Hurling 2023

Started by seafoid, January 01, 2023, 08:24:25 PM

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Cyril Farrell fan

I'm not confident about Galway under Shefflin. I have a feeling the first year is always the best year to shake something out of Galway when it's an outside man.

seafoid

I think they need more than  a year.

Don Cockburn

Galway are always a danger. They just pick and choose what years to turn up.

johnnycool

Quote from: Don Cockburn on January 06, 2023, 12:41:22 PM
Galway are always a danger. They just pick and choose what years to turn up.

Games you mean. Can absolutely blow someone out of the water one week and then roll over to get their bellies tickled the next.

imtommygunn

Galway must be an infuriating team to support in the hurling. They keep showing promise like they're as good as anyone then like you say the next day anyone could beat them. So much talent in the county but so little return this century at least considering what they have at their disposal.

seafoid

Quote from: johnnycool on January 06, 2023, 01:21:09 PM
Quote from: Don Cockburn on January 06, 2023, 12:41:22 PM
Galway are always a danger. They just pick and choose what years to turn up.

Games you mean. Can absolutely blow someone out of the water one week and then roll over to get their bellies tickled the next.
Galway hurlers have 7 different levels. At level 7 nobody can play them

Words used to describe the Galway hurlers

Level 1 Puthrid
Level 2 Pure fuckin' usheless
Level 3 They threw it away
Level 4 Watch them f**k it up
Level 5 Mighty
Level 6 Slick
Level 7 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9o2cV-FpoHo

galwayman


mouview

#consistent ?

6 semi-finals, 3 finals since 2015. Not been beaten by more than 4 points in any championship game since 2016, no other county can claim that. Kilkenny, Cork, Waterford, Clare, Wexford are longer without AIs than Galway.

2023 will see further flux in the team however. Coen has retired and David Burke will hardly either start or finish games any more. Conor Cooney and Jason Flynn (and maybe Brian Concannon also) just can't be trusted to deliver consistently, while McInerney will hardly start many more games at no. 6 either. Hopefully Tom Monaghan and Ronan Glennon (though I still have doubts) will consolidate their positions while such as Tiernan Killeen, Ronan Murphy, Evan Niland and Donal O'Shea can push on. Daithi, 2 Mannions, Whelan, J Cooney still the mainstays of the team.

seafoid

Quote from: mouview on January 06, 2023, 06:43:31 PM
#consistent ?

6 semi-finals, 3 finals since 2015. Not been beaten by more than 4 points in any championship game since 2016, no other county can claim that. Kilkenny, Cork, Waterford, Clare, Wexford are longer without AIs than Galway.

2023 will see further flux in the team however. Coen has retired and David Burke will hardly either start or finish games any more. Conor Cooney and Jason Flynn (and maybe Brian Concannon also) just can't be trusted to deliver consistently, while McInerney will hardly start many more games at no. 6 either. Hopefully Tom Monaghan and Ronan Glennon (though I still have doubts) will consolidate their positions while such as Tiernan Killeen, Ronan Murphy, Evan Niland and Donal O'Shea can push on. Daithi, 2 Mannions, Whelan, J Cooney still the mainstays of the team.
Plus Zero club all Irelands won. I think the correlation is very strong.

imtommygunn

So what happened when Portuma were winning club all Irelands? Or athenry? Clarinsbridge did well too.

seafoid

Quote from: imtommygunn on January 06, 2023, 07:11:03 PM
So what happened when Portuma were winning club all Irelands? Or athenry? Clarinsbridge did well too.
The county team was quite a bit further away from Croke Park.
Between 92 and 2014 Galway teams won about half of the club all Irelands.
During that time the county team could never get any consistency.

2011
Brendan Lynskey pauses, as if to gather his words into more orderly bundles. He is angry. Not irritable or uneasy, but stridently, palpably angry."I'm trying to say this without blowing a head gasket," he sighs. "But there's a problem here in Galway..." " Noel Lane's frustration is asterisked by an innate reluctance to be seen as opportunistic or unfair. "I hate ever questioning players," says the manager of the 2001 defeated All-Ireland finalists. "But you have to ask do they not have the mental toughness or physical ruthlessness, that savage will to win? And there's only one way for them to answer that question."

mouview

They couldn't seem to get a proper manager either. Loughnane was almost disastrous, McIntyre little better; Conor Hayes was perhaps marginally better than Noel Lane.

seafoid

Conor Hayes : "One of the issues I had with Galway was: I found them to be very much a bunch of individuals. And, when you're losing, the individual goes to mind himself and nobody else."

clonadmad

Quote from: imtommygunn on January 06, 2023, 07:11:03 PM
So what happened when Portuma were winning club all Irelands? Or athenry? Clarinsbridge did well too.

They would all go and sit in various corners in the dressing room and on the bus