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You're afraid? Even I think that today was all about winning a title. Dylan mc hugh, Finnerty, Walsh, Comer in spurts were excellent. Our midfield were not cleaned out but battled hard. Tierney doing a lot of off the ball work. Let's tonight congratulate all involved.. King's of connacht and back to our rightful spot of the best sporting county in the West... Belclare (Galway) - Posts: 904 - 29/05/2022 18:08:01 2420818 Link 2 |
Really excellent performance. Pity about the goals at the end because 3 points is not a fair reflection of the game. Mayonman (Galway) - Posts: 1824 - 29/05/2022 19:12:47 2420841 Link 0 |
Just back in from Salthill. Traffic was the worst I've encountered going to Salthill but that was to be expected. Huge Ros crowd but unfortunately very little to shout about. Well done Galway, they were excellent today. Extremely efficient in front of goal compared to us who had by my count 8 wides in the first half alone. The big turning point for me was when Enda was straight through on goal and somehow kicked it wide with Eddie Nolan to his right and an almost certain goal to be had. But Galway come right back down the field from the kick out and score their first goal. Our defense was an absolute mess again. I can't understand how we just let Galway waltz through time and again to score with barely a hand laid on them. I felt Galway couldn't put a foot wrong today whereas we couldn't get much right. A large chunk of good fortune for Galways second goal also but in truth we can't argue with the final result. Galway fully deserved their win and Comer, Walsh and Conroy were impressive again but I thought Cillian McDaid in particular was excellent for Galway. Harney was out standout player. What a powerful runner and some great fielding too. I thought to myself at one stage if we had 15 Ultan Harneys we would be hard stopped such was his determination, power and accuracy. Anyway I hope management will finally learn that the defense needs to be shored up big time and get numbers back to stop teams running straight through us. Hopefully a good draw in the qualifiers and we can get back to the quarter finals at least as I still believe we have huge potential in this team. We just need a few tweaks and get the confidence going again and I've no doubt we'll have a couple more great days out with this team. Ros Comain Abu ComainRos (Roscommon) - Posts: 102 - 29/05/2022 20:02:35 2420868 Link 0 |
I wouldn't say "we secured a reasonable high % of our own kicks today" - Roscommon must have won at least 70% of the long kicks to midfield by picking up the breaks etc. especially in the last quarter of the game. This is something that has been an issue for Galway teams over the 20 years or so i.e. winning at least 50% possession from kick-outs even against the so-called weaker teams. If we have our sights set on going further this needs to drastically improve along with the short kick-outs. Was disappointed by Matt Tierney again today as he seems to be a shadow of the player he was a couple of years ago especially when he was MOTM in most of Oughterard's displays in winning the Intermediate Club AI and must be now under pressure from the likes of Niall Daly for a starting place. Conroy was not his usual dominant self at midfield apart from his great point in the second half but he is entitled to a quiet game by his standards now and again!
tommy k (Galway) - Posts: 3305 - 29/05/2022 20:03:11 2420869 Link 1 |
well done to all today., couldn't make the game as i was at a wedding but ill certainly be there gbay (Galway) - Posts: 246 - 29/05/2022 20:08:58 2420871 Link 1 |
Should have won by more as we managed to contain most of the Ros key men. Harney stood out for them but Cillian McDaid in the centre area was also very effective. Great that we don't have to totally depend on Paul Conroy in this area. The late scores disappointing after how having largely controlled the game until the 60th minute. Always things to work on but PJ somewhat vindicated after lots of unfair criticism over the last two years. The national media seem slow to warm to us as all the conversation is about Kerry, the Dubs are back and Derry (rightly so in their case after their long wait for a provincial title). But who cares. We just move on and keep going. Gaillimh Abu as always. kiloughter (Galway) - Posts: 1941 - 29/05/2022 20:25:21 2420878 Link 1 |
Congratulations Galway on your win today. A very high proportion of your scores came from play and ye had very few wides. All the Rossies that I spoke to during and after the match felt that you fully deserved your win, and that the margin could well have been more than 3 points. To be honest I thought our (Roscommon) shot selection and accurate shooting was the strongest part of our game all year, but we did not do ourselves justice in that department today. I still think that there may well be a kick in our team depending on the draw. To get within three points of a very strong Galway team having left our kicking boots at home during the first half, suggests to me that all is not lost for the Rossies. letsgetgoing (Roscommon) - Posts: 463 - 29/05/2022 20:32:24 2420882 Link 0 |
Congratulations on a job well done. Galway the smarter team on the day. Obviously learned a lot from the league meeting. Roscommon reverted to their over passing game among the forwards and some loose defending among the backs. Bother teams need to improve if they are to be taken seriously for the remainder of the campaign Rossieforever (Roscommon) - Posts: 83 - 29/05/2022 21:23:29 2420899 Link 0 |
Think defensively while we were very sticky at times - in terms of not putting in much tackles yeah maybe not but we're still not letting them shoot easily. Don't think we need to tackle that hard especially since some of them are good at winning frees and they've some really good freetakers to punish. Tackles in where it matters - at enda smith the full time, not letting him run thought was great. Molloy much better today than last couple of times, black card aside. systematic (Galway) - Posts: 69 - 30/05/2022 07:25:19 2420912 Link 0 |
Kick outs Galway 27, won 17 and lost 10. Kick outs Roscommon 24, won 22 and lost 2. There is still an awful lot of work to be done here. As for Tierney, I can't agree with you, after he went off yesterday and against Mayo the last day, the opposition looked dangerous running from midfield. He does an awful lot of unseen work. EDH (Galway) - Posts: 367 - 30/05/2022 07:52:10 2420915 Link 0 |
Some good questions around the qualifiers / quarter finals. Maybe someone can enlighten. I cant seem to find it documented anywhere. My understanding is that repeats of provincial finals will be avoided in the QF , but other repeats are allowed, but I could be wrong. Also I think the QFs are set for CP, but again , I dont see this documented.
anotheralias (Galway) - Posts: 830 - 30/05/2022 09:31:41 2420945 Link 0 |
Anyone who is questioning some of the decisions could do worse than read Brian Gavin's (former all ireland ref) weekly piece in the Monday examiner in terms of the key incidents from the weekends matches. He notes the rule change on the footblock so a marginal one and would have been harsh on us given the rule change. Kieran Molloy unfortunately for us had to go on black but Brian Stack was lucky with his drag down on Damo when the latter was one on one with the goal. On the match very little noted on the two goal chances we butchered and we will need to convert those on other days. Enda Smith's first half miss was key as he often converts those and this has naturally being highlighted. Ros I think will get more out of our forward line the next day but maybe just maybe the pressure they were under should be credited to our backs as typically they will do damage with space etc. kiloughter (Galway) - Posts: 1941 - 30/05/2022 09:45:06 2420949 Link 0 |
We agree on the kick-outs and perhaps the cameras don't pick up enough of the unseen work by Tierney but I would still say he is not looking like a scoring threat now as he did a couple of years ago and I don't see him making too many tackles on opposition players.
tommy k (Galway) - Posts: 3305 - 30/05/2022 10:33:56 2420970 Link 0 |
Agree on Tierney. Huge amount of tracking and running, ran himself into the ground against Mayo and again yesterday. smallfrank (Galway) - Posts: 357 - 30/05/2022 11:54:15 2421021 Link 0 |
Connacht Champions and getting ready for the big road trip! Happy days. A great day out in sunny Salthill yesterday. Delighted for all the panel and management - well deserved. togoutlads (Galway) - Posts: 894 - 30/05/2022 12:00:58 2421025 Link 1 |
Taught it was a foot block myself. There was a yard at most between it. We got a decision go against us a few years ago when the "Block" was at least 8 yards away. Any similar incident i have seen in the last few years have always been penalties. That said it made F all of a difference. Galway were much better side and we score a goal in the next few mins anyway that may not have happened had the Penalty been given. On the stack pull back i taught he pulled Comer back and comer went to ground but i didn't see a pulling down action which it needs to be for a black. Galway will take beaten and much more in Conroy who was for once dominated yesterday. Finnerty always produces against us in fairness to him. sourmilk93 (Roscommon) - Posts: 1142 - 30/05/2022 12:23:00 2421032 Link 1 |
Congrats tp PJ and his team and the players for a very good display yesterday. I think, no that they are out on Connacht they could improve again. Super decision in not having Shane involved in the game all the time, which meant there wasn't 2 defenders marking him. Ross are a very good side but do seem to save their best for Connacht, if they can put this behind them they can progress. I thought again though that Ultan got away with lots and no card.
giveitlong (Galway) - Posts: 1213 - 30/05/2022 12:32:25 2421034 Link 2 |
Congratulations to our great footballers on a job well done. I really hope this is the year we get over the hump! Galway Abu. Trump2020 (Galway) - Posts: 2100 - 30/05/2022 12:44:14 2421042 Link 0 |
Midfield stats were not great let's be honest. 51 kick outs yesterday. Roscommon won 32 of them Galway 19. The Rossies also had more shots on goal and scored 3-16. Up next could be Tyrone, Donegal or Mayo in Croke Park where Galway have a dreadful record in since 2001. Connacht title won but lots to work on for PJ and his management over the next 4 weeks. Yondu (UK) - Posts: 845 - 30/05/2022 13:46:45 2421084 Link 0 |
2 16. 1 1 in the last seconds. Belclare (Galway) - Posts: 904 - 30/05/2022 14:49:55 2421121 Link 2 |