Galway GAA Discussion Thread #2

Forward line have been pathetic

Won't say too much as I'm Hyper after thar s***e but fair play to Shefflin. Subs changed the game. Once they worked out Dublin they came thundering into was just a question if they could reel them in. Leinster Final so job done.

Absolutely. Dublin did the same thing in 2021 and we folded like a house of cards. Good resilience shown against Kilkenny and Dublin.

To gift two goals, miss a penalty and salvage a draw is no bad thing.

I had them written off at HT and they still nearly won it. In big trouble Sunday week though you'd have to think.

The most worrying thing about yesterday was, first half performance. daithi mentioned in his man of the match speech that some players weren't pushing up and others were, lack of communication. whelan's form, his off the boil need to make concannon the focal point and move whelan out to 10 or 11. Shefflin needs to realise that when conor cooney is not on it, he won't hurl himself into the game and needs to be taken off asap. we need to move on from him really. penalty taker is required. Monaghan needs to wieght up his options better some of his shooting was erratic to say the least.

Positives from yesterday. we will never be as bad again. showed great heart to get back into it. Joseph cooney and Daithi hurling very well. Morrisey and grealish are our corner backs. Shefflin was not a happy camper on his galway bay interview so i hope for a big response from them.

What are you watching? Cathal Mannion didn't play yesterday, he's injured. Padriac Mannion was collosal against Wexford when the chips were down and good v Kilkenny. Have you looked at Whelan's scoring figures so far in Leinster? Galway not going great but those aren't the places to be pointing the blame.

I'd somewhat agree on Conor Cooney, albiet he scored 7 from play v weak opposition last week. He needs to be whipped off sooner on obvious non going days

Forgive the apostrophe if it’s hard for you to distinguish the two. Padraic was who I was on about We weren’t playing Wexford or KK yesterday. He was finger pointing when he should have grabbed that game by the neck yesterday. Whelans figures are impressive but against who in the greater scheme of things. As the yanks say he’s looking like a flat track bully. Cooney might lord it in the league in Galway but not up to inter county this last 3 yrs. on that show yesterday Waterford would have beat us up a stick. Flattering to deceive again. As was said early we surprise ourselves with one decent performance but the usual will prevail. KK will beat us in Leinster final and we loose gallantly to limerick in the semi after looking like world beaters against tipp if those are the cards that fall. Knuckle down and win Leinster is what I want it’s two games to an AI final that way and who knows then.

First off on yesterday. Galway needed a decent start but managed to hit three wides into a tough breeze. Back foot straight away.

The two goals you won't see happen again in years let alone weeks.

Penalties are an issue. From inter-county and club Niland and Kevin Cooney have missed a few while Conor Cooney has converted for Thomas's. Time to let Eanna come up and just smash it?? Only other option is P. Mannion.

System mal function rather than individual performances were the issues for me. As Daithí Burke said afterwards the half backs weren't pushing up and the half forward line weren't dropping deep enough to cover the Dublin half forward line dropping into midfield. P. Mannion on a number of occasions berated the half forward line for not dropping deep. Took 26mins for this to be sorted. Embarrassingly long from both players and management.

Once they did it was all down to whether Galway have enough time to reel them in. Just about.

GMac dogged at 3. Was turned once and decided on giving up the free. Other than that got the ball on the ground and used his "physique" to out muscle Dublin. TJ Brennan had a bad day with the pass for the goal putting Galway in serious bother. Morrissey solid throughout (outside the silly foul for 3 times) Jack Grealish huge improvement.

Daithí immense second half. P Mannion solid second half. Moved onto Donal Burke and used the ball well coming forward. F. Burke never got into it. Linnane was a serious addition.

Joseph Cooney great throughout but a couple of hail Marys (who didn't) Monaghan good with the bad, again a few bad wides.

Glennon (point aside) not in it and too many errors. Niland one bad miss from a free otherwise solid (chipping away every game with scores from play)

Conor Cooney like TJ poor day topped of by penalty miss.

Kevin Cooney along with his brother took the battle to Dublin in the first half when few did. 3 points and 3 frees won was productive but again some stupid wides.

Not sure can much blame go on full forward line. Maybe McLoughlin. Proper ball went into him in the first half but he was out muscled pretty easily. Whelan first touch was 22mins into the game and it wasn't as if he had lost a ball just it was a game that was being shot from between the two 65s.

Concannon, Flynn (credit where it is due) help turn the tide and management can take some solace in the effectiveness of the subs.

I predicted we would win Leinster at the start if the year and still feel thats the case. Obviously a performance like yesterday and its curtains. Still have faith but it might be time to bite the bullet with a few. Concannon will start if fit. Hard to know with C. Mannion be back.

Subs that came on should be pushing hard for starts now so training should be intense.

McHugh a big loss. Good opportunity for Hernon all the same. Surprised Maher is not starting and another shooter in Finnerty added.

Great to see Mulkerrin on the bench. It's been a long road for him.

Came off v. Tyrone with tight hamstring it was said. Probably just playing safe by not starting him. Otherwise, it's nearly our strongest line-up, attack-wise anyway I think. Presumably Walsh and Comer will interchange at will.

I've a feeling the Armagh vs Westmeath result put a bit of a spanner in the works in giving a few lads a run to see where we are. Probably going all out now to win the three and get the little break that comes with it.

But as you pointed out a win tomorrow and then a loss might stretch us with the number of games to plat especially if we pick up any injuries. A one point win and no injuries would be enough tomorrow for me.

We still need to finish top so we can't necessarily be starting the weaker members of the panel like Conneely and Paul Kelly just yet. If Tyrone win tomorrow and we get the job done we'll be in a safer position come final game of the group to rest lads.

Safer not safe. But if they had 4 points going into the Armagh match then you'd hope some fringe players make the most of an opportunity to fight into the starting 15. There's still 4 or 5 spots for the taking yet.

What happened to Finnerty? Saw he went off injured hopefully not serious....

Sounds like we are struggling a bit

Hopefully it isn't too serious he's had a bit of trouble with ankle injuries before I think