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Replying To BigBàsMan:  "Dec 13/14 Vs Leinster champions"
More than likely Thomastown so. They have a bit of cut and thrust about them, if the KK co final was anything to go by.

Pope_Benedict (Galway) - Posts: 3868 - 11/11/2024 15:30:55    2579241

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Replying To Pope_Benedict:  "I mentioned the vantage points last week. The terrace in Athenry is a bit 'flat' compared to a good viewing terrace, like the 3 sides of Pearse Stadium. And you'd need to be a VIP to get in the shhtand in Athenry the sizeen of it."
Kenny Park is a very nice venue for club games but it dues not have the the terracing or seating or dare I say turnstiles to cater for a crowd 5.000 or thereabouts as expressed yesterday by a goodly number of people I spoke to including a couple of prominent board officers.
On the issue that all major hurling games being held in Kenny Park Is restricting crowd size part of their aims.Galway city and Salthill seems to be a magnet for all sorts events, sport ,racing, and festivals and dare I say education and employment for a very large swath of the population of the west of Ireland except for a whinging element to do with GAA matches,

backtooldwall (Galway) - Posts: 138 - 11/11/2024 16:55:45    2579255

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Replying To backtooldwall:  "Kenny Park is a very nice venue for club games but it dues not have the the terracing or seating or dare I say turnstiles to cater for a crowd 5.000 or thereabouts as expressed yesterday by a goodly number of people I spoke to including a couple of prominent board officers.
On the issue that all major hurling games being held in Kenny Park Is restricting crowd size part of their aims.Galway city and Salthill seems to be a magnet for all sorts events, sport ,racing, and festivals and dare I say education and employment for a very large swath of the population of the west of Ireland except for a whinging element to do with GAA matches,"
Kenny Park is more than capable of catering for a few Galway league games every year. If Salthill and Galway is such a magnet for events, then why not spread the match day money around and let the businesses of Athenry prosper.

Pearse Stadium is a soulless stadium that is very badly set up. Bulldoze it and do the entire county a favour.

TanCanRan (Galway) - Posts: 207 - 11/11/2024 17:18:58    2579256

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Replying To BigBàsMan:  "I'm curious what other tactics you'd suggest Loughrea to employ when they had corner backs free at every pick out? They generally tried to play the ball diagonally into space like they did all year. What else could they have done genuinely curious?"
Fair point and my comment was more aimed at Cappy I suppose in relation to tactics and indeed the way Cappy retreated meant Loughrea got away with not having to use many tactics in farness.

John Doe (Galway) - Posts: 240 - 11/11/2024 17:32:54    2579259

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Replying To John Doe:  "Fair point and my comment was more aimed at Cappy I suppose in relation to tactics and indeed the way Cappy retreated meant Loughrea got away with not having to use many tactics in farness."
Yes I agree. I think if cappy did push up there would be a lot more space for the lrea forwards to capitalize on and perhaps would've ended up in more goalscoring opportunities. But during the last ten mins cappy had to go for broke and they didn't... Their work rate was phenomenal and they can be very proud of their efforts

BigBàsMan (Galway) - Posts: 12 - 11/11/2024 20:30:43    2579283

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One thing everyone is in agreement anyway is Kenny Park should be the venue for Hurling County Finals going forward. Well done loughrea on their win, and hard luck Cappy. They had their day in the sun in fairness, be a bit like Carnmore in the 90s thats as far as theyll ever get. Id say loughrea may well win a few more. Age profile is good.

clare_sparrow (Galway) - Posts: 439 - 12/11/2024 11:10:41    2579332

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Replying To clare_sparrow:  "One thing everyone is in agreement anyway is Kenny Park should be the venue for Hurling County Finals going forward. Well done loughrea on their win, and hard luck Cappy. They had their day in the sun in fairness, be a bit like Carnmore in the 90s thats as far as theyll ever get. Id say loughrea may well win a few more. Age profile is good."
I wouldn't say everyone is in agreement. Fans that like a quality stand and terracing are not in agreement. Only fans that are into more nebulous venue characteristics like 'soul' seem to be in agreement. Maybe it's just myself, but Athenry is hardly the Fenway Park Experience either.

Pope_Benedict (Galway) - Posts: 3868 - 12/11/2024 12:20:22    2579347

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Replying To clare_sparrow:  "One thing everyone is in agreement anyway is Kenny Park should be the venue for Hurling County Finals going forward. Well done loughrea on their win, and hard luck Cappy. They had their day in the sun in fairness, be a bit like Carnmore in the 90s thats as far as theyll ever get. Id say loughrea may well win a few more. Age profile is good."
If Oisin coyle, Conor Jennings, Martin McManus, Dylan shocks return for 2025 and they can give Vince Morgan and Bobby Feeney more game time then they could right well win another.

BigBàsMan (Galway) - Posts: 12 - 12/11/2024 13:17:50    2579358

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You do get a good view on Pearse stadium but the whole gameday experience is horrific. I actually find myself stressed on the day of the game with traffic, parking, queues to turnstiles, getting out. Hard to enjoy it when half the game is spent thinking of how to get home!

Kinvara (Galway) - Posts: 181 - 12/11/2024 13:30:47    2579359

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Replying To clare_sparrow:  "One thing everyone is in agreement anyway is Kenny Park should be the venue for Hurling County Finals going forward. Well done loughrea on their win, and hard luck Cappy. They had their day in the sun in fairness, be a bit like Carnmore in the 90s thats as far as theyll ever get. Id say loughrea may well win a few more. Age profile is good."
Did Cappy not win the under 20 championship in 2022?

Surely they must have a decent age profile of good hurlers in the club.

Keeping them all involved is another thing.

Past hurler (None) - Posts: 797 - 12/11/2024 14:17:02    2579367

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Replying To Pope_Benedict:  "I wouldn't say everyone is in agreement. Fans that like a quality stand and terracing are not in agreement. Only fans that are into more nebulous venue characteristics like 'soul' seem to be in agreement. Maybe it's just myself, but Athenry is hardly the Fenway Park Experience either."
One of the most hardened views (but less vocal) that I have come across is the players, they love athenry, and universally dislike Salthill. And like others have said, its the whole experience, but the quality of the game is ordinarily better in Athenry. Hopefully in time a decent stand could go in. Could leave Pearse Stadium to football and concerts and whatever else then.

clare_sparrow (Galway) - Posts: 439 - 12/11/2024 15:24:48    2579379

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Replying To Pope_Benedict:  "More than likely Thomastown so. They have a bit of cut and thrust about them, if the KK co final was anything to go by."
Thomastown came up from Intermediate and won the County in one of the toughest counties there is to win in. A mighty achievement. Loughrea better be wide awake against them. If it's them they end up meeting.

Trump2020 (Galway) - Posts: 2257 - 12/11/2024 22:00:32    2579432

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Replying To John Doe:  "Agree with previous posters Cappy giving up the Loughrea puck outs was a disaster and its one thing trying the tactic but to not change it for the entire game was baffling stuff.
They had some amount of wides also so will have serious regrets when they review the game.
From a Loughrea viewpoint and the size of the backroom team they have including John Conlon it was amazing to see the only tactic they had was to go short to the full back who either passed back to the keeper who hit it long or else the full back put the hand up to signal he was going long and every time proceeded to drive it as far as he could.
Lack of tactics on both sides was a surprise bearing in mind the sums of money being paid to outside trainers. Overall Loughrea looked slightly better and most likely winners but only just.

But the big takeaway from the day was the venue with the biggest crowd ever seen in Athenry and the carnival atmosphere in the town and in the ground. Just shows the peoples desire to not have finals in PS. Walked through the pitch after the game to get out and the playing surface was immaculate and lush - a credit to the grounds staff. Hopefully all hurling finals are played here going forward. No bother getting home either as straight out on the the motorway.
Anyone able to put a figure on the attendance yesterday ?"
13,500 in attendance I was told, dunno how true that is though.

Lenny24 (Galway) - Posts: 1 - 13/11/2024 16:59:44    2579552

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