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Lads, I just checked and this player has between league and championship started a massive "10" times for Galway. On his "2" championship starts first one in a very young midfield partnership along with Peter Cooke against Mayo, Aiden O'Shea/Donie Vaughan in Limerick and the other as a corner back marking Tommy Conroy. He didn't play for Galway in 2021. The one year he had relatively free of injuries was in 2020 when he started nearly all of the league games. Hopefully he will stay injury free in 2022 and reach the potential that all of us thought he had/has. hashtag2017 (Galway) - Posts: 173 - 19/01/2022 10:20:22 2395541 Link 1 |
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This doesn't prove anything, I'm going on what I've seen at games. 2019, he was on his hunkers most of the game in Limerick absolutely gassed. The league game against Dublin in Croker he was excellent but went off injured. Last Friday he conceded 3 points to his man after 4 minutes gave the ball away a few times and was hooked at half time. John Daly has started few games and has injury issues but is still very good any day I see him. Cathal Sweeney has started very few games but again came on the last day and scored 2 points. Up to McDaid now I would say to push on. smallfrank (Galway) - Posts: 543 - 19/01/2022 10:50:46 2395557 Link 2 |
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Did anyone ever see that panel that was seemingly in the Tuam Herald? Mayonman (Galway) - Posts: 1928 - 19/01/2022 13:10:27 2395594 Link 0 |
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Nope wrong guy.. Jason played rugby.
Belclare (Galway) - Posts: 904 - 19/01/2022 13:31:18 2395596 Link 0 |
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You've sort of answered the argument in your own post. He was down on his hunkers most of the game because he hadn't played since February after getting injured against Dublin. He was up against it that day between fitness and the position he was asked to play. The following year Joyce came in and had him involved but then COVID struck and we all know what happened to Galway in general then. He did get rinsed the last night but as we said he should probably get a run out at wing forward. He doesn't seem to be a natural defender to me. If he plays the league further forward and still doesn't make an impression, then I won't be calling for him to play much beyond that. But as another poster pointed out, it's been extremely stop/start for him with games the last 2 years (you could say the same for all Galway county players to be fair). I don't think he was even fit for Monivea last year so he's missed a lot of football. Townee2018 (Galway) - Posts: 282 - 19/01/2022 14:49:09 2395612 Link 0 |
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Yes I agree that McDaid has shown he isn't good enough BLT (Galway) - Posts: 53 - 19/01/2022 14:57:34 2395614 Link 2 |
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I've given specifics of games I've been at where ive seen him play and compared it to others. Anybody claiming he's athletic would do well to mention some specific performances in a senior Galway jersey that highlight this supposed athleticism. We have to judge players on what we see when they play senior games for Galway not what they did underage or with their club. Tony Gill was very good the other night.I have no bias towards Gill or McDaid just calling it the way I saw it. smallfrank (Galway) - Posts: 543 - 19/01/2022 16:39:58 2395638 Link 2 |
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Provided we've a clean bill of health this is the team I think will start vs Meath…obviously college will have to be taken into consideration gaillimhboy (Galway) - Posts: 374 - 19/01/2022 17:00:55 2395643 Link 0 |
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Jack Glynn out for next 8 weeks broken jaw Kickitout (Galway) - Posts: 1096 - 19/01/2022 18:14:50 2395653 Link 0 |
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Personally I don't think John Daly will start the don't think Paul Kelly will at midfield it's a position Galway very weak in no ball winners , as far as the college lads I'd say they be no way management will be taking them off the league is 2 serious u loose first game ur under pressure straight away knowing another loss and it's curtains for any chance at going up ,, Kickitout (Galway) - Posts: 1096 - 19/01/2022 18:20:35 2395654 Link 0 |
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I agree that Tony Gill looks very promising and is not afraid to put in hard tackles either!
tommy k (Galway) - Posts: 3470 - 19/01/2022 20:35:00 2395669 Link 0 |
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I see our Camogie team have pulled off a great sponsorship agreement, well done to them. One has to wonder are we getting full value with our existing arrangement with main hurling and football sponsors? ahsure. (Galway) - Posts: 1716 - 20/01/2022 10:32:49 2395699 Link 1 |
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We're not. Fantastic news for the ladies. Many more medals.to come for them and brilliant that some of the money will go to the underage teams The Galway captain spoke last year about how they were treated no differently to the men's team and that's something we should be proud of as a county (even if they werent winning AIs the ladies deserve the same treatment as men's teams in every county) I think it's pretty clear that football is not treated with the same respect as hurling by our CB. Reading about the recruitment of Shefflin confirms this. The lads on the CB who favour football are just there for tea and sandwiches and seem to think that our decent population size will get us an AI eventually galwayfball (Galway) - Posts: 1704 - 20/01/2022 10:57:09 2395705 Link 3 |
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Are we getting full value and transparency from those in the key positions however? Still a lot of unanswered questions from the financial debacle from a few years ago. Aside from a few appointments that made the airwaves, ask yourself what has really changed? FallenStar (Galway) - Posts: 431 - 20/01/2022 11:43:15 2395716 Link 1 |
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New CB Chairman was at pains to suggest football and hurling will be treated no differently going forward. We will see.
ahsure. (Galway) - Posts: 1716 - 20/01/2022 12:48:34 2395733 Link 1 |
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Not great on a couple of fronts, firstly for him, unlikely to see any action in the league anyway which at his age he needs. And secondly with options in the half back line and with Mulkerrin also gone, probably means Sean Kelly being placed in the full back line. With Glynn gone you are talking Fitzgerald, McGrath, Liam Silke and James Foley available for a marking job. Is there anyone else other than Sean Andy that people think could be added here. smallfrank (Galway) - Posts: 543 - 20/01/2022 14:21:33 2395754 Link 1 |
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€250k over 5 years covering all teams. In some ways it seems low. But €50k per year is probably good as they have a reasonable low profile compared to men's teams. Hope this is only the start. Kit sponsor, official partner with business, brand ambassadors etc Some individuals do very well out of promotional activities and I'm genuinely delighted for them. However it just shows how poor the County Board is at the same thing! Mayonman (Galway) - Posts: 1928 - 20/01/2022 14:24:48 2395755 Link 1 |
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James Foley ? He doesn't even play in the full back line for his club. Not to mind not good enough for intercounty standard. Liam Silke had a decent FBD final but has been poor for a few years now.... Although Belclare will disagree as he usually does when anyone passing an opinion on Corofin players. BLT (Galway) - Posts: 53 - 20/01/2022 15:39:05 2395765 Link 1 |
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For whatever reason some questions went unanswered, however all of the personnel have changed since then. Much stricter procedures are now in place for handling cash, gate receipts are way up. Most sponsorship deals are done on a multi year basis, meaning it takes time to change these things. I would expect this is the last year you will see supermacs on the senior mens jersey.
devrandom (Galway) - Posts: 77 - 20/01/2022 15:42:03 2395768 Link 0 |
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In summary, "no, I can't think of anyone else".
smallfrank (Galway) - Posts: 543 - 20/01/2022 17:35:44 2395787 Link 0 |