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Are Galway GAA going to show matches online this year?

ref (Galway) - Posts: 257 - 20/07/2025 15:42:29    2626642

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Congratulations to Tipp. FWIW at least we got knocked out by the eventual champions.

Trump2020 (Galway) - Posts: 2603 - 20/07/2025 17:12:59    2626653

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Replying To ref:  "Are Galway GAA going to show matches online this year?"
I'd imagine so generates good income

jm25 (Galway) - Posts: 1640 - 20/07/2025 17:30:56    2626668

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Ive been in croke park many a time seeing many galway hurling no shows, second half of 2015 was hard to watch, but i think cork took that crown today of the worst 2nd half performance

Galway456 (Galway) - Posts: 145 - 20/07/2025 22:14:49    2626754

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Replying To BigBàsMan:  ""nobody has come along to compete with the old guard"

Because the old guard are always selected come championship. Case in point this year, Whelan, concannon and k cooney. All played terribly throughout the championship, very low individual scores... All start and never dropped."
The ones that did make it didnt set the world on fire either. Now Im all for giving youth a chance but you still have to earn the jersey. I got to imagine the reason that Shefflin and MOD have not played more youth is because they simply were not good enough. I have been as critical as any about keeping players past their sell by date, but we are a product of our failed underage system.

BostonGuy (Galway) - Posts: 184 - 21/07/2025 03:14:59    2626779

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Replying To ref:  "Are Galway GAA going to show matches online this year?"
I say they will. They would want to start promoting it now and not leave till the last week as they normally do

Off_the_post (Galway) - Posts: 11 - 21/07/2025 09:02:28    2626786

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Replying To Galway456:  "Ive been in croke park many a time seeing many galway hurling no shows, second half of 2015 was hard to watch, but i think cork took that crown today of the worst 2nd half performance"
they took it in spades.
Thye wereso bad Tipp wont get the credit they deserve for the performance.

SixtiesKid (Galway) - Posts: 360 - 21/07/2025 09:30:41    2626793

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Replying To BostonGuy:  "The ones that did make it didnt set the world on fire either. Now Im all for giving youth a chance but you still have to earn the jersey. I got to imagine the reason that Shefflin and MOD have not played more youth is because they simply were not good enough. I have been as critical as any about keeping players past their sell by date, but we are a product of our failed underage system."
MD only knows the older brigade and is loyal to them in turn. He never managed or even knows how to get the best out of the youth in Galway.Liam Cahill on the other hand won minor and u20/U21 with the Tipp youth that will develop trust and a bond. It's more a lucky dip if we find a player in Galway. Fair play to Tipp and well done.

1shot (Galway) - Posts: 34 - 21/07/2025 17:22:35    2626975

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Replying To SixtiesKid:  "they took it in spades.
Thye wereso bad Tipp wont get the credit they deserve for the performance."
This Tipp team held Limerick (who I still think are the best team on their day), they lost to a Cork team having one of their chief attackers (and free taker) sent off after 2 mins of play AND played into Corks hand that day with open space. Tipp are a solid team, definitely beatable and for the first half yesterday were beaten. Second half was a mix of Cork capitulating and Tipp taking the game to Cork. Many will say they were lucky, but you make your own luck at this level and Tipp are champions for 2025, many congrats!

BostonGuy (Galway) - Posts: 184 - 21/07/2025 18:30:17    2626985

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Replying To 1shot:  "MD only knows the older brigade and is loyal to them in turn. He never managed or even knows how to get the best out of the youth in Galway.Liam Cahill on the other hand won minor and u20/U21 with the Tipp youth that will develop trust and a bond. It's more a lucky dip if we find a player in Galway. Fair play to Tipp and well done."
Would have to agree. Franny is a good lad but I dont think he would know the u25 players either.

Black&White26 (Galway) - Posts: 11 - 22/07/2025 09:36:41    2627031

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Replying To 1shot:  "MD only knows the older brigade and is loyal to them in turn. He never managed or even knows how to get the best out of the youth in Galway.Liam Cahill on the other hand won minor and u20/U21 with the Tipp youth that will develop trust and a bond. It's more a lucky dip if we find a player in Galway. Fair play to Tipp and well done."
Looking at the last three u20 campaigns, you'd certainly hope and pray that MD isn't the only one who doesn't know how to get 'the best out of the youth in Galway', and that we can number the last few u20/u21 management teams in that bracket too.

Pope_Benedict (Galway) - Posts: 4357 - 22/07/2025 11:22:09    2627072

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Replying To SixtiesKid:  "they took it in spades.
Thye wereso bad Tipp wont get the credit they deserve for the performance."
I'm waiting for Martin Breheny's take lamenting Cork's 'failure'

Get to three All Ireland finals in 5 years, winning 0, hammered in two of them.

Win 3 U20 All Irelands in the last 6 years, and yet, when the *** was falling out of the trousers last Sunday, who comes off the bench? Harnedy and Lehane FGS (tbf, Harnedy was decent)

Where are all the young Cork U20 AI winners, and if they can't break through to Senior, into a team who hasn't won a Senior AI for 20 years, why would AI winning minors be expected to, given the gulf is much larger between U17 - Senior compared to U20 - Senior? Cork have been in 5 U20 AI finals in the last 8 years. Where are all those players?

But when you have an agenda facts do tend to go by the wayside, I suppose. So I won't be holding my breath for his latest epistle

Stool Pigeon (Galway) - Posts: 950 - 22/07/2025 12:34:13    2627110

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Replying To Pope_Benedict:  "Looking at the last three u20 campaigns, you'd certainly hope and pray that MD isn't the only one who doesn't know how to get 'the best out of the youth in Galway', and that we can number the last few u20/u21 management teams in that bracket too."
There can surely be no appetite for another year of Healy and the two disciples? Surely?

If the team for the last game was picked out of a hat by Stevie Wonder we would likely have delivered a better performance against Dublin than the one we gave, and you could say that about either of the last two years of U20 championship exits.

If there is no accountability for this we are in deeper trouble than I thought. The bar was low enough to start with.

Stool Pigeon (Galway) - Posts: 950 - 22/07/2025 12:40:07    2627115

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md needs to do what Cunningham did in 2012 is bring in a bunch of young lads.,work with them and see what happens..
there are good young players in galway no douth about just can md and co get the best out of them im not sure..
there will be players stepping away after this year he has no choice really too blood new players..
look how far tipp have come in a few years and fair play to them., so anything is possible..

gbay (Galway) - Posts: 277 - 22/07/2025 12:51:23    2627121

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Replying To Stool Pigeon:  "I'm waiting for Martin Breheny's take lamenting Cork's 'failure'

Get to three All Ireland finals in 5 years, winning 0, hammered in two of them.

Win 3 U20 All Irelands in the last 6 years, and yet, when the *** was falling out of the trousers last Sunday, who comes off the bench? Harnedy and Lehane FGS (tbf, Harnedy was decent)

Where are all the young Cork U20 AI winners, and if they can't break through to Senior, into a team who hasn't won a Senior AI for 20 years, why would AI winning minors be expected to, given the gulf is much larger between U17 - Senior compared to U20 - Senior? Cork have been in 5 U20 AI finals in the last 8 years. Where are all those players?

But when you have an agenda facts do tend to go by the wayside, I suppose. So I won't be holding my breath for his latest epistle"
Harnedy should've started, or come on earlier. The only Cork lad with any bottle since Bill Cooper retired.

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 16751 - 22/07/2025 13:50:51    2627151

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Replying To gbay:  "md needs to do what Cunningham did in 2012 is bring in a bunch of young lads.,work with them and see what happens..
there are good young players in galway no douth about just can md and co get the best out of them im not sure..
there will be players stepping away after this year he has no choice really too blood new players..
look how far tipp have come in a few years and fair play to them., so anything is possible.."
One common denominator between Tipp 2025 and Galway 2012 imo was vastly improved fitness levels from the directly preceding year. 2012 was the year that slimline Tann and JC appeared for the first time. Galway 2026 need to up their fitness levels imo, and dispense with the services of any older players looking in any way leggy.

Pope_Benedict (Galway) - Posts: 4357 - 22/07/2025 14:14:52    2627166

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Replying To Stool Pigeon:  "There can surely be no appetite for another year of Healy and the two disciples? Surely?

If the team for the last game was picked out of a hat by Stevie Wonder we would likely have delivered a better performance against Dublin than the one we gave, and you could say that about either of the last two years of U20 championship exits.

If there is no accountability for this we are in deeper trouble than I thought. The bar was low enough to start with."
Yours, mine and many many others prayers have been answered as the hurling committee have looked for expressions of interest for the U20s managers role. We have been spared and may we be spared from FH from all IC setups in the future.

OhIWouldYa (Galway) - Posts: 16 - 22/07/2025 22:03:43    2627312

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Replying To OhIWouldYa:  "Yours, mine and many many others prayers have been answered as the hurling committee have looked for expressions of interest for the U20s managers role. We have been spared and may we be spared from FH from all IC setups in the future."
Bit harsh on FH. As I've said before, Cannin and Skittle should be joint managers next year as they have all the answers, it seems!

CillTormoir (Galway) - Posts: 570 - 23/07/2025 06:26:50    2627333

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Replying To OhIWouldYa:  "Yours, mine and many many others prayers have been answered as the hurling committee have looked for expressions of interest for the U20s managers role. We have been spared and may we be spared from FH from all IC setups in the future."
Well at least let's see him do something in a coaching role to merit future consideration for an IC role if he has the appetite for it. He hasn't shown it so far in his IC coaching career but he has plenty of time on his side if he still has the ambition to coach at the top level and AFAIK he is involved at underage with Craughwell anyway.

Maybe we will see him at IC level again but he'd want to have a notable body of work backing him up in that case.

Stool Pigeon (Galway) - Posts: 950 - 23/07/2025 07:58:27    2627340

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Replying To Stool Pigeon:  "I'm waiting for Martin Breheny's take lamenting Cork's 'failure'

Get to three All Ireland finals in 5 years, winning 0, hammered in two of them.

Win 3 U20 All Irelands in the last 6 years, and yet, when the *** was falling out of the trousers last Sunday, who comes off the bench? Harnedy and Lehane FGS (tbf, Harnedy was decent)

Where are all the young Cork U20 AI winners, and if they can't break through to Senior, into a team who hasn't won a Senior AI for 20 years, why would AI winning minors be expected to, given the gulf is much larger between U17 - Senior compared to U20 - Senior? Cork have been in 5 U20 AI finals in the last 8 years. Where are all those players?

But when you have an agenda facts do tend to go by the wayside, I suppose. So I won't be holding my breath for his latest epistle"
Checkout 'Brheney Beat' in today's Indo for the 'definitive Cork take' and season's ratings by team......only if you've your blood pressure meds taken though!!

Pope_Benedict (Galway) - Posts: 4357 - 23/07/2025 10:00:23    2627369

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