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Mayo V Galway - 14 Like(s)
Well, sin sin. The soft early goal put us on the back foot straight away. The first half was a familiar sight unfortunately. Slow build-up and a complete lack of support any time we won a ball inside. We started to finally look like a better team when we went man for man and pushed up fully on their kickout.
We have no business in the last 8 this year, and it should be the catalyst for a change of the management team. The best of luck to Mayo in the Super 8s. They'll give Kerry a much better rattle than we would have at the moment.
On a separate note, I'm not one to usually call out players, but Cillian O'Connor was a shining example of so much that is wrong with the game today. He takes playacting to a level I haven't seen before, be it diving, faking getting hit and constantly trying to get his marker booked. I'm well aware that he's not unique in this regard, but the regularity of it is ridiculous in his case.
WanPintWin (National) - 06/07/2019 22:19:56
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Tyrone Vs Derry - 12 Like(s)
Replying To TheRock2121: "Tyrone proving last year was a fluke. Very poor stuff. Hard for them to win when they don't play against 14 men for an entire match or mess Kerry around with fixtures." I hate this revisionist nonsense. Today doesn't prove anything about last year's All-Ireland win, apart from the fact that they're well off the level they showed last August and September. It's not the first time it's happened to them the year after winning.
You don't beat Kerry after 90+ minutes of football by fluke. Neither do you outplay Mayo in a final by chance. Tyrone were a breath of fresh air in the latter stages of last year's championship. They were miles off that today.
WanPintWin (National) - 01/05/2022 20:44:09
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Cillian O'Connor Incident With Kieran Fitzgerald - 10 Like(s)
Replying To tommy132: "Why?" Because he has started to develop a habit of connecting them with opponents' heads.
WanPintWin (National) - 15/11/2019 21:36:54
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Why Do Some TV Channells In All Of Ireland Show More Or Why Do Some Show Less Gaa Games Than Others - 10 Like(s)
Tomsmith here
Tomsmith there
Tomsmith everywhere
WanPintWin (National) - 08/05/2023 11:35:36
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Stephen Cluxton 100 - 8 Like(s)
Replying To jimbodub: "I'll just leave this here to educate the ignorant/xenophobic amongst our numbers
Clifford
Name Meaning. English: habitational name from any of various places called Clifford, for example in Devon, Gloucestershire, West Yorkshire, and in particular Herefordshire. The place name is derived from Old English clif 'slope' + ford 'ford'.
Also..
Young = definitely English linked
Savage = definitely English linked
My sister recently sent a sample of our family DNA to that ancestry site. We had Nordic, Norman, Anglo-Saxon blood links on top of the obvious Irish ones.
It's what happens over millennia of war fare and invasion." Not forgetting Kerry greats Eoin Liston and Colm Cooper. Two fine English surnames.
WanPintWin (National) - 11/06/2019 22:30:04
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Dublin Knock Galway Out! - 8 Like(s)
Replying To Cockney_Cat: "Outplayed? You won by by 1 point against 14 men., then 13 men. Plus, only two minute played of the four added on time when Kilkenny had you on the rack!" Yes, outplayed. We dominated the majority of the game. It was by far our best performance of the year, but that isn't saying much as we've been very poor for large spells of the championship. There's nothing very lucky about scoring 3-17 from play spread among a large number of players. We also created a number of other goal chances and as was mentioned, left a lot of frees behind us.
I'll ask you again. What was nonsense about his post?
WanPintWin (National) - 15/06/2019 22:27:19
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NFL Division 1 - 8 Like(s)
Replying To yew_tree: "A player who gets the bin can not come back on until there's is a break in play...if that means he is off for over 10 mins then you have to wait...rules are clear..." Except there were 3 stoppages in play after the 10 minutes had elapsed. 2 of them were Galway kickouts during which the sideline were trying to get McDaid back on to the pitch, but the ref didn't allow it. Kerry got their winning point after the first of these, when we should have been back to 15.
I'm a fan of the sin-bin as it's a proper punishment for cynical play. However, the GAA need to make sure it's implemented properly or it will give the naysayers plenty ammunition to get rid of it.
WanPintWin (National) - 03/02/2020 22:00:29
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U20 Football Championship 2020 - 7 Like(s)
Replying To panamasam: "So another Leinster for Dublin. The months training and insistence (cause they can afford to) on keeping their under twenties away from the senior set up had paid dividend again. Way to go GAA and ur poxy rule changes. Big help to those trying to close gap." Give it a rest for a while will you. Every time Dublin win, it's the GAA's fault. How about giving a bit of credit to all the lads who've put in a massive effort and played a very positive game last night.
How many of Laois's players have played senior this year? That's the reason they lost is it?
U20/U21 is actually the most competitive grade in male intercounty GAA. Kildare are the last Leinster team to win an All-Ireland at this grade. Cork hammered Dublin in last year's final. Kerry look very strong this year. We have two very talented teams going at it in Connacht this year.
WanPintWin (National) - 07/03/2020 09:17:49
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Jim Gavin Steps Down - 7 Like(s)
Replying To Ulsterman: "Dublin under Gavin were a very decent team. Well organised, fit and enthusiastic. Dublin will always have strength in numbers, the finance, structures, facilities and media backing. However it doesn't really who the Dublin manager is. He can't ever lose." "Well organised, fit and enthusiastic" is what I'd use to describe the better junior club teams in Galway, not 5-in-a-row senior intercounty All-Ireland champions. Dublin are the best footballing team in the country and have been for quite a while now. Gavin deserves immense credit for what he has achieved and how he has developed so many players.
WanPintWin (National) - 30/11/2019 20:08:51
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All Ireland Club Semi Finals. - 7 Like(s)
Replying To BarneyGrant: "Sad old obsessive arrives.... If the Glen people thought like yourself they'd be all still in pub whinging instead of preparing for a final.
Great game. Good comeback by Crokes but Glen kept their heads to get the vital score. I assume goalman had abandoned the line to take part in what was last throw of dice." It was refreshing listening to the players and managers from both teams before and after the game. No cribbing about anything from last year or today's game. Glen said Crokes were the better team last year and Crokes said likewise today.
There's a few on here who could learn a bit from them.
WanPintWin (National) - 07/01/2024 18:08:18
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Sligo GAA thread - 7 Like(s)
I have to say I feel sorry for the keeper. Those two kickouts in a row costing 1-01, after Sligo had closed the gap to 2.
You could see from the camera behind the goal that he had no options. I was shouting for him to go long. I thought he would for sure after the mistake for the 1st one.
Just ran out of gas at the end as the injury count took its toll. That's also a super Kildare team.
Well done to all. It's great to see final pairings like today.
WanPintWin (National) - 13/05/2023 22:02:34
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Galway Football thread - 7 Like(s)
Replying To brisbane: "Think he played for Connacht rugby as a 2. Anyone else notice Joyce and Cian O'Neill have never spoken on the side-line as far as i can see." What's with strange comments like this?
There's literally a half-page size picture in this week's Tribune of them in conversation during the Roscommon match.
How would you even notice something like that, given that the camera is on the action 99% of the time?
Thankfully we're back to unrestricted attendances now, so we'll hopefully have a decent crowd in Salthill for the Meath game next weekend. One can even spend the entire game watching Joyce and O'Neill, and keep check on how often they speak to each other, if that's what interests them.
Looking forward to getting back to more normal games. This team needs plenty matches.
WanPintWin (National) - 23/01/2022 19:03:05
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Who Goes Down - Donegal Or Mayo? - 6 Like(s)
A very exciting finish and it keeps Mayo's great division 1 record alive. I'd have a soft spot for both teams, Donegal historically and this current Mayo group, so I'm sorry to see one of them go down.
However, we saw a situation at the end which is becoming all too common in tight games these days.
There was 30 seconds left on the clock when McLoughlin scored and Donegal tried to take a quick kickout. Lads were pulled and dragged forcing the ref to stop the game. As soon it resumed, he blew whistle on the kickout which seemed pretty unfair. It essentially rewarded the cynical play.
This isn't a dig at Mayo. They were the victims of it in last year's All Ireland and I'm sure my own team would do it if in the same position.
There's no rule in the book currently which is sufficient to deal with this. Many have suggested an automatic 14 yard free. I'd tend to agree at this stage.
WanPintWin (National) - 25/03/2018 17:00:16
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Galway Football thread - 6 Like(s)
Replying To Sportsfanatic90: "Even if he transferred to aran he wouldn't be able to stop them bottling the intermediate championship at semi final stage, they've been doing that for the last 10 years" Not the first time you've made this dig. A very small-minded attitude.
For a club which doesn't have the numbers to field at underage and has obviously all the issues of getting lads together, what they've achieved over the last decade has been brilliant.
You're talking as if they're some powerhouse club serially underachieving. Oileáin Árann have done brilliantly to be competing at the latter stages of the Intermediate championship. They've been doing better than plenty clubs with far greater resources.
WanPintWin (National) - 20/08/2023 15:09:32
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Galway Hurling thread - 6 Like(s)
Replying To Kinvara: "It's ridiculous. The top 8 Intermediate teams should be reclassified with the Senior B teams as the Intermediate championship. The rest should drop to Junior and get over the label" Agree 100%. The current setup prevents Mullagh who are our 2nd tier winners, from having a crack at an Intermediate All-Ireland. We're sending our 25th team into that competition, while Kilkenny send their 13th.
WanPintWin (National) - 21/11/2023 17:15:43
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Something To Do Over The Christmas Break... - 6 Like(s)
Replying To jimbodub: "Didn't take long....." Give it a rest, good man. Some aren't happy til every thread is drawn into page after page of Dublin vs Kerry pettiness. It's extremely boring. You've pretty much thrown this one on the same course with the 3rd post of the thread. Leave it at that.
On the topic:
Connacht: I'll have to go for Galway, but to be honest any of Mayo, Roscommon and ourselves can beat the other on a given day.
Leinster: The Dubs all day, but it'll be interesting to see what Jack O'Connor does with Kildare. Meath will he looking to push on from last year too.
Munster: Kerry comfortably enough. Cork definitely have potential and are very exciting, but they have a long way to go to yet.
Ulster: Hard to call like Connacht, but I'll go for Donegal. They could just as easily be out early though, given the quarter final draw against Tyrone.
All-Ireland: Dublin. They're still the team to beat and have most of the core of their team in their prime. The best team I've seen in my lifetime, without a doubt. I think they'll do the 6.
WanPintWin (National) - 21/12/2019 14:17:42
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Kerry V Galway - 6 Like(s)
Replying To Mayonman: "Do the red thumbs mean stupid question or no he wasn't!" There's at least one red-thumb bandit on the loose. Posts as controversial as "good luck to Oughterard" or "congrats to Corofin" get the thumbs-down treatment. At least you know someone's gone through the effort of acknowledging a post, which is always nice.
WanPintWin (Galway) - 30/01/2020 13:29:43
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Cluxton Back! - 5 Like(s)
Replying To Neartheborder: "We all thought Cluxton was the kind of man who didn't like the limelight, how things have changed. Pat is right, if Derry or any other team brought back a man of 41 they'd be laughed at." Unfortunately we don't have any 41 year-olds with 8 All-Irelands in Galway. If we did, we might be asking them for help too.
WanPintWin (National) - 04/04/2023 18:04:59
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Dubs V Mayo - 5 Like(s)
Replying To TrueBlue35: "In last year's county final Small nailed Keaney with a very similar hit, no free, no injury and the pic of it actually goes on to win awards! Keaney because he is a unit was able to absorb the hit, get up and play on. The injury to McLoughlin is of course very unfortunate and I wish him the best in his recovery but these things happen from time to time in sport. If it wasn't John Small involved there would be such bluster about it since the game." I watched that county final. The big difference is that the Keaney hit was a clean shoulder to shoulder. There was no broken jaw from it.
In saying that, I do believe that Small was attempting the same hit. McLaughlin was wide open for the hit and most players would go for it.
He mistimed it a bit and caught McLaughlin high. I don't think that was intentional, but it did happen. When going for a big hit like that at such speed, it's always a risk.
It was very hard to tell in real time if the hit was fair or not, but the big failing on Lane's part was not stopping the game. The way McLaughlin fell, it was clear he was out of it.
I do also agree with the points made that the same has happened to other players without the outcry and the fact that it was Small is adding fuel to the debate. There have been elbows swung at players' jaws with genuine malice that didn't get anywhere near as much coverage.
WanPintWin (National) - 16/08/2021 10:20:54
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Dickie Murphy Interview - 5 Like(s)
Replying To LS: "The Rapparees man took charge of four senior All-Ireland finals as well as many high profile games, he played club hurling with his local club, he was a substitute on the team which won its only senior county title in 1978, he lined out for the minor county team in the late 70's and more recently he is one of the men behind "Hawkeye".
link" WanPintWin (National) - 19/12/2019 22:17:01
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