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If only Cooke had come back a few months ago. Great to see him back anyway but still worrying for Moycullen they only kicked 0-08. The winner comes from Corofin, Salthill and Moycullen. A real lack of quality among the rest. galway19 (Galway) - Posts: 799 - 16/09/2024 09:30:07 2570065 Link 2 |
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Yup those 3 ahead of the rest by a good distance. Cooke a huge addition moycullen winning tight games. He would have been very handy for that Armagh game such a pity. Still think salthill will struggle when it comes to the crunch. Caherlistrane looked doomed. Classic Claregalway who are "up and coming" for the last 10 years with underage wins. Fair play to oughterard huge win for them.
Eire89 (Galway) - Posts: 304 - 16/09/2024 09:43:12 2570072 Link 1 |
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Oughterard Can thank ref that they had 15 on pitch.Should have had 2 black cards.Claregalway are a very young team and will get there.They are senior for less than 10 years.
Alwaysencourage (Galway) - Posts: 370 - 16/09/2024 10:03:22 2570080 Link 0 |
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Great to see him back, can't see Frank Fox going anywhere other than Moycullen. Caherlistrane must be nailed on to go down after years at the top level. Was in sunny Tuam yesterday and can see Milltown really struggling to survive next year. Ref ignored lots of off-the-ball stuff but old age is their enemy now. Eoin Mannion is flying though in fairness. MM most unlucky team of the weekend, already badly depleted, the red card for the Galway All Star turned the game, the have a 50/50 chance next day. Corofin experience was the difference, but against another rapidly aging Tuam, who are nowhere near good enough to win the Fox. giveitlong (Galway) - Posts: 1258 - 16/09/2024 10:05:07 2570081 Link 1 |
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cooke was playing for galway in 2023 do people forget that? gave away crucial turnovers against armagh and mayo cocopop (Roscommon) - Posts: 38 - 16/09/2024 10:28:17 2570085 Link 0 |
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Didn't see the match so can't comment on the referee, but regarding length of senior status Oughterard only joined senior ranks in 2020 after decades in intermediate grade.I don't know the age profile of either team but there is no comparison regarding the pool of playing resources available to each club, also one club has access 7 pitches within its catchment area the other has 1.For these reasons Oughterard should be commended for progressing to next stage.
backtooldwall (Galway) - Posts: 140 - 16/09/2024 10:50:15 2570088 Link 0 |
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Its time to stop making excuses for Claregalway. Massive club, massive population, massive resources. Tremendous underage success . They need to do a root and branch analysis to try to figure out why they are not able to transition the success up the ranks. I understand that they are possibly disadvantaged by proximity to city with other sports and other distractions. I also understand that their underage success may be swelled by players from hurling clubs , who then prioritise hurling as the years go by, But I dont think these are enough justification for such a disparity between underage and senior success. I say this not to have a dig at Claregalway , but it it may be something endemic in all our city region based clubs and it is not just impacting our club teams but our county teams also. Pro rata for population the city belt does not generate enough inter county class players. I think our rural clubs are struggling but still managing to box above their weight because of a sense of identity/pride in the locality /loyalty/comraderie/or whatever, that leads to a much lower attrition rate. Its hard to change and I dont have ideas . But if you drive around the suburbs of Cork city you will see loads and loads of young lads out pucking sliotars, and i dont see that culture in either of the GAA games in Galway city anotheralias (Galway) - Posts: 960 - 16/09/2024 11:40:31 2570100 Link 1 |
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We were a awful yesterday. We are playing young lads (who I dont blame) who may have all Ireland Minors or a lot of underage titles but they are so far away from senior footballers. Give them 3-4 years and they will. We were bullied by a team that in any age group we would hammer. I mean we have 6 county minors and could not win a Minor A title 2 years ago. I felt yesterday that we were fancy dans and thought Oughterard would just fall down to our superiority. We win at underage because of numbers not because of good coaching and that is becoming more obvious. I was in for our Neighbours game Annaghdown v Killannin before hand and none of those lads ever won anything at underage (In fact our clubs laughs at them) but what they had and so had Killanin and Oughterard was heart and passion for their parish. We have Castlegar, Turloughmore, Carnmore, Cregmore, Claregalway, I remember a couple of lads from Kinvara, Clarinbridge etc used to play. We have no parish, we are just a group of players pulled from everywhere. Easy win underage titles when you have that. I thought we were going somewhere after Tuam but that was a fluke. Stop blaming the referee and look at ourselves. Killannin got a man sent off (rightly) but they got on with it and got back into the match and in fairness for the next 15 mins the referee rode Annaghdown but both teams got on with it and you could see them after mingling and chatting after the match. We never do that because as a club we look down on everyone and are generally are hated and we think it is because we win at underage, but it is not, it is because our coaches and supporters don't respect other teams. I remember a few years ago our supporters put up a score line where we held an opposition team at under 14 score less Under 14 FFS. They were laughing at the other team . We probably should have told Matt Tierney, Cian and Ryan Monaghan, Enda Tierney etc. about all our under age medals. I am so annoyed, a rethink is needed in Claregalway GAA. Heads need to roll.
LottoPlus (Kilkenny) - Posts: 85 - 16/09/2024 12:01:39 2570105 Link 0 |
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Absolutely Oughterard played well and yesterday Claregalway were their own worst enemies.What I was really replying to was the dig at Claregalway up and coming for last 10 years.Alot of those lads playing yesterday were only in national school 10 years ago so give them a break.
Alwaysencourage (Galway) - Posts: 370 - 16/09/2024 12:38:47 2570119 Link 0 |
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Fair play to you for having a rant about young lads who have only started playing senior football.They do not look down on anyone and I can tell you that for a fact.They all blame themselves.What an assumption to make that we are generally hated.There are plenty of clubs out there that are envied because they win competitions.It was a bad day but slating a team when they are down is low.
Alwaysencourage (Galway) - Posts: 370 - 16/09/2024 12:45:47 2570126 Link 0 |
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Only saw the first half but Claregalway were very poor and but for the posts would've been in much worse shape at half time. Besides the goalie who scored a phenomenal point from play , they were completely switched off for the majority
galwayfball (Galway) - Posts: 1704 - 16/09/2024 13:02:57 2570130 Link 0 |
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My senior top 4 hopballref (Galway) - Posts: 417 - 16/09/2024 13:49:15 2570143 Link 0 |
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I suggest that the destination of the F Fox cup is not as limited as many seem to think, the next round of games should shed more light on it. I also wonder if Cooke is the messiah that is being talked about, furthermore can anybody say with certainty if it is true that he was available for the championship in both or one of the years 2022 and 2024 but was only needed if available for both league and championship.
backtooldwall (Galway) - Posts: 140 - 16/09/2024 13:55:41 2570147 Link 0 |
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What positions have you held at the club?
Dualstar22 (Galway) - Posts: 7 - 16/09/2024 14:08:21 2570154 Link 0 |
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Fair assessment , Although I think intermediate is very polarised this year compared to other years. Michaels and Oranmore well clear of the posse ,in my opinion and I will be surprised if this is not the final ( unless they meet in semi. - can they as it would be a repeat?) This point is reinforced by the fact that St Brendans are ranked at 3 having had 1 excellent performance, 1 poor performance and 1 woeful performance. Kilconly ranked 4 after being well beaten by the aforementioned. anotheralias (Galway) - Posts: 960 - 16/09/2024 14:25:55 2570159 Link 0 |
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Did not blame the players they are good players but just too young. I blame the whole structure we have. Remember we won an all ireland feile some 10-12 years ago. Most of them should be 24 to 26 now but where are they. Bringing young lads into the Lions Den like that is unfair on them. Boys against me. A good big team will always beat a good if not better small team anyday.
LottoPlus (Kilkenny) - Posts: 85 - 16/09/2024 15:05:28 2570166 Link 0 |
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you havent a clue about iuntermediate football
caltra04 (Galway) - Posts: 25 - 16/09/2024 15:08:14 2570167 Link 0 |
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Tuam are poor. will struggle against a woeful M/M on Thursday
caltra04 (Galway) - Posts: 25 - 16/09/2024 15:11:26 2570168 Link 0 |
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Corofin are no good, teams are just afraid to go out and expose them. sice and tony gill both start for them...
caltra04 (Galway) - Posts: 25 - 16/09/2024 15:15:32 2570171 Link 0 |
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Sure they finished with 14 no?! Corner Back sent off I think.
t.g (Galway) - Posts: 108 - 16/09/2024 15:30:30 2570177 Link 0 |