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Welcome back MOD. Always the outcome and he had been eyeying it up for years. Will be a popular one amongst players Kinvara (Galway) - Posts: 181 - 30/08/2024 08:49:14 2567614 Link
Replying To Kinvara: "Welcome back MOD. Always the outcome and he had been eyeying it up for years. Will be a popular one amongst players" The beauty of it is we don't know who 'the players' are at the moment, when on 2024 form you'd probably be offloading 75+% of them. With MOD only 5 seasons out of this job, he's hardly spent as much time 'eyeing it' as you suggest? We're still fielding most of the players who won the 2017 allireland, so to say that this is a rebuild assignment would be an understatement. Pope_Benedict (Galway) - Posts: 3875 - 30/08/2024 10:07:02 2567626 Link
Replying To Kinvara: "Welcome back MOD. Always the outcome and he had been eyeying it up for years. Will be a popular one amongst players" Time a lot of the old guard makes it easy for him and go, otherwise he'll have to have a call in a few for the tae and chat which they'll never get to drink. Thanks men but give the young lads a chance. His backroom needs a shake up as well. He inherited a ready to win an all Ireland team made a few tweaks in 17. It's a rebuild best of luck to him and the county board may now get fully behind him and not have whispered sweet nothings to get him back. Look at what it took lohan to win an AI. 2maroonjerseys (Galway) - Posts: 98 - 30/08/2024 10:54:26 2567636 Link
Replying To 2maroonjerseys: "Time a lot of the old guard makes it easy for him and go, otherwise he'll have to have a call in a few for the tae and chat which they'll never get to drink. Thanks men but give the young lads a chance. His backroom needs a shake up as well. He inherited a ready to win an all Ireland team made a few tweaks in 17. It's a rebuild best of luck to him and the county board may now get fully behind him and not have whispered sweet nothings to get him back. Look at what it took lohan to win an AI." Lohan never called in Conlon, O 'Donnell or Kelly for 'tae and a drink', even though they'd won in '13. Quite the opposite, very much key men in 2024. Pope_Benedict (Galway) - Posts: 3875 - 30/08/2024 11:30:56 2567650 Link
Replying To Pope_Benedict: "The beauty of it is we don't know who 'the players' are at the moment, when on 2024 form you'd probably be offloading 75+% of them. With MOD only 5 seasons out of this job, he's hardly spent as much time 'eyeing it' as you suggest? We're still fielding most of the players who won the 2017 allireland, so to say that this is a rebuild assignment would be an understatement." Not necessarily talking about 2017 players. From everything I heard he was popular, always putting his neck out for players on and off the field He was only in the Dublin job to keep him in the intercounty game until this came up Kinvara (Galway) - Posts: 181 - 30/08/2024 12:15:17 2567658 Link
Replying To Pope_Benedict: "Lohan never called in Conlon, O 'Donnell or Kelly for 'tae and a drink', even though they'd won in '13. Quite the opposite, very much key men in 2024." I wouldn't have either there's no ego with them boys. Plenty of fringe players who haven't lived up to kicking on from 17 and plenty who think they've won more than one AI on this current crop that need to go and others a serious reality check. Every one of those you named have left it all out there for clare every game and came back for more. The attitude with some of our egos is there's always next year. Clare play like this is the only year every year. 2maroonjerseys (Galway) - Posts: 98 - 30/08/2024 13:28:57 2567671 Link
Replying To Pope_Benedict: "Lohan never called in Conlon, O 'Donnell or Kelly for 'tae and a drink', even though they'd won in '13. Quite the opposite, very much key men in 2024." Both have a point here, Galway have more than 50% of the team from 2017 some deserve to be there (Whelan, Mannions) and others not so much (C Cooney, G Mac, J Flynn etc). Im sure Shefflin tried to bring in new blood, but the expectations were too high, some people thought we were actually contenders coz we could keep up with a Limerick for 20 minutes. The 2017 team has been around since 2014/5 so they are on the older side, the academy is not producing the level of players to take over, the skills, S&C and the game strategies also seem to be a little off for the modern game. Great that MOD is back, but a serious look at the structures and supply chain is also needed. BostonGuy (Galway) - Posts: 133 - 30/08/2024 14:00:14 2567675 Link
Woo-hoo open the bottle of champagne the South Galway man is back in charge!!! Hard not to get the job when no body else wanted it! katser (Galway) - Posts: 2475 - 30/08/2024 14:25:26 2567678 Link
Replying To BostonGuy: "Both have a point here, Galway have more than 50% of the team from 2017 some deserve to be there (Whelan, Mannions) and others not so much (C Cooney, G Mac, J Flynn etc). Im sure Shefflin tried to bring in new blood, but the expectations were too high, some people thought we were actually contenders coz we could keep up with a Limerick for 20 minutes. The 2017 team has been around since 2014/5 so they are on the older side, the academy is not producing the level of players to take over, the skills, S&C and the game strategies also seem to be a little off for the modern game. Great that MOD is back, but a serious look at the structures and supply chain is also needed." Looking at the proposed backroom team. O Shea didn't really do anything last year and most if all the hurlers have heard plenty from the other lads so not much different going on. Unless he is prepared to rip it up and start from scratch with a young team, unpopular to do but the right thing, then he's wasting his own time coming back. It's gut it and start again otherwise he'll be gone in 2 yrs. 2maroonjerseys (Galway) - Posts: 98 - 30/08/2024 15:44:18 2567694 Link
Replying To PoolSturgeon: "May not be an "either or" situation. Thomas's are often very sluggish and at their most vulnerable in the early group stages. Have been a different animal when they get to the knock out stages. Of course there's a possibility that they are slipping back a bit after their phenomenal success and prolonged period of dominance but one thing I'd be fairly sure of is that Larkins aren't "that good" to hammer a Thomas's team close to their peak!" Well it makes the whole thing a lot more interesting. Teams like Loughrea and Clarenbridge, etc may feel a lot more confident. Trump2020 (Galway) - Posts: 2263 - 30/08/2024 15:46:23 2567697 Link
Replying To katser: "Woo-hoo open the bottle of champagne the South Galway man is back in charge!!! Hard not to get the job when no body else wanted it!" You're not so happy then Katser? Iirc Davy was your number 1 choice? How long will you give MOD into his 4 year term before you will get the knives out for him? PoolSturgeon (Galway) - Posts: 1953 - 30/08/2024 21:01:13 2567728 Link
Replying To katser: "Woo-hoo open the bottle of champagne the South Galway man is back in charge!!! Hard not to get the job when no body else wanted it!" Most Galway ppl on here were calling for one of their own, someone from within the county. That wish has now materialized. So, Katzer are you telling us all that an outsider would be better for Galway? foreveryoung (USA) - Posts: 2095 - 31/08/2024 06:49:41 2567746 Link
Replying To 2maroonjerseys: "Looking at the proposed backroom team. O Shea didn't really do anything last year and most if all the hurlers have heard plenty from the other lads so not much different going on. Unless he is prepared to rip it up and start from scratch with a young team, unpopular to do but the right thing, then he's wasting his own time coming back. It's gut it and start again otherwise he'll be gone in 2 yrs." He needs to start looking at 18 to 23 year olds and a few older lads for experience.He has 4 tears and we need to give him that.We gave Henry 3. Alwaysencourage (Galway) - Posts: 369 - 31/08/2024 14:23:55 2567790 Link
Replying To PoolSturgeon: "You're not so happy then Katser? Iirc Davy was your number 1 choice? How long will you give MOD into his 4 year term before you will get the knives out for him?" Yes Davy Fitz is who I would have liked but will give Donohoe his chance. Everyone deserves a chance before being judged! We all want whats best for Galway hurling so the best of luck to him and will see how it goes! I still think MOD inherited a very good team that AC had moulded when he got the Galway gig 1st term and was lucky to be the man in charge when We won the All Ireland in 2017! So the South Galway man who was smiling last year when we got knocked out in Pearce Stadium has work to do in his 2nd term! Minimum requirement for 2025 is to win the Leinster title and sail straight through to the All Ireland Semi Final. katser (Galway) - Posts: 2475 - 31/08/2024 16:36:25 2567802 Link
Replying To katser: "Yes Davy Fitz is who I would have liked but will give Donohoe his chance. Everyone deserves a chance before being judged! We all want whats best for Galway hurling so the best of luck to him and will see how it goes! I still think MOD inherited a very good team that AC had moulded when he got the Galway gig 1st term and was lucky to be the man in charge when We won the All Ireland in 2017! So the South Galway man who was smiling last year when we got knocked out in Pearce Stadium has work to do in his 2nd term! Minimum requirement for 2025 is to win the Leinster title and sail straight through to the All Ireland Semi Final." Cunningham maybe lucky to be in charge in 2015 too, for an allireland that WASN'T won.......was only days from "the coup" at that stage. Pope_Benedict (Galway) - Posts: 3875 - 31/08/2024 19:34:22 2567810 Link
Replying To katser: "Yes Davy Fitz is who I would have liked but will give Donohoe his chance. Everyone deserves a chance before being judged! We all want whats best for Galway hurling so the best of luck to him and will see how it goes! I still think MOD inherited a very good team that AC had moulded when he got the Galway gig 1st term and was lucky to be the man in charge when We won the All Ireland in 2017! So the South Galway man who was smiling last year when we got knocked out in Pearce Stadium has work to do in his 2nd term! Minimum requirement for 2025 is to win the Leinster title and sail straight through to the All Ireland Semi Final." To be fair AC put together a good squad but could not get them over the line. MOD worked with Tipp squad under Sheedy and learned a lot in their AI wining campaign. He brought in world class S&C, changed tactics and possibly changed mind sets. Whatever he done they were contenders from 2014 - 2018 and remember they nearly beat Limerick in 2018 AI. Davy Fitz is a fine coach but comes with drama, media and controversy, this is a rebuild and Im not sure he is the best man for that job. But ya know time will tell. BostonGuy (Galway) - Posts: 133 - 01/09/2024 23:39:57 2567930 Link
Replying To Pope_Benedict: "Cunningham maybe lucky to be in charge in 2015 too, for an allireland that WASN'T won.......was only days from "the coup" at that stage." Handed Clare the handiest all Ireland in 13 due to in house bickering. Win that QF and all Ireland in the bag. 2maroonjerseys (Galway) - Posts: 98 - 02/09/2024 08:24:51 2567939 Link
Replying To 2maroonjerseys: "Handed Clare the handiest all Ireland in 13 due to in house bickering. Win that QF and all Ireland in the bag." Ye should know well in Galway there is no such thing as a handy AI LohansRedHelmet (Clare) - Posts: 2679 - 02/09/2024 14:22:34 2568040 Link
Replying To LohansRedHelmet: "Ye should know well in Galway there is no such thing as a handy AI" There was one 1989 when Denton took care of Galway and Tipp hammered Antrim in the final BostonGuy (Galway) - Posts: 133 - 02/09/2024 16:01:01 2568064 Link
Anyone have any idea who the last member of the backroom team to be announced yet is? Galway456 (Galway) - Posts: 110 - 02/09/2024 23:49:48 2568141 Link