All Ireland U21 Football Championship - 9 Like(s)
Stay classy jack o Connor. Moaning about refs in a match you should have lost by 15 plus. You're taking the proverbials sir. Your team wasn't the first cousin of good enough to win on the day.

galwaydublin (National) - 17/04/2017 17:14:56

Do Dublin play 2 home games in the super 8s? - 5 Like(s)
The solution is simple. Dublin's "croke park" game should count as their home game, and on their home weekend, that game should be at a neutral venue. That way everyone gets one home, one away, and one neutral game. Fairness all round. It's unacceptable to call Croker a neutral venue when the dubs play all home games there

galwaydublin (National) - 23/09/2017 11:21:54

Galway Football 17/18 - 3 Like(s)
The biggest thing the team lacks is workrate and heart. Watching us against Kerry and the way Roscommon took on Mayo was like watching two different sports. It was obvious after 20 minutes we didn't believe we could beat Kerry. We lacked leadership only Bradshaw, Daly, Burke and to a lesser extent armie showed it. The team doesn't tackle, compare ours to mayo. In 2011, James Horan took over Mayo and got rid of players like Conor Mortimer who weren't prepared to work hard off the ball and be physical. I looked at players like shay Walsh and Johnny heaney and thought they wouldn't make that Mayo team as they're unaffordable luxuries when things get tough. Walsh has serious decisions to make if we want to replace, which means beat any of the top 4 in Dubs, Kerry, Tyrone or Mayo in Croker from August on.

galwaydublin (Galway) - 31/07/2017 04:59:01

Egg on James Horans face - 3 Like(s)
Yes, but what about Whelan and Dolan talking about a Mayo rossies final, and they didn't seem to think Galway existed. Horan was talking shit, as all evidence pointed to the gap closing. what made the victory sweeter for me was the drive through the maam valley and no Galway flags or cars. No traffic at all until I hit the outskirts of castlebar. The scenes on the pitch at the end I'll never forget, when the 1000 or so Galway fans sang the fields of athenry and the lifted a few players on their shoulders. Awesome. But Whelan and Dolan could never understand what it means to do that in McHale park, horan had simply forgotten so needed to be reminded. In short, the body language of the Galway team in the first ten was they were sick of losing to mayo and simply had enough. Wins like this make a team.

galwaydublin (National) - 19/06/2016 08:46:30

Spiddal Potential All Ireland Champs - 3 Like(s)
Well done to Naomh Éanna, we were well beaten. Their power and pace in the forward line has us shipping water and we never really plugged the leaks. Our sweeper system didnt work, as our usual centre back seemed lost as a sweeper. We in An Spidéal have no complaints, it makes it easy to accept when the opposition are better. There was no ifs, buts, ref decisions or controversies, and no, for all you smarties, no Maghnus mistake. Just simple. They could have had five other goal chances such was the accuracy of their play. Maghnus played the extra man well throughout the year, he saved us from losing a county final, so people can't moan when he makes a mistake as you have to take risks in big games. He is human. He did set up a goal chance in the first half with a foray from goal. He also made three great saves. The bigger challenge is maintaining our senior status over the years to come, which is far more important than any All Ireland Intermediate title. Thank you lads, great journey and memories for a lifetime, it was quite a ride, which will be forever remembered in an Baile Sin Againne. Its been emotional.

galwaydublin (Galway) - 20/01/2019 20:01:21

Will Leinster ever be competitive again? - 3 Like(s)
As a man, who spent the first fifteen years of his life in Dublin to galway parents, before moving to galway permanently, the issue isn't simply funding. I remember talking to my da 1 year after I moved in 1993 and saying that if Dublin ever go their act together, the rest of the country would have no hope. The funding goes primarily to coaching. Dublin GAA have 50 plus coaches, which is slightly less than the rest of the country combined. This imbalance needs to be addressed. What was done in Dublin could be done on a smaller scale in cork, Limerick, galway and especially Belfast. I've for a long time thought their should be two or more county teams in Dublin. Can't see it happening in my lifetime. I think this would even strengthen the Dublin GAA, as the third string dubs who beat kildare shows how many good players there are in Dublin, but of playing for Dublin is an unrealistic goal. The dubs have such a pick, they don't even need to go to inter and junior clubs like every other county does. I don't think Dublin GAA has made a great effort in expanding the game into non traditional areas and very few new clubs are formed. This should be the focus of funding IMAO. The final issue no one is talking about is the migration, and with it the genetic drain to Dublin. Think of all the future sons of current county players living in Dublin, and you only see Dublin becoming stronger. Which is why the only long term solution is to split them at the liffey, or along county council lines. You'd still have 2 to 4 excellent teams, would create new rivalries, and I think would add new life to the GAA. If two counties, both would have a bigger population than cork, if four, one would have the population of cork, and the other three of galway, which will only grow. At least leinster would be competitive.

galwaydublin (National) - 29/01/2017 09:16:27

Brolly on Gooch - 2 Like(s)

galwaydublin (National) - 10/04/2017 11:25:44

Brolly on Gooch - 2 Like(s)

galwaydublin (National) - 10/04/2017 11:18:07

Abuse Of KW & Some Players - 2 Like(s)

galwaydublin (Galway) - 07/07/2019 08:40:53

Galway hurlers to Munster? - 2 Like(s)
From hearing the comments of deveraux, the wexford chairman, and Cillian Buckley, as things stand, we're better off out. Deveraux is looking at it from a wexford point of view, while Buckley said it would be strange going to galway. It was strange when galway entered leinster, but now is almost normal. Isn't right years enough of a trial run. I think Munster's a more natural fit for galway. We have a massive border with Clare, and a smaller one with tipp, while Limerick is also near, and in all Munster counties, hurling is the number one game, while only in kilkenny and possibly wexford is that the case. If the Munster counties wouldn't mind playing our young lads and playing every second game in galway city, then it would work. Besides, all the Munster counties with the exception of kilkenny are a bigger draw than any leinster county, and the atmosphere at those games would be unreal, like in thurles, cork and Limerick. People, who say, "but what about the leinster championship", well, galway for some years have outlined their greviences, and have been ignored and ridiculed. Galway want a permanent home at all levels. The provincial and central councils have decisions to make.

galwaydublin (National) - 18/11/2016 11:12:07

What county do you want to get in the draw - 2 Like(s)
I want Mayo as early as possible. I've been listening to allot of rubbish talk that our win in DE BAR was a fluke. I want Mayo badly just to prove it was not so.

galwaydublin (National) - 03/10/2016 23:07:49

Anyone but Dublin or Kerry - 2 Like(s)
Gggggggg Galway

galwaydublin (National) - 24/07/2017 19:14:18

Neutral venue for Dublin and Tipperary - 2 Like(s)
If any other county yes, but the dubs footballers regularly enjoy home advantage, so not one bit sorry for them. Cork could have home advantage for the quarters. They have to play somewhere.

galwaydublin (National) - 03/07/2017 21:20:31

New Players For Football Panel 2019 - 2 Like(s)
Corofin have no problem letting Daithí Burke going on a friendly the other side of the world, but won't release players for some FBD and league matches in order to stake a claim. They have to change this as the players ultimately suffer. Not saying all games, just some.

galwaydublin (Galway) - 11/11/2018 20:52:34

Brolly on Gooch - 2 Like(s)
Read brollys article, well written, excellent, no problem, this is a democracy. His points on the Sunday game, equally so. But Joe, as whelo said, would ya shut up a second and let others finish. Other than that, no issues with anything you wrote or said, pretty much all correct.

galwaydublin (National) - 10/04/2017 11:29:15

Galway play Antrim (or Ulster Champs) - 2 Like(s)
I presume this refers to minor hurling. As I recall, galway wanted into leinster two years ago at all levels, but the lc said no. Ur can't then try and determine the draw outside leinster, when ye wouldn't let galway in fully .Made your bed.......

galwaydublin (National) - 11/07/2016 09:25:08

Kevin Walsh Needs To Walk - 1 Like(s)

galwaydublin (Galway) - 06/08/2017 07:37:57

Dublin refusing to do one-on-one broadcast interviews - 1 Like(s)
who cares, their interviews are generally boring. Jim Gavins outburst the other night was mad, you'd swear he was pissed off with Pat Spillane for ratting DC out. Mad stuff. Anyway, onwards and upwards.

galwaydublin (National) - 27/06/2017 21:49:12

Kids living and developing in one county but... - 1 Like(s)
Ridiculous thread. I was born in Dublin, lived there for a number of years to galway parents. Supported both counties, how dare anyone tell me I couldn't. Family moved to galway in my teens, played with people who won all Irelands with galway, and now am a galway fanatic with Dublin just another county to me, even though I'm living in Dublin. Supporting a county is from your heart, not GAA rules, or nosenical details like where you live.

galwaydublin (National) - 20/05/2017 20:43:36

Galway Vs Dublin - 1 Like(s)

galwaydublin (National) - 08/08/2018 19:50:06