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Replying To KingdomBoy1: "I doubt that very much, as we played pure muck against Galway and you can see the way we slated our own team on here and on our own page after the game." He played as good as he were let us had a soft Munster championship and it done ye no favours against us. bud14 (Galway) - Posts: 296 - 24/07/2018 16:35:02 2125792 Link
Replying To DragHimDown: "I just wonder is the Galway management gonna make the right decision in resting players. I think Galway would have a serious chance against Dublin in the semifinal and is it really worth risking players with two really tough games against northern teams." Some serious desperation posts by you today. 1 claiming Kerry folk have a problem with Galway trying to influence Galways opinion of us and therefore the approach to your game. 2 Now hoping they'll rest players.. my god lad that's fairly desperate. westkerry (Kerry) - Posts: 1250 - 24/07/2018 16:42:06 2125797 Link
Replying To westkerry: "Some serious desperation posts by you today. 1 claiming Kerry folk have a problem with Galway trying to influence Galways opinion of us and therefore the approach to your game. 2 Now hoping they'll rest players.. my god lad that's fairly desperate." I know the Galway players would give Kerry a stronger chance of beating the Dubs so Galway will go all out to beat Monaghan. BYW your posts are rubbish Belclare1 (Galway) - Posts: 1626 - 24/07/2018 18:02:31 2125826 Link
Replying To Belclare1: "I know the Galway players would give Kerry a stronger chance of beating the Dubs so Galway will go all out to beat Monaghan. BYW your posts are rubbish" Not in it for likes thanks for the critique though. westkerry (Kerry) - Posts: 1250 - 24/07/2018 18:40:27 2125841 Link
Replying To shaggylegend: "Galway have played 5 games in the championship and indeed against ourselves in the league were a red card for the opposition has benefited Galway. O'Conner vs Mayo, Young vs Kerry and Flynn vs Kildare. All games were in the balance when the dismissals occurred. So Monaghan must keep 15 on the field Saturday week." No mention that we coughed up 3 goal chances against the Lillies and had a goal disallowed where the minimum given typically would be a free in as Damien Comer was clearly fouled before his alleged too many steps. Against Kerry while we were very average we had 13 sides many of which were scorable. An extra man only works I guess if used widely as you often see 14 guys redoubling their efforts. Without being defensive I note some commentary on has been that in some matches it has being more a case of the opposition losing it rather than us winning it. Will be interesting to see how season finishes but definitely we are force to be reckoned with. kiloughter (Galway) - Posts: 1973 - 24/07/2018 18:50:28 2125846 Link
Replying To westkerry: "Some serious desperation posts by you today. 1 claiming Kerry folk have a problem with Galway trying to influence Galways opinion of us and therefore the approach to your game. 2 Now hoping they'll rest players.. my god lad that's fairly desperate." We are in no desperate situation unlike some team....Monaghan have a chance to top the group or come second and finish the job from Sunday and send Kerry to bring home the turf. We are not relying on other teams for survival. DragHimDown (Monaghan) - Posts: 73 - 24/07/2018 20:15:11 2125874 Link
Difficult one to call this one as both teams of similar ability & both fighting to salvage something & save face. However with the absence of Flynn, Kerry will probably shade it. greysoil (Monaghan) - Posts: 965 - 24/07/2018 20:23:24 2125880 Link
Replying To DragHimDown: "I just wonder is the Galway management gonna make the right decision in resting players. I think Galway would have a serious chance against Dublin in the semifinal and is it really worth risking players with two really tough games against northern teams." Nice try ! Shelbourne (Monaghan) - Posts: 567 - 24/07/2018 20:31:20 2125882 Link
Replying To greysoil: "Difficult one to call this one as both teams of similar ability & both fighting to salvage something & save face. However with the absence of Flynn, Kerry will probably shade it." Mixed up in my fora! greysoil (Monaghan) - Posts: 965 - 24/07/2018 20:42:02 2125883 Link
It's difficult to imagine the Kildare footballers being able to motivate themselves to put everything on the line against Kerry, now that they are out of the c'ship. O'Neill may even give his fringe players a game here. Galway will also be in a bit of a quandry. They want to top the group and so avoid Dublin but players will be conscious that any kind of injury picked up here will knock them out of a semi-final place and this may impact slightly on their commitment. A draw would suit both teams and that, I think, will be the outcome. neverright (Roscommon) - Posts: 1648 - 24/07/2018 20:56:13 2125892 Link
There is no doubting Galway's talent and with home advantage would normally be slight favourites, but, Monaghan will be hurting and need a result or it's our last game. If we can keep our intensity levels up for the entire match (Malone must start after last week) we will top the group mhunicean_abu (Monaghan) - Posts: 1066 - 24/07/2018 21:07:18 2125895 Link
Replying To mhunicean_abu: "There is no doubting Galway's talent and with home advantage would normally be slight favourites, but, Monaghan will be hurting and need a result or it's our last game. If we can keep our intensity levels up for the entire match (Malone must start after last week) we will top the group" If fit Malone must start every game for Monaghan ! Shelbourne (Monaghan) - Posts: 567 - 24/07/2018 21:19:11 2125903 Link
Replying To bud14: "He played as good as he were let us had a soft Munster championship and it done ye no favours against us." Soft Munster championship probably didn't help us but in Fairness we came up against two very talented and well organized football teams in Galway and Monaghan and we just weren't good enough end of story, Would I like us to get through to the semifinal? I don't know, of course I want us to get as far as possible, but I'm not enjoying watching our team at the moment bar the young fellas who haven't left us down, but in fairness we have no business going up against the dubs at this stage as we'd be hammered and we could do without that. KingdomBoy1 (Kerry) - Posts: 14092 - 24/07/2018 22:09:27 2125923 Link
Replying To westkerry: "Not in it for likes thanks for the critique though." Apologies i meant that other mush from Monaghan not yourself.. Belclare1 (Galway) - Posts: 1626 - 24/07/2018 22:58:30 2125945 Link
Replying To Belclare1: "Apologies i meant that other mush from Monaghan not yourself.." Cheers man, appreciate that. westkerry (Kerry) - Posts: 1250 - 25/07/2018 01:02:31 2125980 Link
Replying To westkerry: "Cheers man, appreciate that." Lads the reality of it is that it's great as a Monaghan man to be on this forum with a chance of reaching a semi final place. We have a fantastic team with some of the best players in the country. These days are like hens teeth to us. It's probably a once in a lifetime opportunity to see a Monaghan team fulfill our potential after a few near misses over the decades. Both Kerry and Galway are fantastic teams and as I said earlier it's just brilliant to be among them with a bite at a big one. HON THE FARNEY DragHimDown (Monaghan) - Posts: 73 - 25/07/2018 10:04:55 2126004 Link
It's a strange place to find ourselves ... unbeaten in S8, in our own hands and the opportunity (2nd opportunity) to take Kerry out ... and avoid Dublin. Monaghan would have taken that in a heartbeat at start of year. The pain of minute 74 is fading thankfully. Had we qualified you'd have had two teams with an eye on the semi playing to avoid Dublin. From what I can gather, Galway are hoping / expecting to win Sam. Monaghan's goal is to make a semi ... but a semi for us against Dublin might as well be a quarter in my opinion. They have our number. Getting to a final would be of the scales for Monaghan. And that's possible against Tyrone / Donegal. So they now have no choice but to throw absolutely everything at Galway and go for the win so there's no uncertainty going into the game. There has to be some level of uncertainty for Galway. Obviously they'll be trying to win the game but they could play their first 15 ... take a chance on playing lads with niggles .... go through a hard 73 mins against the Coreys of this world ... lose by a point ... and play Dublin Sat night after Dublin's reserves training match against Roscommon. As I say... tricky one. Think Monaghan will win this game. Provided Galway don't face 14 men again as they did against Mon in league, Mayo, Kerry & Kildare. Quite a bit of luck there. Losing Conroy very bad luck mind. Wish him well. Mon79 (Monaghan) - Posts: 81 - 25/07/2018 11:39:43 2126040 Link
Galway won't risk any lads with knocks in this game. In fact I don't think Galway will play their full team. I can see a few usual starters being left on the bench. Marooned (Galway) - Posts: 2377 - 25/07/2018 13:53:54 2126096 Link
Replying To Mon79: "It's a strange place to find ourselves ... unbeaten in S8, in our own hands and the opportunity (2nd opportunity) to take Kerry out ... and avoid Dublin. Monaghan would have taken that in a heartbeat at start of year. The pain of minute 74 is fading thankfully. Had we qualified you'd have had two teams with an eye on the semi playing to avoid Dublin. From what I can gather, Galway are hoping / expecting to win Sam. Monaghan's goal is to make a semi ... but a semi for us against Dublin might as well be a quarter in my opinion. They have our number. Getting to a final would be of the scales for Monaghan. And that's possible against Tyrone / Donegal. So they now have no choice but to throw absolutely everything at Galway and go for the win so there's no uncertainty going into the game. There has to be some level of uncertainty for Galway. Obviously they'll be trying to win the game but they could play their first 15 ... take a chance on playing lads with niggles .... go through a hard 73 mins against the Coreys of this world ... lose by a point ... and play Dublin Sat night after Dublin's reserves training match against Roscommon. As I say... tricky one. Think Monaghan will win this game. Provided Galway don't face 14 men again as they did against Mon in league, Mayo, Kerry & Kildare. Quite a bit of luck there. Losing Conroy very bad luck mind. Wish him well." I don't know a single Galway supporter who is "hoping/expecting" to win Sam this year. While we're delighted that the team is clearly showing potential to be one of the top teams in the country, I don't think any of us are looking past the next game be it against Tyrone, Donegal, or GULP Dublin. festinog (Galway) - Posts: 3143 - 25/07/2018 22:40:10 2126277 Link
Replying To Marooned: "Galway won't risk any lads with knocks in this game. In fact I don't think Galway will play their full team. I can see a few usual starters being left on the bench." My team would be: Lavelle Wynne Kyne Kerin Molloy Bradshaw O'Donnell Cooke Flynn Varley Walsh Kelly Cummins Comer/McHugh Armstrong Charlie (Kerry) - Posts: 513 - 25/07/2018 22:52:36 2126284 Link