Galway GAA discussion thread

Diabhal Beag · 05-07-2017 07:37PM

Barry McHugh I guess doesn't offer enough from play yet to be considered.

TCDStudent1 · 05-07-2017 07:42PM

Diabhal Beag wrote: »

Barry McHugh I guess doesn't offer enough from play yet to be considered.

He doesn't but you'd never know with him. A year at county should see him bulk up. Somebody made a comparison with rock from Dublin. It's not a bad comparison - Rock was all about his frees in early days with Dublin but he has improved a lot in the last couple of years from play. He has probably emerged as one of their leaders now. So if McHugh keeps his head, works hard and doesn't get frustrated being in the bench this year, maybe he could emerge next year.

jam83 · 05-07-2017 11:18PM

Hopefully shane walsh has been going into pearse stadium for the past few weeks kicking frees and 45s. Armstrong was the difference between winning and losing the last day, some of those points in that wind were class, especially the 45 in the second half he clipped low. Exciting Galway team, plenty of running in that front 6.

Utopia Parkway · 05-07-2017 11:45PM

spurshero wrote: »

Supposedly trained very little since mayo match due to back injury

Yeah heard he strained his back doing some building work.

aidan24326 · 06-07-2017 12:33AM

TCDStudent1 wrote: »

Not many would've picked him before the Mayo game but he is seen as a loss now. Football changes quickly. Don't have many free takers on the team now.

This would concern me. With Sice not starting and Armstrong injured we are lacking in a vital area.

Armstrong was very solid on the frees/45s the last day and as others have said it was ultimately the difference between winning and losing, as he nailed a couple of pressure kicks that were very missable.

Shane Walsh can kick a few as can Damien Comer, but neither of them are top notch designated freetakers.

manofwisdom · 06-07-2017 02:45AM

aidan24326 wrote: »

This would concern me. With Sice not starting and Armstrong injured we are lacking in a vital area.

Armstrong was very solid on the frees/45s the last day and as others have said it was ultimately the difference between winning and losing, as he nailed a couple of pressure kicks that were very missable.

Shane Walsh can kick a few as can Damien Comer, but neither of them are top notch designated freetakers.

In fairness how many thought Armstrong was a good long range free taker before the Mayo game? and Galway won Connacht last year and beat Mayo more comfortably without Armstrong on the panel.

Shane Walsh will probably be the main free taker Sunday. As a minor,U21 and with St Jarlaths at school level he was a good free taker.

Hulk Hands · 06-07-2017 08:28AM

Shane's good from them alright, can take off the left too. Takes about 2 mins with his routine but that's ok as long as they go over. Conroy would be fairly consistent aswell. Killer having no one from 45s. Poster above is right though I suppose in that none of us knew who'd take them vs Mayo either and that worked out ok. A newly learned kicker like Army could easily have a poor day at any time also

TCDStudent1 · 06-07-2017 10:02AM

Hulk Hands wrote: »

Shane's good from them alright, can take off the left too. Takes about 2 mins with his routine but that's ok as long as they go over. Conroy would be fairly consistent aswell. Killer having no one from 45s. Poster above is right though I suppose in that none of us knew who'd take them vs Mayo either and that worked out ok. A newly learned kicker like Army could easily have a poor day at any time also

I've seen walsh score 45s for Galway before

jam83 · 06-07-2017 06:45PM

Nice to have a preview of the Connacht final on Galway bay fm but a half an hour of interviews with players from both sides is hiding to nothing stuff. Loads of cagey talk as you'd expect without a single thing of interest. Better to get ex players into studio to have a proper honest chat about the game. I wish someone could just say "ah sur Leitrim were ****e so Roscommon haven't beaten anyone yet"

from_atozinc · 06-07-2017 11:00PM

Hi

In regard to the senior hurling semi final, what team are Galway most likely to play?

Gaillimh1976 · 07-07-2017 09:52AM

from_atozinc wrote: »

Hi

In regard to the senior hurling semi final, what team are Galway most likely to play?

Probably one of Clare/Kilkenny/Tipp but too early to say which

Diabhal Beag · 07-07-2017 10:11AM

Think Blaas will catch KK but I have a feeling it'll be a Tipp semi.

casscass4444 · 09-07-2017 06:24AM

Nice looking morning in Galway.blue sky and not much wind.should be ideal conditions for today's match.hopefully Galway plough into this game from the throw in and don't take the foot off the pedal for the 70 minutes.
Roscommon will not be an easy game and Galway will have to play well to beat them.im predicting Galway to win it by 5 points after an early battle.
On a side note it's a pity this match is in salthill.nice pitch but the ground isn't great on a windy day and parking and traffic is a nightmare.thats politics and sport for you.galway football should always have been left played in Tuam,the heart of Galway football.anyways best of luck to the lads.

TCDStudent1 · 09-07-2017 08:10AM

casscass4444 wrote: »

Nice looking morning in Galway.blue sky and not much wind.should be ideal conditions for today's match.hopefully Galway plough into this game from the throw in and don't take the foot off the pedal for the 70 minutes.
Roscommon will not be an easy game and Galway will have to play well to beat them.im predicting Galway to win it by 5 points after an early battle.
On a side note it's a pity this match is in salthill.nice pitch but the ground isn't great on a windy day and parking and traffic is a nightmare.thats politics and sport for you.galway football should always have been left played in Tuam,the heart of Galway football.anyways best of luck to the lads.

No point complaining about Pearse now. Tuam wouldn't have the capacity for the crowd today so even if it wanted to, couldn't host it. That mistake was made a long time ago. Interestingly though, one of the reasons that Pearse was built at the time was to promote GAA in the city. There could be an argument that it has been successful when you see how teams like James and Michaels have emerged. It used to be only Salthill. I'm not too convinced Pearse had a lot to do with that though.

I think it'll be very hard for Galway to get themselves as 'up' for this match today. In theory, they should win. Galway are better than last year - players like Daly and McDaid have replaced players like Denvir. On the other side, Roscommon look worse than last year as they lost a good chunk of their backroom team and players like Niall Daly. However, theory doesn't always win you matches!

threeball · 09-07-2017 10:48AM

TCDStudent1 wrote: »

No point complaining about Pearse now. Tuam wouldn't have the capacity for the crowd today so even if it wanted to, couldn't host it. That mistake was made a long time ago. Interestingly though, one of the reasons that Pearse was built at the time was to promote GAA in the city. There could be an argument that it has been successful when you see how teams like James and Michaels have emerged. It used to be only Salthill. I'm not too convinced Pearse had a lot to do with that though.

I think it'll be very hard for Galway to get themselves as 'up' for this match today. In theory, they should win. Galway are better than last year - players like Daly and McDaid have replaced players like Denvir. On the other side, Roscommon look worse than last year as they lost a good chunk of their backroom team and players like Niall Daly. However, theory doesn't always win you matches!

The footballers need to take a leaf out of the hurlers book this year and embrace the fact they're a fancied team. Every game should be about laying down a marker. There's only 4 games left at most.

They should want everyone that plays them from here on out to worry about them. A facile 3pt victory today won't cut it. The reality is this is a weakened Roscommon team that has lost players even this week.

They had their head up their arse against tipp last year so they shouldn't need a reminder on what complacency looks like.

09-07-2017 12:50PM

Minors lead by 3 at HT having played against the wind(it's swirling and dead at times but its blowing down the way).

Were trailing 0-4 to 0-1 when I arrived.

Sligo corner forward absolutely cleaned one of the Galway midfielders with a clothes line as he went to go down the end to goal.

Resulted in a black card but I think that's something the GAA need to look at.

It's too lenient an infraction at the minute, there was a number in the Mayo match last night too.

Maybe a 10minute sin bin for black cards as well as the loss of the man and put in high challenges to the bracket.
I dont think there's been a single match where a team used the black card allotment and started to lose players.
A substitution isn't a punishment and it would also allow high challenges to be dealt with(reds could be harsh in some instances where the hand slides up).

09-07-2017 02:24PM

Kevin Walshs being completely exposed.

You're going nowhere without a kick out strategy in modern football and then zero pressure on Roscommon.
Our players just mark the opposition and hide.

Need to get a proper coach in next year.

threeball · 09-07-2017 02:43PM

gilberto_eire wrote: »

Kevin Walshs being completely exposed.

You're going nowhere without a kick out strategy in modern football and then zero pressure on Roscommon.
Our players just mark the opposition and hide.

Need to get a proper coach in next year.

Lavelle is a piss poor keeper too so short kickouts shouldn't even be on the menu with him between the sticks

Utopia Parkway · 09-07-2017 03:28PM

Absolutely pathetic from Galway today. A meltdown not far off the Tipperary game last year.

Thought Gough rode Galway with a number of soft as hell off the ball frees gifted to Roscommon but either way we were brutal.

Keeper is not up to this level. Can't kick it short and when he kicked it long he usually kicked it straight to a Roscommon player.

pjohnson · 09-07-2017 03:31PM

Whatever happened to Manus Lenihan (Spideal)? Lavelle is awful.

Edit: Breathnach not Lenihan.

09-07-2017 03:34PM

Do us a favour and just resign now Kevin.

We don't need someone to pick the team, this isn't junior football.

Backs standing beside their attackers on our kick outs.... just awful.

Flynn could have ran down to LHB into a mountain of space before their second goal... But he stood up the pitch, the ball was kicked up midfield and ran back to our net.

Forward play atrocious too, running in silly directions and backs playing comical high balls in.

We're the worst coached team in the top three divisions... coaching on par with a D4 team.

He should have been sacked after the Tipp game last year anyway.

That Roscommon team aren't even anything special to make things worse.

09-07-2017 03:36PM

Not sure why Lavelle is being blamed, the players turn their backs and stand beside their attackers.

He's slow placing the ball but nobody is moving for it anyway.

I'll blame the goalie when I see good movement and poor balls being kicked.

casscass4444 · 09-07-2017 03:42PM

Fair play and congrats to Roscommon.the better team on the day.
An awful game from Galway.heartless,lazy and flat.cant understand how Walsh stands on the sideline and doesn't try and rev up the players.they looked half asleep out there.
An overall pathetic game from an uninspired Galway team

Utopia Parkway · 09-07-2017 03:44PM

None of the full-back line actually know how to mark. Constantly standing 4 or 5 yards off their man and even getting caught the wrong side of them. You should never be caught out by balls over the top. That's just basic defending. I don't even know what position Kyne is meant to be playing. He seems to spend most of his time out in front of his half-backs.

That said you could apportion plenty of blame to almost everyone.

threeball · 09-07-2017 03:51PM

gilberto_eire wrote: »

Not sure why Lavelle is being blamed, the players turn their backs and stand beside their attackers.

He's slow placing the ball but nobody is moving for it anyway.

I'll blame the goalie when I see good movement and poor balls being kicked.

He didn't hit one player today with a decent kickout. Kicked it over the line twice. The options are poor but the execution is non existent. Wouldn't even be first choice in most club teams.

Lundy is a brainless goon. Booked every game he plays.

Flynn is bone idle.

Thank god for Shane Walsh or we'd have been held scoreless entirely.

I agree that Kevin Walsh is a poor manager. He looks helpless on the line. Any other coach would have whipped Lavelle off after 10 mins

threeball · 09-07-2017 03:59PM

Donegal will eat us alive... Again

SomethingElse · 09-07-2017 04:08PM

casscass4444 wrote: »

Fair play and congrats to Roscommon.the better team on the day.
An awful game from Galway.heartless,lazy and flat.cant understand how Walsh stands on the sideline and doesn't try and rev up the players.they looked half asleep out there.
An overall pathetic game from an uninspired Galway team

Completely clueless.

When is the B championship coming in?

Diabhal Beag · 09-07-2017 04:19PM

Fair play to the Rossies. They played lovely football, beat our pitiful blanket and punished the kickout strategy with ease. Easily the better side today. 16 years of beatings will be very easily forgotten tonight.

That short kick-out strategy will be the death of us for many a season if we persist. Surely the purpose of it is to take it quickly when the opposition are only just settling back. Waiting 10 seconds to see what's happening for O'Curraoin and deciding to still play it short is not going to do ****all good and the fact we haven't thrown it out the window as a tactic or perfected it is a huge black mark on the management. Lavelle will be hung out to dry like Power and Breathnach before him when it's management's fault.

I wouldn't call this a gutless showing, like they came back from that horrendous deficit, hit the post twice, missed some crucial scores but still pulled it back to 3. Just were second to every ball and not the same level of hunger as the Mayo win.

I don't have any confidence we'd beat Donegal tbh and I really think the tough decisions have to be made at the end of this year. We have some super players being wasted. Going up to Division 1 is a big improvement and could be the launching pad for a new management team.

threeball · 09-07-2017 04:24PM

Diabhal Beag wrote: »

Fair play to the Rossies. They played lovely football, beat our pitiful blanket and punished the kickout strategy with ease. Easily the better side today. 16 years of beatings will be very easily forgotten tonight.

That short kick-out strategy will be the death of us for many a season if we persist. Surely the purpose of it is to take it quickly when the opposition are only just settling back. Waiting 10 seconds to see what's happening for O'Curraoin and deciding to still play it short is not going to do ****all good and the fact we haven't thrown it out the window as a tactic or perfected it is a huge black mark on the management. Lavelle will be hung out to dry like Power and Breathnach before him when it's management's fault.

I wouldn't call this a gutless showing, like they came back from that horrendous deficit, hit the post twice, missed some crucial scores but still pulled it back to 3. Just were second to every ball and not the same level of hunger as the Mayo win.

I don't have any confidence we'd beat Donegal tbh and I really think the tough decisions have to be made at the end of this year. We have some super players being wasted. Going up to Division 1 is a big improvement and could be the launching pad for a new management team.

Who though. We haven't had a good manager since O Mahoney.
We ended up losing by 9 so the fight back was short lived.
Clean out of management and deadwood needed.

Robson99 · 09-07-2017 04:28PM

Diabhal Beag wrote: »

Fair play to the Rossies. They played lovely football, beat our pitiful blanket and punished the kickout strategy with ease. Easily the better side today. 16 years of beatings will be very easily forgotten tonight.

That short kick-out strategy will be the death of us for many a season if we persist. Surely the purpose of it is to take it quickly when the opposition are only just settling back. Waiting 10 seconds to see what's happening for O'Curraoin and deciding to still play it short is not going to do ****all good and the fact we haven't thrown it out the window as a tactic or perfected it is a huge black mark on the management. Lavelle will be hung out to dry like Power and Breathnach before him when it's management's fault.

I wouldn't call this a gutless showing, like they came back from that horrendous deficit, hit the post twice, missed some crucial scores but still pulled it back to 3. Just were second to every ball and not the same level of hunger as the Mayo win.

I don't have any confidence we'd beat Donegal tbh and I really think the tough decisions have to be made at the end of this year. We have some super players being wasted. Going up to Division 1 is a big improvement and could be the launching pad for a new management team.

We have 3 good footballers. Comer Walsh and Daly. 3 forwards. Dont see many others who are good enough to have us challenging the top teams.

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