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Replying To Alwaysencourage: "What is the story with the new rules and under 20?There is supposed to be a hooter yet the referee has not used it in Galways last two games and has blown up both games as Galway were attacking for levelling scores.There is either a rule or there isn't." Not every ground has a hooter. The same as very few grounds have hawk eye. There was 3 additional minutes added at the end of the second half. The referee played almost 5 mins
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In my opinion a big problem in Galway underage at moment is not having club football run on even number ages at under 16 level there are only 3-4 matches starts in mid aug joke really and in reality them same players are expected to play on ur county team few months later madness under 16 soccer player. Guarantee 18 matches at there own age football max 4
Kickitout (Galway) - Posts: 1035 - 03/04/2025 19:11:50
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Replying To eoinog: "Not every ground has a hooter. The same as very few grounds have hawk eye. There was 3 additional minutes added at the end of the second half. The referee played almost 5 mins" Every county ground is supposed to have a hooter.They had one in Cloone in Leitrim.They have one in Tuam which the ref refused to use.He blew it up at just over 3 mins cos I was there.
Alwaysencourage (Galway) - Posts: 406 - 03/04/2025 19:26:31
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I do think we have a problem between 17 and 20 at the moment in Galway. I'm not sure what exactly is happening but the development is not what it should be and I've seen it first hand. Sligo were much more physical than us and a stronger team. It's been happening a while now, that key development area between 17 and 20 whether clubs, colleges, county and third level is not where it needs be. Any opinions
smallfrank (Galway) - Posts: 483 - 03/04/2025 22:13:20
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Replying To Alwaysencourage: "What is the story with the new rules and under 20?There is supposed to be a hooter yet the referee has not used it in Galways last two games and has blown up both games as Galway were attacking for levelling scores.There is either a rule or there isn't." There was no hooter used for Division 3 or 4 games in the league and the hooter system will only be used in championship games this year that are being televised or live streamed.
The games not being televised won't use a hooter system. So to answer your question, no there is no definitive rule that a hooter must be used
muscles (Sligo) - Posts: 472 - 04/04/2025 00:42:41
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Happy enough with team for Sunday random enough bench with lads who hadn't played all league.
No mention of Cooke on 41 man panel.
I heard panel will be cut after this weekend
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Replying To jm25: "Happy enough with team for Sunday random enough bench with lads who hadn't played all league.
No mention of Cooke on 41 man panel.
I heard panel will be cut after this weekend" Glad to see Mannion and Thompson get a start, we need to find more forward options. Could be a last hurrah for some lads on the bench
Trucker1 (Galway) - Posts: 416 - 04/04/2025 09:19:06
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At a guess 8 of that Galway team will start the semi final? Comer,Shane Walsh,McHugh,Silke,John Daly,Heaney all sit out the game altogether. Conroy,Gleeson,Darcy on the bench if needed.
Drax_the_destroyer (UK) - Posts: 346 - 04/04/2025 09:36:36
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Looks like it's a case of giving lads a chance to play in a championship game with the look of the bench. A lot of lads who haven't had any game time all year. Good to see Tomo is close to being back from injury, might make the bench for the Connacht semi final.
galway19 (Galway) - Posts: 849 - 04/04/2025 09:38:42
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Replying To jm25: "Happy enough with team for Sunday random enough bench with lads who hadn't played all league.
No mention of Cooke on 41 man panel.
I heard panel will be cut after this weekend" Mad enough cutting a panel of 41 after the big trip to NY but sure Galway Gaa is full of money. McEleninchey on extended panel with Costelloe. I know McElenichey injured but did he travel with Costellow given u20s struggles?
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Replying To Eire89: "Mad enough cutting a panel of 41 after the big trip to NY but sure Galway Gaa is full of money. McEleninchey on extended panel with Costelloe. I know McElenichey injured but did he travel with Costellow given u20s struggles?" They've trained as a group since December, I think the extended panel deserves the trip if they have been in and around the squad since then.
ahsure. (Galway) - Posts: 1651 - 04/04/2025 10:30:32
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Replying To muscles: "There was no hooter used for Division 3 or 4 games in the league and the hooter system will only be used in championship games this year that are being televised or live streamed.
The games not being televised won't use a hooter system. So to answer your question, no there is no definitive rule that a hooter must be used" What's the point of it being trialled then.
Alwaysencourage (Galway) - Posts: 406 - 04/04/2025 13:32:49
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Replying To Castlebar2019: "The County Board made missteps with both the Minor and U20 managerial appointments, particularly at the Minor level. The feedback emerging from the Minor camp regarding the manager is deeply concerning. Given the strength of the U16 development squads in recent years, they are certainly not to blame for any issues." What kind of feedback has been emerging?
MrVelo (Galway) - Posts: 22 - 04/04/2025 14:01:29
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Replying To togoutlads: "Our underage football set up seems to be on the slide. The talent is there in the clubs, but there is something wrong at county level. Not good enough.
The Development squads of hurling v football are interesting to watch. Hurling is out ahead now. Hurling are trialling all the young dual players first and selecting squads before football are even getting going.
Also, this Galway Town soccer feeder team malarkey, as a development path for Galway United, has many of the most talented, multi code playing young sportsmen taken in with pipe dreams of becoming professional soccer players. Once these 14, 15 and 16 year olds 'sign' with Galway United, they're, let's just say, strongly discouraged to persist with other codes. Some brilliant young footballers are being taken out of the equation for football for both club and county. It's ridiculous of Galway United to tell these young men not to play Gaelic games for club and county, and its putting people off supporting them. They should change this policy and there needs to be a bit of honesty with parents and kids about the likelihood of their Johnny playing for Liverpool! The stats tell the tale. There are 22 million registered youth soccer players (u18) globally. That may be a very conservative number. In La Liga in Spain, of the gifted soccer players that make it into those top flight teams' academies, just 4% have made it through to play for those teams. And just another 6% of those La Liga dev squads go on to play at any professional grade in lower leagues. In England, the FA reported just 0.5% of players under 9 years old that are signed by professional teams eventually go on to play for the first team. So less than half of one percent of those kids already gifted enough to be called into a Liverpool or Arsenal or Man U academy actually make it. The chances of Galway Town / Galway United bringing through a player that can have a well paying career in soccer are minuscule. And yet they take tons of talent out of the Galway pipeline by selling the dream. It's a pity." The demise of football at underage has a number of problems. Big clubs like Oranmore, Salthill and Claregalway are picking the biggest athletes at underage and leaving the late developer behind. They win county titles at underage but loose players throughout. Clubs like Annaghdown, Corofin (No sympathy for these boys), Monivea, Caherlistrane etc even though with good populations cannot compete against these numbers. A good player in these clubs are usually double marked because the bigger clubs can afford to that. Galway football board needs to split Claregalway (it should be anyway) and set up a club in Turloughmore. Clarinbridge players should not be allowed transfer into Oranmore as Oranmore have enough players and the city rules cannot apply to salthill. I heard of players in Tirellan playing with Salthill. They should be playing with Eire OG. We have social media Including Galway GAA websites promoting these win and people like ourselves saying that such and such is a massive talent when the young lad from Caltra, menlough etc may be equally as good but does not get the exposure. Finally and the hurling has sorted this better that the footballers. Teams dont mind doing down a grade and they use A, A1, B, B1 so player and parents (who dont know better) think the children are playing a good grade. Maybe we should adopt that. Secondly fixturing, the under 19 competition in Galway is a joke. Most children do exams now at under 19 yet a colleague of mine in claregalway told me the final is fixed for end of May. That is one week before the leaving cert. I know if I had children doing leaving cert they would not be playing that match. Also in Fixtures wise it is "just get it played" out of the way. I was talking to an adult who son played GAA and Rugby. When he was the under 15 football the competition was ran off in 6 weeks (It started in April and finished in the end of May) .while the rugby was a season. So he had nothing in June July or August so what is he playing? Rugby.
Finally the selection of managers at underage county is poor. Look at some of the clubs around and the underage managers are better than what we have at 17 and 20. I think the jump from Savage was too much, he should have done 17's first. And his backroom team is not that strong. The 17's is a mess. The manager had picked 5-6 people from the school he trains in and probably a big mistake. Not be very depressed over this the Talent is there just the selection process is not.
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Replying To LottoPlus: "The demise of football at underage has a number of problems. Big clubs like Oranmore, Salthill and Claregalway are picking the biggest athletes at underage and leaving the late developer behind. They win county titles at underage but loose players throughout. Clubs like Annaghdown, Corofin (No sympathy for these boys), Monivea, Caherlistrane etc even though with good populations cannot compete against these numbers. A good player in these clubs are usually double marked because the bigger clubs can afford to that. Galway football board needs to split Claregalway (it should be anyway) and set up a club in Turloughmore. Clarinbridge players should not be allowed transfer into Oranmore as Oranmore have enough players and the city rules cannot apply to salthill. I heard of players in Tirellan playing with Salthill. They should be playing with Eire OG. We have social media Including Galway GAA websites promoting these win and people like ourselves saying that such and such is a massive talent when the young lad from Caltra, menlough etc may be equally as good but does not get the exposure. Finally and the hurling has sorted this better that the footballers. Teams dont mind doing down a grade and they use A, A1, B, B1 so player and parents (who dont know better) think the children are playing a good grade. Maybe we should adopt that. Secondly fixturing, the under 19 competition in Galway is a joke. Most children do exams now at under 19 yet a colleague of mine in claregalway told me the final is fixed for end of May. That is one week before the leaving cert. I know if I had children doing leaving cert they would not be playing that match. Also in Fixtures wise it is "just get it played" out of the way. I was talking to an adult who son played GAA and Rugby. When he was the under 15 football the competition was ran off in 6 weeks (It started in April and finished in the end of May) .while the rugby was a season. So he had nothing in June July or August so what is he playing? Rugby.
Finally the selection of managers at underage county is poor. Look at some of the clubs around and the underage managers are better than what we have at 17 and 20. I think the jump from Savage was too much, he should have done 17's first. And his backroom team is not that strong. The 17's is a mess. The manager had picked 5-6 people from the school he trains in and probably a big mistake. Not be very depressed over this the Talent is there just the selection process is not." A lot of your summary is accurate but I have to say, the large population clubs like Oranmore-Maree and Claregalway are doing a huge amount of hard work at underage. I know it for a fact that those clubs don't leave late developers behind and indeed run multiple grades of teams, oftentimes with a dedicated group of coaches for each, just to ensure that lads get football, no matter what their given standard is at a given age. Lads can develop from lower grade into super players at almost any age, even in their early 20s. I've seen it time and again. Population helps but it by no means guarantees success, if it did, you'd see teams in big town and city clubs across the country winning everything all the time, and it just doesn't happen. Kids in big clubs need the same dedicated effort, twice or three times a week, between training and games, and have great people making every effort to stymie the drop off typically seen post Minor age with a lot of young fellas. And also, the Oranmore-Maree link to Clarinbridge just doesn't happen. I know from lads in both clubs that there are maybe 2 or 3 kids in total playing football with OM. Claregalway do pull from Turlough, Carnmore etc but a football club in Turlough wouldn't work and the Claregalway grounds are already developed there. As for S-K, they shouldn't be pulling from other city clubs and I don't believe it's their ethos too but their might be the odd case of it happening. They could develop their Knocknacarra pull more I think. Knocknacarra soccer club (separate to Salthill Devon) is the biggest soccer club by membership in Connacht, so there's no doubt the kids are there without looking beyond their boundaries.
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Replying To LottoPlus: "The demise of football at underage has a number of problems. Big clubs like Oranmore, Salthill and Claregalway are picking the biggest athletes at underage and leaving the late developer behind. They win county titles at underage but loose players throughout. Clubs like Annaghdown, Corofin (No sympathy for these boys), Monivea, Caherlistrane etc even though with good populations cannot compete against these numbers. A good player in these clubs are usually double marked because the bigger clubs can afford to that. Galway football board needs to split Claregalway (it should be anyway) and set up a club in Turloughmore. Clarinbridge players should not be allowed transfer into Oranmore as Oranmore have enough players and the city rules cannot apply to salthill. I heard of players in Tirellan playing with Salthill. They should be playing with Eire OG. We have social media Including Galway GAA websites promoting these win and people like ourselves saying that such and such is a massive talent when the young lad from Caltra, menlough etc may be equally as good but does not get the exposure. Finally and the hurling has sorted this better that the footballers. Teams dont mind doing down a grade and they use A, A1, B, B1 so player and parents (who dont know better) think the children are playing a good grade. Maybe we should adopt that. Secondly fixturing, the under 19 competition in Galway is a joke. Most children do exams now at under 19 yet a colleague of mine in claregalway told me the final is fixed for end of May. That is one week before the leaving cert. I know if I had children doing leaving cert they would not be playing that match. Also in Fixtures wise it is "just get it played" out of the way. I was talking to an adult who son played GAA and Rugby. When he was the under 15 football the competition was ran off in 6 weeks (It started in April and finished in the end of May) .while the rugby was a season. So he had nothing in June July or August so what is he playing? Rugby.
Finally the selection of managers at underage county is poor. Look at some of the clubs around and the underage managers are better than what we have at 17 and 20. I think the jump from Savage was too much, he should have done 17's first. And his backroom team is not that strong. The 17's is a mess. The manager had picked 5-6 people from the school he trains in and probably a big mistake. Not be very depressed over this the Talent is there just the selection process is not." Would you stop.Your talking about splitting Claregalway when they haven't won a senior title yet Corofin are sound
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Sligo 0-18 Galway 1-17
A rare Galway win at underage these days. Galway were very comfortable in the 2nd half and about 10 points up here with 6 or 7 minutes to play and Sligo out of nowhere hit four 2 pointers in the last 5 minutes. And also missed a penalty. By the way the penalty was a poor decision. Ref gave it for a foot block. Apparently on the umpires advice. Replays showed it was a text book block with the hands. No foot anywhere near the ball. Kehoe got red carded near the end which helped Sligo get a run on them as he was superb in midfield. Won a pile of kick outs. Was badly missed after he went off.
Marooned (Galway) - Posts: 2369 - 04/04/2025 19:45:32
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Replying To LottoPlus: "The demise of football at underage has a number of problems. Big clubs like Oranmore, Salthill and Claregalway are picking the biggest athletes at underage and leaving the late developer behind. They win county titles at underage but loose players throughout. Clubs like Annaghdown, Corofin (No sympathy for these boys), Monivea, Caherlistrane etc even though with good populations cannot compete against these numbers. A good player in these clubs are usually double marked because the bigger clubs can afford to that. Galway football board needs to split Claregalway (it should be anyway) and set up a club in Turloughmore. Clarinbridge players should not be allowed transfer into Oranmore as Oranmore have enough players and the city rules cannot apply to salthill. I heard of players in Tirellan playing with Salthill. They should be playing with Eire OG. We have social media Including Galway GAA websites promoting these win and people like ourselves saying that such and such is a massive talent when the young lad from Caltra, menlough etc may be equally as good but does not get the exposure. Finally and the hurling has sorted this better that the footballers. Teams dont mind doing down a grade and they use A, A1, B, B1 so player and parents (who dont know better) think the children are playing a good grade. Maybe we should adopt that. Secondly fixturing, the under 19 competition in Galway is a joke. Most children do exams now at under 19 yet a colleague of mine in claregalway told me the final is fixed for end of May. That is one week before the leaving cert. I know if I had children doing leaving cert they would not be playing that match. Also in Fixtures wise it is "just get it played" out of the way. I was talking to an adult who son played GAA and Rugby. When he was the under 15 football the competition was ran off in 6 weeks (It started in April and finished in the end of May) .while the rugby was a season. So he had nothing in June July or August so what is he playing? Rugby.
Finally the selection of managers at underage county is poor. Look at some of the clubs around and the underage managers are better than what we have at 17 and 20. I think the jump from Savage was too much, he should have done 17's first. And his backroom team is not that strong. The 17's is a mess. The manager had picked 5-6 people from the school he trains in and probably a big mistake. Not be very depressed over this the Talent is there just the selection process is not." The 2 O'Neills and Tomo Culhane are from Clarinbridge as was Alan Kerins. Cillian McDaid is from Craughwell. It's been well documented that there are issues promoting football in those areas. Between Ballinderreen, Clarenbridge, Kinvara, Gort, St Thomas' Ardrahan, Kilbeacanty, Beach and Thomas' there is 1 adult football team I believe Kinvara. That's where I'd start and after that I'd go to Ballinasloe, Dunmore and Headford, big towns and populations(not so much Dunmore) with strong secondary schools that have the potential to be the next Claregalway at underage . I see James' have 3 U15 teams this year, i say fair play to them, that's a lot of young lads getting games.
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A rare Galway win at underage these days. Galway were very comfortable in the 2nd half and about 10 points up here with 6 or 7 minutes to play and Sligo out of nowhere hit four 2 pointers in the last 5 minutes. And also missed a penalty. By the way the penalty was a poor decision. Ref gave it for a foot block. Apparently on the umpires advice. Replays showed it was a text book block with the hands. No foot anywhere near the ball. Kehoe got red carded near the end which helped Sligo get a run on them as he was superb in midfield. Won a pile of kick outs. Was badly missed after he went off." It was never a penalty and sending off looked harsh but we had about 4 other goal chances missed, one cleared off line and hit post. Strange game as we cameback strong. I don't think I rate any of the Connacht teams this year at minor.
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Replying To smallfrank: "The 2 O'Neills and Tomo Culhane are from Clarinbridge as was Alan Kerins. Cillian McDaid is from Craughwell. It's been well documented that there are issues promoting football in those areas. Between Ballinderreen, Clarenbridge, Kinvara, Gort, St Thomas' Ardrahan, Kilbeacanty, Beach and Thomas' there is 1 adult football team I believe Kinvara. That's where I'd start and after that I'd go to Ballinasloe, Dunmore and Headford, big towns and populations(not so much Dunmore) with strong secondary schools that have the potential to be the next Claregalway at underage . I see James' have 3 U15 teams this year, i say fair play to them, that's a lot of young lads getting games." Go after what? You can't force people to play a game they don't want or have no history in. The same problem with Sylane servicing half of North Galway. If they don't want to play it, why should they?
TanCanRan (Galway) - Posts: 269 - 04/04/2025 23:38:55
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