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Replying To PressureKick: "Even if you travel to all league games, how does 7 games x €20 translate into a €150 season ticket? Its been abundantly clear to most season ticket holders for a while that the GAA are trying to disuade people from continuing to buy them. They've proven problematic for the association for a few reasons. In Galway, for example, they're now putting football and hurling championship games on the same, after years of doing it for league. If you wanted to fulfill your mandatory championship games for both you wouldn't be able to. If you're a die-hard fan you're better off paying your club membership and saving the season ticket money for a tout if it comes to desperation stakes for a final" Club membership is paid but when it comes to finals only adult members get tickets. Mfs (Mayo) - Posts: 257 - 23/07/2024 15:58:09 2560973 Link
Every player that was listed on a panel this year in all counties gets 2 tickets. Strong chance that some of these will become available later in the week. This is a deal done with the GPA. Not sure if it's league or championship panel but some of our neighbours have already got theirs. smallfrank (Galway) - Posts: 429 - 23/07/2024 16:44:42 2560999 Link
Replying To The_DOC: "Question for the group, if Kelly can play are we as well of to start him or bring him on as a sub? IMHO we start him as if he has to go off then we use 1 sub BUT, if we bring him on as a sub and for whatever reason the injury flairs up and he has to go off again (then that using 2 subs). What do people think? I'm a big believer in starting with strongest 15, no point bring good lads on if they have to chase a fair deficit." If he's fit he must start. If it flares up again, then it's 1 sub used. We've powerful subs / finishers now anyway. togoutlads (Galway) - Posts: 958 - 23/07/2024 16:56:10 2561007 Link
Replying To The_DOC: "Question for the group, if Kelly can play are we as well of to start him or bring him on as a sub? IMHO we start him as if he has to go off then we use 1 sub BUT, if we bring him on as a sub and for whatever reason the injury flairs up and he has to go off again (then that using 2 subs). What do people think? I'm a big believer in starting with strongest 15, no point bring good lads on if they have to chase a fair deficit." Id hold him in reserve until the last 15/20. If he is fit at all he can surely go that long. If it happened to go to ET we could replace him again without consequence. Need to roll the dice a small bit. MaroonedinDublin (Galway) - Posts: 35 - 23/07/2024 16:58:40 2561011 Link
Peter Canavan is tipping Armagh to win. Tomás Ó'Sé and Kevin Walsh are tipping Galway. All agreeing there'll be very little in it. The Tyrone man feels Armagh are super resilient under McGeeney, just won't go away and could grind it out. The Kerry man was making a very valid point that defences at the top level all set up very similarly now and that the one nightmare for a top tier defender is trying to mark guys that are unpredictable. Top defenders / defences will manage predictable build up all day long. It's the attackers that can bring unpredictability into the mix that has defenders really worried. He feels Galway have more of these players in our fwd ranks and that we can do damage with them. The excitement is building more and more. 5 days Til Sunday!!! togoutlads (Galway) - Posts: 958 - 23/07/2024 17:10:42 2561019 Link
Replying To The_DOC: "Question for the group, if Kelly can play are we as well of to start him or bring him on as a sub? IMHO we start him as if he has to go off then we use 1 sub BUT, if we bring him on as a sub and for whatever reason the injury flairs up and he has to go off again (then that using 2 subs). What do people think? I'm a big believer in starting with strongest 15, no point bring good lads on if they have to chase a fair deficit." I wouldn't start him. He came off injured against Mayo in 21 and this year against Dublin and it didn't help. If he has only 10 minutes in him bring him on. Loads of options if he's a sub, full back, wing back and game would have opened up. If he's anywhere near full fitness he will probably start though smallfrank (Galway) - Posts: 429 - 23/07/2024 17:51:24 2561026 Link
Replying To togoutlads: "Peter Canavan is tipping Armagh to win. Tomás Ó'Sé and Kevin Walsh are tipping Galway. All agreeing there'll be very little in it. The Tyrone man feels Armagh are super resilient under McGeeney, just won't go away and could grind it out. The Kerry man was making a very valid point that defences at the top level all set up very similarly now and that the one nightmare for a top tier defender is trying to mark guys that are unpredictable. Top defenders / defences will manage predictable build up all day long. It's the attackers that can bring unpredictability into the mix that has defenders really worried. He feels Galway have more of these players in our fwd ranks and that we can do damage with them. The excitement is building more and more. 5 days Til Sunday!!!" This was the fundraiser? Was it any use? 3 decent guests at least. What kind of tickets came with it? PressureKick (UK) - Posts: 235 - 23/07/2024 19:19:20 2561051 Link
Replying To systematic: "On the tickets side I'm not sure who should really take priority over committee vs adult players. I know senior clubs get more tickets and those are usually the bigger clubs. Don't know of too many really big clubs in intermediate or junior. Maybe I'm wrong there. It is either very difficult or impossible to be a playing member and a committee member - you will either lose out on training time or have too much to do during week. So I really don't think it's fair to tell a player to consider joining committee. You might say it's difficult work to be a cttee member - your club will die if you haven't enough players, simple as that. You'll probably struggle along without some core cttee member for a while or spreading the job around, but without the players the club is done. In my view : adult players + coaches, slightly ahead of cttee members, then once they are sorted raffle to general club members." I've been an adult player, coach and committee member. Committee member is by far the hardest, most time consuming, most important and least appreciated. My club gives two tickets each to the Chairman and Secretary, then one ticket each to remaining committee members and raffle the rest. Not heard one complaint. StopTheLights (Galway) - Posts: 375 - 23/07/2024 20:26:15 2561073 Link
Replying To StopTheLights: "I've been an adult player, coach and committee member. Committee member is by far the hardest, most time consuming, most important and least appreciated. My club gives two tickets each to the Chairman and Secretary, then one ticket each to remaining committee members and raffle the rest. Not heard one complaint." If your Chairman and Secretary were any sort of people (not all men now) they would decline them and put them in the raffle for the wider membership. Those roles are a service to the club and community. The reward for good work in the roles is seeing your club thrive. There is no thanks. For most people, you won't be remembered for anything you did. And for most decent people - that's enough. crankyincorofin (Galway) - Posts: 96 - 23/07/2024 22:37:28 2561092 Link
Replying To Galway456: "Very hard for a playing member to join the committee, is 3 nights commitment from December until october time not enough for you or is it different in sligo?" No club team in Sligo trains 3 times a week in December. I doubt if any club team in any county does, unless you are at the All Ireland semi final stage with the club eoinog (Sligo) - Posts: 1861 - 23/07/2024 23:29:41 2561105 Link
Replying To MaroonedinDublin: "Id hold him in reserve until the last 15/20. If he is fit at all he can surely go that long. If it happened to go to ET we could replace him again without consequence. Need to roll the dice a small bit." I'd agree. If they believe there's a decent chance it could flare up early, I'd hold him to bring him in. He could be very effective when the game opens up a bit. It's a hard game to call, but if we perform to a high level we have a very good chance. Armagh will be thinking the very same. The very best of luck to all involved and safe travels to the thousands making the journey to Croke Park. It'll be a great atmosphere. WanPintWin (Galway) - Posts: 2142 - 24/07/2024 07:32:36 2561118 Link
Replying To PressureKick: "This was the fundraiser? Was it any use? 3 decent guests at least. What kind of tickets came with it?" It was very good. Well organised. Great grub and great guest speakers. Credit to the organisers. Fair play to the attending companies for putting their hands in their pockets to buy tables. Raffle raised money too. Same for Galmont event Thursday night, sold out before it was advertised. A lot of money for a table and still sold out. Mix of tickets. togoutlads (Galway) - Posts: 958 - 24/07/2024 09:11:41 2561129 Link
Replying To crankyincorofin: "If your Chairman and Secretary were any sort of people (not all men now) they would decline them and put them in the raffle for the wider membership. Those roles are a service to the club and community. The reward for good work in the roles is seeing your club thrive. There is no thanks. For most people, you won't be remembered for anything you did. And for most decent people - that's enough." Fair play to you, don't let any man or woman or anything else give in the way of your entitlement. 'They" should be available to do as you ordain. backtooldwall (Galway) - Posts: 103 - 24/07/2024 09:59:35 2561134 Link
Replying To crankyincorofin: "This is absolute nonsense." Elaborate on what in my comment you think is nonsense? Commodore (Donegal) - Posts: 1182 - 24/07/2024 10:20:00 2561143 Link
Best pub to watch all Ireland final on Sunday in Galway ? LongfordSpectator (Longford) - Posts: 9 - 24/07/2024 10:25:38 2561144 Link
Best pub to watch all Ireland final on Sunday in Galway ? LongfordSpectator (Longford) - Posts: 9 - 24/07/2024 10:25:43 2561146 Link
As a man living in Dublin I dont usually leave the local area for pints but where are people heading saturday night if up the night before? be good to go somewhere with a good galway crowd. MaroonedinDublin (Galway) - Posts: 35 - 24/07/2024 11:57:03 2561191 Link
Replying To eoinog: "No club team in Sligo trains 3 times a week in December. I doubt if any club team in any county does, unless you are at the All Ireland semi final stage with the club" Maybe it's more a reflection of Sligo club teams standards than anything else. Two pitch sessions and a gym session would be the minimum when teams start back training. SamandLiamSoon (Galway) - Posts: 622 - 24/07/2024 12:00:19 2561193 Link
Replying To SamandLiamSoon: "Maybe it's more a reflection of Sligo club teams standards than anything else. Two pitch sessions and a gym session would be the minimum when teams start back training." Yes , but not in December to Feb/March. Wit hthe new season any club manager orgainising 2 pitch sessions in Dec/Jan should be seriously questioned. anotheralias (Galway) - Posts: 923 - 24/07/2024 13:33:27 2561219 Link
Replying To anotheralias: "Yes , but not in December to Feb/March. Wit hthe new season any club manager orgainising 2 pitch sessions in Dec/Jan should be seriously questioned." League started on the 15th of March this year..... pre-season is pre season all teams will be doing more at the beginning which for all the friends I have still playing Senior in various clubs is 3 sessions a week at a minimum (whether it be pitch/gym/friendly. As the year goes on they reduce down not increase. I think you have your prep back to front. SamandLiamSoon (Galway) - Posts: 622 - 24/07/2024 14:22:53 2561234 Link