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Come on. Kerry were far more dominant in the first 25 mins of the 2nd half than the first half which was even for the most part. Yes never looked like winning and we have plenty of issues to work on. I think our performances have been very patchy and the main hope of course we get our key players back and they will be ready.
kiloughter (Galway) - Posts: 1973 - 24/03/2024 16:51:44 2533175 Link 0 |
PJ fairly evasive again when asked about the injured players. Seems to be that they just don't know when some of them will be back. I'd say a few of them look like they will definitely miss the Connacht championship at this stage. The All-Ireland series group stage starts at the end of May so that would be the next target. Marooned (Galway) - Posts: 2348 - 24/03/2024 16:51:58 2533176 Link 0 |
I don't understand the mystery around the injuries. Why not just tell us the position insofar as he can. It's only building unnecessary speculation
Trucker1 (Galway) - Posts: 410 - 24/03/2024 17:21:54 2533196 Link 0 |
Thank God we got the easy side of draw into the connacht final for the 5th of May vs either Roscommon or Mayo. Hopefully most of the injuries will be sorted by then as i reckon if we had to come up against mayo or the rossies earlier we would be in trouble Galway456 (Galway) - Posts: 130 - 24/03/2024 17:26:58 2533199 Link 0 |
First of all, Kerry weren't at full strength. Clifford brothers came on, and barely looked interested - nothing to be gained from flogging a dead sheep mentality.. As regards the "great" players missing - people have short memories... Mulkerrin, Molloy and Silke not up to intense IC scrutiny - mainly due to lack of sufficient pace for this level. Cast your minds back - this doubt was always there. So, we await the return of the remaining "magnificent 7" with trepidation.. AnCrúiscínLán (Galway) - Posts: 102 - 24/03/2024 17:49:06 2533211 Link 0 |
Molloy and Mulkerrin both played their way out of a poor team over the course of this league. Liam Silke has lots of football missed but is a class act and it was great to see him back. I was surprised Jack Glynn didn't start today. crankyincorofin (Galway) - Posts: 101 - 24/03/2024 17:58:33 2533216 Link 1 |
That was Liam Silke's first game of intercounty football since the 22 AI final. He's probably rusty alright but a huge jump to say he's not up to playing intercounty football. He was pretty good at it just before he left.
Marooned (Galway) - Posts: 2348 - 24/03/2024 18:02:13 2533217 Link 3 |
A lot of moaning there from ya, considering you told me to quit moaning earlier in the league campaign after I pointed out quite constructively a couple of our shortfalls. I'll say it again, we turn over possession way too easy against the top teams,
conordee (Galway) - Posts: 451 - 24/03/2024 18:02:59 2533220 Link 0 |
Galway lost 8 of their own kick outs against Kerry. Unsustainable numbers. Marooned (Galway) - Posts: 2348 - 24/03/2024 18:35:14 2533244 Link 4 |
Don't get me wrong, he's an honest hard-tackling defender - brilliant at club senior, but I felt he struggled against IC forwards with blistering pace. Again, just my opinion. Also, I know some may consider this a harsh judgement, but I feel even at this stage, O'Curraoin for all his accuracy, lacks sufficient pace for this level. Fair enough, Dublin have set such a high standard, and it seems the rest are resigned to competing for runners up or, hoping some freakish result will eliminate them. Dublin have a huge level of athleticism, but have also worked on fringe players like Bugler to give them that extra edge. Their execution of the point kicking skill is exemplary. And shur lookit, weren't Galway always noted for their lovely kicking game... Well, that's now limited to Daly's self-indulgence. AnCrúiscínLán (Galway) - Posts: 102 - 24/03/2024 18:56:33 2533259 Link 0 |
I think Silke will only improve with games. Molloy had a bad injury and doesnt look like he has recaptured his best form but there is still time. We are cleaned out in midfield going back as far as I can remember and Gleeson hitting it into midfield makes it a 60/40 against us ball every time and we usually lose the breaking ball too. To have any chance in midfield area we need a fully fit Tierney and McDaid out there competing for the ball. JahTribe (Galway) - Posts: 155 - 24/03/2024 19:16:35 2533271 Link 0 |
Well done to the Galway football team, P J and management on the outcome of League. It is a major achievement to maintain our Division 1 status given our horrendous list of injuries to top players, resulting in us playing with barely a third of our best team for all 7 matches. I don't know if there is any other team who could emulate this in the same circumstances. There are a lot of knockers on this forum with nothing good to say except complain and whinge. PJ and the team can well do without these type of "supporters" who offer nothing positive and do no credit at all to the county. Gaillimh Abù. FatLadySinging (Galway) - Posts: 91 - 24/03/2024 19:34:53 2533282 Link 0 |
You can be fairly negative and personal about certain players when it suits you.
Alwaysencourage (Galway) - Posts: 395 - 24/03/2024 19:49:11 2533288 Link 3 |
It's very hard to be optimistic about the championship even though we survived the drop today, and have done this with practically all our best players out injured or unavailable. Galway4ever (Galway) - Posts: 219 - 24/03/2024 20:29:49 2533306 Link 0 |
I'll have a look at the stats later but for now all I have to say is we will win nothing with our current approach to kick outs. I see people around me today and they start looking at their phones, talking, basically anything to avoid looking at what begins to happen when teams press up. Every good team targets us now and with huge success. Mayo, Dublin and Kerry targetted our kick outs during the league and we appear to have no strategy whatsoever. Gleeson does take some blame as his pace setting up and accuracy off the tee is not great, he does have distance to be fair to him. On the line however there does not seem to be any plan. Last summer Conor Gleeson stayed out at HT in the championship game against Mayo and just kicked the ball repeatedly off the tee as far as he could into the wind. 10 minutes into the second half the game was effectively over. That plan or instruction came from the line. Someone said earlier about Junior C teams having a plan. When we are pressed, we don't make runs, we don't create height mid matches, we don't overload one side. We stand in position and wait for the kick out. Incredible smallfrank (Galway) - Posts: 465 - 24/03/2024 20:38:01 2533311 Link 1 |
very surprised at amount of credit mahers getting on here. his man won man of the match and caught 90% of the kick outs kerry won. candlewax (Galway) - Posts: 292 - 24/03/2024 20:45:38 2533315 Link 1 |
Probably looking at their phones to reassure themselves that Derry were bailing us out.
Pope_Benedict (Galway) - Posts: 4013 - 24/03/2024 20:53:24 2533319 Link 0 |
Be careful or you could be signed up
UtahBlaine (Galway) - Posts: 153 - 24/03/2024 20:55:15 2533321 Link 3 |
We lost a lot of ball, screams "composure" or lack of compared to Kerry who looked assured and confident in possession. ahsure. (Galway) - Posts: 1646 - 24/03/2024 21:23:30 2533339 Link 0 |
PJ was talking this evening about having a lot of work to do to be considers All Ireland contenders. On the basis of the flattering loss and the majority of what I witnessed in our league campaign, I'd say he's being slightly delusional to even put us in that conversation. We should be in the mix, of course, but the lads are not being managed well. That's a plain and simple fact. togoutlads (Galway) - Posts: 1026 - 24/03/2024 21:44:19 2533345 Link 1 |