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Ya, saying it for years tbh. We've way too many teams at senior who are senior in name only. We don't have enough good teams to justify that amount of senior teams. Intermediate is meant to be a high level as well, there's such a stigma with being intermediate team in Galway. Such bs, if you're good enough you'll be a senior team. Years of nobody going down abs even the year of two teams coming, the Galway intermediate championship has become a terrible standard of hurling. The amount of second teams in it is growing and junior A has long become a second teams only competition too. Only fooling ourselves with this. Swelled championships are leaving so many teams in Senior in some kind of purgatory, not nearly good enough to threaten the latter stages of senior and still in no real danger of being relegated because there'll always 3/4 very bad teams (for senior) below them and just have to win one of those. Like I know there'll always a few teams ahead of the rest but at least with 16 it cuts out a lot of the deadwood. Think of the teams that came through tough intermediate championship 7/8/9 years ago and it did them well when they got to senior, Cappataggle, Killimordaly etc basically any one who is any good is up senior now and what your left with is a very poor intermediate/junior level and a senior championship that only starts meaning something once you get to quarter finals when the quality jumps up a good few notchs. Sure it'll mean some very big clubs like Athenry, Ardrahan, Portumna etc could be intermediate but let them earn their top level status (not picking on those clubs, just using them as examples) for too long in Galway it was very easy get out of relegation. Even the way Kiltormer survived relegation from intermediate because it would be bad for them. Ffs Glenmore won a senior club all Ireland and they went down junior too. We're so obsessed with trying retain status in Galway with clubs than we don't ask the question "do we deserve to stay up/are we really good enough to be here/are we improving at all the way things are run?" When we're the only ones out of 32 counties that can't keep get out championship down to the correct amount you have to ask maybe, just maybe we're wrong?
ML89 (Galway) - Posts: 39 - 15/12/2021 11:57:58 2392890 Link 2 |
Let's hope it happens then. Your proposal would also help with all the scheduling conflicts too.
Trump2020 (Galway) - Posts: 2113 - 15/12/2021 12:39:10 2392902 Link 0 |
You are spot on. Obsessed with a 'senior' tag. When the 16,16,16 format comes in, my club will prob suffer the drop. Well, reality check.... we will be back up when good enough. Plenty more like it. Glenmore a great example. Tullaroan too. Them boys are back where they belong on merit. They have medals along the way too, and memories of winning silverware. That is what its all about. Not how many relegation battles you won and how many years you hurled 'senior'. the 16,16,16 will shake things up and let teams fight like dogs for their status. Egos will be hurt, but by god we will have cracking championships and local derbies fighting for survival etc.
GalwaysFinest (Galway) - Posts: 190 - 15/12/2021 15:24:13 2392934 Link 2 |
FAO incoming committee, please remove the current shambles of a galway website and update to modern, user friendly wesbites THAT ARE UPDATED DAILY but future fixtures and current results CillTormoir (Galway) - Posts: 485 - 16/12/2021 09:26:08 2392979 Link 1 |
Use a hyperlink, it should be more convenient. BubleWar (Galway) - Posts: 2 - 16/12/2021 13:10:34 2393011 Link 1 |
So its confirmed Toms & Ballyhale. should be a cracker. I had Ballyhale wrote off after spluttering over MLR and was fairly confident when I saw Rhynaghs take the lead in semifinal, however that game seems to have been the kick they needed! Wont look into their game yesterday as Toms will be a few steps above CloughBalla, but can they sit with Ballyhale for a full 60 odd minutes? Im not sure! keeping out the goals Ballyhale go for will be a huge factor, and that FF line they have v Toms FB line? CillTormoir (Galway) - Posts: 485 - 20/12/2021 10:03:35 2393304 Link 1 |
Once Ballyhale hit Croke Park, they're very hard to beat. Yesterday's score didn't surprise me at all. They've been there so often and tend to improve as they progress. Catching them early is the best bet. WanPintWin (Galway) - Posts: 2034 - 20/12/2021 14:22:00 2393329 Link 1 |
I'd love to see Thomas's win it again but it won't be easy.
Trump2020 (Galway) - Posts: 2113 - 20/12/2021 19:38:46 2393364 Link 0 |
All Ireland Club Semi Finals katser (Galway) - Posts: 2192 - 21/12/2021 19:58:56 2393443 Link 1 |
Unfortunately they didn't come thru, Ballyhale did Ballyhale by 8 SixtiesKid (Galway) - Posts: 304 - 22/12/2021 12:17:03 2393476 Link 0 |
I think that is wishful thinking TBH. BS hammered Toms by 17 points the last time they played in the AI Club Final on St Paddy's Day 2019 and even with the injuries Toms had before / during that game, it is difficult to see how that kind of margin can be bridged given that BS do not seem significantly weaker than they were at that time and even allowing for Toms being a little stronger (on paper at least).
tommy k (Galway) - Posts: 3314 - 22/12/2021 12:22:58 2393478 Link 2 |
That's a nice Final Four of teams that are all good enough to win it. If Thomas's don't win it I'd love to see Ballygunner win it all.
Trump2020 (Galway) - Posts: 2113 - 22/12/2021 12:57:01 2393481 Link 0 |
Am I missing something here or are Kilmallock still involved?
seventyniner (Galway) - Posts: 41 - 22/12/2021 17:27:51 2393502 Link 1 |
Ya, I agree. Tom's are a fine team and maybe in a different era without this Ballyhale team they might have another all Ireland club title. It's not so much the loosing to teams like Ballyhale that will be held against them when analysing them with the great club teams that have came out of Galway. It's the losses to Borrisileigh and Ballyea that will probably go against them more. They probably haven't beaten a really big team outside Galway too. Like you'd have to have Portumna, Athenry and Sarsfields above them as they beat the best teams they played. Athenry beating Birr, Portumna beating Ballyhale being the main examples. Not taking anything away from their record in Galway because it is insane and maybe the lack of a real test in Galway the last 5,6 years has come against them and lack of a province when going in against teams in semi finals/finals because in no way do I think either Borrisileigh, Ballyea are better than them or that Ballyhale are 17 points better than them. Hope they show their class that we all know they have now against Ballyhale and maybe being underdogs going into this game will help them. Super team all the same, county championships are still a huge deal. Ballyhale will win but don't think they'll have it all their own way and if Tom's do win it and then the final, they'll have to be in conversation as one of the greatest clubs to come out of Galway then and would do them justice. Hope I'm proved wrong on this one!
ML89 (Galway) - Posts: 39 - 22/12/2021 18:09:02 2393505 Link 1 |
Is there a Walsh Cup panel list available to view ahead of Sunday, I see other counties releasing theirs CillTormoir (Galway) - Posts: 485 - 04/01/2022 14:24:08 2393553 Link 1 |
this is Galway
SixtiesKid (Galway) - Posts: 304 - 04/01/2022 15:25:01 2393565 Link 2 |
Silly me thinking we are onto a new chapter in Galway
CillTormoir (Galway) - Posts: 485 - 04/01/2022 16:11:29 2393576 Link 2 |
Sunday, January 23 Cockney_Cat (UK) - Posts: 2446 - 05/01/2022 14:06:53 2393685 Link 1 |
St.Thomas' v Ballygunner All Ireland Club Final. katser (Galway) - Posts: 2192 - 05/01/2022 15:14:04 2393702 Link 1 |
I hope you're right but Ballyhale won't be easy.
Trump2020 (Galway) - Posts: 2113 - 07/01/2022 11:08:10 2393903 Link 0 |