Galway United thread

Long balls, you're new to Caulfield are you?

2 man set pieces worked last season, no reason to change.

Last season we played a better brand but prior to that it was grim. JC is a conservative manager and will always fall back on hoofball when in doubt.

Great win and performance tonight. O'Sullivan was MoTM for me, he was superb, held it up, brought others into it, great runs, worked his arse off. Next week will be very tough and a completely different kind of game.

Can only think of two shots O'Sullivan had, the one on one that the keeper saved and the one he hit well but dragged just wide. Can't knock anything about his performance. We managed the game brilliantly, didn't need to bring on Francely as he doesn't offer as much in terms of game intelligence compared to those that did come on.

Agree with most. O'Sullivan was class but his finishing let him down. He had 2 chances that seemed easier to score than miss. Clarke and the back 4 were immense, particularly Brouder. Waterford have signed a lot of good players the last few weeks, it will be a tough one on Friday.

Should come close to a sell out.

Are GU supporters running buses to away matches?

Cheers. Dont suppose you could share the details, assuming its not top secret

Official website or the fans forum will have details.

I’ve never been on either, but it’s great to have the option of both for supporters! Building the travelling support is important, and there’s a need for both.

I’d be opting for the quiet bus myself for the ZZZ’s 😂😂

Great performance and great belief from the players coming back second half. 6 points from 9, we'd have all taken that before the season started.

I've always struggled to register on that bloody top secret forum.

Strange one. Plenty of members posting there lately that haven't previously so doesn't seem to be an issue.

Very frustrating performance tonight. Never threatened the Shels goal, passing and set piece delivery was very poor throughout. Just toothless, Walshy would have made a difference in there tonight, O’Sullivan wasn’t at the races this evening.

It was always gonna be a tough place to get a result, roll on Friday night in EDP!

Much more negative here than on the forum. I play on a Monday so I'd don't see any of it. Heard we started brilliantly and then huffed and puffed with loads of set pieces. Was a bonus game anyway for me. Friday is the bigger game if the week.

It’s hard to know what to take from the game against Drogheda. Just like at Shels, it was a lot of huff and puff with no end product. Had we two clear cut chances on goal?

Drogheda never even tried to win the game, they looked set up, and happy to play for an away point and fair play to them they did just that. They were quite happy knocking the ball around and keeping possession, whereas United were frantic and rushed on the ball. Borden in particular just lumped everything forward, even when a simpler pass was on. It was just a game that never went anywhere.

At the start of the season, I would probably have said a return of 7 pts out of 15 would be ok from the first 5 fixtures, but upfront doesn’t seem to be clicking just yet. It’s long way to go, and I’d still be confident that we won’t be involved in a relegation playoff at the end of the season.

Friday will be epic, hard to know if Rovers will sort out there dreadful start to the season in that time. I’d happily take a draw in that game right now!! Hopefully the big crowds continue for the season.

Seemed to be a return to Caulfield hoofball. We have much more joy when there is a mixed style of play.

Ground should be fine 4 weeks from now. No excuses then

Yep, couldn’t fault the lads tonight. I thought JC was nuts taking Dervan off, he was excellent and I thought he would have fed Walshy some good ball. Didn’t matter in the end, the goal chance came and was taken brilliantly. Worth the long trip up, hopefully we can get something at home to Bohs on Monday!

Ya it'd be great to get a win over Bohs Monday, hopefully Bohs loss tonight took more out of them.

I was a huge critic of Caulfield two years back but tonight really seemed to be years in the making. Suck the life out of the opposition, create two or three big chances and hopefully hit the mark. We were never going to be able to play the free-flowing style of 2023 but there's green shoots to be seen against the top teams. 10/21 points and we probably could be unbeaten if we had a marquee striker. I'd have taken that if it was offered before the Pats game.

We badly need to bring in a proper striker in the summer. I was so happy for Walshy to be the hero tonight but at the end of the day he's better off the bench at this level, who knows what Wass is up to and Costello has been overtaken by the 7 foot and extremely limited Hickey lad.

The Galway FA have been using and abusing it over the last few years. If the Comers eventually complete a takeover, they should plan to buy it outright and put some development effort in, imo.

Not really rumours, we didn't sign a striker as the one they had lined up didn't get a work permit. They e had one or two on trial but they didn't work out so they're leaving it until the window to sort it out. Can't do any more than that.

That he was joining as Assistant manager.

No, not that - there is a specific recent rumour around about signing an Irish lad who is playing over in England at the moment.

Maguire I can't see happening. I'd say Costello will getting released over the summer which would clear up maybe a fraction of what a player like Maguire would probably be looking for weekly. I doubt it'd be far off Gaffney or Hoban's wages.