https://twitter.com/AnalysisGaa/status/1677727912173137921?t=Hwzd2KSvQSHBykk0BqmpZw&s=19
Playing the hurley with one hand,
Catching it overhead with the other
All while turning 180 in the air
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@balbec hardly worth youâre while coming over for that but good to catch up.
On the game midway through the 2nd half a Limerick player had the ball right half back in front of Cusack Stand with a Limerick player down the line. Cathal Mannion was the Galway player covering the Limerick forward but he was coming over from the middle of the pitch. He knew the pass was coming and it did but Mannion just jogged over, no effort and the ball went over the bar. The game was over then. Poor effort from Galway.
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What a day. 6 points down to blow away the opposition to win by 9. Its the stuff of dreams to be 1 game from a potential 4 in a row.
Great enjoyment reading the seeth on this thread. What would ye do without us to hate. None of the seethe is from todays opposition either.
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https://twitter.com/gaelicstatsman/status/1677749786630320129
Puckouts the major difference. I presume he counts winning a puckout as first person to get the ball after the puckout. Which when you consider how many short puckouts Galway played, would mean they won fuck all of their long ones. It certainly felt like that today
Always look at his second post fir the graphics.
The puckouts one tells the story
https://twitter.com/gaelicstatsman/status/1677751078203392004?t=l3ZBhOYYDWly-_jw9PBVeA&s=19
Maurice Brosnan reckons they won two long puckouts in the second half.
Your county players could do with even a smidgen of the nastiness youâve shown; windy and all as it is. All the skill, all the size- no character.
Theyre either soft as fuck or just donât even care.
Fact as you say
Actually no facts there at all. A shambles of a post really. You were desperate to retort, you just donât have it in you.
No, honestly, youâre actually showing a bit of fight and that you care. Its admirable.
But missing on the pitch when it counts
You were desperate
The only thing desperate was that second half performance. I genuinely felt for the galway families sitting around me whoâd travelled up and their team served up that second half for them.
Why are the premier spews even talking in a championship forum still, should be on a camogie thread discussing the only Tipp team that might win anything this year.
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He is. It would be the wrong option in all likelihood.
That was our best performance since Cork in the opening game last year GY were sensational for the first 25 minutes but once we got to grips with the game we blew them away and the 9 points margin for a finish did not flatter us, DOD was my man of the match closely followed by Dan, Cian also was close to his best in the second half. We go again.
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First championship match simce then thag we won by more than 3 points also
Carlow would have won the 2nd half ffs
God. Whatâs to be said other than to congratulate the Limericks. Sensational for about 15 minutes and that was it. Job done. DOD got on a mountain of ball. Gillane was actually quite enough by his standards but deadly when he got it. Hayes motm for me. Heâs such a good hurler for the size of him.
As for us? Where to start? I swear theyâll drive me to the mad house. Genuinely some outstanding hurling in that opening 30 minutes. I knew we had that it in us. Topped by Cathals goal which is one of the best I have seen a Galway team get.
But it seems that a fortuitous stop for our second goal chance and subsequent limerick point was enough to take the wind out of our sails completely. As @Cheasty said it soon became so generic Galway. That second half was disgraceful from our pov. Whether it was a conditioning issue a tactical one or an attitude one or all of the above . It was unacceptable. I kept waiting for something, anything to happen. If the game was still on Iâd still be waiting.
Plenty of time in the months to come to digest it. But Iâm bitterly disappointed in the team and that second half performance. itâs going to set us back years.
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Martin Donnelly in full forward to break ball
Itâs a recurring theme when teams with brittle psyches like Waterford, Galway and to a lesser extent Tipperary take on Limerick. They have the ability to slug it out with them for 25-30 minutes but when they canât put them away they lose heart.
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Hard luck, results like this are never easy after such a good start. My own opinion is Galway completely downed tools when 5/6 points behind. I felt Murphy started picking Limerick lads out at one stage with fifteen minutes to go with short puck outs, he looked almost disinterested, the work rate from the players was not at the level which is needed. In truth if
Limerick wanted it could have been a bigger score line with us missing some very easy opportunities when the bite had gone out of the game. Like anything ye will go again and be back next year.
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That game yesterday was like a window to Galwayâs entire season. They blow hot and cold not even from game to game but within games. And there is a huge swing between the hot and the cold.
They were 12 points down after a poor first half v Dublin but tore back into it and I think they even lead that game going down the stretch,
They fell a few points behind Kk and Kk had their tails up but they were able to turn that game around and in the end should have seen out a win.
8 points up v a very mediocre Tipp performance and ended up clinging on at the end. And Tipp didnât exactly turn on the after burners to claw it back.
And then yesterday. Lead 1-12 to 1-6 and playing some fantastic stuff to seeing the wheels completely come off without even a whimper being raised in the second half.
It seemed to me they just gassed out, particularly in the forwards and Limerick were able to take over from there and release their runners up the field to create havoc.
You could even throw in the Wexford game where they started so slow that against better opponents they could have been put away but again they turned it around and won handily in the end of that one.
Just a season of real patchy in game performances.
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