Bain (Donegal) - Posts: 470 - 30/01/2018 14:34:30    2072420

Those road works are a pain and are due to be in place until March I think. I wouldn't be too familiar with the back roads around there either so my advice would be to come up the night before! If you're like me and have just done dry January I'd be mad for a rip of pints Saturday night. Where better to cut loose than the fine hostelries of Letterkenny town!

Lockjaw (Donegal) - Posts: 9728 - 30/01/2018 15:50:51    2072446

Galway can improve though after that messy game in Tuam, carrying ball into tackles still major issue for us.

suckvalleypaddy (Galway) - Posts: 1727 - 30/01/2018 20:43:02    2072559

Curlew66 (Roscommon) - Posts: 604 - 31/01/2018 00:17:41    2072654

WanPintWin (Galway) - Posts: 2282 - 31/01/2018 00:44:38    2072657

Mayonman (Galway) - Posts: 1918 - 31/01/2018 09:07:11    2072684

muppets in donegal county council always seem to schedule delays in ballybofey/stranorlar area when donegal take to the field for the annual defeat in letterkenny................

totalrecall (Leitrim) - Posts: 1041 - 31/01/2018 12:56:32    2072758

gunman (Donegal) - Posts: 1141 - 02/02/2018 11:18:51    2073337

We should. play that one in Ballybofey. have one of the other 2 games in Ballyshannon, and the other one in Ballybofey too. No sense in this fixture other than keeping people happy in Letterkenny.

Donegalman (None) - Posts: 3846 - 02/02/2018 12:36:16    2073352

gunman (Donegal) - Posts: 1141 - 02/02/2018 12:42:26    2073355

Good stuff from Galway. Nice point by Sean Armstrong, Gaillimh Abu

suckvalleypaddy (Galway) - Posts: 1727 - 04/02/2018 16:29:44    2073873

oakleafersir (Derry) - Posts: 808 - 04/02/2018 16:43:59    2073879

Poor result for us today in our jinxed venue. We didn't know how to break down Galways blanket defence. Looking very bad for us now at the bottom of the table with trips to Dublin and Tyrone still to come.

Tir Conaill Abu (Donegal) - Posts: 1677 - 04/02/2018 16:58:46    2073890

Great win today, a lot of people must be given up this forum for the past week or so it's gone very quiet or is just negativity that they are interested in?? Either way it's onwards and upwards well done to all players and management.

Ninnallik (Galway) - Posts: 43 - 04/02/2018 17:31:49    2073910

Galway are playing with passion and deserved the win. A lot of poor misses from both teams but no doubt Galway were the better team

heartbroken (Galway) - Posts: 370 - 04/02/2018 17:54:32    2073923

Nice road win for Galway especially without their Corofin players.

Trump2020 (Galway) - Posts: 2484 - 04/02/2018 18:00:03    2073926

Poor result against a Galway team who looked far more dangerous when they had the ball.

Declan Bonner had promised a more open attacking style but there was little sign of it today & we are far too dependant on Paddy McBrearty for scores.

On the plus side we did well in the middle of the field & Hugh McFadden had another fine outing but we really need Murph back.

MuckrossHead (Donegal) - Posts: 5028 - 04/02/2018 18:03:00    2073931

Good win Galway

realdub (Dublin) - Posts: 8729 - 04/02/2018 19:21:27    2073997

Got to say I was disappointed at full time without being heartbroken either. Galway marginally deserved to win, just because they took their chances and played with a bit more conviction. We had our moments, but failed to take the initiative when we needed to. This goes down to Galway's excellent blanket, which is a fairly severe lock down of the oppositions forwards. We had only 1 target man up front. Jigger and Brennan are runners, and cant win primary possession from a long ball as they are easily marshalled by a bigger defender. It meant that we were relying on our old ponderous system of going short all the way up the pitch. Got to say that it is a puzzle why we don't go long most of the time from our kick outs as we have great target men now to aim at.

I would like to see stats on the percentages of turn overs from balls from long kick outs that are converted to scores versus the ones that are lost from short kick outs.

Also worth looking at would be the percentages of scores resulting from long kick outs versus the ones gained from short ones.

I bet they would make interesting reading.

On to the Dublin game next week. I think that we will do well to stay in the game. I hope I am wrong, but it looks like we need to beat mayo and Kildare to have a hope. We also need possibly to get a result in either monaghan or tyrone to be sure of safety.

Donegalman (None) - Posts: 3846 - 04/02/2018 22:17:46    2074104

I thought Donegal controlled the game for large periods but lacked the guile to unlock the Galway blanket. Galway the far more efficient side and found their scores far easier to come by. They transitioned the ball far better and in the end just about deserved the win. Outside of Paddy McB Donegal struggled to get scores not helped by the often ponderous approach. Some of the Donegal kick passing was good but attempts started to wain as the game went on. Also to properly utilize it is important to have runners supporting the ball winner to really get the most of the situations created. Looking forward it is going to be a real struggle to stay in Division 1. I would still be hopeful but hard to see anything other than a loss next week against Dublin.

panamasam (Australia) - Posts: 2846 - 04/02/2018 23:44:04    2074126