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Replying To Mayonman:  "Dubln were a class a head of us at the time.

We did miss a penalty and had a simple 2 on 1 for another goal all around the time Comer scored the goal. It would have been interesting if we got the 3 goals in a couple of minutes. That would rattle most teams.

However that Dublin team were class. I have no doubt they would still have reeled us in...... and then it would really have hurt!"
Dublin certainly feared Galway at that stage. Was third clash that year.

I thought manager got short straw before Joyce came in. Took a lot of flak but was going right way. Took a few years for PJ to get back to that level?

BarneyGrant (Dublin) - Posts: 4418 - 24/06/2026 14:02:34    2681694

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Replying To Maroon26:  "Couldn't agree more! Madness for management to leave a man that wasn't fully fit taking frees and not make a change.....i was at the game and its a game i haven't watch back and I don't think I'll ever get over it.....i can't imagine how the players feel."
Bit of a misconception around the frees that day. Understandable that Galway fans have never watched, or wanted to watch it back

After main free taker Finnerty went off, Walsh missed 4 "placed balls", two frees in the first half which he should've gotten. However the two in the second half were marks, which he won because of that old stupid rule whereby you'd get a free kick at goal for catching a 20m pass

So nobody else could've taken those kicks. They were both 40m out and from the left, which Cahair o'Kane explained in an article last week is basically a dead zone for scoring in Croke park, you very rarely see 2 pointers from there and people often turn down shots from that side into the hill. So while they looked bad at the time, there's probably some mitigating circumstances in hindsight. Hobbling with an injury obviously not helping either

PressureKick (UK) - Posts: 380 - 24/06/2026 15:02:07    2681701

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