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Galway look a serious side. Someone needs to check no14 birth cert because he's a unit. Sligo did Incredibly well to hold galway to 4 pts. Some great last ditch blocks and saves to prevent Galway goals but i wouldnt agree it was that comfortable. The only thing I would say is the galway goal was very fortunate point chance that hit post and they had only 2 wides to our 8 so I wouldn't be waving the white flag yet from our perspective. If we had Eli Rooney inside we would be serious contenders. 4 or 5 of our lads looked very promising and all showed huge bravery at times. If we can finish 3rd in the group I'd be happy and give the semi final a good rattle.

Actually thought Sligo looked a pretty decent side again. Agree on the Galway 14. He went into midfield for every kick out and he must have caught about 5 or 6 kickouts clean. A monsterous young fella. And the captain McGlinchey in midfield was dominant around the middle as well. Galway probably wasteful with goal chances spurned but Sligo again look to have a very competitive underage side.

I watched the game wanting to Roscommon to win but probably more neutral than anything else. Roscommon were very good in so many facets. Ball retentions, setting traps, squeeze defence, clinical etc... but no mention on here about the referee?

I thought the ref had a decent game to be honest. He wasn't fooled by lads (on both sides) diving at various points trying to win frees. He generally waved play on and called it right usually. Think he got the penalty call right as well. I would gladly have taken him over the buck the week before anyway.

Well karma does exist and all the dodgy frees mayo got last week went the way of the rossies today.Galway will not fancy the trip to ros ommon,they certainly have an Indian sign over us.

Not in the Hyde. Galway have a great record there.

Had a feeling that would happen. Last week's league final win disguised the face that Mayo coughed up a whole pile of goal chances and Galway didn't take any of them. Roscommon took theirs today.

Well done New York.

Could they take Sligo and get to the final??

They'll have to sober up first.

New York team

Michael Cunningham
Jamie Boyle
Alan Campbell
Eoghan Kerin
Bill Maher
Robert Wharton
Shane Brosnan
Johnny Glynn
Gavin O'Brien
Mark Ellis
Adrian Varley
Shane Carthy
Mikey Brosnan
Patrick Boyle
Daniel O'Sullivan

This u20 team have lost their best player now to injury Liam O Conghaile. Huge loss and he was the teams free taker also.

Yeah, he was definitely Galway's stand out player during the John Kerins Cup run. Very unfortunate to lose him for the championship. Sounds like he won't be back in time to take any part.

Only caught the first half but Galway probably should have been 8 points up rather than 4 at HT. Missed some easy chances. Actually the points they did score were crackers but they somehow missed the easier ones. Typical fare on a wet breezy evening in Tuam.

Have the day off so rewatched the game for my sins this morning. Galway will obviously be very disappointed but will probably realise had they tidied a couple things up and were even a small bit more clinical, they would probably have won the game.

First 12 minutes really cost them. Mayo scored 3 points off unforced errors from Galway players with loose hand passes in the middle third of the field which led to Mayo counter attacks. McHugh, Cooke and the third name escapes me. These weren't even a result of good Mayo pressure or tackling. Just sloppy basic errors.

A look at the stats really tells a tale. Galway with 5 goal chances (if you include Heaney's) to 1 for Mayo. Galway had more shots. Had more shots from play. Had more turnovers. More wides. Where they were killed was the free count/45's. Mayo with 10 points from placed balls. Galway only had 4.

I don't think the frees need to be raked over again only to say you would be extremely surprised to get some of those in championship. The Tommy Conroy one is a free the other way I'd say 8 times out of 10. The non award for the Comer one he hit wide while being pulled off balance was mind boggling given what was going on at the other end.

However, Galway's wastefulness rather than frees was their main problem. They still could have overcome the free count had they even been a tad more clinical. Hopefully that comes with match sharpness for a few players that are probably a bit off their top level yet.

Individually I thought some of the performances were good. Maher is now a live option all of a sudden. Mayo struggled to contain his hard running at times before he tired. He reminds me a bit of Michael Dara MacAuley in that he looks a bit awkward at times albeit effective. After a difficult first 15 minutes I thought by the second half Johnny McGrath had gotten on top of O'Donoghue. No easy task for a young player breaking through. Not getting anything out of Tierney when he was Galway's best player during the league certainly didn't help. The ball just didn't seem go his way on the day. Hernon was taken off for the second game in a row. Tough on a young player but he's missed a lot of football recently and just doesn't look up to the speed of the intercounty game yet. His massively telegraphed shot early on that was blocked down probably an example of this. Molloy's spot there at wing-back is probably up for grabs by someone.

I had my doubts about his ability to play intercounty football but was impressed again for the second week in a row with John Maher today. On a sunny day in Croke Park I thought he might struggle to keep up with Ruane on that surface but if anything it was the other way around for long spells. A nice little bonus Galway have got from the latter stage of the league. And obviously with McDaid to come back too.

Mayo the stronger side there, should probably have won by more.
Look like they are still improving.

Galway will be hard to beat, but not sure they are at the level to win sam. Mayo look closer to me.

Not sure how they should have won by more when all the missed/saved goal chances were Galway's?

Tight game. Small margins. Galway had 4 decent goal chances and didn't take any of them. Comer hit the post twice (including the Hawkeye one). Don't take your chances you will end up on the wrong side of the score line. Don't think Joyce will be overly enthused by the ref's performance.

Congrats to Mayo.

Reape will get man of the match anyway. 4 saves and the couple scores as well.

Some of these frees. Powder puff soft.

Comer not getting a free for exact same as O'Shea has been getting frees for all game.