[QUOTE=“Kinvara’s Passion, post: 1149615, member: 686”]An impossible task… with all the injurys and and nothing coming from the camp…
A rough stab at it as Graham might say…
1 callanan
2 Coen 3 R.burke. 4 Collins.
5 mcinerney 6 lally. 7 P.Mannion.
8 Tannian 9 Maloney
10 Brehony 11 Glynn 12 Donnellan
13 C.Mannion 14 Canning 15 J.Flynn
Smith, Hanbury, Joe Cooney, Gleenon, Higgins, Healy, Kileen, Harte could all be in contention.[/QUOTE]
Shane Moloney midfield?
Yeah, if he is in the squad
@Kinvara’s Passion, is that the same full back that was cruelly exposed against Tipperary last year?
I wrote Galway off pre championship in 2014 largely on the back of their big, immobile forward unit. Very samey. Complete lack of pace. There’s better balance to the attack now with Flynn having emerged and Brehony released to wing forward. I’m more unsure about their defence this year but it’s a very open championship etc etc.
[QUOTE=“Bandage, post: 1149743, member: 9”]@Kinvara’s Passion, is that the same full back that was cruelly exposed against Tipperary last year?
I wrote Galway off pre championship in 2014 largely on the back of their big, immobile forward unit. Very samey. Complete lack of pace. There’s better balance to the attack now with Flynn having emerged and Brehony released to wing forward. I’m more unsure about their defence this year but it’s a very open championship etc etc.[/QUOTE]
Yes, same guy. I suspect his brother Daithi was going to revert to 3 this year until he got injured. Hanbury might also be a better but I am led to believe he may be carrying an injury also.
I agree on the pace and I am not sure that Brehony will sort this out. He has failed to really impress in a lot of our crunch games. Johnny Coen could actually be the answer here with Moore coming in at corner back.
I have no idea how we’ll line out. 33 players used during league, injuries, skeleton teams used in challenge games… I doubt they know themselves what their strongest team is.
I suspect there will be at least one surprise debutante.
Head says no. Heart says yes. Gut says yes. Therefore by 2:1 majority we will win by four.
Galway management are learning slowly but surely… Sundays team will feature more pace from what I am hearing and a few fresh aces in the pack.
:rolleyes:
[QUOTE=“Wristy, post: 1150736, member: 1156”]1. Callanan
2. Coen
3. Hansbury
4. P Mannion
5 Collins
6. Tannion
7. McInerney
8. J Cooney
9. Harte
10. Smith
11. Donnellan
12. Glynn
13. C Mannion
14. Canning
15. Flynn[/QUOTE]
Best we have I suppose but a serious lack of pace in the middle third. Wouldn’t be surprised to see a late change or two before throw in.
Get the feeling these Dublin fellas are a bit fragile under Cunningham.
That’s a tidy looking Dublin team. Where’s the galway team?
1 Alan Nolan (St Brigid’s)
2 Cian O’Callaghan (Cuala)
3 Peter Kelly (Lucan Sarsfields)
4 Paul Schutte (Cuala)
5 Shane Durkin (Ballyboden St Enda’s)
6 Chris Crummey (Lucan Sarsfields)
7 Conal Keaney (Ballyboden St Enda’s)
8 Johnny McCaffrey (Lucan Sarsfields)
9 Simon Lambert (Ballyboden St Enda’s)
10 Ryan O’Dwyer (Kilmacud Crokes)
11 Liam Rushe (St Pat’s, Palmerstown)
12 Danny Sutcliffe (St Jude’s)
13 David O’Callaghan (Ballyboden St Enda’s)
14 David Treacy (Cuala)
15 Mark Schutte (Cuala)
funny that not 1 dublin person has posted in this thread
What’s up with Michael Carton?
I dunno KP, if they are fragile we are brittle so one cancels the other out. It certainly doesn’t give us an advantage in my eyes. They might have blown up against Cork but we have a track record of that shit ourselves.
I can see no way we will get the job done.
Next to no pace in the team means little ball carrying means very few handy scores means a struggle to score points. I would be surprised if we score more than 15, so we are likely to need at least 3 goals to win. Unless Dublin obligingly foul all day we will struggle to score enough.
Smith and Cooney will certainly not be finishing the match, it’s probable Tannian won’t either, we have a team of big lads short on pace and stamina, those 3 will need replacing leaving two slots to cover injury and form. It’s not enough.
I’d love to be optimistic but I cant see any great reason to be. The 15 selected will start, I imagine Glynn and Donnellan will switch though.
For me both Brehony and Glennon should be starting, it’s incomprehensible one of them did not, Brehony is the closest thing we have to a player who can snip points from nothing, which stops bleeding at the other end. Glennon would give more energy playing deep, plus you could spring the experience of a Smith or Cooney in the second half if need be.
[QUOTE=“Stool Pigeon, post: 1150881, member: 730”]I dunno KP, if they are fragile we are brittle so one cancels the other out. It certainly doesn’t give us an advantage in my eyes. They might have blown up against Cork but we have a track record of that shit ourselves.
.[/QUOTE]
Well true… Fragile would be our middle name.
I listened to an interview with Conal Keaney yesterday and when asked about the difference in management between Daly and Ger Cunningham he spent the next 2 minutes telling Brian Carthy how much he enjoyed working under Daly and how he loved his style and that he found Cunningham’s approach completely different as he was such a quiet fellow. I just got the inkling that the camp might not be as enthused with things under Cunningham’s.
I’m take any straw I can grab at 
There is no pace in our 15 around the middle third… Harte maybe. AC is well known for making late change so who knows. Joe Cooney is obviously impressing in training but I’m not sure what he brings to a midfield role.
Dublin bullied them out of it in the leinster final and especially in tullamore so i suppose this is an attempt to counter that with size and mullockers. Harte will surely play at 6 smith will swap with cooney id imagine. As said above we wont score enough, our points from play average has been shocking under cunningham. Flynn will be found out unfortunately. The great unknown is donnellan, he did as much as anyone in 2012 and a lad who can hold his own physically, run and score on the run is what we need. Has he been good in pearses early season great start?
Res Dubs says both Carton and Paul Schutte are doubtful.
Galway’s speciality. Mullockers.