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Any word if Mike daly or Patrick Kelly are back for mountbellew? allstars23 (Galway) - Posts: 52 - 30/07/2025 10:11:15 2629203 Link
No tickets available online for this weekends club games and no word on streaming. Is there any marketing happening for club football championship games? I do see tickets available for Annaghdown v Dunmore. The Whats the Scor app doesnt seem to work anymore. Looks like we will be in the dark for most things club gaa. Thank God for GBFM. ref (Galway) - Posts: 258 - 30/07/2025 10:29:23 2629212 Link
Replying To allstars23: "Any word if Mike daly or Patrick Kelly are back for mountbellew?" Kelly hasn't kicked a ball for Mountbellew in three years so hard to see him back this year. Not sure what the story is with Michael Daly, that was a bad knee injury. They will still be there or thereabouts with Eoin Finnerty and Colm Mannion back. Couple of good young players coming through as well. galway19 (Galway) - Posts: 952 - 30/07/2025 10:55:25 2629221 Link
Eagerly anticipating the club season after a disappointing county run. Hoping we can bring in some fresh talent, especially some man marking backs to suit the new rules. Also great to see how a few of the young lads training with Galway all year will kick on for their clubs. Predicting a Salthill-Corofin final, with Salthill finally reclaiming the Frank Fox Cup. Galwayboy64 (Galway) - Posts: 11 - 30/07/2025 11:11:03 2629222 Link
Replying To ref: "No tickets available online for this weekends club games and no word on streaming. Is there any marketing happening for club football championship games? I do see tickets available for Annaghdown v Dunmore. The Whats the Scor app doesnt seem to work anymore. Looks like we will be in the dark for most things club gaa. Thank God for GBFM." Yeah, looks like What's The Scor is finished. Shame, it was handy... streaker (Galway) - Posts: 551 - 30/07/2025 11:47:32 2629236 Link
On the assumption of Joyce remaining in charge and with no coach to the skill set of Cian O'Neill in the backroom team, should he go all out to lure Paddy Tally to Galway for the next year or two? Tally was praised for his excellent defensive structures he put in place with Kerry in 2022 and this is an area Galway struggled in this year. He knows Galway football well, knows the current team well having almost knocked them out and knows the teams in Division 1. rover08 (Longford) - Posts: 447 - 30/07/2025 20:38:21 2629362 Link
Replying To Eire89: "I do think its madness having gams on race week. I am a fan of the split season and most club players & inter county players are as it gives certainty but I do think galway should keep race week free liek they did previously. Could have easily started it last weekend. Hard to look past the big three Corofin Moycullen & SK. Its time for SK to deliver no title since 2012 and for all the talk of them being a force in galway they have been a major dissapoitment considering names population and resources they have." I am still gonna say there will be some big shocks and surprises this year with the 2 pointers now, it's a new game. I also don't think Corofin are what they were. Moycullen seem to have a lot injured. Salthill don't ever have the fight in them to win it. It's wide open. Gearoid1998ffowaed (Galway) - Posts: 178 - 30/07/2025 21:02:03 2629369 Link
Replying To rover08: "On the assumption of Joyce remaining in charge and with no coach to the skill set of Cian O'Neill in the backroom team, should he go all out to lure Paddy Tally to Galway for the next year or two? Tally was praised for his excellent defensive structures he put in place with Kerry in 2022 and this is an area Galway struggled in this year. He knows Galway football well, knows the current team well having almost knocked them out and knows the teams in Division 1." Paddy Tally is a good coach no doubt about it but Im not sure if defensive structure is our key issue, even though defence did clearly regress this year, whether that is O Neill going or the new rules or selection issues or a mixture of the three is hard to say. There are very good coaches within the current set up and I wouldn't be writing off the likes of Morris or Graham on the back of a year where fatigue seemed to play a big role also. I do think there needs to be a freshening up in terms of selection of players so maybe a few new faces there. To my mind the speed of our ball movement/transition into attack needs to be resolved as a priority. We are still a bit stuck in the old rules and once teams cottoned on to shutting down our key two pointer kickers we looked a bit short of ideas with more various strong individual performances keeping us in games. I think we need to add more real pace to the team sacrificing some of the size/power and need a dedicated play maker at centre forward. Thompson or Finnerty for example could be options as play makers. We have a good few options in terms of pace at the back with Daniel Flaherty and C Sweeney two immediate challengers but I think we need to find one or two more natural forwards with real pace to challenge the existing options. Obviously there is recency bias but I think Kerry look well ahead of the pack at the minute but we are right in the mix with Donegal/Armagh/Tyrone/Dublin etc as challengers. Trucker1 (Galway) - Posts: 454 - 31/07/2025 08:13:26 2629397 Link
Replying To endgame: "Galway would have beaten Donegal if the latter played as poorly as last Sunday but hard to make a case for Galway beating Kerry." It is easy to be wise after the event but Donegal look to have got it wrong against Kerry in terms of match ups, Paudi Clifford was roaming around with over 70 possessions and no one seems to be on him for the full game. They also were trying to hit Michael Murphy for kickouts in the first half when he was clearly getting crowded out and under pressure(did the same against Tyrone). O Connor was an obvious Kerry target for kickouts but they let him win 4/5 before they sorted that out. When McGee came on it gave them a foothold on kick outs and they started a comeback from there. To be fair it is probably case of too many fires to put out but I was surprised they didn't seem to have various plans for what seemed to be likely scenarios. Easy to talk as they say. I think Donegal will be right back in the mix next year Trucker1 (Galway) - Posts: 454 - 31/07/2025 08:24:03 2629398 Link
Given what a supporter Paul Bellew is of split season it's a bit of a joke now lack of advertising club championship is getting Tickets only available yesterday and still no confirmation on streaming options other than a 10 second clip on stream sport jm25 (Galway) - Posts: 1643 - 31/07/2025 13:29:27 2629462 Link
Split season is not working and it's fairly clear to see. You have lads still in America and championship starting at the weekend. For county players it's a very very long season. I personally would have zero issues with them pushing out the intercounty finals til maybe mid August. Plenty of time to play off club after that, it's not like we get cracking summers anyways. Everything is far too condensed Not even the money aspect of going every week to games if you support both codes, it's tiring and people have other events going on Flemenstar200 (Galway) - Posts: 97 - 31/07/2025 21:57:44 2629545 Link
In waht ways is it not working? Club players and inter county players seem happier than ever its seems to be pushed by media. I know club players who know and can plan holidays weddings etc compared to previous years where it your county lost early etc your champo could be 2 weeks later. I do feel however there is definitely scope to push the All irelands out a week or 2 to mid august. I also think its madness that galway decide to start it the bank hol weekend in august which is race week Eire89 (Galway) - Posts: 383 - 01/08/2025 09:08:11 2629583 Link
Replying To Flemenstar200: "Split season is not working and it's fairly clear to see. You have lads still in America and championship starting at the weekend. For county players it's a very very long season. I personally would have zero issues with them pushing out the intercounty finals til maybe mid August. Plenty of time to play off club after that, it's not like we get cracking summers anyways. Everything is far too condensed Not even the money aspect of going every week to games if you support both codes, it's tiring and people have other events going on" The season is just as long for club players. Training still starts in January. S&C for most starts before Christmas. There is little break. I agree that the inter county championship should be pushed out by 2-3 weeks. Bank Holiday August weekend coming up and zero sport. Does the Galway club championship start this weekend or next? In Mayo there are two junior championship games this weekend for some reason the the rest inc inter and senior all start next weekend. The only plus I've seen is dates are now set in stone at club level so lads can plan holidays, weddings etc around football but the amount of players heading over to the states to "play football" is crazy with many landing back to their home clubs a week or days before championship. This annoys a lot of home based players. yew_tree (Mayo) - Posts: 11728 - 01/08/2025 09:27:34 2629586 Link
Replying To Eire89: "In waht ways is it not working? Club players and inter county players seem happier than ever its seems to be pushed by media. I know club players who know and can plan holidays weddings etc compared to previous years where it your county lost early etc your champo could be 2 weeks later. I do feel however there is definitely scope to push the All irelands out a week or 2 to mid august. I also think its madness that galway decide to start it the bank hol weekend in august which is race week" Shure you don't think the players should be going to the races or anyplace else anaway. Pope_Benedict (Galway) - Posts: 4358 - 01/08/2025 11:03:44 2629616 Link
Replying To Flemenstar200: "Split season is not working and it's fairly clear to see. You have lads still in America and championship starting at the weekend. For county players it's a very very long season. I personally would have zero issues with them pushing out the intercounty finals til maybe mid August. Plenty of time to play off club after that, it's not like we get cracking summers anyways. Everything is far too condensed Not even the money aspect of going every week to games if you support both codes, it's tiring and people have other events going on" My god, such raving. TanCanRan (Galway) - Posts: 281 - 01/08/2025 11:15:29 2629622 Link
Great performance from dunmore tonight to start out championship Costello brothers are as good an inside two in the county Colm could be the answer to Galway 14 for the next decade Prob lacking a little strength in-depth. Matthew reddington may be one who slipped through cracks for Galway an outstanding footballer For annaghdown no comer and Curley getting injured were cruel blows Diarmuid kilcummins was very good too, needs to improve his shooting to get a crack at Galway If comer unavailable they could fall into relegation battle. Great start looking forward to rest of weekend games jm25 (Galway) - Posts: 1643 - 01/08/2025 21:52:09 2629713 Link
In all fairness players sudnt be arrenging there weddings around the club championship. Have your wedding when ever you want it. It's ok for county players to forget about the club and head to America to play football but other players have to plan holidays and weddings around the games. Crazy talk Joed1987 (Galway) - Posts: 15 - 01/08/2025 22:00:20 2629714 Link
Looks like Damien Comer won't feature in the club championship according to Annaghdown sources due to injury. They were absolutely crucified by Dunmore this evening in the opening game, anyone in at it? Did Daithi Kilcommins make an appearance? WonTon5 (Galway) - Posts: 50 - 01/08/2025 22:48:42 2629728 Link
Replying To jm25: "Great performance from dunmore tonight to start out championship Costello brothers are as good an inside two in the county Colm could be the answer to Galway 14 for the next decade Prob lacking a little strength in-depth. Matthew reddington may be one who slipped through cracks for Galway an outstanding footballer For annaghdown no comer and Curley getting injured were cruel blows Diarmuid kilcummins was very good too, needs to improve his shooting to get a crack at Galway If comer unavailable they could fall into relegation battle. Great start looking forward to rest of weekend games" I think Matthew was to go in with Galway in 23 but he went travelling. Jellybaby (Dublin) - Posts: 369 - 02/08/2025 09:02:42 2629744 Link
Just wondering is Shane Walsh still with Kilmacud Crokes, or has he moved. ??? supersub15 (Carlow) - Posts: 3234 - 02/08/2025 09:26:24 2629746 Link