He is genuinely the best we have ever had. Joe arguably was better for a pure reaction save, but on every other metric, including game management, Nicky is tops.
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An incredible hurler. Nothing bothers him. Goes under the radar completely but goes about his business the right way, every day.
Never any fuss. Just wins the ball and passes it on to the next player in a better position.
It wasnât a collapse, it was rope a dope. Galway shot their load early and limerick moved up through the gears. Just like Mayo and Dubs last week. Only Tomorrow and a potential dub/Kerry final can save the summer .
There was more than one occasion when Owens held his arm up at waist height to indicate he was half playing advantage, itâs not something iv ever seen a ref do at that level before and shows that he wasnât really up to the task at all I thought. Either tis a foul or it isnât, to have your arm half raised is laughably poor stuff.
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There was a pleasingly generic nature to this Galway GAA year. Everything about it was generic.
A romp through the early stages in Leinster.
Loose talk around Galway of winning the double.
Then a failure to beat Dublin in Dublin.
Then a late capitulation against Kilkenny in the Leinster final, an unimpressive win over Tipperary in the quarter-final before yet another semi-final defeat to Limerick where the managerâs tactical limitations were brutally exposed, and the team effectively downed tools, with the careers of a couple of small, nippy forwards ruined.
The manager will probably be dispensed with.
It doesnât get any more generic than that.
The footballersâ year was very generic too.
Yet another win over Roscommon in Roscommon, another Connacht title without beating Mayo.
Going well until one key defeat puts the whole show off the road.
Comer gets injured.
Shane Walsh returns to being a fancy dan.
Mayo put the kibosh on them.
Again, pure generic Galway.
Itâs great entertainment when a team behaves in a generic manner.
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Ah look he was poor for both teams at times. The game is lacking really strong, good refs at the moment to be honest.
Iâd credit him with trying to let the game flow a decent bit though.
Iâd say the way the game is played at the moment makes it almost impossible to referee. But if I was a supporter of the most physically powerful team the game has ever seen Iâd certainly be happy with a referee who tries to let the game flow.
One of the best goals you will ever see in fairness
There isnât an ounce of character in the Quaids
You donât see anyone from Galway coming out with that scutter in fairness. Everyone has great time for Galway people and their hurling tradition.
The âpremier viewâ yokels might need to reconsider their name. Useless cunts.
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Limerick are great and all that but they get away with murder with their tackling and âphysicalityâ. Lead up to 2nd goal today a prime example
The thinking of a modern hurling fan. The days of Deane and McGrath in the 2 corners are gone it seems.
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Tisnt RTE he is working for
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Tis fierce sad all the same what theyâve done with the game
I know we give out all the time about the refereeing. About how this ref is whistle happy and that ref is inconsistent. We also talk about how league games and early championship games are reffed much more strictly than later in the season when things become a bit more lenient, physical and open at the business end of the championship.
Today was a bit of a first for me. The game was refereed in two completely different styles within the one game. The first style was from the start until 25 minutes gone. Galway were on top and we saw a whole host of frees given in this period that usually are waved on at this stage in the season. From then on he flipped into end of season mode and let the game and hits flow, which suited Limerick perfectly. Galway led by 6 and lost the remainder of the game 1-18 0-6.
Itâs hard to understand what made Owens change his bar mid game. At the point where Quaid took his little sos Owens went and talked to his umpires. Hard to know if they suggested he swallow the whistle a bit. Or if one of the linemen said anything.
Really odd.
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The 3 frees Casey got at the start of the second half were a bit of a joke. I guess itâs a skill in a way but they werenât fouls really
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5 points from 30 minutes in
Well done all the @limericks.
Simply awesome in the second half and while we didnt help ourselves, made us look like shite
The first thirty minutes is the best hurling Iâve seen us play in years.
The next fifty or so some of the worst.
Classic us really.
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Wouldnât fully agree with you there. We facilitated that Limerick performance. It was a capitulation as bad as Iâve seen from a Galway team. Our worst half of hurling in a decade⌠A lack of belief in themselves and in managements ability to guide them out of it coupled with the fact that some of them simply arenât good enough.
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Summed it up well