Galway GAA discussion thread

11-06-2017 01:47PM

Minors playing with a gale and losing 0-2 0-0 to a team they hammered a few months ago.

As woeful as Cork yesterday.

Diabhal Beag · 11-06-2017 02:03PM

Half time came to soon for them. Were building good momentum into the wind.

11-06-2017 02:07PM

If the wind is worth anything and considering the first half they'll lose handily.

Really disappointing performance from a team that walked the minor league.

11-06-2017 02:54PM

Typical sport.

Mayo make even less use of the wind and scored more against it.

We're well on top of Mayo in underage the past 3/4/years so hopefully this starts to translate to senior soon.

Anyone know the reasoning for playing the minor game so early?.

1 hour and 15 mins to the senior game is some wait.

Could have started that at 2.

Doesn't really make sense.

Green Peter · 11-06-2017 02:57PM

Who won the minor

grbear · 11-06-2017 03:01PM

Galway 2-7
Mayo 0-5

threeball · 11-06-2017 03:13PM

jam83 wrote: »

It's blowing an awful gale in Galway city at the moment. I can only imagine salthill will be pretty bad for the match. Should mean a lot of hand passing and a poor spectacle. Hopefully I'm wrong.

Ive a feeling that what promised to be a good game will be ruined by the weather. The fact that its in Salthill means the wind will be atrocious and that will suit mayo. Theyll be happy to run it the length of the pitch. I would have seen this game as 50/50 but the weather swings a definite advantage mayos way.

TCDStudent1 · 11-06-2017 03:32PM

gilberto_eire wrote: »

Typical sport.

Mayo make even less use of the wind and scored more against it.

We're well on top of Mayo in underage the past 3/4/years so hopefully this starts to translate to senior soon.

Anyone know the reasoning for playing the minor game so early?.

1 hour and 15 mins to the senior game is some wait.

Could have started that at 2.

Doesn't really make sense.

In case of extra time.

Robson99 · 11-06-2017 04:46PM

Our management should just resign at half time. The most tactical rubbish I have ever seen. A junior c mgmt wud do better.
No kick out plan... not forcing mayo into long kick outs.... running the ball instead of hitting comer and putting Conroy in along side him.

Blackjack · 11-06-2017 05:49PM

Well done Galway.

I said · 11-06-2017 05:50PM

Robson99 wrote: »

A Waterford team beaten out the gate in the Munster final last year and who were unable to beat a poor kk team when given every chance in semi final??

Correct if they had beaten kk the first day they certainly don't fear us.they had us by the balls in the league this year as well

11-06-2017 05:58PM

Robson99 wrote: »

Our management should just resign at half time. The most tactical rubbish I have ever seen. A junior c mgmt wud do better.
No kick out plan... not forcing mayo into long kick outs.... running the ball instead of hitting comer and putting Conroy in along side him.

My feelings on our MGMT and kick outs is clear enough but it was a tad better at both ends though Mayo got far too many easy ones.

However what I do find frustrating is that like in the Kildare league game we abandoned our kick outs and started booting it long and just like the Kildare game it nearly cost us.

At the end of the day we were hanging on against 14 men which is a worry.

The amount of basic errors as well shows we're not coordinated in what we're trying to do, Mayo got a few scores from junior level errors in defence.

Anyway I couldn't fault the work rate or the players but we'll definitely need someone else to take us to that top level toto compete and beat the Dubs.

tacofries · 11-06-2017 06:00PM

Yer being pretty harsh on your team here lads and that's coming from a pretty hard-core Mayo fan. Fair play to the Galway team. Enjoy the win! We'll be back to get us later (Hopefully in the final &#55357;&#56837;&#55357;&#56837;).

threeball · 11-06-2017 06:07PM

Even with all the errors and the mad as a badger gameplan we were comfortably the better team. McQuillan through his sheer ineptitude nearly cost us. On a calmer day I think we would have put mayo to the sword much earlier. Great to get the monkey off our back. Now we need to focus on a proper lickout strategy and a tighter defensive system.

blazermel · 11-06-2017 06:09PM

Well done Galway. Thought all the talk during the week of ye catching Mayo on the hop last year was very unfair and ye proved your worth today.

Diabhal Beag · 11-06-2017 06:19PM

Delighted to win but an awful lot of worries.

A very poor performance defensively but the sweetest win in a long time. A lot of Mayo fans around us in the terrace giving guff and they were bucking by the end

Say what you will and they have some lovely fans but they're a very cocky bunch.

I think the less said about the backs the better but Cathal Sweeney was super. His best showing in maroon. I pick him out as a weak link a lot but he did the business.

Comer needed more ball but he was ripping the Mayo backs to shreds. Daly decent but was chasing shadows a lot of the match. Army great from the frees but he didn't offer much more than McHugh would have.

Thought midfield on both sides were poor and bypassed.

We should have finished it with 5 to go and every single chance we wasted. Cummins should have pointed long before he was fouled. Sice should have pointed. GOD wasted a great chance too.

Kickouts were an all-time low. Haemorrhaged scores and Lavelle never aimed at a free GOD.

Not sure we've improved at all since last year tbh. Tactically weak and a ropey fullback-line we don't protect.

Mayo will improve in the backdooor. Never should've taken Moran off and AOS was shocking. Be great to meet them again later in the year when they'll be in-form.

Hulk Hands · 11-06-2017 07:11PM

Kickouts an all time low??? We won every single short kick out in the second half. Every single one, and conceded zero direct from them. We won well over half our long kickouts.

I swear you could come on this thread after winning an AI and there would be ppl giving out. A superb win against a top side, only reason it was close was a pox lucky goal. Thought we gave it everything and good tactics second half, if the first wasn't great

threeball · 11-06-2017 07:18PM

Hulk Hands wrote: »

Kickouts an all time low??? We won every single short kick out in the second half. Every single one, and conceded zero direct from them. We won well over half our long kickouts.

I swear you could come on this thread after winning an AI and there would be ppl giving out. A superb win against a top side, only reason it was close was a pox lucky goal. Thought we gave it everything and good tactics second half, if the first wasn't great

As per my post above I think we had a good game also but the strategy of going so short when we had the wind invited Mayo on to us and in the second half they were poorly executed due to lack of movement and Lavelle not hitting the man first time leaving the defender scrambling. We need to work on this and we have time between tbe Connaught final and whatever game comes next to put it right.

Eyes Down Field · 11-06-2017 07:33PM

Great result for Galway. If anyone though last year's win over Mayo was a one hit wonder? Galway have now confirmed and reclaimed their title as the leading team in Connacht. Yes there is still a final to be played (probably against Roscommon). But I would fully expect them to win that game too against a very weak Roscommon team.

Robson99 · 11-06-2017 07:48PM

Hulk Hands wrote: »

Kickouts an all time low??? We won every single short kick out in the second half. Every single one, and conceded zero direct from them. We won well over half our long kickouts.

I swear you could come on this thread after winning an AI and there would be ppl giving out. A superb win against a top side, only reason it was close was a pox lucky goal. Thought we gave it everything and good tactics second half, if the first wasn't great

The kick outs were shambolic. Lavelle nearly kicked one out for a 45. Playing with a gale and then with a man up and proceeded to kick short in the first half was mad. Kerry / Dublin wud have murdered us today. Mayo were piss poor and only 14 men for 50 mins of the game

TCDStudent1 · 11-06-2017 07:53PM

thought it was a fantastic match, great atmosphere and a wonderful result.

Last year Mayo weren't looking at their Galway match - they were looking ahead. This year, it was different. Mayo had targeted this match - there's no way they wanted to lost to Galway 2 years in a row. And Galway bettered a focussed Mayo. I don't think Galway will win an all Ireland (id even he careful about Roscommon). But they should be very proud of that result today

Utopia Parkway · 11-06-2017 08:08PM

Great win but Galway went from being in complete control to complete panic mode for the last 10/12 minutes of the game. All started with a few loose handpasses back in the defence. Mayo got a couple of frees from them and then we had a total malfunction of the short kickouts between the keeper and the full-back line and the keeper going on mad runs out of goal, losing the ball and almost costing us a goal. It was like a collective meltdown back there.

Not sure how far Galway can progress until there are changes in defence though. On the positive side there are good young defenders coming through at underage but we won't see them until next year or the year after.

naughto · 11-06-2017 08:10PM

I do hope ye go on to win Connaught( from a mayo man ) but ye need a new keeper god he was desperate.
Give the rossies a beating that they deserve. I no they have to play Leitrim can't see them doing anything
Would that game be in Castlebar?

TCDStudent1 · 11-06-2017 08:12PM

Utopia Parkway wrote: »

Great win but Galway went from being in complete control to complete panic mode for the last 10/12 minutes of the game. All started with a few loose handpasses back in the defence. Mayo got a couple of frees from them and then we had a total malfunction of the short kickouts between the keeper and the full-back line and the keeper going on mad runs out of goal, losing the ball and almost costing us a goal. It was like a collective meltdown back there.

Not sure how far Galway can progress until there are changes in defence though. On the positive side there are good young defenders coming through at underage but we won't see them until next year or the year after.

There won't be any changes in defence. We don't have too many defenders on the panel so nobody will be brought in.

Utopia Parkway · 11-06-2017 08:14PM

TCDStudent1 wrote: »

There won't be any changes in defence. We don't have too many defenders on the panel so nobody will be brought in.

I know. That's why I said it'll be next year or the year after. I think we only had one defender on the bench today and about 5 or 6 forwards.

Happyilylost · 11-06-2017 08:21PM

Robson99 wrote:

The kick outs were shambolic. Lavelle nearly kicked one out for a 45. Playing with a gale and then with a man up and proceeded to kick short in the first half was mad. Kerry / Dublin wud have murdered us today. Mayo were piss poor and only 14 men for 50 mins of the game

Clarke conceded three direct points form kickouts. Lavelle stuck to what he was told. Going short is the modern day phenomenon. Even when it wasn't going all there own way Galway stuck to the plan.

11-06-2017 08:26PM

Another stepping stone for Galway. There's still an awful long way to go and a number of players to find before we will be among the contenders for honours but this was a big step forward.

I remember in Castlebar in 2014 Colm Boyle nailing Damien Comer with a perfect shoulder. Today the shoe was on the other foot and Damien Comer's hit on Diarmaid O'Connor near the end when the momentum was all with Mayo was a key moment. It showed that Galway may have been bullied in the past but there is now a tougher edge to them.

Undoubtedly the sending off had an affect but to me Mayo looked like a team who've just hit the wall. None of their big names really hit their stride and really Galway should never have been in the position they were towards the end.

I still have huge issues with how Galway managed that game today but to win with massive room for improvement is a positive. Our sideline needs to be quicker reacting than they are though. 3 years in I see no evidence of that changing anytime soon.

Roscommon will be eyeing Galway up for an ambush in the Connacht final. Awful as Roscommon were last year they still probably should have got the win in Salthill at the end and they are preparing away under the radar.

Robson99 · 11-06-2017 08:28PM

Happyilylost wrote: »

Clarke conceded three direct points form kickouts. Lavelle stuck to what he was told. Going short is the modern day phenomenon. Even when it wasn't going all there own way Galway stuck to the plan.

Not worried about what Clarke does or doesn't do. If we lost that today [ Mayo fluffed a great goal chance twice ] then the kick out strategy would gave been crucified. Just because we won by a point doesn't mean it should be ignored

Royal Legend · 11-06-2017 08:31PM

until today I thought the vitriol pointed at Cillian O'Connor that he got away with a lot was just sour grapes, but had to change my mind today, he got a player sent off very cleverly, even though at first viewing I thought it was a bang on black card, he also in the first half made contact twice with a Galway players face, the Galway Player got booked! and also when he got his yellow in the second it imo should have been red as he clearly struck the Galway player twice after the initial foul.

Robson99 · 11-06-2017 08:37PM

Royal Legend wrote: »

until today I thought the vitriol pointed at Cillian O'Connor that he got away with a lot was just sour grapes, but had to change my mind today, he got a player sent off very cleverly, even though at first viewing I thought it was a bang on black card, he also in the first half made contact twice with a Galway players face, the Galway Player got booked! and also when he got his yellow in the second it imo should have been red as he clearly struck the Galway player twice after the initial foul.

COC was cute for the black card. Went down like a sack of spuds. But the ref was shambolic for it... two yards away... just tried to even it up.

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