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If all were fit and available I think PJ would see something close to below as his preferred 15. With likes of Molloy, Hernon, Conroy and Daly being called off the bench. It's vital that a few new players step up this year and show their worthy of meaningful game time in big championship games Gleeson McGrath Fitzgerald Glynn McHugh Kelly Silke Maher Darcy Tierney Thompson McDaid Finnerty Comer Walsh gaillimhboy (Galway) - Posts: 393 - 12/01/2026 11:47:24 2650770 Link
Replying To Drax_the_destroyer: "Joyce most certainly will continue the experiment way and if you take a trimming off a near Mayo championships team so what? Sure let all hype get heaped on them before the more important league game between the two" You're the one trying to hype Mayo up on every thread here. Loads of potential starters were absent yesterday FYI but you seem to be in the know about Mayo's 2026 championship team. MayoDan (Mayo) - Posts: 499 - 12/01/2026 12:29:17 2650782 Link
Replying To GreenandRed: "You're spot on. Bar a good league from a new manager bounce in 2023, we've been on the wane for 4 years. We need to unearth new talent, unseat some players from the comfort of guaranteed starts and not have a team that picks itself. I don't know if I'm optimistic that will happen. Time will tell." Ye have some good young lads to bring in though. The likes of Beirne, Lydon and Kobe for example - while they are young - are great lads to be able to bring in off the bench as they are all very accurate. And crucially all well able to kick two pointers. I don't feel like we have the same injection of young forward talent available to us at the moment. We got Thompson last year but I don't think there's much else there. Possibly Colm Costello who is talented but physically very small and probably needs time to bulk up a bit. galwayman2 (Galway) - Posts: 1341 - 12/01/2026 13:15:14 2650796 Link
So who is unavailable at the moment? Thompson - Gone to US until May. Maher - Still recovering from injury? Conroy - Expected back but not official yet. Will hardly play much league anyway at this stage. D'Arcy - Long club campaign. Will probably get a break until last couple games of the league. Comer - Who knows? Heaney and Tomo gone off the panel. Marooned (Galway) - Posts: 2462 - 12/01/2026 14:08:24 2650805 Link
Heard Galway played Dublin on Sunday in Westmeath somewhere. Only heard that Dublin won with a last-minute goal by Con O'Callaghan. Seemed to have been a good quality game by the small bit I got. JumpinJackFlash (Meath) - Posts: 3 - 12/01/2026 15:58:03 2650820 Link
Replying To Marooned: "So who is unavailable at the moment? Thompson - Gone to US until May. Maher - Still recovering from injury? Conroy - Expected back but not official yet. Will hardly play much league anyway at this stage. D'Arcy - Long club campaign. Will probably get a break until last couple games of the league. Comer - Who knows? Heaney and Tomo gone off the panel." I imagine Darcy will just miss max 1st game or 2. Club semi final loss was 03rd of January. 1 NFL game is 24 against Mayo - 3 week break at least. He is not the type of footballer who can afford to miss a whole pile and I think he himself will want to stake his claim for a starting spot he is prob more important now with Maher injury & Conroys legs. He did not exactly stand out as a co star for Bodens against Dingle like your Geaney Tom O sullivan or Mark O Connor but to bew fair either did your Basquels. Eire89 (Galway) - Posts: 454 - 12/01/2026 16:30:14 2650824 Link
Replying To Eire89: "I imagine Darcy will just miss max 1st game or 2. Club semi final loss was 03rd of January. 1 NFL game is 24 against Mayo - 3 week break at least. He is not the type of footballer who can afford to miss a whole pile and I think he himself will want to stake his claim for a starting spot he is prob more important now with Maher injury & Conroys legs. He did not exactly stand out as a co star for Bodens against Dingle like your Geaney Tom O sullivan or Mark O Connor but to bew fair either did your Basquels." I thought D'Arcy was very good against An Daingean. He won a lot of kickouts, far more than Mark O'Connor, and drove them forward. He was much stronger in the air. O'Connor had his moments too, but was anonymous for good chunks of the game. Tom O'Sullivan and Paul Geaney were by a mile the main difference makers in that game. Just because An Daingean won, doesn't mean D'Arcy was outplayed. Ballyboden had the better of midfield for the majority of the game. WanPintWin (Galway) - Posts: 2694 - 12/01/2026 17:22:51 2650834 Link
Replying To Marooned: "So who is unavailable at the moment? Thompson - Gone to US until May. Maher - Still recovering from injury? Conroy - Expected back but not official yet. Will hardly play much league anyway at this stage. D'Arcy - Long club campaign. Will probably get a break until last couple games of the league. Comer - Who knows? Heaney and Tomo gone off the panel." John Daly and Cathal Sweeney haven't been mentioned this year? WonTon5 (Galway) - Posts: 105 - 12/01/2026 17:55:36 2650838 Link
Replying To WonTon5: "John Daly and Cathal Sweeney haven't been mentioned this year?" I had heard Sweeney had opted out for the year before Christmas. Jellybaby (Dublin) - Posts: 377 - 12/01/2026 20:37:56 2650851 Link