HoganStand GAA Football and Hurling

National Forum

Galway Football thread

(Oldest Posts First) - Go To The Latest Post

You need to Login to Post

It may sound harsh, but the losing of the game was when in total control, Shane Walsh trying to be fancy in front of goal and losing possession, leading to Liam Silke cynically fouling and giving Dublin a penalty and picking up a black card. Had Galway won, it would only have been delaying the enevitable.. A rebuild now required. AnCrúiscínLán (Galway) - Posts: 124 - 28/06/2026 17:48:32 2682484 Link
Replying To hlynch12: "Galway looking good. Will push Kerry in final." Lol S1234 (Mayo) - Posts: 1161 - 28/06/2026 17:49:33 2682487 Link
Replying To hlynch12: "Galway looking good. Will push Kerry in final." Some consolation in that we wouldn't keep it kicked out to Kerry on that form. Interesting that we lost to Roscommon and Dublin from 6up with 10-15mins left. I think this team 2022-2026 have always been reliant on Walsh, McDaid and Kelly for real pace, the sort of pace required to win it all these days. Kelly couldn't start, and on recent form, Walsh and McDaid have lost their 4th and 5th gears. We looked a bit one paced in key areas all day today; and still bizarrely bossed that second half until we went 6up. The wheels came off after that. Pope_Benedict (Galway) - Posts: 4832 - 28/06/2026 17:54:37 2682492 Link
Replying To AnCrúiscínLán: "It may sound harsh, but the losing of the game was when in total control, Shane Walsh trying to be fancy in front of goal and losing possession, leading to Liam Silke cynically fouling and giving Dublin a penalty and picking up a black card. Had Galway won, it would only have been delaying the enevitable.. A rebuild now required." Penalty not given up the other side also. Alwaysencourage (Galway) - Posts: 613 - 28/06/2026 17:55:48 2682494 Link
Well we didn't push on when we had the chance but absolutely every 50/50 call went the dubs way. I can accept their penalty being given IF we get one for a similar foul later on but no not the case. Long winter ahead decisions to be made LárBáire (Galway) - Posts: 92 - 28/06/2026 18:00:49 2682497 Link
Replying To Drax_the_destroyer: "Debatable call on the award of the penalty and black but Galway blew it when five in front and in control learnt nothing from the Connacht final last ten minutes. Better off out with those goalkeeper and defensively issues and getting a trimming off Kerry." Unfair to point fingers at keeper and defence, when we've a largely one paced attack, and a 37 year old midfielder who owes Galway nothing. Did the slowness of our offence first half today remind you of last year's abject effort vs Meath into the same goal? You won't win too often at this level relying on immaculate 2pointer kicking and zero wides. Pope_Benedict (Galway) - Posts: 4832 - 28/06/2026 18:07:38 2682504 Link
Replying To AnCrúiscínLán: "Although Dublin went to extra time against Donegal they will still be the same "animal" as regards pace and stamina today. Niall Scully is playing the football of his career - superb engine. Conditions will be humid and imho will be very testing for our big men. To win, we'll need a few marginal players e.g. O'Conghaile to step up big time. I think it's in him.." You weren't far off. Niall Scully was excellent. Our heroes owe us nothing and died on their shields. They may have tired towards the end - father time.. Congrats. to Dublin. Really (Galway) - Posts: 655 - 28/06/2026 18:11:24 2682507 Link
Lots of takeaways in that game, but congrats to the Dubs. Thank you, PJ, and the Galway lads for a massive effort. It looks like we are set for a rebuilding phase. Gaillimh Abu suckvalleypaddy (Galway) - Posts: 1808 - 28/06/2026 18:11:34 2682508 Link
Gut wrenching, sick to my stomach, a team of lovely footballers who lack the killer instinct to kill off a game. Fair play to the dubs but this Galway team will be kicking themselves. It's a malaise that has been there all season and it has cost us today. Toast (Galway) - Posts: 49 - 28/06/2026 18:28:31 2682526 Link
Replying To AnCrúiscínLán: "It may sound harsh, but the losing of the game was when in total control, Shane Walsh trying to be fancy in front of goal and losing possession, leading to Liam Silke cynically fouling and giving Dublin a penalty and picking up a black card. Had Galway won, it would only have been delaying the enevitable.. A rebuild now required." A rebuild required is the first thing that comes into my mind. Was so similar to the way Galway lost the Quarter-final to Meath last year no progress from that. A solid defence under the old rules is anything but the last two years and the goalkeeper and defensive issue Galway have had the last two years was strangely ignored by people tipping them to win the All-Ireland Gaa_lover (USA) - Posts: 4018 - 28/06/2026 18:30:01 2682527 Link
Replying To Pope_Benedict: "Unfair to point fingers at keeper and defence, when we've a largely one paced attack, and a 37 year old midfielder who owes Galway nothing. Did the slowness of our offence first half today remind you of last year's abject effort vs Meath into the same goal? You won't win too often at this level relying on immaculate 2pointer kicking and zero wides." You are spot on there. First half was a replay of our first half last year v Meath. Do we not learn from our mistakes? We needed a higher tempo game to test their fitness playing 3 games in a row but instead played at walking pace. The moment at 5 points up where Walsh took on 3 players and turned it over was absolutely massive. conordee (Galway) - Posts: 471 - 28/06/2026 18:50:17 2682542 Link
Replying To festinog: "Very disappointing final quarter. To go from six points up to trailing and a man down within minutes was unreal. Well done Dublin." It wasn't unreal. We pretty much saw the same against Roscommon. 6 up with 10 minutes left in that one. We almost let Westmeath catch us as well. A 9 point lead with 6 minutes left wasn't safe in that case. Only for Comer won the last kickout, they could very well have levelled it. I'm not going to put the boot in to anyone individually, but we saw some of the same issues we've been looking at for 6 years. We all know what the major one is and we're still no better at it. We've been backboned by a strong U21 All-Ireland finalist team in 2017 and an U20 All-Ireland winning team in 2020, plus a few very talented older players. This coupled with Dublin's inevitable slide from their peak, left us with opportunities to win an All-Ireland but we didn't manage it. I'll never question the effort the lads put in and their resilience has been shown many times, but we've come up short and it's of our own making. We've been poor underage for the last number of years. There's no arguing otherwise. Some people think that's harsh, but it's the reality. It's very difficult to see how we're going to have a better chance in the next few years. The drought from 66 to 98 isn't far off being eclipsed. I'd love to know how many championship games Galway have lost as favourites in the last 5 years. I'd be surprised if there's a team which has lost more, especially big knockout ones. We're a big well-resourced county. Our return at the top level is extremely poor in both codes, given this. People on here slag Mayo. Our own record is awful. I know everyone is doing their best for the betterment of Galway football, but a county if our size shouldn't be going 4 or 5 years without a provincial underage title. I worry for the next few years. It'll make it all the tougher when we know we didn't capitalise on the talent we had. WanPintWin (Galway) - Posts: 2920 - 28/06/2026 18:51:53 2682544 Link
Replying To Pope_Benedict: "Unfair to point fingers at keeper and defence, when we've a largely one paced attack, and a 37 year old midfielder who owes Galway nothing. Did the slowness of our offence first half today remind you of last year's abject effort vs Meath into the same goal? You won't win too often at this level relying on immaculate 2pointer kicking and zero wides." I wouldn't point many fingers at all at the defence, but the kickout was a massive issue. There was little wrong with our attacking play for much of the game. Our conversion rate from attacks was very high. Only Dublin's wastefulness kept us in it in the first half. They cleaned us on our own kickout. Dublin had way more attacks and shots than us and this eventually told. WanPintWin (Galway) - Posts: 2920 - 28/06/2026 19:00:50 2682559 Link
Replying To Alwaysencourage: "Penalty not given up the other side also." If you check the replay the initial foot contact was outside the box. Imho, the best we'd have got was a 13m free. Dylan is a nice footballer and gets into great box positions, but why his colleagues just don't make it a simple side handpass, and tap in option for him is unfathomable. The worst thing is, Dublin's body language displayed a resigned defeat in the last fifteen minutes. Galway then decided to open the double doors for them to walk through!! Really (Galway) - Posts: 655 - 28/06/2026 19:04:40 2682564 Link
Replying To Gaa_lover: "A rebuild required is the first thing that comes into my mind. Was so similar to the way Galway lost the Quarter-final to Meath last year no progress from that. A solid defence under the old rules is anything but the last two years and the goalkeeper and defensive issue Galway have had the last two years was strangely ignored by people tipping them to win the All-Ireland" Galways attacking play was to slow and predictable also a Pity more of the Galway players didn't have the same determination and work rate as John mahar royler (Meath) - Posts: 305 - 28/06/2026 19:07:23 2682566 Link
Gut wrenching. All saying we let it slip when 6 up, but dubs got 2 soft frees to get back to 3, and then Shane Walsh was fouled by Scully before the penalty. No penalty, stand by that. And black card one out best defender might as well have been a red..... Then Maher gets no penalty, which is shocking call. The advantage would have been to get a penalty! Kieran Molloy had best game for Galway. Dylan fantastic but should have scored his goal. Maher real die on his feet man. Darcy really stepped up on kickouts in 2nd half. systematic (Galway) - Posts: 331 - 28/06/2026 19:14:36 2682571 Link