Galway GAA discussion thread

seligehgit

TCDStudent1 wrote: »

I'd say Heaney is a cert to get the number 7 position this year. He had a good year last year in fairness and did well when moved into the forwards. With the possible abundance of forwards we will have this year though, its hard to see that he will get a look in there.

Kieran Molloy & Liam Silke will probably be around fighting for the other 2 HB slots, along with O'Donnell & Bradshaw.

Seriously rate that lad,he always impressed me anytime I've seen him playing.He must be with a serious shot of making the team?

TCDStudent1

seligehgit wrote: »

Seriously rate that lad,he always impressed me anytime I've seen him playing.He must be with a serious shot of making the team?

Yeah you'd have to think so based on his Corofin form. but it's his first year with the county and he's young.

Mr Velo

How did Michael Day do in midfield against the Rossies?

Green Peter

yabadabado wrote:

That should be the last game played there for a very long time.Unfortunate we had to play a lot of games there but that should be a thing of the past now.

gilberto_eire wrote:

Galway Bay FM spend as much time on rubbish reports of events that casual fans have zero interest in than the the live game.

gilberto_eire wrote:

I constantly find myself relying on our competitors sports casts to get proper coverage or you'll get 40% of the match.

gilberto_eire wrote:

No other station does it similarly when the senior men are playing yet GBFM spend most of the show discussing nothing events.

gilberto_eire wrote:

Do you really think theres any interest outside of the clubs involved in womens club camogie?, (or womens intermediate basketball) especially if the senior men are playing at that time.

gilberto_eire wrote:

Galway Bay FM spend as much time on rubbish reports of events that casual fans have zero interest in than the the live game.

gilberto_eire wrote:

This isn't restricted to FBD, they do the same thing when Galway are playing in the league.

gilberto_eire wrote:

I constantly find myself relying on our competitors sports casts to get proper coverage or you'll get 40% of the match.

gilberto_eire wrote:

No other station does it similarly when the senior men are playing yet GBFM spend most of the show discussing nothing events.

+ 1 to this, I couldn't believe how bad the coverage was on Gbfm. Clearly a hurling commentator has alot of say in GBFM. Outside of clubs most people only pay passing interest. A county team should be prioritized especially in a final V a rival

TCDStudent1

Mr Velo wrote: »

How did Michael Day do in midfield against the Rossies?

Good player but poor in that match

MfMan

Green Peter wrote: »

+ 1 to this, I couldn't believe how bad the coverage was on Gbfm. Clearly a hurling commentator has alot of say in GBFM. Outside of clubs most people only pay passing interest. A county team should be prioritized especially in a final V a rival

Don't entirely agree. C'ship games should take precedence over non-c'ship and particularly tournament matches. In fairness to Sarsfields, they were chosen as Galway's team of the year for 2016; not to give ladies sports their due coverage is insulting and discriminatory. And anyway the man who was covering the FBD final, Kevin Dwyer, is really a poor commentator who regularly calls players, moves etc. incorrectly, nearly better off with no-one really!

Green Peter

MfMan wrote:

Don't entirely agree. C'ship games should take precedence over non-c'ship and particularly tournament matches. In fairness to Sarsfields, they were chosen as Galway's team of the year for 2016; not to give ladies sports their due coverage is insulting and discriminatory. And anyway the man who was covering the FBD final, Kevin Dwyer, is really a poor commentator who regularly calls players, moves etc. incorrectly, nearly better off with no-one really!

I totally disagree, the vast majority of listeners were ignored on Sunday for the sake of two different parishes, that's not catering for your listeners. Football was ignored and in fairness to Kevin Dwyer at least we would have known what was happening. They could have had the fbd as the main game and kept in touch with the club games. The hurling commentator is no great shakes either!!

TCDStudent1

Green Peter wrote: »

I totally disagree, the vast majority of listeners were ignored on Sunday for the sake of two different parishes, that's not catering for your listeners. Football was ignored and in fairness to Kevin Dwyer at least we would have known what was happening. They could have had the fbd as the main game and kept in touch with the club games. The hurling commentator is no great shakes either!!

Which commentator are you referring to here? For me, Sean Walsh is one of the best commentators out there

Green Peter

TCDStudent1 wrote:

Which commentator are you referring to here? For me, Sean Walsh is one of the best commentators out there

Ya, I'm referring to him when I say he's no great shakes. I don't care if you get Michael o haire from above to commentate on a club match, it's still a club match!

Diabhal Beag

Ollie is my fave. Lost a league match in Portlaoise a couple of seasons back and he was nearly in tears for 20 minutes after lamenting the death of Galway football. That passion provides great entertainment value on gloomy days.

Galway Bay do give good coverage to sport to be be fair. However, I find their coverage of things very random the last few years. One day they'd give blanket coverage to Galway v Leitrim in the FBD League. Another day they'll often cut across from an important league game for 10/15 minutes to get updates on a bronze medal u13 community games chess match or something similar. I think its commendable that they try and give coverage to every sport at various levels but I think this can definitely be done in a better way than they manage it.

Also their facebook page some days is brilliant and then other days you'd expect it to be up to date its coverage is non-existent.

Robson99

Green Peter wrote: »

+ 1 to this, I couldn't believe how bad the coverage was on Gbfm. Clearly a hurling commentator has alot of say in GBFM. Outside of clubs most people only pay passing interest. A county team should be prioritized especially in a final V a rival

The club games were much more important. Who gives a fiddlers **** about a poxy FBD league game.
There was 3 club teams in all Ireland semi finals. They deserve the majority of the coverage. Total disrespect to them if they were not prioritised

Robson99

Green Peter wrote: »

I totally disagree, the vast majority of listeners were ignored on Sunday for the sake of two different parishes, that's not catering for your listeners. Football was ignored and in fairness to Kevin Dwyer at least we would have known what was happening. They could have had the fbd as the main game and kept in touch with the club games. The hurling commentator is no great shakes either!!

FBD game as the main game ... you are having a laugh. Who won the FBD league last year???
And FYI there were 3 parishes representing the county last sunday

Green Peter

Robson99 wrote:

FBD game as the main game ... you are having a laugh. Who won the FBD league last year??? And FYI there were 3 parishes representing the county last sunday

Galway won it last year and it did them no harm as a team to win it , they hadn't won a title for a long time and followed up with a Connacht title. There are all Ireland's for twiddle winks these days do we have to cover them all. I think parish pump politics got these pushed on the radio. I like Ollie turner but he needs to see that intercounty teams headline programmes when they are playing.

Robson99

Green Peter wrote: »

Galway won it last year and it did them no harm as a team to win it , they hadn't won a title for a long time and followed up with a Connacht title. There are all Ireland's for twiddle winks these days do we have to cover them all. I think parish pump politics got these pushed on the radio. I like Ollie turner but he needs to see that intercounty teams headline programmes when they are playing.

The FBD league is nothing more than a friendly /challenge. And I wouldn't think any more than 100 people turned up to watch it.
So you dont recognise camogie as being as important as a mickey mouse football tournament

TCDStudent1

Robson99 wrote: »

The FBD league is nothing more than a friendly /challenge. And I wouldn't think any more than 100 people turned up to watch it.
So you dont recognise camogie as being as important as a mickey mouse football tournament

There was significantly more than 100 there.

Green Peter

Robson99 wrote:

The FBD league is nothing more than a friendly /challenge. And I wouldn't think any more than 100 people turned up to watch it. So you dont recognise camogie as being as important as a mickey mouse football tournament

I guess your hoping I'll say yes and then you'll then call me sexist, If you read my posts I referred to both matches, hurling and camoige.

Robson99

Robson99 wrote: »

The FBD league is nothing more than a friendly /challenge. And I wouldn't think any more than 100 people turned up to watch it.
So you dont recognise camogie as being as important as a mickey mouse football tournament

I certainly don't see intermediate club camogie as being more important to the general public than the senior men.

If the womens All Ireland inter county finals can't get anything more than kids, friends and family then why would anyone want to follow it as a neutral.
Not that the standard of the top tier is any good, its woefully bad even at that level.

I'd hazard a bet there was more people from Galway tuned into the football on Shannonside then listening to some club game updates on GBFM.

This is my last post on this as we're getting away from the thread but the attendances, sponsorship and general media coverage would lead me to believe the majority of people would prefer to hear Galway in a "friendly" than some regional clubs, especially at lower level womens sports.

MfMan

gilberto_eire wrote: »

I certainly don't see intermediate club camogie as being more important to the general public than the senior men.

If the womens All Ireland inter county finals can't get anything more than kids, friends and family then why would anyone want to follow it as a neutral.
Not that the standard of the top tier is any good, its woefully bad even at that level.

I'd hazard a bet there was more people from Galway tuned into the football on Shannonside then listening to some club game updates on GBFM.

This is my last post on this as we're getting away from the thread but the attendances, sponsorship and general media coverage would lead me to believe the majority of people would prefer to hear Galway in a "friendly" than some regional clubs, especially at lower level womens sports.

It was a Senior semi-final where a Galway club beat a KK club in an exciting finish. I too would probably prefer instead to listen to the Galway footballers in the FBD final, but that's not the point. Not to give coverage to the Sarsfields match would have been insulting and demeaning to Ladies sports; how much unseen and unthanked work do mothers of children do at all levels of the club GAA scene? A little bit of reciprocal recognition is the least to which they're entitled.

fearruanua

So anyways..................moving on........

I'm looking forward to heading into the stadium on Sunday. If we can have a good record at home and nic a result or two on the road!!! here's hoping for a division 2 league final this year and please god division 1 next year.

MfMan

fearruanua wrote: »

So anyways..................moving on........

I'm looking forward to heading into the stadium on Sunday. If we can have a good record at home and nic a result or two on the road!!! here's hoping for a division 2 league final this year and please god division 1 next year.

Our home record has scuppered us quite a bit in the past few seasons. Didn't Kildare score a late peno to deny us promotion some years ago? Cavan beat us at home too 2 years ago, while draws-which-should-have-been-wins with Meath and Fermanagh last season did for us. As you say, a cast-iron home record would go a long way towards promotion.

Utopia Parkway

MfMan wrote: »

Our home record has scuppered us quite a bit in the past few seasons. Didn't Kildare score a late peno to deny us promotion some years ago? Cavan beat us at home too 2 years ago, while draws-which-should-have-been-wins with Meath and Fermanagh last season did for us. As you say, a cast-iron home record would go a long way towards promotion.

We've been poor at home in the league the last couple of years. Not just in Salthill either but in Tuam as well. Our away form has actually been pretty good in comparison but we've consistently dropped silly points at home. Often by letting big leads slip.

Every year we're tipped as one of the favourites for promotion but most years we haven't made any sustainable push for promotion. 2012 our first year down in Division 2 (I think) we went close and really should have tied that game down against Kildare. Many of the years in between we've been closer to relegation than promotion but Division 2 is a notoriously even division. Lots of tight matches, lots of draws and only a kick of the ball or so between being in contention for promotion and fighting relegation. That's what I like about the league that's absent from the championship. There is rarely a complete mismatch.

Cork should be the best team in the division but who knows where they're at. There's no banker game there. The last 5 years or so in the league our results and performances have been just too inconsistent to warrant taking any game for granted.

Having said that it's Kevin Walsh's 3rd year in charge. He got a vote of confidence over the winter but for me he still has it all to prove. It's his team now and it's time to be looking for more consistency in performance. Even allowing for the absence of the Corofin lads for the opening games (potentially up to 5) there's a few teams in the division who seem to have stagnated or are going nowhere fast. If we are to truly believe we are making progress we need to be getting promotion back to Division 1.

honthetown

Does anyone have any information on the Dublin branch of a Galway Supporters Club?

fearruanua

Galway team named to play Cork on Sunday

1-Rory Lavelle

2-Declan Kyne

3-David Walsh

4-Luke Burke

5-Gary O’Donnell

6-Gareth Bradshaw

7-Johnny Heaney

8-Paul Conroy

9-Fiontán Ó Curraoin

10-Thomas Flynn

11-Damien Comer

12-Eamon Brannigan

13-Danny Cummins

14-Barry McHugh

15-Seán Armstrong

aidan24326

It's a decent blend of new players along with more established regulars, and is actually a reasonably strong lineup for the time of year (about 10 of that team are likely championship starters). Be interesting to see how McHugh gets on at full forward, he was good in the FBD games but Cork in the National League will be a bigger test.

TCDStudent1

Interesting team alright.

Bit disappointed not to see Daly given a chance in it. Not sure if he is available.
Also, you would have to worry about Peter Cooke; he lost his place during the FBD campaign & you still have the Corofin players to come back. I thought this would be the year he would really put in a good claim for a place. He was impreesive against Tyrone last year. One would think that if you are going to be starting championship this year, you would need to make the team this week.

I can see where Walsh is coming from with the team - he is trying to provide continuity from the FBD league. For example, sticking with McHugh at 14 is good instead of just throwing Comer directly back in there.
I would have serious reservations about the goalkeeper and full back line.

MfMan

TCDStudent1 wrote: »

Interesting team alright.

Bit disappointed not to see Daly given a chance in it. Not sure if he is available.
Also, you would have to worry about Peter Cooke; he lost his place during the FBD campaign & you still have the Corofin players to come back. I thought this would be the year he would really put in a good claim for a place. He was impreesive against Tyrone last year. One would think that if you are going to be starting championship this year, you would need to make the team this week.

I can see where Walsh is coming from with the team - he is trying to provide continuity from the FBD league. For example, sticking with McHugh at 14 is good instead of just throwing Comer directly back in there.
I would have serious reservations about the goalkeeper and full back line.

As would I. Very raw looking. HB line may not be much better but at least they're experienced. Be interesting to see how Armie does on his return and McHugh on his debut, though overall FF line looks a bit 'samey'. Probably see Comer stationed there for a good spell of the game I feel. Brannigan, on colleges form, could well struggle.

Not really KW's fault, but this is his do-or-die year I think, and there's very little there to excite. Has to hit the ground running.

aidan24326

TCDStudent1 wrote: »

Interesting team alright.

Bit disappointed not to see Daly given a chance in it. Not sure if he is available.

Daly is young and inexperienced and wasn't even available for the FBD which would have been the ideal time to get a look at him. I wouldn't be rushing to throw him into the starting 15 just yet, but it'll be interesting to see if he gets game time at some stage during the league.

MfMan wrote: »

As would I. Very raw looking. HB line may not be much better but at least they're experienced. Be interesting to see how Armie does on his return and McHugh on his debut, though overall FF line looks a bit 'samey'. Probably see Comer stationed there for a good spell of the game I feel. Brannigan, on colleges form, could well struggle.

Not really KW's fault, but this is his do-or-die year I think, and there's very little there to excite. Has to hit the ground running.

He's picked a decent team in the circumstances, for all that full back line does look very inexperienced. There's still Sice and Shane Walshe to come back along with Duane, Lundy and Liam Silke who will be all be pushing for starting places. Would have been nice to see Ronan Steede given a chance at midfield but if Corofin get to Paddy's Day that will limit his opportunity.

O'Curraoin doesn't really convince me as a midfielder at this level. I'd be looking to play Tom Flynn there alongside Conroy as Flynn is not a forward. Having Armstrong back could work out well, he is still a quality footballer on his day, and if McHugh continues his red hot form that full forward line along with Comer have the ability to cause Cork plenty of problems once there's a decent supply.

MfMan

MfMan wrote: »

As would I. Very raw looking. HB line may not be much better but at least they're experienced. Be interesting to see how Armie does on his return and McHugh on his debut, though overall FF line looks a bit 'samey'. Probably see Comer stationed there for a good spell of the game I feel. Brannigan, on colleges form, could well struggle.

Not really KW's fault, but this is his do-or-die year I think, and there's very little there to excite. Has to hit the ground running.

What is his fault though is the failure to benchmark against the best.

And the best wouldn't pick our midfielders, even better versions.

If the benchmark are doing something more efficient, you adapt their methods.

Why he's continuing to dismiss the changes to midfielders(interchangable with forwards or backs) and kick outs I can only put down to ignorance at this stage.
Surely Tipp scoring 1-5 to 0-0 of the kick outs should have been enough of a wake up call... on top of keeping Roscommon is the Connacht for an extra game(conceded theirs and lost ours).

Anyway, its year three.
He'll likely leave if this year whimpers and hopefully the next manager in takes 2 sessions to work on retaining our kick outs... I think we'd easily move up to 3-6 ranking with that one change.