There would be lads coaching at under 10 level with a more sophisticated game plan than Joyce has. Boom it long and hope for the best.

galway19 (Galway) - Posts: 764 - 28/01/2024 14:58:12    2522664

Now 52 mins gone and we've got, ah let me check, oh yeah, 6 points. Nothing short of pathetic

togoutlads (Galway) - Posts: 960 - 28/01/2024 14:59:29    2522665

Well it's not going to be a long year anyway. We will have the club championship started in no time.

galway19 (Galway) - Posts: 764 - 28/01/2024 15:14:55    2522669

Only the first proper game of the year but Mayo aren't playing that well and are beating us on all lines.

They'll be delighted with that 2 points with loads of improvement

galwayfball (Galway) - Posts: 1697 - 28/01/2024 15:17:43    2522670

Dreadful performance. Would make you wonder what they've been doing in training for the past 2 months. Mayo way more up for the game and first to every ball. Don't know what the Galway mangement's fascination is with playing players out of position but they had so many lads in positions that don't suit them today. A real battle to avoid relegation now. 4 games of their last 6 are away from home. And none of the injured players look like they'll be back anytime soon. Maybe Comer depending on whatever was wrong with him today.

Marooned (Galway) - Posts: 2266 - 28/01/2024 15:20:46    2522671

It doesn't matter who is in that forward line. We could have David Clifford, Peter Canavan and Colm Cooper in there and Joyce would have them running around in their own full back line. I don't know what the style of play is supposed to be but it looks like a bad junior B team.

galway19 (Galway) - Posts: 764 - 28/01/2024 15:22:19    2522672

Pope_Benedict (Galway) - Posts: 3831 - 28/01/2024 15:29:36    2522674

Terrible performance. Poor team selection to start with then brought in Daly for Comer making the balance even worse. No blame on Daly, thrown on out of position then pulled off unceremoniously despite him being no worse than plenty of others. Darcy out of position marking a flying
wing back. Heaney out of form. Cleaned on our own kick outs which points to no plan as we have plenty of good fielders out there. Very disappointing given the players we have

Trucker1 (Galway) - Posts: 392 - 28/01/2024 15:30:39    2522675

We've often struggled to bate Mayo with full teams in league and championship. Beating them with half a team is just not a straightforward assignment usually.

Pope_Benedict (Galway) - Posts: 3831 - 28/01/2024 15:31:28    2522678

James McLaughlin needs to be offered the sun, moon and stars to stick around for the year. We have no midfielders capable of plucking a long kick out. Somewhat unfair to blame this on Gleeson.

gaillimhboy (Galway) - Posts: 353 - 28/01/2024 15:32:25    2522679

galwayfball (Galway) - Posts: 1697 - 28/01/2024 15:32:55    2522680

backtooldwall (Galway) - Posts: 112 - 28/01/2024 15:34:55    2522681

WanPintWin (Galway) - Posts: 2147 - 28/01/2024 15:42:46    2522686

cavan.galway (Galway) - Posts: 212 - 28/01/2024 15:43:06    2522687

Alwaysencourage (Galway) - Posts: 341 - 28/01/2024 15:45:40    2522689

What's the most common sight you'll see on Galway football days in Pearse Stadium? Galway kids and adults walking out those gates with their faces staring at the ground and kicking stones as the green and red flags, or primrose and blue, or pretty much whichever colour flags other than maroon and white get waved in our faces. I was actually sat beside a young galway family today, and the kids were saying they've actually never been to a Galway - Mayo match where we've won. You know what, this just isn't good enough - these kids and supporters are absolutely being let down. For a serious County with some really great clubs and so much tremendously hard work going in at juvenile and other levels, this - our flagship team and management - were truly pathetic today. I hate to be keyboard warrioring but I've given Joyce, CON, Divo and co the benefit of the doubt for so long but this was mismanagement today and utter unpreparedness for Div 1 football - and especially for a high profile opener, on our home turf, against the auld enemy. We produced brutal, toothless, insipid football for the relatively tiny amount of possession we actually had. Where is our tackling and defensive tigerishness and structure at the back - Mayo floated through us at will. Have we a midfield in the damn County that can claim ball? Have we any shape to our attack upfront? I've called for years for a forwards coach cos PJs version of forwards coaching is tripe,
Sure ya need to be good enough to beat yer own man, 1990s stuff. No real smarts to figure out how to really unlock top flight defences. We've no fight, no venom to beat lads that would eat us alive to beat us. Nothing. That's a hiding we took today. We needed that win. McStay is a nice guy but he's a savage competitor, and in head to head terms he metaphorically stands on PJs neck again. McStay owns him. So disappointing for our fans young and old alike to take another trimming from Mayo, where a nice few of them don't be slow in letting us know on the way back to the car!! But arragh sure aren't we used to losing. We're nice folks, and we're soft and we're there to be beat. I'm going to keep following the maroon and white and this all sounds harsh but this was one pathetic, pathetic showing to witness today. What have we been doing? Surely to God we can be far better than this.

togoutlads (Galway) - Posts: 960 - 28/01/2024 15:58:52    2522693

Forget the score board. That was an annihilation akin to the Mayo game in Tuam and Kerry league game 2020.
I'm John Dalys biggest fan but when you see him have a stinker you know it's going to be a long day. Relying on Conroy at 34 to to get things going also not a great sign and to be fair to him he did. The 10 minutes when we were a man up was some of the worst stuff I've seen. We didn't even push up…with the wind. Our keeper hasn't the ability to find a player and is not comfortable on the ball, night and day between him and Reape today. That first half we needed scorers with the wind, instead we tried to run the ball and had Niall Daly, Cathal Sweeney, a guy making his debut( he was brilliant btw), Cein Darcy, Johnny Heaney, Maher and McHugh. With that wind, it was crying out for Conroy, Finnerty, Culhane, O'Currain. Anyway we are under pressure now, Dublin and Kerry both lost and I can't see either of them going down. Big improvement needed. Lack of pace and plan a real worry.

smallfrank (Galway) - Posts: 429 - 28/01/2024 16:03:07    2522694

After watching last night's games and then Galways poor performance today, this could be a disaster of a League!
Galway at the moment not upto the standard of the intensity of this very competitive Div 1.
Monaghan, Derry, Dublin, Kerry would all have beaten Galway.

katser (Galway) - Posts: 2432 - 28/01/2024 16:16:04    2522698

A wise man once said no All Ireland was ever won in January.

ahsure. (Galway) - Posts: 1631 - 28/01/2024 16:30:26    2522706

Marooned (Galway) - Posts: 2266 - 28/01/2024 16:31:32    2522707