Galway’s results at U20 level have been brutal since entering Leinster.
That’s one of the great mysteries to be honest.
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Truly minor all Irelands are a blessing and a curse. It’s so far removed, especially u17 from senior hurling it’s almost a different sport. It creates notions, it depletes hunger when a kid already thinks he’s top of the mountain when in reality he’s at base camp. There’s a lot of factors in Galway, other sports to a degree, big history of emigration, club before county so on. But a huge part is player selection, just picking the right sort. I think MOD went back in because he loves Galway hurling but also because he saw there’s some dingers of forwards coming through, Rabbitte, Niland, Burke the main three, and he wanted to be there to develop them, not see them fall through the cracks like so many.
We have learned this the hard way too.
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Galway are very quick to throw lads on the scrapheap if they aren’t to the manor born at Senior level. Tipp are similar in that regard.
Galway supporters are absolutely ruthless too. The abuse the likes of Cooney and Flynn got over the years was nothing short of scandalous.
Thats playground stuff compared to what’s been said to players from the sidelines and stands in club games over the years. Insane stuff about family etc. It’s a big reason that Galway is always an honor but never the main event for most lads, that’s club.
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An elderly Galway man once told me the biggest reason for the nastiness with hurling in the county was that most of it was in east Galway and he reckoned “where you get bad land ,you get bad people”. 
Nah, sure the land isnt good in north Galway, mayo, Donegal, Sligo and many other places and they are the grandest. I think it goes back to no external regular enemy so the tribalism was internal
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East Galway is only trotting after South Galway when it comes to badmind.
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I’d love to defend SON as a Limerick man. But I thought his NAP team this year were awfully setup. They won the county by the sheer quality of the players and Boylan with a miracle catch to get them to ET where Doon gassed.
Before that they spent the whole game leathering the puckouts down on doons sweeper. And then proceeded to do the same Vs Ballygunnar.
They have 15 lads who played county at minor minimum. Probably 20 lads. 6 or 7 who played senior intercounty.
I would think SON has no where near got the potential out of them. And that’s club
Sure on the Galway hurling forum they are already arguing over which young lads are getting picked and from what clubs they come from. And we haven’t even pucked a ball in anger yet. We’re some crowd to start a row. Would drive ya mad.
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We’ve gone utterly soft if we’re having woke types admonishing past abuse towards Tony Óg Regan, “Wideball” Conor Cooney or our lineage of bombscare goalies.
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I’d say it’s happening all over
Certainly in Cork there was a lot of such for a while
I reckon it’s needed for us anyways,
And probably good fir all.
It’s all relative in Galway hurling. We’ve never been at the top table despite what people people inside the county think. First division club. Second division county. I love us being unpredictable with touches of madness and greatness, but failure is the default setting really.
Cyril roaring out the national anthem on Clubber. Absolutely top tier broadcasting.
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Why is the 2nd half not been shown on clubber?
Are ya watching on Clubber proper or via dodgybox? They appeared to have done it deliberately seemingly to dodgybox but I’m having no issue off me clubber account.
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I heard that earlier. 
He has some voice.
Galway’s early season work paying off. Some paddling. Offaly lads going down with cramp.
Didn’t realise James McGrath was still whistling.
Himself and Barry Kelly walked so Caymon Flynn could run.
Iconic!
Tom Monaghan who played in the 2017 Leinster final is young 