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Lord God above we love a good moan here! Particular a few old rose tinted glasses wearing KW fan club members (KW is a bona fide Galway football legend in my book but can we please move on in the Mgmt discussion!) Would anyone here at the start of the league not have taken 5 wins from 5 at this stage? Galway have the only 100% record and are the highest scorers across all 4 divisions. Yes, there are issues but guess what, every team in the country in March has issues. We'll work on them. I had my doubts about this Mgmt team, like most had when things went awry after the first lockdown, but they're answering us. Galway are getting better. Already, our defending improved massively yesterday - after a shaky opening few mins. The defending was pretty abysmal at times against Offaly and Cork but we did enough to win every game - so we're doing a lot of things right. I think our goal opportunity creation and execution is on the up and the hard ground should suit this more. Goals will be essential to having a rattle at Mayo and other top teams. As for media coverage, RTE have absolutely blanked us. Where are the cameras at Galway games? Why zero coverage on League Sunday last night? We're forgotten about - an invisible side show to the big guns. There's one bloody answer to that. Roll on a monster showdown in the Championship! The blood is up!! togoutlads (Galway) - Posts: 1091 - 14/03/2022 11:22:12 2405346 Link
I don't think yesterday was a great performance but it was an improvement from the Cork game and most importantly another 2 points in the bag. One more win and we're promoted. No I don't think we'd beat the majority of div 1 teams at the moment but we don't have to. I'm not looking beyond the Derry game and we'll have a much tougher task than what we've faced so far. Improvement needed. Not sure our backs are tough enough, they don't all need to be but we need a few. Comer to me is miles ahead in that dept vs other panel members galwayfball (Galway) - Posts: 1704 - 14/03/2022 12:24:18 2405369 Link
Replying To facethepuckout: "Media coverage of Division 2 is generally very poor and mis-informed. The pundits that are called on clearly dont watch the games , will rabbit on about players that they hear mentioned in the papers and re-gurgitate what they think are truisms but are not. We need Second Captains/ Off The Ball type coverage on TV , its just so cliched and moronic on RTE. Ye will need to have a tough A vs B game in training this week to get ready for what awaits ye in Owenbeg next Sunday. We got the full bag of tricks from Gallagher yesterday when things were'nt going well for Derry." 100% the "pundits" haven't a clue about anything outside of division one. Waste of time even asking them for opinions. We have been hearing the "Galway have great forwards" line for years because we had a series of decent forwards back in the late 90s-early 2000s. In reality now, we have one marque forward and a few with potential. But they haven't a clue that's the case. galwayman2 (Galway) - Posts: 1324 - 14/03/2022 12:34:29 2405371 Link
There seem to be a few keen to run down the management no matter what. They're far from perfect and the past 2 years have been very poor overall. I remain unconvinced, but this year so we have done what was expected. The level of opposition increases from next weekend, so let's see how we do. One big positive is the fact that players who needed match practice, have got a good run of games. Comer's form has been very good in recent weeks. He has had such an injury disrupted few years before this. When he's sharp and match fit, he's a massive asset. We have looked open in recent weeks, but were much tighter at the weekend. In saying that, it was a low scoring game due to the conditions. I'll always be cautious with any optimism given the last 2 decades, I'm looking forward to seeing how we do in these next 2 games. WanPintWin (Galway) - Posts: 2423 - 14/03/2022 13:16:06 2405376 Link
Replying To togoutlads: "Lord God above we love a good moan here! Particular a few old rose tinted glasses wearing KW fan club members (KW is a bona fide Galway football legend in my book but can we please move on in the Mgmt discussion!) Would anyone here at the start of the league not have taken 5 wins from 5 at this stage? Galway have the only 100% record and are the highest scorers across all 4 divisions. Yes, there are issues but guess what, every team in the country in March has issues. We'll work on them. I had my doubts about this Mgmt team, like most had when things went awry after the first lockdown, but they're answering us. Galway are getting better. Already, our defending improved massively yesterday - after a shaky opening few mins. The defending was pretty abysmal at times against Offaly and Cork but we did enough to win every game - so we're doing a lot of things right. I think our goal opportunity creation and execution is on the up and the hard ground should suit this more. Goals will be essential to having a rattle at Mayo and other top teams. As for media coverage, RTE have absolutely blanked us. Where are the cameras at Galway games? Why zero coverage on League Sunday last night? We're forgotten about - an invisible side show to the big guns. There's one bloody answer to that. Roll on a monster showdown in the Championship! The blood is up!!" Ah grow up.. Div 1 football takes priority. Galway v clare is well down the list of priorities. Belclare (Galway) - Posts: 904 - 14/03/2022 14:36:05 2405394 Link
Replying To Belclare: "Ah grow up.. Div 1 football takes priority. Galway v clare is well down the list of priorities." Reading some of your comments on here i don't think you are in a position to tell someone else to grow up. If you watched the program last night Division 2 got top billing. Galway in the hunt for promotion should have got a few minutes highlights. Cameras was there so i presume TG4 will have highlights tonight. Yondu (UK) - Posts: 845 - 14/03/2022 14:50:16 2405400 Link
Replying To Belclare: "Ah grow up.. Div 1 football takes priority. Galway v clare is well down the list of priorities." A well thought out retort there, Belclare, with your 'grow up'. Idiotic and hardly surprising. Regarding RTE's coverage priorities, they played all the other Div 2 matches highlights first last night and not one second of Galway v Clare. Ros v Derry, Offaly v Down and Meath v Cork were all shown. Not the first time this has happened either. togoutlads (Galway) - Posts: 1091 - 14/03/2022 15:09:28 2405404 Link
Replying To togoutlads: "Lord God above we love a good moan here! Particular a few old rose tinted glasses wearing KW fan club members (KW is a bona fide Galway football legend in my book but can we please move on in the Mgmt discussion!) Would anyone here at the start of the league not have taken 5 wins from 5 at this stage? Galway have the only 100% record and are the highest scorers across all 4 divisions. Yes, there are issues but guess what, every team in the country in March has issues. We'll work on them. I had my doubts about this Mgmt team, like most had when things went awry after the first lockdown, but they're answering us. Galway are getting better. Already, our defending improved massively yesterday - after a shaky opening few mins. The defending was pretty abysmal at times against Offaly and Cork but we did enough to win every game - so we're doing a lot of things right. I think our goal opportunity creation and execution is on the up and the hard ground should suit this more. Goals will be essential to having a rattle at Mayo and other top teams. As for media coverage, RTE have absolutely blanked us. Where are the cameras at Galway games? Why zero coverage on League Sunday last night? We're forgotten about - an invisible side show to the big guns. There's one bloody answer to that. Roll on a monster showdown in the Championship! The blood is up!!" Totally agree regarding goals. I thought we were a little poor on taking those opportunities against Offaly, thought we left 4 goals behind us that day. Yesterday we had 2 brilliantly taken goals, and good at creating those opportunities overall, maybe 1 more potential opportunity. As for media coverage, I'd say it suits us. Mayo lads won't know what hit them ;) systematic (Galway) - Posts: 226 - 14/03/2022 15:25:42 2405410 Link
Congratulations to the Galway team and management on winning all 5 games so far in Division 2. Hope we can achieve our rightful place in Div.1. It is particularly good to be winning without playing to anywhere near full potential. Also they have won the last few games without relying on the prodigious scoring returns of Shane Walsh. This is putting more responsibility on other players to clock up the scores. Once we keep the opposition scoring rate down we are match for any one. Please stop all the whinging and sense of inferiority complex about Mayo, a county that has not won an All Ireland since 1951 despite all the huffing and puffing. FatLadySinging (Galway) - Posts: 91 - 14/03/2022 15:40:50 2405415 Link
The permutations are varied from here on in but any win in the last two games and we are up. A draw against Derry is no good if Derry and Ros win their remaining games. Interestingly a draw against Ros should Derry win their final two games will see us up even if Ros win in Tullamore unless they win by a huge margin and Derry beat us well. Head to head in the latter scenario not relevant in the case of a draw and our scoring average better than Ros. If we manage to get promoted a good rebound after grabbing defeat from the jaws of victory in Clones last season. kiloughter (Galway) - Posts: 1992 - 14/03/2022 15:53:32 2405419 Link
Replying To togoutlads: "A well thought out retort there, Belclare, with your 'grow up'. Idiotic and hardly surprising. Regarding RTE's coverage priorities, they played all the other Div 2 matches highlights first last night and not one second of Galway v Clare. Ros v Derry, Offaly v Down and Meath v Cork were all shown. Not the first time this has happened either." "The blood is up" on a forum.. ok whatever.. Belclare (Galway) - Posts: 904 - 14/03/2022 16:19:54 2405427 Link
Replying To FatLadySinging: "Congratulations to the Galway team and management on winning all 5 games so far in Division 2. Hope we can achieve our rightful place in Div.1. It is particularly good to be winning without playing to anywhere near full potential. Also they have won the last few games without relying on the prodigious scoring returns of Shane Walsh. This is putting more responsibility on other players to clock up the scores. Once we keep the opposition scoring rate down we are match for any one. Please stop all the whinging and sense of inferiority complex about Mayo, a county that has not won an All Ireland since 1951 despite all the huffing and puffing." Its only our "rightful place" if we win one of our last 2 fixtures. If we dont then our rightful place is another year in division 2. anotheralias (Galway) - Posts: 1001 - 14/03/2022 16:35:52 2405432 Link
Replying To Belclare: ""The blood is up" on a forum.. ok whatever.." We are the poor relations while we are in Div. 2. The main attention and focus of RTE television coverage is quite rightly on Div.1. It is like the Premiership versus the Championship in England. When we rejoin Div.1 then we can expect our matches to command more TV coverage. Onwards and upwards Galway. FatLadySinging (Galway) - Posts: 91 - 14/03/2022 18:50:04 2405456 Link
sunday is a big big game.,derry need to win so theyll be well up for it.,we need to pick our best 15 available to win this so i hope kelly and shane are fit enough to play but id imagine will be ruled out now.. if so this is the team id go with. id like to start fitzgerald full back and move sean kelly to wing back and patrick kelly to midfield with conroy. i think that where patrick will end up.,he's a very good intelligent footballer who is well capable of winning his own ball., but this is the team im thinking joyce will go with... 1.flaherty 2.molloy. 3.kelly 4.silke 5.mchugh 6.daly 7.mcdaid 8.tierney 9.conroy 10p.kelly 11.canney 12.heaney 13.comer 14.finnerty 15.connelly subs if all fit., patrick kelly.,sean fitzgerald.,tony gill.,cathal sweeney.,darragh silke.,glynn.,gleeson.,eoin finnerty.,kilcommins.,colin murray.,niall daly., if im forgetting anyone lads please include them.. gbay (Galway) - Posts: 276 - 14/03/2022 20:01:22 2405465 Link
Replying To galwayman2: "If it's true that Shane had an injury coming into the game then it was absolutely criminal playing him. We need him against Mayo more than we need him for any league game. End of. Pretty good summation of the game there. Can I ask you though - why you say you won't go to watch them again? You're either a supporter of the team or you're not no? I was there today also. Absolutely it was a bad display but they're my team regardless and will watch them in good times or bad. That type of attitude is rife in Galway and annoys me to be honest." on reflection of course ill be going again to see them.,i was just right p**d yesterday with the ticket situ with that poor man and his 5 kids and then some of the stuff i was hearing in the stand about players playing through injury.,quality of football etc etc.. i watched the game again and clare where very defensive and with conditions the way they where it effected our kicking game.. does anybody think eoin finnerty can make an impact during the summer.?? i wont make the derry game but i will make the roscommon game which i hope we will be promoted before the ball is throwin in..pls god.. where the only team accross all 4 divisions with maximun points after 5 games.. id also like to see us keep at least one forward up when we are defending if not two., we need to take a bit of risk and let the ball go quickly when we turnover the ball. most defenders now a days cant defend long high balls on a one v one scenario and i think we could really use this to our advantage especially if we leave comer at 14 and possibly connelly beside him.. gbay (Galway)** - Posts: 276 - 14/03/2022 20:18:15 2405466 Link
Replying To Belclare: ""The blood is up" on a forum.. ok whatever.." More juvenile retorts there, Belclare. First it's 'Grow up' and then it's 'whatever'. You know the debate is lost when you can only reply with 'whatever.' Now, have you any worthy comment or assessment of your own on Galway football at the moment? Let's see some insightful analysis. BTW 'The blood's up' phrase is a rallying call from a famous Irish play that you needn't concern yourself with. togoutlads (Galway) - Posts: 1091 - 14/03/2022 20:55:56 2405468 Link
Replying To kiloughter: "The permutations are varied from here on in but any win in the last two games and we are up. A draw against Derry is no good if Derry and Ros win their remaining games. Interestingly a draw against Ros should Derry win their final two games will see us up even if Ros win in Tullamore unless they win by a huge margin and Derry beat us well. Head to head in the latter scenario not relevant in the case of a draw and our scoring average better than Ros. If we manage to get promoted a good rebound after grabbing defeat from the jaws of victory in Clones last season." Go for the jugular in Derry, I reckon. Momentum is hard to build. The win up there is achievable if we're at full tilt in Owenbeg. Derry are looking strong but if we've bigger ambitions down the road then we have to man up and beat them there. Mayo or Kerry or a few others wouldn't be doubting themselves if they were going to Derry. We have to be at least thinking ambitiously and ruthlessly about playing our game and getting the job done now. We have to secure that Div 1 status, and if we leave it until the last day, the Rossies will burst themselves to stop us. Don't even end up in that scenario. togoutlads (Galway) - Posts: 1091 - 14/03/2022 21:08:53 2405472 Link
offaly will beat the rossies on Sunday! lowballplease (Galway) - Posts: 935 - 15/03/2022 08:20:27 2405477 Link
Replying To lowballplease: "offaly will beat the rossies on Sunday!" ridiculous Galway need to win one of their remaining games if we want to consider ourselves fit for division 1 , no excuses or favours from other teams suckvalleypaddy (Galway) - Posts: 1759 - 15/03/2022 09:43:52 2405482 Link
Replying To gbay: "sunday is a big big game.,derry need to win so theyll be well up for it.,we need to pick our best 15 available to win this so i hope kelly and shane are fit enough to play but id imagine will be ruled out now.. if so this is the team id go with. id like to start fitzgerald full back and move sean kelly to wing back and patrick kelly to midfield with conroy. i think that where patrick will end up.,he's a very good intelligent footballer who is well capable of winning his own ball., but this is the team im thinking joyce will go with... 1.flaherty 2.molloy. 3.kelly 4.silke 5.mchugh 6.daly 7.mcdaid 8.tierney 9.conroy 10p.kelly 11.canney 12.heaney 13.comer 14.finnerty 15.connelly subs if all fit., patrick kelly.,sean fitzgerald.,tony gill.,cathal sweeney.,darragh silke.,glynn.,gleeson.,eoin finnerty.,kilcommins.,colin murray.,niall daly., if im forgetting anyone lads please include them.." You remind me of another guy who yiu to post here under a different name, anyways you say you want to start Fitzgerald full back yet name him in your subs.. I don't see too many changes, apart from starting Sean Kelly. Walsh definitely needs a rest but PJ will play him.. He cannot afford to lose this game or promotion will become extremely difficult. And make no mistake If this Manager fails to get promotion this year he needs to be replaced. Belclare (Galway) - Posts: 904 - 15/03/2022 10:00:26 2405486 Link