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Replying To philip3: "Great. Will be interesting to see how serious some teams are taking the league.Has every team managers in place do we know?" Wonder how the new rules will operate at club level! Any word on any challenges going on? Westawake1988 (Galway) - Posts: 4 - 10/02/2025 16:41:34 2590469 Link
Replying To Westawake1988: "Wonder how the new rules will operate at club level! Any word on any challenges going on?" Any club team playing challenges yet are gone in the head. TanCanRan (Galway) - Posts: 251 - 10/02/2025 16:49:42 2590470 Link
Replying To hopballref: "The reason they were suggested to go in goal was the very fact that they can score and are comfortable on the ball. There was some new rules brough in recently, meaning goalkeepers can cross the halfway line unmarked, creating a 12 vs 11, in case you weren't aware." And we have a sub goalie who is comfortable on ball outfield and can score.If Johnny Heaney wanted to play in goal he would be there already. Alwaysencourage (Galway) - Posts: 383 - 10/02/2025 16:53:43 2590471 Link
Replying To philip3: "James McLoughlin seems to be having no luck with injuries. It surely has curbed his development as he looked a right good prospect at underage and we were lucky not to lose him to AFL. the new format with the kickouts would surely suit him also as hes a very big athlethic fella when fit." Speaking of young development Daniel Flaherty played well against Armagh and Mayo which is great to see galway4samandliam (Galway) - Posts: 3 - 10/02/2025 17:26:35 2590479 Link
Replying To galway4samandliam: "Speaking of young development Daniel Flaherty played well against Armagh and Mayo which is great to see" It'll be really interesting to see Cian Hernon with these new rules if he used out the field. He could be anything. Exciting times ahead I hope for Galway. Your right about Daniel he has acquitted himself so well and he's only a young cub. I wont forget the way he drove at Mayo last summer in Pearse when introduced. philip3 (Galway) - Posts: 200 - 10/02/2025 20:24:36 2590497 Link
Replying To Mayonman: "I'd be disappointed if this is true. I have heard numerous interviews with Paul Bellew and he seems a very smart/organised strategic thinker. When he took over our structures/infrastructure was miles behind. He seems to be tackling it bit by bit with a plan. At academy level, at the youngest ages, it is no harm to spread it around. Academy players go back to their clubs and they can drag the levels of others up. You don't have to have the same lads in every week. As they get older, you do need to narrow the group a bit but definitely at younger ages it is important to have a wide spread or else parts of the county become disillusioned. It also means you have a bigger base and some young lads develop physically when they are older so you are keeping your options open." Bellew is hurling No.1 don't forget that. Football plays second fiddle. Green&Gold2013 (Galway) - Posts: 23 - 10/02/2025 23:07:59 2590516 Link
Replying To galway4samandliam: "James has huge potential himself and John Maher would be a great combination together in midfield. I didn't know he was injured that's unfortunate for him and Galway" James has huge potential, but it must be 4/5 years since he got a clean run at the year without picking up injuries. Has he preformed that well for Moycullen in the club championship? Can't see the hype tbh. Green&Gold2013 (Galway) - Posts: 23 - 10/02/2025 23:11:19 2590518 Link
Replying To togoutlads: "Oh I agree fully on broadening the base of players at the youngest academy groups, as they've done in hurling. That's not really the problem. The problems I'm hearing are different and to address them, Bellew and co need to help juvenile football in the county and look to a much better organised coaching system and pathway for players. To briefly look at other sports, the likes of the Irish rugby team's performance at the moment is being credited by many in the know as being down to brilliant structures and legacy coaching, where they implemented the following: 1) Unified Coaching Philosophy - this is not highfalutin stuff, this is just where the county could implement a consistent coaching framework across all juvenile levels here. Doing this in Galway juv football will allow lads with a Galway County (north) squad, others with a City and West squad and perhaps other groupings to fully coordinate on what each group is doing, adhering to the very same coaching principles and methodologies, so that these independent coaching groups are all on the same page and then you can more instantly gel the groups together when streamed further at 15/16/Minor etc. 2) Comprehensive Coach Education - the rugby and elite sports set ups do it well, whereby the very top coaches do 'teach the teacher' 'coach the coach' sessions at the outset 3) Continuous learning workshops - these are happening and they're getting better, with some great guest speakers. 4) standardised training programs - linked to the above points. Some of these things are happening in a piecemeal fashion but fundamentals of joined up coaching plan is not, with no guidance offered. This has to change fast. Some of the old guard in board set up will say, sure we won this one and that one in the last couple of decades. It's not good enough, as it was down to one-off groups with some exceptional talents. There needs to be consistency and much more ambition at football board and county board level to consistently have our lads winning or certainly in the mix for underage titles, with a proper pathway to snr ranks." I think its unfair to compare rugby with gaa. Sure outside of Leinster Rugby , there is huge issues in developing players. And the leinster school system is worth millions. The best players for Ireland at the moment alot of them werent even developed here! We are doing plenty right in this county at the moment, and no matter what we put in place we wont win u20 and u17s every year. Dublin had been lauded for years and the natural underage cycle has come to and end. Proper pathway to senior ranks? Again , there has been a lot of work done in my eyes, from the Development squad at Senior playing in the FBD , the strong player base we have. We are doing alot right in both codes! puckemhard (Galway) - Posts: 233 - 11/02/2025 10:00:14 2590544 Link
I see where referee Gough has had a major crisis of confidence about mistakenly awarding Galway's match winning Gleeson 'free' at last year's Connacht Final. All to be revealed in a Thursday night TG4 series called Réiteoir. Pope_Benedict (Galway) - Posts: 3966 - 11/02/2025 11:20:47 2590563 Link
Is the Derry match on Saturday broadcast on any channel does anyone know? Triffic (Galway) - Posts: 161 - 11/02/2025 11:23:43 2590565 Link
Replying To Triffic: "Is the Derry match on Saturday broadcast on any channel does anyone know?" Tg4 jm25 (Galway) - Posts: 1345 - 11/02/2025 12:56:47 2590583 Link
Replying To Triffic: "Is the Derry match on Saturday broadcast on any channel does anyone know?" It's on telly anyway. Can't remember whether it's RTE or TG4. Marooned (Galway) - Posts: 2339 - 11/02/2025 13:11:23 2590586 Link
Replying To philip3: "James McLoughlin seems to be having no luck with injuries. It surely has curbed his development as he looked a right good prospect at underage and we were lucky not to lose him to AFL. the new format with the kickouts would surely suit him also as hes a very big athlethic fella when fit." No doubt great hope for McLaughlin but huge difference between IC u21 & senior. In truth he has not kicked a ball in anger for Galway and has been on the panel 4 years or so. Does anyone know what injuries Tomo & Hernon have? I know Comer is being minded which I completely understand. Great to see Flaherty kick on been best player over the 2 games for us. Eire89 (Galway) - Posts: 313 - 12/02/2025 09:19:57 2590704 Link
Replying To puckemhard: "I think its unfair to compare rugby with gaa. Sure outside of Leinster Rugby , there is huge issues in developing players. And the leinster school system is worth millions. The best players for Ireland at the moment alot of them werent even developed here! We are doing plenty right in this county at the moment, and no matter what we put in place we wont win u20 and u17s every year. Dublin had been lauded for years and the natural underage cycle has come to and end. Proper pathway to senior ranks? Again , there has been a lot of work done in my eyes, from the Development squad at Senior playing in the FBD , the strong player base we have. We are doing alot right in both codes!" I'm not saying we should win minor and twenties football titles every year. I stated that we should be winning more and at least in the mix in the latter stages most years. To say we should win them all would, of course, be delusional. But we can be more competitive year in year out and the effort at u14, 15 stages of county development doesn't seem to be getting the same focus and attention as its hurling equivalent. Ask those involved. It needs to improve. My point re rugby is largely the 'legacy coaching' theory which they employ well, whereby more junior grade coaches are working to the same overall plans and frameworks as their more senior counterparts to bring on more seamless development by various age groups, as they step up through the ranks. All that needs is some coach the coach sessions and some clear parameters to be communicated, and that hasn't really been happening at the earliest stages of our IC academy football teams. There's certainly work going in but it could be so much better for the lads involved. togoutlads (Galway) - Posts: 1012 - 12/02/2025 10:03:50 2590714 Link
Replying To togoutlads: "I'm not saying we should win minor and twenties football titles every year. I stated that we should be winning more and at least in the mix in the latter stages most years. To say we should win them all would, of course, be delusional. But we can be more competitive year in year out and the effort at u14, 15 stages of county development doesn't seem to be getting the same focus and attention as its hurling equivalent. Ask those involved. It needs to improve. My point re rugby is largely the 'legacy coaching' theory which they employ well, whereby more junior grade coaches are working to the same overall plans and frameworks as their more senior counterparts to bring on more seamless development by various age groups, as they step up through the ranks. All that needs is some coach the coach sessions and some clear parameters to be communicated, and that hasn't really been happening at the earliest stages of our IC academy football teams. There's certainly work going in but it could be so much better for the lads involved." Would I be wrong in saying that the underage structures should be primarily driven by the respective hurling and football chairperson? ahsure. (Galway) - Posts: 1643 - 12/02/2025 23:12:43 2590802 Link
Galway team v Derry Gleeson McGrath Fitzgerald Silke McHugh Daly Kelly Conroy Maher S O'Neill Walsh D'Arcy O'Curraoin Tierney O'Laoi Subs Flaherty Glynn Molloy O'Flaherty Mulkerrin J O'Neill Hernon Thompson Sweeney Finnerty Heaney Marooned (Galway) - Posts: 2339 - 13/02/2025 23:54:19 2590913 Link
Just wondering if mcdaid inj ? Looking at subs bench it's looking a lot like last year lots of defenders on it also last 2 matches o connaghile on bench not this time again much same pattern as last year also Costello came on v mayo not on bench now I think himself and McGlinchy should have being left to train with under 20s this year surely Galway have enough lads from 21 up Kickitout (Galway) - Posts: 1002 - 14/02/2025 14:50:40 2591006 Link
Replying To Kickitout: "Just wondering if mcdaid inj ? Looking at subs bench it's looking a lot like last year lots of defenders on it also last 2 matches o connaghile on bench not this time again much same pattern as last year also Costello came on v mayo not on bench now I think himself and McGlinchy should have being left to train with under 20s this year surely Galway have enough lads from 21 up" Who says they are not with the under 20s? Belclare7 (Galway) - Posts: 178 - 14/02/2025 16:29:42 2591027 Link
Replying To Kickitout: "Just wondering if mcdaid inj ? Looking at subs bench it's looking a lot like last year lots of defenders on it also last 2 matches o connaghile on bench not this time again much same pattern as last year also Costello came on v mayo not on bench now I think himself and McGlinchy should have being left to train with under 20s this year surely Galway have enough lads from 21 up" No idea on McDaid. I imagine someone will ask PJ tomorrow whether he's injured or just rested. Marooned (Galway) - Posts: 2339 - 14/02/2025 17:27:14 2591035 Link
Replying To Marooned: "No idea on McDaid. I imagine someone will ask PJ tomorrow whether he's injured or just rested." Glenamaddys Ryan Duffy starting for the Mayo hurlers today, I would have thought after his intermediate campaign, PJ would have gave him a look at? WonTon5 (Galway) - Posts: 25 - 15/02/2025 12:39:07 2591124 Link