Galway GAA discussion thread

TCDStudent1 · 17-08-2015 10:46PM

MfMan wrote: »

In fairness it was only the Keady thing in '89 that engendered the bitterness, and many in Galway still don't realise that Tipp voted pro-Keady in the ballot and that 3/5 counties in Connacht voted contra- (backstabbing surrender monkeys).

Don't like bad feeling between fans; there's always an odd comment thrown but the banter between rival supporters, especially on the day of a big match, adds greatly to the occasion, and is part of the GAA ethos IMHO.

I think it was 4 Connacht counties that voted against Galway. They talked about it recently on "Off the Ball" with Farrell & Keady and thought they said 4. I was shocked when I heard it!

Hulk Hands · 17-08-2015 10:52PM

TCDStudent1 wrote: »

I think it was 4 Connacht counties that voted against Galway. They talked about it recently on "Off the Ball" with Farrell & Keady and thought they said 4. I was shocked when I heard it!

I was amazed by that also. Are we to presume that it was the 4 Irish based counties? Presumably. It's crazy because Galway weren't even overly strong at football at the time and none of them bar Roscommon could even field a hurling team. Really small time stuff against the one county that had actually represented Connacht and the west with credit up to that point. Hard to feel sorry for all their poor success rate at both codes if thats the case

MfMan · 17-08-2015 11:55PM

TCDStudent1 wrote: »

I think it was 4 Connacht counties that voted against Galway. They talked about it recently on "Off the Ball" with Farrell & Keady and thought they said 4. I was shocked when I heard it!

If I remember properly, Mayo stood with us.

TCDStudent1 · 18-08-2015 01:06AM

MfMan wrote: »

If I remember properly, Mayo stood with us.

Aw I'd like to have another reason to dislike Mayo!

I listened back to the piece on Off the Ball just now:

https://soundcloud.com/offtheball/the-tony-keady-affair

At 18 minutes, they say that 4 Connacht counties voted against them, but like somebody said above maybe that was 1 of the 'foreign' Connacht counties?

Farrell still sounds that little bit bitter about Connacht voting against him!

I said · 18-08-2015 01:13AM

TCDStudent1 wrote: »

Aw I'd like to have another reason to dislike Mayo!

I listened back to the piece on Off the Ball just now:

https://soundcloud.com/offtheball/the-tony-keady-affair

At 18 minutes, they say that 4 Connacht counties voted against them, but like somebody said above maybe that was 1 of the 'foreign' Connacht counties?

Farrell still sounds that little bit bitter about Connacht voting against him!

What does it matter now the narrow minded apes that voted against are probably all dead and would've voted against Croke park opening up for rugby.
The Sky deal would have been a big no as well,and the Backdoor system would definitely not be entertained.

LUHG · 19-08-2015 10:07PM

As a Cork man I really hope yee do it in Sep, huge fan of Joe Canning I travelled the country a couple of years back watching him play with my son and I think hes just incredible to watch, I really hope he produces in the final, that final pass to moloney on sunday was something else. David burke is also a real quality stickman and ive noticed every time he gets the ball he looks for Joe I wonder is he under instruction from the side-line to find Joe with the majority of possession he has
think Richie Hogan is the key man for Galway to stop his scoring from play needs to be limited to 2 pints maximum

T0001 · 19-08-2015 10:35PM

LUHG wrote: »

As a Cork man I really hope yee do it in Sep, huge fan of Joe Canning I travelled the country a couple of years back watching him play with my son and I think hes just incredible to watch, I really hope he produces in the final, that final pass to moloney on sunday was something else. David burke is also a real quality stickman and ive noticed every time he gets the ball he looks for Joe I wonder is he under instruction from the side-line to find Joe with the majority of possession he has
think Richie Hogan is the key man for Galway to stop his scoring from play needs to be limited to 2 pints maximum

Daithí Burke did a good job on Richie in the LF in the first half, but really should have followed him outfield in the 2nd. Thats when he caused the most damage.

Big Pussy Bonpensiero · 20-08-2015 06:12PM

Hear Galway County Board are only set to receive 7,000 tickets for the final. This despite having the minors and the seniors playing. I was under the impression that counties would normally get in the region of 15,000 playing in a senior final, i.e. without the minors. Any word if this is true or not? Apparently it was in the Advertiser.

donnem33 · 20-08-2015 06:15PM

THFC wrote: »

Hear Galway County Board are only set to receive 7,000 tickets for the final. This despite having the minors and the seniors playing. I was under the impression that counties would normally get in the region of 15,000 playing in a senior final, i.e. without the minors. Any word if this is true or not? Apparently it was in the Advertiser.

Galway got 12,000 tickets in 2012 with no minor team, so would have assumed it would be around 14,500 this time with the minors there also

I know every club in the country and corporate ppl have to get tickets but 7,000 seems very small

Also, it should be pointed out, a lot of counties would send back their tickets due to the price/no interest and these get forwarded on to the participating counties! Usually the last few days before the match.

Big Pussy Bonpensiero · 20-08-2015 06:24PM

Was thinking that myself, was thinking we'd get somewhere in the region of 18,000 tbh. Surely the 7,000 figure is wrong..

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http://www.advertiser.ie/galway/article/79068/rush-on-for-elusive-tickets-for-croker-showdown

Found a link. Surely 7,000 cannot be right.

thesamster · 20-08-2015 08:23PM

THFC wrote: »

Was thinking that myself, was thinking we'd get somewhere in the region of 18,000 tbh. Surely the 7,000 figure is wrong..

http://www.advertiser.ie/galway/article/79068/rush-on-for-elusive-tickets-for-croker-showdown

Found a link. Surely 7,000 cannot be right.

That's the way it is the AI is a national event for the GAA so tickets are send all over the country.

thesamster · 20-08-2015 08:25PM

thesamster wrote: »

That's the way it is the AI is a national event for the GAA so tickets are send all over the country.

Would have thought ye would get more .

Big Pussy Bonpensiero · 21-08-2015 09:24AM

thesamster wrote: »

That's the way it is the AI is a national event for the GAA so tickets are send all over the country.

AFAIR Donegal got in the region of 15,000 for last year's football final.

Edit: 16,000, and they were none to happy either. 7,000 is a joke, it has to be. Linky = http://donegalnews.com/2014/09/donegal-clubs-learn-all-ireland-final-ticket-allocation/

Big Pussy Bonpensiero · 21-08-2015 09:25AM

thesamster wrote: »

Would have thought ye would get more .

Also, why are you talking to yourself? 2 accounts or something?

threeball · 21-08-2015 09:33AM

THFC wrote: »

AFAIR Donegal got in the region of 15,000 for last year's football final.

Edit: 16,000, and they were none to happy either. 7,000 is a joke, it has to be. Linky = http://donegalnews.com/2014/09/donegal-clubs-learn-all-ireland-final-ticket-allocation/

Could it be a Typo and we're getting 17,000? Anything less would be an absolute shambles. There must have been 25-30,000 there last sunday alone.

danganabu · 21-08-2015 10:04AM

That's just the inital allocation, relax there will be plenty of tickets, I have yet to meet any genuine fan that failed to get a ticket to an AI, they will be plentiful in the week before.

Big Pussy Bonpensiero · 21-08-2015 11:12AM

danganabu wrote: »

That's just the inital allocation, relax there will be plenty of tickets, I have yet to meet any genuine fan that failed to get a ticket to an AI, they will be plentiful in the week before.

Don't worry about me, I've mine sorted. Just pointing out the fact that 7,000 Galway men in a stadium of 83,000 would be pitiful (and yes I do realise there'll be 4/5 times that number regardless). If the county board get that few tickets then touts this year will make a fortune.

thesamster · 21-08-2015 11:35AM

It's the same every year the week of the match tickets will become available. Every man women and child in Galway will want a ticket. There will be more than the 7 thousand available.

danganabu · 21-08-2015 12:44PM

THFC wrote: »

Don't worry about me, I've mine sorted. Just pointing out the fact that 7,000 Galway men in a stadium of 83,000 would be pitiful (and yes I do realise there'll be 4/5 times that number regardless). If the county board get that few tickets then touts this year will make a fortune.

Touts make money off people who panic, I remember in 2011, which was billed as the biggest hurling final in modern times after 20019 and 2010, this was to be the decider and the touts were selling €80 tickets outside 10 mins before throw in for €20.

brookville · 21-08-2015 10:31PM

Just a quick one when ye're on bout touts,where do they get their tickets?

gordongekko · 21-08-2015 10:44PM

MfMan wrote: »

If I remember properly, Mayo stood with us.

Fair play to that one lad whoever he was

donnem33 · 22-08-2015 11:14PM

Not long back from Thurles, disappointing but Limerick deservedly winning. Very physical game!!

The GAA really needs to overhall the u21 and indeed the minor championship. Limerick were battle hardened and visibly very psyched up for the game!

A lot of questions need to be asked of Johnny Kelly and his management. They had no clear game plan. They hadnt a clue how to counteract the sweeper or indeed how Galway should use their sweeper. How he allowed the goalkeeper to puck every puck out down either wing on dominant wingbacks and not try something different is beyond me...even just puck it straight down the centre for a change!!! He has lost semi finals in 2013,2014 and today - and to be frank we never looked like winning any of those matches. He is completely out of his depth at this level. I know he was part of the intermediates this year but imo its obvious Anthony Cunningham was running that show. Kelly had the intermediates for a few years aswelll and never did anything.time for him to go!!

The only positives from today is Paul Killeen at full back and Jason FLynn had great games.Jason, Cathal and Conor didnt get injured which is a positive too. Was disappointed with Cathal and Conors performance however.

T0001 · 22-08-2015 11:39PM

Agree overall. I think Cunningham should really still be U21 manager. I understand its time consuming to do both but the U21's like the intermediates are development squads. The intermediates had simialar tactics to the Seniors and they worked in harmony. The U21's tonight were totally void of an structure tonight and really was of no benefit to the seniors preparing for an AI final. I really felt sorry for our goalie, there was no real puck-out plan and everywhere he went Limerick dominated. But then you would wonder if you only have at most (barring replays) 2 games a year the motivation cant possibly be there.

22-08-2015 11:48PM

donnem33 wrote: »

The only positives from today is Paul Killeen at full back and Jason FLynn had great games.Jason, Cathal and Conor didnt get injured which is a positive too. Was disappointed with Cathal and Conors performance however.

I think the main problem was the senior players weren't great ball winners in the one v one sense.

Cathal can pick up breaks and Flynn can poach the odd ball but the team lacked an out and out ball winner.

That's been the massive change with the seniors this year.
You could count a fair number of lads who can field consistently: JC, Cyril, Glynn, Burke x 2, P.Mannion and then honourable mentions to Harte, Coen and Flynn.
That's really the difference in winning an AI and being the nearly men.
My abiding memory of the KK teams of the recent past are backs like Walsh catching balls and driving out.

I think its also what will harm Tan long term as he tries to bat too much which only gives the opp another 50/50 to win possession.

Catches are worth a lot more than a simple possession and at least senior wise you can count a fair spread across the team which bodes well for future success.

Not going to get overly down about today, winning an U21 or Minor draws about as much satisfaction as a provincial final.
I don't think we're too bad set senior wise in terms of future replacements to need anyone from this current u21 team, we at least have a few years window for the bulk with only Smyth having no immediate replacement.

galwaylad14 · 23-08-2015 12:02AM

Thought they were extremely poor this evening. Just seemed so flat and not up for the fight at all. Such a contrast to the seniors who are playing with such aggression and confidence.

The puckouts were just a disaster, couldnt catch one or win a break. I'd be putting a bit of blame on the keeper to be honest, he seemed to hit a few into areas that Limerick had more men. Now I'm not sure what plan was in place but surely if he's looking out the field he could have picked out areas where there was at least as many of our plays as Limerick players.

Having said that though our midfield and half forward line were pathetic, couldn't win the ball, couldn't link up together, couldn't score. Molloy did well in fairness in his free role drifiting around and Jason Flynn had a fine game.

Paul Killeen had a fine game at full back and I thought Shane Cooney was ok at 6. Aswell as Molloy and Flynn up front as I mentioned. No one else comes out of that with any credit.

You'd have to wonder is Johnnie Kelly suitable for that role. Like it is hard when you're going into a game cold against a team that's battle hardened but we always did fine up until he took over the role. We haven't looked like winning a game under his management.

T0001 · 23-08-2015 01:09AM

Shane Cooney has offered huge diversity for his future career both as a Centre Back and a goalie!! Made a great save near the end to deny Limerick when the goalie was off his line!!

Diabhal Beag · 23-08-2015 01:26AM

Bad result but there were some positives. Brian Molloy had a very good showing in addition to a fairly rocked looking Jason Flynn who managed to compose himself when he came back on. Big fan of somebody who can cut a sideline over the bar.

Out of everybody Paul Killeen looked super out there. Maybe too much to ask Cunningham to change that FB line for KK but next season he should be given a shot. Shane Cooney deserves some credit too. That goal that killed them was inexcusable defending though.

Big Pussy Bonpensiero · 23-08-2015 10:36AM

brookville wrote: »

Just a quick one when ye're on bout touts,where do they get their tickets?

The people who do it for a living seem to get them off residents from what I've heard. Although there's plenty of people who get them off clubs, príomh and companies that flog them to make a few bob.

donnem33 · 23-08-2015 12:55PM

galwaylad14 wrote: »

Thought they were extremely poor this evening. Just seemed so flat and not up for the fight at all. Such a contrast to the seniors who are playing with such aggression and confidence.

The puckouts were just a disaster, couldnt catch one or win a break. I'd be putting a bit of blame on the keeper to be honest, he seemed to hit a few into areas that Limerick had more men. Now I'm not sure what plan was in place but surely if he's looking out the field he could have picked out areas where there was at least as many of our plays as Limerick players.

Having said that though our midfield and half forward line were pathetic, couldn't win the ball, couldn't link up together, couldn't score. Molloy did well in fairness in his free role drifiting around and Jason Flynn had a fine game.

Paul Killeen had a fine game at full back and I thought Shane Cooney was ok at 6. Aswell as Molloy and Flynn up front as I mentioned. No one else comes out of that with any credit.

You'd have to wonder is Johnnie Kelly suitable for that role. Like it is hard when you're going into a game cold against a team that's battle hardened but we always did fine up until he took over the role. We haven't looked like winning a game under his management.

No he is just not up to it!! how he gets so many jobs is beyond comprehension!!! He cost Portumna the 3 in a row by getting rid of Dinny Cahill, wanting all the glory for himself - and it evident Cahill was the brains behind the hole operation back then!!

Hes done nothing with the u21s, no clear game plan, 3 v poor performances with what should have been good teams! He had the intermediates for a few years - it was Cunninghams involvement which had them playing like the seniors this year. A relatively strong NUIG Fitz team with big Clare involvement and did nothing with them either! Time for change! Dont want Keady involved either!!

galwaylad14 · 23-08-2015 01:59PM

donnem33 wrote: »

No he is just not up to it!! how he gets so many jobs is beyond comprehension!!! He cost Portumna the 3 in a row by getting rid of Dinny Cahill, wanting all the glory for himself - and it evident Cahill was the brains behind the hole operation back then!!

Hes done nothing with the u21s, no clear game plan, 3 v poor performances with what should have been good teams! He had the intermediates for a few years - it was Cunninghams involvement which had them playing like the seniors this year. A relatively strong NUIG Fitz team with big Clare involvement and did nothing with them either! Time for change! Dont want Keady involved either!!

I think he's made his name himself based on all he won with Portumna but in fairness my mother who wouldn't know one end of a hurl from the other would have been successful with them given the hurlers they had at the time.

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