Galway GAA Discussion Thread #2

There wouldn't as huge a divide as there was imo. I wouldn't know anybody from hurling strongholds that wouldn't be on the hunt for tickets for Sunday.

All named in the starting 15 anyway

Good luck on Sunday, while I wouldn't mind seeing either team win I'd prefer for Sam to cross the Shannon. I hope Comer in particular has a good game, he's a class player

Not the place for it I know but just extremely annoyed today looking for a second Hill ticket so can try and bring my son tomorrow.

He wants to go to every game and we try and get to plenty. But him hearing of others going who would never attend a match getting to go is such shite.

1st world problem I know, but still.

Wonder will there be big numbers in Pearse Stadium tomorrow, or will Eyre square be the place most will go?

Safe travels lads. I'm fierce nervous and I think if we don't up the ante from the semi-final we'll lose. We have the players and we have the bench though. God knows Gleeson will be tested with long ball again and he needs the fullback-line to protect him. They'll also push up on the kickouts again but we have the midfield to trust with long-ball rather than risking getting caught on the press again.

Hoping for a huge showing from Comer, Walsh and Tierney. They all have the potential to swing this in our favour.

A year til Sunday quote from JOM via Divo sticks to mind. "This is the biggest day of your lives, it should be the best day of your lives". Enjoy tomorrow folks be what may. Up Galway

It's always been the same regarding tickets, particularly bringing young kids. Almost impossible get seats beside each other unless a family member is heavily involved with a senior club.

Lots of tickets turning up tonight

looks the job , but i cant understand why they didnt continue the stand roof over into the town end corner

Money, nowhere near enough funds to do it.

When Walsh scores 1 from play and misses 3 frees it's not Galways day.

He looked broken after the final whistle. Hope he has some good support around him.

Analysis from listening on the radio. Finnerty going off was a huge blow. Surely Tomo would have been a better replacement,. experience or not. Armagh wouldn't have studied him as much and as an actual inside forward, he would have taken some watching.

John Maher sounded like a stalwart. Fair play to him.

Paul Conroy time and again steps up with crucial scores. It would be a pity if that was his last game but wouldn't be surprised if he steps away. He owes Galway nothing.

It sounded like Comer never budged from inside. If that's the tactic, fair enough. But in that case you need to have the likes of John Daly on the pitch willing to kick a few balls into him. He can't take the blame for being anonymous if he's been told to stay in there and the ball isn't going next nigh or near him

If anyone bar Walsh had the game he had, he would have been called ashore. He should at least been taken off the frees, but who else could have taken them? Tierney before he went off should have been given one or two.

The missed frees are on Galway. Armagh though deserve so much credit for making it very difficult to shoot.

Congrats to Armagh. Wide open in 2025 again.

Better team on paper may have lost, but the team who actually tried to win the match today did.

If that was the first one to lose yeah fair enough but that’s the second in 2 yrs.

Such nonsense, Armagh deserved to win because they took more of their chances. Your hatred of Armagh is desperate, will you ever get over this.

Armagh won today.

Watching as a neutral, it did feel a bit like Armagh fell over the line. Helped significantly by Galway's lack of composure and kicking away far too many good chances. Comer and Walsh were well off it today and didn't have the impact you'd expect.

Conroy and McHugh can feel hard done by, they've both had brilliant seasons. But overall it just wasn't good enough from Galway today.

Keep the heads up. You still have a very strong squad and will be back to challenge for another All Ireland again I'm sure.

Challenge being the operative word.

In my opinion Galway let Armagh dictate the game, by not imposing their game on Armagh.

Armagh found it far too easy to knife through the Galway defence, also Armagh took most of their chances, had the bit of luck, Galway did not take their chances and had no luck.

Not a very entertaining game for the neutral or semi neutral.

Not Galway's day for sure, but if you have any flags and/or bunting up. Leave it where it is. There's still a Senior LFGA and a Senior Camogie final with Galway presence. We might see some silverware yet.

Jesus all of a sudden you sound so bitter.

That's tough, they had enough to win today but the panic after the goal trying to get a score was so unnecessary & Shane Walsh will wear this final for a while with the misses, credit to him for stepping up and being brave enough to take ownership of the frees from distance, but you have to do better than 0/3 when you do that.

I'd like to think they come back from this, but I don't know if I can see us in a final again in the short term. Today was the chance. Heartbreaking.

In fairness to walsh, he offered one free to the keeper and he didn't want it, despite walsh missing some already. What was he supposed to do? At the end of the day, fellas can have a bad game. He was brave enough to take it on when others weren't.

To my mind, the galway sideline lost them the game. Armagh took off turbitt and replaced him with another forward. Galway brought on heaney in corner forward and stuck kelly back in corner back. They also left on the guys who weren't playing well for too long.