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Replying To Pope_Benedict:  "Yeah, yer man on GBFM commentary called Forker as Faulkner all night, at the recent Armagh game in Salthill."
What commentator?

Dunmore10 (Galway) - Posts: 153 - 04/02/2025 13:52:23    2589437

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Replying To Gaa_lover:  "Still seems to be struggle for some with the Walsh name calling it Welsh.."
That's different now. That just a charming localised pronunciation habit in certain western pockets, and Marty Morrissey was even tickled enough by it to get in on the act too, especially back in the day of big Kevin 'Welsh'.

Pope_Benedict (Galway) - Posts: 3932 - 04/02/2025 14:12:29    2589444

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Replying To Dunmore10:  "What commentator?"
Jonathan Higgins I believe, now that you made me go back and look it up.

Pope_Benedict (Galway) - Posts: 3932 - 04/02/2025 14:17:50    2589446

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Any hope of Peter Cooke coming back in?

Gearoid1998ffowaed (Galway) - Posts: 137 - 04/02/2025 14:26:46    2589447

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Replying To hopballref:  "Good performance, new rules seem to suit us. Would be aiming to get as many lads game time now with 4 points in the bag and not get carried away like Derry last year. One negative is, I am not sure we are getting most out of the goalkeeper rule with Gleeson - could do with someone more mobile, direct and comfortable on the ball to fully exploit it. Might seem mad but would Heaney, Conroy or Comer be worth trying out?"
Ya I think the same, Heaney would be a great shout. I wouldn't move Conroy as it's m working where he is. Comer isn't great at the long kicks.

Gearoid1998ffowaed (Galway) - Posts: 137 - 04/02/2025 14:30:21    2589448

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Conroy was an intercounty standard goalkeeper at underage so has experience there and if he was showing any signs of slowing down around midfield at age 35/36 it would've made complete sense to try him there

However he's currently continuing to play like one of the absolute best players in the country at no.8 so simply can't be moved anywhere

PressureKick (UK) - Posts: 244 - 04/02/2025 16:28:43    2589470

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Replying To PressureKick:  "Conroy was an intercounty standard goalkeeper at underage so has experience there and if he was showing any signs of slowing down around midfield at age 35/36 it would've made complete sense to try him there

However he's currently continuing to play like one of the absolute best players in the country at no.8 so simply can't be moved anywhere"
Having this exact discussion over the weekend.

The discussion:
Considering all the work that modern GKs put into pinging kickouts as well as GK specific training I'm not sure would it be reasonable to ask someone who hasn't played in goals for year however good they were 10+ years ago to go back there

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Someone is going to play an outfield played in goals at some point! It may as well be someone with a GK background. A good outfield player like PC should be able to ping kickouts!

The_DOC (Galway) - Posts: 743 - 04/02/2025 16:41:11    2589474

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With the new rules that you can't pass back to goalie in own half.

Would it be possible as a workaround to have for example use your full back for kickouts and move the goalie out the field to corner back and swap round when play moves out field

It would give option to pass back to nominal goalie and play a shorter kick outs

jm25 (Galway) - Posts: 1320 - 04/02/2025 17:27:48    2589482

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Replying To Kickitout:  "I said galway only had 2 starting forwards who score from play yesterday same v Armagh Kelly did well got 2 points his market got 3"
His marker was a forward.

StopTheLights (Galway) - Posts: 392 - 04/02/2025 17:33:05    2589483

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Replying To Gearoid1998ffowaed:  "Any hope of Peter Cooke coming back in?"
Doesn't look likely at this stage. Surprised no journalist has asked PJ about him yet. Some were saying he wasn't even asked back this year but who knows?

Marooned (Galway) - Posts: 2323 - 04/02/2025 17:34:56    2589485

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He would make the difference needed to win when things get tighter , he was the most accurate scorer in clubs from outside the 40m. That's a lot of 2 pointers we could knock up on the scoreboard.

Gearoid1998ffowaed (Galway) - Posts: 137 - 04/02/2025 20:22:14    2589511

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