Galway GAA Discussion Thread #2

threeball · 15-02-2020 12:04PM

Hulk Hands wrote: »

Where are you taking the DB midfield thing from? Would be madness. As much as Daithis best position is prob centre back, hurling teams have been defaulting to plugging their best defender in at FB for well over 20 years. Would be madness to move someone who's more natural than most in there out. We all saw what happened before he moved inside, god help us

I've heard it raised by a couple of commentators plus I don't see the point in playing your CB out of position only to switch him when your FB returns. The common sense approach is to fill the vacant position with a temporary alternative with a view to having them as a replacement in the case of injury.

Happyilylost · 15-02-2020 01:33PM

Match off in Mohill. Won't say too much but it's a joke calling things off this late in the day. I'm here since one and the place was waterlogged then but they had to wait for the ref to arrive to make the decision.

GS11 · 17-02-2020 10:40AM

threeball wrote: »

I've heard it raised by a couple of commentators plus I don't see the point in playing your CB out of position only to switch him when your FB returns. The common sense approach is to fill the vacant position with a temporary alternative with a view to having them as a replacement in the case of injury.

Gmac might be the back up with someone else filling at 6 for him. I'm sure he just wanted to see how it would go, I don't think he's being that bad there tbh, its just Daithi is so good.

grbear · 17-02-2020 02:42PM

I'm a little confused by some of the numbers in yesterday's Independent article about county finances. It says Galways gross debt is €3.1million. I thought the debt had been reduced to €2.5million based on the reporting of the accounts two months ago.

threeball · 18-02-2020 08:00PM

grbear wrote: »

I'm a little confused by some of the numbers in yesterday's Independent article about county finances. It says Galways gross debt is €3.1million. I thought the debt had been reduced to €2.5million based on the reporting of the accounts two months ago.

They had a 6 or 700k shortfall in donations/fundraising last year due to people not giving money to events etc because of the issues around finance. Perhaps they had banked on getting the same as the previous year but with all the scandals the shortfall is now showing up on the books.

grbear · 18-02-2020 09:54PM

Based on this report
https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/sport/gaa/eoghan-cormican/galway-gaa-finances-stabilised-county-board-treasurer-says-970328.html

the debt was €2million in December according to the county board.

MfMan · 18-02-2020 10:20PM

C'mon PJ, where's the team for Sunday v Tyrone? It's usually available before the Tuam Herald.

Utopia Parkway · 18-02-2020 10:43PM

Galway team v Tyrone

Conor Gleeson (Dunmore MacHales)
Sean Kelly (Moycullen)
Sean Ó Maolchiaráin (Oileain Arann)
Johnny Heaney (Killanin)
Gary O’Donnell (Tuam Stars)
Liam Silke (Corofin)
Cillian McDaid (Monivea Abbey)
Ronan Steede (Corofin)
Cein D’Arcy (Caherlistrane)
Eamonn Brannigan (St Michael's)
Damien Comer (Annaghdown)
Michael Daly (Mountbellew-Moylough)
Robert Finnerty (Salthill Knocknacarra)
Shane Walsh (Kilkerrin-Clonberne)
Adrian Varley (Cortoon Shamrocks)

Looks like John Daly hasn't recovered from his knock in time.

Diabhal Beag · 18-02-2020 11:08PM

Delighted to see Varley start. He's got a lot of critics but I genuinely believe if we're up to anything this championship he needs to be creating space central to open up lads like Heaney and Walsh.

Stewball · 19-02-2020 12:55PM

What's happened to Sean Andy, injured? dropped?

Utopia Parkway · 19-02-2020 01:39PM

Stewball wrote: »

What's happened to Sean Andy, injured? dropped?

He's still on the panel. Just hasn't got a game yet.

jam83 · 19-02-2020 11:10PM

Utopia Parkway wrote: »

He's still on the panel. Just hasn't got a game yet.

No harm, needed a kick up the hole. The lad needs to shed the excess bulk and get back to playing ball.

Utopia Parkway · 21-02-2020 12:21AM

Galway Senior Football Championship

Group 1

Salthill-Knocknacarra, Oughterard, St Michaels Monivea Abbey, Annaghdown, Moycullen.

Group 2

Tuam Stars, Milltown, Caherlistrane, Mícheál Breathnach, An Spidéal, Mountbellew/Moylough.

Group 3

Corofin, Killannin, Claregalway, Barna, An Cheathrú Rua, St James.

Galway Intermediate Football Championship

Group 1

Naomh Anna Leitir Móir, Glenamaddy, Kilconly, Oranmore-Maree.

Group 2

Killererin, Kilkerrin-Clonberne, Williamstown, St Gabriels.

Group 3

Cortoon Shamrocks, Headford, Carna-Caiseal, Caltra.

Group 4

Dunmore MacHales, Corofin [2], Oileann Arainn, Menlough.

Banner2theend · 22-02-2020 10:26AM

Any Galway posters can clarify whether the Galway v Clare minor hurling challenge match at Kinvara got the go ahead today? Any info on this will most appreciated by this Clare poster!!

Happyilylost · 22-02-2020 02:42PM

Strange first half. Letrim with the breeze just sat back made very little attempt to play out. Galway making hard work breaking them down.

Happyilylost · 23-02-2020 12:53PM

Bradshaw and Darragh Silke on the bench the two "surprising ones"

ShamNNspace · 23-02-2020 02:04PM

Off the post for galway great move

threeball · 23-02-2020 02:41PM

Great first half. Our counter attack is second to none, although given we're playing with effectively 12 well known scorers on the pitch is not a surprise.
Walsh is the best in the country on this form. Steede has be excellent in midfield. A bit loose at the back. Given the effectiveness of our counter I think we can afford to lean a bit more balance back towards our defence.

A great 4 months work under the new management. Back to being the best team in the country to watch. If we never won an all Ireland I'd rather we played like this than what we had to endure the last few years. You can see the players are loving it too.

Doctors room ghost · 23-02-2020 03:16PM

Penalty.goaaaaaaal.

ShamNNspace · 23-02-2020 03:25PM

Has to be it 2-18.....0-11 now tyrone down to 13 men

threeball · 23-02-2020 03:33PM

That's a great confidence booster for a team on the rise. As good as they are now, today will bring them on again.

RMAOK · 23-02-2020 03:49PM

Great win for the footballers. It's some change from this time 12 months ago wrt the style of play and the amount of scores. I know Tyrone were (eventually) down to 13 men, which would have skewed the scoreline somewhat, but that was some performance by Galway.

Pity the hurlers couldn't level it below in Waterford, but wrt the hurlers imo, finding and trialing players should be their objective for this league. If they win a few matches, All well and good. If they don't, at least the likes of fintan Burke and a few others will have been road tested before the summer.

Doctors room ghost · 23-02-2020 04:19PM

Huge congrats to joycey and the lads.well done and long may it continue.ga ga ga Galway are back lads.
Ye May dust off the straw hats for days ahead please god

Happyilylost · 23-02-2020 05:04PM

Plenty to like. Plenty still to work on. Defending and kickouts I thought today was our poorest in four games. Gleeson couldn't find the runners who I thought made plenty of runs for him.

Sean Kelly. Two games one man marking Michael Murphy and today on Mcshane. Excellent on two of the best in the country. Looks like he'll be our go to man marker going forward. Hopefully whatever happened to Mcshane is not as bad as it looks and he has a speedy recovery.

Defenders did fine going forward. Bit lazy tracking the runners going the other way and coughed up too many goal chances especially in the first half with the game in the melting pot.

Steede took his scores well. Got into nice pockets and linked well. Best game to date. D'Arcy was struggling a bit and nice to see PJ bite the bullet early. Flynn was excellent when he came on and caught the first kickout after only a few seconds on the pitch to put down his marker.

Damo, Varley, Brannigan were excellent. Damo brings a huge physical presence to the centre forward position. Finnerty didn't get on the ball enough and Mike Daly mixed the good with the bad.

Shane Walsh is untouchable at the moment. Not just his scoring but his creativity as well.

Meath is a big test. Galway have always struggled in Navan and it will be the first game we go in as hot favourites. PJ will need to keep their feet on the ground and show the same focus up to now. A win and we can realistically start aiming for a league final.

All to play for.

threeball · 23-02-2020 05:27PM

Happyilylost wrote: »

Plenty to like. Plenty still to work on. Defending and kickouts I thought today was our poorest in four games. Gleeson couldn't find the runners who I thought made plenty of runs for him.

Sean Kelly. Two games one man marking Michael Murphy and today on Mcshane. Excellent on two of the best in the country. Looks like he'll be our go to man marker going forward. Hopefully whatever happened to Mcshane is not as bad as it looks and he has a speedy recovery.

Defenders did fine going forward. Bit lazy tracking the runners going the other way and coughed up too many goal chances especially in the first half with the game in the melting pot.

Steede took his scores well. Got into nice pockets and linked well. Best game to date. D'Arcy was struggling a bit and nice to see PJ bite the bullet early. Flynn was excellent when he came on and caught the first kickout after only a few seconds on the pitch to put down his marker.

Damo, Varley, Brannigan were excellent. Damo brings a huge physical presence to the centre forward position. Finnerty didn't get on the ball enough and Mike Daly mixed the good with the bad.

Shane Walsh is untouchable at the moment. Not just his scoring but his creativity as well.

Meath is a big test. Galway have always struggled in Navan and it will be the first game we go in as hot favourites. PJ will need to keep their feet on the ground and show the same focus up to now. A win and we can realistically start aiming for a league final.

All to play for.

Agree on Sean Kelly, putting him corner back was a great move as was Johnny Heaney. Real competition in defence now with Silke looking to get his place with Daly looking to get back in.
Finnerty the only one who really looks out of place, I think he needs another year to develop. I'd like to see Farragher take his position in the next few games. The type of ball Galway are delivering now would see him scoring heavily I think.

Butchered a few goal chances yet again. If we can tidy that up it will be hard to live with us.

O.A.P · 24-02-2020 05:18AM

Tyrone weren't able to stop galway's fast attacking without fouling that's why they finished with 13 players on the pitch and conceded a penalty.
I enjoyed watching that fast direct kick passing game it's all we know and all that has ever got us medals.
Meath are waiting to spoil our party now and hopefully the lads are prepared dig out a win any style will do.

MfMan · 24-02-2020 09:40AM

It's been like moving from the Dark Ages to the Renaissance. Imagine how much KW has been holding these players back. Not saying we're going to win Sam or anything, but at least there's a gusto among fans following the team again.

Robert2014 · 25-02-2020 09:46AM

The question I have is how sustainable is it to play like this? Most teams have some sort of defensive strategy in place for a reason. We tried to play like this up until a few years ago and we weren't very successful then either. I hope that this is not a false dawn and come the summer time we are looking back and saying we should be putting a defensive plan in place all along.

I'm not saying we should go back to the plan Talty had, I'm sure there is a happy medium that we could find to be more defensively sound but allow us to attack as we are doing.

GS11 · 25-02-2020 01:08PM

Robert2014 wrote: »

The question I have is how sustainable is it to play like this? Most teams have some sort of defensive strategy in place for a reason. We tried to play like this up until a few years ago and we weren't very successful then either. I hope that this is not a false dawn and come the summer time we are looking back and saying we should be putting a defensive plan in place all along.

I'm not saying we should go back to the plan Talty had, I'm sure there is a happy medium that we could find to be more defensively sound but allow us to attack as we are doing.

Would be worried about the same thing although we did have men behind the ball at times, not quite as extreme as b4 so hopefully its part of the plan. As you say, there has to be a happy medium, the great thing is the pace we are breaking with.

Happyilylost · 25-02-2020 01:36PM

GS11 wrote: »

Would be worried about the same thing although we did have men behind the ball at times, not quite as extreme as b4 so hopefully its part of the plan. As you say, there has to be a happy medium, the great thing is the pace we are breaking with.

Its the league so its hard to judge. In the four games to date my main issue hasn't being the "defending" but more the workrate if that makes any sort sense. One on one to a man the defenders are doing ok. Sean Kelly has gone toe to toe with Michael Murphy and now Cathal McShane in the last two games and did well in both.Johnny Heaney has struggled a little more but is certainly holding his own and in a new position I would expect him to improve as the year goes on if he stays in the position. Sometimes defending is what you know in your head rather than anything else.

The issue we've had and it was very evident against Tyrone first half, patches against Donegal and most of the Monaghan game is Galway players tracking the runners. Kevin Walsh set up that the wall was built on our 45 and defend it from there. PJ is trying to get them to defend higher up the pitch and turn the ball over. When you do that though the players need to show the desire to track players. Too often opposition players are ghosting past our lads who I would class as being more in a jog than a sprint. Couple of passes later the fella that ghosted past them is shooting on goal.

Hopefully as the lads get fitter and realise the role that is expected of them this can improve. Our defence is probably never going to be rock solid but if we can keep ourselves on the front foot for as much as possible with an end product then it will be ok. Front foot and turn the ball over then things will get hairy.

Galway GAA Discussion Thread #2

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