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Replying To katser: "The tension is mounting and great buzz around East Galway before a sea of maroon and white desends on Thurles for the All Ireland U20 hurling Final. Victory for Galway will be a huge boost for the County!" Will Galway tog next Saturday Katser? You never took me up on the offer of a bottle of stout out of my winnings in Gills. BarneyGrant (Dublin) - Posts: 4361 - 31/05/2026 12:00:13 2676710 Link
Replying To katser: "It's madness not to start Rabbitte in the U20 All Ireland Final because of a Leinster Final v Dublin 6 days later! We have Senior players good enough to beat Dublin comfortably without the U20s. It's pivotal Galway put out their strongest U20 team.....its high time We won U20 All Ireland in hurling!" Looks like ye are going to be waiting longer im afraid. Tiger1 (Wexford) - Posts: 450 - 31/05/2026 15:16:35 2676758 Link
Replying To katser: "The tension is mounting and great buzz around East Galway before a sea of maroon and white desends on Thurles for the All Ireland U20 hurling Final. Victory for Galway will be a huge boost for the County!" It'd be nice to see a sea of maroon and white descend on Pearse Stadium at some stage to support our hurlers. Nothing but excuses coming from East Galway about why they won't travel in numbers for a sport we're clearly passionate about. Cutting off our nose to spite our face. Our U20s well beaten today. If anything, the gap has grown since Clare gave us a lesson at minor level. Too much talk about revenge after beating a poor Kilkenny team. There was one team who looked like they were on a mission there today and it wasn't our lads unfortunately. Chalk it on the list of All-Ireland final losses. In fairness to Clare, when they get there, they tend to get over the line more often than not. WanPintWin (Galway) - Posts: 2839 - 31/05/2026 15:24:44 2676760 Link
The gulf in hurling between Leinster and Munster is now clearly included at U20 level and Senior. The 20s got a lesson. Hopefully it doesn't stretch to minor level too. Armchairreporter (Galway) - Posts: 147 - 31/05/2026 15:51:28 2676762 Link
Replying To Armchairreporter: "The gulf in hurling between Leinster and Munster is now clearly included at U20 level and Senior. The 20s got a lesson. Hopefully it doesn't stretch to minor level too." I dont think its a talent deficit tbh. I think its an intensity and match ready thing. The Munster round robin is extremely competitive. The games are really physical and intense. The scoreline may not always reflect that but it is. I saw a tougher more intense and harder working clare team win today. Tadhg2020 (Limerick) - Posts: 520 - 31/05/2026 16:08:46 2676765 Link
Replying To Tadhg2020: "I dont think its a talent deficit tbh. I think its an intensity and match ready thing. The Munster round robin is extremely competitive. The games are really physical and intense. The scoreline may not always reflect that but it is. I saw a tougher more intense and harder working clare team win today." I agree. I never mentioned talent. Physicality is a big problem here in Galway. Armchairreporter (Galway) - Posts: 147 - 31/05/2026 16:19:41 2676769 Link
Gutted and absolutely devisited about U20 result. Roll on next Saturday and We will win the Leinster SHC Final. katser (Galway) - Posts: 2850 - 31/05/2026 17:12:36 2676789 Link
Replying To Armchairreporter: "The gulf in hurling between Leinster and Munster is now clearly included at U20 level and Senior. The 20s got a lesson. Hopefully it doesn't stretch to minor level too." Think they didnt turn up collectively. Their workrate was way lower than it was against us in the LSF. Nerves? Maybe too much pressure being heaped on them? Or praise went to their heads? Picking a lad to start who was only after suffering a grade 2 hamstring tear probably wasnt a great idea either. Surely a weaker player with 2 good legs wouldve been a better call? Murphys pace badly missed also in the fullback line. Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 19890 - 31/05/2026 17:54:00 2676802 Link
Replying To katser: "Gutted and absolutely devisited about U20 result. Roll on next Saturday and We will win the Leinster SHC Final." Dublin by 6. We dont have the sliotars to match Dublin when the going gets tough. We are a team of car park hurlers CillTormoir (Galway) - Posts: 614 - 31/05/2026 17:55:09 2676804 Link
The Galway team were beaten at all positions by Clare and direct hurling won out in Thurles as is always the case. There's a distinct difference in the ability of Munster teams. Short hand passes and over reliance on same caused too many turnovers right from the start. Unfortunately it's the way coaching has developed at underage level over the past ten years or more in Galway and hence the lack of success. Leinster hurling has unfortunately taken the same direction and just look at Kilkenny at present and note that Dublin are possibly the only Leinster team that are somewhat direct. If Galway are not careful next Saturday they will get another lesson on how the game should be played. Here's hoping it doesn't happen South-Galway-Fan (Galway) - Posts: 2 - 31/05/2026 19:21:00 2676833 Link
If all the injuries all cleared and players available I'd go with the following 15 for Saturday. 1. Darach Fahy 2. Ronan Glennon 3. Cillian Trayers 4. Darren Morrisey 5. Padraig Mannion 6. Daithi Burke 7. Gavin Lee 8. Cian Daniels 9. Tiernan Killeen 10. John Fleming 11. Cathal Mannion 12. Rory Burke 13. Jason Rabbitte 14. Conor Whelan 15. Aaron Niland Then hopefully with Joshua Ryan, Cianan Fahy, Tom Monaghan, Darragh Neary and Conor Cooney to be brought on to finish out the game. ColmFlaherty (Galway) - Posts: 73 - 31/05/2026 20:29:34 2676868 Link
Replying To South-Galway-Fan: "The Galway team were beaten at all positions by Clare and direct hurling won out in Thurles as is always the case. There's a distinct difference in the ability of Munster teams. Short hand passes and over reliance on same caused too many turnovers right from the start. Unfortunately it's the way coaching has developed at underage level over the past ten years or more in Galway and hence the lack of success. Leinster hurling has unfortunately taken the same direction and just look at Kilkenny at present and note that Dublin are possibly the only Leinster team that are somewhat direct. If Galway are not careful next Saturday they will get another lesson on how the game should be played. Here's hoping it doesn't happen" Limerick and Cork play this possession based short game too, that you are disparaging just because Galway don't always have the skillset to play this type of game. Limerick and Cork are also the two best teams in the country currently. Pope_Benedict (Galway) - Posts: 4755 - 31/05/2026 21:15:05 2676881 Link
Replying To ColmFlaherty: "If all the injuries all cleared and players available I'd go with the following 15 for Saturday. 1. Darach Fahy 2. Ronan Glennon 3. Cillian Trayers 4. Darren Morrisey 5. Padraig Mannion 6. Daithi Burke 7. Gavin Lee 8. Cian Daniels 9. Tiernan Killeen 10. John Fleming 11. Cathal Mannion 12. Rory Burke 13. Jason Rabbitte 14. Conor Whelan 15. Aaron Niland Then hopefully with Joshua Ryan, Cianan Fahy, Tom Monaghan, Darragh Neary and Conor Cooney to be brought on to finish out the game." Monaghan surely going to start considering how hes played in the last 3 matches. Fleming has been poor and Rory Burke must be very doubtful richiepmurphy (Kilkenny) - Posts: 99 - 01/06/2026 10:26:02 2676938 Link
Replying To richiepmurphy: "Monaghan surely going to start considering how hes played in the last 3 matches. Fleming has been poor and Rory Burke must be very doubtful" Depends I suppose, Rory's been featured on the teams socials for stuff so it might mean he's returning as in other sports it can reference that. Fleming depends I think if he's dropping back as another midfielder or will it be Monaghan. ColmFlaherty (Galway) - Posts: 73 - 01/06/2026 12:19:18 2676985 Link
After the optimism of the 2 underage wins over Kilkenny and our 2 senior thrashings of the same county, it seems clearer now that the formline shows those performances to be over rated. Now you can only beat whats put in front of you and our teams did that but clearly Kilkenny are not a good measure at the moment. Our seniors have struggled since and on form will not beat Dublin next Saturday. Hopefully I can be proved wrong. I was at the Leinster u20 final and left it with serous hopes of beating Clare but we were way off it yesterday, on and off the pitch. Starting injured players in finals very rarely works out well. Some players were way off the pace yesterday. Our sideline restarts were awful. The lads had a good year but in a poor competition and then met a serious team yesterday who were at a different level. conordee (Galway) - Posts: 468 - 01/06/2026 13:04:43 2677001 Link
Replying To richiepmurphy: "Monaghan surely going to start considering how hes played in the last 3 matches. Fleming has been poor and Rory Burke must be very doubtful" . Darach Fahy 2. Ronan Glennon 3. Cillian Trayers 4. Darren Morrisey 5. Padraig Mannion 6. Daithi Burke 7. Gavin Lee Jesus that back line puts the fear of god in me. Dublin will run through that all day rea#1487 (Galway) - Posts: 3 - 01/06/2026 13:44:34 2677010 Link
Replying To rea#1487: ". Darach Fahy 2. Ronan Glennon 3. Cillian Trayers 4. Darren Morrisey 5. Padraig Mannion 6. Daithi Burke 7. Gavin Lee Jesus that back line puts the fear of god in me. Dublin will run through that all day" Who would you replace for who then, it's a bit late to go making bold decisions in the middle of the Championship in a provincial final. ColmFlaherty (Galway) - Posts: 73 - 01/06/2026 15:32:13 2677035 Link
I will be attending the Leinster final. More in hope than expectation.I am shouting for Galway but we are just not physically strong enough in my view to trouble Dublin. Our full back line is weak, as is the full forward line. Look I hope I am proved wrong about all of this. Gaillimh abú galwayford (Galway) - Posts: 2761 - 01/06/2026 18:56:12 2677092 Link
Replying To ColmFlaherty: "Who would you replace for who then, it's a bit late to go making bold decisions in the middle of the Championship in a provincial final." switch daithi back to 3..trayers out to 7..drop lee completely from the backs hes not a defender.. id possibly start morgan for his man marking ability.. gbay (Galway) - Posts: 286 - 01/06/2026 19:03:08 2677097 Link
its pretty obvious what our underage teams need to do is start working on the s@c alot more.. physicality wise on saturday it was hard to believe there was such a difference in that department for the same age group.. hard luck to the lads but how can you start 4 lads carrying injuries into an all ireland final..im not saying it would of made any difference but that was poor management in my few,,what are a panel for?? niland did fine when introduced and galway bay said he looked sharp but he wasnt moving freely at all so again was that wise to bring him on as it was stated it was a bad ankle injury the previous wednesday i just no.. hope everybody involved in all galway hurling takes the harsh lessons from saturday and can get better.. im not having ago at anyone its a new management team and these are only kids at the end of the day but we need to improved in these areas.. all the best on saturday evening too all the lads.. its a big ask with the injuries we have who knows.. gbay (Galway) - Posts: 286 - 01/06/2026 19:10:15 2677102 Link