Galway GAA discussion thread

They're getting embarrassed here.

Two points in a half of hurling and one after 28mins is just not good enough for this stage of a competition.

To be honest it's to be expected. Carrickshock have so much quality they looked at home there and were slotting over some excellent points. Padraic Mannion was doing his best to stem the flow but Ahascragh became disjointed very early in the game.

Look at the names in the Carrickshock team, some might be gone past their best but the quality and experience they have in their team is at another level.

Even with 20 teams a few years back I thought we had too many at senior. This number has grown to 22 and now to 24 which is far too many in senior to expect to have competitive champions at Intermediate. There's some very poor senior teams in Galway who are hanging on due to the ridiculous number of teams there is at senior grade. Senior A and B grades have helped level things out somewhat but still the balance is all wrong at club level.

We've never won an All-Ireland at Intermediate and we've never even gone close to winning an All-Ireland at junior level.

Diabhal Beag

Carrickshock had a serious side. Power, Rice and Tennysons.

Utopia Parkway

Borders no.2 wrote: »

To be honest it's to be expected. Carrickshock have so much quality they looked at home there and were slotting over some excellent points. Padraic Mannion was doing his best to stem the flow but Ahascragh became disjointed very early in the game.

Look at the names in the Carrickshock team, some might be gone past their best but the quality and experience they have in their team is at another level.

Even with 20 teams a few years back I thought we had too many at senior. This number has grown to 22 and now to 24 which is far too many in senior to expect to have competitive champions at Intermediate. There's some very poor senior teams in Galway who are hanging on due to the ridiculous number of teams there is at senior grade. Senior A and B grades have helped level things out somewhat but still the balance is all wrong at club level.

We've never won an All-Ireland at Intermediate and we've never even gone close to winning an All-Ireland at junior level.

Far too senior clubs in Galway in both hurling and football. A trim is badly needed.

Robson99

Diabhal Beag wrote: »

Carrickshock had a serious side. Power, Rice and Tennysons.

Carrickshock would have beaten most of the Senior Clubs in Galway today let alone a team coming up from intermediate

Topcat32

Robson99 wrote: »

Carrickshock would have beaten most of the Senior Clubs in Galway today let alone a team coming up from intermediate

I think that was Carrickshocks best performance in a long time to be fair, Richie Power has not been in the physical condition to do what he did today for the last few years. Hard look to Ahascragh who I know are a great club.

Robson99

Topcat32 wrote: »

I think that was Carrickshocks best performance in a long time to be fair, Richie Power has not been in the physical condition to do what he did today for the last few years. Hard look to Ahascragh who I know are a great club.

First touch superior and physicality wise much stronger. Hard to see how they struggled through some of their earlier games

Diabhal Beag

Nearly throwing a 7 point lead over ****e puckouts.

Diabhal Beag

Diabhal Beag wrote: »

Nearly throwing a 7 point lead over ****e puckouts.

Poor end to the half.

Wexford got about 5 in a row there.

Can't afford to let a team back into a game when you had a foot on their throat.

Diabhal Beag

So many wasted first half ball. Whelan is too small to bomb puckouts too.

Absolute embarrassment losing to Wexford at home... New manager or not they're a second rate side.

League over after two games unless Wexford lose to some third rate team.

Two massive leads blown.

Constantly hitting terrible ball into 1v2s while they were able to hit decent balls into their outnumbered players.
Barely won a ball in the last twenty mins.

Penalty he gave them was laughable though.

blueskys

No point blaming the penalty, wexford had 5/6 poor wides in the first half so the signs were there..Galway won't win Jack this season and I wonder who the players will blame this time

Diabhal Beag

Wexford were so much sharper and deserved the win but the combination of gutless Galway players in addition to an absolutely one-eyed refereeing performance was enraging.

Aidan Harte is done. Just beaten to every ball and can't even lift it off he ground anymore. Cost us the penalty. Stupid.

Halfbacks are turnstiles. Easily ran through and the interplay between the halfbacks and fullbacks was criminal even by Junior standards. Tuohy and Mc were roasted. Daithi Burke hasn't hurled in a while and it showed.

Coen and Burke don't have any sort of chemistry and Coen goes missing in Tom Flynn-esque fashion.

Forwards were too soft. You can't treat Conor Whelan as if he's Johnny Glynn with long puckouts. He's not that kind of hurler. And even when Whelan did break ball down there wasn't a soul near him to support him. The game passed Molloy by in a big way. The two Cooneys and Flynn were maybe the only positives from the match.

Joe Canning got a massive reception and scored a super penalty but he must be wondering why he put in all that effort to comeback early when two Galway backs can't pick up a ball and drag down a Wexford player in the square to cost us the match.

That's the most disheartened I've been in a long time at a Galway match for either code. Another year in Division 2 is deserved after that showing. Bar Mannions that's a full strength Galway side that bottled it today.

Hugely disappointing. After the 2nd and in particular the 3rd goal it really should have been game over. The old lack of ruthlessness showing again. Wexford showed good spirit but they haven't improved hugely on last year yet they had the better of the chances. We drifted through the game it appeared never believing we would be seriously troubled and in the end Wexford got the momentum and even with some of the outrageous decisions given/not-given especially late in the game the hard reality is that we couldn't win any dirty ball when push came to shove in the final minutes.

The rest of the league means little now until the quarter-finals and we're consigned to another year in Division 1B which isn't where you want to be if you hope to be competing with the big sides. When you get in the cycle of being stuck in the lower division it's hard to get out of it as Limerick have found.

I think we'll improve as a unit as the year goes on but this is a bad day.

mickmackey1

Looks like Wexford have benefitted from some strange refereeing decisions two weeks in a row.

Conas

mickmackey1 wrote: »

Looks like Wexford have benefitted from some strange refereeing decisions two weeks in a row.

When teams lose matches they are favourites to win, they always look for a scapegoat. The referee is an easy scapegoat.

Utopia Parkway

mickmackey1 wrote: »

Looks like Wexford have benefitted from some strange refereeing decisions two weeks in a row.

They probably got the better of the decisions today but Galway didn't really turn up with their A game. Or even B game for that matter. Which is why they lost. Wexford by far the hungrier more motivated team on the day and fully deserved the win. Galway looked like a side who felt they would just turn up and win because they have better players but didn't fancy putting the hard graft in this early in the year. Would have thought there would have been more life in them given that if they lost any chance of promotion was gone.

No promotion is a blow alright but year is not over yet. They'll be a different animal come the Summer when their fitness and sharpness is back but it looks like many of the old faults are still there sadly.

Johnny Glynn badly missed in that Galway side. Lots of finishers amongst the forwards but too many similar type players and no real out and out ball winner like Glynn. Someone who could have won a couple of puckouts today when they were struggling towards the end of the game to make the ball stick up front. But anyway he won't be back this year so he's not an option now.

Bonniedog

Who will be next manager?

leestone

Wonder will Greg lally got a shot at 6 and daithi moving back to three, Harte it seems is not up to im afraid

cosatron

leestone wrote: »

Wonder will Greg lally got a shot at 6 and daithi moving back to three, Harte it seems is not up to im afraid

daithi was man marking lee chin and aidan harte was the spare man/sweeper and his starting position was in the number 3 position. come championship daithi will be 3 and harte will be 7 or 17 going on his performance last sunday.

Robson99

leestone wrote: »

Wonder will Greg lally got a shot at 6 and daithi moving back to three, Harte it seems is not up to im afraid

P mannion will have a strong shout for 6

MfMan

Any truth that Donnellan has returned to the panel? A number of the younger players have been let go I heard, McHugo and Nevin among others. Thought the latter in particular would have been close to the mark this year.

leestone

MfMan wrote: »

Any truth that Donnellan has returned to the panel? A number of the younger players have been let go I heard, McHugo and Nevin among others. Thought the latter in particular would have been close to the mark this year.

Def thought nevin would be in for a shout in midfield or half forward very dynamic would compliment what's there better too many stick men need a grafter Eoin Larkin mould etc

Diabhal Beag

"A Galway motion that sought to allow the county's minor, U21 and intermediate hurling teams join their senior counterparts in Leinster was withdrawn from the Congress clar.

Galway chairman Pat Kearney said he had taken the decision after receiving assurances that the GAA would establish a workgroup to assist them and Antrim."

Sounds like we bottled it.

TCDStudent1

Diabhal Beag wrote: »

"A Galway motion that sought to allow the county's minor, U21 and intermediate hurling teams join their senior counterparts in Leinster was withdrawn from the Congress clar.

Galway chairman Pat Kearney said he had taken the decision after receiving assurances that the GAA would establish a workgroup to assist them and Antrim."

Sounds like we bottled it.

There must have been some deal done. I heard murmurings of a separate group between Galway, Antrim, Munster / Leinster preliminary losers. I couldn't care less what format it is as long as Galway underage teams are getting games.

TCDStudent1

TCDStudent1 wrote: »

There must have been some deal done. I heard murmurings of a separate group between Galway, Antrim, Munster / Leinster preliminary losers. I couldn't care less what format it is as long as Galway underage teams are getting games.

I hope you're wrong, that sounds like the the pre Leinster situation for our seniors.

We got put into a group with teams who already lost a life.
We had no second chance, or the opportunity to get to a provincial final and thus a QF with the back door a saving grace.

How our county board let us enter that situation is beyond me(or the straight knock out days where we got a single second chance against Laois/Antrim before needing to win about 6 straight to win the AI)... either we get the same deal as everyone else, nobody gets a second chance or we say no.

TCDStudent1

gilberto_eire wrote: »

I hope you're wrong, that sounds like the the pre Leinster situation for our seniors.

We got put into a group with teams who already lost a life.
We had no second chance, or the opportunity to get to a provincial final and thus a QF with the back door a saving grace.

How our county board let us enter that situation is beyond me(or the straight knock out days where we got a single second chance against Laois/Antrim before needing to win about 6 straight to win the AI)... either we get the same deal as everyone else, nobody gets a second chance or we say no.

Yeah that's true. It's hard to understand why they withdrew it if there wasn't some deal put to Galway

MfMan

TCDStudent1 wrote: »

Yeah that's true. It's hard to understand why they withdrew it if there wasn't some deal put to Galway

McIntyre in the Turbine predicted as much; said most likely it would be withdrawn.

windy shepard henderson

i think galway's non inclusion in the under age leinster suggests that there might not be an under age championship in say 5 years time , everything about congress today would suggest that big changes are to be made in the next number of years , everything is been fazed out bit by bit, next year or two should see a super 6 or 8 in hurling at 1/4 final too the end result down the line will be to get rid of the provincial championships altogether

Django99

windy shepard henderson wrote: »

i think galway's non inclusion in the under age leinster suggests that there might not be an under age championship in say 5 years time , everything about congress today would suggest that big changes are to be made in the next number of years , everything is been fazed out bit by bit, next year or two should see a super 6 or 8 in hurling at 1/4 final too the end result down the line will be to get rid of the provincial championships altogether

That's an interesting theory and it makes sense based on what we saw today. Galway surely aren't content to keep things the way they are.