Galway GAA Discussion Thread #2

Armagh’s full forward line of Turbitt, Murnin and Grugan were fairly poor too, I know Grugan went off injured as well. Armagh stumbled over the line to be honest. Galway had every chance to win it.

I’m not a Galway man but was rooting for ye as a Clare man, but felt ye threw that away thought Conroy, D’Arcy and Maher were outstanding in particular for Galway and gave it their. Also again McHugh was good and was cruel that he had to miss the last chance.

Is their much up and coming inside forwards coming through in Galway I know Tomo Culhane, O’Conghaile and Rory Cunningham all look promising, surely one of these lads should have been given a chance or more game time in the championship. Walsh and Comer didn’t look fit for most of the year, the injuries seemed to catch up on Galway in the end.

I would have respect for Armagh as well and fair play to them. But looking at the game today they were one of the poorest All Ireland winners, in terms of a team winning an All Ireland and actually playing badly. Haven’t seen a team play so bad in along time and win an All Ireland, maybe Kerry in 2014 were the last team that I could think that played that poorly and still won.

Anyway commiserations to ye in Galway, it’s gonna be hard for this group to come back from this loss, especially considering it was there for the taken, if Armagh had played really well and beaten Galway doing so it might have been easier to come back from.

Such nonsense, Armagh deserved to win because they took more of their chances. Your hatred of Armagh is desperate, will you ever get over this.

Armagh won today.

Watching as a neutral, it did feel a bit like Armagh fell over the line. Helped significantly by Galway's lack of composure and kicking away far too many good chances. Comer and Walsh were well off it today and didn't have the impact you'd expect.

Conroy and McHugh can feel hard done by, they've both had brilliant seasons. But overall it just wasn't good enough from Galway today.

Keep the heads up. You still have a very strong squad and will be back to challenge for another All Ireland again I'm sure.

Challenge being the operative word.

In my opinion Galway let Armagh dictate the game, by not imposing their game on Armagh.

Armagh found it far too easy to knife through the Galway defence, also Armagh took most of their chances, had the bit of luck, Galway did not take their chances and had no luck.

Not a very entertaining game for the neutral or semi neutral.

Not Galway's day for sure, but if you have any flags and/or bunting up. Leave it where it is. There's still a Senior LFGA and a Senior Camogie final with Galway presence. We might see some silverware yet.

Jesus all of a sudden you sound so bitter.

That's tough, they had enough to win today but the panic after the goal trying to get a score was so unnecessary & Shane Walsh will wear this final for a while with the misses, credit to him for stepping up and being brave enough to take ownership of the frees from distance, but you have to do better than 0/3 when you do that.

I'd like to think they come back from this, but I don't know if I can see us in a final again in the short term. Today was the chance. Heartbreaking.

In fairness to walsh, he offered one free to the keeper and he didn't want it, despite walsh missing some already. What was he supposed to do? At the end of the day, fellas can have a bad game. He was brave enough to take it on when others weren't.

To my mind, the galway sideline lost them the game. Armagh took off turbitt and replaced him with another forward. Galway brought on heaney in corner forward and stuck kelly back in corner back. They also left on the guys who weren't playing well for too long.

Spot on. The Comer & Tierney double sub should have happened far earlier.

The Finnerty injury was crucial and bringing Heaney on that stage was the wrong call. I can see why PJ did it, he went for experience when perhaps a gamble on Tomo was the way to go.

If you're going to leave Comer at the edge of the square, why not land a few in on him instead of handpassing from one sideline to the other across the 45.

We're taking him out of the game ourselves by just leaving him standing inside without any ball.

We kicked in a high ball once to him right on the stroke of halftime.

Shouldn't you be hassling the gaa for another 50 million?

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There was plenty of 'mental block' on show today.

I disagree Pat has rolled back on the "Puke football" comment since. It was his lack of knowledge and insight. The thing is the really good sides vary their play.

They break and counter attack at pace when required, it is Donegal's main game plan. When executed properly it is great to watch. Dublin were great at it as well particularly when Jack McCaffery came on to break at pace. You need runners and movement. Better to appreciate live than on the Telly.

Galway are nearly there, sometimes Galway play one "safe" pass too many, it was interesting that when they did work the ball in. And Silke was in the opposition scoring zone he was very effective today, same v Dublin.

But Galway must learn to do the movements at pace, pop passes runners off the shoulder, when required not just at the end of matches. Believe it or Louth who play similar to Galway try to break at pace when they have the chance, spreading the players wide when in possession and funnelling back when out of possession

Ironically IMO Armagh played the worst football all year (although there were some great Armagh points in the final, in fairness), but overall Armagh extremely defensive, and laboured for the most part. Basically relying on opponents errors.

Galway were miles better in the Semi-Final v Dublin and could/should have won by more it was great defensive display, but they could have attacked more. And seemed to have went even safer in the final, the chances where there for Galway though.