Someone proabably said it a few posts up now. I thought I heard Skehill or somone on Woolies podcast mention it.
He had another brother was twice as good only he couldnât stay away from the drink.
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Tommy Walsh might have mentioned it once or fifteen times on co-comms
ah right. I was in and out of it.
Tommy - heâs playing the Peter Casey role, the Kyle Hayes role, the Gearoid Hegarty roleâŚ
He never has a bad word to say about anyone though. Heâd cheer you up on a wet afternoon.
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I got a great lift when I heard Tommy on the mic. Heâs already a giant in commentating.
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Why donât they rotate the games in the Leinster Round Robin every year like they do in Munster? Same order now in Leinster, I think in each of the 4 years. Itâs a schedule that most favours Kilkenny too.
Wexford play Galway early in both league championship.
The last 4 games between them have been 4 of the most miserable encounters of my spectating career.
2 in Wexford and 2 in Galway.
Dublin will be rueing that result in Corrigan Park earlier. If they had lost they would have been as good as eliminated from the championship. Clearly they are in transition but still youâd expect them to win by 3 or 4 points anyway even allowing for Antrims home advantage. Even with 1 point they are still in a precarious enough position. No room for error really. By all accounts Antrim were robbed with concession of that last minute free. 1 or 2 savy pundits seem to have taken a flyer on Antrim being one of 3 teams to come out of Leinster. A win today would have made that a live possibility.
Wexford seemed to get off to a very fast start but played very deep and positioning of Rory O Connor is mind boggling. It will probably be a horses for courses thing with Egan setting up differently with various personnel changes given level of opposition. If Chin and Reck were anyway dodgy today there was no point shooting their bolt at this juncture with more winneable assignments ahead of them. Itâll all hinge on Dublin game and even Kilkenny game on last day might be no forelorn hope either if they can get over a 1 or 2 potential banana skins. Their new goalie was good. Galway were in 2nd gear and look the best placed to have a crack off Limerick. They have physicality and will be able to trade scores at a greater clip and greater spread of scorers than other contenders.
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Heâs useless. Shiteing on about the great work of some club for 40 seconds when thereâs a match going on.
It sounds like this game tonight didnt do much for the split season, behind a paywall, blitz type format.
No championship carnival atmosphere.
Hard to disagree with that. Galway have been very queit. They did what they had to today. That being said, they looked like they theyâve been concentrating more on the physical rather than the hurling
Dire league standard stuff. Kinnerk will have a job preparing for that game âplanâ.
Hey @croppy_boy remember back on the farm when I stated the reason Wexford had a good record against galway was galway only played good Wexford teams in semis, if we played each other regularly weâd be on top. Your opinion was that galway would never beat Wexford. Howâs that working out bud?
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You drunk?
I wish
He took fair punishment from Wexford today. He always seemed to be in the wars or on the receiving end of a hearty challenge.
I know the losses of Chin & Reck were huge for Wexford but it must still have been frustrating for them to fall away badly in the second half, having put themselves in a decent position in the first half. They had a really good start and I think there may have been more goals there for Wexford if they had committed more bodies forward.
Hurling is a momentum game, it really is, and that missed penalty was huge. A goal at that point probably would have kept Wexford in touch but, at the same time, I was baffled by the negative tactics of Egan. OâKeeffe had played well as the sweeper, but I could not understand pulling Rory OâConnor back into his own half-back line when they were desperate for scores. He had set up the first goal through great work rate and while he wasnât at his best, he was at least keeping the Galway backs honest, himself & Grealish had a great oul tussle.
When you play with less bodies up front, the players you have up there have to be able to score & work. And then Wexford were playing shitty ball into their own forwards too. It just seemed a weird move to make; if anything, they should have pushed on and gambled because when they ran at Galway and had support runners, they did open them up but too often, the player was isolated and eventually got turned over.
Liam Ăg McGovern was probably Wexfordâs best player. I thought Diarmuid OâKeeffe did well while he was on the pitch. Conor Devitt did well. Shane Reck really struggled with Niland. Other players like McGuckian, Foley, Hearne, OâConnor, Dunbar worked hard but didnât have a huge amount of joy.
For Galway, theyâll be relatively happy. The two goals in the first half were poor to concede but they bounced back well, never really panicked and had the firepower in the second half when conditions were with them. As I said already, never seen Niland play as well as that, thatâll be encouraging. Whelan gets a lot of attention as youâd expect. Kevin Cooney went on a couple of good runs but was quiet enough other than that. Still think they need better than Conor Cooney.
The backs were relatively comfortable, GMac & McDonald had a good battle as did Grealish & ROC. I still think Cathal Mannion is playing too deep, much like the OâConnor thing, I think he needs to be in a position where he can regularly trouble the scoreboard; even a more advanced midfield position.
Galway did what they had to do.
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i think its fair to say that Dublin will never be a shinty county
Worth throwing another few million at it all the same