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Was in Tuam on Saturday. Surprised Cortoon bet Glan. Glan will be very disappointed. Cortoon probably have the best forward in the championship and will be hard to beat. Something not right seeing Johnny Glynn with them though. Kilconly bet Brendan's as expected. Brendan's very reliant on Cunningham up front - put up a good fight for 50 minutes and seemed to run out of gas. I would have Kilconly as favourites now with Mannion, Daly and Prendergast. hopballref (Galway) - Posts: 417 - 09/10/2023 12:23:28 2507541 Link
Replying To Eire89: "That and maybe get them to amalgamate but all jokes aside its a sad state of affairs at moment back there." Amalgamate ha, that won't work. Those clubs can't even get on with outside managers never mind players. Lettermore got rid of their outside manager after 4th round, spiddeal outside manager jacked because they wouldn't drop the hurling, MB have the same manager there set in their ways, carraroe are all ego, aran will bottle it. Similar to north Galway a few years back they'll need to go back build the confidence and go again. At the moment only 1 player that could be with Galway and that's Finian o laoi. Fergal o se maybe in a few years Sportsfanatic90 (Westmeath) - Posts: 226 - 09/10/2023 12:26:55 2507543 Link
Replying To Sportsfanatic90: "Amalgamate ha, that won't work. Those clubs can't even get on with outside managers never mind players. Lettermore got rid of their outside manager after 4th round, spiddeal outside manager jacked because they wouldn't drop the hurling, MB have the same manager there set in their ways, carraroe are all ego, aran will bottle it. Similar to north Galway a few years back they'll need to go back build the confidence and go again. At the moment only 1 player that could be with Galway and that's Finian o laoi. Fergal o se maybe in a few years" Throwing in your Aran bottle it nonsense again. Kilconly will be favourites against them in the upcoming semi-final. They were favourites last year too, but the game was extremely tight and they squeaked home by a point, with Mulkerrin missing. Oileáin Árann are punching way above their weight to be reaching the last 4 and to be as competitive as they are. I'll repeat this again because it seems to be lost on you. They don't field at underage because they don't have the numbers. It's remarkable what they're doing. Far from bottling, they're an example to very small clubs. They've outperformed clubs like Oranmore and MB plenty others in recent years, all clubs who'd have far greater numbers. WanPintWin (Galway) - Posts: 2223 - 09/10/2023 13:04:52 2507550 Link
Replying To Sportsfanatic90: "Amalgamate ha, that won't work. Those clubs can't even get on with outside managers never mind players. Lettermore got rid of their outside manager after 4th round, spiddeal outside manager jacked because they wouldn't drop the hurling, MB have the same manager there set in their ways, carraroe are all ego, aran will bottle it. Similar to north Galway a few years back they'll need to go back build the confidence and go again. At the moment only 1 player that could be with Galway and that's Finian o laoi. Fergal o se maybe in a few years" Liam O Conghaile is Spiddal's best player by a mile. galwayman2 (Galway) - Posts: 1291 - 09/10/2023 13:26:05 2507558 Link
Replying To Corner flag: "Any one know why James McLoughlin wasnt playing for Moyculllen yesterday huge loss based on his performance in the last group game ?" He's in Australia for AFL. There's talk of him being back in time for the county final if they get that far. I think they should have started Niall Walsh yesterday. Gearoid1998ffowaed (Galway) - Posts: 132 - 09/10/2023 13:26:06 2507559 Link
Replying To Sportsfanatic90: "Amalgamate ha, that won't work. Those clubs can't even get on with outside managers never mind players. Lettermore got rid of their outside manager after 4th round, spiddeal outside manager jacked because they wouldn't drop the hurling, MB have the same manager there set in their ways, carraroe are all ego, aran will bottle it. Similar to north Galway a few years back they'll need to go back build the confidence and go again. At the moment only 1 player that could be with Galway and that's Finian o laoi. Fergal o se maybe in a few years" Aran are in the semi finals yet again with some of their best players (apart from Mulkerrin) gone to Australia for the year. Far from bottling it, compared to a lot of clubs they are probably an example in maximising your resources. Marooned (Galway) - Posts: 2304 - 09/10/2023 13:34:26 2507564 Link
Replying To Corner flag: "Any one know why James McLoughlin wasnt playing for Moyculllen yesterday huge loss based on his performance in the last group game ?" Dylan Canney also did not play for Corofin at the weekend, he had taken over the placed balls for Leonard. He would have been a big addition against Tuam. LetsPlayBall (Galway) - Posts: 64 - 09/10/2023 14:11:33 2507572 Link
Replying To Sportsfanatic90: "Amalgamate ha, that won't work. Those clubs can't even get on with outside managers never mind players. Lettermore got rid of their outside manager after 4th round, spiddeal outside manager jacked because they wouldn't drop the hurling, MB have the same manager there set in their ways, carraroe are all ego, aran will bottle it. Similar to north Galway a few years back they'll need to go back build the confidence and go again. At the moment only 1 player that could be with Galway and that's Finian o laoi. Fergal o se maybe in a few years" Ah stop, Liam O Conghaile and Cillian O'Curraoin are two of the best up coming players we have in the county, one from Breathnachs and one from An Spidéal. GDL (Galway) - Posts: 776 - 09/10/2023 14:23:58 2507577 Link
Replying To Eire89: "Moycullen do what champs do & found a way. That game will bring them on leaps on bounds as they had no competitive game as they were top dogs in their group early doors. Cooke some operator & will only be better for the game today & same with S Kelly. MM will need to bring it up a few levels but cant see it. Corofin to get past Miltown who to be fair have had a great champo. Kilconly & Monivea in Inter final for me. In relegation Lmore & Spideal for the drop. Football in west is really struggling & shows with 4 west teams bein in round robin. There be no "proper Gaeltacht" team in senior in 2024 IMO a sign of the times? (Not including Moycullen or Barna as Galetacht team for obv reasons)" Drive the N17 into Claregalway. You'll see a sign informing it's the "Gaeltacht".. There's more Irish speakers in Newfoundland than Claregalway but who am I to judge?.... streaker (Galway) - Posts: 504 - 09/10/2023 14:50:38 2507581 Link
Replying To LetsPlayBall: "Dylan Canney also did not play for Corofin at the weekend, he had taken over the placed balls for Leonard. He would have been a big addition against Tuam." Canney picked up an injury in the last group game against Barna. Hamstring I think galway19 (Galway) - Posts: 806 - 09/10/2023 15:10:30 2507584 Link
Replying To hopballref: "Was in Tuam on Saturday. Surprised Cortoon bet Glan. Glan will be very disappointed. Cortoon probably have the best forward in the championship and will be hard to beat. Something not right seeing Johnny Glynn with them though. Kilconly bet Brendan's as expected. Brendan's very reliant on Cunningham up front - put up a good fight for 50 minutes and seemed to run out of gas. I would have Kilconly as favourites now with Mannion, Daly and Prendergast." Would be great if we could see varley back as an option for Galway for another year or two. When comers missing he's the next best full forward in the county allstars23 (Galway) - Posts: 48 - 09/10/2023 15:31:10 2507591 Link
Any update on appeal by Michaels. The fact games were played at weekend as planned suggest there be no changes but Michales are right to put forward their grievances. They will get out of the relegation dogfight as they are better than the other 3 teams. Kilanin should be nervous with no P Sweeney but again will survive due to Lmor & Spideal being poor. Eire89 (Galway) - Posts: 304 - 09/10/2023 15:56:13 2507599 Link
Replying To MapleSyrup: "Disappointing result for claregalway who should be beating a milltown team who have an average age of 35. The talk of them being a team who are "coming" will continue" I'm not arguing the fact that some of them are well on years wise but their fitness has really impressed me this year. They look like they have put in a lot of work. smallfrank (Galway) - Posts: 443 - 09/10/2023 16:01:36 2507602 Link
Replying To MapleSyrup: "Disappointing result for claregalway who should be beating a milltown team who have an average age of 35. The talk of them being a team who are "coming" will continue" Thats because they are a team that are starting to mature and get proper senior experience. They have a very young team and are just beginning to break through.Two 18 year old playing yesterday with their oldest players being 25/26. Moycullen were like this a few years ago as well. Alwaysencourage (Galway) - Posts: 372 - 09/10/2023 16:01:51 2507603 Link
Replying To Eire89: "Moycullen do what champs do & found a way. That game will bring them on leaps on bounds as they had no competitive game as they were top dogs in their group early doors. Cooke some operator & will only be better for the game today & same with S Kelly. MM will need to bring it up a few levels but cant see it. Corofin to get past Miltown who to be fair have had a great champo. Kilconly & Monivea in Inter final for me. In relegation Lmore & Spideal for the drop. Football in west is really struggling & shows with 4 west teams bein in round robin. There be no "proper Gaeltacht" team in senior in 2024 IMO a sign of the times? (Not including Moycullen or Barna as Galetacht team for obv reasons)" Maigh Cuillin are a Gaeltacht team. All their names come up as gaelgie in all their matches, and if you look up Dessie Connelly you'll see he gives every interview and every speech in fluent irish. I've also seen Sean Kelly do interviews in fluent irish on TG4 a few times. They'd all have fluent irish. Gearoid1998ffowaed (Galway) - Posts: 132 - 09/10/2023 16:09:41 2507604 Link
At the 2 games in Tuam yesterday. From a Galway perspective not much to be getting excided about. Milltown played better than than they have done for several years and do not seem to be getting the due credit. Mannion and Hehir did not play well but the scans were still were always on top, in spite of probably the penalty call going against them. Liam Costello who has been in and out of the Galway setup had a great game. In fairness Claregalway were with their best player but are not yet where they need to be when it comes to the rough and tumble side of things. Of the Galway lads in action in the second game Silke was solid as always, but i would have expected much more from McHugh and Molloy who is still well away from where he was. The young Egan lad looks to me a county star in the making. Farragher won this game for Corofin no question. Lots of talk around the ground that no more action will take place in Tuam this year due to demolition of stand, don't know how true that is. giveitlong (Galway) - Posts: 1258 - 09/10/2023 16:27:59 2507609 Link
Replying To Flemenstar200: "From watching club games over the past few months the worrying thing from a Galway senior panels point of a view is that there does not seem to be many forwards with pace that can take a man on and score in the county (a Tommy Conroy/Ryan O Donoghue type player hate to say it) which is something that we badly need." If management started looking at intermediate players they mighr find some but unfortunately in Galway if u don't play senior club u get no chance they prefer bring in half Moycullen, Mountbellew snd salthill teams than bother looking at the clubs ,, Kickitout (Galway) - Posts: 966 - 09/10/2023 16:32:41 2507610 Link
Replying To giveitlong: "At the 2 games in Tuam yesterday. From a Galway perspective not much to be getting excided about. Milltown played better than than they have done for several years and do not seem to be getting the due credit. Mannion and Hehir did not play well but the scans were still were always on top, in spite of probably the penalty call going against them. Liam Costello who has been in and out of the Galway setup had a great game. In fairness Claregalway were with their best player but are not yet where they need to be when it comes to the rough and tumble side of things. Of the Galway lads in action in the second game Silke was solid as always, but i would have expected much more from McHugh and Molloy who is still well away from where he was. The young Egan lad looks to me a county star in the making. Farragher won this game for Corofin no question. Lots of talk around the ground that no more action will take place in Tuam this year due to demolition of stand, don't know how true that is." Didn't know Farragher was even playing, did he come on as a sub? Gearoid1998ffowaed (Galway) - Posts: 132 - 09/10/2023 17:03:29 2507622 Link
Replying To WanPintWin: "Throwing in your Aran bottle it nonsense again. Kilconly will be favourites against them in the upcoming semi-final. They were favourites last year too, but the game was extremely tight and they squeaked home by a point, with Mulkerrin missing. Oileáin Árann are punching way above their weight to be reaching the last 4 and to be as competitive as they are. I'll repeat this again because it seems to be lost on you. They don't field at underage because they don't have the numbers. It's remarkable what they're doing. Far from bottling, they're an example to very small clubs. They've outperformed clubs like Oranmore and MB plenty others in recent years, all clubs who'd have far greater numbers." Well said, if only other Clubs were as committed as the current Aran players, unbelievable what they have achieved with a very small panel. MeAlone (Galway) - Posts: 75 - 09/10/2023 19:19:04 2507642 Link
Replying To Corner flag: "Any one know why James McLoughlin wasnt playing for Moyculllen yesterday huge loss based on his performance in the last group game ?" In Australia doing the AFL draft combine with a few other Irish players. Marooned (Galway) - Posts: 2304 - 09/10/2023 19:25:12 2507643 Link