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Replying To smallfrank: "Lee Keegan all day and now Cora Staunton this evening. John Casey, McStay, Martin Carney. Is there not even 1 Galway man worthy of a job on the Sunday Game" Absolutely. Even for Galway mayo the other day it was canavan and biased Keegan. cavan.galway (Galway) - Posts: 234 - 02/07/2023 22:05:18 2491589 Link
Replying To smallfrank: "Lee Keegan all day and now Cora Staunton this evening. John Casey, McStay, Martin Carney. Is there not even 1 Galway man worthy of a job on the Sunday Game" Colm Boyle, James Horan on Newstalk. Where the hell are Pat Gilroy, Jim Gavin, Conor Counihan, Pat O'Shea..you know, fellas that have actually won something smallfrank (Galway) - Posts: 495 - 02/07/2023 22:26:05 2491597 Link
Replying To FatLadySinging: "Your post is ridiculous, especially your comment about there being no room for so-called similar players Cooke/Tierney and Maher/Heaney. Thete is absolutely no similarity between Maher and Heaney whatever about Cooke and Tierney. You build your team on available talent not whether players are similar or not. And please lay off Conor Gleeson who has proved himself an excellent goalkeeper. Luck and injuries were not on our side this year. It happens. Just ask Napoleon!" Agree with all that. Hysterical reaction from 'fans'. The fact is only two teams can win national titles each year. We were very close to beating Kerry in one final last year. Got promoted to d1. This year we lost (poorly I admit) league final and were sloppy coping with new format champo. There are issues...picking toothless forwards(Burke)..not picking Finnerty in Salthill...but new defenders have been found, we had an injury crisis and we had bad luck. This squad will bounce back and we will be contenders again. Would love to see Conroy play 14 with pacey lads around him. Get behind the hurlers now! Coolockweigan (Galway) - Posts: 29 - 02/07/2023 22:51:12 2491602 Link
I don't know how Colm Boyle still gets the gig. He's yesterday's yesterday man. festinog (Galway) - Posts: 3143 - 02/07/2023 22:54:05 2491604 Link
christ the country hasn't been on this sort of high since Itallia 90 ModernMaharaja (Donegal) - Posts: 89 - 02/07/2023 23:00:42 2491606 Link
Replying To smallfrank: "Colm Boyle, James Horan on Newstalk. Where the hell are Pat Gilroy, Jim Gavin, Conor Counihan, Pat O'Shea..you know, fellas that have actually won something" David Brady, he'll probably be on tomorrow to point out areas where 8 time All Ireland Winner James McCarthy needs to improve as a midfielder smallfrank (Galway) - Posts: 495 - 02/07/2023 23:06:29 2491610 Link
Replying To smallfrank: "Colm Boyle, James Horan on Newstalk. Where the hell are Pat Gilroy, Jim Gavin, Conor Counihan, Pat O'Shea..you know, fellas that have actually won something" Was a Galway 'mafia' for years- Jim Carney, Micheal Lyster, Enda Colleran, Cyril Farrell, Pete Finnerty. Like it or lump it, Mayo have been the team of the west 2011-20??, and that's reflected on the airwaves these days. There wasn't much solace to be salvaged from the ashes of that Mayo display today, which perhaps put paid to the notion that they've seamlessly transitioned from their 2011-2017 side into an equally good side currently. 2021 might prove to be the exception rather than the rule for this current Mayo side, in terms of their proximity to landing Sam Maguire. Pope_Benedict (Galway) - Posts: 4115 - 03/07/2023 00:21:43 2491619 Link
Replying To festinog: "Well, on the plus side Galway wouldn't have looked out of place playing Derry, Cork, Monaghan or Armagh. On the negative side, Kerry, Dublin or Mayo (on today's form) would eat us alive. Stark difference between the limited game we're playing, versus the likes of these teams who can play defensively but turn on the afterburners on attack, something we're sorely missing." Mayo, 8 us alive? Did you see today's game? We played them a week ago, and they bet us by a pint. Pope_Benedict (Galway) - Posts: 4115 - 03/07/2023 00:33:52 2491622 Link
Galway players Jack Glynn, Rob Finnerty, Sean Kelly and Ger Davoren all making the switch across the pond for the GAA season in America Gearoid1998ffowaed (Galway) - Posts: 146 - 03/07/2023 01:16:36 2491624 Link
Replying To smallfrank: "Colm Boyle, James Horan on Newstalk. Where the hell are Pat Gilroy, Jim Gavin, Conor Counihan, Pat O'Shea..you know, fellas that have actually won something" Could never understand the huge appeal to have Mayo lads on punditry. Grand ballers but never the kingpins let's be honest. fielder (Donegal) - Posts: 137 - 03/07/2023 01:27:23 2491625 Link
Replying To Really: "Yeah, so what does that make us? They beat us 3 times this year, including League final and knockout prelim. quarter final. Tbh, just as well we didn't progress - although, I'd still go with Pj, and maybe look for mire funding from Co. Board. I think Shane will now give serious thought to transferring to Dublin - served enough with a limited team. He deserves an IC AI medal to go along with club medal." It's in the offing for sure, and was part of the original package. Mayo52 (Mayo) - Posts: 44 - 03/07/2023 03:09:36 2491628 Link
Replying To smallfrank: "Colm Boyle, James Horan on Newstalk. Where the hell are Pat Gilroy, Jim Gavin, Conor Counihan, Pat O'Shea..you know, fellas that have actually won something" Yes Mayo are perennial losers but if hot air is what is required the media love them! lol tommy k (Galway) - Posts: 3470 - 03/07/2023 08:45:13 2491641 Link
Replying To Royal.Legend: "How did galway lose to that mayo team, they are absolutely awful against dublin." They lost it on the scoreboard, the same way all games are lost! baire (Galway) - Posts: 1849 - 03/07/2023 09:04:09 2491645 Link
Replying To ahsure.: "Lighten up." If taking pleasure in someone else's misery is your way of lightening up, I suggest you see a shrink! baire (Galway) - Posts: 1849 - 03/07/2023 09:09:03 2491648 Link
Replying To tommy k: "Yes I just heard there that Shane Walsh had an injured right foot and was in a boot leading up to the Mayo game resulting in that particularly bad miss in front of the posts in the first half and other missed frees / points from play he would have got last year. The fact that management allowed him to take frees or play him in the first place along with Kelly and Comer who were also clearly injured is enough to indicate that they should not be kept on next year. Bring back John O'Mahony for "A Year til Sunday 2". I would buy that video / dvd or whatever media it would be on by then!" Was that same foot injured before he took the last free v Armagh? Was it injured before the league final? Totally agree that management should have addressed the problem during the group stages. He should have been given something to think about by naming him on the bench for the Armagh game. Quiet naive to assume he'd come good "sooner or later". StopTheLights (Galway) - Posts: 404 - 03/07/2023 09:24:30 2491651 Link
Replying To StopTheLights: "Was that same foot injured before he took the last free v Armagh? Was it injured before the league final? Totally agree that management should have addressed the problem during the group stages. He should have been given something to think about by naming him on the bench for the Armagh game. Quiet naive to assume he'd come good "sooner or later"." One poster here said he could be playing for Dublin next year - on his current form he would not make the Dublin squad. Whatever about the Galway squad he should not have been selected on Galway's starting 15 in the last 2 games at least as it wasn't fair to him or the other players in the squad who would have performed better in all probability. tommy k (Galway) - Posts: 3470 - 03/07/2023 10:43:48 2491709 Link
Replying To Pope_Benedict: "Was a Galway 'mafia' for years- Jim Carney, Micheal Lyster, Enda Colleran, Cyril Farrell, Pete Finnerty. Like it or lump it, Mayo have been the team of the west 2011-20??, and that's reflected on the airwaves these days. There wasn't much solace to be salvaged from the ashes of that Mayo display today, which perhaps put paid to the notion that they've seamlessly transitioned from their 2011-2017 side into an equally good side currently. 2021 might prove to be the exception rather than the rule for this current Mayo side, in terms of their proximity to landing Sam Maguire." were carney and lyster pundits? i thought they were presenters. farrell and finnerty pundits for a different code so what is your point on pundits representing galway for gaelic football? mayo have keegan, brady, higgins, boyle, moran all working on rte/off the ball cavan.galway (Galway) - Posts: 234 - 03/07/2023 10:55:53 2491713 Link
Replying To smallfrank: "Colm Boyle, James Horan on Newstalk. Where the hell are Pat Gilroy, Jim Gavin, Conor Counihan, Pat O'Shea..you know, fellas that have actually won something" I've noticed that, add in J Maughan and Billy Joe Padden frequently interviewed as well. A Moran was on the OTB podcast before he took the Leitrim job. There's nearly a starting 15 of former Mayo players doing punditry and analysis. MachaireConnacht (Roscommon) - Posts: 1000 - 03/07/2023 11:24:22 2491729 Link
Replying To cavan.galway: "were carney and lyster pundits? i thought they were presenters. farrell and finnerty pundits for a different code so what is your point on pundits representing galway for gaelic football? mayo have keegan, brady, higgins, boyle, moran all working on rte/off the ball" De Paor and Sice are on TG4 a lot. Conroy does RTE work occasionally. Mike Meehan is on GaaGo, and also RTE and others in the past. There's at least one Mayo fan in the Newstalk crew, that talk gibberish to one another there for hours during the week, when they've no 'guests' that'll 'talk'. Maybe he's the one signing up all the Mayo lads to Newstalk? Pope_Benedict (Galway) - Posts: 4115 - 03/07/2023 11:31:22 2491732 Link
Replying To Pope_Benedict: "Was a Galway 'mafia' for years- Jim Carney, Micheal Lyster, Enda Colleran, Cyril Farrell, Pete Finnerty. Like it or lump it, Mayo have been the team of the west 2011-20??, and that's reflected on the airwaves these days. There wasn't much solace to be salvaged from the ashes of that Mayo display today, which perhaps put paid to the notion that they've seamlessly transitioned from their 2011-2017 side into an equally good side currently. 2021 might prove to be the exception rather than the rule for this current Mayo side, in terms of their proximity to landing Sam Maguire." The 1998 to 2001 generation are hardly ancient. There have been plenty older pundits on the go. From your list, one is a presenter and two are hurling pundits. The other two were on many decades ago. It's obviously up to the lads themselves, but it is odd that we've barely had any football pundits on national tv or radio over the past two decades. Especially given that a lot of the successful team retired in the late 00s. WanPintWin (Galway) - Posts: 2299 - 03/07/2023 11:39:44 2491739 Link