Galway GAA Discussion Thread #2

We are up there with Kilkenny, Cork & Tipp! We just are. We compete and win at every grade, age and code.

We need to rebuild at Senior but let's not run ourselves down overall.

I'd be worried about the ability of that half forward line to get up and down the pitch. Tracking Armagh and creating a deep perimeter at the back is important due to their ability to kick points from range.

McDaid certainly isn't a corner forward. Hopefully he drops out as a 3rd midfielder who can alternate attacks with Kelly, one sitting, one going and Armagh have a choice to either double up on Walsh or leave Kelly or McDaid run at them from deep.

It wouldn't the first time a lad was named and didn't play.

I hope he's fit.

Hard to see Shane Walsh appear for the second half. Carrying his leg badly.

Awful to give up a hard earned 5pt lead with 2 terrible kickouts in a row. It's too important in football to retain possession from a restart and we turn it over far too often. It's been identified time and again as a huge issue and it's not being addressed.

Bar the obvious 1-1 from the kickouts we left a lot of scores behind I think it was 6 we dropped short and hot the post and bar. Culhane had a good chance to win it too but snatched at it. Didn't ever look like creating a goal chance.

Very disappointing result from what for large parts was a game we controlled.

No. Gleeson is experienced and in the form of his life albeit a poor mistake today. But we can't risk Flaherty making his debut in a knockout game with that pressure. Just my thoughts.

Inexplicable how Galway blew that game. Should have won it by 5 or 6 at least. For some reason they always do mental stuff against Armagh. Especially the keeper.

Having said that he can't take all the blame. Galway must have dropped 5 into the keepers arms in the seond half. They should have been 7 or 8 up and home and hosed even before Glesson's howlers.

Minors were gut wrenching yesterday. Not much better today. Go with the worst outcome that may of been it. If Armagh were winning by 10 or 12 at least you take off a few and mind them with 10-15mins to go. Instead every ounce of what we had was left out there.

D'Arcy and Mulkerrin injured. Shane Walsh despite playing well is carrying something. Now you have to manage minutes and fatigue. Comer may be rushed back.

Hard to be too critical overall. Thought Galway were much the better team for long periods. Tactically got it spot on. Dropped off against the breeze, made it difficult for Armagh. Pushed up in the second half and started powering at them.

Toss up as to what was more disappointing. The 4 missed chances before the Armagh goal or the goal itself. At this level you will always be punished.

Roscommon, Cork or Monaghan. Hard to know.

The goal was the turning point, it gave impetus to Armagh, there's merit in what you say though we let an awful lot drop short.. Having said that I'm seeing too much nonsense on SM along the lines of Gleeson has to go, he's going nowhere this year at least, a goalkeepers mistakes are held to greater scrutiny than a forwards mistake

I thought they played very well today over all but one mistake with only ten minutes or so left changed the result from a 3 or 4 point win to a draw.

If Damien was fit I think we would have won it well. He isn't though and the luck is not with us.

Galway can have a big say in this championship , I'm looking forward to the draw.

Lot of talk about the fact we should've been 7 or 8 up. But by the same metric Armagh hit some unbelievable wides, they were truly rattled. The 5 point lead on the balance of all the play was a fair lead, no more no less.

Awful pity about the kickouts but Gleeson hit some brilliant kickouts too to about 40 yards. Galway did really well at the end to turn around a 1 point deficit to a 1 point lead.

It's disappointing too how Galway had the ball 40 yards out at the death and couldn't work a score. It's the difference between All Ireland contenders and the rest.

Big worry now going forward with injuries. McDaid and Kelly weren't at the races at all today. McDaid could've burst outwards to give Gleeson an easy long option in the first half but didn't, Comer did it in the Connacht final. Lads are not fit and are minding themselves.

Subs made no impact today. Joyce went all in today playing half fit players hoping for the win, now it's hard to see lads like Finnerty play next weekend.

It'd be a miracle to be in a semi final with a full complement, not to mind a quarter final.

A disastrous result today.

Can't understand how Culhane was even on the pitch in the first place. He hasn't done anything of note since minor, there were better options off the bench.

Yes Maher and McHugh were the best players on the pitch today. No idea how Turbot got MOM, he kicked as many wide as he put over.

Galway vs Monaghan. They caused us plenty of problems in the past but overall can't complain. Win yesterday was only thier second all year between league/ulster championship and group stages.

Up to management to get it right now. For me. Changes and a few of them. Plan to win an All Ireland not just beat Monaghan.