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If all were fit and available I think PJ would see something close to below as his preferred 15. With likes of Molloy, Hernon, Conroy and Daly being called off the bench. It's vital that a few new players step up this year and show their worthy of meaningful game time in big championship games

Gleeson
McGrath Fitzgerald Glynn
McHugh Kelly Silke
Maher Darcy
Tierney Thompson McDaid
Finnerty Comer Walsh

gaillimhboy (Galway) - Posts: 393 - 12/01/2026 11:47:24    2650770

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Replying To Drax_the_destroyer:  "Joyce most certainly will continue the experiment way and if you take a trimming off a near Mayo championships team so what? Sure let all hype get heaped on them before the more important league game between the two"
You're the one trying to hype Mayo up on every thread here. Loads of potential starters were absent yesterday FYI but you seem to be in the know about Mayo's 2026 championship team.

MayoDan (Mayo) - Posts: 499 - 12/01/2026 12:29:17    2650782

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Replying To GreenandRed:  "You're spot on. Bar a good league from a new manager bounce in 2023, we've been on the wane for 4 years. We need to unearth new talent, unseat some players from the comfort of guaranteed starts and not have a team that picks itself. I don't know if I'm optimistic that will happen. Time will tell."
Ye have some good young lads to bring in though.
The likes of Beirne, Lydon and Kobe for example - while they are young - are great lads to be able to bring in off the bench as they are all very accurate. And crucially all well able to kick two pointers.
I don't feel like we have the same injection of young forward talent available to us at the moment.
We got Thompson last year but I don't think there's much else there. Possibly Colm Costello who is talented but physically very small and probably needs time to bulk up a bit.

galwayman2 (Galway) - Posts: 1341 - 12/01/2026 13:15:14    2650796

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So who is unavailable at the moment?

Thompson - Gone to US until May.
Maher - Still recovering from injury?
Conroy - Expected back but not official yet. Will hardly play much league anyway at this stage.
D'Arcy - Long club campaign. Will probably get a break until last couple games of the league.
Comer - Who knows?

Heaney and Tomo gone off the panel.

Marooned (Galway) - Posts: 2461 - 12/01/2026 14:08:24    2650805

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