Galway GAA discussion thread

Would it be right in thinking that Galway will play one of Kildare/Mayo/Clare/Sligo in a potential qualifier?... And that with Mayo winning it'll be the winner or Clare/Sligo.

That wouldn't be bad if that's the case regardless of Sunday.

Please god we come out today and at least make Roscommon kick it long from their restarts.

We heard in the build up that midfield was a possible weak point and we yet again conceded the contest.

It seems pointless to let a team get it to your 45 unopposed as a win from a long kick out isn't that dangerous an event in itself.

Also want to see Power with a ball at the side of his net and the ball restarted before the replay even ends and not this 45 second crap that sees no option but to kick it long.

He also wasn't great for the goal either, didn't really think much at the time but watching it back on the Sunday Game he was really poor for the goal.

But the kick out strategy isn't his doing and that's my main concern at that end for now.

Hopefully KW tapes the Dublin game and sees how important it is to their success as you stop a team building momentum if you can get an attack off each of their dead balls.

I've few concerns about our general play, we're defending well and some of the transition play is quick, precise and well worked, we just need to force the opposition to kick out long(and build momentum of any midfield turnovers) and get restarts going quicker so we get more possessions and attacks and cut down on the oppositions.

Why can't your man just shut up and present the Nestor trophy.

EDIT: he has, thank f*ck.

TCDStudent1 wrote: »

Terrific performance. Playing as a team for each other. Forwards are really clicking - midfield too. Conroy is in great form.

Hands up - I really didn't see this coming at start of year. Fair play to them. They have been wonderful this year and now we are into bonus territory and I can't wait for the QF!

Same here, honestly thought we were going nowhere. The FBD proved useful this year, we unearthed a few players and won it with a battling display but then the league was hit and miss and faded in the 2nd half. We'd players leaving the panel and things didn't look healthy before Mayo.

After Mayo I was more inclined to see it as Mayo underperforming badly as much as anything but I thought we did a lot of things right last week and today we got the right balance between being a solid defensive unit and providing a threat in attack with runners on the shoulder. We were well on top in midfield.

Connacht title is great but given the likely opposition we need to win the Quarter Final and register a win in Croke Park and then to me we'll be in bonus territory.

Roscommon were again a massive disappointment. I've had my criticisms of Kevin Walsh but we have a system that works for the players we have. Roscommon were again clueless in attack, non-existent at midfield and defensively they were a shambles there always looked to be the threat of more goals. With a more strict referee they could have had another couple of black cards. They have a huge task to lift themselves for next weekend.

Special word of praise for Declan Kyne, has had a lot of doubters and may well be exploited in Croke Park but he's filled the void at full back about as well as anyone could hope for. He was excellent again today.

Was probably only a year ago he had people wanting him dropped(Cummins)

My opinion was that I'd rather a player who's main fault is missing and accuracy than someone who cant get the ball.

Nice to see things fall into place for him, I marked him in a soccer game a few months ago and he seems like a nice lad.

Another who deserves great praise is GOD, a much maligned player.
I'll admit on him I wasn't convinced but I never had him on my critical radar like some had.

He deserves credit for sticking at it when walking away would have been easier.

I don't think we're in bonus territory now as someone alluded to.
A lot of these players had their pass in 14 and 15, Id call improvement getting to a semi.
Winning Connacht is something we shouldn't have taken that long to achieve.

We haven't been in a semi in far longer so Id drop the bonus territory mark at that juncture... Not that losing to Tyrone is acceptable, they're no great shakes tbh, there's a final at play here and if history counts for our hurlers then our footballers are certainly capable of winning an AI out of the blue.

Coincidentally we could even end up meeting Derry again in the semi final.

Special thanks to RTE for ruining the day, got the stream up with 4mins remaining.
Certainly won't chance an online only game again in future.