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Replying To Marooned: "Good lord we have a serious problem with kick outs. Actually didn't matter which keeper was in goal. Leitrim must have got half their scores from bad Galway kick outs. Nearly got a 3rd goal from another one." What about the 8 wides from Galway forwards in first half.Maybe look at that instead of always blaming the goalkeeper. Alwaysencourage (Galway) - Posts: 589 - 25/04/2026 18:09:11 2668581 Link
Replying To Drax_the_destroyer: "FT Leitrim 2-12 Galway 1-20 A far from convincing win for Galway although a match never looked like losing. Some amount of scoring chances Galway left behind them. Leitrim goals a penalty and gift from Gleeson gave them hope. On the evidence of today the winner in MacHale Park tomorrow should win the Connnacht title Main positive is Walsh,Comer got minutes and both looked sharp Under 5k at the match on a lovely sunny day time for the Connacht GAA to adjust their ticket prices." Were you at the match chief? ohwow (Leitrim) - Posts: 135 - 25/04/2026 18:14:52 2668583 Link
Galway are on the slide big time, but today was as poor a showing as we have seen since the days under Forde. Fair play to Leitrim, 80/1 , they were 9/1 to beat Sligo 2 weeks ago, and but for a few poor misses from play and frees early on, they would have pulled of the biggest shock, in terms of odds, since the founding of the GAA. We went into this game 3rd or 4th Favs for Sam, Leitrim 3rd from bottom of Division 4, and in spite of us having Conroy, Darcy and Maher they matched us in winning kickouts. They were well on top when it came to the rough and tumble stuff. Poacher deserves huge credit. It is easy to point to goalkeeping errors that were a huge problem, but sure every supporter is waiting for it to happen, from our painful past experience. Goalkeepers surely are under instruction game to game depending on the opposition. What were we doing going short V Leitrim? I know it can be hard for high ranked teams to play to their best v supposedly low level teams. Leitrim lost their Div 3 league games last year by an average of 25 points, yet held Mayo to 7 points in the Connacht game. That stat is the only crumb of comfort I can find. giveitlong (Galway) - Posts: 1313 - 25/04/2026 19:46:23 2668607 Link
Replying To ohwow: "Were you at the match chief?" I did however why are you concerned when you don't attend matches yourself? Drax_the_destroyer (UK) - Posts: 792 - 25/04/2026 20:00:45 2668613 Link
Replying To giveitlong: "Galway are on the slide big time, but today was as poor a showing as we have seen since the days under Forde. Fair play to Leitrim, 80/1 , they were 9/1 to beat Sligo 2 weeks ago, and but for a few poor misses from play and frees early on, they would have pulled of the biggest shock, in terms of odds, since the founding of the GAA. We went into this game 3rd or 4th Favs for Sam, Leitrim 3rd from bottom of Division 4, and in spite of us having Conroy, Darcy and Maher they matched us in winning kickouts. They were well on top when it came to the rough and tumble stuff. Poacher deserves huge credit. It is easy to point to goalkeeping errors that were a huge problem, but sure every supporter is waiting for it to happen, from our painful past experience. Goalkeepers surely are under instruction game to game depending on the opposition. What were we doing going short V Leitrim? I know it can be hard for high ranked teams to play to their best v supposedly low level teams. Leitrim lost their Div 3 league games last year by an average of 25 points, yet held Mayo to 7 points in the Connacht game. That stat is the only crumb of comfort I can find." We almost lost to Sligo two years ago and ended up in the All-Ireland final later that summer. I wouldn't be making complete judgements off the back of the first championship game of the year. There's a lot of football to be played. In saying that, we were poor across the board today. Kickouts a massive problem again. Backs were very loose at times and not switched on at crucial stages. Midfield certainly didn't dominate and we were also quite wasteful up front. So problems across all lines today. A lot which can be rectified, but kickouts remain my biggest worry. If you can't retain your own kickout in the new game, you can be taken to the cleaners. Losing 5 or 6 kickouts in a row can cause huge damage on the scoreboard. WanPintWin (Galway) - Posts: 2770 - 25/04/2026 20:25:35 2668620 Link
Got the win but calamitous errors are going to cost us big games if we don't majorly sharpen up. What do we have to do in Galway to get our restarts sorted? Such a massive and repeated element of every game and can PJ and sideline and these players actually ever get it right, efficient, and effective?! I don't know. Also, so much lateral and ponderous build up is getting very predictable. Better teams will turn ball over again and again if we don't mix in serious strike runs, cuts etc togoutlads (Galway) - Posts: 1125 - 25/04/2026 20:29:25 2668621 Link