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Replying To ahsure.:  "So the elephant in the room.. are the IRFU going to change the time of the Ireland - England game on Saturday to accommodate Galway and Armagh?"
No

Donaldtrump (Galway) - Posts: 252 - 13/03/2023 14:00:35    2463724

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Replying To galwayfball:  "Salthill have some neck on them. A shared facility would be great for city clubs. The current proposal is a joke and I'm shocked they are trying to get away with it. This will just lead to the already dominant city club become more dominant"
They have some neck. Going into St Michaels and Rahoon Newcastles catchment area. I read both clubs statements and I agree with them.
Not alone are Salthill currently pulling from everywhere in the city and from the islands and beyond. This cash rich clubs is trying to ruin the neighbouring clubs. I have heard of flyers etc. been send around the Michaels and Rahoon areas getting people to sign petitions. They have history of this, killing Father Griffins club years ago. This will test the strength of the county board here. If they go ahead with these plan Galway county board need to kick them out of the Galway competitions. Clubs need to band together and refuse to play them in any competition. If they get away with this where does it end.

LottoPlus (Kilkenny) - Posts: 85 - 13/03/2023 15:44:38    2463750

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Replying To ahsure.:  "So the elephant in the room.. are the IRFU going to change the time of the Ireland - England game on Saturday to accommodate Galway and Armagh?"
It won't affect me or most people on here, we'll all be in Armagh. Maybe if it was an Irish team but half "The Guys" are from New Zealand and Australia, it is joke.

GDL (Galway) - Posts: 774 - 13/03/2023 16:07:21    2463756

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Replying To LottoPlus:  "They have some neck. Going into St Michaels and Rahoon Newcastles catchment area. I read both clubs statements and I agree with them.
Not alone are Salthill currently pulling from everywhere in the city and from the islands and beyond. This cash rich clubs is trying to ruin the neighbouring clubs. I have heard of flyers etc. been send around the Michaels and Rahoon areas getting people to sign petitions. They have history of this, killing Father Griffins club years ago. This will test the strength of the county board here. If they go ahead with these plan Galway county board need to kick them out of the Galway competitions. Clubs need to band together and refuse to play them in any competition. If they get away with this where does it end."
This is a real tricky one . For this reason I think the county board will do the usual GAA "Pontius Pilate" job.
Now I rarely defend the GAA when they display this type of cowardice, but , in this instance its very difficult to know what they could or should do.
Salthill are a mammoth club with large resources in terms of numbers - and I assume a fair amount of financial clout.
They need facilities to accommodate their vast numbers , and whatever happens, the endeavours to generate these facilities need to be accommodated in some fashion.. The problem is that they are land locked.
I honestly don't believe that there is any intent on the behalf of Salthill to locate a facility that allows them to "steal" players...I genuinely believe that,
However that's what will happen. Do you expect a youngster to travel a couple of miles to train in a mediocre facility when there is a state of the art facility at their doorstep.
That's why a shared facility would be ideal , but the practicalities of this would be close to impossible to iron out.
Thinking outside the box for a solution.
How about this:
Sell Pearse Stadium to Salthill with a proviso that it is released to the county for the 4 or 5 big inter county games per year.
Use the money to develop Tuam and Athenry which would become the centres for club football and hurling, respectively.
Not an ideal solution but it would have it's advantages.

anotheralias (Galway) - Posts: 960 - 13/03/2023 16:20:56    2463759

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Replying To jam83:  "Is Galway Armagh televised on Saturday?"
Yes

katser (Galway) - Posts: 2481 - 13/03/2023 19:32:01    2463796

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Replying To anotheralias:  "This is a real tricky one . For this reason I think the county board will do the usual GAA "Pontius Pilate" job.
Now I rarely defend the GAA when they display this type of cowardice, but , in this instance its very difficult to know what they could or should do.
Salthill are a mammoth club with large resources in terms of numbers - and I assume a fair amount of financial clout.
They need facilities to accommodate their vast numbers , and whatever happens, the endeavours to generate these facilities need to be accommodated in some fashion.. The problem is that they are land locked.
I honestly don't believe that there is any intent on the behalf of Salthill to locate a facility that allows them to "steal" players...I genuinely believe that,
However that's what will happen. Do you expect a youngster to travel a couple of miles to train in a mediocre facility when there is a state of the art facility at their doorstep.
That's why a shared facility would be ideal , but the practicalities of this would be close to impossible to iron out.
Thinking outside the box for a solution.
How about this:
Sell Pearse Stadium to Salthill with a proviso that it is released to the county for the 4 or 5 big inter county games per year.
Use the money to develop Tuam and Athenry which would become the centres for club football and hurling, respectively.
Not an ideal solution but it would have it's advantages."
Its Salthill knocknacarra not just Salthill and I absolutely think there's land in knocknacarra.

galwayfball (Galway) - Posts: 1704 - 13/03/2023 21:24:50    2463818

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Replying To anotheralias:  "This is a real tricky one . For this reason I think the county board will do the usual GAA "Pontius Pilate" job.
Now I rarely defend the GAA when they display this type of cowardice, but , in this instance its very difficult to know what they could or should do.
Salthill are a mammoth club with large resources in terms of numbers - and I assume a fair amount of financial clout.
They need facilities to accommodate their vast numbers , and whatever happens, the endeavours to generate these facilities need to be accommodated in some fashion.. The problem is that they are land locked.
I honestly don't believe that there is any intent on the behalf of Salthill to locate a facility that allows them to "steal" players...I genuinely believe that,
However that's what will happen. Do you expect a youngster to travel a couple of miles to train in a mediocre facility when there is a state of the art facility at their doorstep.
That's why a shared facility would be ideal , but the practicalities of this would be close to impossible to iron out.
Thinking outside the box for a solution.
How about this:
Sell Pearse Stadium to Salthill with a proviso that it is released to the county for the 4 or 5 big inter county games per year.
Use the money to develop Tuam and Athenry which would become the centres for club football and hurling, respectively.
Not an ideal solution but it would have it's advantages."
This is going to drag on for a long time. I see reference in the Salthill statement to Rahoon taking hurlers from Knocknacarra. I dont see how this gets solved with Salthill trying to field almost 70 teams in the club but not enough facilities for them. I dont have any side on this but I would think that eventually the clout and backing that Salthill have would win out.

galway19 (Galway) - Posts: 799 - 14/03/2023 11:23:36    2463850

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Replying To GDL:  "It won't affect me or most people on here, we'll all be in Armagh. Maybe if it was an Irish team but half "The Guys" are from New Zealand and Australia, it is joke."
4 out of the overall panel of 36 are from NZ or Australia and one more is English.

So 31 are born and bred on this Island.

Hardly "half"

kazoochka (Galway) - Posts: 344 - 14/03/2023 11:26:17    2463851

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Replying To galwayfball:  "Its Salthill knocknacarra not just Salthill and I absolutely think there's land in knocknacarra."
Parts of what people might consider as "Knocknacarra" falls into Bearna-Furbo territory. There is no viable Greenfield site in Salthill Knocknacarra for sporting purposes. Even if there was, the cost of it would be phenomenal and the politics of it would be crazy in a time where we are crying out for housing in the city.

Some sort of municipal playing fields solution where the local clubs all get a fair use of it should be doable but some of the boycott and bans talk around this is bananas. City clubs like Salthill Michaels James and Griffins are at a massive disadvantage facilities wise to other clubs because they can't just build a modern facility on a Greenfield site like Bearna or Oranmore or Moycullen can for obviously reasons.

Now either everyone can be adults about it and build a facility for the betterment of all parties and most importantly the kids of the city, or we blindly tell Salthill to go and jump because we have to follow lines drawn on a map when the city population was a fraction of what it is now and continue to expect every child in the city to train at the Prairie and westside pitch on a Saturday morning.

kazoochka (Galway) - Posts: 344 - 14/03/2023 11:37:07    2463854

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Replying To kazoochka:  "Parts of what people might consider as "Knocknacarra" falls into Bearna-Furbo territory. There is no viable Greenfield site in Salthill Knocknacarra for sporting purposes. Even if there was, the cost of it would be phenomenal and the politics of it would be crazy in a time where we are crying out for housing in the city.

Some sort of municipal playing fields solution where the local clubs all get a fair use of it should be doable but some of the boycott and bans talk around this is bananas. City clubs like Salthill Michaels James and Griffins are at a massive disadvantage facilities wise to other clubs because they can't just build a modern facility on a Greenfield site like Bearna or Oranmore or Moycullen can for obviously reasons.

Now either everyone can be adults about it and build a facility for the betterment of all parties and most importantly the kids of the city, or we blindly tell Salthill to go and jump because we have to follow lines drawn on a map when the city population was a fraction of what it is now and continue to expect every child in the city to train at the Prairie and westside pitch on a Saturday morning."
Salthill have never ever followed lines drawn on a MAP. They pull from everywhere. That aside . this should not be allowed. I guarantee it will ruin Michaels. Salthill are only in it for themselves. They always have.

LottoPlus (Kilkenny) - Posts: 85 - 14/03/2023 15:25:58    2463909

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Replying To galwayfball:  "Its Salthill knocknacarra not just Salthill and I absolutely think there's land in knocknacarra."
Is Cappagh Park not in Knocknacarra?There is loads of space there.Already developed to some extent as well.

Alwaysencourage (Galway) - Posts: 370 - 14/03/2023 16:26:22    2463918

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Replying To kazoochka:  "Parts of what people might consider as "Knocknacarra" falls into Bearna-Furbo territory. There is no viable Greenfield site in Salthill Knocknacarra for sporting purposes. Even if there was, the cost of it would be phenomenal and the politics of it would be crazy in a time where we are crying out for housing in the city.

Some sort of municipal playing fields solution where the local clubs all get a fair use of it should be doable but some of the boycott and bans talk around this is bananas. City clubs like Salthill Michaels James and Griffins are at a massive disadvantage facilities wise to other clubs because they can't just build a modern facility on a Greenfield site like Bearna or Oranmore or Moycullen can for obviously reasons.

Now either everyone can be adults about it and build a facility for the betterment of all parties and most importantly the kids of the city, or we blindly tell Salthill to go and jump because we have to follow lines drawn on a map when the city population was a fraction of what it is now and continue to expect every child in the city to train at the Prairie and westside pitch on a Saturday morning."
Moycullen only have 2 pitches for both hurling and football so they are very stuck for room as well.

Alwaysencourage (Galway) - Posts: 370 - 14/03/2023 16:28:00    2463919

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Replying To Belclare:  "Agree..
It's plain as day Galway Bay fm is " jobs for the boys" if you take sport out of it , it's failing miserably. Just looking at the latest JNLR figures , it's rates second bottom in the country.
Mid West is years ahead in general , and in fairness they now have done away with Martin Carney as Co com and freshing it up..
George Mc Donagh has the expertise of a fella sitting on a high stool all day waffling.
John Mulligan fluttering away back in studio taking commercial breaks every 2 mins when he loses script....
Ollie has been covered above....."
Just sat through the podcast this week as sometimes a few of the guests are decent.
I've never seen someone so confident in what they say as McDonagh despite them having zero knowledge

He blamed Ireland lack of backup to sexton in provinces bringing in foreign outhalves

When someone questioned him on this he could only mention contepomi?? he must have left Leinster over 10 years ago and also made a snide remark about him qualifying as a surgeon while in Ireland as if it was something bad like he was using Ireland to get a qualification

When called out an shown to be clueless all he could say was he thought ogara was still Ireland 2nd best outhalf trying to be funny

This is the level of knowledge he has across gaa and the premier league aswell and is an embarrassment to Galway compared to what other local stations produce

jm25 (Galway) - Posts: 1300 - 14/03/2023 16:38:52    2463924

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Replying To GDL:  "It won't affect me or most people on here, we'll all be in Armagh. Maybe if it was an Irish team but half "The Guys" are from New Zealand and Australia, it is joke."
Are you George Mc ?

Belclare (Galway) - Posts: 904 - 14/03/2023 16:54:33    2463926

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Replying To Belclare:  "Are you George Mc ?"
He has voodoo dolls of Hansen and Lowe

jm25 (Galway) - Posts: 1300 - 14/03/2023 17:01:57    2463929

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Replying To Alwaysencourage:  "Is Cappagh Park not in Knocknacarra?There is loads of space there.Already developed to some extent as well."
Far as I am aware it is technically Bearna /Barna Woods though SK have trained kids there before.

kazoochka (Galway) - Posts: 344 - 14/03/2023 18:43:52    2463950

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Replying To jm25:  "He has voodoo dolls of Hansen and Lowe"
I've a headache just thinking about the rubbish Neil Francis and co will be spouting on Sunday, he never recovered from that puck to the head Tony Copsey from Wales gave him in the early 1990's. Anyways, I'll be collecting Tommy K from the Rustic vaults in the Red Cortina on Saturday around 11 with a quick stop in Ballygar for a pint before hitting Roscommon, Longford and a getting drop of Red in Armagh for the spin home. It'll be a long day without a Snack box till we get back to Longford with 8 points on the board.

GDL (Galway) - Posts: 774 - 14/03/2023 19:46:13    2463954

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Replying To GDL:  "I've a headache just thinking about the rubbish Neil Francis and co will be spouting on Sunday, he never recovered from that puck to the head Tony Copsey from Wales gave him in the early 1990's. Anyways, I'll be collecting Tommy K from the Rustic vaults in the Red Cortina on Saturday around 11 with a quick stop in Ballygar for a pint before hitting Roscommon, Longford and a getting drop of Red in Armagh for the spin home. It'll be a long day without a Snack box till we get back to Longford with 8 points on the board."
I wasn't aware of that but now I will have to buy a 6 pack - oh no! lol

tommy k (Galway) - Posts: 3470 - 15/03/2023 13:15:51    2464028

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Replying To jm25:  "Just sat through the podcast this week as sometimes a few of the guests are decent.
I've never seen someone so confident in what they say as McDonagh despite them having zero knowledge

He blamed Ireland lack of backup to sexton in provinces bringing in foreign outhalves

When someone questioned him on this he could only mention contepomi?? he must have left Leinster over 10 years ago and also made a snide remark about him qualifying as a surgeon while in Ireland as if it was something bad like he was using Ireland to get a qualification

When called out an shown to be clueless all he could say was he thought ogara was still Ireland 2nd best outhalf trying to be funny

This is the level of knowledge he has across gaa and the premier league aswell and is an embarrassment to Galway compared to what other local stations produce"

As mentioned above he sounds like someone on a bar stool, trying to sound like an expert on everything but ending up sounding ignorant and clueless. I wonder how his tips for Cheltenham are doing, bar the each ways on one of the favourites.....

Good to know Galway Bay is that low on the JNLR nationally, it might prompt advertisers to look for lower costs and then force Galway Bay to do a bit of inward critiquing of the presenters to improve the output.

It looks like Ollie Turners not doing any league games I listened to on the radio. I thought the lads doing the Monaghan match were at least level headed, which is a massive improvement on OT.

Hurling coverage from Ennis again very good. Niall Canavan on hand with stats to partner Sean Walsh and Farrell.

jam83 (Galway) - Posts: 172 - 15/03/2023 14:21:35    2464043

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Replying To jam83:  "
As mentioned above he sounds like someone on a bar stool, trying to sound like an expert on everything but ending up sounding ignorant and clueless. I wonder how his tips for Cheltenham are doing, bar the each ways on one of the favourites.....

Good to know Galway Bay is that low on the JNLR nationally, it might prompt advertisers to look for lower costs and then force Galway Bay to do a bit of inward critiquing of the presenters to improve the output.

It looks like Ollie Turners not doing any league games I listened to on the radio. I thought the lads doing the Monaghan match were at least level headed, which is a massive improvement on OT.

Hurling coverage from Ennis again very good. Niall Canavan on hand with stats to partner Sean Walsh and Farrell."
True and especially as there as soon really insightful lads around Galway like Maurice Brosnan and David Connors.

A few fresh faces would do no harm.

jm25 (Galway) - Posts: 1300 - 15/03/2023 16:50:17    2464089

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