King Henry of Galway (Part 1) 👑

Sport
7381

The position is a poisoned chalice. He deserves kudos for taking it on

7382

They need ogie to get in there and work some magic. As you say balls of steel needed as you are setting yourself up for derision.

We’ve never replaced Damien Howe really.

7383

Not much tbh. We were absolutely cruising and he tried to play it out when he should have flaked it into the stand or into orbit. We were guilty of overplaying it a bit on occasion elsewhere too, but he stood up, stopped some great ones, and had enough about him to catch a poorly hit penalty. Played well. Doesn’t put the fear of God into you under a high ball unlike most Galway keepers. I think he’s solid out.

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7384

I’d agree with that. It’s widely accepted in life that you learn by making mistakes. Sport is no different. The kid is just out of short pants, and I reckon he’s an excellent prospect. Cat-like reflexes and a bit of bad mind mixed in. That’ll do nicely.

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7385

It certainly will. His mistakes were after he had the ball in his hand, which is an easy fix.

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7386

I’d agree with persevering with him. They need to agree and work on a clear puck out strategy. It’s been easily pressured and fucked up and that can’t help confidence

7387

They’re only back at it. A young lad standing up to shots as he does is ingrained (edit so I can safely go east of the river should I ever actually want to) talent. You can’t teach that. You can work on puc outs and clearing the lines very easily.
That game wasn’t a normal game.

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7388

Harsh on Larkins

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7389

The puck outs fucked them in 2018, granted it was o neills first year but it’s a huge problem

7390

Didn’t see the game today so was worried about the howler, I think he could be our guy longterm, the puckouts aren’t his fault and he has a lot of traits you want in a keeper

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7391

Agreed sorting out the puck outs needs to be first thing on SONs to do list this year

7392

It wasn’t a massive howler it was just a slip he wasn’t soloing past the 45 or anything.

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7393

This is the best time of the season to make these mistakes too. I’ve seen enough good from Murphy so far too back him as first choice.

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They probably needlessly racked up 2-15 that they could have used more beneficially later on in the year.
It must have been the most error ridden radio commentary of all time. Some Kelly lassie was supplying the wisdom, she gave up correcting the naming errors after half-time.

Darren Frehill could be considered a wise old sage in comparison to today’s gimp (Martin?)

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Just watched it now, encouraging but Westmeath were shocking. Ja Mannion adds badly needed pace to the forward line, also good to see Conor Cooney regaining his confidence. Not just one but two mental mistakes from Murphy, can’t have that later in the year so hopefully can be sorted as he is good otherwise. Defense doesn’t look convincing, 3 and 6 still a worry but Daithi and P Mannion should resolve that.

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Galway football panel for the league named there on GBFM. No sign of Michael Daly. Had heard a rumour that he might have made himself unavailable. Some of the U-20’s called up.

Bernard Power
Conor Gleeson
Ronan O’Beolain
Jack Glynn
Sean Ó’Maolchiarain
Liam Silke
Gary O’Donnell
Dylan McHugh
Johnny Heaney
Johnny Duane
Cathal Sweeney
Sean Kelly
Kieran Molloy
Ciaran Potter
James Foley
Sean Andy O’Ceallaigh
Peter Cooke
Paul Conroy
Matthias BairĂŠad
Ronan Steede
Cein D’Arcy
Matthew Tierney
Paul Kelly
Eamonn Brannigan
Shane Walsh (C)
Damien Comer
Dessie Conneely
Robert Finnerty
Finnian O’Laoi
Rory Cunningham
Tomo Culhane
Padraig Costello
Liam Costello
Darragh Silke
Jack Keady
John Daly
Tom Flynn
Conor Campbell

Feeder Squad

Oran Burke
Cormac McWalter
Cian Monaghan
Evan Murphy
Patrick Kelly
Liam Boyle
Sean Fitzgerald
Colin Ryan
Antaine O’Laoi
Mike Farragher

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He wasn’t picked. Was dropped last year as far as I can remember… I could be weong

7398

Who, Mike Daly? He was definitely on the panel last year anyway. I don’t know if he was dropped or he made himself unavailable this year though.

7399

Have ye a goalie in there lads?

7400

It is my understanding that Michael Daly has opted out for the year. His brother is on the panel but GBFM are reporting that he is unavailable for the game against the yerras on Saturday.

A fit Michael Daly is definitely pushing for a starting spot, so he’ll be a loss.

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