They scored less than 5pts in a few games and 2pts in one game so was on the cards. Darcy a huge loss.
What happened with Glynn? He was playing for Cortoon most recently for some reason. I wouldnât say that went down well in Caherlistrane.
No idea to be honest. Think they lost another player to a Meath club too. They might struggle to come back upâŠ
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Intermediate is super competitive these days. Especially since they reduced the amount of senior clubs to 16. Very tough to get out of it.
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Iâd love to see Caltra or Glenamaddy pop up. Seems to be some positive stuff happening in both clubs this year.
Poor form from Jonathan to interfere with a Moycullen man sucking his own finger there.
I was listening to Bog 1 cc @Arthur yesterday and the reporter kept pronouncing them as Mo Cullen. Now Irish can be tricky to pronounce for some but Jesus Maigh Cuilunn should be pretty self explanatory.
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It was extremely annoying. The GBFM coverage of the games over the weekend was an utter disgrace. Commentary connection lines dropping every few minutes at all the games. Amateur hour.
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PĂĄdraic Joyce still having ânightmaresâ about Galwayâs All-Ireland defeat
Joyce admitted that if Galway had beaten Armagh, he would probably have stood down as manager.
REGRETS: Galway manager Padraic Joyce dejected at the final whistle of the 2024 All-Ireland SFC final against Armagh. Pic: ©INPHO/Laszlo Geczo
Tue, 15 Oct, 2024 - 06:00
John Fogarty
Itâs coming up on 80 days since the All-Ireland final but the pain hasnât eased for PĂĄdraic Joyce.
Soon after Galwayâs defeat to Armagh, he headed abroad for some headspace. To make some sense of what happened.
âItâs a sickener, thereâs no doubt about that. I still have nightmares about it. I said to the boys afterwards, weâll regret it probably until we take our last breath in this world. But we had a great chance.
âLook, hats off to Armagh. You canât deny they won the game. They came down with their game-plan. They won the game by a point. But if someone told me on the Sunday morning, Armagh would score 1-11 and beat you⊠all that kind of stuff.
âYou can look back at it any way you want. Itâs hard to look back at it. I havenât watched the game properly yet. Itâs just hard to bring myself down to see it. For the first couple of weeks after the match, youâre just keeping your head down, avoiding people. Itâs a lonely place to be, no doubt about it, but the buck stops with the manager at the end of the day. We understand that. Thereâs no question about that.
âGot away to Spain for a couple of weeks and walked the legs of myself out there trying to wonder where we went wrong. We werenât clinical enough on the day, we didnât score enough. Simple as that.
âWe missed 13 shots out of 26 shots. Itâs not good enough to win a game. Itâs something we had focused on during the year. The disappointing part for us as a group was, that was stuff we went after.â
Living in Straffan, Joyce avoided most of the post-mortem talk in Galway but he was given reports.
âYouâre not stuck in the middle of the pub talk down in Galway. You still hear everything back, though. Thereâs plenty of contacts there to tell you whatâs going on.
âWhen we took this job, we always said everyone was entitled to their opinion. What people say, they can say what they like. Deep down, I know myself where the group is going, where weâre at, where we need to go, where we need to get to.
âI think from where we were a couple of years ago to where we are now, I think weâre probably the top two or three teams in the country now. We just need to maintain that and get that level of consistency that finally gets us over the line.â
Connacht manager Padraic Joyce during the Allianz GAA Football Inter-Provincial Series Briefing at Croke Park in Dublin. Photo by David Fitzgerald/Sportsfile
And he will stoutly defend Galwayâs style in the final.
âWe got hugely criticised here for the way we played in the final in our own quarters in Galway, but there was no point kicking the ball into six Armagh fellas standing in front of Damien Comer.â
Coach Cian OâNeill may have switched to Kerry â Joyce had found his replacement and will announce him next month â but the playing group will remain intact. After giving a âhumongousâ year to Galway, All-Star cert Paul Conroy will play an 18th season. His and the enthusiasm of the panel convinced Joyce to stick around.
âI always meet them three or four weeks after the final. In fairness to the lads, there were 35 or 38 that showed up in the room. The three that werenât there, one got engaged and was away. Two lads were working.
âThereâs a huge kind of grĂĄ among the players to go back and go at it again straight away. That probably made up my mind as well about staying for another year with them. The lads are hurting. Weâre all hurting.â
Had Sam Maguire headed west, Joyce admits heâd likely be out the gap.
GOING AGAIN: Galway manager Padraic Joyce and Paul Conroy after the 2024 All-Ireland final against Armagh. Pic: ©INPHO/Laszlo Geczo
âIâd say so, to be honest. Iâd have been close enough, yeah. Iâd say if we got over the line, that could have been (it), yeah. I canât say for definite, but Iâd say Iâd be leaning towards that.â
I still have nightmares about him managing
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If he didnât win that one itâs hard to see him do it at this stage, especially with OâNeill gone.
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O Neill going would only be a good thing.
https://twitter.com/mcgann_gearoid/status/1846643769816588521
I believe this is the late Tonyâs son. Well, if it is the young lad is some footballer. Was absolutely outstanding for Oranmore Maree in beating Dunmore in the U19 A final tonight. Played midfield for Oranmore Maree and gave an exhibition. Big super athletic lad. Got man of the match. Oranmore Maree seem to have their act together finally and have the conveyer belt going in both codes.
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Was he on the minor hurling panel a couple of years ago? Remember him being young on that panel. He had a build like the father (RIP) but you could see that there was something to him. Didnât know that he played football.
When are Oran/Maree moving to Renville?
Think that might be the other brother but not 100% on that.
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Anthony is the older brother. Was a Galway 20 this year and a minor in previous years. Think he played Fitz for UL also.
Freshers
Could be on the Fitz this year. Apparently Shane McGrath has landed that job.
Oranmore are coming like a train in both codes.