Galway Football thread

Replying To Galwayman67420:  "Is the tide turning in regards to the home of Galway football? Is it time to relocate the centre of excellence to somewhere in the city/west of the county?
Minor A winners - west board team (2 of them in final)
Minor A shield winners - west board team ( hammered Tuam "the home of football" in the final)
Minor B winners - west board team
Minor B shield west board team
Under 19 A - oranmore will win again by the looks of it
Under 19 B - breathnachs also look to be too strong for the competition in B I believe they probably should be in A but that's besides the point.

Really shows how there is huge work being done back west underage and it's paying off."

Replying To Emmets67:  "A very valid point there. Will be interesting to see how the senior team shapes up now the North Board High King has been dethroned."

Replying To 6speed:  "As the topic of moycullen and transfers/backroom teams is brought up again, for some context:

From what I've heard Caroline currid is married to a friend of someone involved with Moycullen and did 2 sessions as a favour, absolutely in no way "part of the back room team"

Owen Gallagher played under Don Connellan for NUIG in sigerson in a team that had many moycullen players so it would make sense he'd want to play for Moycullen with that familiarity.

Niall Walsh is a guard that worked closely under Don Connellan, so again would make sense he'd want to play under someone he knows well. Exact same can be said for Tom Clarke.

Now in fairness I haven't heard anything about the goalkeeper and maloney. Eire98 was mentioning an O'Reilly recently as a transfer, and if that's Michael o Reilly (who hasn't played in 2 years due to emigrating), well the lad is born and raised in moycullen.

I can imagine any coaches or backroom team members are probably being compensated. But it's dishonest to make it out like moycullen are scouting for players and coaches. Look at it from those coaches point of view.

Over the past few years the 3 kelly brothers, Dessie Conneely, Neil mulcahy, Gerard Davoren, James mcloughlin, Peter Cooke, Sean o Connor, Fionn McDonagh, Owen Gallagher have all been involved in a Galway senior panel. I've also heard Conor Corcoran was in training and not forgetting David wynne who's as influential as ever for moycullen that was involved years ago. Thats a generational crop to come through.

Of those 13 players listed above only one of them isn't from Moycullen (Gallagher). So those coaches are looking at the appeal of a squad with 11-12 intercounty or thereabouts standard players. Not to mention it looks better on their CV being successful with a club that isn't one of the traditional powerhouses of Galway football."

Replying To Kickitout:  "Obviously there are good players from all parts Galway and the bigger population is with 10-15 miles of city ,, but on most if not all Galway 9 senior all Ireland's the north board would have definitely I'd say produce the most forwards , even last : 2 one 98 and 01 u had Donnellan , Fallon savage Padraig and Tommy Joyce Joe Bergen shay Walsh ,, not sure whst it is but most successful all Ireland winning senior teams have north Galway forwards ,"

Replying To Kickitout:  "Obviously there are good players from all parts Galway and the bigger population is with 10-15 miles of city ,, but on most if not all Galway 9 senior all Ireland's the north board would have definitely I'd say produce the most forwards , even last : 2 one 98 and 01 u had Donnellan , Fallon savage Padraig and Tommy Joyce Joe Bergen shay Walsh ,, not sure whst it is but most successful all Ireland winning senior teams have north Galway forwards ,"

Replying To WanPintWin:  "Maigh Cuilinn has produced some top sportspeople across a range of sports. It's a vibrant place like you said and a great sporting village.
Not sure what that has to do with outside players playing for their senior footballers though."

Replying To Crashingwaves:  "I was reflecting on MC in the past and the huge changes that have taken place - population growth, better transport and movement of people.
What are the rules re outside players and outside managers, some coming from outside the province?
It looks like there are rules but very little implementation. I don't think it's fair to single out MC, it has been happening in many counties for a good number of years."

Replying To Crashingwaves:  "I was reflecting on MC in the past and the huge changes that have taken place - population growth, better transport and movement of people.
What are the rules re outside players and outside managers, some coming from outside the province?
It looks like there are rules but very little implementation. I don't think it's fair to single out MC, it has been happening in many counties for a good number of years."

Replying To Gearoid1998ffowaed:  "I agree with this.

I'm married in Moycullen, moved there few years ago with my wife and it's mad to think lads who have been there longer than me are being talked about on this forum.

To start, I think Tom Clarke is a "real Moycullen" lad, as in his grandparents were from there.

Gallagher and Walsh are always around the village , they live in a housing estate there for about 10 years and would be very integrated.

Finally, I would agree the home grown talent is next level. You're looking at the likes of Fionn McDonagh, Ger Davoren, Dessie Connelly, Peter Cooke, Sean o connor, Sean kelly, paul kelly, conor corcoran - all are definitely playing on a level that is inter county, starting panel level. They're all shooting 2 pointers. David Wynne and Eoin kelly are serious defenders. Eoin has saved more goals than their goalie.

Best of luck to them all this weekend."

Replying To WanPintWin:  "Indeed they have. All the more reason why they should be even less reliant on outside players. Maigh Cuilinn have brought through some brilliant players over the past decade up from underage, many of whom have represented Galway.
There is no other club in Galway that has had at least a third of their starting 15 be from other counties in the past few years, so they're hardly being singled out from a batch of clubs doing similar.
Dublin is the only area where it happens regularly and they are city clubs without parish boundaries.
The rules are that you pick from within your parish boundary or players who were in the parish and started with the club. There are some rare exceptions, but that's the general rule.
Someone moving into an area and transferring is absolutely fine, but that wasn't the case with a number of the players in question. Nobody's questioning movement of people, so I'm not sure why you're bringing that up. The issue is the movement of certain players wasn't to Maigh Cuilinn, but to the city, but they played for Maigh Cuilinn.
They're free to do what they want, but you can't complain if it doesn't sit right with some people."