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Look I think it's widely accepted that we didn't adapt our attacking play to suit the new rules.
The slow slow approach is one that was developed to garner scoring opportunities against teams who have 14-15 men sitting inside their own 45.
With the new rules, when you turn the ball over there is acres of space to attack into and we just didn't seem to have any plan to exploit this. I can't fathom why.
You can't win the big prize playing so slowly.
Also, for all of our supposed abundance of "big men" we were cleaned out on kick outs in most games this year. Breaking ball in most cases. If D'arcy didn't win it cleanly there is a good chance the opposition were winning it either cleanly themselves or on the deck.
These two aspects along with an inability to get Walsh performing any way consistently (he was going 15-20 minutes in games without touching the ball which is criminal - he needs to be demanding that ball and getting on it much more regularly) were our biggest issues this year.
We haven't got an abundance of young talent coming through either which is a huge worry.

galwayman2 (Galway) - Posts: 1324 - 14/07/2025 11:15:52    2625539

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Replying To S1234:  "Mayo are not a poor team. Sure we only lost by a point to Donegal in the dying seconds eho just death Meath out the gate and Meath also beat you lot .

If we are poor then you lot are absolutely terrible!

Your an ageing team we've great under 20s coming up hope for us unlike you who've been poor at underage level !"
Clare, we've All Ireland Minor and U20 titles since your last win. Our club senior club teams have been kicking your lot around Connact for years. As for Donegal they were playing with ye in Roscommon, in reality they were 10+ points better than you. But you wouldn't know that as you didn't travel to that game, or the Cavan game, or Leitrim game or Tyrone game! Ha!, now go away and tell your other pseudonym JimB1991 the same.

GDL (Galway) - Posts: 859 - 14/07/2025 11:26:37    2625546

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Looking at Donegal and Kerry, I don't think an All Ireland was there for us this year. Fitzmaurice was on TV praising the rules non stop but last years semi finals were way ahead in my opinion and not just cos we were in them!
Couple of things we need to fix in 2026.
Keeper, being able to find a man off the tee even in traffic. Ryan, Patton and Morgan showed what we are lacking. Not all down to the keeper. Need work out the pitch also.
11. Paudie Clifford. I honestly don't think he would be picked on the current Galway team and I'm not entirely comfortable with that. We are going with height and athleticism. To get the most out of our inside line we need a ball player around the middle and if Daly isn't on the pitch maybe Thompson will develop further as a heads up ball player or Finnerty out to 11 or Conroy or AN Other.
Full Back. I thought Brendan McCole and Jason Foley are brilliant 1v1 and it helps. The Meath full back as well was outstanding. May be Fitz but I'm not fully convinced. Other option is maybe Hernon or Dylan McHugh.
The club championship will be good to see who can stand out. I actually think the pressure is on Tuam and Salthill to do something. Moycullen and Corofin might have something to say about that though

smallfrank (Galway) - Posts: 546 - 14/07/2025 11:50:23    2625553

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Replying To GDL:  "Clare, we've All Ireland Minor and U20 titles since your last win. Our club senior club teams have been kicking your lot around Connact for years. As for Donegal they were playing with ye in Roscommon, in reality they were 10+ points better than you. But you wouldn't know that as you didn't travel to that game, or the Cavan game, or Leitrim game or Tyrone game! Ha!, now go away and tell your other pseudonym JimB1991 the same."
Let the Mayo men be deluded as usual. Donegal went into 3rd gear against them a few times and still bet them. Donegal went into 5th or 6th gear v Meath and Monaghan and burned them up. Mayo lost to Galway without Shane Walsh or Comer and lost to Cavan who are much worse than they were 5-6 years ago.
Mayo can handpass the ball around in circles and keep going nowhere and speak of DOC as their leader (who manages to drift through games without most spectators not knowing he was playing).

NoughtiesFootball (USA) - Posts: 8 - 14/07/2025 11:51:17    2625555

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Replying To galwayman2:  "Look I think it's widely accepted that we didn't adapt our attacking play to suit the new rules.
The slow slow approach is one that was developed to garner scoring opportunities against teams who have 14-15 men sitting inside their own 45.
With the new rules, when you turn the ball over there is acres of space to attack into and we just didn't seem to have any plan to exploit this. I can't fathom why.
You can't win the big prize playing so slowly.
Also, for all of our supposed abundance of "big men" we were cleaned out on kick outs in most games this year. Breaking ball in most cases. If D'arcy didn't win it cleanly there is a good chance the opposition were winning it either cleanly themselves or on the deck.
These two aspects along with an inability to get Walsh performing any way consistently (he was going 15-20 minutes in games without touching the ball which is criminal - he needs to be demanding that ball and getting on it much more regularly) were our biggest issues this year.
We haven't got an abundance of young talent coming through either which is a huge worry."
This is quite a serious charge surely. A management team that doesn't have the gumption to adapt to the new rules. And we want to extend that management team?

Pope_Benedict (Galway) - Posts: 4317 - 14/07/2025 12:29:29    2625574

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Replying To smallfrank:  "Looking at Donegal and Kerry, I don't think an All Ireland was there for us this year. Fitzmaurice was on TV praising the rules non stop but last years semi finals were way ahead in my opinion and not just cos we were in them!
Couple of things we need to fix in 2026.
Keeper, being able to find a man off the tee even in traffic. Ryan, Patton and Morgan showed what we are lacking. Not all down to the keeper. Need work out the pitch also.
11. Paudie Clifford. I honestly don't think he would be picked on the current Galway team and I'm not entirely comfortable with that. We are going with height and athleticism. To get the most out of our inside line we need a ball player around the middle and if Daly isn't on the pitch maybe Thompson will develop further as a heads up ball player or Finnerty out to 11 or Conroy or AN Other.
Full Back. I thought Brendan McCole and Jason Foley are brilliant 1v1 and it helps. The Meath full back as well was outstanding. May be Fitz but I'm not fully convinced. Other option is maybe Hernon or Dylan McHugh.
The club championship will be good to see who can stand out. I actually think the pressure is on Tuam and Salthill to do something. Moycullen and Corofin might have something to say about that though"
I actually thought fitz was v good when he came back into team, just no need for him to be going up field should always be 1 of 3 back.

Even watching TC Cup limerick keeper who I believe is converted outfielder is able to ping flat kickouts now some went off but ability is there why cant either of ours?

Our kickouts are high floaty and we are horrendous on breaking ball.

Onto clubs we don't need to be winning but get 2 or 3 good players.

From this u20 team I'll be watching to make an impact

Dunne Barna a scoring wing forward and built for winning breaks we need a dooher galvin kevin mclaughlin type wing forward

Costello Dunmore at u20 level him and Thompson were standouts last year hopefully he can make similar step up

All the salthill lads on panel bar finnerty & Maher need to show why they are on panel and some of best players in county.

The O'Neills mcglinchey are others and hopefully another physical 14 comes through if tierney is not going to be tried there in comer absence

jm25 (Galway) - Posts: 1623 - 14/07/2025 12:41:12    2625584

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Replying To galwayman2:  "Look I think it's widely accepted that we didn't adapt our attacking play to suit the new rules.
The slow slow approach is one that was developed to garner scoring opportunities against teams who have 14-15 men sitting inside their own 45.
With the new rules, when you turn the ball over there is acres of space to attack into and we just didn't seem to have any plan to exploit this. I can't fathom why.
You can't win the big prize playing so slowly.
Also, for all of our supposed abundance of "big men" we were cleaned out on kick outs in most games this year. Breaking ball in most cases. If D'arcy didn't win it cleanly there is a good chance the opposition were winning it either cleanly themselves or on the deck.
These two aspects along with an inability to get Walsh performing any way consistently (he was going 15-20 minutes in games without touching the ball which is criminal - he needs to be demanding that ball and getting on it much more regularly) were our biggest issues this year.
We haven't got an abundance of young talent coming through either which is a huge worry."
Who says we don't have young talent coming through? If you look at it from the aspect of underage success since 2020 then yes, there may not seem to be much there, but Galway has plenty of good young players.

ahsure. (Galway) - Posts: 1727 - 14/07/2025 12:42:11    2625585

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Replying To hopballref:  "Has an outside manager won all All Ireland winning manager since John O Mahony? They are few and far between. Maybe Joyce isn't the answer but I do think we need to keep inside the county. Bring in outside coaches and selectors by all means."
To be fair it's completely different now. Cian O'Neill is doing a lot of the hard work for Kerry

Kew (Galway) - Posts: 240 - 14/07/2025 12:54:03    2625591

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Replying To S1234:  "Or maybe Galway are overated ."
Galway are over-rated. So are Armagh, Tyrone and Derry. And Mayo are just useless.

hopballref (Galway) - Posts: 448 - 14/07/2025 12:54:28    2625592

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Replying To GDL:  "Clare, we've All Ireland Minor and U20 titles since your last win. Our club senior club teams have been kicking your lot around Connact for years. As for Donegal they were playing with ye in Roscommon, in reality they were 10+ points better than you. But you wouldn't know that as you didn't travel to that game, or the Cavan game, or Leitrim game or Tyrone game! Ha!, now go away and tell your other pseudonym JimB1991 the same."
Look man your actually obsessed with Clare off the blog get a life .
Your ridiculous accusations of her not traveling to games is weird man . Also accusing every 2nd account of being her just because they don't like Galway is nonsense .

Donegal we're not 10 points better than us in the hyde. So what difference does it make that Donegal where playing us in Roscommon ?
You need to get over Clare to she obviously ****** you lot right off for saying the truth about Galway that you're overated.. and the truth hurts sure !

S1234 (Mayo) - Posts: 285 - 14/07/2025 13:05:40    2625602

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Can someone tell me why Galway changed goalies mid-championship and kept starting JG at corner back despite him not having the pace? John Daly should have been 6 and Silke should have been corner back like he is for Corofin.

NoughtiesFootball (USA) - Posts: 8 - 14/07/2025 13:08:57    2625603

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its time for kevin o brien to come in now..i still believe this game team can deliver an all ireland but not under this current management team..
id also love to see eamon fitzmaurice come in but i no that wont happen..

gbay (Galway) - Posts: 276 - 14/07/2025 13:29:12    2625613

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Replying To hopballref:  "Galway are over-rated. So are Armagh, Tyrone and Derry. And Mayo are just useless."
How are Tyrone useless ? They got to a semi sure . Meath getting a beating like that makes you lot look bad worse then us loosing to Cavan .

S1234 (Mayo) - Posts: 285 - 14/07/2025 13:51:19    2625618

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Replying To GDL:  "Clare, we've All Ireland Minor and U20 titles since your last win. Our club senior club teams have been kicking your lot around Connact for years. As for Donegal they were playing with ye in Roscommon, in reality they were 10+ points better than you. But you wouldn't know that as you didn't travel to that game, or the Cavan game, or Leitrim game or Tyrone game! Ha!, now go away and tell your other pseudonym JimB1991 the same."
You seriously need to get over yourself. you need to get over Clare from the blog . How do you know she doesn't attend matches ? Ridiculous statement. Also Jimb or whatever you call him from Donegal is not me either you I**** . Grow up .

S1234 (Mayo) - Posts: 285 - 14/07/2025 13:58:34    2625622

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How good/bad are Galway now, after Meaths performance yesterday, a division 2 team and played that way, they are not even a top 10 team. Connaught miles behind the top teams.

jacktheboy (Donegal) - Posts: 489 - 14/07/2025 14:09:03    2625625

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Replying To jacktheboy:  "How good/bad are Galway now, after Meaths performance yesterday, a division 2 team and played that way, they are not even a top 10 team. Connaught miles behind the top teams."
Galway maybe are overated. Though Donegal won't win Sam that will go to Kerry . Meath were awful you can't judge alone on that how good you lot are .

S1234 (Mayo) - Posts: 285 - 14/07/2025 14:48:30    2625637

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I think we can all agree that this forum is being overrun by (well insert whatever term you want - here). As a rest, i suggest we just dont respond to other counties wind-up-merchants and if we just maybe focus on club chamionship for a few weeks, they miss ***-off into other forums.

The_DOC (Galway) - Posts: 810 - 14/07/2025 14:53:37    2625641

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Replying To yew_tree:  "I'm not having a pop but a lot Roscommon posters seem a bit obsessed with underage success. The fact is it's basically development grades and success at that level guarantees nothing at senior level."
It's not that it should guarantee success but the point I was making was that Galway surely had a decent pool of talent there that they shouldn't have went nearly 10 years without a Connacht title. Various management teams didn't seem to be able to bring a lot of those lads along. Horan meanwhile was very adept at getting the most from Mayo's talent pool.

FullOfPorter (Roscommon) - Posts: 248 - 14/07/2025 15:14:47    2625647

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Replying To FullOfPorter:  "It's not that it should guarantee success but the point I was making was that Galway surely had a decent pool of talent there that they shouldn't have went nearly 10 years without a Connacht title. Various management teams didn't seem to be able to bring a lot of those lads along. Horan meanwhile was very adept at getting the most from Mayo's talent pool."
Horan had better players to work with than Mullholland had with Galway during that time period. Its roles revered now with Galway having much better players than us. It all goes in cycles.

yew_tree (Mayo) - Posts: 11688 - 14/07/2025 15:31:49    2625651

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Replying To S1234:  "You seriously need to get over yourself. you need to get over Clare from the blog . How do you know she doesn't attend matches ? Ridiculous statement. Also Jimb or whatever you call him from Donegal is not me either you I**** . Grow up ."
You are Ms Kennedy from the blog, constantly confirmed by your poor spelling and grammer. You've also a tendency to use expletives (Willie Joe has warned you a few times). Only last week Willie Joe blocked you after you logged in with another email. Clare, a period of reflection and putting the phone down would greatly assist your passive aggressive issues.

GDL (Galway) - Posts: 859 - 14/07/2025 15:42:25    2625653

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