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Replying To Doylerwex:  "It's very much a 50/50 game and nearly knock out championship to be honest. Very difficult to call.

Lads give out about salt hill but I love it personal. Hopefully we get a good game and fine weather anyway"
'very much a 50/50 game', and a few days later 'Martin Storey's tache' is over on the Leinster Championship thread, proposing a move to Munster for Galway in a straight swop with Waterford moving to Leinster. Saving diesel and distance for fans in support of the green economy was cited as 'motivation' of sorts for the move!!

Pope_Benedict (Galway) - Posts: 4141 - 13/05/2025 15:54:05    2609265

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We are 1/5 to win tomorrow night which is fairly short but I'd be confident once the five week gap has been managed correctly. The team named has a couple of changes from the Offaly game with Gavin Maher and Vince Morgan from Loughrea in for Conor Gilligan and Ryan O'Donnell. Would expect Kilkenny to beat Laois pretty easily in the other semi final. Don't think this Laois team is up to much, especially in their back line. Kilkenny's size in the forward line will give them awful trouble.

galway19 (Galway) - Posts: 894 - 13/05/2025 19:03:12    2609339

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Replying To The_DOC:  "He's been on a few podcasts and things stating thats his role and the role of any underage manager is not ENTIRLEY to win championships, its to develop players through so they are as ready as possible to kick on at the next grade up. Im not defending him or anything and it prob lys somewhere in the middle of developing young talent, winning when the right group of players come together but essentially acting as a conveyor belt of talent progression for the senior squad."
The best way to bring players through is to win under 20 , PERIOD

SixtiesKid (Galway) - Posts: 343 - 13/05/2025 19:38:50    2609351

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Replying To SixtiesKid:  "The best way to bring players through is to win under 20 , PERIOD"
It's the best way, but not the only way. And it's not always a guaranteed way either. Only Limerick of the u20/1 AI winners from the last 10 years have followed up with a SenIor AI, and it took players from 2 u21 AI winning teams to achieve that.

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 15762 - 13/05/2025 22:28:24    2609393

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Replying To Pope_Benedict:  "'very much a 50/50 game', and a few days later 'Martin Storey's tache' is over on the Leinster Championship thread, proposing a move to Munster for Galway in a straight swop with Waterford moving to Leinster. Saving diesel and distance for fans in support of the green economy was cited as 'motivation' of sorts for the move!!"
I don't know what you're getting at

Doylerwex (Wexford) - Posts: 3587 - 13/05/2025 22:44:25    2609399

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Replying To SixtiesKid:  "The best way to bring players through is to win under 20 , PERIOD"
I totally agree, there's no chicken/egg which comes first here at all. U21 championships lead to 'developed players' for senior fare. That's been the steady Galway pattern stretching back to 1972. I don't know what sort of u21 'development' went on in Galway since 2011, but it hasn't delivered championships, and in the past decade hasn't delivered players either.

Pope_Benedict (Galway) - Posts: 4141 - 13/05/2025 23:35:08    2609415

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