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Replying To Dermot_Desmond_96:  "I wonder though does Belclare still think Jason Leonard should be starting ?"
Yes absolutely he should be and win be starting... for Corofin..

Belclare (Galway) - Posts: 904 - 28/03/2023 14:07:45    2467328

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Replying To Dunmore10:  "Did you watch them matches on tv aswell!!"
I watched the Kilconly v Dunmore Intermediate Co Final on the box. And saw a great display of goalkeeping from the Kilconly custodian.

Dermot_Desmond_96 (Galway) - Posts: 40 - 28/03/2023 14:17:29    2467332

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Replying To WanPintWin:  "Where he or she is from is irrelevant. People can have an opinion on anything. You don't have to be a brilliant footballer to be an astute of observer of the game.
The definition of a lesser light though is what interests me, as it's odd in relation to Galway and Mayo. It's almost as if the person was trying to throw a jibe at the counties, but I wouldn't be that cynical.
Both teams have been in All-Ireland finals, semi-finals and division 1 league finals in the past 5 years, so they're recently competitive.
Historically they are 3rd and 5th in terms of All-Ireland final appearances, so they have very good tradition.
There are only a handful of counties who could be argued have a stronger footballing tradition.
By the logic used, whether recent or historic, if Galway are a lesser light then there would be at most only 3 teams who are not."
That poor man throwing a jibe or being a WUM? Never! lol

tommy k (Galway) - Posts: 3470 - 28/03/2023 14:21:20    2467335

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Anyone know the story with Gleeson, is he injured, dropped, rested?

Galwayspur (Offaly) - Posts: 231 - 28/03/2023 14:25:23    2467339

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Replying To jobseekersbent:  "Tomo has star quality but I'm just concerned about his pace. Reminds me a bit of Mike Martin or Barry McHugh, bags of ability just a little slow. Having only seen him in a handful of intercounty games, I'll reserve judgement for now.

With Dessie and Eoin Finnerty not grabbing their chance in the league, Tomo is likely the next scoring forward in.

Does anyone know what other scoring forwards are on the panel or could be on the panel if injuries? Anyone else apart from the obvious stand out for clubs? I know Paul Mannion hits serious scores each week for Kilconly, is he IC material?"
Ian Burke's injury has come at the wrong time for him too, look he'd not impressed during the 3 games he did play he hadn't played with any of Comer, Finnerty & Walsh. If Culhane wants to stay ahead of Burke in the pecking order he'll have to do a little better then he did last Sunday, now he was unfortunate with some of the daft balls that were kicked into him in the first half against Kerry but someone like Comer may have been able to get his hands on those balls in.

I like Culhane and he's still u21 and it took Finnerty until he was 24 to look at home at this level and could easily take Culhane another year or two looking at his attributes.

I'd like to have seen Eoin Finnerty get a chance when Galway have Walsh & Comer, it was very difficult for any forward in the Galway team in the first 4 league games.

TheBishop (Galway) - Posts: 287 - 28/03/2023 14:47:24    2467350

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Replying To endgame:  "Or hurling unfortunately. One All Ireland since the late 60s. I like Wexford and would love to see the yellow bellies going well as would a lot of people on here I'd say. They have great supporters."
Is this a Rosscommon person talking about All Irelands? 2 in the 40's and giving it some? Please. Nothing better than seeing them come up against Mayo or Galway and being put in their place.

countyman2022 (Wexford) - Posts: 757 - 28/03/2023 15:53:10    2467376

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Replying To TheBishop:  "Ian Burke's injury has come at the wrong time for him too, look he'd not impressed during the 3 games he did play he hadn't played with any of Comer, Finnerty & Walsh. If Culhane wants to stay ahead of Burke in the pecking order he'll have to do a little better then he did last Sunday, now he was unfortunate with some of the daft balls that were kicked into him in the first half against Kerry but someone like Comer may have been able to get his hands on those balls in.

I like Culhane and he's still u21 and it took Finnerty until he was 24 to look at home at this level and could easily take Culhane another year or two looking at his attributes.

I'd like to have seen Eoin Finnerty get a chance when Galway have Walsh & Comer, it was very difficult for any forward in the Galway team in the first 4 league games."
Outside the obvious I believe these to be the top scoring forwards or finishers I've seen in the past year or so.
Nathan Grainger, Brian Mannion, Paul Mannion, Pádraig Costello, Rory Cunningham.
I think McHugh and Eoin Finnerty are better than what we've seen with Galway this year and I was dissapointed Evan Murphy was not kept on this year.

smallfrank (Galway) - Posts: 443 - 28/03/2023 16:18:09    2467388

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Replying To Galwayspur:  "Anyone know the story with Gleeson, is he injured, dropped, rested?"
Rested/dropped, whatever way you want to phrase it.

Power looked good. Pity he didnt get more minutes in the league.

Sundays selection will tell us who is number 1 in PJs eyes.

GalwaysFinest (Galway) - Posts: 192 - 28/03/2023 16:18:38    2467389

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Replying To TheBishop:  "Ian Burke's injury has come at the wrong time for him too, look he'd not impressed during the 3 games he did play he hadn't played with any of Comer, Finnerty & Walsh. If Culhane wants to stay ahead of Burke in the pecking order he'll have to do a little better then he did last Sunday, now he was unfortunate with some of the daft balls that were kicked into him in the first half against Kerry but someone like Comer may have been able to get his hands on those balls in.

I like Culhane and he's still u21 and it took Finnerty until he was 24 to look at home at this level and could easily take Culhane another year or two looking at his attributes.

I'd like to have seen Eoin Finnerty get a chance when Galway have Walsh & Comer, it was very difficult for any forward in the Galway team in the first 4 league games."
Ya I completely forgot about Burke. Probably be ahead of Tomo maybe but isn't a serious scoring threat, more of a playmaker. Agree, would like to see him with Comer Walsh Finnerty and see what happens. Also agree that Tomo is young and this is his 3rd year on the panel but hasn't seen much game time really but has scored when he has played. Great pick up for his point the last day. If that was Walsh, it would be all over social media.

jobseekersbent (Galway) - Posts: 382 - 28/03/2023 16:28:30    2467395

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laconic is not a word we came across very often in the national school. In my case "leisciuil"was used more often. as regards at 6' 2" he should be fighting for those kick outs When gets the ball he goes 10 to15 yards and passes the ball backwards. He was like that with Moycullen on a few occasions he goes for a long point.It seems long kicks into the square is paying dividends with Tomo, Comer and Tierney in there would at least cause confusion in there

fishpond (Galway) - Posts: 89 - 28/03/2023 16:45:42    2467401

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Replying To countyman2022:  "Is this a Rosscommon person talking about All Irelands? 2 in the 40's and giving it some? Please. Nothing better than seeing them come up against Mayo or Galway and being put in their place."
Show some respect here. Every county in football is struggling for an All Ireland bar Dublin and Kerry. In hurling Kilkenny dominance with an odd look in by Tipp has been replaced by Limerick dominance. It would be nice to see it being shared around. As I said, I'd be delighted to see Wexford win an All Ireland. The model county and they have great supporters.

endgame (Roscommon) - Posts: 2308 - 28/03/2023 16:52:28    2467407

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Replying To endgame:  "Show some respect here. Every county in football is struggling for an All Ireland bar Dublin and Kerry. In hurling Kilkenny dominance with an odd look in by Tipp has been replaced by Limerick dominance. It would be nice to see it being shared around. As I said, I'd be delighted to see Wexford win an All Ireland. The model county and they have great supporters."
Up the Rossies boi!!!

countyman2022 (Wexford) - Posts: 757 - 28/03/2023 17:33:00    2467422

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Replying To endgame:  "Show some respect here. Every county in football is struggling for an All Ireland bar Dublin and Kerry. In hurling Kilkenny dominance with an odd look in by Tipp has been replaced by Limerick dominance. It would be nice to see it being shared around. As I said, I'd be delighted to see Wexford win an All Ireland. The model county and they have great supporters."
Not a WUMs business to show some respect.

Pope_Benedict (Galway) - Posts: 3914 - 28/03/2023 17:54:06    2467441

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Looked to be a very big crowd for the game. It looked very similar to the Galway Limerick hurling game which was over 12,000. I can't remember the last time the footballers drew a crowd that size in the league in a stand alone fixture.

centrefield99 (Galway) - Posts: 137 - 28/03/2023 21:42:57    2467477

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Replying To GalwaysFinest:  "Rested/dropped, whatever way you want to phrase it.

Power looked good. Pity he didnt get more minutes in the league.

Sundays selection will tell us who is number 1 in PJs eyes."
He could have picked up an injury.

Galwayspur (Offaly) - Posts: 231 - 29/03/2023 09:30:41    2467494

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There was some suggestions on the Mayo GAA blog that Mayo have a younger age profile than Galway ( and implied in that is that they will be getting better relative to us).
This prompted me do a bit of research.
Taking the starting Mayo 15 v Donegal ( the last serious game for Mayo) and our starting 15 v Kerry.
Taking ages (as best I could ) from internet. The averages are very similar 25.26 and 25.33.
There was a bit of a difference in the standard deviation ( 3.47 versus 3.97) which would suggest that Mayo have more players closer to the prime age of 25 than Galway have , But the bottom line is that there really is no significant difference in age profile.
Sometimes its nice to deal with facts rather than sweeping statements that might suit a particular narrative.

anotheralias (Galway) - Posts: 960 - 29/03/2023 13:28:26    2467563

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Replying To anotheralias:  "There was some suggestions on the Mayo GAA blog that Mayo have a younger age profile than Galway ( and implied in that is that they will be getting better relative to us).
This prompted me do a bit of research.
Taking the starting Mayo 15 v Donegal ( the last serious game for Mayo) and our starting 15 v Kerry.
Taking ages (as best I could ) from internet. The averages are very similar 25.26 and 25.33.
There was a bit of a difference in the standard deviation ( 3.47 versus 3.97) which would suggest that Mayo have more players closer to the prime age of 25 than Galway have , But the bottom line is that there really is no significant difference in age profile.
Sometimes its nice to deal with facts rather than sweeping statements that might suit a particular narrative."
Impressive you actually go to our blog to find stuff to complain about.

Weren't you calling Mayo people complainers only a few days ago in the other thread?...

nicko94 (Mayo) - Posts: 69 - 29/03/2023 14:51:45    2467596

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Replying To nicko94:  "Impressive you actually go to our blog to find stuff to complain about.

Weren't you calling Mayo people complainers only a few days ago in the other thread?..."
Let ye fight it out on Sunday.! To the victor the spoils.

endgame (Roscommon) - Posts: 2308 - 29/03/2023 15:18:33    2467605

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Replying To nicko94:  "Impressive you actually go to our blog to find stuff to complain about.

Weren't you calling Mayo people complainers only a few days ago in the other thread?..."
Welcome to our forum to you too,
I wasn't complaining . Just correcting some factual inaccuracies.

anotheralias (Galway) - Posts: 960 - 29/03/2023 15:30:12    2467613

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Replying To anotheralias:  "There was some suggestions on the Mayo GAA blog that Mayo have a younger age profile than Galway ( and implied in that is that they will be getting better relative to us).
This prompted me do a bit of research.
Taking the starting Mayo 15 v Donegal ( the last serious game for Mayo) and our starting 15 v Kerry.
Taking ages (as best I could ) from internet. The averages are very similar 25.26 and 25.33.
There was a bit of a difference in the standard deviation ( 3.47 versus 3.97) which would suggest that Mayo have more players closer to the prime age of 25 than Galway have , But the bottom line is that there really is no significant difference in age profile.
Sometimes its nice to deal with facts rather than sweeping statements that might suit a particular narrative."
Only good thing I see about the Mayo GAA blog is their result achieve. The guy that runs it deserve credit for that but he's just ordinary supporter who seems to have lost the run of himself and somewhat believes he's a voice of all Mayo supporters now and has worked his way onto the Mayo news podcast which includes asking national journalist questions. he also has family members involved now also.

Gaa_lover (USA) - Posts: 3520 - 29/03/2023 16:42:33    2467643

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