Galway GAA Discussion Thread #2

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Thought that mayo goalkeeper should have got straight red for the challenge on johnny heaney. The ball was well gone. Bad start from Galway.grew into it. Still missing a forward or two ... mayo were good. Very good defending. They won alot of ball off Galway forwards

The boys on tsg obviously didn’t have a read of the rule book beforehand so:

• To deliberately pull down an opponent
• To deliberately trip an opponent with the hand, arm leg or foot
• To deliberately collide with an opponent after he has played the ball away or for the purpose of taking him out of the movement of play
• To remonstrate in an aggressive manner to match officials
• To threaten or to use abusive or provocative language or gestures to an opponent or teammate

Reapes obviously being an accidental, I.e not deliberate, collision between two committed players and Walsh’s being a blatant deliberate pull down

Here is the moment of impact. Somehow you believe that to be deliberate. God knows how as two players come together and one unfortunately gets a fair oul bang off the other in the midst of an accidental collision. Not even a foul. Unlike when Comer attempted the punch into Reapes midriff and Conroy followed up with the knee in the face

So a moment in which you can clearly see the collision is too early to see the collision?

Give it a rest about the Heaney thing. This stuff happens in field sports. It didn't stop Heaney taking the shot today, it went wide. Galway still got a point from it. It didn't affect the result.

in truth i think you can suger coat this as much as you want but he was so late it wasn't funny , i have no ties with galway but i would be going black card tertiary at least , he never intended to take out heaney but he did

brendan cawley was very fussy today with the small infringements on both sides , which probably pissed off galway people more as they were giving away soft frees in scoring areas at times , but the can be lucky that comer didnt get done for the kidney whack on Reap late in the game the replay showed him looking over at Cawley after the strike , it was a this ones for Johnny Heaney moment

very impressed with john maher in midfield today big and strong breaks a tackle and takes huge pressure off Conroy in the middle 3rd

some addition for a fella that only seemed to be a bit part player , was he even on the extended panel last year , super first half today to be fair if he keeps that going for the next 10 or 12 weeks ye'r laughing

surprised ye haven't thrown the 2001 stat at the mayo boys , lost to kerry in 2000 , lost to mayo in the league final in 2001 , won the all ireland , its seriously possible again ,

Bingo. Now take your scolding

Lads,

A Mayo man here,

I always have time for PJ,nothing but respect for the guy as a player,competitor and after a shaky start is becoming a good manager too.On a personal note he's a likeable GAA man but Jesus christ the whinging is a let down.

Its really taking away from his stint as manager imo,it doesn't work in favour of his team.As an opposition supporter I enjoy it as it's a major weakness but from yer end someone would want to have a word with him.

Tierney is very similar to Niland in the hurling I find in terms of needing to be on frees to get the best out of him from play. I think Walsh not being taken off frees knocked a huge amount of confidence out of Tierney after the couple of misses. That's not to say Tierney doesn't need to toughen up a bit but when a lad is so young and yet so important to our attack I think he needs more consideration on dead balls. Walsh always can be liable to have bad days on the dead ball, especially in Croker.

He was correct....the challenge on Heaney was late and reckless. Would have been interesting what would have been the refs take on it if it was an outfield player who dived in like that. The defenders tackled very well. Im pretty sure that ye will not get frees as soft for the rest of the year

Even if it was late and reckless that only qualifies as a yellow as was not deliberate. A penalty and black is sanction for deliberate foul preventing a goal scoring opportunity. The opportunity was already gone. Another view of collision as you seem to have not seen it.

And do point out the frees incorrectly awarded.

I think we didn't go enough to win yesterday. I think there were some positives.

The backs played well. Keeping a score conceded of 0-14 is good, especially with a few questionable frees given. Maybe they were frees but I think we were reffed to a different standard yesterday and I don't believe the same decisions would be given in a high-profile championship game. Still you should also be able to change how you tackle once you see what the referee is blowing for and not. Some of the debutants in Croke Park did well too.

The goalie did well in actually good-keeping stuff - 1 big save and catch, but again his distribution let him down at key times. There was a few scores against at key times that came directly from us losing the kick-out. We need to get better at this if we are keeping him as no.1 which I believe we are.

Obviously there are cons too. We started poorly again in Croke Park similar to the All Ireland QF and SF last year. I think the break when Heaney was injured helped us. It broke Mayo's momentum. Still we shouldn't need things like that.

Again apart from Walsh, our forwards didn't turn up again. Finnerty seemed to need an amount of space to get a shot off. Cooke grew into it but some others were missing. Mayo seemed fitter. Maybe they need to peak for earlier but again another worry.

Agreed with Walsh on kicking 45s with his left foot. There's a time and place for it and yesterday was not it. It came across to me that he was not serious about the game. Maybe since he was missing for most of the league. I'm sure he can do it but in a national final in Croke Park, just go with the tried and trusted.

Also they looked liked they were actively going for goals and we did miss some real goal chances, I believe the Maher and Tierney ones were not really on and should have pointed them. Small margins but we need better decision making.

Again, I believe Mayo deserved to win but hopefully this will help the team and management to learn from it and be better for it in the summer.