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Replying To devrandom:  "The question was never open.

How could you begrudge a lad for taking an opportunity within the lifetime time of the opportunity ? All you can do is wish him look, no more than when Ian Burke went off to do his MBA."
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giveitlong (Galway) - Posts: 1319 - 20/05/2026 09:10:03    2674265

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Replying To eoinog:  "The longer the debate goes on the better MC Hugh becomes. It would be a massive lack of confidence by the mgt if they suddenly decided to stick a lad between the sticks who has no history of ever playing there just because he can kick out the ball and if he wasn't able to nail a spot in the forwards a few years ago he won't start doing it at the end of May. The pace, speed and intensity is just frightening with the top teams now."
The goalkeeper stuff is nonsense in relation to McHugh, but I do think he could be a very valuable asset as a forward. What you say above was also applicable to Steven Sherlock in Cork a few years ago. He wasn't quick or mobile enough for the modern game apparently. Under the new rules, he's quickly becoming one of Cork's most important players.
Contrary to what you say, there's actually more room for a forward who can't run as much in the new game, than there was 3 or years ago.

WanPintWin (Galway) - Posts: 2812 - 20/05/2026 11:40:24    2674305

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Will the viewing figures in Galway be bigger for the Kildare match or Love Island?

jobber (Westmeath) - Posts: 1956 - 20/05/2026 23:09:13    2674444

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Replying To jobber:  "Will the viewing figures in Galway be bigger for the Kildare match or Love Island?"
Now that John Heslin has returned for Westmeath, will viewership figures there be bigger for their matches or for Ear To The Ground??!!

Triffic (Galway) - Posts: 184 - 21/05/2026 11:40:18    2674485

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Replying To TheBishop:  "Its amazing why their even having that conversation, how we performed on their kick outs was disgraceful.

A division 4 team would have more joy then we did."
Agreed. Our kickout stats are an abject failure. 56% of own kickouts retained v Ros as opposed to 81% for Ros (climbing to 92% on short ones). We cannot win without plugging this deadly gap in our armour.

togoutlads (Galway) - Posts: 1133 - 21/05/2026 13:31:50    2674503

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The main reason Roscommon won majority of there own kickouts is Galway basically gave them up short I'd say Galway have being doing this consistently under Joyce it cost them all Ireland v Armagh Galway not push up on kickouts until 66 min and won everything from there on but 2 late same v Meath last year pushed up and scored 2-04 in few mins then back to normal , I think both Mcdonnagh and o connaghile need start v Kildare they way better at putting pressure on kickouts ,, I mske a prediction Ross not win 81% v Tyrone as Tyrone will push up on them big time I expect Ross win by 5 ,,

Kickitout (Galway) - Posts: 1158 - 21/05/2026 16:01:25    2674532

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Replying To Kickitout:  "The main reason Roscommon won majority of there own kickouts is Galway basically gave them up short I'd say Galway have being doing this consistently under Joyce it cost them all Ireland v Armagh Galway not push up on kickouts until 66 min and won everything from there on but 2 late same v Meath last year pushed up and scored 2-04 in few mins then back to normal , I think both Mcdonnagh and o connaghile need start v Kildare they way better at putting pressure on kickouts ,, I mske a prediction Ross not win 81% v Tyrone as Tyrone will push up on them big time I expect Ross win by 5 ,,"
Agree, all of our loss's over the last few years were because we didn't get it right tactically and failed to take the opportunities we were given. We have no business in this championship if we are going to give away the opposing teams kickoffs and fail to even break even on our own. Joyce and company seem to put this failure down to the goalkeepers where neither of them have made a strong case over the other.
Another thing that has become blatantly obvious is our lack of pace out the field, in the Roscommon game some of their players were running away from our backs with the ball.
The experts seem to think we will win Saturdays game with ease but it should be worth mentioning Kildare ran W'Meath close and we should treat them with the utmost respect.

Galway4ever (Galway) - Posts: 224 - 21/05/2026 17:56:17    2674550

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