Roscommon v Galway: 2012 Connacht Senior Football Championship Prelim Round, 20th May

Syferus

Only one day away now. Cannot wait.


Roscommon

1. Geoffrey Claffey (C); Naomh Caoimhin Cáislean Riabhach

2. Seánie McDermott; Gaeil an Iarthair
3. Niall Carty; Na Piarsaigh
4. Seán Purcell; Mainistir na Búille

5. Cathal Dineen; Naomh Caoimhin Cáislean Riabhach
6. Peter Domican; Naomh Bríd
7. Ian Kilbride; Naomh Bríd

8. Michael Finneran; Naomh Dominic
9. Karol Mannion; Naomh Bríd

10. David Keenan; Naomh Bearraí
11. Cathal Cregg; Gaeil an Iarthair
12. John Rogers; Béal na mBuillí

13. Senan Kilbride; Naomh Bríd
14. Darren McDermott; Naomh Caoimhin Cáislean Riabhach
15. Donie Shine; Clann na nGael


V


Galway

1. Adrian Faherty

2. Kieran McGrath
3. Finian Hanley (C)
4. Keith Kelly

5. Garreth Bradshaw
6. Johnny Duane
7. Gary O'Donnell

8. Joe Bergin
9. Greg Higgins

10. Gary Sice
11. Damien Burke
12. Thomas Flynn

13. Sean Armstrong
14. Paul Conroy
15. Mark Hehir

cormacocomhrai

I've mixed feelings myself. Never want to lose, especially to Roscommon, but I think that ultimately this young Galway team would benefit more from going early into the back door and getting more games than they would from say, winning Connacht, getting to an All-Ireland quarter final and getting bet. We need to beat some teams from outside Connacht to get this Louth 2004 and the one point defeat thing off our backs.

I think Roscommon will win a tight match tomorrow as it happens.

Diabhal Beag

I get a feeling this could be a draw, but at home I personally find it hard to see a Galway win unfortunately. If Bergin was to dominate midfield though over Mannion and Finneran though it will be a Galway win. Bergin was unplayable when he hit his rare stride in the League alongside Higgins.

cormacocomhrai

Diabhal Beag wrote: »

I get a feeling this could be a draw, but at home I personally find it hard to see a Galway win unfortunately. If Bergin was to dominate midfield though over Mannion and Finneran though it will be a Galway win. Bergin was unplayable when he hit his rare stride in the League alongside Higgins.

As you know yourself though the Championship is an entirely different animal.
A draw would do no harm at all to to however would go to win it.

blowitupref

Years ago this would be a straight forward win for Galway but Roscommon are able to give most a game nowadays however the way the fade out of games has to be a concern. Last 15mins when both have empty the bench will be the telling factor in this game & i think Mullholland will outsmart Des Newton.

Should be good game the winner will fancy their chances to win Connacht & no reason why the loser can't have a decent run in the qualifiers.

Syferus

Famous last crests, weather lady.

leonidas83

I have to say I fancy Roscommon. They have a much smaller pool of players to choose from but they play much more like a team than Galway. Added to the fact that Roscommon love playing as the underdogs & galway usually struggle under expectation to win. I will definitely be taking Paddys Powers odds of 2/1 on them.

Roscommon to win by 2 or more points.

ShamoBuc

Looking forward to 4pm and putting the feet up to watch the start of the championship- on tv- should be a close enough affair, Roscommon for me....by 3 or 4 points.

Duckworth_Luas

blowitupref wrote: »

Years ago this would be a straight forward win for Galway

Anybody who knows the history of this fixture would know that it's never been a "straight forward win for Galway"!

RealityCheck

Duckworth_Luas wrote: »

Anybody who knows the history of this fixture would know that it's never been a "straight forward win for Galway"!

Sometimes it was straightforward (in more recent years (02-08)) but Galway had some of the greatest ding dong battles during the period 98-01. Plenty of times before that too.

Duckworth_Luas

RealityCheck wrote: »

Sometimes it was straightforward (in more recent years (02-08)) but Galway had some of the greatest ding dong battles during the period 98-01. Plenty of times before that too.

Plenty of times it's been a straight forward win for Roscommon. This is probably the rarest fixture in the Connacht SFC and in my memory it's 50/50 between the two teams.

Hulk Hands

Duckworth_Luas wrote: »

Plenty of times it's been a straight forward win for Roscommon. This is probably the rarest fixture in the Connacht SFC and in my memory it's 50/50 between the two teams.

Well your memory is wrong. The tally is comfortably in Galways favour and Roscommon have beaten Galway once in 22 years

Lapin

The Sunday Game title music is very tame now compared to what it used to be a few years ago.

They should have left it alone.

Duckworth_Luas

Hulk Hands wrote: »

Well your memory is wrong. The tally is comfortably in Galways favour and Roscommon have beaten Galway once in 22 years

My memory goes back further than 22 years!:cool:

Diabhal Beag

I love that people are using ancient history as if it will make a difference. I heard Kerry hurlers look a good prospect this year based off the back of their recent 1891 success.

smallerthanyou

RTE panel went Galway. I thought Rossies would be favourites for this.

Fireball07

Kilbride is really a classy score-taker.

keane2097

Roscommon's backs are pathetic.

Defiler Of The Coffin

Roscommon are all over the place, they need to settle fast.

markie29

should have been a penalty....and the roscommon defender should have at a yellow card...unsure if he received one.

Samich

Score?

markie29

Samich wrote: »

Score?

Galway 1-5 roscommon 0-2 18minutes gone

Lapin

Lovely goal !

Game over already.

markie29

another goal for Galway 2-6 to 0-2 only 21minutes gone.....men vs boys so far

Quinton

Long ball in is killing Roscommon.

smallerthanyou

smallerthanyou wrote: »

RTE panel went Galway. I thought Rossies would be favourites for this.

Never mind me, I know nothing.

Duckworth_Luas

Samich wrote: »

Score?

2-6 to 0-2. Roscommon have no shape!

Strongbow10

Jesus Ros are dire in every department here.

Galway are treating this like a training session.

You can blame the god awful bumpy pitch for Finneran's injury aswell

CiaranMT

Jesus, first game of the championship and Roscommon look like rabbits in headlights.

LowOdour

great goal by conroy, the lads are playing well

Lapin

I thought Galway would scrape a win here and really wasn't expecting such a mismatch.

Not much good to either team really.

Strongbow10

CiaranMT wrote: »

Jesus, first game of the championship and Roscommon look like rabbits in headlights.

its been the case at senior level for many a year now, when faced with Galway or Mayo anyways.

Joyce Country

great direct, foot-passing traditional galway style football.

good to see

keane2097

CiaranMT wrote: »

Jesus, first game of the championship and Roscommon look like rabbits in headlights.

They're not, they're just an awful team. So unbelievably overrated by their own supporters but eventually people get so used to hearing how amazing all these division three players are that they start to think they must be good. They're not.

Fireball07

Roscommon's defence is poor, Conroy is playing brilliantly.

Diabhal Beag

Roscommon are no way near that poor. Galway have been superb especially Conroy Sice and Bradshaw. Bergin is dominating midfield too.


Donie is absolutely ****ting a brick out there. Woeful so far but still almost snatched a goal.

68Murph68

Rossies made it far too easy for Galway there - no intensity or hunger whatsoever.

The marking was shockingly bad by Roscommon giving Galway acres of time and space.

Roscommon lucky to be 8 points down at HT.

The fact that Roscommon were so bad and with Shine off-form and yet still the attack managed 6 points would have me concerned about the Galway defence if I was a Galway supporter for the longer term.

Strongbow10

keane2097 wrote: »

They're not, they're just an awful team. So unbelievably overrated by their own supporters but eventually people get so used to hearing how amazing all these division three players are that they start to think they must be good. They're not.

there are not many intelligent footballers in the county, even some of the best minors are just physical specimens, good attitude and physical gifts rather than born footballers and will be flumoxed by intelligent runners at senior level more often than not.

Roscommon fans are usually so absorbed by players in their own county that they actually fail to grasp that things are actually developing with other counties. Theres a presumption that underage success will result in senior success aswell, if it results in senior provincial success then they will be doing very very well.

Hulk Hands

On a going day, Bergin is one of the best midfielders in the country. Took the foot off the gas a bit, need to press on now and finish this off

ColeTrain

68Murph68 wrote: »

Roscommon lucky to be 8 points down at HT.

The fact that Roscommon were so bad and with Shine off-form and yet still the attack managed 6 points would have me concerned about the Galway defence if I was a Galway supporter for the longer term.

that's a bit of a contradiction. How could they be that bad then?

They scored 6, Shine has missed a few frees and had a goal chance.

keane2097

Strongbow10 wrote: »

there are not many intelligent footballers in the county, even some of the best minors are just physical specimens, good attitude and physical gifts rather than born footballers and will be flumoxed by intelligent runners at senior level more often than not.

Roscommon fans are usually so absorbed by players in their own county that they actually fail to grasp that things are actually developing with other counties. Theres a presumption that underage success will result in senior success aswell, if it results in senior provincial success then they will be doing very very well.

They're doing great work at underage level and I expect that to translate to an improvement in the next couple of years when a few more players come through to support the couple of decent guys they already have, but the current team are straight up poor.

Big Pussy Bonpensiero

Underage success doesn't guarantee overage success. Just look at Galway in both codes.

Lapin

What a player to bring on.

Galway's Ryan Giggs !

eoins23456

roscommon shooting is woeful!

68Murph68

ColeTrain wrote: »

that's a bit of a contradiction. How could they be that bad then?

They scored 6, Shine has missed a few frees and had a goal chance.

My point wasnt exactly clear.

It was more the fact that Roscommon managed to score 6 points, with Shine missing a few frees while playing very badly.

Basically I'd be concerned about the Galway defence for when they met any sort of a team playing well.

68Murph68

Lapin wrote: »

What a player to bring on.

Galway's Ryan Giggs !

In certain circles that would be seen as quite the insult.

Kristopherus

Ros, I'm afraid are just woeful.

ColeTrain

68Murph68 wrote: »

My point wasnt exactly clear.

It was more the fact that Roscommon managed to score 6 points, with Shine missing a few frees while playing very badly.

Basically I'd be concerned about the Galway defence for when they met any sort of a team playing well.

I got your point, just thought they couldn't have been that bad when you consider they could have had 10+ points in the first half. It wasn't like they had 3 attacks and scored two goals!

Whatever about that, barring a 5 minute spell in the second half, they've been very poor. Galway are looking good.

68Murph68

ColeTrain wrote: »

I got your point, just thought they couldn't have been that bad when you consider they could have had 10+ points in the first half. It wasn't like they had 3 attacks and scored two goals!

Whatever about that, barring a 5 minute spell in the second half, they've been very poor. Galway are looking good.

Galway generally look good when they have time and space to play football.
However I wouldn't get carried away just yet.

Great stuff by Meehan there for the goal. Top quality awareness around the small square.

Lapin

68Murph68 wrote: »

In certain circles that would be seen as quite the insult.

Yeah, I thought that just after I posted it.

Still, I'm a Liverpool fan myself but I do have a lot of respect for Giggs as a player. I reckon most ABUs probably do.


Galway are being made to look good here, 3-11 from play is a great tally but I'd be concerned how we will fare when we come up against some real opposititon.

Diabhal Beag

Nice to see Meehan playing well again. You don't lose class. Joyce is some sub to be able to bring on.