Galway GAA Discussion Thread #2

Plenty a Mayo person stood on the top of Croagh Patrick and followed the road to Galway.

Thinking we need mc daid in midfield rather than hb for his power and athleticism to break through the lines of mayo defence and create scores for others.

All being well would like to see mc hugh in for burke from team named with mc hugh slotting into hb line mc daid and Maher in midfield with Conroy pushing forward to hf line at expense of burke and play Walsh and comer in ff line.

Mc hugh is hugely important to us in sitting back in that double sweeper with Daly in front of fb line. Whilst hernon was good against Westmeath and had difficult day out against Armagh I would worry whether he has played enough times for us in this setup to be comfortable in knowing the job for Sunday .

Win here will give great confidence for us going into q final irrespective of who were drawn against.

I might save you a clamp and an hour on your return home. If you park in Tesco Knocknacarra it's the slighty shorter walk to Pearse Stadium with no risk of a clamp. Then after you get back to the car go to Oldfield/Clybaun Road and straight up to Bushy Park Lawns it'll bring you to opposite Glenlo Abbey. Turn right there and you've beat an hour worth of tailback.

First come

**** me we make some hard work of games where we dominate.

Experienced lads like GMac overplaying the ball to give away a soft goal.

18 wides.

Lot of work to do in the next 2 weeks to be competitive with Limerick.

The double dream is still alive too 😁

Good result with a lot of improvement there but can't fault the lads work ethic. Shefflin also made good substitutions when needed. Monaghan steadied the ship off the bench after a few bad performances.

Jesus though Eanna Murphy is on a woeful run of form.

Murphy? Why? One bad puckout to Callinan apart, I can't recall him doing too much wrong. Varied his restarts quite well. Goal was GMacs fault, his age-old habit of carrying the ball into contact and getting dispossessed.

Tactically, at last we were spot-on. I doubt Cathal crossed the half-way line twice in the match. Whelo MOTM? I thought Daithi was magnificent, was everywhere he had to be and where he was needed. Popped up with a point too. Absolute legend.

Have to agree re whelo for motm. Was such a poor game that difficult to pick out anyone for motm. He didn't get a touch on the ball in first 20 mins and whilst won lot of balls between that and ht against barett he fluffed a lot of the possessions.Apart from the goal at start of 2nd half he didn't have huge influence on rest of half by the standards we have seen from him over the years. Kevin Cooney battled well at 14 and won a huge amount of ball. Very disappointed in Brian concannon and hasn't fired much this season. Move out to hf line doesn't suit his game but Cooney is a better foil for whelan inside. Cianan fahy battled very well when consider he was up against Ronan Maher. Be interesting how we setup against limerick as they won't allow cathal mannion the freedom he got yesterday and will try pick our defence apart. Grealish and Morrissey in the corners had great games and won their battles against tipp forwards.

The defence was good yesterday but I don't know how they picked anyone from the forwards as MOTM. It was a poor display of finishing. Whelan missed two goal chances and a tap over point, Fahy missed a sitter, Cooney and Niland had some bad wides. We still had the same gameplan of either pumping it long or going for long range scores. We missed more long range than we scored and the long ball worked only because Tipp were absolutely dreadful. The same tactics against Limerick and we'll get destroyed.

The one thing we did very well yesterday was our off the shoulder support play and popping a quick hand pass. It was very slick but unfortunately it was inevitably followed by a speculative shot on goal when a low ball in front of any of our forwards would have left Tipp at 6's and 7's.

Cathal Mannion did well sweeping but I don't think he sweeps deep enough to cover in front of Gillane so that pass will still be on. GMAC will need to pick up Flanagan which will mean he gets pulled out of the FF position. I think Grealish is tenacious enough to give Gillane bother but Cathal will need to be close at hand.

Free ticket if anyone stuck pm me.

I just cannot see what Ian Burke brings to that team, flatters to deceive, when I saw Comer wasn't starting second half I knew we were up against it

No Comer, no chance. Galway couldve won that if they scored a bit more in to the first half but Comer looked out for next week. Not a hope they'd win without him next week.

Two bad teams. Time to sell salthill and play football in tuam and hurling in ballinasloe. That wind only skewers results.