Galway GAA Discussion Thread #2

bcklschaps wrote: »

Fairly decent performance from the footballers yesterday. They struggled to cope with Roscommon's packed defense and quick counter attacking (in the 1st half) but got to grips with it in 2nd. Great performances from the two Kelly's & Matthew Tierney. PJ needs to be praised for bringing these lads through.

Honourable mentions to Damien Comer, Kieren Molloy & Peter Cooke, who all really took the fight to the Rossies. That result was a tonic and they will have a 50:50 chance now against Mayo (apologies to Leitrim).

Worrying injury to Shane Walsh who was clearly not 100% right from the start. Paul Conroy was worryingly invisible too... and needs to get more involved.

Think there was 7k at it last Saturday.

Tickets only through the clubs?

500 afaik

When are both teams due to be announced ?

Squad tested again today. We'll have to wait and see.

Galway (All-Ireland SHC v Waterford): Darach Fahy; Shane Cooney, Gearoid McInerney, Darren Morrissey; Padraic Mannion, Daithi Burke, Aidan Harte; Sean Loftus, Cathal Mannion; Joseph Cooney, Conor Whelan, Conor Cooney; Sean Linnane, Joe Canning, Brian Concannon.

Subs: Mark Fahy, Jack Fitzpatrick, TJ Brennan, Adrian Tuohy, Fintan Burke, David Burke, Johnny Coen, Niall Burke, Evan Niland, Jason Flynn, Kevin Cooney.

So only Eanna ends up being affected. Still unsettling for the team. And with the modern game a lot of effort goes into the restarts so it's not ideal. Surprised with Fintan dropping out but I'm guessing O'Neil is factoring in Waterford playing with 7 defenders and using Harte as the spare man to cover in front of GMac.

Some serious geniuses at County Board forcing out O’Donoghue, second most successful Galway manager of all time. Two embarrassing Championship displays this year.

Shane O’Neill needs a miracle to save his position. When he said pre game Galway got a lot right versus Dublin, I was close to backing Waterford. Fine with not criticising individuals of course in public but suggesting anything well against Dublin is delusional.

MOD was losing these lads anyways in 2019. This slide we're going to continue going down started against Carlow in Feb 2019. The players are just not at the level they were in 2017 and most of 2018. Very few serious counties would keep giving lads like Conor Cooney starting spots when they're out of form for 4 years. Our captain hasn't had a good championship outing since 2018 FFS.

The management are poor but the panel is just not mentally up to it. It's going to be a tough few years.

You might well be right but it was still foolish to force O'Donoghue out. In his last three years we lost two games in championship. Lost four in the two years since his departure.

Will there be a clear out of players on the panel especially given the recent underage success

That will depend entirely on whether there's a new manager this time next year or not. I think O'Neill has been found wanting tactically. Its been quite obvious how to get the best out of this team yet we keep chopping and changing styles. 2 players who have never produced a single good performance in a Galway jersey given starting berths in a knockout game yesterday and others who have produced left sitting on the bench. I think his time is up but there's not a lot of high quality managers knocking about either.

Eddie Brennan would be a good shout but he's probably sick of sh1te county boards after Laois.

Cooke really poor so far. Not closing down players or getting in tackles. Two scores direct from his lazy approach