Galway GAA Discussion Thread #2

Why is it negative to point out how futile it is playing an injured player. Maybe it should be like North Korea where we only every praise the efforts of the team and management.

Whatever about leaving him on till halftime, to send him out again, clearly in pain when you had a 10pt lead and effectively play the 2nd half with 14 men was idiotic. Especially when 2pointers into the wind were pretty much out of the equation.

Think some context is needed. Yes Flaherty had a 10 minute wobble where nothing went right but it's next near impossible dominate kickouts with the new rules. As you can see from Dublin vs Armagh and "two of the best keepers in the game" there stats aren't a lot better. It's the modern game. He was 7/10 in the first half and that was deemed "poor" here......

He was under serious pressure. Gleeson was standing on the halfway line togged to come (Flaherty saw this, as, at one stage for a kickout he was looking at the line almost walking over expecting the board to go up. Another Management decision I wasn't fond of). Ref was on his back (unfairly and didn't even know the rule). Yet with all that going on he recovered brilliantly. Kickouts last 10-15 minutes turned the tide. Couple out to D'Arcy stand side were phenomenal.

Hope Flaherty keeps his spot. He's always looking for the options (they dried up dramatically yesterday) and if a short or mid range dink is on, he'll back himself to nail it.

Gleeson only has the long range in his locker. Least we forget he spent the Dublin game kicking it out to lads in blue and much like Flaherty had a 15 minute spell against Derry where they destroyed us.

Flaherty has more variation in his game and watching him had the confidence to kick off his left or right will keep teams guessing.

Also one wide in a game of football is ridiculous 😀

Nice, got exactly what I hoped for. Let's hope we don't bottle this favourable draw!

Probably the opener Sunday before Donegal v Mon?

Can't see RTE not having Armagh v Kerry as the main game on Sunday at 4pm.

I would agree. He had a 15 min wobble where he was unlucky with a couple of the kicks and then the Ref harshly penalised him for delaying one [ if Gleeson was in goals he would have been done as well as Ref was very much crowd influnced with his SH decisions]. Raferty had a 15 min meltdown against us in SH, McGeeney wasnt looking to replace him, Cluxton an absolute shocker against Meath, Patton , Morgan, Beggan all have there 10 -15 min periods in these new rules games where things just dont go their way. Keepers now have the guts of 30 kick outs in a game where the new rules were meant to have most kick outs a 50 50 contest. Did Gleeson deserve to be dropped., probably not. Same for Flaherty now. Best give him another game and give him some more confidence. Cant keep chopping and changing

I'm sure the GAA would quite like to keep that one to themselves. It'll be a nice little earner on GAA go. On day passes alone it could pull in half a million.

Mattie Tierney seems to have loss his form entirely in the last two games. He never goes well when Walsh delivers. A fierce shame too because Tierney has all the tools.

Having to play Saturday is pretty unfair on Galway. All other teams getting the full 7 days.

is it confirmed for Saturday?

Can't see Kerry and Dublin on the same double-bill.

think we'll get sat first game….4pm maybe?

Saturday June 28

16:00 - Donegal v Monaghan

18:15 - Dublin V Tyrone

Sunday June 29

13:45 - Galway v Meath

16:00 - Armagh V Kerry

Great we got a Sunday game, but it's not fair on Donegal only getting a 6 day turnaround.

I'd be fuming if we had that.

True but they played at home while we had to travel to Newry