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Lisa Fallon, Gareth Bradshaw, Gary O'Donnell, Kevin Johnson and David Morris are all set to form part of Fitzmaurice's backroom team. Gearoid1998ffowaed (Galway) - Posts: 238 - 14/10/2026 23:39:58 2697359 Link
Replying To LetsPlayBall: "Agreed. Deserves his chance. Time to forget about Flaherty he doesn't even play in goal for his club. Gleeson deserves to be kept but would like to see Canney give him a run for his money. Superb under high ball and has many different various types of kickouts in his locker." Why forget about Flaherty if Canney is suddenly a candidate after only playing in goals for 5 wet minutes Canney has played outfield until this year so your logic doesn't fly at all. Alwaysencourage (Galway) - Posts: 668 - 15/10/2026 03:43:52 2697363 Link
Replying To Kickitout: "No word as of yet on make up of backroom teams lots of rumours, think Dave Morris definitely back heard Johnson and rochford also hard see both as it mighr be 2 many chiefs. ,,, I'd imagine new manager will prib run trial games to see what players are out there prib only way 2 get a feel for it so I'd imagine within next 3 weeks something should start happening,," All backroom team that according to The Examiner have been appointed are in my opinion firm believers in possession football, as seen played in last weekends first semi final. Would have been hoping and expecting EM to transition the team to a much more kicking based game but maybe he is otherwise minded. Anyway best of luck to all appointed. giveitlong (Galway) - Posts: 1345 - 15/10/2026 07:14:13 2697364 Link
Rte gaa podcast said he had someone from Kerry joining? I think it was mike quirke who said it. Eamon would have managed against odonnell and Bradshaw when the played against Galway. Sorts out the north and west connection. He said to wanted someone from the last team so morris is carrying over the intelligence. Lisa worked under Jim Gavin and studied opposition. Kew (Galway) - Posts: 445 - 15/10/2026 10:16:30 2697376 Link
Replying To The_analyser: "Dublin debatable. We have won league games in Croke Park winning a few Division 2 titles including beating Galway in one. Championships yes no win since 1980 it happens even your own Mayo who had a period of nearly 40 years of not winning in Croke Park. We'll see if we have a say if we happen to reach Croke Park first and foremost. Interesting appointment by Galway Seniors. Only recently Eamonn Fitzmaurice said in interview you really need to be retired from work to give full commitment to a senior intercounty role so will be tricky to manage the principal role in Dingle and then a number of nights in Galway. First Kerry man in charge of a Connacht team since John Evans in charge of us." League games. Seriously? TheFlaker (Mayo) - Posts: 8942 - 15/10/2026 11:07:54 2697388 Link
The back room team means very little, the best Galway team of the last 25 years had a coach, Cian O'Neill, who's going to be doing the coaching, Morris, Johnston or Fitzmaurice himself and based on what I witnessed in 2026 they need a lot of it. I do wonder what the hell half of them were doing in the set up with PJ…Scan, Mickey Graham, Dave Morris, Raymond Galligan, Lloyd Kelly, Micheal O'Domhnaill, I used to see Diarmuid Blake around and then they added Darragh Sheridan last year. smallfrank (Galway) - Posts: 630 - 15/10/2026 11:14:14 2697389 Link
Impressive back room team. Mix of former players and coaching experts. Best of luck to them ValPadden (Galway) - Posts: 3 - 15/10/2026 12:00:18 2697398 Link
Replying To WonTon5: "Is Dylan Canney worth a punt in a Galway development squad but this time as a keeper? Probably the best of the 4 on display this weekend. Could be interesting." He showed nothing of note in any of the games apart from claiming a high ball. His kickouts were very ordinary. Lavelle best of the senior 4 last weekend and Breathnach best of the intermediates. Same old names we've seen before. Stick with Eamonn McGrath next year. jobseekersbent (Galway) - Posts: 405 - 15/10/2026 12:17:59 2697404 Link
Replying To GDL: "No, not from what I saw, lumping the ball into the a cluster of people, sure that is what the Enda Colleran did back in the day. The keeper we should be looking at in addition to what we have is Kieran McDonagh (Caherlistrane)." McDonagh is a good free taker but I didn't see anything special regarding kickouts. Just lumped it out on their big lads. jobseekersbent (Galway) - Posts: 405 - 15/10/2026 12:19:58 2697406 Link
Replying To LetsPlayBall: "Agreed. Deserves his chance. Time to forget about Flaherty he doesn't even play in goal for his club. Gleeson deserves to be kept but would like to see Canney give him a run for his money. Superb under high ball and has many different various types of kickouts in his locker." He showed no variety in his kickouts. Lavelle was the better of the 2 on the day. jobseekersbent (Galway) - Posts: 405 - 15/10/2026 12:21:24 2697407 Link
At least now we know makeup of backroom team honestly it not very inspiring I know Bradshaw with 20s two years ago left after 1 year o Donnell with minors also about 2 years ago also big year for Dave Morris this be his 3rd year and so far in first 2 average at best ,, there definitely needs 6-8 new players added to whole squad Kickitout (Galway) - Posts: 1184 - 15/10/2026 14:00:17 2697422 Link
Very underwhelming backroom team. Bradshaw & O Donnell have little or no experience in management and both were parts of average Galway teams that got regular thumpings from Mayo when playing. Dont understand Bradshaw appointment he left before mid championship after he got a red card. He also was not involved with Moycullen when they made their breakthrough which was down to a fallout with management not exactly setting an example. To be fair to O Donnell whilst I found him a bit limited from an inter county point of view he did come across as the ultimate professional as a player. Will there be a coach appointed or will Eamonn Fitz do most of this himself? Morris brings a bit of continuity as was involved for last couple of years with PJ. I honestly dont know much about Lisa Fallon but if she was part of Jim Gavins all conquering team she surely got some insight. Who will be the sports psychologist? Is Johnson part of it and if so does he vacate u20s or is this to offer continuity & succession down the line. Eire89 (Galway) - Posts: 528 - 15/10/2026 14:20:37 2697427 Link
A great game in the 19's final last night between Oranmore & Corofin. Some outstanding performances including young De Paor who scored very heavily. Its not very often we see it but Killian Joyce was kicking frees from distance with both feet. TheBishop (Galway) - Posts: 339 - 15/10/2026 14:21:46 2697428 Link