Galway GAA Discussion Thread #2

Agree. It was obviously going to be the best match of the weekend, even for neutrals.

With Kelly struggling I cant see them playing him the next day as whilst he was getting through games before the dublin match its clear hes not fully fit as his impact on games was minimal. Even the last day i could see form behind the galway bench that he wanted to play on but Cian O'Neill made the call to bring in Darcy. Darcy put in a serious shift when he was on and took the game to Dublin. The big conundrum for Joyce and co now is how they deal with Mogan and Mc Hugh and their attacking threat from half back. Mc hugh had 6 assists and 2 points yesterday and mogan kicked 5 points. If cathal Sweeney was fit he could be an option to tag Mc Hugh as he has pace for him or maybe Johnny Heaney could be an option wing forward and move Maher back to midfield instead of kelly.

I think it'd be unfair to have Galway on a Saturday evening again. Donegal too isn't serviced by trains.

Kerry at least has trains from Dublin and motorways to Cork and Limerick. The commute wouldnt be as bad as to Donegal.

Sunday 14th at 4pm. Surprised by that but better for families.

Enormous, what he was talking on?

https://galwaybayfm.ie/sports/galway-book-place-in-all-ireland-semi-final-commentary-and-reaction/

His interview is near the bottom. In fairness he has excellent recovery times usually so I wouldn't write off him being fully right for Sunday week. That extra day recovery can be massive too.

Interesting times. Davy mentioned in conjunction with a JC ticket.

It won't be Davy. The clubs won't stand for it and they told the county board as much 3 years ago.

The dogs on the street know that Donoghue is number 1 on the list.

I really hope that wasn't the case. We can't have a situation where a sponsor decides on managerial appointments. I know for certain that my own club made it's views known to the county board.

Can't see Donoghue being accepted by the Thomas's players after he throwing David Burke under the bus.

Davy isn't going to happen with or without JC. Davys time has gone and with all due respect to JC he has no experience on the managerial side of the fence bar as a selector at underage. I'm sure he knows that himself and won't be throwing his hat in the ring.

Lynskey isn't a realistic prospect either.

The hurling landscape is fairly devoid of proven managers. Whomever they choose will be a punt, but they at least need to be progressive in their playing style and willing to work with what they have rather than force a philosophy onto unsuitable players.

No surprise Shefflin is gone, made no real progress in his time, if anything we've gone backwards, whoever the new manager is ( hopefully not Eamonn O'Shea🤦🏼‍♀️), it's a long term project, we won't be seriously challenging for an AI in the next year or two, so take the time to build a new team with young hungry players, unfortunatly time has caught up with most of the 2017 AI, so most of them need to be let go.

He's disliked by most of the current panel and recent retirees. There were also several players that refused to play for him at U-20. He rocked the boat a bit in his recent podcast appearance which wouldn't have done his chances much good.

Tactically he'd be no different to Henry either and he loved a two man FF-line. That style of hurling needs to be moved on from unless you've Gillane and Flanagan.

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First of all to go back to the footballers, like everyone else I didn't see that one coming. They showed great heart and determination to hang in when 4 to 5 points down in the first half and again at 0-14 0-11 in the second half. I think the turning point came with the 2 quick scores from McDaid and Darcy to go from 0-14 0-12 to 0-14 apiece. There was a surge in the crowd that believed that it was on and from there, they really went for it.

Hopefully the 2 week break can help all the injured players to get back, at least this time compared to other years we have a squad. It's hard to believe that Daly and Molloy couldn't get on the pitch but may have important roles yet. I worry that McGuinness is a clever strategist on the sideline but hopefully we will have enough.

For the hurlers, I thought it was a mistake to hire Shefflin in the first place. It was obvious at the beginning of his tenure that the team was getting old and a rebuild was required. It was even more obvious after last year's semi-final collapse and yet we have strung it out so now that rebuild will be harder. i just hope the County Board don't look for the big name to cover up all the faults we have like the FAI and that we start to work on developing ways to ensure young players can come through to compete at the highest level again.