Galway GAA Discussion Thread #2

Some big men around the middle third now.

At least 5 injuries from our best team but all we'll hear if we win if that they didn't care about the game

Grown men were crying in the stand in 2019 when they won a league but apparently Sunday doesn't matter. Embarrassing

Isnt it wonderful to have it both ways.

Hopefully this makeshift Galway side produce a performance

If you dont understand the importance of 2019, thats on you. Of course today matters but defeat isnt the end of the world, it would have been been very hard to take in 2019

Power has walked from the panel apparently

Not surprising, after Joyce's comments in the Tribune saying that Gleeson is number 1. Power has been around the panel for years, some as number 1, has no interest sitting on bench. Is a better keeper than Gleeson. Hope Gleeson has a good game today and silences a few doubters

Bernie is there 🙄🙄 lads and their stories

Heaney taken out with the late tackle

Mayo the better team overall we just couldn't get back level and had some bad misses when we had chances to get back into it.

Probably a biased view but I thought they got a few soft enough easy frees too

This isn't where it really matters, reape took out heaney with a late tackle, knew well what he was doin, stayed on the field?? championship is where its at shadowboxing, blessing in disguise innit 😉we still have a great panel, that doesn't change, enjoy the holiday lads, mayo out next week the rossies in the long grass

I think that's overly negative, score 1 or 2 of those goal chances todays & with a different ref then I think we beat Mayo, whilst definitely not playing our best. Our defense is good, despite the amount of turnover in players from last year. I think Tierney & Sweeney have both gone up a level during the league & you can't say management haven't given chances to forwards with all of our injuries, unfortunately the players at inside forward simply don't exist.

Ultimately how far we go will probably come down to the health of McDaid & Comer, as there's a real drop off behind them. But it's a fairly open championship & if we get a few breaks then you never know.

Mayo here.. commiserations on. Yer loss today. We've had 10 bad years of all Ireland/final failures, and I think that stood to us today. There's no doubt about it, had Galway gone for points when they were on it would be a different story. I don't agree with the narrative re the soft frees, but open to correction..from my biased perspective Aos got frees, that he usually wouldn't, Which is not the same as a soft free. Ref was quite right to give free when player threw the ball while on the ground..I'm not sure if it's a rule or not, but Gleason picked the ball off the ground after a mayo chance, which was missed. And ditto some rugby takedowns which could have seen black (which, in the spirit of the game, I'm glad didn't happen). In balance, I don't think either team can be too aggrieved in what happened. One thing I'm disappointed in, is with 3 mins to go and mayo 3 up, there was no hail Mary efforts, which could have really kyboshed things, but Galway seemed to be happy to narrow the difference than go for the jugular. Felt sorry for comer and Walsh, both had great games, but SOME wides will haunt them. Shane was the only player on the pitch that scored more than 1 point from play.... Not sure if it's possible, but would be great for another Galway mayo final this year. Would be great for the sport regardless of the winners.

All this talk about soft frees when Shane Walsh should have got a black card!

I'd question poor or lazy tackling from Galway over any bias from the refs performance.

Galway got many questionable frees too.

Did he, or did he not, drag O'Shea to the ground?

It's exactly the type of tackle that it was introduced for.

Yea, 3-3? That's cool. So even more than your final tally. And obviously mayo left nothing behind. It's just a pity mayo didn't shut up shop at 54 mins, then it could have been a draw.