Galway GAA Discussion Thread #2

SqueakyKneecap wrote:

Would ye agree with me that Adrian Faherty was the last very good Galway keeper? Needs to also be remembered he was on the worst panel in decades at the time too.

Faherty was excellent. Much like Donoghue before him. It's a pity both went to England and stalled progress. Both from Claregalway. Maybe young Flaherty is destined to be next Claregalway man to give it a go.

manofwisdom wrote: »

That was Alan Mulholland like awful defending by a Galway managed side. Someone else said here it was probably worse than the tripe under Kevin Walsh? at least under Walsh Galway was well organised in defence, hard to beat and even harder to score against as the 0-12,1-11,1-9,1-11,0-12,1-9,0-12 conceded in 7 of the 9 games that he managed against Mayo proved.

From a Mayo perspective I said early on that it had the air of an early season challenge game. Neither defense really put a glove on anyone. Neither side really covered runners,. Mayo had more to play for and when they got the run on ye they made hay for 20mins or so. SA and CG had woeful days at the office and quite how SA didn't get a card is beyond me. Mayo adapted better to having what would be considered first team regulars missing but Galway as a whole didn't bother turning up. RF aside they didn't seem tuned in.

manofwisdom wrote: »

That was Alan Mulholland like awful defending by a Galway managed side. Someone else said here it was probably worse than the tripe under Kevin Walsh? at least under Walsh Galway was well organised in defence, hard to beat and even harder to score against as the 0-12,1-11,1-9,1-11,0-12,1-9,0-12 conceded in 7 of the 9 games that he managed against Mayo proved.

We don't need to go back to them days. Yes we kept the score down but couldn't score for nuts on the other end. The defense was doing very well during the league as our scoring difference would show. Amazingly we still have a positive score difference even after a humiliation like yesterday.

The main problem is the 2nd string lads just aren't up to it. Put a good footballer like Kelly at FB yesterday and a lot of damage would be avoided, it would protect a dodgy keeper too. I was surprised how poor he was on that 3rd goal. That should be his forte as kickouts are obviously not but he fell down on both fronts.

Four of the back six that started were very weak and once Mayo got a run on them it went from bad to worse. SA was doing the same headless stuff he did against Tyrone in KW's final league game.

Galway V Dublin under 20's all ireland final has been pulled due to level 5 restrictions.

Very harsh on all involved

MfMan wrote: »

Harsh, but maybe Galway will be in a position to field a full-strength team if it does get played before year end.

I hope you're right. it's a big "if"

manofwisdom wrote: »

With U20 All Ireland now pulled it shows how daft it was to play last Saturdays semi-final when Galway and kerry were missing a number of players due to covid.

Sure it wasn’t daft at all............didn’t we bate them welll....

Utopia Parkway wrote: »

Heard that Galway would still have been missing a good few players had the game gone ahead on Saturday. Hopefully they can rearrange the final for some time in December and have everyone available. The fear obviously is that it's now never played.

Could we claim the title based on scoring difference over the 2 semi-finals - force majeure?

Galway team to play Dublin

1. B Power
2. S Kelly
3. S Ó Maolchiaráin
4. J Foley
5. L Silke
6. G O’Donnell
7. J Heaney (c)
8. C D’Arcy
9. T Flynn
10. P Kelly
11. P Conroy
12. J Leonard
13. R Finnerty
14. A Varley
15. I Burke

Happyilylost wrote: »

Closer to where we need to be. Foley had a great year. Hopefully can continue. Paul Kelly a bit random despite his obvious talent. Leonard and Burke lucky to hold their spots. Would liked to of seen Dessie get a chance. Even with the changes without Shane and Damo this will be a struggle.

Completely new from 1 - 4. Silke a bit lucky to hold on too, can't be living on his name / club form for much longer. I'd give Burke (just about) and Leonard (because he's new and deserves another go) a pass for this one. Being dropped might waken up Ml Daly, I'd say mgmt are starting to seriously look at what he *can't / won't * do. Is Eoin Finnerty on the panel? If Mayo can pick guys based on club form, we should too.

ShamNNspace wrote: »

Galway/Dublin pointless match now, no bearing on title or relegation

Galway badly need a reaction after last week so certainly not pointless for them.

Conroy got some excellent scored there. I'd fear we could be in bother against the wind but it's a step up from last weekend at least. Not that it would be too hard I suppose.

Anyone see what happened to flynn. Hopefully not a serious injury

Hard to see them holding on to get something out of it but at least it's a lot better than last week.

gilberto_eire wrote: »

That's what happens when you dont work on kickouts.

Dont be blaming the goalie. The manager should be implementing it and it's the players responsibility to open and enter the space.

Even the one before that, we won the ball but couldn't settle on the ball and lost a free in, it wouldn't have happened had a player got an easy ball in space.

It does my head in, it's the one aspect of the game you control, the team who won 5 in a row do it, yet two successive managers can't see how important it is.

Nothing to do with not working on kickouts.
Poor decision making and even poorer execution. The team who won five in a row don't get it right all the time either.
This nonsense about kickouts does my head in.