jm25 (Galway) - Posts: 1643 - 02/08/2025 09:36:18    2629747

Gearoid1998ffowaed (Galway) - Posts: 178 - 02/08/2025 11:42:44    2629766

supersub15 (Carlow) - Posts: 3234 - 02/08/2025 12:18:44    2629770

Monivea are awful poor, heading for intermediate definitely. Fitness levels doing look near senior level. Corofin cruising without doing too much. Molloy and Brady very good on the ball in midfield. Bit of a problem in goal for Corofin - Healy is a massive downgrade on Power. Some very loose kickouts.

galway19 (Galway) - Posts: 952 - 02/08/2025 16:49:35    2629800

Annaghdown missed a lot of frees in the first half and some two pointers which their goalkeeper missed. Kilcommins at 6 looks good and could be worth a shout to county panel.

Dunmore looked organised and fit but lack a bit of physicality around the middle. Wouldn't surprise me if they go deep into the champo. Gleeson is good on the two pointers off the deck.

Howardhunt1 (Galway) - Posts: 82 - 02/08/2025 16:57:25    2629802

Sportsfanatic90 (Westmeath) - Posts: 236 - 02/08/2025 19:15:05    2629815

Grand win for Salthill to start off with especially without Finnerty and Sweeney but they had some prolonged periods of poor play in that game and it was Mountbellew without Eoin Finnerty and Colin Murray as well as Mike Daly and Patrick Kelly obviously. Forward line will be stacked for Salthill when they have everyone but they will have to balance up the back line - they had Daniel O'Flaherty at a wing forward position today. I wouldn't fancy them to beat Corofin, Moycullen or even Tuam with the back line they are shaping up to have on the field.

galway19 (Galway) - Posts: 952 - 02/08/2025 19:23:50    2629816

You'd really be hoping for some outside the box thinking with regards to the Galway goalkeeper position this winter. The lads there aren't bad but when you look at what seems to have become the norm for a D1 side, the likes of Beggan, Rafferty, Ryan and Morgan, then it's a comparative weakness of Galway's no question.

Club outfielders who are very good ball strikers should be putting their hands up to try it out. Kickouts are 80% of the role nowadays. If you're a long range two point free taking threat then better again. Barry McHugh would spring to mind.

It'll take some level of ingenuity such as McGeeney had with Rafferty 5 or so years ago. You'd be hoping someone within the setup will be thinking like that

PressureKick (UK) - Posts: 309 - 02/08/2025 20:09:26    2629823

Who won between the Jimmies and Killanin today, What's T Score no longer with us.The GAA or local media don't update outside office for the most part and my profession doesn't facilitate radio listening all day.

backtooldwall (Galway) - Posts: 166 - 02/08/2025 21:41:34    2629839

ref (Galway) - Posts: 258 - 02/08/2025 22:13:15    2629841

WonTon5 (Galway) - Posts: 50 - 03/08/2025 11:29:34    2629876

galway19 (Galway) - Posts: 952 - 03/08/2025 13:29:00    2629897

Some excellent performances from young players. Dara Walsh for Killanin. And Shay McGlinchey for Tuam Stars. Two players that that will be on the Galway radar for next year.

Marooned (Galway) - Posts: 2410 - 03/08/2025 19:22:33    2629939

Green&Gold2013 (Galway) - Posts: 40 - 03/08/2025 19:28:00    2629942

My thoughts after the first weekend of the senior championship:
Tuam were poor by their standards today but still got the job done. Claregalway have been something of a bogey team for them in recent years, so they'll be relieved to come away with the win.
Moycullen looked streets ahead of a disappointing Bearna side.
St. James' threw away an 8-point lead, with some excellent long-range shooting from Dara Walsh turning the tide. St. Michael's seem to be continuing their poor league form into the championship.
Monivea and Lettermore looked very weak and disorganised. Lettermore got two lucky goals in the last five minutes to put some respectability on their final score.
Salthill got the win, but it wasn't a great game to watch. They're miles off Corofin but early days.
Standout teams for me after Round 1: Corofin, Moycullen, Oughterard, and Dunmore McHales.

Yvrjd (Galway) - Posts: 16 - 03/08/2025 21:07:39    2629957

backtooldwall (Galway) - Posts: 166 - 03/08/2025 21:49:13    2629964

WanPintWin (Galway) - Posts: 2478 - 03/08/2025 23:06:41    2629978

Corofin, as usual are the team to beat with moycullen and Tuam behind them. Salthill and Tuam next best but defensive frailties will prevent major success there. Milltown (written off as usual) could go on a run. Claregalways young guns (seem to be young for yrs now) will once again fail to deliver).

ned_flanders (Galway) - Posts: 66 - 04/08/2025 01:04:10    2629985

Probably would've blown it on a horse anyway, the week that's in it.
Instead, I spent €199 to stream the club championship.
Not for comfort. For loyalty.

Loyalty to the maroon.
To the warriors who carry our hopes through wind, rain, bewildering refereeing decisions, and injury lists that seemed designed to wreck a season.

Because let's be honest… 2022 and 2024 had nothing to do with leaving O. Gallagher and J. Daly, respectively, on the bench. Right?

Anyway, here's a modest proposal: could a fraction of that €199 be used to buy a hooter system for our club games?
One that mimics the white heat of Sam Maguire competition, the no-whistle, last-play chaos our intercounty lads will face every summer going forward?

Because with all the admiration in the world, and for all the rabbits our boys in maroon pulled from hats this summer, they did struggle in that final moment. It'd be nice to help them out a bit.

This is where I hope to make an impact. As a proportion of my salary, I'd say €199 puts me not far off JP McManus levels of support.
Only difference is, he had a winner in Ballybrit to ease the pain of his QF loss in Croker.

If my contribution isn't enough, maybe some generous junk food merchant will pony up the rest. Or is all the financial doping still reserved for hurling?

Anyway, it'd be nice, just once, to do something constructive, and not rely solely on novenas to improve Galway football.
I think we deserve better.
Warrior, potential warrior, and supporter alike.

Now, I'm not saying we go mad and launch a coaching programme in every primary and secondary school in Galway.
I'm not calling for divisional football. Or for centres of excellence accessible from Camus to Corofin.

And I certainly wouldn't dream of proposing something radical like raising the standard of football across the entire province.... the rising-tide-lifts-all-boats approach to Connacht's aggregate woes.

I wouldn't dream of suggesting, say, the reinstatement of the FBD pre-season league - the one provincial competition that actually gave our promising young lads and fringe players a genuine shot at development in a maroon jersey... until Ja Burns pulled the plug.
No doubt for reasons completely unrelated to the fact he's an Ulster man, making a decision that just happened to suit… Ulster.
Just as the Ard Chomhairle's decision on Tony Keady had nothing to do with Galway hurling's shot at three-in-a-row.

I'm not cynical by nature. But maybe I'm getting just a little carried away.

There's a fine line between ambition and seafóideach, and it usually runs somewhere north of the Shannon.
Ambition belongs to Ulster.
Expectation belongs to Kerry and Dublin.
The rest of us know our place.

Still… maybe one of these years, some of us will get tired of watching Galway and Mayo scrap like two bald men fighting over a comb.
Or of clapping Roscommon's forwards like we're congratulating a dog for walking on its hind legs.

But until then, maybe, just maybe, someone, somewhere, might deliver a hooter for the Galway club championship.

Not a miracle.
Just a hooter.
And any time before Kerry win their 40th All-Ireland would do just fine.

Gaillimh abú.

P.S. Is 11 months enough to sort this out, County Board?
Or should we wait until Meath and Tyrone hit double digits before moving?
No pressure, like.

Gaillimh_ar_dtús (Galway) - Posts: 2 - 04/08/2025 04:59:40    2629988

After attending Sundays double header in Pearse Stadium which served up two games that were as good as over after ten mins, in the opener a goal which was against the run of play kept St Michaels in it on the score board with wind to come until the half time break.Oughterard looked far sharper and committed even with Matty Tierney "resting" on the periphery of the action for the most part,St Michaels looked like a team resigned to their fate from early on in the second half after failing to add to the two pointer they resumed with.
The Bearna na Forbacha v Maigh Cuilinn was a contest between two very understrength teams with Maigh Cuilinn lining out with only I'm told five or six go the team who contested last years county final, admittedly it did contain the Kelly brothers and Dessie Conneely, supplemented five or six from minor winning team of two or three years ago this was the big differnce in the replacements available to each managers. The game itself was a lifeless affair with the winners in almost complete control for almost the entire match although BnaF should have had a goal when hitting the post with defence beaten and the rebound being kicked straight at S Kelly on the line ( I think ) in the first half.It looks like that less than half can be competitive with the rest hoping to survive in the grade from what I take from the reports from the rest to the round.

backtooldwall (Galway) - Posts: 166 - 04/08/2025 10:58:39    2630000