Galway GAA discussion thread

Doctors room ghost

Hard luck to the mellows

Utopia Parkway

MfMan wrote: »

Any sign of a Galway team?

Footballers seem very slow with the team announcements so far this year. Generally no sign of the team until an hour before throw-in.

seligehgit

Any chance this game will be called off?

Curly head

seligehgit wrote: »

Any chance this game will be called off?

Nice covering of snow in Castlegar. .Doesn't look good for game I'd say

sean555

There is snow on the pitch but only a light covering and should be easily melted by 11.30 but i still doubt it will go ahead.

grbear

There's a decent thaw setting in already near Tuam and I'm not sure it froze that hard as there wasn't much ice on the roads this morning. There was some but nothing like as bad as Friday morning for instance.

I'd say the ladies match won't go ahead but I'm 50/50 on the men's game.
Is there anyway they can push the kickoff back an hour or is that impossible due to it being on TG4?

sean555

Both games going ahead according to Galway Gaa twitter

Diabhal Beag

Take it handy and leave early if you have to travel a distance to get to Salthill. Pitch given the go ahead but a lot of roads haven't been gritted this week so no guarantees it was done last night.

TCDStudent1

Diabhal Beag wrote: »

Take it handy and leave early if you have to travel a distance to get to Salthill. Pitch given the go ahead but a lot of roads haven't been gritted this week so no guarantees it was done last night.

Snowing at the moment in Galway - this will not be pretty today

MfMan

Any conditions update?

Happyilylost

MfMan wrote:

Any conditions update?

Snow. Wind. Baltic. Pitch is clear of snow. Sun is shining. Crowd small so far.

Diabhal Beag

Ladies match well underway but we had snow in Salthill in the last 20 minutes again. Sunny now

flazio

I don't know if it's just my TV but I'm finding it hard to distinguish which team is which from the wide shots. The dark jerseys are hard to tell apart.

Condenser

Mayo only in it due to giving away stupid frees.

elefant

Condenser wrote: »

Mayo only in it due to giving away stupid frees.

Our kick outs are septic. By far the better, sharper team but we can't get enough possession.

PCeeeee

Seán Andy will learn plenty from Cillian

rgace

Some great views from behind the Galway kick outs and the lack of movement is unreal

Condenser

elefant wrote: »

Our kick outs are septic. By far the better, sharper team but we can't get enough possession.

Yep and getting worse. Not goalies fault though. More movement down the graveyard at night than inside our 45.

Diabhal Beag

elefant wrote: »

Our kick outs are septic. By far the better, sharper team but we can't get enough possession.

Not even sure we won a single breaking ball in midfield. Shane Walsh being so selfish is killer on days like today when it's going badly.

Lot of non existent lads like Heaney and Kelly today.

jr86

Galway really are carrying too many passengers for comfort

Midfield all over the shop

Good organisation defensively though, and Comer easily the best player on show.

Utopia Parkway

jr86 wrote: »

Galway really are carrying too many passengers for comfort

The two Sweeney's for a start. Both of whom made errors for Mayo scores.

Two bad misses by Shane Walsh. Should really have scored those. He's a terrific talent but needs to nail those to take himself to the very top level.

Condenser

jr86 wrote: »

Comer easily the best player on show.

Spending far too much time in defence though and coughing up silly frees.

Same analysis on every game.

No kickout strategy and you're giving every team a 4/5 point edge.

Mayo won 5 or 6 of our 8 and we won about 2 of their 10.

Mayo got two points directly from our kick outs.

We'd be 6-8 points up if we had a manager who understood the importance of the modern restarts.

We won't be AI contenders until we get rid of KW.
Mayo are worse than us but they get there because teams like Galway give them half their restarts and most of theirs.

grbear

This is a hard match to watch. McHughs goals was very well taken.

Condenser

Straight red all day. The O connors are scumbags

Utopia Parkway

Condenser wrote: »

Straight red all day. The O connors are scumbags

Definite red alright. Very lucky.

Condenser

Kyne is an animal of a man. A lad in each arm. One of the AOS and has them both pinned. Remember him ragdolling boyle a few years ago too.

Diabhal Beag

Cillian O'Connor is a little rascal

Diabhal Beag

Good man Cillian. His best performance against Galway in years too.

rgace

He must be the most dislikeable player in the game.