Connacht senior football championship 2024

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Venues and throw in times confirmed for the semi finals.

Saturday 20th  Sligo v Galway in Markievicz Park 3:30pm

Sunday 21st Roscommon v Mayo in Dr Hyde Park 4pm

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Two of the four semi finalists have named their teams.

Roscommon.   Ben O'Carroll,Keith Doyle who missed the majority of the league return and named among the subs.

Conor Carroll
David Murray Brian Stack Niall Higgins
Niall Daly Ruaidhri Fallon Eoin McCormack
Enda Smith Tadhg O'Rourke
Dylan Ruane  Ultan Harney Ronan Daly
Donie Smith  Daire Cregg  Diarmuid Murtagh

Subs - Colm Lavin,Patrick Gavin,Shane Cunnane,Robbie Dolan,Ben O'Carroll,Cian Connolly,Andrew Glennon,Keith Doyle,Conor Cox,James Fitzpatrick,Ciaran Lennon

Galway team the main talking point is Shane Walsh back and named to start and Comer named on the bench.

Connor Gleeson
Johnny McGrath,Sean Fitzgerald,Jack Glynn
Dylan McHugh,John Daly,Liam Silke
Paul Conroy,Sean Kelly
Johnny Heaney,Shane Walsh,Cein Darcy
Jack McCabe,Rob Finnerty,Liam O'Conghaile

Subs Conor Flaherty,Sean Mulkerrin,Eoghan Kelly.Kieran Molloy,Daniel O'Flaherty,Diarmuid Kilcommins,Niall Daly,Patrick Egan,Cillian O'Curraoin,Damien Comer,Rory Cunnigham

[Armagh18]

Get Comer starting and that Galway team will give anyone a game!

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Other two teams named.

Sligo:

Aidan Devaney
Eddie Lyons, Eddie McGuinness, Paul McNamara; Peter Laffey, Nathan Mullen, Darragh Cummins; Seán Carrabine, Canice Mulligan; Cian Lally, Alan McLoughlin, Eoghan Smith; Paul Kilcoyne, Niall Murphy, Lee Deignan.

Subs: Daniel Lyons, Brian Cox, Daire O'Boyle, Donal Conlon, Dylan Walsh, Keelan Cawley, Patrick O'Connor, Brian Callaghan, Mikey Gordon, Mark Walsh, Luke Casserly.


Mayo

Colm Reape
Jack Coyne, Rory Brickenden, Sam Callinan
Paddy Durcan, David McBrien, Enda Hession
Stephen Coen, Mattie Ruane
Bob Tuohy, Fergal Boland, Jack Carney
Aidan O'Shea, Tommy Conroy, Ryan O'Donoghue.

Subs: Rob Hennelly, James Carr, Jordan Flynn, Conor Hunt, Conor Loftus, Darren McHale, Donnacha McHugh, Pádraig O'Hora, Michael Plunkett, Kevin Quinn, Paul Towey

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Sligo giving a good account of themselves and leading Galway at half time 0-9 to 0-6. 

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Comer off the bench has scored two points.  Sligo still leading 0-12 to 0-10 after 50 minutes.

67 minutes played Sligo 0-14 Galway 0-11

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Comer off the bench has scored two points.  Sligo still leading 0-12 to 0-10 after 50 minutes.

67 minutes played Sligo 0-14 Galway 0-11

Provincials not dead yet!

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Comer off the bench has scored two points.  Sligo still leading 0-12 to 0-10 after 50 minutes.

67 minutes played Sligo 0-14 Galway 0-11

Provincials not dead yet!

Has been some effort by Sligo.  Into added time they lead by one 0-14 to 0-13.  Four minutes added.

[Armagh18]

Some turn around from their last game!

[Armagh18]

Ah ffs

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Galway goal in added time wins it. Get out of jail card used and defeat so hard on the effort Sligo put in. FT Sligo 0-14 Galway 1-13.

[Itchy]

One bad mistake punished. Real shame for Sligo who were the better team by all accounts

[galwayman]

Hard to describe how poor we were today.
It was daylight robbery.
Missing three great goal chances in the first ten minutes didn't help but Sligo would have been full value for a win today.
Comer was the difference as usual for us.
He's the main man. Walsh might just be the most naturally talented player in the country but he just doesn't deliver on a consistent basis.
For every decent game he has he has another 4 shite ones. He's infuriating.
Pj doesn't get a pass here either.
O Conghaile has been poor in the league and was dire in London, while McCabe has barely played at all for the seniors yet both started today.
Absolutely not on merit.

If we plau like we did today we'll lose the Connacht final by double digits.

[Manning18]

"Get out of jail card" and daylight robbery that I keep seeing being mentioned everywhere suggests luck on Galway's side, not really having that. An absolutely dire performance yes. A great performance by Sligo, absolutely. Their conversion rate was superb

But everything seemed to go against Galway, from the point awarded to Sligo that was 4 foot wide, to some of the first half ref decisions and the 5 missed goal chances obviously. If even one of those chances goes in it's a very different game. Not that it means it's in anyway acceptable to be going into injury time a point behind a D3 side but it does explain a bit of how they got there

Agree with the above on O'Conghaile and McCabe. Like I get they're young but still it's completely inexcusable from management. O'Conghaile hasn't done a single positive thing since R1 of the league and McCabe couldn't even make the u20 side last year. Cunningham and o'Currain have done significantly more than either. You could play O'Flaherty in the forwards either who's in excellent form

[mouview]

"Get out of jail card" and daylight robbery that I keep seeing being mentioned everywhere suggests luck on Galway's side, not really having that. An absolutely dire performance yes. A great performance by Sligo, absolutely. Their conversion rate was superb

But everything seemed to go against Galway, from the point awarded to Sligo that was 4 foot wide, to some of the first half ref decisions and the 5 missed goal chances obviously. If even one of those chances goes in it's a very different game. Not that it means it's in anyway acceptable to be going into injury time a point behind a D3 side but it does explain a bit of how they got there

Agree with the above on O'Conghaile and McCabe. Like I get they're young but still it's completely inexcusable from management. O'Conghaile hasn't done a single positive thing since R1 of the league and McCabe couldn't even make the u20 side last year. Cunningham and o'Currain have done significantly more than either. You could play O'Flaherty in the forwards either who's in excellent form

Conroy very poor today also, gave away at least 3 passes resulting in a couple of Sligo scores. John Daly could be in major danger of being dropped. Very skillful on the ball and good at picking passes going forwards, but now very incapable of holding the HB line and keeping attacking lines on the outside. HB line in general too porous (as usual) today. This is the first and biggest problem to be addressed.