp, Clare & Derry in the QF. As they havent been prominent in recent years, I would probably struggle to name 15 of out the 45 that will start for them in their next match. And I have no idea of their individual strengths. But with the likes of Dublin, Kerry, Mayo, Donegal, Tyrone - they have so much exposure that you know their strengths.

I'd be happy for us to take on Dublin, Kerry, Mayo and Donegal but Tyrone would just be a suffocation. It's the one team I think we'd really struggle with because they'd be quite happy to shut up shop and win a game 2pts to 1. Donegal showed against us last year that they're not capable of doing that in Croke Park anymore and the other 3 would actually go toe to toe so they'd be good games.

Angry bird

Let's see can the hurlers do us proud on Sunday. Heading to Thurles with the family so that's 4 wexford jerseys and myself, so will have an interest in all the matches. Will be a long day so hopefully the weather is decent and we get some cracking matches with the right result of course. G'wan Galway.

Mr Velo

Diabhal Beag wrote: »

Just a heads up lads. Go Pearse Stadium for tickets for Sunday. Much better than tickets.ie.

How do you mean?
Better seats??

Diabhal Beag

Yep. Got decent covered seats on the 65 for new stand whereas tickets.ie are corner. For 30 you'd want a decent spot.

Mr Velo

Diabhal Beag wrote: »

Yep. Got decent covered seats on the 65 for new stand whereas tickets.ie are corner. For 30 you'd want a decent spot.

Great to know. When will tickets be available?

Diabhal Beag

There till Friday. Close at 5.

Mr Velo

Diabhal Beag wrote: »

There till Friday. Close at 5.

Didn't even know they were available yet as they weren't on tickets.ie

Diabhal Beag

Thoughts on Sunday?

Hard to be too confident but it's difficult to see Galway being a lifeless as Limerick were against Clare.

Megager

Diabhal Beag wrote: »

Thoughts on Sunday?

Hard to be too confident but it's difficult to see Galway being a lifeless as Limerick were against Clare.

Hard to know. A lot of people tipped Clare as all Ireland candidates at start of year, though I have to be honest and say I didn't see it. I think we looked lifeless in second half v Kilkenny and if we play like that Clare with out work us and beat us. If we are at our best and canning at the top of his game, then we could do it, but if we are below par we will be beaten. I'd say Clare are confident and think Galway will provide a decent test of their real title credentials.

O.A.P

Diabhal Beag wrote: »

Thoughts on Sunday?

Hard to be too confident but it's difficult to see Galway being a lifeless as Limerick were against Clare.

Hard call it , so Galway by two.

Limestone Cowboy

Where's the handiest place to park in salt hill lads? Going to the Clare match today and know Galway fairly well but was never in pearse stadium before.

I said

Limestone Cowboy wrote: »

Where's the handiest place to park in salt hill lads? Going to the Clare match today and know Galway fairly well but was never in pearse stadium before.

Oranmore,it's the greatest hoare of a place to get in or out of on match days even the club finals are a disaster.

Limestone Cowboy

I said wrote: »

Oranmore,it's the greatest hoare of a place to get in or out of on match days even the club finals are a disaster.

I'm not going walking from oranmore!

Diabhal Beag

Limestone Cowboy wrote: »

Where's the handiest place to park in salt hill lads? Going to the Clare match today and know Galway fairly well but was never in pearse stadium before.

If you get up before 2pm you should find some spots in the Aquarium carpark. My honest suggestion would be to go to Westside, go towards Spiddal direction and park in Joyces. No fear of clamping, you can beat a lot of traffic by using the Western Distributor Road and it's about 10 minutes from the ground.

Team announced for tomorrow.

Seems to be the same 15 as the LF.

Not going to pick individuals out and say he should start or he shouldn't, of which there's at least two, but what I will say is we can't just keep picking players in the same system.

Id prefer to see a Andy Smyth come in for a forward and play with 5 since we seem to play with 5 while we're man to man in a sparse defence.... We look like a team being a man down currently.

Either that or a basic one man sweeper sitting behind the HB line so we stop looking so open in defence.

David Burke going to HF is also another option and Smyth coming in, though that kind of correlates to the third midfielder option.

I think we need to change something anyway as not just against KK, but even against Cork in the relegation play off, we look so open at the back and so crowded out up front that something needs to change.... At the very least they need to work on finding a short pass or two in defence before launching it to our forwards.

The selection, lack of change from league to LF, would suggest we haven't learned anything and we're going to continue on.... So frustrating, similar to KW not getting the kick out strategy the top 2/3 use in football.

donnem33

gilberto_eire wrote: »

Team announced for tomorrow.

Seems to be the same 15 as the LF.

Not going to pick individuals out and say he should start or he shouldn't, of which there's at least two, but what I will say is we can't just keep picking players in the same system.

Id prefer to see a Andy Smyth come in for a forward and play with 5 since we seem to play with 5 while we're man to man in a sparse defence.... We look like a team being a man down currently.

Either that or a basic one man sweeper sitting behind the HB line so we stop looking so open in defence.

David Burke going to HF is also another option and Smyth coming in, though that kind of correlates to the third midfielder option.

I think we need to change something anyway as not just against KK, but even against Cork in the relegation play off, we look so open at the back and so crowded out up front that something needs to change.... At the very least they need to work on finding a short pass or two in defence before launching it to our forwards.

The selection, lack of change from league to LF, would suggest we haven't learned anything and we're going to continue on.... So frustrating, similar to KW not getting the kick out strategy the top 2/3 use in football.

I doubt they will line out as expected though - presume Gearoid Mc is starting due to his physical presence to follow john conlon. reckon daithi burke will act as our sweeper when tony kelly goes roaming

TCDStudent1

Limestone Cowboy wrote: »

Where's the handiest place to park in salt hill lads? Going to the Clare match today and know Galway fairly well but was never in pearse stadium before.

Galway bay hotel - fairly near pearse, handy if you want a drink / food, secure parking that's free.

h2005

TCDStudent1 wrote: »

Galway bay hotel - fairly near pearse, handy if you want a drink / food, secure parking that's free.

They were refusing non-guests for the Connacht final

threeball

There won't be 10,000 at the game. You could park on the prom with all that will be there.

aidan24326

Can't understand why Jason Flynn isn't starting this year. He was one of our best performers last year and offers a really good alternative on the freetaking if Joe is having an off-day.

MfMan

gilberto_eire wrote: »

Team announced for tomorrow.

Seems to be the same 15 as the LF.

Not going to pick individuals out and say he should start or he shouldn't, of which there's at least two, but what I will say is we can't just keep picking players in the same system.

Id prefer to see a Andy Smyth come in for a forward and play with 5 since we seem to play with 5 while we're man to man in a sparse defence.... We look like a team being a man down currently.

Either that or a basic one man sweeper sitting behind the HB line so we stop looking so open in defence.

David Burke going to HF is also another option and Smyth coming in, though that kind of correlates to the third midfielder option.

I think we need to change something anyway as not just against KK, but even against Cork in the relegation play off, we look so open at the back and so crowded out up front that something needs to change.... At the very least they need to work on finding a short pass or two in defence before launching it to our forwards.

The selection, lack of change from league to LF, would suggest we haven't learned anything and we're going to continue on.... So frustrating, similar to KW not getting the kick out strategy the top 2/3 use in football.

Totally agree. Can't keep picking the same team and system and expect different results. This was the chance for mgmt to put their own shape on things and they've passed up on it.

wp_rathead

So Galway play either Tipperary or Clare
If Derry beat Tipp we play Clare & Derry play Kerry
If Tipp beat Derry we play Tipp & Clare play Kerry

It'll be a disaster if we don't break the winless run in Croker now.

Playing a team who've lost by 10+ plus to Kerry now either way.

Need to put either of them away or it'll end up being the worst of the last 15 years.

Happyilylost

wp_rathead wrote:

So Galway play either Tipperary or Clare If Derry beat Tipp we play Clare & Derry play Kerry If Tipp beat Derry we play Tipp & Clare play Kerry

Only provincial finals can't be repeated in quarter finals. So if Derry win I think it's a draw.

Happyilylost

Minors got off to an easy start. On paper they've a quality team.

wp_rathead

Happyilylost wrote: »

Only provincial finals can't be repeated in quarter finals. So if Derry win I think it's a draw.

Oh maybe, I thought because Kerry played Clare already meant couldn't play again unless clashing with a provincial final

Big Pussy Bonpensiero

Happyilylost wrote: »

Only provincial finals can't be repeated in quarter finals. So if Derry win I think it's a draw.

I don't think that's right, I think the rule is if one of the provincial champions has already met one of the qualifiers in an earlier match then those two teams cannot be drawn together.

Happyilylost

THFC wrote:

I don't think that's right, I think the rule is if one of the provincial champions has already met one of the qualifiers in an earlier match then those two teams cannot be drawn together.

I'm 100% sure if Clare and Derry win it's a draw. It's only provincial finals they stop repeating in quarter finals.