Galway GAA discussion thread

Utopia Parkway · 08-08-2014 07:08PM

MfMan wrote: »

Interesting that GBFM reports that the following have been nominated for the Hurling manager's job;

Brendan Lynskey (Hasn't he been involved before? Too inclined to lose the head IMHO)
Mattie Kenny (After 2013, are they serious?)
Anthony Cunningham (What's he going to do that's different?)
Johnny Keane (May depend on U-21s progress - not gone on Keady's involvement BTW. May also be be too identified with Portumna for other club's liking)

A contest for the post is probably no harm but there isn't too much inspiration in that list. Nominators should probably think outside the box (county) a bit.

Not exactly the most inspiring list you'll ever see.

08-08-2014 09:11PM

MfMan wrote: »

Interesting that GBFM reports that the following have been nominated for the Hurling manager's job;

Brendan Lynskey (Hasn't he been involved before? Too inclined to lose the head IMHO)
Mattie Kenny (After 2013, are they serious?)
Anthony Cunningham (What's he going to do that's different?)
Johnny Kelly (May depend on U-21s progress - not gone on Keady's involvement BTW. May also be be too identified with Portumna for other club's liking)

A contest for the post is probably no harm but there isn't too much inspiration in that list. Nominators should probably think outside the box (county) a bit.

Would agree this list is far from inspirational. Lynskey was involved before under Ger Loughnane but himself and Michael Murray seemed to be just token selectors for carrying the water while Mulqueen was the right hand man. Also didn't enjoy much success with the u21s before as far as I can remember. Much as I respect all he did for Galway, he's not the right man for the job.

Mattie Kenny - Whoever nominated him are seriously off their head.

Anthony Cunningham - Won't even go to watch next year if they give him the job again

Johnny Kelly - Haven't heard anything too positive about him. Enjoyed success with Portumna but plenty of question marks over his candidacy. u21 performance last year was among the worst I've ever seen from a Galway u21 side.

Bottom line is we need to get serious about the future of Galway hurling. If we appoint any of these we will fall even further away from the top table.

djPSB · 08-08-2014 10:38PM

MfMan wrote: »

Interesting that GBFM reports that the following have been nominated for the Hurling manager's job;

Brendan Lynskey (Hasn't he been involved before? Too inclined to lose the head IMHO)
Mattie Kenny (After 2013, are they serious?)
Anthony Cunningham (What's he going to do that's different?)
Johnny Keane (May depend on U-21s progress - not gone on Keady's involvement BTW. May also be be too identified with Portumna for other club's liking)

A contest for the post is probably no harm but there isn't too much inspiration in that list. Nominators should probably think outside the box (county) a bit.

Cunningham the best of that bunch.

No point replacing him unless there's someone better to replace him with.

donnem33 · 08-08-2014 10:59PM

djPSB wrote: »

Cunningham the best of that bunch.

No point replacing him unless there's someone better to replace him with.

apparently westmeath footballers are looking for him now aswell

aidan24326 · 08-08-2014 11:37PM

djPSB wrote: »

Cunningham the best of that bunch.

No point replacing him unless there's someone better to replace him with.

Agreed.

As much as I'd like to see Cunningham replaced, the candidates nominated so far would hardly be much of an improvement. We're going nowhere if that's the best they can do.

Worthwent14 · 09-08-2014 12:08AM

Sure give cunningham the football job and mulholland the hurling job and we'll all be happy fresh faces in both camps

windy shepard henderson · 09-08-2014 04:10PM

Worthwent14 wrote: »

Sure give cunningham the football job and mulholland the hurling job and we'll all be happy fresh faces in both camps

i acutaly always taught that cunningham was a better candidate for the galway football job (better then mullholland in my opinion) for his work with garrycastle

09-08-2014 08:01PM

Ya know the irony of that is the hurlers are struggling in attack and the footballers are struggling in defence so the switch could reap rewards

Looking like we won't get a change in the hurling, and if so not very inspiring alternatives.
Sad state of affairs to see D2 Limerick make back to back semi finals compared to our two in nine years.
It's a poor championship and a indictment on our set up to see year after year pass with little change in fortunes.
No doubt Tipp will go close even though we should have hammered them.

So it's left to the footballers to bring brighter days next year, hopefully we see something more positive develop there.

I said · 10-08-2014 07:03PM

Is john Allen available for the job a fine tactician,the players are there a bit of nous is what's needed

Diabhal Beag · 11-08-2014 06:20PM

Meehan was playing for Caltra when they lost to S/K at the weekend and apparently had a great game.

h2005 · 11-08-2014 08:25PM

Diabhal Beag wrote: »

Meehan was playing for Caltra when they lost to S/K at the weekend and apparently had a great game.

Great news. Hope he came through it ok.

I said · 16-08-2014 11:43AM

Any word on hurling manager, Anthony Daly is getting a mention on the rumour mill

Diabhal Beag · 17-08-2014 07:08AM

Best of luck to the minors against Limerick today. Hope there's a decent amount of us there today.

Kkboy · 17-08-2014 12:03PM

I said wrote: »

Any word on hurling manager, Anthony Daly is getting a mention on the rumour mill

Doesn't sound like a match made in heaven to me

17-08-2014 01:43PM

Shocking so far...can't be giving up near a point a minute.

jacko · 17-08-2014 01:49PM

Yea, poor from galway, limerick way stronger.

17-08-2014 01:55PM

What an embarrassment
Don't think one player has even caught a ball yet.
Having no provincial makes no difference here, the standard the past few years points to much deeper problems in development of key skills.

17-08-2014 02:06PM

Don't want to be picking players out but the lad at 7 is the worst player I've seen in a while.
He hasn't done anything yet and the writing was on the wall for Limericks 3rd or 4th point when being the closest man to the break he stood there and let the CB try to make a diving interception for the ball that ended up going over.

To go the other way, the best player on the pitch is probably Whelan....

jacko · 17-08-2014 02:08PM

Limerick have an actual game plan. Hitting in low ball to fwds, fwds moving into space. I'm struggling to see what galway are trying.

Galway are well off the pace and miles behind on tactical play. If we continue with such a terrible manager as Mattie Murphy we will never progress. We've won many minor all Ireland's on the basis of having strong individual players and getting straight into semis, nothing at all to do with decisions on the sideline or tactics. Its so blatently obvious that other teams are investing in underage and are getting left behind. Get rid of the clowns on the sideline.

donnem33 · 17-08-2014 02:10PM

jacko wrote: »

Limerick have an actual game plan. Hitting in low ball to fwds, fwds moving into space. I'm struggling to see what galway are trying.

Galway are well off the pace and miles behind on tactical play. If we continue with such a terrible manager as Mattie Murphy we will never progress. We've won many minor all Ireland's on the basis of having strong individual players and getting straight into semis, nothing at all to do with decisions on the sideline or tactics. Its so blatently obvious that other teams are investing in underage and are getting left behind. Get rid of the clowns on the sideline.

They get into the quarters every year actually!!! There is also a very strong wind. This is a serious good strong well drilled limerick minor team aswell. I dont agree with you that it was just strong individual players when they won all ireland minors in the past...they were unbelievable teams!!

17-08-2014 02:11PM

gilberto_eire wrote: »

What an embarrassment
Don't think one player has even caught a ball yet.
Having no provincial makes no difference here, the standard the past few years points to much deeper problems in development of key skills.

100% agree. The last 3 years the minor teams have been diabolical. They are doing their best and hate to be giving any grief to minor players but this performance highlights the fact that we are falling further and further behind. To concede 20 points before half time is an embarrassment.

jacko · 17-08-2014 02:13PM

donnem33 wrote: »

They get into the quarters every year actually!!! There is also a very strong wind. This is a serious good strong well drilled limerick minor team aswell. I dont agree with you that it was just strong individual players when they won all ireland minors in the past...they were unbelievable teams!!

I think you've already pointed out the problem there, limerick are well drilled, why can't Galway be too??

donnem33 · 17-08-2014 02:15PM

jacko wrote: »

I think you've already pointed out the problem there, limerick are well drilled, why can't Galway be too??

This is their fifth match. They have seen their players react to pressurised situations!!This is galways first meaningful match as such this year. its time the provincials were scraped and an open draw put in place.in that way all teams will be equal

17-08-2014 02:21PM

Oh sweet lord....

For the second time in a few years we've brought on a sub in a big game in Croker and he's been wearing an old jersey.

Whatever someone thinks about my
previous comment involving the performance being an embarassment, having lads playing on TV not even kitted out in the current gear IS an embarassment.

Thats twice in less than 5 years when I never saw it from any other county.
The jersey is gone since 2011

17-08-2014 02:44PM

Two points in the last 20+ mins... Nice to see they went down with a fight.

donnem33 · 17-08-2014 02:50PM

one of my worst days ever watching a galway team in croke park. regretting coming today. hopefully the senior match next will be exciting!

mattie murphy has been a tremendous servant to galway hurling, but i think he should stand aside now and let someone else take over.

in saying that the result today is not too much of a surprise. that limerick team hammered galway in u16 level 2 years ago and they are highly fancied from the beginning of the year to go all the way

Kkboy · 17-08-2014 02:50PM

Galway have to come into Leinster now, current system doesn't make sense

donnem33 · 17-08-2014 02:52PM

Kkboy wrote: »

Galway have to come into Leinster now, current system doesn't make sense

im not sure they would be welcome in leinster! they need to push for an open draw imo

17-08-2014 02:53PM

First of all fair play to Limerick, the look to have got their act together at under-age level and there is real potential in that team.

However, from a Galway viewpoint, I think that is the worst Galway performance in any code in Croke Park in a long long time.

Massive re-evaluation needed as to where Galway hurling is at. If Tipp win today, we can go on deluding ourselves that we went out to the two All-Ireland finalists and aren't a million miles away but the reality is Galway is slipping further and further off the pace at all levels from underage up in the last few years.

Until we address this issue it'll be a very barren few years. It'll probably be another few years before we face reality by which stage we'll have slipped even further off the pace.

nootroc · 17-08-2014 02:53PM

Thought some of the Leinster counties vetoed the move at underage.

Sould we have a Galway Colleges team?

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