Galway GAA Discussion Thread #2

threeball · 29-02-2020 10:05PM

spurshero wrote: »

Let’s win tomo first and see where we are then . Meath are not as bad as table suggests they were very unlucky v Mayo and were far from disgraced down in Kerry last week . They will get a result soon let’s hope it’s not tomo .

I wasn't counting chickens but was outlining the position tonights result affords us. I also amn't one to go for the don't talk us up lest we come crashing down approach. This management team aren't either.

We can and should win tomorrow, Meath are not bad but we are better and we should go in there with that ruthless belief that their is a job to do in a professional manner. Give Meath the respect they deserve by putting in a performance against them, not just bigging them up beforehand.

Happyilylost · 01-03-2020 12:55PM

Power on the bench. Slowly but surely returning.

Doctors room ghost · 01-03-2020 02:23PM

Comer out with hamstring injury according to the wireless.

testtech05 · 01-03-2020 02:24PM

Doctors room ghost wrote: »

Comer out with hamstring injury according to the wireless.

Who is replacing him do ya know?

Utopia Parkway · 01-03-2020 02:26PM

testtech05 wrote: »

Who is replacing him do ya know?

D'Arcy apparently.

McDaid out too. O'Donnell starting in his place.

Happyilylost · 01-03-2020 02:30PM

Utopia Parkway wrote: »

D'Arcy apparently.

McDaid out too. O'Donnell starting in his place.

Ian Burke on the bench.

Doctors room ghost · 01-03-2020 02:31PM

testtech05 wrote: »

Who is replacing him do ya know?

Darcy.

elefant · 01-03-2020 03:06PM

Nice to hear Shane knock that free over and stick it to that crowd. Serious jeering out of them.

Utopia Parkway · 01-03-2020 03:06PM

Farragher subbed off for Conroy.

Utopia Parkway · 01-03-2020 03:15PM

Meath 1-6 Galway 0-5

Galway score last 4 points of the half. They have the wind for the 2nd half.

threeball · 01-03-2020 03:17PM

Utopia Parkway wrote: »

Farragher subbed off for Conroy.

I'd like to have seen him get a run in the second half. Hard to make an impact as a corner forward against a big breeze. Not good for confidence to only get 30 mins too.

Good to draw back that lead against that breeze.

Utopia Parkway · 01-03-2020 04:10PM

FT

Meath 1-12 Galway 1-14

Conroy had a stormer after coming off the bench.

Diabhal Beag · 01-03-2020 04:24PM

Huge win in the hurling. Have to say Jason Flynn was excellent. Took a cracking goal after he'd missed a sitter and made an absolute nuisance of himself to Cork. Conor Cooney also worked his bollocks off. Both goals were excellent too.

Mac and Morrissey really impressed me bar Mac's unfortunate brain fart.

Tuohey and Brennan off the bench swung it along with two great frees from Niland.

Only worries would be Padraic Mannion. Felt he's been off form for a year in all honesty.

Utopia Parkway · 01-03-2020 04:30PM

Diabhal Beag wrote: »

Only worries would be Padraic Mannion. Felt he's been off form for a year in all honesty.

He has but he seems to be carrying an injury at the moment which probably doesn't help.

Doctors room ghost · 01-03-2020 04:55PM

Well done to sarsfields.congrats to them.great win

There won’t be a drop of porter left in bullaun

Robson99 · 01-03-2020 05:04PM

Diabhal Beag wrote: »

Huge win in the hurling. Have to say Jason Flynn was excellent. Took a cracking goal after he'd missed a sitter and made an absolute nuisance of himself to Cork. Conor Cooney also worked his bollocks off. Both goals were excellent too.

Mac and Morrissey really impressed me bar Mac's unfortunate brain fart.

Tuohey and Brennan off the bench swung it along with two great frees from Niland.

Only worries would be Padraic Mannion. Felt he's been off form for a year in all honesty.

Of all the players you have mentioned there P Mannion would be the least of the worries.
Both C Cooney and J Flynn have been missing since we won the All Ireland

threeball · 01-03-2020 05:23PM

Robson99 wrote: »

Of all the players you have mentioned there P Mannion would be the least of the worries.
Both C Cooney and J Flynn have been missing since we won the All Ireland

Cooney was pretty good today. Cathal Mannion was excellent apart from missed frees. Would have had a good few scores to spare if joe was taking frees today.
Daithi coming back will be a big boost. Whelan worked hard but had little joy today. Flynn is still too wasteful. He needs 10 chances to score 3.

Wonder if Joe Cooney came back for the Sarsfield all Ireland. Did he have relations playing?

Happyilylost · 01-03-2020 05:35PM

Paul Conroy on his own more or less won the game for Galway. Won the frees. Kicked the scores. Positives after that are few and far between. Kickouts were so poor I feel Gleeson may now be in trouble for his spot. Defenders struggled with the runners all day. A lot of niggling ****e all over pitch. Including between management late in the first half! Brannigan scored a point but did not have his usual influence. D'Arcy gave a shocking hand pass that ended up in a goal but otherwise thought he was ok. Varley was his usual out in from all day and is a great link player. Shane Walsh left some scores behind him but was still unmarkable some of his distribution was phenomenal. The point to put us back in front in injury time was a thing of beauty. Farragher was never in the game until replaced by PC. Competition for places is increasing week on week. All roads to the Mayo game who like Meath will be fighting for their lives.

Happyilylost · 01-03-2020 05:36PM

threeball wrote: »

Cooney was pretty good today. Cathal Mannion was excellent apart from missed frees. Would have had a good few scores to spare if joe was taking frees today.
Daithi coming back will be a big boost. Whelan worked hard but had little joy today. Flynn is still too wasteful. He needs 10 chances to score 3.

Wonder if Joe Cooney came back for the Sarsfield all Ireland. Did he have relations playing?

Not sure if he was back but his sister Maria is on that team.

threeball · 01-03-2020 06:10PM

Happyilylost wrote: »

Paul Conroy on his own more or less won the game for Galway. Won the frees. Kicked the scores. Positives after that are few and far between. Kickouts were so poor I feel Gleeson may now be in trouble for his spot. Defenders struggled with the runners all day. A lot of niggling ****e all over pitch. Including between management late in the first half! Brannigan scored a point but did not have his usual influence. D'Arcy gave a shocking hand pass that ended up in a goal but otherwise thought he was ok. Varley was his usual out in from all day and is a great link player. Shane Walsh left some scores behind him but was still unmarkable some of his distribution was phenomenal. The point to put us back in front in injury time was a thing of beauty. Farragher was never in the game until replaced by PC. Competition for places is increasing week on week. All roads to the Mayo game who like Meath will be fighting for their lives.

Niggling between the management camps or within the Galway camp. We have a tendency to follow a great performance with a poor one. Sometimes within the same game!

PCeeeee · 01-03-2020 06:31PM

threeball wrote: »

Niggling between the management camps or within the Galway camp. We have a tendency to follow a great performance with a poor one. Sometimes within the same game!

True but if you can scrape over the line on a bad day it's a great sign

Hulk Hands · 01-03-2020 06:50PM

Conroy's point from the sideline in the second half, one of the best ive seen. Tapped it with the instep. He was phenomenal

Galway very sloppy and naive in the first half. Sometimes you have to cede to the elements. Open through the middle time and again. Second half performance was good, albiet gifted a goal. Sean Kelly's a fine little player. We need serious kickout work before championship if Glesson is to be no.1. Midfielders dug in well, but it's just not on to kick to midfield and let them hang against a wind like that. Hopefully Comer's injury isnt too bad, we're not the same without him. Great leadership from Walsh near the end after an up and down day

Happyilylost · 01-03-2020 07:06PM

threeball wrote: »

Niggling between the management camps or within the Galway camp. We have a tendency to follow a great performance with a poor one. Sometimes within the same game!

Niggling between the two camps. Meath selector squaring up to Pj. Game was the same throughout. A lot of lads spent a lot of time on the ground wrestling.

Hulk Hands · 01-03-2020 07:09PM

Happyilylost wrote: »

Niggling between the two camps. Meath selector squaring up to Pj. Game was the same throughout. A lot of lads spent a lot of time on the ground wrestling.

The cheek. Still bitter over the Joyce demolition job of Meath in 01 maybe

threeball · 01-03-2020 07:24PM

Hulk Hands wrote: »

Conroy's point from the sideline in the second half, one of the best ive seen. Tapped it with the instep. He was phenomenal

Galway very sloppy and naive in the first half. Sometimes you have to cede to the elements. Open through the middle time and again. Second half performance was good, albiet gifted a goal. Sean Kelly's a fine little player. We need serious kickout work before championship if Glesson is to be no.1. Midfielders dug in well, but it's just not on to kick to midfield and let them hang against a wind like that. Hopefully Comer's injury isnt too bad, we're not the same without him. Great leadership from Walsh near the end after an up and down day

We simply have to have our centre back and full back hold position. As it stands Daly or whoever is playing there charges off upfield to support the attack which is grand as long as we don't get turned over. When we do we end up coughing up goal chances. If we don't change that by the Dublin came they'll carve us up like the Christmas turkey. Kickouts won't be sorted by then but do need a ton of work.

Hulk Hands · 01-03-2020 07:35PM

threeball wrote: »

We simply have to have our centre back and full back hold position. As it stands Daly or whoever is playing there charges off upfield to support the attack which is grand as long as we don't get turned over. When we do we end up coughing up goal chances. If we don't change that by the Dublin came they'll carve us up like the Christmas turkey. Kickouts won't be sorted by then but do need a ton of work.

Tbh Dublin beating us by about 16 points could nearly be a positive thing if it happens in Salthill. Less so in a league final. It's going to happen with what theyre at eventually and would much rather they got the shock to the system before championship. Even in second half against the wind, Meath still cut through at times and probably shouldve tried work a goal instead of tapping over. Mulkerrin, while talented, has a tendency to be dragged out of position. Would agree that Daly would probably be better served holding his position, especially given the maurading the two corners are doing

threeball · 01-03-2020 07:51PM

Hulk Hands wrote: »

Tbh Dublin beating us by about 16 points could nearly be a positive thing if it happens in Salthill. Less so in a league final. It's going to happen with what theyre at eventually and would much rather they got the shock to the system before championship. Even in second half against the wind, Meath still cut through at times and probably shouldve tried work a goal instead of tapping over. Mulkerrin, while talented, has a tendency to be dragged out of position. Would agree that Daly would probably be better served holding his position, especially given the maurading the two corners are doing

I think Mulkerrin is probably getting pulled out because his support, particularly the CB is hanging him out to dry and hes trying to cover two bases. It has to stop. We don't need 13 attackers.

Hulk Hands · 01-03-2020 07:56PM

Second goal vs Donegal was completely his fault, getting pulled into challenging a man around the 45 when no need. Don't want to be picking on him, there's countless occasions theyre being sliced open and the missed chances should be treated the same as scored ones. Id hope there's some serious video analysis being done. Dont want to be too negative, as its been a dream overall so far

PCeeeee · 01-03-2020 08:31PM

threeball wrote: »

I think Mulkerrin is probably getting pulled out because his support, particularly the CB is hanging him out to dry and hes trying to cover two bases. It has to stop. We don't need 13 attackers.

ðŸ˜‚ðŸ˜‚ðŸ˜‚ ah but it's glorious when it's working

obi604 · 01-03-2020 08:44PM

Happyilylost wrote: »

Niggling between the two camps. Meath selector squaring up to Pj. Game was the same throughout. A lot of lads spent a lot of time on the ground wrestling.

The Meath manager seems like such a w@nker.

Edit: oooops, I see a Meath selector was acting the magget. Above still stands though

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