Galway GAA Discussion Thread #2

O'Neil out for the Armagh game because of his straight red which should now see us top the group. They're very limited without him.

A wins a win, but bygod the gbfm commentary is cruel bad or maybe it's just me, they kept getting the score wrong and called a goal another time I'll have to wait till I watch it somewhere to see what sort of match it was... Maher and comer seemed to have made the difference and Gleeson caught out twice, walshe is just missing his mojo, hope he finds it, not the same since his travels somehow

Game lacked intensity for me again.

Management made two moves before throw-in. Sweeney in for Comer (maybe to protect his knees/joints on a rock hard surface) and Hernon played full back to mark Heslin. Brave move and worked very well. Allowed Kelly to move half back and get up and down the pitch.

Full back line decent. McGrath great second half, Hernon great throughout, Glynn ok gave away some stupid ball in both halves.

Kelly great in the half back line along with John Daly who marshalled well defensively and pushing forward. McDaid quieter than usual.

Cooke had a great second half but it does take him time to get going. Done for taking to long over a side line and some general sloppiness in the first half. Conroy ok again but kicked away couple of stupid balls. Maher great when he came on. Pushed forward, Westmeath goaliw made a great save from him.

Tierney, Heaney did there usual of working very hard up and down the pitch. Sweeney again great for breaking lines.

Ian Burke great hands but got turned over on some stupid ball. Finnerty off injured. Shane was carrying his right ankle in the second half. Number of shots dropped short to the goalie. Eventually gave up long range frees to Tierney. Culhane was struggling but was sacrificed so Shane could play close to goal with less running when Maher came on.

Comer awesome. Could of got man of the match for a 20min cameo. 3 points, should of had another when he blasted wide rather than taking an easy mark.

Still need to step it up. Westmeath caused plenty of problems and Galway had some stupid turnovers. Red aside I felt Galway were just getting to the grips of the game. Some of the points conceded in the second half on the stand side were very soft where Westmeath got up the pitch with little pressure being applied ( a la Tyrone).

Winning. Controlled. Far from spectacular.

Not for the first time this season am I questioning what Daly is actually supposed to be doing. A superb footballer but Westmeath raided through the middle an awful lot many times this afternoon with no-one to stop them or hold up the point of the attack. It could actually yet happen going forward that we need McDaid no. 6 to add more dynamism (and physicality) to the position. Scores we conceded today were let in far too easily just like 2 weeks ago in Salthill.

Winning. Not a lot of control in spots IMO. Far from spectacular.

If they can get him off on appeal after kneeling on a fellas head plus throwing in a couple of rabbit punches for good measure then the gaa should just throw the suspension protocols in the bin. It's not as if the lad doesn't have form for doing the same thing repeatedly.

We had a lad got off for a stamp in the hurling last year

I don't agree with it either but the appeal system is an absolute joke. Armagh will use whatever powers of persuasion available, just like we did, and as per usual the ban will be dropped.

Daly is the heartbeat of the team, when he was injured, we did Jack sh*t, this year his asked to sit deeper and protect the d and stop the kicked through ball, so runners coming through from deep are someone else's responsibility, it seems to working, we have only conceded 1 goal since the league final, we haven't conceded more that 14 scores aswell

I heard similar last night. That's an absolutely sickening spin for us in comparison to Armagh fans. Can hardly call that a fair venue but at the same time at least they're giving non-Croker venues their day.

Wouldn't of been my first choice but something different. Capacity bit on the tight side.

The fact that tickets went on general sale at all means that it was all a lot of moaning over nothing.

Out of interest, when is the last time we sold out Pearse Stadium?

I know its always the way but we probably have a core of 5k who go to every game, another 5k who go to most games and yet if we get to the AI it'll be every man & his dog crying for a ticket.

Canning didn't mince his words in the post match analysis and it was hard to disagree with anything he said.

What did he say?

I think at half time he criticized the ball not going into the forwards a la what gillane gets for Limerick.