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Whats the feeling on Shane Walsh in Galway.

Played first game or two of league and then got injured.

Has been on holiday since that and I see hes in Portugal this week too.

Definitely deserves a holiday considering all the football hes played.

But it seems as if he gets special treatment and that he seems more committed to Kilmacud than Galway.

But I may be totally wrong on that.

Odd post. Got injured in round 1 of the NFL and will be back playing for Galway once he overcomes it.

My gut feeling there's more to it than that but could be wrong

Yeah doesn't seem to be the most dedicated sort of boy. Don't know whether to describe him as flaky or if thats a bit harsh.

After over a decade of service I think it's clear there is nothing wrong with Shane Walsh commitment to Galway senior footballers. Best not to engage with that wum.

Chaos game ended in a pure chaos. Unlike the match against Brentford United deserve at least a draw out of that game and did well to come back from 2 goals behind or be Chelsea were every bit as poor defensively throughout.

Chelsea got the luck deep into injury time with the slip by Dalot on the penalty and then United totally switching off on the corner. That group of United players should have a strong look at themselves to lose in that manner yet it sums United up this season.

Liverpool up next with a patched up defence with Martinez, Lindelof ruled out for a month and Evans, Varane going off injured tonight anything less than 2/3 goal margin win for Klopp's side on Sunday will be a surprise.

€30 to the Stand for Laythrum v Shligo.

JP taking the piss altogether

Can somewhat understand those prices if they were charging €30 for the Connacht final but for Quarter final? for the Connacht championship launch last week it was basically used to talk up and advertise the Dome in Bekan by the national media who were all invited to praise the "great visionary" JP.

Key moment, bar the very soft penalty, was the Derry lad going for goal from a tight enough angle instead of tapping over and putting them in a probable unassailable 4 point lead.

The penalty was the correct call. A game Derry should have won in normal time.

The media were trying to sell this as Utd being still in with a chance of catching Villa for fourth!!

Mental gymnastics sums going on

Then when Utd scored they said, basically makes no difference as villa to far in front?

Media guys are dumb

A bit daft from the media alright, United will finish 6th place at best, that much has been known for a while and performances like tonight rubber stamps it further.

Champions league talk is silly, played in the Champions league this season and finished bottom, that group of players are Europa league level max and improvement isn't going to be seen until a clear out happens. 

A very wasteful Brentford should have won and tonight they played better and created more chances than they did when beating Man United 4-0 last season.

Nobody knew what was in store this time last year. Monaghan got to the semi final last year and were relegated recently. Did their form fall off a cliff or did they do things differently this year so far?

Monaghan were missing too many of last year All-Ireland semi final team and no surprise they got relegated. Get the majority of those players back and they should at least reach the last 8 this summer.

Last year Roscommon did a lot of pre season training and hit the ground running in the league, winning 3 on the trot. They ran out of gas over 8 days in June, losing 2 matches by a point.
This year Brigids got to the all Ireland final and Roscommon didn't care about the league ....

Don't think it was possible to do a alot of training last year before the league when the appointment was made so late and wasn't Burke still involded with Maynooth college?

Would have cared about that league and it simply became uphill challenge to avoid relegation once they lost to Tyrone in round 1 and only drew with Galway at home in round 2.
 

Roscommon last year played a controlled possession based game making them competitive against all Div 1 teams in league and championship. Since the Dublin draw in May and the daft media talk that followed it they have gone away from that. Burke has come out since to say that way of playing wasn't his style which suggests it was the style of one if not two of the coaches that left.

This year are a disjointed and unorganized team.  They are currently a team that don't make themselves hard to score against and a forward line that struggling without Ben O'Carroll,Ciaran Murtagh and Cian McKeon.  Lack of midfield also with Eddie Nolan opting out and Keith Doyle injured. No surprise with all of that Roscommon were relegated and it will be a struggle for Davy Burke to turn things around and to get much of impact out of his team the upcoming championship.

[but one of them will be Connacht champions]

The Paddy Power Ranking

Dublin 13/8
Kerry 5/2
Derry 11/2
Galway 9/1
Mayo 10/1
Armagh 20/1
Donegal 22/1
Tyrone 25/1
Roscommon 80/1
Cork 100/1
Monaghan 100/1

I'm not sure that Galway/Mayo are hugely better than Armagh/Donegal/Tyrone but one of them will be Connacht champions and that has seeding advantages.

Wouldn't totally rule out Roscommon out. Won Connacht in 2017 and 2019 off the back of Division one relegation.

Read nothing into it, that always the forming line when a team hammered.  Tyrone aren't near to the level of Dublin. I read plenty into it.

Dublin are ahead of everyone at the minute,  that's probably obvious enough. Tyrone aren't as shite as that scoreline makes them look.

Didn't see the game today though in the recent past I've seen Tyrone get positive results against Dublin in the league. A trimming like today's 21-point demolition usual happens when the opposition drops the heads making it easy to clock up a big score against them.    Dublin five wins in a row after losing their two opening games. Before today they won by a margin 7,10,5,8 points I was not expecting them to clock a margin of victory like that until the leinster championship.

Kildare seven games and seven defeats is unbelievable in Division 2 outside of the top two that was far from great this year.

Only two years ago they were playing in Div 1 unlucky to do down as they drew with Kerry and beat Dublin.

[Galway need win]

Why they need a point, they like +16 against Kerry point Difference. And Galway need win.

Can lose and still stay up and if they do that point earned in Hyde Park will prove to be a vital one.

The Clifford brothers not named to start against Galway, Jack O'Connor has looked at the table and knows it will be a Derry  v Dublin final.

Goldbridge isn't happy 😁

It would be worth Southgate becoming manager just to get that idiot off the social media, he's an absolute dose.

Total dose and has been called out on numerous occasions for some of his bullshit.

That being said I would not be a fan of appointing Southgate.

He's Alan Partridge like in his delivery and many people including many non United fans love him. He quit his job (policeman) to become very wealthy from his self created youtube fan channel and the sensationalism shite that is talksport employed him. Goes to show all that is needed to become famous and rich nowadays.

Group format Connacht U20 championship started tonight

Roscommon 1-13 Mayo 3-7

ROSCOMMON: S. Allen; J. Brady, D. Casey, T. Morris; J. McGreal, S. Lambe, E. Carthy; C. Ryan, S. Walsh; D. Hagney, D. Flanagan, R. Heneghan; S. McGinley (1-8, six frees, one '45), B. Nugent (0-3, one free), R. Hester.

Subs used: R. Conlon for Hagney (27 mins), R. Conlon (0-2) for Flanagan (27 mins), E Kerins for Brady (half-time), O. O'Flaherty for Ryan (42 mins), R. Dowling for Hester (49 mins).

MAYO: D. Dolan (0-1, a '45); D. Slattery, J. MacMonagle, L. Silke; J. Mulchrone, P. Gilmore, Y. Coghill; D. Duffy, C. Dawson; F. McLoughlin (1-0), C. Keaveney, T. O'Flaherty; D. Beirne (1-2, one free), N. Hurley (1-2), D. Reilly.

Subs used: E. McGeal for Coghill (34 mins), B. Collins for Mulchrone (37 mins), O. Cronin (0-2) for Reilly (37 mins), T. Lydon for McLoughlin (47 mins), D. O'Brien for Dawson (60 mins).


Galway 2-16 Leitrim 0-13

Scorers for Galway: Colm Costello 0-9 (3 frees), Matthew Thompson 1-3 (1 free), Jack Folan 1-0, Cian Murphy, Sean Birmingham, Ronan Colleran, Cormac Greaney 0-1 each.

Galway: E McGrath; S Canavan, B Noone, J Folan (1-0); P Godwin, J Lonergan, D Costello; R Colleran (0-1), C Greaney (0-1); M Thompson (1-3 1f), D Kilcommins, C Heneghan; C Costello (0-9 3fs), C Murphy (0-1), C Mulhern.

Subs: L O'Connor for Greaney, S Birmingham (0-1) for Colleran (40), D Walsh for Heneghan (41), S Hansberry for Kilcommins (52), S O'Connor for Longeran (61).


Leitrim: B Cull; A Oberwan, T Hughes, R Cunningham; C Keegan, J Foley, E McNamara; B McNulty (0-3 2fs), B Guckian; M McBrien, P Keane (0-2), J Casey (0-1); J Tobin, P Honeyman (0-6 3fs), D Cox (0-1.

Subs: S Conlon for Cunningham (23), P Moran for Casey (42), B Goldrick for Hughes (43), T Plunkett for McBrien (48), C McLoughlin for Keegan (61).


Round 2 next Wednesday

Mayo v Galway
Sligo v Roscommon