Galway United thread

No, Manning won't be signed as he'll likely not be fit until September. Gaxha looked ok in the sub appearances but realistically he's not gonna get minutes under JC so no point keeping an unhappy player. Keohane is a better player and he fills that squad position.

Tomorrow at 12.30

A defeat, which is likely, will let us focus on the league. Even if we beat them, we could fall at the next round or later on and that risks injury.

I can imagine that's the teams' attitude to the cup as well.

Total nonsense

At the beginning of the season all I wanted is for United to stay in the Premier Division. That's all. I think the focus should be on just that. I am not sure what position you need to be in to qualify for the Conference league but if we pushed for that and got there, doesn't that mean money?

We have seen across the water managers fielding weaker teams in the cup to focus on the league. Alex Ferguson (the great Alex Ferguson) did so. I think he even pulled out of the cup altogether one year for other reasons. Despite winning it a good few times, the league was his priority.

A good run in the cup will stretch the team and open us up to injuries.

Statistically, I think, we can still be relegated?

Who wants to win the cup yet end up in the First Division?

Great results tonight without us even playing!

Waterford losing and Bohs and Dundalk drawing.

Sometimes its better not to engage with certain posters.

Could have been there til next weekend and we wouldn't have scored. Too long too soon all second half, crosses from 40 yds out on the angle were too easy to defend. Wide players were poor all night. Two moments of quality sealed the deal.

It might have been the name of the game at the start of the season, but expectations are much higher now. Maybe a little too high, but the season in general isn't playing out as predicted. They're lacking in any sort of consistency, so a run of wins or defeats will define their season. Win the next 3-4 and they'll be pushing for a European spot.

We especially need not to lose against Dundalk, otherwise we'll be facing into the set of games with Pat's, Rovers and Derry on the back of two defeats.

You might be right. I may be viewing it less harshly due to the result. Keohane definitely came into the game more second half, he was poor first half, same with Ed.

Who's Benny the Bull

Yeah, a right sickener. Haven’t seen any replay of the two offside goals yet, were they definitely off? ( not that it matters now anyway)

I was surprised, or maybe expecting more from Shels, but I thought the home crowd was small, and no real atmosphere there for a cup game.

I figured Lombotto was off for the firts as he was on the by-line when playing the ball back, the second one I thought came off a Shels player.

Yeah, Shels were a lot stronger for the second half, it was a great goal by Keohane to bring us back into it. Penalties always a lottery, when they go in they’re great penalties, when they get sky-ed, not so much. It was the toughest draw we could have gotten in the cup unfortunately, I just hope the remainder of the season doesn’t fall away. After the first half of the season, it’d be nice to be in the 3rd place mix come the last game. And that’s a world away from where I expected to be at the start of the season.