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Replying To WestAwake98:  "Any word on when the Minor manager will be announced? I see James Mannion's ticket was put up by Monivea Abbey on Facebook, seems very strong. Would be great to see Giz McGrath involved in Galway football again. Not many of those All ireland Club winning Corofin lads involved with coaching the county teams. Who else is going for it?"
Your man Mannion hasn't a prayer of getting it now. Don't know what he was thinking releasing the management team to the public. Very Mayo like.

TanCanRan (Galway) - Posts: 239 - 24/09/2023 10:01:52    2505404

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Any one know what the criteria for the 4th seeded QF spot is in SFC?

anotheralias (Galway) - Posts: 960 - 24/09/2023 10:48:46    2505408

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Good win for St.Michaels's in the Junior A North board final in Tuam yesterday, seemed to have a great mix of experienced and younger players

1951andwaiting (Galway) - Posts: 88 - 24/09/2023 18:25:41    2505456

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I see Johnny Glynn togged for Cortoon Shamrocks. How many clubs did he pass to join them?

ref (Galway) - Posts: 253 - 24/09/2023 19:37:43    2505469

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Not much to report from the James' Milltown game only that Sam O'Neill is the real deal.

galway19 (Galway) - Posts: 806 - 24/09/2023 22:37:08    2505499

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Replying To anotheralias:  "Any one know what the criteria for the 4th seeded QF spot is in SFC?"
Was wondering this myself. How do they pick 8 teams out of 3 groups? GAA maths !

Gearoid1998ffowaed (Galway) - Posts: 132 - 25/09/2023 00:20:36    2505505

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Replying To ref:  "I see Johnny Glynn togged for Cortoon Shamrocks. How many clubs did he pass to join them?"
It seems being friends with someone is good enough reason to join a club these days!

hopballref (Galway) - Posts: 417 - 25/09/2023 07:48:30    2505517

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Replying To ref:  "I see Johnny Glynn togged for Cortoon Shamrocks. How many clubs did he pass to join them?"
Complete joke that he was allowed to transfer. What is wrong with Caherlistrane ? The club where his father comes from and that he used to actually play with ??

MapleSyrup (Galway) - Posts: 165 - 25/09/2023 09:35:55    2505524

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Replying To MapleSyrup:  "Complete joke that he was allowed to transfer. What is wrong with Caherlistrane ? The club where his father comes from and that he used to actually play with ??"
Did Glynn play any part for Cortoon at the weekend?

Oranmore must be kicking themselves.

Seem to be unable to win a game of knockout football.

GalwaysFinest (Galway) - Posts: 191 - 25/09/2023 10:08:12    2505533

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Replying To MapleSyrup:  "Complete joke that he was allowed to transfer. What is wrong with Caherlistrane ? The club where his father comes from and that he used to actually play with ??"
He must be living up there!

hashtag2017 (Galway) - Posts: 173 - 25/09/2023 10:10:14    2505534

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Replying To Gearoid1998ffowaed:  "Was wondering this myself. How do they pick 8 teams out of 3 groups? GAA maths !"
You'd do it very easily, once you'd establish clear criteria for the exercise, before the start of the competition. Something the GAA have a bad track record with.

Pope_Benedict (Galway) - Posts: 3911 - 25/09/2023 10:11:22    2505535

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Dublin, the All Ireland champions, are at semi-final stage in their Senior Football Championship and we are at group stage, what a joke!!

hashtag2017 (Galway) - Posts: 173 - 25/09/2023 10:12:15    2505537

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Just heard St Michael's have an appeal sent in regarding rules on teams finishing up on same points, surely county board made contact with all clubs to clarify the rules.
I really hope this doesn't hold up the championship for 2 long, Also I hope they have a plan b for pitches for the refixed games for Thursday night as it's promised a wash out of a week,

Fox.1n.7he.b0x (Galway) - Posts: 135 - 25/09/2023 10:33:51    2505543

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Replying To Fox.1n.7he.b0x:  "Just heard St Michael's have an appeal sent in regarding rules on teams finishing up on same points, surely county board made contact with all clubs to clarify the rules.
I really hope this doesn't hold up the championship for 2 long, Also I hope they have a plan b for pitches for the refixed games for Thursday night as it's promised a wash out of a week,"
Yea. The county board are doing a good job in general but they have made a mess of this. Went the rule came out from Croke Park they should have taken care to be very clear to the clubs, the media and the general public about the rules being adopted for each competition. I flagged this potential issue weeks back but the response from the county board was deafening. They did an ostrich job and hoped that results would dig them out of the hole.

anotheralias (Galway) - Posts: 960 - 25/09/2023 11:03:49    2505553

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Replying To galway19:  "Not much to report from the James' Milltown game only that Sam O'Neill is the real deal."
Yeah, he has huge potential. Although I heard he has gone to a least one AFL combine so the AFL clubs are sniffing around.

Marooned (Galway) - Posts: 2302 - 25/09/2023 11:14:47    2505562

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Replying To hashtag2017:  "Dublin, the All Ireland champions, are at semi-final stage in their Senior Football Championship and we are at group stage, what a joke!!"
We currently have a 17 team championship, so we have 2 groups of 6 and 1 group of 5. That automatically means 5 rounds of games. The group stages would be finished yesterday if the weather didn't wash out a full group of games.
Dublin have a 16 team Senior 1 championship (which we will also have next year). They have 4 groups of 4, so only 3 rounds of group games to play. They then go straight to quarters, while we're doing preliminary quarters.
Next year will be simpler where we'll have 4 groups of 4. The only decision then will be whether we have preliminary quarters for the teams who finish second and third (as we've done in Intermediate this year), or go straight to quarters with the top 2 in each group.
There are arguments for both. The preliminary quarters can ensure more meaningful games in the last round, but it does mean an extra weekend.
The structure was announced months ago and was on schedule til the bad weather yesterday.
Has it only dawned on you now?

WanPintWin (Galway) - Posts: 2223 - 25/09/2023 11:15:58    2505563

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Replying To GalwaysFinest:  "Did Glynn play any part for Cortoon at the weekend?

Oranmore must be kicking themselves.

Seem to be unable to win a game of knockout football."
Oranmore are weak this year. They're a shadow of the team they were a few years back.

galwayman2 (Galway) - Posts: 1291 - 25/09/2023 11:17:11    2505565

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Replying To MapleSyrup:  "Complete joke that he was allowed to transfer. What is wrong with Caherlistrane ? The club where his father comes from and that he used to actually play with ??"
We could do with him and his mother is from Dunmore. He might solve our bad midfield

Dunmore10 (Galway) - Posts: 149 - 25/09/2023 11:35:59    2505568

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Replying To WanPintWin:  "We currently have a 17 team championship, so we have 2 groups of 6 and 1 group of 5. That automatically means 5 rounds of games. The group stages would be finished yesterday if the weather didn't wash out a full group of games.
Dublin have a 16 team Senior 1 championship (which we will also have next year). They have 4 groups of 4, so only 3 rounds of group games to play. They then go straight to quarters, while we're doing preliminary quarters.
Next year will be simpler where we'll have 4 groups of 4. The only decision then will be whether we have preliminary quarters for the teams who finish second and third (as we've done in Intermediate this year), or go straight to quarters with the top 2 in each group.
There are arguments for both. The preliminary quarters can ensure more meaningful games in the last round, but it does mean an extra weekend.
The structure was announced months ago and was on schedule til the bad weather yesterday.
Has it only dawned on you now?"
Unfortunately this won't happen but next year we should have 4 groups of 4 teams. The top two in each group (1st and 2nd) after the three games should go into the quarters and then semi finals and then the final to find the champions. The bottom two in each group (3rd and 4th place) should go into a relegation format similar to above with quarter finals and semi finals, if you win your quarter final or semi final you are safe and if you lose them we relegate the two teams beaten in the relegation semi and bring the Intermediate champions and runners up to Senior football. This rewards the two best Intermediate teams. We'd then see no meaningless games. You win or you get relegated. The same should happen in the Intermediate championship with the two worst teams getting relegated and two best teams from Junior getting promoted to Intermediate.

GDL (Galway) - Posts: 776 - 25/09/2023 11:43:58    2505573

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Replying To Fox.1n.7he.b0x:  "Just heard St Michael's have an appeal sent in regarding rules on teams finishing up on same points, surely county board made contact with all clubs to clarify the rules.
I really hope this doesn't hold up the championship for 2 long, Also I hope they have a plan b for pitches for the refixed games for Thursday night as it's promised a wash out of a week,"
What exactly are Michael's appealing on?

The rule was known in advance. I feel bad for Sixmilebridge in Clare who were the first team to get 'caught out' by it, but its become known since.

Regarding the pitches, I understand Moycullen may have been bad, but could an alternative pitch not have been sought for that fixture, rather than having to postpone the other two games.

Seems crazy bringing Caherlistrane and Killannin to Ballinasloe on a Thursday evening.

Corofin or Loughgeorge would have been a better venue for this fixture.

This time of the year always sparks conversation of the lack of pitches in the county with floodlights. Could Dangan hold a club fixture? Would be a very central location if a west board team were playing a north board team.

GalwaysFinest (Galway) - Posts: 191 - 25/09/2023 11:58:29    2505578

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