Replying To togoutlads: "Yes agreed on your point re marketing of our games in Galway. It's poor and quite amateurish. A problem in marketing Galway's county teams and thus building up the crowds and a larger fan base is this - we're not winning! We don't do momentum or consistency. We don't build up 'Big Mo' - large scale momentum, a phenomenon that's been talked about in US sports marketing since the 1960s, where winning brings crowds, crowds brings money to feed further development, ongoing development brings longer term success. Big Mo doesn't just apply to professional sport, it applies to amateur sport too. I'll focus on football for a min. We never build solid momentum year on year, like the Dubs, Kerry, Mayo. Under Joyce's tenure you've all seen what we're capable of when it's all coming together but what is allowed to happen is that we're peaking and troughing and in any code that loses the people. The troughs endure far longer than the peaks and nobody here really wants to go out of their way to watch their beloved maroon and white lose. Parents won't bring the young kids and the massive numbers of more peripheral supporters (as opposed to the small number of regularly attending diehards) just won't venture out to see us beaten and play incoherent, back-peddling football. The regular punter, the thousands of families and kids involved in our games in the county, want to see us having a cut, taking down the noisy neighbours, beating a Dublin or a Kerry, but it just doesn't happen. It's damaging our prospects and it's hard to see how it's going to change any time soon."
Very true - Galway GAA teams don't do long term momentum or consistency too well. The last football team to do that was the 60's 3 in a row team (one could also argue the late 90's / early 00's team had a decent level of consistency) and the last hurling team to do it was the late 80's team where there was no provincial championship to play.
tommy k (Galway) - Posts: 3305 - 28/03/2024 10:47:57
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Galway actually got 2 goals in the first 15 minutes but 6 points is a paltry return overall. Only 2 points scored in the 2nd half. 2 early points after half time but then didn't score at all for the last 30 minutes of the game.
Feels like we are slipping at bit at underage again after a good last decade. No Connacht title since 2018 at minor. Even though they won the AI through the back door in 22. No Connacht U20 title since 2020."
how many counties have won both the minor and under 20 football All-Irelands in the past 4 or 5 years? Would Galway be the only one?
Replying To maroondiesel: "how many counties have won both the minor and under 20 football All-Irelands in the past 4 or 5 years? Would Galway be the only one?"
Replying To maroondiesel: "how many counties have won both the minor and under 20 football All-Irelands in the past 4 or 5 years? Would Galway be the only one?"
Strange how low a transition rate from minor to u20/21. Hurling is even worse. Galways last u21 success in 2011. Minor success in 2009 translated to u21 in 2011 but not in 2012 when you would expect, Since 2009, 6 more minor All Irelands without any u21/u20
Replying To LottoPlus: "I actually went to the match. Galway could have had a third goal in the first half only for a good save by the goalie. When Thompson and then Kilcommons went off injured we lost our way and midfield. For those two in particular it is the work they do off the ball (running lines, plugging holes, unseen work) that was missing. Thought some of the lads brought the ball into tackles and were easily turned over. Some were very greedy on the ball, that comes from playing poor opposition last week and thinking you could get away with it again. I think they will learn but they better pray Kilcommons and Thompsons injuries are not that bad."
Yeah, Thompson was a huge loss when he went off. He was pulling most of the strings in attack when Galway were on top for the first 25 minutes and they looked a bit lost after he went off. Savo said he had a dead leg so hopefully he'll be ok for Sligo next week in what is probably a must win game now.