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Replying To tommy k:  "Noone is saying those players mentioned are "silver bullets" but they have speed / skill and would at least have been able to keep up / track back their opponents which was sadly absent in the middle third last Sunday. You mention Tuohy was poor against Carlow - Cyril Farrell thought he played very well (scoring a good point in the process) and Cyril knows his hurling like its "nuts to a monkey!" Also I saw Linnane soloing into cul de sacs and getting turned over a few times last Sunday - David Burke and Glennon hardly did anything of note (most notably tackling their men / tracking back) and none of those 3 even scored but you may have missed all that!"
Telling me what Cyril Farrell said during a match tells me all I need to know. Sitting at home "watching a match" through a radio. Tuhoy was very poor. Consistently gave the ball away. Stretch the legs, attend the odd match. Might be able to form an opinion yourself rather than relying on Cyril to you thinking for you.

Point stands with your thinking:

Anyone that plays poorly = to the gallows - half the county is better. Rinse and repeat. Here's 20 random names off the top of my head.

SamandLiamSoon (Galway) - Posts: 624 - 30/04/2024 13:11:12    2541783

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Replying To Tiger1:  "Dont know to be honest dont really follow either side especially that year when we were kings of leinster ouselves but fairly sure it was kk we beat in leinster final that year dont know where ye ended up."
We admire your optimism also tiger with your dismissive attitude of other teams - a bit like your dismissive attitude of Antrim last weekend and Westmeath last year that came back to bite ye hard! lol

tommy k (Galway) - Posts: 3470 - 30/04/2024 13:12:21    2541785

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Replying To Tiger1:  "Admire your optimisum but dont share it dont think ye will be a big threat if ye get out of the round robin that is too many slow players need more pace to trouble any of the top teams like clare or limerick."
You worry about your own county and its mindset, we're fairly handy at being critical of our own. We don't need any...what's the word...oh yes, flaky, any flaky ideas coming across the Shannon.

baire (Galway) - Posts: 1849 - 30/04/2024 13:21:20    2541791

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Replying To SamandLiamSoon:  "Telling me what Cyril Farrell said during a match tells me all I need to know. Sitting at home "watching a match" through a radio. Tuhoy was very poor. Consistently gave the ball away. Stretch the legs, attend the odd match. Might be able to form an opinion yourself rather than relying on Cyril to you thinking for you.

Point stands with your thinking:

Anyone that plays poorly = to the gallows - half the county is better. Rinse and repeat. Here's 20 random names off the top of my head."
So you are saying Linnane didn't give the ball away the last day a number of times by soloing blindly into cul de sacs and Burke / Glennon played well marking their men and making / taking scores? If you think that its you that might as well "sit at home"! Don't worry I saw both games and know what happened.

tommy k (Galway) - Posts: 3470 - 30/04/2024 13:33:38    2541794

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Replying To SamandLiamSoon:  "Telling me what Cyril Farrell said during a match tells me all I need to know. Sitting at home "watching a match" through a radio. Tuhoy was very poor. Consistently gave the ball away. Stretch the legs, attend the odd match. Might be able to form an opinion yourself rather than relying on Cyril to you thinking for you.

Point stands with your thinking:

Anyone that plays poorly = to the gallows - half the county is better. Rinse and repeat. Here's 20 random names off the top of my head."
I was at the game and he wasn't that poor, and no worse than Linnane. Tuohey is a good hurler and a hardy boy with an AI medal to show for it. Would start him wing-back on Saturday ahead of Linnane.

Triffic (Galway) - Posts: 166 - 30/04/2024 13:46:48    2541802

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Replying To Viking66:  "Why would a Wexford lad be doing any favours for Kilkenny? Also you got a point given that was a foot wide at the weekend, so really you lost that game, whatever the official score."
We could have been 10 down and Kilkenny would have found a way to not win it in reality

Stool Pigeon (Galway) - Posts: 915 - 30/04/2024 13:51:09    2541803

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Replying To tommy k:  "True - it will be very difficult but Wexford posters and others are saying that Galway did not play well last Sunday but still got a draw so I would expect Galway to improve a lot from the last day which may get us over the line."
but you were complaining about the performance and individual players too tommy, you can't have it both ways, why is it ok for you to criticize but not ok for them to essentially agree with you?

Stool Pigeon (Galway) - Posts: 915 - 30/04/2024 13:54:18    2541804

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Replying To tommy k:  "Yes and some are getting worse the more games they actually play! lol"
I'd venture that according to you, the correct Galway team hasn't been picked for a match we have lost in your lifetime :)

Stool Pigeon (Galway) - Posts: 915 - 30/04/2024 13:56:17    2541805

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Replying To galway19:  "I can't see much of a crowd travelling down to Wexford to be honest. Game is massive for Wexford to stay alive but not as much for us with Antrim and Dublin to come where it would be a major surprise not to get four points there. Great if we win as would pretty much wrap up the Leinster final spot but in six or eight weeks time you wouldn't want to be judging yourself off how you played against Wexford.

Hopefully John Cooney and Donal O'Shea get a start along with Adrian Touhey."
Why hasn't Adrian Tuohy played more in recent years? Was he injured?

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 15831 - 30/04/2024 13:58:04    2541807

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Replying To tommy k:  "Ara come on how often did Galway and Wexford actually meet in those "ancient history" times? I am only concerned with the Leinster championship since Galway entered it in 2009 and Wexford have not beaten Galway during all that time! lol"
Probably around as often as we met since 96:-D

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 15831 - 30/04/2024 13:58:46    2541808

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Replying To baire:  "By comparing the previous provincial knockout system to the present one, warts and all, you're clutching at the straws of history! Beating a Connacht hurling team or an Ulster hurling team, both gaelic football provinces, in knockout championship is not much to brag about tbh. The provincial system is not a fair one, never was and never could be in either code, but the powers that be were not interested in fairness. The Leinster hurling championship during Cody's reign was a joke and the Leinster Football championship is now a joke but the biggest joke is the GAA and its stuck in the mud provincial mentality."
Was only replying to a lad who keeps spouting that we haven't beaten you since 96 when we hardly played you at all til the 2017 final, if we even played you at all since 96!

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 15831 - 30/04/2024 14:00:43    2541813

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Replying To tommy k:  "So you are saying Linnane didn't give the ball away the last day a number of times by soloing blindly into cul de sacs and Burke / Glennon played well marking their men and making / taking scores? If you think that its you that might as well "sit at home"! Don't worry I saw both games and know what happened."
Where did I mention Linnane or defend Linnane? I wouldn't be starting either. Not sure why you want to drop Linnane to replace him with a lad who did the exact same thing the week before but against Carlow!

Must be nice sitting at games in the press box beside Cyril listening to all his little tidbits.

SamandLiamSoon (Galway) - Posts: 624 - 30/04/2024 14:01:33    2541814

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Replying To baire:  "By comparing the previous provincial knockout system to the present one, warts and all, you're clutching at the straws of history! Beating a Connacht hurling team or an Ulster hurling team, both gaelic football provinces, in knockout championship is not much to brag about tbh. The provincial system is not a fair one, never was and never could be in either code, but the powers that be were not interested in fairness. The Leinster hurling championship during Cody's reign was a joke and the Leinster Football championship is now a joke but the biggest joke is the GAA and its stuck in the mud provincial mentality."
Was only replying to a lad who keeps spouting that we haven't beaten you since 96 when we hardly played you at all til the 2017 final, if we even played you at all since 96!

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 15831 - 30/04/2024 14:19:20    2541818

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Replying To Viking66:  "Was only replying to a lad who keeps spouting that we haven't beaten you since 96 when we hardly played you at all til the 2017 final, if we even played you at all since 96!"
I remember a meeting with Galway around 2010 in the Leinster quarter final in Kilkenny. Think Galway won by about 10 points on the day

Afinestick96 (Wexford) - Posts: 602 - 30/04/2024 14:38:31    2541825

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Replying To Viking66:  "Why would a Wexford lad be doing any favours for Kilkenny? Also you got a point given that was a foot wide at the weekend, so really you lost that game, whatever the official score."
On that basis, we also won the 1985 all-ireland, and if you're unaware of that, you might like to check it out.

Pope_Benedict (Galway) - Posts: 4145 - 30/04/2024 14:41:28    2541826

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Replying To Viking66:  "Was only replying to a lad who keeps spouting that we haven't beaten you since 96 when we hardly played you at all til the 2017 final, if we even played you at all since 96!"
Whatever spouting is going on between Galway and Wexford online doesn't change the fact that KK are going for a 5 in a row! That's the real story.

baire (Galway) - Posts: 1849 - 30/04/2024 14:43:37    2541827

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Replying To Viking66:  "Why hasn't Adrian Tuohy played more in recent years? Was he injured?"
I see him as a frustrating player good solid hard defender but needs to know his limitations and not be headless he's cat for going for shots and taking on his man when better off letting the ball go as he's not a great striker.

jm25 (Galway) - Posts: 1528 - 30/04/2024 14:43:49    2541828

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Replying To Viking66:  "Was only replying to a lad who keeps spouting that we haven't beaten you since 96 when we hardly played you at all til the 2017 final, if we even played you at all since 96!"
Since win v Galway in 96 the record is:
Lost 2010, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2023
Drew 2019, 2022
Tbf it is quite a poor record with some heavy enough beatings in there but there was 14 years of not playing each other, which in itself was mad how managed to avoid each other, must've played every other team in Ireland about twice in those 14 years.

Throughthemidfieldhewasstormin (Wexford) - Posts: 320 - 30/04/2024 14:48:46    2541829

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Replying To Viking66:  "You actually never beat us in a Championship hurling game in the first 125 years of the GAA. Think your 1st ever win against us in intercounty Championship hurling was in the 20 teens. You are going to have to stay beating us long after we are both dead to match that record."
No reason in the world to think that we won't stay bate'in Wexford for years to come. Whether we're alive or not to see it is irrelevant. Galway didn't win a minor all-ireland until 1983, and now sit near the top of the roll of honour. A stack of all ireland club titles have also been won in the same time frame. Galway have looked more like 'big3' than Cork for the last 20 years. Sorry to upset southerners with that, but it's only a fact. Limerick of course jumped straight over the 'big3' 2018-20?? to undisputed top dog status, and on into the GOAT conversation.

Pope_Benedict (Galway) - Posts: 4145 - 30/04/2024 14:55:16    2541830

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Replying To Pope_Benedict:  "No reason in the world to think that we won't stay bate'in Wexford for years to come. Whether we're alive or not to see it is irrelevant. Galway didn't win a minor all-ireland until 1983, and now sit near the top of the roll of honour. A stack of all ireland club titles have also been won in the same time frame. Galway have looked more like 'big3' than Cork for the last 20 years. Sorry to upset southerners with that, but it's only a fact. Limerick of course jumped straight over the 'big3' 2018-20?? to undisputed top dog status, and on into the GOAT conversation."
For sure Pope. But you have been big 3 in terms of number of hurlers and clubs since organised hurling began. Just not in Senior AIs.

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 15831 - 30/04/2024 15:28:25    2541864

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