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No excuses now anyway
I don’t think he will win too much, but he should be a safe choice for the rebuild. My issues with him are
1 He seems tactically inflexible on the sideline
2 He allowed the 2017 squad to become a bit stale
It’s easy from the sidelines mind.
Galway hurling folk are delusional though. The maroon and white lads were saying that Galway should win an all Ireland in year 4-5, when all an outstanding set up can do is get them into the game. Competitive is all you can wish for. Hopefully he’ll do that. The current minors are a great looking base to build on if nothing else, but I’ve always felt you could go to any junior game in Galway and there’ll be someone playing who could play senior IC if looked after. Same in most counties probably.
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They could theoretically play alright, but they wouldn’t be any use
Dialled-in Harte part of Donoghue’s management team
Former Galway defender Aidan Harte will be part of the new senior hurling management team.
Limerick’s Cian Lynch with Galway’s Aidan Harte in 2020. Pic ©INPHO/Tommy Dickson
Thu, 05 Sep, 2024 - 16:53
John Fogarty
Michéal Donoghue has confirmed former Galway defender Aidan Harte will part of his new senior hurling management team.
Earlier this week, Donoghue’s long-standing selectors Francis Forde and Noel Larkin were confirmed as well as Eamon O’Shea who was part of Henry Shefflin’s set-up this past season.
Revealing Gort man Harte’s inclusion on Galway Bay FM’s “Hurling Chat”, Donoghue said of his 2017 All-Ireland SHC winner: “He’s a top guy. Over the last few years, he’s forged his own career in coaching. He’s been with Clare U20s, he’s been with Crusheen, he’s made a huge mark with them.
“As soon as I met him and had a chat, we had him at ‘hello’! He’s so dialled in and we’re delighted to have him on board. He’s going to be class.”
Speaking about O’Shea, who had Donoghue as part of his Tipperary set-up in the mid-2010s, Donoghue said: “Since then, he has been an unbelievable mentor (to me). I broke his heart don’t know how many times trying to get him in for a session during the week. He’s been brilliant. It’s taken me about 10 years to get him.”
Meanwhile, Galway chairman Paul Bellew says the senior county sides could play Allianz League games under lights in Salthill in 2025. However, the construction work required may force this year’s county senior finals to be switched to other venues.
“It’s only right that we do have it for a county of our size but obviously there have been factors in the past that we can’t control,” remarked Bellew. “The tender was awarded in the last week or so.
“So, it’s just a cooling off period of that being informed and all going well the lights work will start towards the end of the year. I’m not saying definitely but may have a spin-off effect in the stadium so we may have to move county finals to Tuam and Athenry.”
Bellew continued: “Our ambition is the lights will be up by Christmas, active by early January. We will be looking to have league games (under lights) both hurling and football in the stadium.
“It would be great to get night-time games in Salthill to bring people along and atmosphere. The facts back up that you’re going to have 30% to 35% more of a crowd for a Saturday evening game than a Sunday afternoon. We have seen that ourselves when we’ve gone to Cork and Limerick and gone to play Mayo in football.”
Lights will be a big addition. Can’t wait to be in Salthill on a Saturday night in February, with a storm blowing in from the Aran Islands and the ball hanging in the air like it’s on the ISS.
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It’d add a much needed bit of life to Salthill too afterwards on a Saturday night. You’d have punters being blown away in a gale force breeze outside Killorans all the way to Monks of Ballyvaughan.
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It could bring back the Warick and the Oasis in Salthill and revive the entire place. I was there on Sunday. It badly needs a facelift.
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Be like Venice beach of a Saturday night in February
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I want to see lads snorting lines in the toilets of The Office. That’s when I’ll know Salthill is back.
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Galway hurling up in a hape according to Brady on M&W podcasht.
Be great if Shocks could pull off a coup and get Donoghue or one of the management on the show.
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Brady took all of four seconds to have a right cut off the county board. He’s box office.
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Who was it he called soft? Was it cashel? I think it was.
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The 2026 split season would be finished by the time Shocks gets to the start of a question. He’d be able to put out a fire with his own spit that lad.
A massive blow to Woolie
Well he’s doing it and nobody else is.
How quickly we forget @peterswellman and the Beagh lad that sold his soul to work for Paddy Power. They walked so Shocks could run in the podcasht landscape.
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Who the fuck is the ‘The Toddler’ in Craughwell lads? 
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