Great post. Very revealing that the likes of Dublin and Limerick only started becoming relevant once they got the money men behind them
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Will be a superstar in the vfl
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I despise Callan, but thatâs alright so it is
No Galway or Dublin team named?
Will the Galway crowd travel @Faldo @maroonandwhite?? The ould lad is talking about going and he wants a driver.
Expensive times for a Galway manâŚ
I heard the Galway team today and was surprised with who the are playing in at ffâŚ
Iâd say so,we s9ld 60 tickets through our clubâŚa lot will travel Iâd say
Thereâs no buzz about this semi-final whatsoever. Just had a look and there are tickets still available for all sections of the ground.
Galway people donât think they have a hope, the prospect of a defeat isnât even crossing the average Dublin supporterâs mind.
I find it hard to see Galway actually win, but I fancy they could go a lot closer than most people think. Theyâve beaten Kerry in Croke Park in conditions which will likely be similar to tomorrowâs, theyâve beaten Mayo in the championship three years running, theyâve drawn with Dublin in the league this year and theyâve run them close in the League final.
Thatâs a quietly very impressive run of results. Beating Kildare in Newbridge was also a fine result.
They either consciously or subconsciously threw the Monaghan game and I would read little into it.
Thereâs always the chance it could go tits up for them in a big way, thereâs always that chance against Dublin, but none of Dublinâs forwards are having a great year on an individual level and thereâs no Connolly. Maybe theyâve just been keeping their powder dry for the business end, but Iâm not so sure, I think Dublin have displayed signs of being on a slight downward slide against Donegal and Tyrone. But itâs probably unlikely to be such a slide that they actually lose tomorrow and Iâd fancy them to get there by 4 or 5.
However Dublin lost semis in 2002, 2006, 2010 and 2014, so on the four yearly sequence theyâre due another one. Being written off wonât harm Galwayâs chances. The fact that Tyrone were strongly fancied by a lot of people in last yearâs semi wound Dublin up a lot, but that element is not there at all this year.
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That was a poor game though. The Galway performance in it has been overstated, putting aside the value confidence-wise they got from it. Galway could well pick a team to stay in the game tomorrow and go for a late pushed but when they had to go for it in the league final they sat back. No beating Dublin that way.
They bullied Kerry. Thatâs what was impressive about it. A win in Croke Park can do wonders for a teamâs confidence the next time they play there, even if itâs in a dog of a match. Donegal 1992 for example. Dublin went into that thinking they only had to turn up and got landed on their collective arses.
If Galway go out with the right mindset tomorrow, they have every chance of sprinting a surprise and winning.
That Kerry team was there to be bullied, as subsequent performances showed. No doubt they got a boost from it but they will still need to improve on that and hope Dublin are actually regressing.
Galway should have beaten Dublin in the league final. They have a shout here. Dublin plodding along but definitely not the team they were.
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Kerry had bullied them the previous year, in 2014, and any time they had played Galway for years.
Galway having played Dublin twice this year and competed very well both times should be a help to them. Theyâre an excellent second half team but they must not befall the same fate as Tyrone did early in last yearâs semi.
One could easily make the argument that up to four of Galwayâs starting forwards would make the Dublin team at the moment - Comer, Walsh, Burke and Brannigan.
Galway forwards are better than Dublinâs recent starting six but they donât have a Costello or Kevin Mc to come in.
Galway were the only team to beat Kerry in the Championship this year.
Well I havenât far to travel, but there wonât be a huge crowd going. Many will save themselves for next weekend, others just wonât bother based on how pathetic the performance was last week. Thereâll be a few thousand there, more than the record low crowd in 95 when I was one of what was estimated as 1k galway fans surrounded by 25k Tyrone fans, but thereâll be more than 25k opposition fans tomorrow. They might keep it respectable for 45 minutes.
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Shite support for Galway as usual so.
youâre kinda dim and have no understanding of what it takes to travel and support your county, so I wonât engage with you.
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I donât think either team has been named. Iâd say Gavin might shake things up a bit with at least one change in the forwards.
Michael Daly is highly thought of in Galway but Iâve yet to see much from him at senior level.