Galway GAA Discussion Thread #2

I mentioned power for competition, obviously if Flaherty is back from injury he will be in goal and after that who is there.

Whats the sub goalie like yesterday

I've no issue with people praising Joyce but that last sentence just isn't accurate at all. You could made apply it to where Galway were when Kevin Walsh got the job but when he left Galway were a Division 1 team with a solid squad and the promise of a few really good young lads coming through. Plenty of people would have gone for the job but once Joyce put his hand up you weren't going to get people running against him.

Not a Galway man but delighted ye won that game yesterday.

Really enjoy watching Galway, ye have 6 top class forwards. I always feel the northern teams are overrated. When ye started to dominate the game and pull away yesterday Armagh resorted to cynical stuff to halt yere flow. I felt that and lapses in concentration from ye allowed them back into it. Ye were 5 or 6 points the better team yesterday.

I hope for the sake of football ye beat Derry and beat them well. I think ye will. Derry came through a poor Ulster Championship and haven't met any team with anything like yere firepower. They have only 2 quality forwards themselves and are dangerous with rapid pace attacking on the counter or from turnovers put there half backs are going to have to concentrate on defending against ye.

I hope that Rory Ball isn't successful or you will have every average club team attempting it. I think they will get found out against ye.

If you look at his kickouts, 50% went less than 10m. My 4yr old would have kicked them, so his stats are boosted there and 2 of them nearly put us in serious bother. When he went long we dominated which I thought we would and said as much in a post last week. There was tons of pockets of space to hit a forward that decided to make a run but knew it was pointless as the goalies decision takes too long.

Derry will be a different story. Kick those aimless lumps down onto Conor Glass and he'll clean us out. We need to perfect the short one in the next two weeks and draw them out. They're in serious bother if we can get away on a short one and attack with pace. Theres so much hinging on that position in the next game I don't see how he mentally copes with it. High balls and short kickouts, every day for 2 weeks.

Having slept on it, I think we are in a much better place today after yesterday's game and how it unfolded. Our failings are still our failings, which are known. Been unable to get kick-offs away and having to go long, a defensive system that is still bedding in and our inability to close out games (or stopping doing what we're good at to try to manage the game and failing)

However, there are some real positives. Firstly, I think many of us though we were done when Armagh scored the 3rd goal in extra time. To come up the field and score one ourselves and then kick the equaliser with a minute to go shows a courage and ability to execute under pressure than we have not seen since 2001.

Also as said a number of our players stepped up and delivered outside of the main men. McDaid, Finnerty, Daly were massive.

Also given the results, we won't go in as favourites but we beat Derry well in the League up there so won't fear them. And we should be ready for the long ball in as well since we should expect to see it as a tactic from Derry.

Hopefully the manner of the win and the resilience shown will stand to them the next day. Let's just be 7 or 8 points with a few minutes to go and should see us through :)

I need no hesitation to give out about our support, it's been horrendously bad at times over the years and we way over index on "let it in to fck" dinosaurs who don't help anyone.

Whoever I thought there was plenty of us there yesterday for once? Well over 10k if I was guessing, I thought we had nearly as many as Mayo for once. Obviously there was any amount of Armagh there who overshadowed everyone, aided by such a bright colour which adds loads. Maroon must be second only to grey for fading into the background. Even in the All Ireland finals v Kilkenny when we had 70% of the stadium, the colour was dull and camouflaged

Getting Clare as an opponent was of little addition to Derry.

Nobody knows where they stand

The short ones are the ones we were missing though. Mayo we won 60% of our kickouts and Roscommon 62%. For the last 10 minutes of both games we kept going long, kept losing and inviting more pressure on. Getting those short kicks away are instrumental when trying to see out a close game. For the first time yesterday it worked. Get it short, couple of handpasses your away or invariably an attacker fouls. Takes mountains of pressure off.

I agree with the mid range kicks. No idea why. Sometimes a Galway player would be in arces of space and you'd swear Gleeson is looking straight at them but fails to pull the trigger.

I don't mind if Derry think the Garryowen long high ball is something to go after. Its not a forwards ball and I'd be happy enough they'd be dealt with better the next day out.

The only player they could even contemplate banning is Cathal Sweeney who may* have thrown a punch at the gouger after it happened. Nobody else did anything egregious, the main fighting was Glynn on the ground but he was dragged down from behind by an Armagh sub. Sean Kelly is a certainty to get off his ban, they can't get proper offences to stick, never mind a lad sent off for walking around trying to play peacekeeper. Sweeney being a sub would be better to have but not the biggest loss

I suppose take off the maroon glasses and the whole event is unsavoury. And it takes two to tango. Now they can't /won't ban players I think. Coaching staff may get the stand, I think anyone outside match day 24 + a small number will be allowed in to pitch side. I think a hefty fine for Galway County board. I wouldn't be surprised if Derry in the hogan and Galway in the cussack.

But you just don't know, they could target players too. I hope they don't tbh, cos it unfairly effects Galway and I'd see armagh more to blame. But these investigations are unpredictable especially in the GAA.

And then any players could get off on technicalities, as this will be quiet rushed.

Sorry what?

Do you expect them to just stand there and take digs? The Armagh sub coming out of nowhere to wrestle a starting Galway player to the ground, who wasn't at that point involved in any handbags, knew exactly what he was doing - trying to get a reaction to get a lad sent off. That's who Armagh are, not the biggest fan of Colm O'Rourke but he's right, the one common denominator in the brawls this season has been lads wearing an orange jersey.

If there are suspensions dished out then Comer could be the one to suffer. According to The Sunday Game he started the melee so he could be in the firing line.

Sean Kelly is safe enough, he didn't do a thing wrong.

Don’t think so, think Comer got the first ‘joule’.