Galway GAA Discussion Thread #2

I think you might have unfortunately missed the cutoff. Clubs had 2 weeks to send off applications but I believe they closed yesterday. There's still juvenile tickets going for €8 which is good value for 2 finals in fairness.

Thanks - Silly q time, just looking on ticket master now and I see tickets are 40 euro for adults for hogan and cusack.

If I wanted a ticket for myself and 10 year old for the lower Cusack for example, can I get an adult ticket for 40 and a juvenile ticket for 8 euro OR do I have to pay 40 euro x 2 for the priveldge of being in the cuasck with a juvenile?

When you go and select an available seat in the lower Cusack/Davin it'll give you the option to buy it as an Adult, Juvenile or OAP. All you need to do is pick two seats beside each other and have one as a juvenile for €8. The view won't be amazing but should be a bit of craic down that side with the various clubs and schools. I don't think they do Juvenile prices for upper Cusack/Davin (if they do open up) so you'd be as well to stay down that side.

35k expected.

KK have the worst supporters in Ireland.

That's it. They'd make the youngster pay an adult price anywhere else sadly. There won't be a huge crowd so you can probably take some decent seats on halfway.

I wouldn't be putting Whelan in on Lawlor, he'll nullify him and we can't afford that. Matching him up with Butler would be better, but I agree he's of more value on the inside line.

I don't expect a win but they need to be competitive. Hard work but above all, good decision making, will be key. We can't afford to be handing possession back to KK too easily. Force them to work for every ball they turn over. And no potshots for 50/50 chances.

We need to be compact in the back 6 with cover from the two midfielders. Allow our HF line to come deeper into midfield and create space inside for the FF line.

For some odd reason I never get invited to weddings

Don't know how we're still in this. Massive failings all over. First touch is terrible for this level. We don't take care of possession at all even though we're struggling to gain it. Can't hit accurate 20 or 30m passes and are lumping ball in on top of Hugh Lawlor. Put half of that right and they could be competitive.

For the forwards to be outfielded all day for every bloody ball is an attitude thing.

It mightn't suit them but for Kilkenny's backs to be winning ball over their heads all day is just a disgrace.

We don't have ball winning forwards. You'd really have to question Donoghue after that. Any fool knows you don't lump puckouts onto KK half back lines and you don't lump ball on top of Hugh lawlor. We did both for 70mins. Either theres no instruction to avoid that or they ignored the instruction.

We also needed to crowd out the middle 3rd but we handed it to KK. Moving lads around positions was deck chairs on the titanic when major malfunctions were happening all over from 4 mins in.

We have too many hurlers simply not up to it. And looking at underage we won't have them for a while. Same useless brand/style right down the grades.

Felt sorry for the young lad who replaced Murphy.

He was taking it bad after the game ended.

The players are there to set up to be at least within 2-3 points of Kilkenny. Nobody was willing to make the excuses of the players being the problem when Shefflin was on the line

It's not as if he lost the game for them. They were close comprehensively beaten before that mistake.

There's about 4 or 5 worth keeping and some of those are the wrong side of 30. I'd go root and branch on the rest. They're not up to it. Never will be.