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Replying To Trump2020:  "Hey look I would have preferred a tighter match too for the sake of lads being developed into hurlers but this Dublin match is sure to be tougher so I'm glad the Antrim match came first.

If Galway lose are they out of the Championship?"
No. Just the final.

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 15911 - 19/05/2025 20:57:05    2611154

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I would certainaly expect us to come through against Dublin next weekend. Management have a full insight into the Dublin players and their limitations. Dublin are ranked 7th or 8th in this championship. We will win

In relation to the U20 I personally think you just cant leak goals for fun or all structures of the team setup breakdown and this is what happened. If your a halfback line and midfield that are badly beaten you have no launch pad for anything and your full back line are then exposed resulting in a system failure.

1shot (Galway) - Posts: 15 - 20/05/2025 10:25:16    2611247

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Replying To 1shot:  "I would certainaly expect us to come through against Dublin next weekend. Management have a full insight into the Dublin players and their limitations. Dublin are ranked 7th or 8th in this championship. We will win

In relation to the U20 I personally think you just cant leak goals for fun or all structures of the team setup breakdown and this is what happened. If your a halfback line and midfield that are badly beaten you have no launch pad for anything and your full back line are then exposed resulting in a system failure."
Yes you're right with Clare gone, Dublin are 7th in the betting for the All Ireland and Galway are "hotly" fancied at "6".
You say "Galway WILL win", I admire your confidence because if there is any tag you could put on this Galway hurling team(and for quite a few years now) it is that they are persistently inconsistent.

sligo joe (Dublin) - Posts: 906 - 20/05/2025 10:59:23    2611258

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Replying To 1shot:  "I would certainaly expect us to come through against Dublin next weekend. Management have a full insight into the Dublin players and their limitations. Dublin are ranked 7th or 8th in this championship. We will win

In relation to the U20 I personally think you just cant leak goals for fun or all structures of the team setup breakdown and this is what happened. If your a halfback line and midfield that are badly beaten you have no launch pad for anything and your full back line are then exposed resulting in a system failure."
"Dublin are ranked 7th or 8th in this championship. We will win"
Where are Dublin ranked 8th?
Galway are ranked 5th or 6th in this Championship, yet you're looking down your nose on a team that is ranked 7th? Arrogance and delusions of grandeur come to mind.

Cockney_Cat (UK) - Posts: 2790 - 20/05/2025 11:09:13    2611263

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Replying To Cockney_Cat:  ""Dublin are ranked 7th or 8th in this championship. We will win"
Where are Dublin ranked 8th?
Galway are ranked 5th or 6th in this Championship, yet you're looking down your nose on a team that is ranked 7th? Arrogance and delusions of grandeur come to mind."
In your words "Galway v Wexford is too hard to call"
10pt win for Galway is easy in my book.

katser (Galway) - Posts: 2589 - 20/05/2025 11:34:24    2611267

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Replying To katser:  "In your words "Galway v Wexford is too hard to call"
10pt win for Galway is easy in my book."
It was always going to depend on who turned up. You did, we were slightly off. But it was still a close enough game for most of it. Every time we came back to within a point or 2 in the second half your lads got the critical next scores. The losing of the game for us was how we played in the 1st half though, we just didn't play the conditions. We needed to be 5 or 6 up at halftime, not 4 down.

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 15911 - 20/05/2025 12:03:20    2611278

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Replying To Cockney_Cat:  ""Dublin are ranked 7th or 8th in this championship. We will win"
Where are Dublin ranked 8th?
Galway are ranked 5th or 6th in this Championship, yet you're looking down your nose on a team that is ranked 7th? Arrogance and delusions of grandeur come to mind."
I'd have Galway 6th or 7th and Dublin 7th or 8th tbh. 1 place apart. Depends where you rank Clare, who were decimated with injuries.
And having seen alot of both teams I'd have Dublin as slight favourites, especially in Parnell Park. They won't give Cathal Mannion the Freedom of the Park like we did.
If it was in PS I'd give Galway the slight nod. But it isn't.

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 15911 - 20/05/2025 12:06:37    2611279

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Replying To Cockney_Cat:  ""Dublin are ranked 7th or 8th in this championship. We will win"
Where are Dublin ranked 8th?
Galway are ranked 5th or 6th in this Championship, yet you're looking down your nose on a team that is ranked 7th? Arrogance and delusions of grandeur come to mind."
Donoghue and Co. will have an insight into our group for sure which will lead to arrogance on the Galway side. The way Donoghue and Co. walked from the Dublin players is another form of arrogance. Lets welcome them back I say.....

Watchthepost (Dublin) - Posts: 1 - 20/05/2025 12:21:46    2611285

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Replying To katser:  "In your words "Galway v Wexford is too hard to call"
10pt win for Galway is easy in my book."
There is a major difference in me giving an opinion before a match is played, and you stating a fact after the match is over.

Cockney_Cat (UK) - Posts: 2790 - 20/05/2025 12:27:22    2611286

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Replying To Watchthepost:  "Donoghue and Co. will have an insight into our group for sure which will lead to arrogance on the Galway side. The way Donoghue and Co. walked from the Dublin players is another form of arrogance. Lets welcome them back I say....."
Roll out the red carpet, good lad.

WanPintWin (Galway) - Posts: 2327 - 20/05/2025 12:29:22    2611287

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Replying To Viking66:  "It was always going to depend on who turned up. You did, we were slightly off. But it was still a close enough game for most of it. Every time we came back to within a point or 2 in the second half your lads got the critical next scores. The losing of the game for us was how we played in the 1st half though, we just didn't play the conditions. We needed to be 5 or 6 up at halftime, not 4 down."
Ah come off it - you could use any of those lines for any game and actually across multiple sports!

The_DOC (Galway) - Posts: 781 - 20/05/2025 12:46:47    2611291

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Replying To Viking66:  "I'd have Galway 6th or 7th and Dublin 7th or 8th tbh. 1 place apart. Depends where you rank Clare, who were decimated with injuries.
And having seen alot of both teams I'd have Dublin as slight favourites, especially in Parnell Park. They won't give Cathal Mannion the Freedom of the Park like we did.
If it was in PS I'd give Galway the slight nod. But it isn't."
Clare (and Wexford) are no longer in contention for the Championship. The rankings are based on the bookies odds to win the All-Ireland.

Cockney_Cat (UK) - Posts: 2790 - 20/05/2025 12:49:14    2611292

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Replying To Watchthepost:  "Donoghue and Co. will have an insight into our group for sure which will lead to arrogance on the Galway side. The way Donoghue and Co. walked from the Dublin players is another form of arrogance. Lets welcome them back I say....."
Thats showbiz baby.....

ahsure. (Galway) - Posts: 1697 - 20/05/2025 12:49:39    2611293

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Replying To Viking66:  "It was always going to depend on who turned up. You did, we were slightly off. But it was still a close enough game for most of it. Every time we came back to within a point or 2 in the second half your lads got the critical next scores. The losing of the game for us was how we played in the 1st half though, we just didn't play the conditions. We needed to be 5 or 6 up at halftime, not 4 down."
Lads its a game of 2 halves.
The team that scores the most will end up on the right side of the result
We just didnt 'turn up' (whatever that actually means)
The crucial scores (eh.......are they all not kinda important?)

The_DOC (Galway) - Posts: 781 - 20/05/2025 12:51:12    2611294

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Replying To Viking66:  "It was always going to depend on who turned up. You did, we were slightly off. But it was still a close enough game for most of it. Every time we came back to within a point or 2 in the second half your lads got the critical next scores. The losing of the game for us was how we played in the 1st half though, we just didn't play the conditions. We needed to be 5 or 6 up at halftime, not 4 down."
Wexford were blown away out to Galway Bay and lucky it wasn't 20pts they were beaten.

katser (Galway) - Posts: 2589 - 20/05/2025 13:09:12    2611302

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Replying To The_DOC:  "Lads its a game of 2 halves.
The team that scores the most will end up on the right side of the result
We just didnt 'turn up' (whatever that actually means)
The crucial scores (eh.......are they all not kinda important?)"
'We just didn't 'turn up' (whatever that actually means)'

Why don't you ask some of your fellow Galway posters on here? Plenty of 'didn't turn up' after Kilkenny beat you by 12 points last month.

Cockney_Cat (UK) - Posts: 2790 - 20/05/2025 13:23:20    2611311

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Replying To Viking66:  "I'd have Galway 6th or 7th and Dublin 7th or 8th tbh. 1 place apart. Depends where you rank Clare, who were decimated with injuries.
And having seen alot of both teams I'd have Dublin as slight favourites, especially in Parnell Park. They won't give Cathal Mannion the Freedom of the Park like we did.
If it was in PS I'd give Galway the slight nod. But it isn't."
Mannion isn't that easy to pin down. He 'only' scored 0-6 from play, and he's done that and more in the past, versus the likes of Cork, KK, Tipp and Dublin.

Pope_Benedict (Galway) - Posts: 4151 - 20/05/2025 13:35:34    2611315

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I do think the observation that Mannion being slowed down would go a long way to stopping us, but I do get a chuckle when i hear fans say thing like "they will have a plan for X player". It's not as easy as just getting a good back to man amrk someone like Cathal. No doubt Wexfgord had a plan for him, it just didn't work at all. Like we had a plan for Henry Shefflin in 2012, sometimes it doesn't work but I very much doubt Keith Rossiter went out without a specific plant o deal with GAlway's best palyer. Maybe Dublin will have a better plan!

Overdahill (Galway) - Posts: 51 - 20/05/2025 14:15:38    2611325

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Replying To Cockney_Cat:  "'We just didn't 'turn up' (whatever that actually means)'

Why don't you ask some of your fellow Galway posters on here? Plenty of 'didn't turn up' after Kilkenny beat you by 12 points last month."
Nope, they turned up alright - beaten by a better team.

"Not everything's a lesson Sometimes you just fail," Dwight Schrute.

The_DOC (Galway) - Posts: 781 - 20/05/2025 14:25:24    2611328

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Replying To katser:  "Wexford were blown away out to Galway Bay and lucky it wasn't 20pts they were beaten."
Take it you didn't see the game so?

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 15911 - 20/05/2025 14:30:36    2611331

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