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Another heroic defeat to Kerry. FallenStar (Galway) - Posts: 426 - 23/03/2025 17:38:14 2598027 Link
Some of the Galway defending today was absolutely cat. Kerry's first goal was down to 4 Galway defenders converging on 1 Kerry attacker. Leaving another Kerry attacker free as a bird in front of the goal. One hand pass and he had a free shot on goal and scored. Basic basic stuff. Lots of work to do. Marooned (Galway) - Posts: 2361 - 23/03/2025 17:40:59 2598028 Link
Replying To FallenStar: "Another heroic defeat to Kerry." Your some snidy lad... In with the digs when Galway lose, but first man up in Croker cheering last July.. What did Joyce do to you back in the day? Belclare7 (Galway) - Posts: 203 - 23/03/2025 17:42:57 2598030 Link
Ah, what a downer at the end of the league. What a downer to have us diehards heading off, at big expense, to go and support the maroon and white in New York in a couple of weeks. So easily rolled in our own backyard when there was a league final to be grasped. We just can't seem to beat the aristocrats of the game, Kerry and Dublin, save for the odd blip once every few decades. The defensive frailty is really worrying, that was a massive Kerry score racked up with ease - and they had more in the tank if they needed it. Our kickouts; our awful, childlike fielding; our ease of being turned over; our lack of pace and ideas in attack; all not good enough. Enough to make you grind your teeth! Steel, courage, grit, a dogged willingness to win - where is it with Galway at the moment? Who's working on it with these lads? It's all so weak hearted and insipid. Meh. togoutlads (Galway) - Posts: 1031 - 23/03/2025 17:49:36 2598034 Link
Need a rethink or restructure on the back line. Silke can't be doing the man marking job and also trying to play six. Glynn, McHugh and Fitzgerald obviously come back in. O'Curraoin probably has lost any chance of playing later in the year with today's effort. Positives were Tierney finding some form and getting Hernon on the pitch. Not being in a league final no harm now with those injuries. galway19 (Galway) - Posts: 841 - 23/03/2025 17:49:40 2598035 Link
Replying To togoutlads: "Didn't I tell you we can't jump? Do you believe me now?" Nothing to do with lads not jumping its into a jungle of lads and a mess. It's the kickouts pure scattergun approach jm25 (Galway) - Posts: 1417 - 23/03/2025 17:51:42 2598037 Link
Replying To jm25: "A biteen of a horror show this first half. Very open defensively Kerry taking handy points when goals on. Strange changes pre game Glynn surely deserves a go. Ocurrain today certainly shown he is not ready yet. Kicking frees isn't enough to make 26 Have 2 say my biggest concerns though are form of mcdaid and a lot think he is back to his old self but I think Kelly is struggling badly defensively when run at and very slow on turn. A good day for Dylan mchugh and Fitzgerald so far." Well beat nearly all over the pitch, lost the kick out battle in the key moments. It is starting to get to be a real worry now much ball we are easily coughing up under almost no pressure. Against a good team like Kerry most of that wastage was punished. McDaid doesn't look fully fit to me, hopefully a few more weeks will sharpen him up. Conroy very quiet but reminded us of his class with the last kick, we need to get him in that zone more. Please don't bring up Gleeson any more for the long distance frees. Either Tierney or Walsh or work a score. Don't think O Currain will be starting although to be fair to him, some of the passes to him were complete hospital passes. Very little positives but you would hope with McHugh, a fit McDaid, Maher, Walsh and a fit Comer we would be close enough in the final shake up. Going on today's evidence, Fitzgerald is a better option at full back than MulKerrin. Championship team: Gleeson, McGrath, Fitzgerald, Glynn (Flaherty a better player but Glynn a better corner back) McHugh, Silke, Kelly, Maher, Hernon Tierney, Conroy McDaid Finnerty, Comer, Walsh. Darcy, Heaney, Flaherty etc to come in. I know Conroy will probably be in midfield but I'd like to see him drifting around that two point arc and play making Disappointing really that we haven't uncovered that new starting forward but it would be hard look past the above named based on their league performances. Trucker1 (Galway) - Posts: 415 - 23/03/2025 17:57:06 2598040 Link
Replying To Marooned: "Even in these days of huge scores being posted, conceding 2-19 and 3-24 in consecutive games seems like an awful lot. Fitzgerald and Glynn will come back in you would think. Plus we have Walsh, McHugh and Maher now out with injuries. Comer looks like he badly needs more minutes in the legs. Has gotten tired in last two games. Started league on fire but the last three performances have not been great. Were fortunate enough to get a draw from the Tyrone game. Conceded big scores to Dublin and Kerry." The Armagh performance wasn't great. Mayo very good and Donegal was a bit of a freak game. I forgotten Molloy as an option did quite well today. Heaney did well in FF it is strange how much inferior players got game time over him. Glynn also had a strange league. A bit concerning the McGrath 2 and mchugh 5 are only positions from 1-7 that seem settled jm25 (Galway) - Posts: 1417 - 23/03/2025 17:58:20 2598042 Link
Replying To Marooned: "Some of the Galway defending today was absolutely cat. Kerry's first goal was down to 4 Galway defenders converging on 1 Kerry attacker. Leaving another Kerry attacker free as a bird in front of the goal. One hand pass and he had a free shot on goal and scored. Basic basic stuff. Lots of work to do." And who has been coaching our defenders and tackling the last few years, yes that's right the Kerry coach. It was noticeable the amount of times that happened today. O'Neill has been replaced by Mickey Graham, can anyone tell me what he has improved or what he has brought to the coaching set up smallfrank (Galway) - Posts: 477 - 23/03/2025 18:07:30 2598044 Link
Replying To togoutlads: "Didn't I tell you we can't jump? Do you believe me now?" Point is if you not winning long kickout then change it.Not the end of the world to lose game but what's worrying is that we don't have a plan B when things aren't going well. Alwaysencourage (Galway) - Posts: 401 - 23/03/2025 18:07:56 2598045 Link
In every game now like after Comers goal in Croke Park or after Molloy's point today when we got back within 1 we have a kick out where we just need a bit of possession and grab hold of the game just for a couple of minutes when we are on top. On each occasion we just bomb it out long the other team win it and score. It's beyond ridiculous at this stage. Most of the teams in Division 4 have a plan smallfrank (Galway) - Posts: 477 - 23/03/2025 18:10:48 2598048 Link
Replying To galway19: "Need a rethink or restructure on the back line. Silke can't be doing the man marking job and also trying to play six. Glynn, McHugh and Fitzgerald obviously come back in. O'Curraoin probably has lost any chance of playing later in the year with today's effort. Positives were Tierney finding some form and getting Hernon on the pitch. Not being in a league final no harm now with those injuries." I thought Molloy was one of our best players today. A forgotten man in lots of ways but still has a lot to offer smallfrank (Galway) - Posts: 477 - 23/03/2025 18:26:41 2598058 Link
Replying To Belclare7: "Your some snidy lad... In with the digs when Galway lose, but first man up in Croker cheering last July.. What did Joyce do to you back in the day?" I wasn't in Croker precious, I'm not a ticket hunting hypocrite. And for the record, I said chice about last week too. I'll take that snidy lad remark as a compliment though. You and I aren't that much different when it comes to objectively analysing the current coaching ticket. It's no secret where I stand. The difference is just that i choose to take a humorous look at the romantic notions about Galway football. There are genuine people in this county who will take more enjoyment from losing to Kerry in a high scoring game than actually beating them when it matters. I haven't time for nostalgia. We should be winning these games at home. FallenStar (Galway) - Posts: 426 - 23/03/2025 18:30:06 2598061 Link
Overall, I still think potentially, we can be a significantly better team this year, but we need to smarten up.. and fast. We're leaking a lot of ridiculous goal chances and opposition now realise we can be got at. I was very disappointed after last year's final, as it was our second attempt and I felt with that experience we should have been able to control the game. In frustration, I said things which I regretted and later apologised for. Padraig knows full well it's last chance saloon for the management team. I actually admire him for calling players ashore, who are not (for one reason or another) delivering on the day. I think true supporters should stay loyal and back the lads through thick and thin. Finally, I feel today's game v Kerry will inform where we are at and where exactly improvement is needed. BTW. I wish Mayo the very best in league final and hopefully Connaught will do the double - Mayo league and Galway AI champions. Really (Galway) - Posts: 626 - 23/03/2025 18:34:57 2598063 Link
Replying To galway19: "Need a rethink or restructure on the back line. Silke can't be doing the man marking job and also trying to play six. Glynn, McHugh and Fitzgerald obviously come back in. O'Curraoin probably has lost any chance of playing later in the year with today's effort. Positives were Tierney finding some form and getting Hernon on the pitch. Not being in a league final no harm now with those injuries." O'Curraoin had a nightmare. Twice fumbled the ball coming out of defence and both times it led to Kerry points. He didn't make a huge effort to win it back either. PJ whipped him straight off after the second time. Might struggle for minutes going forward after that. Galway got it back to 2 points and he took Comer off so at that stage I think PJ was a lot more worried about picking up more injuries than getting to a league final. Kerry only had 2 wides which shows how they were shooting under little pressure. Not a great showing for sure but I wouldn't panic either. Galway down a lot of very important players today. Marooned (Galway) - Posts: 2361 - 23/03/2025 18:38:27 2598065 Link
How anyone can even attempt to read anything into these games is beyond me. I remember the same doom and gloom after we finished the league in Killarney last year, but all have short memories!! Thats sport. We got what we wanted out of this league, minutes into player and relegation avoided. Full steam ahead for championship, let's leave it at that and hope we can keep these boys fit and healthy for the serious stuff. ahsure. (Galway) - Posts: 1648 - 23/03/2025 18:42:49 2598069 Link
Replying To jm25: "Nothing to do with lads not jumping its into a jungle of lads and a mess. It's the kickouts pure scattergun approach" The kickouts are indeed scattergun but the lads not being able to get off the deck and challenge in the air is a major part of our problem in winning critical possession and grabbing a game by the scruff of the neck. Cleaned again and again. The top teams will exploit this if not addressed. togoutlads (Galway) - Posts: 1031 - 23/03/2025 18:59:21 2598077 Link
Replying To Trucker1: "Well beat nearly all over the pitch, lost the kick out battle in the key moments. It is starting to get to be a real worry now much ball we are easily coughing up under almost no pressure. Against a good team like Kerry most of that wastage was punished. McDaid doesn't look fully fit to me, hopefully a few more weeks will sharpen him up. Conroy very quiet but reminded us of his class with the last kick, we need to get him in that zone more. Please don't bring up Gleeson any more for the long distance frees. Either Tierney or Walsh or work a score. Don't think O Currain will be starting although to be fair to him, some of the passes to him were complete hospital passes. Very little positives but you would hope with McHugh, a fit McDaid, Maher, Walsh and a fit Comer we would be close enough in the final shake up. Going on today's evidence, Fitzgerald is a better option at full back than MulKerrin. Championship team: Gleeson, McGrath, Fitzgerald, Glynn (Flaherty a better player but Glynn a better corner back) McHugh, Silke, Kelly, Maher, Hernon Tierney, Conroy McDaid Finnerty, Comer, Walsh. Darcy, Heaney, Flaherty etc to come in. I know Conroy will probably be in midfield but I'd like to see him drifting around that two point arc and play making Disappointing really that we haven't uncovered that new starting forward but it would be hard look past the above named based on their league performances." Wouldn't disagree with much of that team. I think maybe hernon gets a lot hype and looks a talent but he's been limited with game time over last couple years. Don't think he's ready for midfield I personally see him as a 5 yet. I was disappointed with his Tyrone performance I'd be tempted to move Kelly into hf line again. We maybe could do with a player to get on breaks up there. Conroy had a few moments of magic and tierney played well and must be doing his box jumps great leap for his goal. Ocurrain wasn't really his forward play but two soft ball drops after we made rare turnovers after 2nd one everyone knew his day was done. Kerry were very good at realising when some of our less assured players were on ball and zone in on them jm25 (Galway) - Posts: 1417 - 23/03/2025 19:08:36 2598085 Link
all focus is on Connacht now, looking forward to being in NY Gaillimh Abu maroondiesel (Mayo) - Posts: 1224 - 23/03/2025 19:12:39 2598091 Link
Kerry were much more direct than Galway. Galway hand passing and pfaffing about as usual. This will surely be P.Joyce's last year in charge. galwayford (Galway) - Posts: 2587 - 23/03/2025 19:14:49 2598093 Link