Galway - quadruple travails part 2

Joyce and Fallon have probably as many AI medals as any other top forward in the country who didn’t play for Kerry or Dublin. Meehans career was fairly short, and even at that was hugely interrupted by injury. The bulk of Walsh’s career has coincided with the greatest Gaelic football team dominating the game like we have never seen before, though to be fair Galway were nowhere near the level for most of them years anyway.
The Tipp hurling comparison is a reasonable one, but I’d say Tipp are entirely right to think they are capable of mixing it with the best most years as well. Galway have underachieved at senior level in both hurling and football, but if you are better than either then you have a serious chance of an AI (with the obvious exception of Mayo)

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Maurice is just a true Bearnaman. Always has the knife sharpened ready to invest into our own at the drop of a hat.

I don’t agree with you on Galway hyping ourselves up. That long outdated “play football the right way” label was always from outsiders that hadn’t seen a Galway football match since 01. Any sensible supporter knows that even when reaching an All-Ireland Final in 2022 they were still missing 5 or 6 players needed to get them over the line. They also have a tactical simpleton in charge which hurts more than helps us.

I’ll never forget getting battered by Tipp in 2016. A Commercials man beside me was in tears by the 65th minute and kept talking about how much it meant to beat one of the “traditional teams”. Now that same fella had noticeable dribble streaming down his face so he may be an unreliable narrator. The honours list still means a lot clearly.

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Yeah 2013 iirc. Gareth Bradshaw was sent off and left the panel for the rest of the year I think.

I seem to remember Tom Flynn scoring a goal in Castlebar to knock Mayo out of the Connaught Championship in 2016. A rangy/gangly footballer.

In Salthill, I was at it. Cant remember was it Mulholland or Salmon over them, whichever they were way out of their depths. KW steadied the ship to a degree but Joyce has brought them to a new level again. People have short memories though

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KW did steady the ship, but Galway under him basically just parked the bus. It was awful.

Think it was Salmon. A very dark day. That cunt Andy Moran showboating after scoring the 5th goal. Every Mayo fucker near me going on about how “saaauvage” this Mayo was. Didn’t fully believe myself at the time, but i remember telling them that we’d still one before they would. But I definitely believe it now.

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Ireland played Belgium earlier on that day. Well beaten. Went to Castlebar with the tae already firmly in my mug. Mayo had been involved in an epic semi final replay loss to the Dubs the previous summer. We were nowhere. Galway started well and were ‘keeping it tight’ at the back. Mayo thought all they had to do was show up. Up stepped the rangy Tom Flynn, straight outta hurling country to nail a goal after a bad Mayo kickout.

Up there with the hurlers Vs Kilkenny '05 and the 2012 Leinster final (and maybe vs Chipp in '15) as one of those ‘in the long grass’ unexpected Galway wins. Always so satisfying.

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A truly dark day (Mulholland was manager by the way, Salmon left after the '08 Championship) The sight of that Garden Gnome cunt, Andy Moran, dancing on our grave after scoring the last goal was galling.

I’m not a massive fan of Joyce as manager either but it’s hard to argue against him when he’s the only one to bring us close to winning since O’Mahoney. I know Walsh took us to a semi final in 2018 but we were nowhere near good enough to win that year. I think things have improved a lot under PJ since Cian O’Neill was recruited, we shouldn’t be too far off it this year barring injury, and provided Shane Walsh can recapture form in a county jersey.

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The gameplan was to keep the scoreline respectable. It was pathetic.

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In fairness had Brannigan scored the penalty who knows what might have happened

Yeah, the gameplan was primative to say the least. He was a bit like Jack Charlton in that he stuck rigidly to his plan and ignored calls for a more expansive version. You could say that he also picked players because of their discipline to the gameplan rather than for their footballing ability, the Sweeney brothers from Killanin being a prime example…some might say it they were picked out of loyalty to his fellow clubmen, but I honestly think they were picked because he trusted them 100% to carry out his instructions on the field, a bit like Mick McCarthy under Jack.

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I’d forgotten completely about that, we did make the Dubs work for it that day, but we just didn’t carry the scoring threat to beat them.

My memory of that game is we were completely on top the first 20 minutes but fucked away chance after chance including the penalty. So instead of going in with a 5 or 6 point lead at the break they were 2 down. The missed chances drained their energy and it was one way traffic in the second half.

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:man_facepalming: one couldn’t run, the other could barely walk

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FWIW @ HT

Galway 2-13 Laois 1-9

Flynn 0-4 (3f)
O’Shea 0-3
Connaire 1-1
McLoughlin 1-0
Lee 0-2
P Mannion 0-1
J Cooney 0-1
Monaghan 0-1

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Jayo Jayo Jayo.
Connaire flattering to decieve

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Galway 6-29 Laois 2-20

Flynn 1-9 (5f)
O’Shea 0-3
Connaire 2-1
McLoughlin 3-0
Lee 0-4
P Mannion 0-1
J Cooney 0-1
Monaghan 0-1
Niland 0-7 (5f)
O’Hanlon 0-1
McGlynn 0-1

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2-20 is some score to be conceding in early January

These are only oul exhibition games. Walsh Tin Cup. Wouldn’t get too excited either way

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Scoring 2-20 and losing by 27 points. Jaysus

We wont meet anyone like Galway now until after we win the Joe Mc