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Replying To BliainanÁir: "In a week where abuse of players, managers and officials is being highlighted I better phrase this properly.. Do posters, Galway in particular feel Kevin Walsh is in the top tier of managers? I remember Eamonn O'Hara offering a stinging critique of his skills with Sligo a few years back. Personally I don't think he is and more than anything that's holding Galway back." He's not perfect, I wish he was a bit more adventerous but I'm not managing 30 odd players. Consider where we were in Jan 15 to now and he absolutely say yes. He had over 50 players refuse him, including 3 Corofin all ireland winners this year. Hes got us to D1, first victory over Kerry since 65, first semi since he played in 01. Hes my man for the next 3 years at least, unless, and this is what I say to everyone berating him, WHO IS BETTER? Remember this fact, he's not Eamonn Fitzmaurice, he's not out of the championship. We have not lost to yet, and I still personally think we will not lose to Dublin this weekend. If he wins an All Ireland, is he still holding Galway back? Look, he had great experience with Sligo now Galway. He is the man. I think the O Hara comments were a little personal as he wouldn't facilitate him coming back later in the year. What have Sligo done since he left? Haven't got within a penalty of beating Kerry or a point of a Connacht title that is for sure. Also the last time Galway got hockeyed in pearse stadium v the rossies in 17, we a fortnight later beat Donegal by 15. Why the doom and gloom? All the so called experts like the Ó Sé brothers, Ó Cinnéide, are saying because Galway lost a meaningless match, they have no hope of turning it around when this team has a history of doing so. Give Kevin a chance, "rumours of our demise are greatly exaggerated."OW. galwaydublin (Galway) - Posts: 226 - 08/08/2018 19:50:06 2130979 Link
Replying To maroondiesel: "2 great teams, hard to call, hope Kelly is available for us" don't talk brown. 1 team is going for 4 all irelands in a row. the other, their first all ireland final appearance since 01. Dublin are great. Galway have alot of potential. Even if galway beat dublin, they'll have a long, long way to go before they can even be mentioned in the same breath as this GREAT dublin team. waynoI (Dublin) - Posts: 13654 - 08/08/2018 19:55:10 2130984 Link
Replying To Belclare1: "Id take Eamon O Hara about as serious as a Laois poster on Hoganstand.." You might be taking his opinion more seriously Saturday evening. Lighten up..your as stiff as the Galway defensive system. BliainanÁir (Laois) - Posts: 598 - 08/08/2018 19:59:04 2130987 Link
Replying To Belclare1: "Typical childish response.. History shows whatever 15 ye put out ye will be very strong, so whats the point worrying. Just concentrate on our own game , performance, systems and discipline." Nothing childish in Jimbodub's response. I find your posts far more childish. BliainanÁir (Laois) - Posts: 598 - 08/08/2018 20:01:34 2130988 Link
Replying To BliainanÁir: "Ah come on, 2 great teams.. If Galway are interested great category with a few Connacht titles and a league final appearance we'd run out of superlatives for the multi all Ireland winning teams in GAA history." Laois had a great team back in the days, hope ye rule Leinster again maroondiesel (Mayo) - Posts: 1226 - 08/08/2018 20:09:39 2130990 Link
Replying To maroondiesel: "Laois had a great team back in the days, hope ye rule Leinster again" Thank you. Loved the Galway team of 1998-2001. Think your present team could be very good. Would love a slight change of style. BliainanÁir (Laois) - Posts: 598 - 08/08/2018 20:54:49 2131001 Link
Replying To BliainanÁir: "In a week where abuse of players, managers and officials is being highlighted I better phrase this properly.. Do posters, Galway in particular feel Kevin Walsh is in the top tier of managers? I remember Eamonn O'Hara offering a stinging critique of his skills with Sligo a few years back. Personally I don't think he is and more than anything that's holding Galway back." On further reflection, he's got Paddy Tally in, so going forward, if he got Donie Buckley instead, that would be a great step forward. I like Kevin as the figurehead, he is an inspirational presence, and remember is our last all star in 2003. galwaydublin (Galway) - Posts: 226 - 08/08/2018 21:10:10 2131007 Link
Replying To BliainanÁir: "Nothing childish in Jimbodub's response. I find your posts far more childish." I am hardly worried about your response Mr Laois. As a Galway man i look forward to the All Ireland Semi and an an All Ireland final appearance as well Belclare1 (Galway) - Posts: 1626 - 08/08/2018 21:24:32 2131011 Link
I think the Dubs could get ambushed by Galway on Saturday! katser2 (Galway) - Posts: 41 - 08/08/2018 21:36:48 2131017 Link
Replying To Belclare1: "I am hardly worried about your response Mr Laois. As a Galway man i look forward to the All Ireland Semi and an an All Ireland final appearance as well" I don't mind what you have or haven't to look forward to. You think one would be happier with all that going on. BliainanÁir (Laois) - Posts: 598 - 08/08/2018 21:37:27 2131018 Link
Replying To galwaydublin: "On further reflection, he's got Paddy Tally in, so going forward, if he got Donie Buckley instead, that would be a great step forward. I like Kevin as the figurehead, he is an inspirational presence, and remember is our last all star in 2003." I know. He's an icon in the county. Powerful player in his day. BliainanÁir (Laois) - Posts: 598 - 08/08/2018 21:39:06 2131020 Link
Replying To BliainanÁir: "I know. He's an icon in the county. Powerful player in his day." Look at where Galway were when he took over and where they are now. We've come on massively under him. When he took over plenty didn't want the maroon jersey. What I admire most about him is that he went to every club game he could intermediate too to try and find the players. We hadn't won a connacht title in 8 years. For a province as small as connacht and a team with a history like ours that's hard to believe. When sean amstrong and m.meehan returned I knew the mood in camp was good the desire for the jersey was back. Sadly meehan couldn't overcome his injuries but remember Army's reason for leaving the panel was not because of injury or because of poor form he said he just didn't enjoy it anymore galwayfball (Galway) - Posts: 1704 - 08/08/2018 22:16:16 2131043 Link
Replying To galwaydublin: "He's not perfect, I wish he was a bit more adventerous but I'm not managing 30 odd players. Consider where we were in Jan 15 to now and he absolutely say yes. He had over 50 players refuse him, including 3 Corofin all ireland winners this year. Hes got us to D1, first victory over Kerry since 65, first semi since he played in 01. Hes my man for the next 3 years at least, unless, and this is what I say to everyone berating him, WHO IS BETTER? Remember this fact, he's not Eamonn Fitzmaurice, he's not out of the championship. We have not lost to yet, and I still personally think we will not lose to Dublin this weekend. If he wins an All Ireland, is he still holding Galway back? Look, he had great experience with Sligo now Galway. He is the man. I think the O Hara comments were a little personal as he wouldn't facilitate him coming back later in the year. What have Sligo done since he left? Haven't got within a penalty of beating Kerry or a point of a Connacht title that is for sure. Also the last time Galway got hockeyed in pearse stadium v the rossies in 17, we a fortnight later beat Donegal by 15. Why the doom and gloom? All the so called experts like the Ó Sé brothers, Ó Cinnéide, are saying because Galway lost a meaningless match, they have no hope of turning it around when this team has a history of doing so. Give Kevin a chance, "rumours of our demise are greatly exaggerated."OW." Excellent point about the Donegal game... Hupgalway (Galway) - Posts: 252 - 08/08/2018 23:08:12 2131071 Link
Replying To katser2: "I think the Dubs could get ambushed by Galway on Saturday!" On their way into Croke Park? Only joking katser neverright (Roscommon) - Posts: 1648 - 08/08/2018 23:14:42 2131074 Link
Liking the bit of confidence from the Galway boys , if it's missplaced or on the button we will know come Saturday , but makes a pleasent change to have an opponent not be beaten before a ball has been kicked , I mentioned it on Dublin page Galway don't have battle scars from a couple of Dublin hidings which is massive, equally nobody can tell you the future but they can tell you the past , Dublin v Donegal the biggest shoe in of all time after Donegals pathetic semi final win , A different Donegal turned up and murdered us , so no I wouldn't be getting complacent on the back of the Monaghan game , I'm confident of winning because of Jim Gavin he will have us primed ready and Galway are going to be hit with the full blue treatment , Salthill was a challenge game in comparison , so be confident we are , be loud we are , and be ready cause we are Damothedub (Dublin) - Posts: 5193 - 09/08/2018 09:05:59 2131114 Link
Replying To neverright: "On their way into Croke Park? Only joking katser" We are the ones more likely to be ambushed on the way into Croke Park lol! Galway are a dangerous opponent for the Dubs because I'd say they don't know what to expect from Galway.... I hope they start that lad O' Gara katser2 (Galway) - Posts: 41 - 09/08/2018 10:25:37 2131138 Link
The more i think about this game, the more confident im getting. I like Galway, I think they have some fantastic players, and despite what Eamon O'Hara says, a fantastic manager in Kevin Walsh. They have all bought into the system and are coming with very little pressure on them considering most people will expect Dublin to go through, and rightly so. For me. Dublin hold all the aces. They went into last weeks game against Roscommon already through similar to Galway and changed most of their team. They where able to give alot of fellas the day off in order to be ready for this game. Galway actually played alot of their starters and have injury concerns/players already ruled out. I think alot of players from last sunday will have given Jim Gavin food for thought, Costello and O'Gara being just two. Everybody knows this Dublin team are immense. They wont buckle under pressure however galway approach the game. Whether Galway get a lead or not. The experience that even Dublins youngsters have in these kind of games is a huge factor and i just dont see Dublin being anything other than calm and cool and they will just do what they have to do. If the game is close going into the last 10, Dublin probably have the better subs bench and as already mentioned, the know how of winning these tight games. I personally believe the league games will have absolutely no bearing and arent actually a barometer of where the teams are now or where back then. Dublin werent training as long as galway and didnt have all the players available and firing that we do now. We are now at the business end where results matter and Dublin just have that winning habit. I think we, from the start of lastt january, will have been preparing for peaking around mid-late august. Jim Gavin will of course say we only think about our next opponent which in the short term picture is probably fair enough, but they always look at the bigger picture, the set up is too professional to not leave rocks unturned. We will have been expected to get through the super 8s and get this far and i think you will see a much improved Dublin performance to anything we saw in the league. And i think we will win. Maybe not as emphatically as last year v Tyrone in that i feel the game as a contest will go on longer, but i think in the third quarter or final quarter if were a few up we will go for the jugular and think we will either win by a very comfortable 4 or 5 point margain, or the scoreboard will take a pasting, we wont let up, lay down a marker for Tyrone/Monaghan and win by 10 11 or 12 points. BUT if Galway do go on to win, Id love them to win it. waynoI (Dublin) - Posts: 13654 - 09/08/2018 10:51:07 2131145 Link
Replying To katser2: "We are the ones more likely to be ambushed on the way into Croke Park lol! Galway are a dangerous opponent for the Dubs because I'd say they don't know what to expect from Galway.... I hope they start that lad O' Gara" They (Galway) will do one of two things 1. They will sit back en masse, make it extremely difficult for us to break the lines, try keep the game close and see what happens, break at speed and try catch us on the counter. OR 2. They will "cut loose" and have a go. What other game plan could they play ? Its one or the other and Dublin are well used to both by now. Dublin might not know exactly what way they will go, but it wont take us long to figure it out i dont think. We might take a bit of time to get into the game, that wouldnt shock me at all, but once Galway show their hand, we will adapt to suit. Its what we do. For galway to win they will need to play one or both of those game plans to absolute perfection, and pray that Dublin have an absolute stinker. Is it possible ? Anything is possible in sport... Is it likely..... Probably not. waynoI (Dublin) - Posts: 13654 - 09/08/2018 10:56:07 2131148 Link
Replying To Damothedub: "Liking the bit of confidence from the Galway boys , if it's missplaced or on the button we will know come Saturday , but makes a pleasent change to have an opponent not be beaten before a ball has been kicked , I mentioned it on Dublin page Galway don't have battle scars from a couple of Dublin hidings which is massive, equally nobody can tell you the future but they can tell you the past , Dublin v Donegal the biggest shoe in of all time after Donegals pathetic semi final win , A different Donegal turned up and murdered us , so no I wouldn't be getting complacent on the back of the Monaghan game , I'm confident of winning because of Jim Gavin he will have us primed ready and Galway are going to be hit with the full blue treatment , Salthill was a challenge game in comparison , so be confident we are , be loud we are , and be ready cause we are" Agree with everything you say. Thing is, we (galway and dublin fans) will and can express our confidence on fora and it will be considered smug or arrogance, Nothing wrong with saying how you feel, Clondalkin has got a bit of stick for saying this years all ireland is in the bag, wouldnt necessarily agree but i think beating Galway is something we will do relatibely comfortably in the end even if the margain isnt as big as Tyrone last year and my confidence comes purely from the fact this team under this management from what ive seen over the years having gone to every single home and away game in the Jim Gavin era, they never panic, theyre always primed and ready as you say, theyve learned their lessons post donegal 14 and i think they dont do in arrogance and overconfidence as a squad and whether we do as fans is irrelevant. They will give Galway all the possible respect they can. Probably too much at times early on, but weve always figured it out and got over the line and im relaxed and feel we will just do it again. waynoI (Dublin) - Posts: 13654 - 09/08/2018 11:02:19 2131152 Link
I think Galway have a definite chance our biggest problem is wasting good chances. We should have slaughtered kerry but didn't. Walsh kept us in the game v Roscommon in the first have because no one else could convert. We should have won comfortably in kildare. Now the monaghan game the whole team had an implosion. I read Sices interview on his retirement and he said the current galway forward line if everything clicked on the day would put it up to any team. I truly believe what he said. I hope to god this happens Saturday it hasnt happened in any game yet where they were all on form. Going against the dubs the lads can't afford to waste the easy ones or we'll get slaughtered galwayfball (Galway) - Posts: 1704 - 09/08/2018 11:41:04 2131166 Link