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Gort did very well to earn a draw last evening against turlough. Turlough will be very disappointed they didn't see out the win. Sean linnane was immense for turlough. Loughrea dismantled cappy with considerable ease today in athenry, the depth of loughrea's squad is apparent... Oisin coyle and Darren shaughnessy coming back from injury gonna add to their title aspirations. They're looking very good. Jamie Ryan was magnificent Jackson88 (Galway) - Posts: 72 - 19/08/2023 19:22:50 2501361 Link
Replying To Jackson88: "Gort did very well to earn a draw last evening against turlough. Turlough will be very disappointed they didn't see out the win. Sean linnane was immense for turlough. Loughrea dismantled cappy with considerable ease today in athenry, the depth of loughrea's squad is apparent... Oisin coyle and Darren shaughnessy coming back from injury gonna add to their title aspirations. They're looking very good. Jamie Ryan was magnificent" Loughrea look powerful. Nice win for Killimordaly over Clarenbridge. I didn't predict that. Trump2020 (Galway) - Posts: 2484 - 19/08/2023 19:43:30 2501363 Link
Heard Athenry is closed until Spring 2024 after this weekend:-( ref (Galway) - Posts: 254 - 19/08/2023 20:00:11 2501367 Link
Replying To Trump2020: "Loughrea look powerful. Nice win for Killimordaly over Clarenbridge. I didn't predict that." I don't think many saw that one coming Jackson88 (Galway) - Posts: 72 - 19/08/2023 20:15:05 2501371 Link
Replying To Jackson88: "I don't think many saw that one coming" Killimordaly could have more goals too but for some fine saves by the Bridge keeper. Trump2020 (Galway) - Posts: 2484 - 19/08/2023 21:00:24 2501376 Link
Replying To BostonGuy: "No because he came into a stacked team in TB and was the missing piece of the puzzle, TB won one SB and were lucky to win it. They could not sustain the level the following years even with Brady You keep missing the point, having the right structures and systems help SUSTAIN greatness, build and rebuild great teams while maintaining competitiveness. This is hard to do in the NFL because of the draft and salary caps that work against this. NE did it for 20 years and it was not all Brady There are 'skilled athletes' on most NFL teams as you say but some are as dumb as a rock and cannot play to a system, cant even read a playbook. Brady and NE needed each other, Brady is not the most skilled QB or "skilled athlete" in the history of the NFL. His is the most driven and in a system like NE he thrived. Let me ask you how many SBs do you think he would have won if he didnt play for NE...let me help you ...NONE not even the one in TB." Tampa sustained the level quite well in year2, only losing their playoff game on a late hail mary connection from the Rams, who went on to win it. You can talk about 'not the most skilled' all you like, but key players who can 'kill'/execute in the clutch are invaluable players, compared to lauded highly skilled players, who rarely manage to find 'A game' when it's needed most. That's where there's some serious similarity between Brady and the current Limerick crop. 'Choke' just seems to be something that doesn't impact their performance level in any way at big moments. This is a serious problem in landing a ko blow on Limerick, because to a man that squad does not do panic in the clutch. Pope_Benedict (Galway) - Posts: 4082 - 19/08/2023 21:13:06 2501378 Link
Replying To ref: "Heard Athenry is closed until Spring 2024 after this weekend:-(" It's gonna be lonely around there so. foreveryoung (USA) - Posts: 2194 - 19/08/2023 21:23:33 2501380 Link
Replying To Pope_Benedict: "Tampa sustained the level quite well in year2, only losing their playoff game on a late hail mary connection from the Rams, who went on to win it. You can talk about 'not the most skilled' all you like, but key players who can 'kill'/execute in the clutch are invaluable players, compared to lauded highly skilled players, who rarely manage to find 'A game' when it's needed most. That's where there's some serious similarity between Brady and the current Limerick crop. 'Choke' just seems to be something that doesn't impact their performance level in any way at big moments. This is a serious problem in landing a ko blow on Limerick, because to a man that squad does not do panic in the clutch." But Tampa didn't win and they have regressed since. You just made my point for me, skilled athletes playing to a system can sustain success, one will not succeed without the other. New England never had many players who got into the hall of fame, their stats not great but as a unit they won super bowls. Brady was a vital cog in a system that did this. Brady was a 5th round pick, was slow, did not throw the long pass, had very average receivers. He was perfect in NE that threw nickel low risk passes, protected the ball (possibly deflated), played ultra athletic tight ends as receivers, manage financials and had flexibility in 'next man up' and a 'do your job' mentality. Does this sound familiar to Limerick? This again did not grow organically, it was taught and as players came and left over 20 years they were able to plug and play and sustain success.. KK under Cody is the closest I have seen to NE in continued and sustained success, not Limerick they are a fantastic team best ever but if they can rebuild this team and continue to sustain success then I will tip my hat to them as the greatest sustained success. We will see if this is the case as players get older, injuries, drop outs from squad and retirements kick in and others adapt to their style of play. Funny we say GAA is an amateur game but all the comparisons are to professional standards and structures, does this give us a hint in which direction the GAA is heading? BostonGuy (Galway) - Posts: 160 - 20/08/2023 03:16:51 2501398 Link
Good match between Ardrahan and Craughwell. DRAW. Iarla Tannian was great for Ardrahan while Tom Monaghan and Adrian Prendergast great for Craughwell. Trump2020 (Galway) - Posts: 2484 - 20/08/2023 16:54:51 2501447 Link
Replying To Trump2020: "Good match between Ardrahan and Craughwell. DRAW. Iarla Tannian was great for Ardrahan while Tom Monaghan and Adrian Prendergast great for Craughwell." Heard prendergast cleaned morrisey Jackson88 (Galway) - Posts: 72 - 20/08/2023 18:24:03 2501461 Link
Great win for Castlegar. Nice to see Ger Farragher still playing great. Joseph and Kevin Cooney were great for Sarsfields. Trump2020 (Galway) - Posts: 2484 - 20/08/2023 18:40:25 2501466 Link
Sarsfields way off the pace today. John Cosgrove their best player at corner forward. They should recover and qualify anyway. A lot of their forwards need a dry sod with their pace. Kevin Cooney a brutal day on the frees, three bad misses. For Castlegar, Greg Thomas gave Darren Morrissey plenty of problems up front but they play such a putrid style of hurling it's hard to see them going too far. Ger Farragher still their best player which says it all. galway19 (Galway) - Posts: 870 - 20/08/2023 18:40:55 2501468 Link
Hard to know where some of the teams are at following this weekend. Turloughmore, Clarinbridge and Sarsfields all disappointing results. Bridge looked a bit soft against Killimordaly, Turlough went back to their old failings against Gort. Thomas' and Loughrea cruising along so far and look like bankers for being in the last four anyway. Kilimordaly probably the surprise package of the group stage. Haven't seen many new lads put their hands up for county shirts apart from Jamie Ryan and Mark Kennedy. galway19 (Galway) - Posts: 870 - 20/08/2023 18:58:25 2501472 Link
Replying To galway19: "Hard to know where some of the teams are at following this weekend. Turloughmore, Clarinbridge and Sarsfields all disappointing results. Bridge looked a bit soft against Killimordaly, Turlough went back to their old failings against Gort. Thomas' and Loughrea cruising along so far and look like bankers for being in the last four anyway. Kilimordaly probably the surprise package of the group stage. Haven't seen many new lads put their hands up for county shirts apart from Jamie Ryan and Mark Kennedy." Gearoid loughnane the loughrea goalie looks like he could play at a higher level. Very very composed. Jackson88 (Galway) - Posts: 72 - 20/08/2023 19:06:52 2501473 Link
Replying To galway19: "Sarsfields way off the pace today. John Cosgrove their best player at corner forward. They should recover and qualify anyway. A lot of their forwards need a dry sod with their pace. Kevin Cooney a brutal day on the frees, three bad misses. For Castlegar, Greg Thomas gave Darren Morrissey plenty of problems up front but they play such a putrid style of hurling it's hard to see them going too far. Ger Farragher still their best player which says it all." While I agree with you about Castlegar and Ger Farragher I had to laugh at how WIDE OPEN he seemed to be all during the match. Plus he can still nail them frees. lol. Trump2020 (Galway) - Posts: 2484 - 20/08/2023 19:58:31 2501491 Link
Replying To galway19: "Hard to know where some of the teams are at following this weekend. Turloughmore, Clarinbridge and Sarsfields all disappointing results. Bridge looked a bit soft against Killimordaly, Turlough went back to their old failings against Gort. Thomas' and Loughrea cruising along so far and look like bankers for being in the last four anyway. Kilimordaly probably the surprise package of the group stage. Haven't seen many new lads put their hands up for county shirts apart from Jamie Ryan and Mark Kennedy." Jamie Ryan was on the county panel this year (and briefly about 2 years ago) so he's not a "new lad" especially since he is now around 28 or 29. Mark Kennedy did well 2 weeks ago when he scored the 3 goals but he was fairly anonymous against Killimordaly. Talented player but just cant see him making it at county level. PoolSturgeon (Galway) - Posts: 2009 - 21/08/2023 01:54:21 2501514 Link
Replying To BostonGuy: "But Tampa didn't win and they have regressed since. You just made my point for me, skilled athletes playing to a system can sustain success, one will not succeed without the other. New England never had many players who got into the hall of fame, their stats not great but as a unit they won super bowls. Brady was a vital cog in a system that did this. Brady was a 5th round pick, was slow, did not throw the long pass, had very average receivers. He was perfect in NE that threw nickel low risk passes, protected the ball (possibly deflated), played ultra athletic tight ends as receivers, manage financials and had flexibility in 'next man up' and a 'do your job' mentality. Does this sound familiar to Limerick? This again did not grow organically, it was taught and as players came and left over 20 years they were able to plug and play and sustain success.. KK under Cody is the closest I have seen to NE in continued and sustained success, not Limerick they are a fantastic team best ever but if they can rebuild this team and continue to sustain success then I will tip my hat to them as the greatest sustained success. We will see if this is the case as players get older, injuries, drop outs from squad and retirements kick in and others adapt to their style of play. Funny we say GAA is an amateur game but all the comparisons are to professional standards and structures, does this give us a hint in which direction the GAA is heading?" Will make another attempt to reply to this post but will keep it short to see if it will get past the censors this time. No, GAA teams will never be able to become full time and probably not even part-time professional (in terms of being paid) unless the Arab nations extend sportswashing to GAA or Irish / US billionaires get involved to such an extent to make it one of their "pet projects". The system will continue as it is into the forseeable future with professional structures, professional levels of commitment by county players , but only recompense to individual players for travel expenses , image rights, and whatever commercial deals individual star players can get as brand ambassadors, endorsing of products, opening supermarkets etc. The revenue stream within the GAA will never be so huge to nurture the grassroots at every level of the game AND to sustain full-time or part-time professional teams. PoolSturgeon (Galway) - Posts: 2009 - 21/08/2023 12:05:30 2501560 Link
Replying To Trump2020: "While I agree with you about Castlegar and Ger Farragher I had to laugh at how WIDE OPEN he seemed to be all during the match. Plus he can still nail them frees. lol." His pace may be gone but his radar sure still works. Also, and i say this respectfully, he has a good engine for a lad of his vintage. He never really seems to be taken off in any game and when it was in the melting pot late on yesterday he was still very prominent. MapleSyrup (Galway) - Posts: 165 - 21/08/2023 12:11:32 2501565 Link
It was a privilege to be in Gort on Saturday afternoon to witness yet another breathdaking display of point taking and all-round excellence from Conor Whelan. 0-8 from play on a windy day and the man just does not do tap overs either. Many of them were of the 'for the scrapbook' variety. What a player he is, we are blessed to be able to watch him in action. Stool Pigeon (Galway) - Posts: 906 - 21/08/2023 12:26:36 2501574 Link
Replying To BostonGuy: "But Tampa didn't win and they have regressed since. You just made my point for me, skilled athletes playing to a system can sustain success, one will not succeed without the other. New England never had many players who got into the hall of fame, their stats not great but as a unit they won super bowls. Brady was a vital cog in a system that did this. Brady was a 5th round pick, was slow, did not throw the long pass, had very average receivers. He was perfect in NE that threw nickel low risk passes, protected the ball (possibly deflated), played ultra athletic tight ends as receivers, manage financials and had flexibility in 'next man up' and a 'do your job' mentality. Does this sound familiar to Limerick? This again did not grow organically, it was taught and as players came and left over 20 years they were able to plug and play and sustain success.. KK under Cody is the closest I have seen to NE in continued and sustained success, not Limerick they are a fantastic team best ever but if they can rebuild this team and continue to sustain success then I will tip my hat to them as the greatest sustained success. We will see if this is the case as players get older, injuries, drop outs from squad and retirements kick in and others adapt to their style of play. Funny we say GAA is an amateur game but all the comparisons are to professional standards and structures, does this give us a hint in which direction the GAA is heading?" It does not. Stool Pigeon (Galway) - Posts: 906 - 21/08/2023 12:27:33 2501576 Link