Galway GAA Discussion Thread #2

Not the first Galway person I've heard in the last hour say that they're two bad teams.

Funny seeing as many Galway supporters were bigging them up all year as having a great shot at winning the All-Ireland.

In actuality there is very little between the two teams. Galway won by a point last year despite Mayo missing 6 starters and Mayo won by two points this year despite Galway's numerous injuries.

They're two evenly matched sides who could beat any of the top counties on their day. Certainly not two bad teams.

Fully agree about Salthill but I'd build a new stadium in Athenry for both football and hurling. It's the perfect location in terms of motorway infrastructure.

There must be 6 to 8 acres in the stadium overall. Its worth a fortune. We don't need 2 stadiums though. One really good one in athenry and some funds put in to Tuam and Ballinasloe is the way they should go. At this stage the players in both codes should push to get the hell out of Salthill. Makes every home game a lottery. Thats before you take the traffic nightmare into account.

Bad result and dreadful performance, some of the chances missed in the first half were unforgivable. Not sure what's wrong with Walsh, his free kicking has gone to pot, the simple free in front of goal in the first half, how did he miss that?. Mayo not any better, won the game in the first ten minutes of the second half and didn't do much after that, hard to see them do much , definitely won't be winning an All Ireland. On that showing and last week Galway are better off out of it, we weren't going anywhere this year.

My hole we got to an AI with a lot of things going our way last year. Whoever gets Mayo in the next round won’t be too worried.

You seem very reluctant to give Shefflin any credit at all threeball. He might not be your cup of tea and that’s fair enough but he completely outwitted Cahill tactically yesterday and ensured the game was played on Galway’s terms.

It wasn’t Henry’s fault that Tipp were still in the game right up to the final whistle, the players should have ensured Galway were out of sight a lot earlier.

Most of the analysts are putting yesterday’s result down to a poor Tipp performance but I think that’s not giving enough credit to Galway and Shefflin.

He didn't tactically outwit anyone. He played the same way we've played against every other team except this Tipp team wasn't equipped to deal with it. He'll do the same against Limerick and we'll get wiped out. Tell me how any of our forwards are going to get change out of that Limerick back six lumping ball in on top of them. Its u13 level stuff. Just look at our results. Who have we beaten in league or championship except for teams that are no hopers.

And Tipp were septic. As bad as I've ever seen them and that's saying something after the waterford game.

To be fair I kind of half agree with you .they are 2 teams that are capable of more but rarely put on a display that puts fear into other teams. 100 percent agree on salt hill . It was impossible to score against the wind or what ever whirl it was throwing up today .

No complaints about the result. Mayo were the better team and we had plenty of chances to win it in the second half.

The talk of squad depth was clearly premature as PJ clearly doesn't trust Finnerty or Culhane. We don't have any forwards left then off the bench that have a notion of being intercounty standard.

Lot of talk afterwards about Kelly getting a stamp by O'Donoghue. I think in any top level sport you'll do what it takes to get an advantage. Was it dirty? yep. Would I do the same if I knew the opposition's best goal creator was carrying an injury? Absolutely.

Ian Burke never found his form this season, the injury during the league definitely didnt help.

With comer off the field we have no forward who can win primary possession or some dirty ball. Was evident during league game at home to Roscommon when he went off and was more of same today. Comers injury record is for discussion on another day. Whilst we have deeper squad there was nobody off the bench that you felt would make an impact or turn the game in our direction.

Serious questions need be asked how after winning the toss that we didn't elect to play against the wind in first half. Would allow us sit back and put pressure on mayo to see if they could build up a score with the wind and know what needed be done in 2nd half with gale behind us. This would have also gone some way to nullify the impact of mayos socring forwards like o Connor who we knew were going to come in last 20 mins .

Playing against the wind in first half has been blueprint for successes in Pearse over last number of years.

It surely has to be acted on. Ref missed it cameras picked it up.....if a ban doesn't follow for that what message is being sent out

O Donoghue was roaring back in John Maher's face at the final whistle too. Scut.

I dont think Tuam should get the games. They should downsize and go for quality. Picking up league games and club games. It'd be great regular business for the town.

No the CB are full square behind Pearse. They think it promotes GAA in the city. There's no evidence to suggest it does. It was a pet project of Joe McDonagh but was never the right decision and has never been seen as home by either football or hurling supporters. 90% detest the place. There would be a ghra for it from places west of the city.

But what's the point of debate here? Location or wind? Location, wrong, definitely, cross-city traffic will attest to that. Any other place in county Galway that the game would be played in, (or Castlebar for that matter), the wind factor would be just the same.