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Great win for Galway who were really up for this game from the start, super hard work. Glynn is improving and Campbell did better this time. Almost all positions look to be nailed down now for the Mayo game. Great credit to Derry on 2 fronts, They were great hosts and really welcomed our supporters and fantastic to see 200 or 300 kids out on the pitch at HT with footballs and hurleys. giveitlong (Galway) - Posts: 1291 - 21/03/2022 13:07:09 2406179 Link
Its great to see Cillian Mc Daid and John Daly playing again Prob the most talked about lads on this forum over the years Kieran Molloy has really developed as a top defender now Our tacking and workrate has been dealt with and improved Id imagine Cian o Neill has a big hand in this rhudson (Galway) - Posts: 1478 - 21/03/2022 13:19:34 2406183 Link
Galway are in serious shape going into the championship. The form team in the country and top scorers. Yesterday was meant to be a first big test and absolutely blew Derry away. Primed for the Mayo encounter now and Joyce and the players will be saying behind closed doors bring it on. Yondu (UK) - Posts: 845 - 21/03/2022 14:10:06 2406208 Link
All the doom and gloomers have fairly disappeared. They say a week is a long time in politics… they should try the GAA! ahsure. (Galway) - Posts: 1728 - 21/03/2022 15:02:52 2406236 Link
Replying To togoutlads: "Our footballers have scored the same as our hurlers in the league! Well 123 v 124 points. And our footballers are doing this with a ball that's almost 5 times the weight and multiple times the size of a slightly overweight tennis ball that a strong keeper can puc out to just in front of the full forward line at 100 mph or put over from 90+m out! Fair dues to our footballers - That's some shooting!" It's harder to finish top6 in div1, than to finish top2 in div2 right now. Might help to explain the scoring? Are Galway really good, or are teams like Cork, Meath, Down in spectacularly low troughs of their 'development cycles'. Need to play div1 sides to find out!! It's likely a sign that Galway are improving in the pecking order right now, the ease with which they compiled 6 wins this year, and the quality chasm enjoyed over 'fancied' counties like Cork, Meath, Down etc. Compare that ease to the difficulties that KW or Muller experienced trying to extricate the team from div2 just a decade and less ago. Maybe, we're getting good. Roll on the 24th, and we'll find out a bit more. Pope_Benedict (Galway) - Posts: 4317 - 21/03/2022 15:16:03 2406239 Link
Replying To Yondu: "Galway are in serious shape going into the championship. The form team in the country and top scorers. Yesterday was meant to be a first big test and absolutely blew Derry away. Primed for the Mayo encounter now and Joyce and the players will be saying behind closed doors bring it on." As Dougal said on Fr Ted "Ted I am very cynical as you know" but you just might be on to something! tommy k (Galway) - Posts: 3470 - 21/03/2022 15:31:10 2406250 Link
Replying To Pope_Benedict: "It's harder to finish top6 in div1, than to finish top2 in div2 right now. Might help to explain the scoring? Are Galway really good, or are teams like Cork, Meath, Down in spectacularly low troughs of their 'development cycles'. Need to play div1 sides to find out!! It's likely a sign that Galway are improving in the pecking order right now, the ease with which they compiled 6 wins this year, and the quality chasm enjoyed over 'fancied' counties like Cork, Meath, Down etc. Compare that ease to the difficulties that KW or Muller experienced trying to extricate the team from div2 just a decade and less ago. Maybe, we're getting good. Roll on the 24th, and we'll find out a bit more." All those Div 2 teams were there on merit, they weren't selected out of a hat. You can only beat what's in front of you. Of course, the massive step up will be Mayo in the Championship - come the summer they're absolutely as good as what's in the country and are serious AI contenders. togoutlads (Galway) - Posts: 1091 - 21/03/2022 15:32:55 2406254 Link
The 2 Roscommon posters back talking Galway up as usual, just ignore them. Great result and whatever happens this summer Galway are back in Div 1. Hopefully Comer & Walsh are fit for the league final, important to get another game in Croke Park. Time to give those fringe players a chance next Sunday and there's plenty of them. TheBishop (Galway) - Posts: 296 - 21/03/2022 16:02:17 2406269 Link
Can't help but think the late omission of Shane throw them off a bit too. It was a nice curveball as he got through the warm up ok (well… it looked that way). We were well able to mix it up, kept them waiting at the start of the 2nd half and the shmozzle (awful to hear about the eye gouge) was a good way to break up a few minutes during the black card. So there is definitely a cuteness there that maybe we have lacked previously. Re Cooke, I understand he is not making himself available for selection this year. But I am open to correction on that from someone who may be more in the know than me. Midfield is my one concern though still. ahsure. (Galway) - Posts: 1728 - 21/03/2022 16:31:16 2406287 Link
Replying To ahsure.: "All the doom and gloomers have fairly disappeared. They say a week is a long time in politics… they should try the GAA!" 6/6 is good yes. But, we've played one, maybe two "decent" teams in that. The gulf between division 1 and 2 is vast. Not taking away from the victory or promotion but let's not get ahead of ourselves. I'll gladly eat my hate when PJ beats Mayo and goes onto win these All Ireland's he was talking about winning when he took over! Donaldtrump (Galway) - Posts: 252 - 21/03/2022 18:46:21 2406315 Link
Replying To togoutlads: "Our footballers have scored the same as our hurlers in the league! Well 123 v 124 points. And our footballers are doing this with a ball that's almost 5 times the weight and multiple times the size of a slightly overweight tennis ball that a strong keeper can puc out to just in front of the full forward line at 100 mph or put over from 90+m out! Fair dues to our footballers - That's some shooting!" You are not comparing like with like if the galway hurlers were in division 2 they would have run up cricket scores minor77 (Galway) - Posts: 281 - 21/03/2022 19:21:59 2406320 Link
Replying To minor77: "You are not comparing like with like if the galway hurlers were in division 2 they would have run up cricket scores" I dont think it was meant as a cut at the hurlers . There was nothing wrong with the hurlers scoring rate, which was across 5 games as opposed to 6 nfl games) . I think the point was just that an average of over 20 points per game is more associated with hurling than football. With regard to the hurling division 2 there is a massive chasm between the top 2 divisions in hurling and that in football. I accept that the gap in football appears to be growing but there are several teams outside of Division 1 in football with a realistic hope of provincial honours ( including 2 in division 4 who won titles 2 years ago). In hurling there is not a hope in the absolute world that a team outside of division 1 will get near a provincial final anotheralias (Galway) - Posts: 1001 - 22/03/2022 09:37:01 2406362 Link
Great stuff lads, Gaillimh Abu. Not getting carried away. We need to test the bench big time for the Hyde. I like Roscommon of course but would love to meet Derry In final with Shane Mc playing. It would be fair to Derry who are a great county. We would learn more about ourselves. GAA must look at eye gouging also, it is evil. Serious ban required. suckvalleypaddy (Galway) - Posts: 1759 - 22/03/2022 10:02:41 2406375 Link
Replying To suckvalleypaddy: "Great stuff lads, Gaillimh Abu. Not getting carried away. We need to test the bench big time for the Hyde. I like Roscommon of course but would love to meet Derry In final with Shane Mc playing. It would be fair to Derry who are a great county. We would learn more about ourselves. GAA must look at eye gouging also, it is evil. Serious ban required." Fair to Derry? Care to elaborate on that. McGuigan playing wouldn't have stopped Galway from destroying Derry in midfield and scoring 4 goals. Any league table doesn't lie. The best two teams in this division will play in the final however i agree with the view that we probably could do without finals and the trophy given to the team that tops the group. The_analyser (Roscommon) - Posts: 4124 - 22/03/2022 14:02:59 2406483 Link
We should be very confident of staying with Mayo this year. In the second half last year we didn't have John Daly, Sean Kelly, Rob Finnerty, a fit Shane Walsh and we have a better keeper this year. Our bench is a little weak however. lowballplease (Galway) - Posts: 935 - 22/03/2022 14:52:05 2406502 Link
Replying To lowballplease: "We should be very confident of staying with Mayo this year. In the second half last year we didn't have John Daly, Sean Kelly, Rob Finnerty, a fit Shane Walsh and we have a better keeper this year. Our bench is a little weak however." If we can stand up to the thuggery of O Hora and the theatrics of O Shea we may be in with a chance Belclare (Galway) - Posts: 904 - 22/03/2022 15:13:10 2406511 Link
Replying To lowballplease: "We should be very confident of staying with Mayo this year. In the second half last year we didn't have John Daly, Sean Kelly, Rob Finnerty, a fit Shane Walsh and we have a better keeper this year. Our bench is a little weak however." Don't think it's weak at all. 31 players used in this years league, a number of players that haven't started any of the 6 games thus far namely Tony Gill, Patrick Kelly, Niall Daly, Eoin Finnerty, Sean Fitzgerald etc are more than capable of filling in and impressing if given the opportunity. Cathal Sweeney, Jonathan McGrath are good quality players and have just started 1 of the 6 league games. Matter of fact i see both as established starters in the years ahead. Mayo after giving a glut of new players a try out during this league will likely revert back to their tried and trusted and will be especially hoping Cillian O'Connor is match fit for April 24th. Yondu (UK) - Posts: 845 - 22/03/2022 15:24:49 2406514 Link
Replying To The_analyser: "Fair to Derry? Care to elaborate on that. McGuigan playing wouldn't have stopped Galway from destroying Derry in midfield and scoring 4 goals. Any league table doesn't lie. The best two teams in this division will play in the final however i agree with the view that we probably could do without finals and the trophy given to the team that tops the group." I hear ya. Galway would have won even with Shane McGuigan playing but he was suspended due to an emotional reaction to an injustice. Not my fight, best to Roscommon on Sunday suckvalleypaddy (Galway) - Posts: 1759 - 22/03/2022 15:42:56 2406518 Link
Replying To lowballplease: "We should be very confident of staying with Mayo this year. In the second half last year we didn't have John Daly, Sean Kelly, Rob Finnerty, a fit Shane Walsh and we have a better keeper this year. Our bench is a little weak however." We are at a different level completely this year Everything that could go wrong happened in last 2 yrs Covid injuries a div 1 that was never was fair to Galway We never got to play our full 7 games like in a normal div 1 We were put in a 4 team group Kerry Dublin and the Rossies The impact Cian o neilll has made is huge I see a major improvent in workrate and tackling and attitude Some players have developed a lot too Heres to a positive end to our season rhudson (Galway) - Posts: 1478 - 22/03/2022 16:30:43 2406542 Link
Replying To Yondu: "Don't think it's weak at all. 31 players used in this years league, a number of players that haven't started any of the 6 games thus far namely Tony Gill, Patrick Kelly, Niall Daly, Eoin Finnerty, Sean Fitzgerald etc are more than capable of filling in and impressing if given the opportunity. Cathal Sweeney, Jonathan McGrath are good quality players and have just started 1 of the 6 league games. Matter of fact i see both as established starters in the years ahead. Mayo after giving a glut of new players a try out during this league will likely revert back to their tried and trusted and will be especially hoping Cillian O'Connor is match fit for April 24th." Yes I think the bench is not as weak as some people are saying but midfield plus options on the bench for that position is still an area of concern. I was just wondering (I know he is small in stature) if Gavin Burke is worth a place at least on the panel (not as a midfielder btw!) as he was excellent for NUIG in the Sigerson Cup success last month and he was named in the Sigerson Cup Team of the Year? tommy k (Galway) - Posts: 3470 - 22/03/2022 16:32:42 2406543 Link