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I'll start the conversation on our next manager... Outside the county: Cian O'Neill Inside the county: Anthony Cunningham streaker (Galway) - Posts: 523 - 29/06/2025 19:21:59 2622268 Link
Replying To winatallcost: "Hmmmmm. Right!" Honestly best of luck the next day against Donegal, you could've won by 6 or 7 today if it wasn't for bad wides. One thing about Meath is zero fear for any opponent, always a bitta belief there LárBáire (Galway) - Posts: 66 - 29/06/2025 19:25:33 2622269 Link
Replying To streaker: "I'll start the conversation on our next manager... Outside the county: Cian O'Neill Inside the county: Anthony Cunningham" You can start it .. But I'll finish it... Cunningham!! For the love of God! Belclare7 (Galway) - Posts: 326 - 29/06/2025 19:28:05 2622271 Link
Replying To Belclare7: "You can start it .. But I'll finish it... Cunningham!! For the love of God!" Yeah if Anthony Cunnigham is the answer, what is the question you are asking. Better off keeping PJ. Look how long McGeeney knocked on the door for. He needs to get better and keep improving the coaching and team overall. Galway are not far away. For whatever reason, you just didn't light it up this season. shaggykev (Donegal) - Posts: 381 - 29/06/2025 19:41:35 2622286 Link
Replying To LárBáire: "Honestly best of luck the next day against Donegal, you could've won by 6 or 7 today if it wasn't for bad wides. One thing about Meath is zero fear for any opponent, always a bitta belief there" Always really....... even while Dublin were winning 14 Leinsters in a row 2011-2024? Pope_Benedict (Galway) - Posts: 4280 - 29/06/2025 19:45:35 2622290 Link
Replying To Belclare7: "You can start it .. But I'll finish it... Cunningham!! For the love of God!" For the love of Galway football maybe... All you PJ and Scan fanboys can carry on if you like... streaker (Galway) - Posts: 523 - 29/06/2025 20:14:52 2622301 Link
For whatever reason my post directly after the game in Croke Park wasn't published here. I'll try again. A deserved win for Meath and all the best to them in the semi final against Donegal. Three wins against Div 1 teams for them in this championship and I for one tip my hat to them. Galway today simply weren't good enough and outside of that purple patch of 2-3 in 4 minutes only managed to score 0-12. Some will use the 3 matches in 13 days against a rested opponent as excuse but not for me and especially with Galway in the same situation as last year and beat Dublin. No real consistency under Joyce the last four years. All Ireland finalists 2022,2024 to last 12 and last 8 exit 2023 and this year. What will 2026 bring? who knows and will Joyce stay on for another year? Drax_the_destroyer (UK) - Posts: 510 - 29/06/2025 20:35:57 2622311 Link
Personally I hope nobody retires or steps away. We aren't that far away. Now is a time for reflection. Next year brings a new format. Thanks to our management and players for your efforts. GDL (Galway) - Posts: 852 - 29/06/2025 20:43:57 2622317 Link
Replying To streaker: "I'll start the conversation on our next manager... Outside the county: Cian O'Neill Inside the county: Anthony Cunningham" Cian O Neill didnt achieve a lot with his native county. Maybe he is good but so much regarding managerial profiles these days is about hype. Get the right PR profile and be smart enough to transfer at the right time to the next likely potential All Ireland winner and you will always be in demand. Padraic Joyce is as good a manager as Galway could have. He is a Galway man and he certainly loves his county. If there's a baton to pass on it should be to another Galway man imo. PoolSturgeon (Galway) - Posts: 2045 - 29/06/2025 20:55:20 2622323 Link
Replying To streaker: "I'll start the conversation on our next manager... Outside the county: Cian O'Neill Inside the county: Anthony Cunningham" Anthony Cunningham lives in Roscommon...not Galway Chops (Westmeath) - Posts: 830 - 29/06/2025 20:56:50 2622325 Link
What do Galway people think of Mickey? Any addition or was it a negative experience? bláthach (Leitrim) - Posts: 162 - 29/06/2025 21:02:09 2622329 Link
Joyce has had a good run at it. I think it's time for a fresh voice and ideas. bollocks (Galway) - Posts: 11 - 29/06/2025 21:14:28 2622334 Link
Very disappointing performances throughout the championship. No kick out strategy, defence not able to stop teams running through the middle, corner backs not able to man mark, no attacking structure not able to get direct ball into our danger men, huge spells of lackluster play with no intensity. A shambles really when you stand back and look at the season. Serious question marks over the coaching staff since Cian O'Neill departed. PJ's reaction to McDaid stepped across the middle summed up the year for me. Poor stuff. Blowin3 (Dublin) - Posts: 3 - 29/06/2025 21:21:17 2622339 Link
Replying To Pope_Benedict: "Always really....... even while Dublin were winning 14 Leinsters in a row 2011-2024?" Always may have been hyperbole but they definitely had zero fear of us today and rightly so it given the lack of ingenuity we turned up with. I won't begrudge them the win, would you give us a chance against Donegal in two weeks playing the way we did today? LárBáire (Galway) - Posts: 66 - 29/06/2025 21:23:30 2622342 Link
Replying To GDL: "Personally I hope nobody retires or steps away. We aren't that far away. Now is a time for reflection. Next year brings a new format. Thanks to our management and players for your efforts." Paul Conroy even at 37 next year will rule Connacht.. Belclare7 (Galway) - Posts: 326 - 29/06/2025 21:32:54 2622348 Link
A tough one to take, no doubt the players and management are feeling it most of all. I'll save my thoughts on the game for another time but for now, just a heartfelt thank you to the entire squad and backroom team for everything they continue to give to Galway football. We go again. Roll on 2026. ahsure. (Galway) - Posts: 1715 - 29/06/2025 21:34:36 2622349 Link
Replying To PoolSturgeon: "Cian O Neill didnt achieve a lot with his native county. Maybe he is good but so much regarding managerial profiles these days is about hype. Get the right PR profile and be smart enough to transfer at the right time to the next likely potential All Ireland winner and you will always be in demand. Padraic Joyce is as good a manager as Galway could have. He is a Galway man and he certainly loves his county. If there's a baton to pass on it should be to another Galway man imo." If PJ is such a good manager, how has he dropped Daly, Mulkerrin and Molloy from the defense in the last 2-3 years, and still wound up with a unit that's more porous and easy to score on than ever. New rules is one excuse, but the lack of room we found in Meath's defense in the first half today, compared to the chasms of space that they seemed to find in our defense all through, was stark. As great a footballing spectacle as Newry was last week, our defending was pathetic most of the time. Whatever about a new manager, we certainly need a new defensive coordinator next season at a minimum. Pope_Benedict (Galway) - Posts: 4280 - 29/06/2025 21:56:21 2622362 Link
We can't really have any complaints this year about how it went. If we honestly ask ourselves about players and form some of the drop offs are huge. Keepers, I won't even go there but form has been poor. McGrath, maybe down to the new rules but was far better in 24 Silke, form was poor this year. S Kelly, has regained some form but not near the heights of 22. McHugh, way off this year vs last year. Conroy, not near last years form but was still good Tierney, hasn't been great this year in the bigger games Walsh, nowhere near near 22 form and blighted by injury McDaid, has been good but we've seen more from him. Thompson, great find but not a great day out today Finnerty, in the form of his life but again, didn't deliver today Comer, not available and we miss him big time smallfrank (Galway) - Posts: 542 - 29/06/2025 22:09:51 2622370 Link
Some of the comments here are baffling. People saying "he has to stay" really? He's had six years to win an All Ireland and it hasn't happened. Even with big names brought in this year, including the much-hyped addition from Corofin, they still didn't make it past a quarter final. It seems like there are just too many personalities involved, both on and off the pitch. Yvrjd (Galway) - Posts: 14 - 29/06/2025 22:10:55 2622372 Link
Lads surely it is time for PJ to step away.... should he not have won more with them players.?? Galway have not really clicked fully this year at all imo, and ye have a lot of star players. Fresh ideas required for next season.? I reckon so. Hard luck today by the way. Roll on 2026 for this talented squad. Fionn (Dublin) - Posts: 4388 - 29/06/2025 22:16:00 2622374 Link