Galway GAA Discussion Thread #2

Strong team. Stronger bench.... hopefully should give a good account Sunday.

It was a strange game. If we had gone in at half time 5 points up, i don't think even the cork support would have complained. And then a complete collapse in the second half. It took us too long to figure out what to do after the red card.

Also, a special mention to the thousands of Galway supporters who left after Cork's 4th goal. I will be the first to defend supporters for not travelling the 9 hour round trip to Wexford, but walking out on the team like they did yesterday was pathetic!

Yeah and I don't get the opposite argument. There will always be people who need to get away quickly after a match for whatever reason and that is what it is but yesterday it was thousands of supporters! The sides of the stand and the terrace virtually emptied. I don't buy the beat the traffic argument either. What is the benefit of being home 10 mins early?

My own view is that supporters should stay and applaud the teams efforts, especially on the bad days.

You're a very fortunate poster if you haven't had to be stuck in 2 hour traffic just getting from Salthill to Terryland. Leaving 10 minutes early might save an hour of traffic in the league for folks heading to Athenry and beyond. It could end up saving them nearly 2 hours in the championship matches. When a match is out of sight like yesterday I'd be nearly surprised as many of us stuck for injury time in the end.

Close enough to it I'd say. Against the likes of Westmeath last year on a sunny Saturday evening in the summer I'd say close to half the crowd was gone before injury time. When there's 10+ points between the sides on the 65th minute it's only natural to think of heading. If somebody pays their hard-earned few pound and they're not ruining anybody else's experience at the match let them do what they want imo. What annoys me is when we barely get 1500 supporters down to Thurles for a big match.

A large crowd came to see Galway play hurling yesterday……….they got absolute rubbish.Shefflin has done absolutely nothing for Galway hurling

Merciful hour, did you see the hand-passing and link play that went on in the Wexford match? Very few balls leathered into the forwards from their own half by the Galway backs last week. HS is still in his infancy as manager and inherited a team in greater transition than many would realise. Judge him at the end of this season. In spite of all the turmoil last year, he was still closer to Limerick than anyone else at the business end of things.

Relax lads it's only Feb yet. Both managers giving as many players as possible game time. If they weren't doing that there would be lads throwing tows out of the pram next June / July saying they should have this and that. League games mean nothing nowadays.... glorified challenge games

Team for Sunday. Patrick Kelly returns, as does McGrath and Rob Finnerty to subs bench, Cian Hernon there also. Still light on forward power but just maybe Tuam will inspire an upturn in fortunes.

You're not wrong but now we need to win. Or D2 next year...

Interesting tactic to allow Tyrone just burn off half our time playing with a gale, as they pass around under no pressure in their own half.

Got fierce lucky with the Tyrone wides from lads like Canavan and McCurry. Otherwise a very strong final 25 minutes. Great to see youngsters like Glynn, Sweeney and especially Tierney really step up when scores were needed. We're missing a hell of lot without Comer, Walsh and a fully fit Rob Finnerty (great to see him come on late today though).

You'd have to think we need 2 more wins to be safe. 6 points won't be enough to stay up. It's gonna be a very close Division.

Going to be very tight round the bottom this year