Galway GAA discussion thread

IsMiseJoe

cgpg5 wrote: »

Rumour has it Adrian Cullinane is flying for Craughwell, and could be well in line for a call up.

Heard his name mentioned a few times lately. Mainly pubtalk, but you never know...
All Ireland's have been won and lost in the pub

cgpg5

IsMiseJoe wrote: »

Heard his name mentioned a few times lately. Mainly pubtalk, but you never know...
All Ireland's have been won and lost in the pub

Haha know what you mean but I've also heard from a man involved in Craughwell. Granted, he's prone to bias but he really was impressed by Cullinane so far this year. Now inter-county level is a different matter than club league games and he has shown nothing major in the past to warrant inclusion imo

MfMan

antoobrien wrote: »

Sorry, didn't mean for you to pick it up that way, I heard plenty of talk of them being all stars - which stopped at about 4.30 in Thurles.



Well this is the problem, he only got into the team regularly in 2009 (after being more or less ignored by Loughnane & scapegoated by Hayes).

In 2010 he was 3rd top scorer from play (1-7) when playing from midfield. Only Hayes & Canning scored more.

In 2011 he scored 1-10 in three matches (one of only 2 forwards to score twice against Waterford), again finishing 3rd from play behind Hayes & Canning.

And yet there's a cumulative effect of him not being good enough?

As for JC - he's pretty much living off 3 matches against cork (just like richie Murray managed to live off the 2001 semi for so many years), so the jury should be well and truly out on him.

The rest of your points are reasonably made but the highlighted is absolute rubbish I have to say.

antoobrien

MfMan wrote: »

The rest of your points are reasonably made but the highlighted is absolute rubbish I have to say.

Name another match he has played well in for more than 15 minutes.

Diabhal Beag

antoobrien wrote: »

Name another match he has played well in for more than 15 minutes.

Did you watch the Clare match last year?

basillarkin wrote: »

I don't, far to loose, not mobile enough and for a Big lad does not win enogh ball in the air for me.

He's badly needed to bulk up the midfield. He has better physicality than most of them and wins a fair amount of breaking ball in half-forward. There were times in that league where he was given no ball at all. Also who in midfield for Galway catches cleanly in the air regularly?

basillarkin

Galway are not blessed with top quality midfielders but can you honestly see Tannion keeping up with the likes of Fennelly, Rice, Ryan etc?

Diabhal Beag wrote: »

Did you watch the Clare match last year?


He's badly needed to bulk up the midfield. He has better physicality than most of them and wins a fair amount of breaking ball in half-forward. There were times in that league where he was given no ball at all. Also who in midfield for Galway catches cleanly in the air regularly?

Diabhal Beag

basillarkin wrote: »

Galway are not blessed with top quality midfielders but can you honestly see Tannion keeping up with the likes of Fennelly, Rice, Ryan etc?

I never said he was a great midfielder who could keep up with the best midfielders in the country. When Farragher was midfield he didn't either. IMO Tannion is just the best of a bad bunch.

basillarkin

I know you didn't, I just think if we have to relie on Tan there for the championship we will be in trouble. In saying that it is a hard job to pick Galways two best midfielders at the moment.

Diabhal Beag wrote: »

I never said he was a great midfielder who could keep up with the best midfielders in the country. When Farragher was midfield he didn't either. IMO Tannion is just the best of a bad bunch.

antoobrien

Diabhal Beag wrote: »

Did you watch the Clare match last year?

Oh please, the clare match? My granddad could have played full forward that day.

He went missing in the last 4 "big" matches he played. Dublin & Waterford last year, Tipp in 2010 and against Waterford in 2009.

basillarkin

I agree to a certain extent but Canning is Galways only standout hurler, i.e he would get in most intercounty teams. The only problem I have with Canning is the All-Star he recieved ahead of Mullane when he barely put two good games back to back in the championship that year.

Unfortunaly Cunningham has decided to cull Farragher, Kavanagh et al which I believe warrent inclusion in the current panel but as i said earlier Cunningham has decided to go with youth and should be giving time. But I fear that Galway could get beat on Sunday.

antoobrien wrote: »

Oh please, the clare match? My granddad could have played full forward that day.

He went missing in the last 4 "big" matches he played. Dublin & Waterford last year, Tipp in 2010 and against Waterford in 2009.

MfMan

antoobrien wrote: »

Oh please, the clare match? My granddad could have played full forward that day.

He went missing in the last 4 "big" matches he played. Dublin & Waterford last year, Tipp in 2010 and against Waterford in 2009.

Tipp '10 I'll give you, the two last year he was still nearly the best of the bad lot, plus he orchestrated the defeat over Cork. W'ford '09 wasn't too bad either. Also good v Offaly 2 years ago, drawn match and replay. Every game that has to be won is a big game, regardless of opposition. If every player 'went missing' as often as JC, we'd still be better off today. Shefflin has had manys the quiet day too you know.

deisedude

Howdy lads! I'm up in Galway a few months at this stage and I want a hurling team to follow in the Galway championship to make it more interesting. Living in the city! Who should i be rooting for?

cgpg5

deisedude wrote: »

Howdy lads! I'm up in Galway a few months at this stage and I want a hurling team to follow in the Galway championship to make it more interesting. Living in the city! Who should i be rooting for?

Going to matches or just a passing interest? Hard to suggest an exact team but the City teams in the senior championship are Liam Mellows and Castlegar. Moycullen who are about 15/20 minutes from the City are a newly promoted side and if you like going for the underdog there is your bet!

My own club is intermediate but the teams I personally like
seeing doing well in senior are TAD (who are an incredible young team), Tommie Larkins (I don't know why really) and Clarenbridge. Saying that there are a lot of teams I (and no doubt many others in the county) don't like seeing doing well to say the least

basillarkin

Carnmore just out past the airport are senior too.

cgpg5 wrote: »

Going to matches or just a passing interest? Hard to suggest an exact team but the City teams in the senior championship are Liam Mellows and Castlegar. Moycullen who are about 15/20 minutes from the City are a newly promoted side and if you like going for the underdog there is your bet!

My own club is intermediate but the teams I personally like
seeing doing well in senior are TAD (who are an incredible young team), Tommie Larkins (I don't know why really) and Clarenbridge. Saying that there are a lot of teams I (and no doubt many others in the county) don't like seeing doing well to say the least

deisedude

cgpg5 wrote: »

Going to matches or just a passing interest? Hard to suggest an exact team but the City teams in the senior championship are Liam Mellows and Castlegar. Moycullen who are about 15/20 minutes from the City are a newly promoted side and if you like going for the underdog there is your bet!

My own club is intermediate but the teams I personally like
seeing doing well in senior are TAD (who are an incredible young team), Tommie Larkins (I don't know why really) and Clarenbridge. Saying that there are a lot of teams I (and no doubt many others in the county) don't like seeing doing well to say the least

I'd like to go to games. I go to plenty of Waterford and Cork club games when i'm home so i'm branching out!

Thanks for all that, will do some homework and pick one.
I've enough of the plucky underdog, i'm a Waterford fan afterall! :pac:

h2005

deisedude wrote: »

I'd like to go to games. I go to plenty of Waterford and Cork club games when i'm home so i'm branching out!

Thanks for all that, will do some homework and pick one.
I've enough of the plucky underdog, i'm a Waterford fan afterall! :pac:

Moycullen is also the only senior football and hurling club in the county

deisedude

Tan is getting destroyed by Quilty in midfield

redlead

deisedude wrote: »

Tan is getting destroyed by Quilty in midfield

Quilty is having a brilliant game. I don't know what to make of Tannion. He's either brilliant or doesn't turn up (a mirror image of Galway I suppose).

There's no ball going into Canning as usual. They have to make better use of him.

Edit: Picked him out nicely for his goal!

Mars Bar

Coming together nicely for us now. Thank feck coz I'm sure this team will be the cause if my father having a heart attack. They seem to be unable to pick the ball off the ground when they're running.

Lapin

Fergal Flannery is playing a blinder in goals.

Mars Bar

Lapin wrote: »

Fergal Flannery is playing a blinder in goals.

4 great saves I've counted anyway.

EDIT: Make that 5...

Mars Bar

Flannery saves a penalty. What a game from him.

Lapin

Flannery was my Man of the match.

TG4 And Galway Bay FM gave it to Hayes. I wouldn't argue with that either.

cgpg5

Flannery outstanding nice to see him playing well! Well done to Johnny Glynn too, only a year out of minor!

dartsfan

Where's Flannery from?

ShamoBuc

Anyone giving MOTM to a player other than Flannery is quite simply wrong.

cgpg5

dartsfan wrote: »

Where's Flannery from?

Padraig Pearses. May not even make under 21 team this year which is incredible!

Diabhal Beag

So that match. It proves first and foremost that when he wants to be selfish Joe Canning is one of the best players in the country and you couldn't blame him for being selfish whatsoever after seeing him today.

Fergal Flannery had a dream performance tonight and if he could be half that good for the rest of the year he'd be top choice for keeper.

Our midfield is non-existent on a good day in that you don't notice how bad we are there until we get beaten Waterford in Thurles style. Tannian had a good showing but was poor until Galway started running away with the win. Burke shows a lot more potential as a forward.

That said all the backs woke up when we pulled away. Tony Og and the like really impressed me in the 2nd half.

Although Flannery was great it would annoy me if Glennon and Glynn weren't mentioned for MOM. Glennon caught one brilliant ball and Glynn has the physical side to him that could be vital come championship time.

All in all a good day for Galway. Delighted to stay up and it was a big win considering they won't play Dublin or Kilkenny until possibly the Leinster Final (if we're good enough).

MfMan

From my vantage point in front of the TV, MOTM had to be Damien Hayes, worked like hell and involved in so many important scores. Flannery very good but helped somewhat by poor finishing from Dublin forwards I thought. Glynn impressed on entry too. Niall and David Burke took their scores well, though it's still hard to know if the latter is a true midfielder.

A lot of food for thought for Cunningham after this league campaign; he's introduced a good few new players, most of them who've been actually alright. Whatever about their aerial prowess, team really needs to work on their touch and slickness. If they could even improve on this it would be something.

CyberDave

It was a great win by Galway yesterday, but lets not forget how many first choice players the Dubs were missing: Hiney, Brady, Keaney, Dywer, McCrabbe, all certain starters if fit. The same thing happens every time we win a game like this, people get carried away. Indeed there are lots of poitives and it shows how much this young team are developing, but until Galway can produce the goods against the top teams in do or die Championship games, there's nothing to be getting carried away by. This is something that will take time. It is great they preserved their Division 1A status as they need to be playing the top teams next year to further develope these players.

Canning is vital to the team, his presence, even when having a quiet day, is enough to instill confidence in those around him and of course there is always the threat he poses of goals. Flannery surely has to be first choice keeper now after that performance. Fair play to him for taking his opportunity. Skehill i always thought is too prone to mistakes, he will have a job to win back his jersey now. Glad they eventually switched Collins from full-back. He is not suited to the position. But, did they move him out because he was carrying an injury?