Roscommon GAA Discussion Thread

Derry got dirty towards the end of today’s game.....Galway won’t be doin them any favors me thinks...

Didn't see any of this game, a proper trimming for Derry, hopefully it'll put doubts in their head for next week.

I find it strange that you say 'Derry got dirty' - im not doubting it, but from the reports I read Paul Conroy was the first player to see red in that game yesterday.

I find it strange that many commentators still term Galway as 'pure football', an 'open team' who 'play the game the right way'. That might have been thw case once upon a time, but they have been every bit as cynical and full of the dark arts as anyone over the last 30 years, and I'd include St Pauric of Joyce in that, especially in the second half of his playing career.

I expect Galway will go all out to beat us next week - thay still have 4 weeks then to the Mayo game, and I think wi have a league final in Croke Park to experiment in or play any fringe players. They should want to keep us down, they have a good record against us in the last few years and I can't see them wanting to take the knee off of our neck.

Where did you see about the eye gouge - I saw no mention of that in the match reports anywhere?

ya done need to believe an annoymous post 2 mins of league Sunday will do it for ya on the player … that’s a lot less then it took ya to write your few anti galway posts above I’m sure . By the way meself and most galway people would have a soft spot for the rossies and we would certainly rather see them in division 1 then derry .

If ye can’t beat the Galway B team on Sunday then it’s time to .......have a good hard look at yer selves me thinks..

Good win and Div 1 next year

Good campaign, Connacht will be interesting this year

Very good campaign. Today was a good performance, very professional, had an open goal earlier but a cynical Rugby tackle denied Mckeon his goal. We're never in trouble in the second half, Galway added some consolation scores in Garbage time but I wouldn't worry about that TBH. Next week I wouldn't be worried about, a bit of a free hit, a run out in Croke Park but today was the main prize, a fourth promotion in four attempts.

This campaign, unbeaten, top of the table, but better than that an expanded squad, with the likes of McCormack, Hughes, Nolan, Mckeon, Henneghan, all featuring well and bedding in. Also, a good campaign from Harney who has had an injury free run for the first time in a long time. Squad looks stronger now with them lads going well, also the likes of Hussey and Ronan Daly coming back to fitness will leave the lads with options now.

Goalkeeping still an issue, really surprised other options weren't looked at or tried out.... AC and his team are the ones who see the guys in training obviously, but Lavin is a liability in this day and age, simply not good enough IMHO.

Not much to add after my post during the week:another good performance, professional, deserved winners, if a little closer this time. The Galway we were hearing about as all ireland contenders a fortnight ago, that had a half team when beaten last week, were beaten again despite having Conroy, Walsh and Comer all available. We seemed content to let Galway shoot from distance again and it was a dangerous plan, but we were disciplined, didn't give up either scorable frees or any goal chance (apart from an early one that Coneeley missed). We also created several goal chances, and generous refereeing prevented at least one penalty and several close frees/Black card challenges - Galway were really poor in the tackle, all arms and holding and it went largely unpunished.

Still plenty to work on, goalie still an issue for instance, but it's been a very good league.

Very good league campaign. Clare the most concerning performance. But conditions were atrocious. Like overall we knew we'd have to get results from Derry and Galway games to be promoted - only 2 of those were likely to go up. Now fixtures did help us on the first Galway result, but you still have to win it. And that was a good performance over local rivals.

Worrying is that it was a very open game, one for the football purists and that doesn't win championships. So ALOT of work still to be done.

I think we'd something like 5 or 6 weeks between croker and the trip to sligo that time. God remember being at that game and we completely misfired that day, despite having enough possession. It was after John Evans mis judged all Ireland comment.

Fair play.

I personally have no heed on hurling, but you'd have to have admiration for anyone in Roscommon who keeps hurling, there is no support resource or publicity wise. They do deserve lots of credit.

Poor performance.

Gotta say, we were very passive both in defence and attack. We didn't concede a scoreable free until the 68th minute, which to me is indicative of our soft tackling and lack of aggression. We gave huge freedom to Galway players in possession, especially their #9 whose name escapes me, Shane Walsh and Finnerty, who again er made look like an All Star...... Mark my words he'll not play as well for the rest of the year. Walsh is especially annoying, a brilliant player, but he was unmarked throughout, Heneghan was the closest thing to a marker for most of the first half.

Attack was poor, took the safe option too often, didn't pop the passes and engage the defenders, ended up playing outside the Galway screen and missed several scoreable chances when the game was there before half time.

A couple of strange selections, Heneghan off at half time, and McCormack not featuring at all. Two of our better league performers, Heneghan featured well in the first half as well,Murray left on Finnerty for all bar the last 5 or so minutes when the damage was done.