Sam Maguire Group 2 - Galway, Armagh, Tyrone, Westmeath

[Blowitupref]

A surprise score line at half time Westmeath 0-7 Galway 0-6.

[Rossfan]

Cmon the Westies!!

[Blowitupref]

12 minutes into the 2nd half Westmeath 0-10 Galway 0-09.

Westmeath down to 14 men with two yellows. Galway take the lead for the first time on 53 and now two ahead

[seafoid]

Westmeath down to 14 with Ray Connellan on second yellow.
Comer is on.
Galway ahead by 1 .

[RedHand88]

Jesus David Brady wasnt far wrong.

[seafoid]

15-12 now to Galway with 7 left

[seafoid]

5 in it now. 17 -12

[Blowitupref]

Result Westmeath 0-12 Galway 0-20.  Tribesmen closed the game out well once Westmeath had a man sent off.

[galwayman]

It was a very passive and pedestrian performance by our lads for the most part.
I thought we had begun to get into it before the sending off.
Once that happened we took control.
Maher & Comer were immense off the bench.
Finnerty off early injured and Walsh was hobbling for the whole second half before being taken off.
An eight point win flatters us - albeit we did have at least four goal chances whilst not coughing up any at the other end.
We'll take the win and move on.

[From the Bunker]

Result Westmeath 0-12 Galway 0-20.  Tribesmen closed the game out well once Westmeath had a man sent off.

Story of Galway in this group so far!

[GalwayBayBoy]

It was a very passive and pedestrian performance by our lads for the most part.
I thought we had begun to get into it before the sending off.
Once that happened we took control.
Maher & Comer were immense off the bench.
Finnerty off early injured and Walsh was hobbling for the whole second half before being taken off.
An eight point win flatters us - albeit we did have at least four goal chances whilst not coughing up any at the other end.
We'll take the win and move on.

Knocks beginning to pile up a bit now. Was always a risk in this format. Probably Cooke's best game since he came back as well.

[5times5times]

Galway could play their hurlers next week and still beat that shambolic armagh team.

[Manning18]

Strange to say we had 3 or 4 top class performances and yet it was a poor display overall. Shows that others were well off the pace, and as a whole, the team is just a bit disjointed at present.

Sending off made a difference, but we were getting on top at that point and would've won regardless. That still doesn't change the fact that Westmeath were probably better for the first 45 mins. For all the talk about our 'control', we still keep kicking ball away.

Cooke and McGrath were immense. Comer and Maher made a savage difference once they came on. Kelly had a good first half and Hernon shook off a shaky first half to get two good scores. Not sure anyone else can be satisfied with their performance.

Hard to know where we are. Keep winning games but bar the odd good half here and there (Monaghan second half, Roscommon first half, Kerry game), I'm not sure we've put in a very good performance all season. You can take positives or negatives from it though, depending on your outlook

Important to note the 5 missed goal chances though (and zero for Westmeath). Had 1 or 2 of those gone in, I suppose the narrative would be different. Not the first time this season we've been incredibly wasteful

[An Watcher]

If westmeath were to beat Tyrone and say galway beat armagh is it purely down to score difference.  At the same time if armagh and westmeath win is it head to head to determine placings

[Chimley]

Galway could play their hurlers next week and still beat that shambolic armagh team.

The hurls might come in handy for that game.