Galway GAA Discussion Thread #2

It's hillarious. They have a serious s***fy for Joyce. Three days after their massive victory over us and they still giving it socks about him being at fault for our loss and hoping he stays on. I'd say they even call their sheep dog PJ... just so as at the end of each day they can give him a boot in the backside and blame him for all their woes. Gas men

All the whining about O'Donoghue and no mention of Kelly trying to act the big man against Hession. Kelly started the whole altercation.

I'm not defending O'Donoghue but the video, photos, and the reaction of Kelly all seem to point to a stamp on the toe rather than anything to do with his ankle.

Not sporting, not nice, don't like seeing players do it, but not a the crime of the century or anything close to a sending off.

I'm not defending him at all.

All I'm saying is that I think he stood on his toes - a cowardly act - and that Kelly was targeting Enda Hession in his own way too - to be honest I wish all that crap was eliminated from the game.

Ideally both players should have been given a yellow and be done with it. As a ref if you see the altercation, or are notified of it, you can't punish O'Donoghue and not punish Kelly.

You have absolutely no way of knowing what his intentions were. All we know is that he didn't get his ankle because if he did Kelly would have had a very different reaction and wouldn't have ran up the field directly afterwards.

I wouldn't go too heavy of the forward jokes - Galway's forwards haven't been great shakes, with one or two expectations, for the best part of 20 years. There were even a few horrific misses from dead balls on Sunday.

No imagination needed - the photos show ROD's foot on Kelly's toe. Not one video or photo shows contact with his ankle.

Kelly was doing more than pushing and shoving as well. No need for that sort of carry on in the game - doesn't show class either.

Is diving trying to get an opposing player sent off something a role model to young bucks should be engaging in too?

Miss their target eh? Talk about stepping on a rake...

Time to move on anyway at this stage. Sometimes you just have to take your beating.

I'm on the fence about Joyce getting another year considering what transpired the last 2 days out. I thought he improved last year and took no bull but it's seem he has taken a step back like McDaid should be midfield and move lads around him, his team selection were really odd, burke never got going but kept playing him, Walsh waltzing onto the team unfit and not sharp, whilst he dogged heaney and teirney all year who peaked during league and had poor championship. Forward play was slow and pedestrian

I think PJ has flaws but regardless he will get another season minimum. He's had plenty of time to correct the slow kickouts with management, he is also a slow to adapt tactics/make changes during matches and I think the side mentally/physically are burnt out too often in the last 10 minutes of games. I'm also not a huge fan of the mouthing his does in post-match interviews as it does the team no good.

That being said he's had an amount of misfortune this year. Lost Silke to travel, lost Molloy to a cruciate, had a tough draw in the group, had our two best players injured for the defining game of the season, toughest possible prelim draw and also had a very important player in Walsh allegedly playing through injury since his return from the Kilmacud campaign that caused him to be far from his usual match fitness. None of that excuses the performance against Mayo in the second half. Better team won overall and with the wides Mayo hit first half we were lucky to be up by as much as we were at HT.

I think we're all fairly clear that in 2022 we had a huge amount of luck with the lack of injuries and management need to be a bit more ruthless to be able to deepen the matchday panel. Lads like Hernon, Culhane, Fitzgerald etc aren't going to immediately be at the level of the more senior contemporaries but they've all enough potential to be. I think McGrath has been a find and a half, Maher had an impressive breakthrough season and I was very happy with Cooke. We need to be more ruthless though instead of persisting with the likes of Ian Burke, Tierney etc when they're going through bad spells.

Thank you for proving my point.

No Saint Sean Kelly against Monaghan in the league.

Not much of a role model for young bucks.

Id stick with him. He's brought a good team spirit. And has unearthed alot of talent. It's not easy competing at top level. They'd be in last 8 if they got the paperwork right before Armagh game.

Taken with camera phone

Lovely, more Mayo-Galway counter WUMing. Just what the thread needed.