Whatâs Laoisâ excuse? Fine spot in Portlaoise and no one to play in it.
Two trophies won this year pal and two more in the sights.
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Droves?
Just out of shot
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go games
Laois Laois! I meant go Laois
Are you on the spectrum?
Bsloe would be a perfect vinya.
Iâd agree, they should flog pearse stadium, and put the football in chume and the hurling in bsloe.
That would be like Cark moving PUC to Bantry. I know youâll talk about motorways etc. there should be more to a venue other than itâs suitable for cagers.
Why the GAA didnât approach Connacht rugby and the greyhound crowd, and look to use the Sportsgrounds as a venue, Iâll never know. I love Salthill, walking the prom is heaven. But the county ground is in the middle of an affluent housing estate. The traffic problems in Galway city are out of Galway GAAs control. But access to the stadium is within it. As @Cheasty said, an atmospheric ground in Athenry could work. We could make it our version of clones. Pretty central within the county as well. Although my preference would be to keep Galway teams playing in the Main population centre of the county.
Bsloe would be buzzing on big match day though. The sports ground would be a nightmare tbh. There is no parking, and the traffic would gridlock. Itâs bad enough with 4000 city folk on a wet Friday night. 15k traveling from across the county would be brutal.
Bsloe has a nice sized town, rail and bus links, parking and handy access.
And a lovely pitch.
The main population (Galway city) donât in general give a fcuk about GAA.
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Perhaps youâd know. Could we arrange a consultation?
What ails you is beyont my ken.
If Offaly donât get promoted this season, it would be logical to bring Galwayâs home championship games back to Tullamore.
#PromoteHurling
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The Galway county board should get onto the council in South Dublin and get the plans for Tallaght Stadium off them.
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are you sure now?
Itâs Ballinasloe ffs, itâs not fucking Australia youâre in.
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I lived there for a year. Itâs a great town.
Should the Wexford post mortem be held on the Wexford specific thread? Sure letâs talk here, if anyone cares. Would be keen to get views from folk who were at or saw both games in full. Iâm only basing it off match reports/chat, Buff Eganâs score highlights from the first game & GOGO TV for the second one (while my pub companion was distracting me with talk about Burnley outplaying ManU on an adjacent screen).
I thought we were really soft on Saturday when Antrim came back in the second half. I thought we got wiped out collectively from 5-12. Obviously one or two in that sector were okay but Antrim got well on top generally. I donât think the two Recks have been up to the usual standard so far, other defenders have struggled, midfield hasnât fired & weâve been one dimensional upfront. Got outworked & pushed around a bit physically.
We scored a couple of well worked points but Antrim seemed to allow the short puck out and we just kept lorrying it on top of Chin whether from Fanning after a one two or via a wing or corner back after receiving a 30 yard puck out from Fanning. Not much interplay at all, which David Frankâsâ sides would be associated with?
Donât think players could complain if wholesale changes are made. The likes of Donohoe, N Murphy. K Foley, Hearne, Dunbar & probably some others could be vulnerable. Morale must be terribly low after that & Iâd say weâre only a day or two from the âyou canât criticise these players, they are trying their bestâ stuff coming from Wexford GAA.
I didnât see the Galway-Kilkenny game but I heard Galway werenât that impressive. Theyâve lacked cohesion under Shefflin but they usually have sufficient individual talent & physicality/ball winning ability to overcome us. Given how weâve defended, any kind of wellied ball forward should cause serious consternation in our defence. A win would be massive for us & a right smack in the face forâŚCarlow ahead of our trip there.
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As you mentioned here over the weekend it would be a hilarious but utterly exasperating turn of events if we beat Galway, Carlow and Kilkenny only to lose out on a place in the Leinster final on scoring difference. Itâs not completely inconceivable as I donât think either Galway or Kilkenny are much more than 6 points superior to a full strength Wexford outfit.
The likelihood is that weâll need 5 points to take Dublin to a scoring difference decider. In that regard their relatively meagre 5 point victory against Carlow hasnât dampened our hopes too much. You could see them beating Antrim by about 7 points in Parnell Park before their positive scoring difference is whittled away in the two games against Kilkenny and Galway. We could even sneak 3rd with a relatively facile win against Carlow and a victory against a Kilkenny team operating at 70%. The extra week of recovery should allow us to be primed for action against a Carlow team whoâll have played Kilkenny on the weekend in between. That should reduce the chance of ambush unless they conserve energy in that with an eye at a tilt at Wexford instead. Iâd imagine theyâll have James Doyle back for our game. He was a big absentee for them on Saturday night when theyâre picking 10-11 starters from two clubs.
What changes are you suggesting to personnel for the Galway game? Liam Ryan will hopefully slot back in at full-back which perhaps ideally would see Simon Donohoe benched. But that seems unlikely when heâs vice-captain. Conor Devitt is back from injury so might put pressure on Niall Murphy for his spot but it would be drastic to catapult a player straight back into championship fare after a lay-off. A run off the bench more likely. Joe Oâ Connor is another option at corner-back but doesnât quite seem to have regained his standing in the pecking order since returning home from his travels. Jack Oâ Connor would surely be worth a shout in any rejig. His height alone could trouble Sean Linnane with aerial bombardment. Ideally in place of Dunbar. Neither Lawlor or Casey offered much off the bench on Saturday. Itâs a real pity that Dee Oâ Keefe and Connal Flood are still injured. Outside of that there might be some clamour for Duggan in place of Fanning but that would be fairly unlikely for such a huge championship game against Galway. Canât really see a bolter like Tucker Kinsella or Jack Doran. Mikey Dwyer will probably feel hard done by not to feature last Saturday.
So to summarise, Ryan back in at full-back with MOH out to the half-back line. Donohoe, Foley or N.Murphy the most likely casualty and Jack Oâ Connor for Dunbar. We havenât beaten Galway in championship since 1996 which is a fairly damning statistic. Hopefully weâre due one on the law of averages.
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