Tough one to take but hard to begrudge the Rossies and great scenes and atmosphere at the Hyde. Thought we had it when Damos goal put us 6 up with a few mins left. A big positive for me was Damo & Walsh showing they still have it although Walsh ran out of steam but understandable considering his fitness issues and dont blame PJ for leaving him on was the man we wanted to take late 2 pointer on. Hope McDaid is okay and losing him was a big blow. Dont understand PJ and some of his calls Roche barely played league and gets the nod ahead of likes of O Conghaile, Mcgrath & McDonnacha. Finnerty quiet does Walsh take from him as I dont remember both having a stand out game together. Our defence is a serious weakspot and Ros cut us open at will when they ran at us. McGrath McHugh Silke have gone back a lot. Kelly is an attacker not a defender. O Flaherty had a poor day. Conroy kicked 2 great 2 pointers but also had a few wides in 1st half. Maher unusually quiet by his lofty standards. Our kick outs a problem seems they have been forever under PJ. Not nice losing a connacht final by 2 but think it might galvanise us a bit and we should get past kildare at home.

Eire89 (Galway) - Posts: 486 - 12/05/2026 11:39:53    2672554

Beyond a farce how many kick outs Roscommon got way short, on very few occasions O'Carroll was forced to go long. You'll struggle to beat a Div 3 side losing that many of them, I'm not blaming O'Flaherty either. He managed to get a good few short ones away when it was on but Roscommon certainly made it a lot more difficult then O'Carroll had it.

Starting Roche in there made zero sense, they'd seen something in training but hard to know what it was based on that. He struggled to press kickouts and offers no scoring threat in there. I think he has talent but and not writing him off but doesn't look ready and especially not playing there.

Is Oisin McDonnacha injured? We've not see Fionn McDonagh since the early stages of the league but didn't hear any injury update on him either!

Molloy had a better game then in any of his league games but still made too many mistakes on the ball.

As for O'Flaherty, he offers something but time and time again the last few years he's not had a good game when he starts whilst always does well in from the bench. I wasn't the biggest fan of O'Laoi a few years ago but the rules have changed and he was really impressive in the first few games playing from wing back and would like to see him starting. He's have done a better job of watching Heneghan then O'Flaherty did.

Its a lot too ask Comer to start games, more then happy to see him coming in around the 45 minute mark in every game but their going to have find someone who can bring the best out of both Walsh & Finnerty. Would like too have seen Mulryan get a chance but thats probably unlikely at this stage.

But if we don't start to do better on opposition kick outs then it will be a short summer, can't recall anything as bad as Sundays game.

TheBishop (Galway) - Posts: 319 - 12/05/2026 13:01:21    2672577