Galway GAA Discussion Thread #2

Good win yesterday, was unexpected but a better surprise for it. We made ourselves more solid and didn't give up silly goal chances and made them work for scores. Lots of hard work and very happy for all of them to have such a good championship win. We need to learn how to handle games when a few points up, we seem to retreat rather than drive on.

It's a shame that we moved away from the defence blueprint we had towards the end of Kevin Walsh's reign which we reverted back to yesterday. We threw the baby out with the bathwater. The fact that we went back to it yesterday shows this mistake. Of course it is not perfect but we should have tried to evolve it to keep our defence strong but allow us to maximise our attack capabilities. Similar to Donegal under McGuinness, they were focused on defence in his first year but was able to evolve to allow them to attack at pace with turnovers. If we kept that and focused on our kick out strategy, how to turn over the ball without conceding frees, etc. we would be in a much better place today. Hopefully we can learn from our mistakes and use yesterday as a launchpad to develop the team. The confidence got from yesterday will help too.

Congrats to Galway players & Mgmt on Sundays win.

I thought at half time we were in trouble and that Mayo would pull away in 2nd half. (Incidentally, I think Mayo thought that too and just seemed to expect it to happen for them in 2nd half). It doesn't work like that. Galway got the scores and Mayo floundered. Galway in fact were nearly architects of their own downfall when coughing up possession from restarts. (Mayo targeted Galway restart, with an aggressive press).

If we can sort out the restarts and once again keep a clean sheet at the back, we'll be Connaught champions at least... and with that confidence, Galway could easily go on and cause problems for any other team in the All Ireland series too.

Any stand tickets going PM me please

Lol!

It is a tremendous pity you're not a betting man. Leitrim are a fancy price to beat Galway. You could make your fortune.

Galway beat roscommon last year in championship and will again this year. Roscommon goalie is worse than any of ours

Lads what's going to happen today in Salthill? I would think we need to raise our game a few notches to compete with and contemplate beating Kilkenny. The Cody-Shefflin sideshow might work in our favour, as it will amp up our focus. Kilkenny are always amp'd up to the maxx 😬

We had a good league win against Limerick, but nothing much since, I'd be happy with even a sneaky one point win.

Good first half display. Really got caught out for those 2 goals which KK didn't really deserve based on play. Apart from those the game would nearly be over. Physically dominant

**** me I thought watching the Taylor fight last night was a rollercoaster.

The last 90 seconds of that match was something else.

Darren Morrissey and Padraig Mannion the best players on the pitch today. Nearly killed ourselves by persistently picking ball down on to the KK HB line.

Lost 2 All Irelands with that same brainless tactic and still at it. We seem to keep at it until the other team pull level then we change it up.

First 15 mins won that hurling game for Galway…outstanding accuracy .

I’d sat the StThomas lads on the team nearly got sick when Kk scored the goal in time added on.

Great win and well deserved.

Congrats to Galway hurlers & Mgmt. Famous win.

A bit like the Sunday before against Mayo, they seemed doomed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory ...but just about clung on.

What a joke of a free. Kilkenny 6 clearly holding Thomas shirt and even after that Thomas doesn't touch him.