Galway United thread

Great crowd last night which is great to see. Good buzz around the place.

The players put in a good shift aswell. Caulfield had a very tough week I'm sure, hopefully that win lifted his spirits some bit.

I think Byrne is doing a good job in there, athletic, physical and keeps it simple.

Injured, due back soon, this week was rumoured but didn't make it. Big game tonight, lose and we're in full relegation dog fight, win and we can start to move up maybe.

Caulfield really should have been sacked after the playoff loss. Last season when Ollie had come into the mix there was a bounce and while they still played a lot of long ball there was at least some variety to the play. This season is like a throwback to the pre-Ollie days. Is Caulfield putting more of his mark back on the team?

The First Division is a different kettle of fish though. All of the Premier teams are full time. You can't just rely on physicality to boss teams around in this division. Hickey is a big loss but mostly because we are relying so much on long ball tactics. One saving grace is if we end up in the playoff this season, I can see us staying up.

Illness supposedly. Hopefully he gets through it. Don't think its a reason for our poor form, bar a good start we've been poor all season.

I think that’s a bit unfair on Slev, he’s been pretty decent but has been a scapegoat so far.
Shaw has shown nothing so far, can’t see what he offers tbf.
I just don’t see where we go from here, I didn’t like the 5/3/2 formation at the start of the season as we didn’t have the midfield players to hold it.

Yeah, it’s been pretty dire for a while now alright, and can’t see where/how they’re gonna turn it around.

The Bohs game at home is where we dropped off a cliff, at half time we were going top of the table we then got sucker punched at the death to lose and have just spiralled since then....losing our main goal threat was just the cherry on top

The Shams game was a good result. Prob a good time to play them.

The Derry game will be tricky though they are a very unpredictable bunch too.

I don't understand why to be honest. Salthill are a seriously good team, but a junior football team. The levels are absolutely miles apart. For any kind of contest, they'd have to perform out of their skin whilst United simultaneously had a nightmare.

Great cup weekend in general. The next draw is a big one!

Tuesday 12 o'clock I'd say.

Shtop, Enda is woeful, same stinky attitude he's always had. Didn't try a leg and just kept shaking his head and whining all night. Darcy and Ludden their best outfielders, keeper had a stormer too.

A game we should never have lost, full value for the draw. Lost all composure after they had the man sent off. Have to hope that somehow we can reel Waterford in as Sligo are gonna bypass both of us I reckon.

So like our season, this thread started off OK, then petered out into a low key finish…..:

I have to say I’ve not been overly impressed by the off season transfer business so far, and I reckon we’ll be this years Cork City! Caulfield will be under no pressure, but I’d imagine the crowd will be down this year. I wish I could be a little less pessimistic, but we’ve signed kids and first division level players!

I hope I’m proven drastically wrong!!