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Replying To CillTormoir: "How we feeling for Sunday? A must win imo" I'm confident We will win, Objective 1 is to win Leinster Title, then get focused on Objective 2 All Ireland Semi Final. In my opinion We are a better team than this current Kilkenny team once we don't hit the self destruction button. katser (Galway) - Posts: 2481 - 08/06/2023 20:38:30 2485026 Link
Replying To minor77: "I remember speaking to a ex galway player and his idea was that galway needed to be six points better than kilkenny to beat them by a point just showing our inferiority complex" This was always the feeling in Clare when we played Cork. Maybe not so much in recent times LohansRedHelmet (Clare) - Posts: 2684 - 08/06/2023 20:58:08 2485030 Link
Replying To minor77: "I remember speaking to a ex galway player and his idea was that galway needed to be six points better than kilkenny to beat them by a point just showing our inferiority complex" That was then. This is now. I dont actually think that applies anymore. Why? Because since we entered Leinster we are playing them on a regular basis. When contact is rare, awe and mystery builds up. When we didnt play them often we expected them to beat us because Kilkenny were Kilkenny, one of the Big 3 and one of the kingpins of hurling. Now that we play them more often the awe has vanished, we realise that most of the time they are no better than us and if they beat us it is because on the day they were better than us. We dont need to be 6 points better than them anymore to beat them by one point -- that psychological dam has been burst. We just need to be one point better than them to beat them by one -- which is the way things should be. PoolSturgeon (Galway) - Posts: 1968 - 09/06/2023 00:44:57 2485052 Link
Replying To minor77: "I remember speaking to a ex galway player and his idea was that galway needed to be six points better than kilkenny to beat them by a point just showing our inferiority complex" It's just that KILKENNY and KERRY and other such teams KNOW HOW TO WIN where as Galway teams just don't unless they're 10 times better. Strange. Trump2020 (Galway) - Posts: 2282 - 09/06/2023 01:05:36 2485055 Link
Replying To clare_sparrow: "this is the reason we should be getting in lads at minor level who are at least 6 foot 2. and push for lads over 6 foot 5. get them to hurl and wel be onto something. A lot easier to train big lads to hurl than it is to get small lads strong..." Regarding your last sentence,, I would have thought the opposite was true. Hurling is one of the most difficult sports on earth to get the hang of, while pretty much anyone can easily improve their strength pretty quickly if they're just handed the right programme. Galway9801 (Galway) - Posts: 1942 - 09/06/2023 01:27:38 2485058 Link
Replying To katser: "I'm confident We will win, Objective 1 is to win Leinster Title, then get focused on Objective 2 All Ireland Semi Final. In my opinion We are a better team than this current Kilkenny team once we don't hit the self destruction button." Unfortunately we have the self dectruct button on the ready all year gifted wexford and dublin 2 goals managed to come back but if we do that against the cat's there's no way back minor77 (Galway) - Posts: 249 - 09/06/2023 08:44:08 2485062 Link
Replying To minor77: "Unfortunately we have the self dectruct button on the ready all year gifted wexford and dublin 2 goals managed to come back but if we do that against the cat's there's no way back" I wouldnt be too worried yet. Galway are likely playing within themselves and knew they had them games won. Sunday will be different and a different test. Remember KK have brought little or no intensity to their games in League or cship this year. This game will tell an awful lot I feel tiobraid (Tipperary) - Posts: 4119 - 09/06/2023 10:26:12 2485085 Link
Replying To Trump2020: "It's just that KILKENNY and KERRY and other such teams KNOW HOW TO WIN where as Galway teams just don't unless they're 10 times better. Strange." Been watching football for 50 and more years, and I don't recall a year when Galway were clearly 'better' than Kerry, let alone 10 times better. Pope_Benedict (Galway) - Posts: 3911 - 09/06/2023 11:11:04 2485094 Link
Replying To Pope_Benedict: "Been watching football for 50 and more years, and I don't recall a year when Galway were clearly 'better' than Kerry, let alone 10 times better." We were clearly better in the 1963 to 1965 period and of course Micko could not accept this. His way of showing same was not to recognise our 3 in row team as one of the greatest sides to play the game. On Sunday imo we won't have to be 6 pts better than KK to win by 1. They are a good bit back from previous KK teams and if we have anything about us we should win without an inferiority pre set. kiloughter (Galway) - Posts: 1973 - 09/06/2023 13:27:31 2485116 Link
Replying To CillTormoir: "Wouldn't it be the year ourselves and Clare win on Sunday and we meet Limerick in the semi :)" Yes it most likely will be one of those two we meet in the All Ireland Semi Final, but first it's absolutely pivotal that We win Sunday. None of this silly fouling and giving away easy frees to Kilkenny making them look good and keeping them in the game like previous Leinster Finals. We are the masters of our own downfall. It's so frustrating.......just go out and show us what quality hurlers they are! I believe in this team and I know they have it in them, just want them to let it all out and release all that engery and skill. katser (Galway) - Posts: 2481 - 09/06/2023 14:23:44 2485131 Link
Replying To tiobraid: "I wouldnt be too worried yet. Galway are likely playing within themselves and knew they had them games won. Sunday will be different and a different test. Remember KK have brought little or no intensity to their games in League or cship this year. This game will tell an awful lot I feel" Fair intensity from them in their last game. They were going in hard for every ball. They scored 5 goals. 3 of them went off injured. Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 14240 - 09/06/2023 15:11:51 2485141 Link
The excitement is mounting for me anyway, We are in the Leinster Final where I expected us to be, the mickey mouse round Robin games are done and out of the way. This Weekend is the real Championship and I'm really looking forward to see how we react. Its games like this that I relish, don't care if Kilkenny aren't as strong as they used to be, it's the fact that you get the chance to win Leinster and knock Kilkenny back on their ass. Does one need anymore motivation than that! katser (Galway) - Posts: 2481 - 09/06/2023 19:20:57 2485175 Link
Replying To kiloughter: "We were clearly better in the 1963 to 1965 period and of course Micko could not accept this. His way of showing same was not to recognise our 3 in row team as one of the greatest sides to play the game. On Sunday imo we won't have to be 6 pts better than KK to win by 1. They are a good bit back from previous KK teams and if we have anything about us we should win without an inferiority pre set." That's the point I was making, Kiloughter. You have to stretch it back SIXTY years to find a time when observers would agree that Galway were clearly better than Kerry, and they made it count too, beating them in back to back finals, and winning 3 in a row. It just strongly suggests that the Galway Kerry element of that '10 times better' theory finds absolutely no grounding in reality. Pope_Benedict (Galway) - Posts: 3911 - 09/06/2023 21:07:41 2485189 Link
Replying To Pope_Benedict: "That's the point I was making, Kiloughter. You have to stretch it back SIXTY years to find a time when observers would agree that Galway were clearly better than Kerry, and they made it count too, beating them in back to back finals, and winning 3 in a row. It just strongly suggests that the Galway Kerry element of that '10 times better' theory finds absolutely no grounding in reality." I think you took my post A LITTLE TOO LITERALLY. The point I was trying to belabor was about knowing HOW to win even when you're not necessarily the better team. Great example was 2 years ago when St Thomas's lost to Ballyhale despite leading by 5 points and the game about over. Kilkenny and Kerry teams are great at that kind of thing. Trump2020 (Galway) - Posts: 2282 - 09/06/2023 23:25:59 2485209 Link
Replying To LohansRedHelmet: "This was always the feeling in Clare when we played Cork. Maybe not so much in recent times" It's switched from Cork to Limerick now, eh! foreveryoung (USA) - Posts: 2118 - 10/06/2023 01:35:39 2485212 Link
Good to see Tiernan Killeen back on the bench for Sunday. He will be needed later in the championship. I'd still expect a few changes to the starting team named. Surely Glennon won't start midfield. galway19 (Galway) - Posts: 806 - 10/06/2023 07:44:25 2485225 Link
Looking at the Kilkenny team you'd want to see either Concannon or Niland over on Mikey Carey early to move him around. Hasn't hurled all year and we can't let him settle. Would be ideal to fire over a few points off him early. Butler can't be fully fit either. galway19 (Galway) - Posts: 806 - 10/06/2023 08:35:10 2485230 Link
Replying To galway19: "Good to see Tiernan Killeen back on the bench for Sunday. He will be needed later in the championship. I'd still expect a few changes to the starting team named. Surely Glennon won't start midfield." I think he will. Really like that half forward line....praying that C Cooney delivers the goods, Niland will clip over the frees and Monaghan is a free spirt on the wing, Kilkenny would need to pay attention to Monaghan because he is well capable of tacking over 3-4 points and then the hitme inside with Concannon and Whelan. With those 5 mentioned all playing well Kilkenny won't be able to match us. katser (Galway) - Posts: 2481 - 10/06/2023 11:30:29 2485239 Link
Replying To galway19: "Good to see Tiernan Killeen back on the bench for Sunday. He will be needed later in the championship. I'd still expect a few changes to the starting team named. Surely Glennon won't start midfield." Niland is named to start 15 and K Cooney on the wing??!!! katser (Galway) - Posts: 2481 - 10/06/2023 11:34:10 2485241 Link
Thought Whelan marked out of it in Nowlan Park when on Lawlor. Don't like to see him half forward as more a danger inside. Interested to see how he goes tomorrow. Maybe 13 is his best spot and not 14! I know there's no one position as it's always rotating in a game but not in half forward line or full forward for me. CillTormoir (Galway) - Posts: 499 - 10/06/2023 12:38:46 2485243 Link