Alwaysencourage (Galway) - Posts: 589 - 25/04/2026 18:09:11    2668581

ohwow (Leitrim) - Posts: 135 - 25/04/2026 18:14:52    2668583

Galway are on the slide big time, but today was as poor a showing as we have seen since the days under Forde. Fair play to Leitrim, 80/1 , they were 9/1 to beat Sligo 2 weeks ago, and but for a few poor misses from play and frees early on, they would have pulled of the biggest shock, in terms of odds, since the founding of the GAA. We went into this game 3rd or 4th Favs for Sam, Leitrim 3rd from bottom of Division 4, and in spite of us having Conroy, Darcy and Maher they matched us in winning kickouts. They were well on top when it came to the rough and tumble stuff. Poacher deserves huge credit. It is easy to point to goalkeeping errors that were a huge problem, but sure every supporter is waiting for it to happen, from our painful past experience. Goalkeepers surely are under instruction game to game depending on the opposition. What were we doing going short V Leitrim? I know it can be hard for high ranked teams to play to their best v supposedly low level teams. Leitrim lost their Div 3 league games last year by an average of 25 points, yet held Mayo to 7 points in the Connacht game. That stat is the only crumb of comfort I can find.

giveitlong (Galway) - Posts: 1313 - 25/04/2026 19:46:23    2668607

Drax_the_destroyer (UK) - Posts: 792 - 25/04/2026 20:00:45    2668613