Galway GAA Discussion Thread #2

Pity...would have loved to see him with the footballers for a while....surely a few of the younger dual players should be considering giving the football a go for a few years when they have a chance of winning something

NO unfortunately. Galway bay fm is your only friend.

What a shower of donkeys for doing the round robin draw before the provincial finals have been played. What could have been a spectacle of a game on Sunday will probably now more resemble a cricket match...

Here is the draw:

My prediction for how it will turn out:

Group 1:
Armagh
Mayo
Tyrone
Cavan
Group 2:
Kerry
Louth
Roscommon
Cork
Group 3:
Meath
Clare
Monaghan
Down
Group 4:
Galway
Donegal
Dublin
Derry

Comer picked up an injury in recent challenge according to maurice brosnan of the examiner/Barna. Finian o laoi, johnny Heaney and Cillian o Curraion also out injured. Leaves is pretty light on scoring forwards. Hopefully these injuries clear up by the time group stages come up

Winning 1 game in the group could be enough to get through to a Prelim QF…we don't have to go gung ho in group games

Does group 1 play group 4 and 2 play 3 at prelim stage ?

So Galway coming third in their group could end up playing say Clare in Ennis or Roscommon in the Hyde…. hardly the end of the world

Was hardly a handy game against Monaghan. They were only up a point at half time after playing with a strong wind. Walsh and Kelly went off with flared-up injuries, both limped through the Dublin game a week later. Imagine if they could have rested those injuries that week instead?

4 in a row😁😁😁😁😁😁.

I need to lie down for awhile after that

15 mins in to the 2nd half when it was all mayo I was sure they were gonna win with a few to spare but the lads settled into a good rhythm from there and worked some lovely scores. Great save by Gleeson near the end too.

Hopefully any injuries aren't too bad

Great win. But mayo blew it with them wides. Galway worked the last few scores so well under ferocious pressure

Rollercoaster of a game. I thought our slow start was going to see us come unstuck. Then we had the purple patch and ran up a good score. Mayo get a run on us for 15mins before it evens out down the straight. Good to get the win but the best thing about today is that football is worth watching again after a decade of dross.

Good win for Galway, when the going got tough the likes of McDaid really stood up. Paul Conroy is really having a late career flourishing (he was an outstanding underage talent, was fast tracked to senior then sort of lost his way for a few years albeit when Galway were phish too, but he's on fire for the last 2-3 years). A special mention to the goalie Gleeson too he had a fine game (we have struggled to settle on a first choice goalie for a couple of years, but looks like we have our man now). The importance of a good goalie was really highlighted yesterday, Reape's mistake probably cost Mayo the game.

A decent win for the hurlers albeit against a much weaker opposition than KK. Great performances from Mannion, Fahy and a few of the new lads did well like Molloy, Brennan.

Worrying how they ran the goals straight down the centre and whilst Lee is well worth his place on this team I don't see him as a centre back. We'll need to find one in the next year or two to progress. Maybe Trayers will be able with a couple of more years development.