I was starting to get excited, burkes , linnanes, McInerney , all that’s missing is a Connolly
Lynskey never bred as far as I know and we are at nothing without a bleeder.
Have you your latest hurling yet KP? Never too early
According to an article I read here about Dan Martin you need to concentrate breeding through maternal lines for the mitochondrial DNA.
Was jeffrey Lynskey Brendan’s son?
No…he never married AFAIK
No FP, Jeff is a city lad, Lynskey was from Eyrecourt, though he seems to reside in Barbados a lot these days.
McIntyre was sticking the boot in, in his article in the sentinel a bit excessively so for a Walsh cup game. I’m sure he’ll have plenty more opportunities throughout the year. But it looks like he’s not going to miss any chance to grind his axe.
He is a complete and utter dickhead.
Galway beat Clare 1-23 to 1-16 in a challenge match Sunday morning in LIT
any idea on line ups ?
[quote=“Kinvara’s Passion, post: 899118, member: 686”]Galway beat Clare 1-23 to 1-16 in a challenge match Sunday morning in LIT
any idea on line ups ?[/quote]
Clare were missing the Collins brothers and their UL contingent. 8 or 9 of the team that started the A/I final started I believe
[quote=“Kinvara’s Passion, post: 899118, member: 686”]Galway beat Clare 1-23 to 1-16 in a challenge match Sunday morning in LIT
any idea on line ups ?[/quote]
Galway were missing Glynn, kavanagh and the portumna lads. Niall Healy played at 11 and did damage, a lot of positional switches for Ye but largely the same players.
Thanks.
Kavanagh is on recovery at the minute and wont be featuring in the short term.
The biggest challenge these weekends is getting a dry pitch to train on. I believe Galway had to revert to a pitch outside the county this week for training 
Fair fucks to Portumna today, a thoroughly professional job, in shocking conditions, if ever there was one. Ollie has them well tuned and hurling to something like their very best again. They’ll improve again for hitting the turf at Croker and much and all as we’d all enjoy seeing a crowd like Mountleinster reach the summit, I think Portumna will absolutely annihilate them.
In the football Donegal could wallop us if we’re not careful. Their unchanged from their mauling of Laois
Paul Durcan; Karl Lacey, Neil McGee, Ryan McHugh; Frank McGlynn, Leo McLoone, Anthony Thompson; Rory Kavanagh, Martin McElhinney; Mark McHugh, Christy Toye, Odhran Mac Niallais; Colm McFadden, Michael Murphy, Dermot Molloy.
as are we from our feeble 2nd half collapse in Navan
Galway (SF v Donegal): Manus Breathnach; Donal O’Neill, Finian Hanley, Johnny Duane; Paul Varley, Joss Moore, Sean Denvir; Greg Higgins, Fiontan O Curraoin; Gary Sice, Sean Armstrong, Paul Conroy; Shane Walsh, Michael Martin, James Kavanagh.
Why Tom Flynn isn’t starting a mystery to me, especially as it’s Greg Higgens who’s in the position instead. McGuinness means business in the League this year so I’d say we’ll go along in hope more than expectation. We showed flashes of being a proper team again against Cork last year and against Meath last week in the first half. Tomorrow will give supporters a chance to assess roughly where we’re really at so please God they put in a performance at the very least.
Greg Higgins :rolleyes:
Tomorrow is a no hoper id say, beating laois and one of down, armagh or louth is needed to stay up, no guarantee this will happen.
Portumna were effective but were helped by the weather, a rock hard pitch would have favoured nap massively. Portumna have plenty of smarts and still a few top class players but this certainly looks like their last hurrah. Too many miles on the clock, they look like the athenry team that birr finished in ennis years ago. But mlr are no birr, they have no great speed to exploit croker and dont look like they will score enough, dolphin is not commanding enough i think though and relied on few frees to bail him out today, damien made terrible choices. 4 all Irelands would still be a mighty achievement, but i cant see them going back to the well after this even in the county.
Galway trailing Donegal by 3 points, 1-04 to 0-04 in the first half, Galway playing with the wind, Finian Hanley gone off injured, poor performance by all accounts.
Donegal lead 1-06 to 0-04 at h/t in Pearse Stadium. Listless performance from Galway, completely lacking intensity or purpose, and resigned to defeat before the game began it would appear.
Good start to the second half by Galway, points by Concannon (2) and Sice leave it 1-07 to 0-07
1-09 to 0-08 now, Concannon with another
1-11 to 0-09 Paul Conroy with a point.