Galway - quadruple travails part 2

Have heard something similar to this. Probably the level of criticism they are getting should be tempered considering.

https://x.com/finnster1977/status/1818207130253447297

I’m hearing Comer , Finnerty , Kelly , Walsh and Mcdaid all due for operations in the coming weeks and Kellys being the most serious.

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They shouldn’t be getting any criticism. They all tried their absolute best. Wasn’t quite enough. Played through injury repeatedly.
What more do folk want I don’t know :person_shrugging:

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I’d have let someone else take the frees the supposedly injured fella was missing maybe?

Don’t be bringing common sense into the forum, please.

Has any county ever lost three senior all Ireland finals in one year, out of the 4 men’s and women’s?

Gotta get there to lose them.
Have many counties ever made three out of four in the same year?

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Can’t imagine any county other than Cork & ourselves.

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No other county gets the sick sexual thrill off bottling All Ireland finals. It’s not even locked into genders, which is very progressive.

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Biffos in 1981, football, hurling and ladies football

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Here listening to the Maroon & White podcast previewing the Hurling Championship.

Yer man Brady is raw :grinning:

My man on the ground in Turloughmore tells me Clarinbridge are ‘watery enough’ and wont do it this year. I was giggling away because i knew @Diabhal wouldn’t say it any better.

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I listened to it today, he’s as raw as you’ll hear.

He says on turlough “my cousin Shaughs is playing with turlough and he said don’t be bigging is up on that podcast, I replied back yer not going to win it anyway!” :grimacing::grimacing::joy:

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“I’d love to be inshide in the Mullya dresshing room this Friday night waiting to have a cut off Turlock, go out and enjoy your weekend then”

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Kevin Brady is a fantastic addition to the already blockbuster Galway GAA podcast scene. I think in his prior podcast appearance (recorded in the driver’s seat of what I can only hope was a Renault Kangoo) he deemed his former club, Castlegar, to be soft. He was proven briefly correct the following weekend before Cashel used the seethe resulting from the podcast to comfortably top the Senior A Group 4.

The Galway GAA podcast scene is so potent that even yours truly was reasonably wound up when a fellow clubman was slated for his umpiring in a knockout senior match in Kenny Park. I won’t name or shame him but the poor lad was dropped back from a 3 day stag in Killarney about 2 hours prior to throw-in. He was doing well to stand at that stage nevermind put up with Easht Galway cunts abusing him.

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Seems like wheels are in motion.

Donoghue decision paves way for native Galway return

Galway have been on the lookout for a manager since Henry Shefflin stepped down after they were knocked out of the Leinster championship by Dublin at Pearse Stadium by 2-27 to 1-14 in May

Former Dublin manager MicheĂĄl Donoghue could be set for a return to his home county

Thu, 08 Aug, 2024 - 20:39

John Fallon

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Micheál Donoghue’s decision to step down as Dublin manager has paved the way for him to return and take charge of his native Galway.

Galway have been on the lookout for a manager since Henry Shefflin stepped down after they were knocked out of the Leinster championship by Dublin at Pearse Stadium by 2-27 to 1-14 in May.

Galway chairman Paul Bellew made it clear that the preference of the Galway hierarchy was to appoint a local manager this time after stints with Shefflin and Limerick’s Shane O’Neill since Donoghue vacated the position in 2019.

Donoghue, who took over in Galway from Anthony Cunningham in 2015, guided them to their first All-Ireland title since 1988 when they defeated Waterford in the final two years later.

Turloughmore’s Francis Forde and Meelick/Eyrecourt’s Noel Larkin, who served with him during his stint in charge of Galway, were also part of Donoghue’s management team during his two years over Dublin.

Donoghue’s possible return to Galway could also mean a continuation of former Tipperary manager Eamon O’Shea as part of the management in charge of the Tribesmen.

O’Shea, who lives in Salthill, came on board during Shefflin’s final year in charge and has a long association with Donoghue, which included bringing the Clarinbridge native on board as part of his Tipperary management in 2014.

Donoghue’s club Clarinbridge will kick off the 2024 Galway SHC this Friday evening when they take on Moycullen at Pearse Stadium.

And with both O’Neill and Shefflin not being appointed until October, Galway are anxious to get their new manager on board much earlier this year.

The manner of their misfiring season this year suggests a significant rebuild is on the cards for the new Galway manager and the manner in which Donoghue carried out such a rebuild in his two years in charge of Dublin will not have been lost on the power-brokers in Galway.

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:rofl::rofl:

That was a great listen. Healy has finger on the pulse. A great knowledge of players in the county and called games in a respectful way. Can easily see why he is over the 20s. Brady is a great foil for him. Raw as hell and a straight talker. Most of his knowledge seems to come from “bumping” into fellas. I love how he loves hardy teams.

I hope they do a review of the 1st round. Shaughs the presenter has a lovely manner about him.

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Cork 1956

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Thank fuck for that. We beat them in the football that year.

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Thought Matthew Thompson was the best player for the 20’s this year. Can see him in the senior Galway squad next year. Huge potential.

https://twitter.com/StreamsportI/status/1824826476086071509

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They seem to have some talent come through the last number of years. They’ll surely make a county final soon. Some win without finnerty