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Replying To WanPintWin:  "All his comments were very valid. We're in no position to be slagging Limerick. They put in a massive effort from the start right to the bitter end on the weekend. We certainly didn't."
I think the Galway lads put in the effort but some of it was misguided and showed a lack of experience. I was surprised that Morrissey wasn't picked from the start. Once KK got that first goal the game changed instantly and the body language of the KK players changed completely. It was tight and cagey up until then.
It's not a case of not making an effort, Galway are rebuilding and right now don't have the quality they had from 2012-2018.

Crashingwaves (Galway) - Posts: 199 - 10/06/2025 11:10:03    2616329

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Replying To Pope_Benedict:  "As Seamus Darby said beautifully about 'your team' on that football program last night, 'you'll criticise them, but you won't let anyone else criticise them'."
Exactly!

Crashingwaves (Galway) - Posts: 199 - 10/06/2025 11:13:37    2616331

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Replying To The_DOC:  "Great story brahhh"
From the 2 Leinster u20 Final teams from 2022 and 2023, both of which we lost by less than a score, Eoin Ryan, Richie Lawlor, Cian Molloy, Cian Byrne, Darragh Carley, Conor Foley, and Jack Redmond all started or came on in Salthill a few weeks ago. Half of them played last year against you in the Park. Other lads off those 2 teams who have started or come on in Senior Championship games include Corey Byrne Dunbar, Tucker Kinsella, Simon Roche (who was still u20 this year but started in the 23 u20 final). Cillian Byrne and Sean Rowley were both still u20 this year and both started the 2023 u20 final also. Both have also played Senior this year. Kehoe, Dundon, Codd, Shiel and Pepper have all played Senior games also, and the first 3 would've played more but for injury. Whelan was also injured this year, along with Farrell and O'Hagan.
We got 6 points with a very experimental team this year, and all the above lads have shown signs of improvement as they get more top level experience and S and C.
Hopefully they stay improving over the next 3 years and when they are 25 we should have a better team.
Obviously there will be others stepping up from u20 over those 3 years also.
But the point still remains, if you don't give lads that age gametime they likely will never step up.

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 16228 - 10/06/2025 11:51:52    2616343

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Replying To Viking66:  "From the 2 Leinster u20 Final teams from 2022 and 2023, both of which we lost by less than a score, Eoin Ryan, Richie Lawlor, Cian Molloy, Cian Byrne, Darragh Carley, Conor Foley, and Jack Redmond all started or came on in Salthill a few weeks ago. Half of them played last year against you in the Park. Other lads off those 2 teams who have started or come on in Senior Championship games include Corey Byrne Dunbar, Tucker Kinsella, Simon Roche (who was still u20 this year but started in the 23 u20 final). Cillian Byrne and Sean Rowley were both still u20 this year and both started the 2023 u20 final also. Both have also played Senior this year. Kehoe, Dundon, Codd, Shiel and Pepper have all played Senior games also, and the first 3 would've played more but for injury. Whelan was also injured this year, along with Farrell and O'Hagan.
We got 6 points with a very experimental team this year, and all the above lads have shown signs of improvement as they get more top level experience and S and C.
Hopefully they stay improving over the next 3 years and when they are 25 we should have a better team.
Obviously there will be others stepping up from u20 over those 3 years also.
But the point still remains, if you don't give lads that age gametime they likely will never step up."
Galway hurling thread?

Crashingwaves (Galway) - Posts: 199 - 10/06/2025 12:30:21    2616362

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Replying To Viking66:  "From the 2 Leinster u20 Final teams from 2022 and 2023, both of which we lost by less than a score, Eoin Ryan, Richie Lawlor, Cian Molloy, Cian Byrne, Darragh Carley, Conor Foley, and Jack Redmond all started or came on in Salthill a few weeks ago. Half of them played last year against you in the Park. Other lads off those 2 teams who have started or come on in Senior Championship games include Corey Byrne Dunbar, Tucker Kinsella, Simon Roche (who was still u20 this year but started in the 23 u20 final). Cillian Byrne and Sean Rowley were both still u20 this year and both started the 2023 u20 final also. Both have also played Senior this year. Kehoe, Dundon, Codd, Shiel and Pepper have all played Senior games also, and the first 3 would've played more but for injury. Whelan was also injured this year, along with Farrell and O'Hagan.
We got 6 points with a very experimental team this year, and all the above lads have shown signs of improvement as they get more top level experience and S and C.
Hopefully they stay improving over the next 3 years and when they are 25 we should have a better team.
Obviously there will be others stepping up from u20 over those 3 years also.
But the point still remains, if you don't give lads that age gametime they likely will never step up."
Cool story bro

The_DOC (Galway) - Posts: 789 - 10/06/2025 14:08:52    2616405

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Replying To Crashingwaves:  "Galway hurling thread?"
I wouldnt be so precious about it. We are all hurling people and free to comment on each other's threads.

PoolSturgeon (Galway) - Posts: 2030 - 10/06/2025 14:31:45    2616416

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Still absolutely gutted over our performance Sunday. I expected much more and was confident We would win.
From speaking to many Galway hurling people they couldn't give a hoot about the Leinster title and if I'm honest I don't care about either only for its a gateway to the All Ireland Semi Final.
Galway v Tipp games are 50/50 and I know for a fact they hate playing Galway....We can definitely beat them.

katser (Galway) - Posts: 2612 - 10/06/2025 14:54:50    2616429

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Replying To Crashingwaves:  "Galway hurling thread?"
True. Sorry lad. Just got the impression that poster didn't believe me! You have lads like Collins who would surely benefit from getting games!

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 16228 - 10/06/2025 14:58:50    2616436

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Replying To Viking66:  "True. Sorry lad. Just got the impression that poster didn't believe me! You have lads like Collins who would surely benefit from getting games!"
No problem! I agree with what you're saying and thought some of our own younger players should have been given more time in the LF, the likes of Burns, McLoughlin and Molloy.

Crashingwaves (Galway) - Posts: 199 - 10/06/2025 15:11:32    2616440

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Replying To Crashingwaves:  "No problem! I agree with what you're saying and thought some of our own younger players should have been given more time in the LF, the likes of Burns, McLoughlin and Molloy."
3 good prospects, and it's not as if you are coming down with fast scoring forwards either.
I don't know, intercounty managers are the top managers in the country, but I often suspect that most know they are only likely to be there 2 or 3 years, both on account of it being such a time consuming high pressure job and also due to the expectations of instant success from CBs and the GAA public, and plan accordingly. Even if they are local men, but much more exaggerated if they are not.
Many down here don't appreciate what Keith is having to do, I just hope he's given the time to try bring these lads on over the next 3 years or so.
Looking at it from your point of view I was expecting Michael to do something similar. Your team could yet surprise us all, but being realistic at the start of the year I don't think anyone even up your way was expecting Galway to be any more likely to win anything this year than we were, and I can't help feeling that you have wasted a year of development.
The days of yore when a lad could become such a good club player that he'd step seamlessly up to intercounty are long gone. There's not a step there anymore, it's like trying to jump across the Shannon in one leap.

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 16228 - 10/06/2025 16:24:54    2616462

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Replying To Pope_Benedict:  "The last sentence there, that's your action item so, the rest is irrelevant. I presume the YOU yourself are not going to be the one 'seriously looking' at this, so you will in fact be just waiting for results like the rest of us. Bystanders all, rosary beads attached or not."
I'm guessing that you are not going to be the one either to take on that role, doesn't seem to deflect YOU from having an opinion( on everything). Facts are facts we suck at underage and have done so for a while, it looks like from the games I've seen that we are headless, no direction and seem to be overrun. No I'm not coming back to Galway after 30+ years to audit the academy but I can tell you I have been involved in hockey academies here in the States. Yes we have good years and bad years talent wise, but I would not never say we didn't have talent at all, nor did we wait till we got a "good batch". We looked at the material we had and build a team around it. Did we beat the better teams with more talent...sometimes but I can tell you we didn't get hammered every time we put on skates. You can say ahh that's a different sport, but the fundamentals are the same for youth be it GAA, Rugby, Soccer etc and if something isn't working you change it not sit there and wait with rosery beads in hand. IMHO, there is talent (maybe not in abundance) but the academy is broken from the ground up and needs to be changed. The first step is to recognize there is a problem before you can take action. As for "waiting for results" well then keep going to the games keep believing we are one good batch of talent away from making it OR stop going to games enduring 15 point losses and accepting it. If the fanbase drops and loses interest then maybe just maybe the hurling board may realize they have a problem that needs fixing.

BostonGuy (Galway) - Posts: 167 - 10/06/2025 18:33:31    2616500

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Replying To katser:  "Still absolutely gutted over our performance Sunday. I expected much more and was confident We would win.
From speaking to many Galway hurling people they couldn't give a hoot about the Leinster title and if I'm honest I don't care about either only for its a gateway to the All Ireland Semi Final.
Galway v Tipp games are 50/50 and I know for a fact they hate playing Galway....We can definitely beat them."
If Tipp wear Kilkenny jerseys you can forget about it didnt think the Galway players ever thought they were going to win thats how it looked to me anyway.

Tiger1 (Wexford) - Posts: 386 - 10/06/2025 19:36:52    2616517

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Will the quarterfinals be a double header in Thurles, even though Tipp will be playing?

CillTormoir (Galway) - Posts: 546 - 10/06/2025 19:43:43    2616522

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Replying To katser:  "Still absolutely gutted over our performance Sunday. I expected much more and was confident We would win.
From speaking to many Galway hurling people they couldn't give a hoot about the Leinster title and if I'm honest I don't care about either only for its a gateway to the All Ireland Semi Final.
Galway v Tipp games are 50/50 and I know for a fact they hate playing Galway....We can definitely beat them."
Katser we are not beating Tipperary. We have so many problems, no midfield, no scoring forwards. Can't win puck outs, can't deliver ball into the forwards. Tipp by 5+

BigBàsMan (Galway) - Posts: 145 - 10/06/2025 19:47:34    2616523

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Replying To BostonGuy:  "I'm guessing that you are not going to be the one either to take on that role, doesn't seem to deflect YOU from having an opinion( on everything). Facts are facts we suck at underage and have done so for a while, it looks like from the games I've seen that we are headless, no direction and seem to be overrun. No I'm not coming back to Galway after 30+ years to audit the academy but I can tell you I have been involved in hockey academies here in the States. Yes we have good years and bad years talent wise, but I would not never say we didn't have talent at all, nor did we wait till we got a "good batch". We looked at the material we had and build a team around it. Did we beat the better teams with more talent...sometimes but I can tell you we didn't get hammered every time we put on skates. You can say ahh that's a different sport, but the fundamentals are the same for youth be it GAA, Rugby, Soccer etc and if something isn't working you change it not sit there and wait with rosery beads in hand. IMHO, there is talent (maybe not in abundance) but the academy is broken from the ground up and needs to be changed. The first step is to recognize there is a problem before you can take action. As for "waiting for results" well then keep going to the games keep believing we are one good batch of talent away from making it OR stop going to games enduring 15 point losses and accepting it. If the fanbase drops and loses interest then maybe just maybe the hurling board may realize they have a problem that needs fixing."
Certainly wouldnt agree with your last point anyway. If the fanbase stops going to matches then that means apathy has taken hold. That would bring us back to the really dark days prior to the mid 70's when our support at matches was no more than a few hundred hardy souls. What we need is passion from fans, passion from hurling people, to care enough and to be dissatisfied enough with our present circumstances to want to change them.

PoolSturgeon (Galway) - Posts: 2030 - 10/06/2025 20:43:30    2616536

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