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Replying To galwayford:  "The team that won in 2017 was physically imposing. Our team now looks smaller. Especially the full back line. The Dublin full forward rampaged through it. Hope Mr Donoghue can rectify this. Wexford are no pushovers. And Galway will have to be at their best to beat them. Regards any final, the Dubs sadly look a lot better than us."
Considering we had 17 wides to Dublin's 3, and were kind enough to hand them an own goal as well, I'd say there's massive scope for improvement. We had much more of the ball and plenty more shots, so it's not as much of a lost cause as you suggest. They can absolutely beat us again, as I said before the match, but if we perform as we should, we're well capable of beating them.

WanPintWin (Galway) - Posts: 2812 - 20/05/2026 22:20:49    2674436

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Replying To galwayford:  "The team that won in 2017 was physically imposing. Our team now looks smaller. Especially the full back line. The Dublin full forward rampaged through it. Hope Mr Donoghue can rectify this. Wexford are no pushovers. And Galway will have to be at their best to beat them. Regards any final, the Dubs sadly look a lot better than us."
Dublin not really better than us. They went 2 up with the wind late in the match and instead of pushing on, let us back in to it. Until Hayes and 'Hetherington' were sprung, they were at very little in the forward unit. Their second goal came when a ball dropped in the square and Trayers and Daithi each left it to the other. Third goal arrived when dropping ball deflected luckily to the Dublin midfielder. Them's the breaks.

Triffic (Galway) - Posts: 183 - 20/05/2026 22:23:35    2674437

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One way traffic in the u20 final. The scoreline flattered Kilkenny and if we had our full squad available it could have been a 20 point beating. Very funny watching David Barcoe trying to bully some of our lads in the first half, he barely hit or caught a ball all day and then when Rabbitte came in on him he was all over the place defensively. Rightly sent off in the end. Jack Shaughnessy is some talent for an 18 year old. Two cups secured in Leinster and hopefully we can pick up the third in a few weeks time as well as an all ireland u20 title

galway19 (Galway) - Posts: 1102 - 20/05/2026 22:46:05    2674439

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Replying To galwayford:  "The team that won in 2017 was physically imposing. Our team now looks smaller. Especially the full back line. The Dublin full forward rampaged through it. Hope Mr Donoghue can rectify this. Wexford are no pushovers. And Galway will have to be at their best to beat them. Regards any final, the Dubs sadly look a lot better than us."
How does Donoghue 'rectify' that? Water them, I suppose? At least they only 'look smaller', so you appear to be marginally uncertain as to whether they're smaller or not. Dublin didn't look 'a lot better than us' imo. We 'won' the widecount 17-3 or so, and Daithi conceded an unforced og, and yet we were still level after 70mins, losing it in concluding injury time.

Pope_Benedict (Galway) - Posts: 4724 - 21/05/2026 00:59:14    2674452

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