King Henry of Galway (Part 1) 👑

[carryharry]

The scoreline doesn’t help your argument in his defense.

Tipp 5-22 Galway 0-12

[iron_mike]

This smacks of Limerick 2010 if Galway arent careful it will take them 5 years to get over it. Galway at club level is a slaughterhouse anyway. The intercounty scene will fast become an abbatoir if its not sorted. Looking at it from the outside his position is untenable. Its a clusterfuck for Leinster too as between them Offaly, Wexford and Laois dont have 15 hurlers to challenge Kilkenny

[carryharry]

[iron_mike]

Im not defending him Harry. Just saying that after ye’re win the week before the whole county was on a high and there was no way ye were going to be denied. What was there that night 25k plus?

[carryharry]

@TheUlteriorMotive

how far are we away from a player manager in GAA - seems a natural evolution

The selector system is a joke - mostly there for the bus trips and a sop to clubs

You fucking goul.

[carryharry]

Tipp had home advantage granted, the County was on a high etc etc.

But a fairly well equipped Galway team lay down & took it up the hole without so much as a whimper. AC managed that team, he was responsible for the hammering that night. People bleated on about Galway fans leaving the team down by not travelling etc but that was bullshit. AC did not have his team prepared mentally & he gets cut a serious amount of slack for that result.

I have nothing against him, but as pointed out he stood standing as Callanan went to town in the Semi Final. In the second half of the AI he again did a wonderful impression of a dopey rabbit caught in headlights waiting to be mowed down. Also, people raved about Hartes father busting into the dressing room at HT which seems a wild story now. But the real story was taking the chap off so early when he was hurling ok.

[ironmoth]

Team is lacking leaders. The likes of Canning, Smith, Collins were all on the pitch when the tide started turning. I didn’t see any of them calling out orders to steady the ship.

[myboyblue]

@iron_mike

This smacks of Limerick 2010 if Galway arent careful it will take them 5 years to get over it. Galway at club level is a slaughterhouse anyway. The intercounty scene will fast become an abbatoir if its not sorted. Looking at it from the outside his position is untenable. Its a clusterfuck for Leinster too as between them Offaly, Wexford and Laois dont have 15 hurlers to challenge Kilkenny

Yes, and Munster is doing a fine job of challenging them too

[iron_mike]

Im not disagreeing with that either. The best 15 in Munster wouldnt stop them either

[Sidney]

@carryharry

Tipp had home advantage granted, the County was on a high etc etc.

That Tipperary team had two minor All-Irelands under its belt, six senior players who had beaten Kilkenny the previous week, another senior panellist, and James Barry and John O’Dwyer who would go on to become integral players at senior level. A once in a generation team, in other words. Had Brian Cody been managing Galway that night, they wouldn’t have got within an arse’s roar of Tipp.

You conveniently forget to mention Cunningham winning the same competition the next year.

[TheUlteriorMotive]

[caoimhaoin]

You were applauding posters recently for questioning me putting a large lump of blane at mayo managements door for the performances against the dubs.

Yet you are now blaming AC for everything?

You can’t have it each way fuckwit

[carryharry]

Blane? Fuckwit alright.

[caoimhaoin]

A fucking typo is all you have ffs.

Rattled to da max!!!

Pillock.

[carryharry]

Have i hurt your feelings? Can you not regale us of a tale of what someone close to the Galway setup really thinks? Give us an insight into what S&C can do for this Galway bunch.

[GeoffreyBoycott]

@Sidney

The evidence would firmly suggest that Cunningham was better placed to deliver an All-Ireland to Galway than anybody they’ll get in.

Well he’s had ample time, four years and he hasn’t delivered. He had two golden opportunities in 2012 against a Dad’s Army Kilkenny team on its last legs then this year against an average Kilkenny side and he couldn’t deliver. New man, new ideas needed.

[Sidney]

@GeoffreyBoycott

Public perception has nothing to do with it. Public perception wasn’t exactly behind the players in Kilkenny, Cork and Tipperary when they got rid of Kevin Fennelly in 1998, Bertie Og Murphy in 2002 and Babs in 2007 but their successors all delivered an Ireland fairly pronto.

Public perception was a large part of the reason Holmes and Connelly stepped down. Public perception in Cork was always behind the players in all three strikes. Public perception in Derry was behind Eamonn Coleman when the players went on strike over his sacking and was what forced Mickey Moran out after one year. Public perception was what kept Billy Morgan in a job in Cork in 1991 when Frank Murphy wanted him out.

The Babs and Fennelly examples are irrelevant.

@GeoffreyBoycott

Cunningham stood there like a statue for the second half of the All Ireland Final

Managers generally stand still on the sideline watching the play, as opposed to say, constantly doing a little dance on the spot. Have a look at both managers next time you’re at a match.

[carryharry]

@Sidney

Managers generally stand still on the sideline watching the play, as opposed to say, constantly doing a little dance on the spot. Have a look at both managers next time you’re at a match.

When you say generally, well…

[caoimhaoin]

From what i have seen more of the same.

Fans really are fucking eejits sometimes

[GeoffreyBoycott]

@Sidney

The Babs and Fennelly examples are irrelevant.

The view in Tipperary and Kilkenny was that Babs (2005-07), Fennelly 1998 weren’t up to delivering an All Ireland so they were promptly dispatched - in the case of Fennelly after delivering a Leinster title and an All Ireland final appearance. Most relevant examples.

@Sidney

Managers generally stand still on the sideline watching the play, as opposed to say, constantly doing a little dance on the spot. Have a look at both managers next time you’re at a match.

That’s lame.

What I said was Cunningham is passive and not reactive on the sideline.

@Sidney

That Tipperary team had two minor All-Irelands under its belt, six senior players who had beaten Kilkenny the previous week, another senior panellist, and James Barry and John O’Dwyer who would go on to become integral players at senior level. A once in a generation team, in other words.

The by now customary once in a decade Tipperary, All Ireland winning team.