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I'm not sure we have the personnel to shore up our full back line limitations which were badly exposed in Croker by Tipp.
That would be my biggest concern heading into this season.

It would be my biggest concern too, we did so well to stop Mayo & Roscommon from scoring a goal in 3 matches it was such a disappointment to concede 3 goals against Tipp especially considering they were such poor goals to concede from a Galway point of view.

How has Lavelle performed in goals, are his kickouts good enough?

Galway should in theory be well placed for promotion;  As we've seen in previous years certain counties have peaked this time of year and its got them promoted like Down, Roscommon & Cavan.

Easy win in the end but United were poor in the first half. Our German might come in handy for the rest of the season, there could a lot of games left depending on how we do in Europe and the FA Cup.  Mourinho wanted rid of him and thought the best way to get rid of him was to isolate him, Schweinstieger was happy to sit on his arse and take the money which shows the height of his ambitions. LVG let him away with far too much last year but that is in the past now and he might be useful until the end of the season.

Good to see Tuanzebe make his debut although he's a centre half not a rightback. Fosuh-Mensah looked very rusty but he's not a fullback either.

Mensah is a brilliant footballer, on the other hand borthwick Jackson is the tube I thought he was, no way a united player.

I think Fosuh-Mensah has potential to be a very good centre half, not seen enough of Borthwick-Jackson but never really stood out when I saw him in youth and U23's previously.

Blessing in disguise getting knocked out, you've a small squad that will now get plenty of rest between games but more importantly you'll have better preparation for league games than any of the other top 6.

Easy win in the end but United were poor in the first half. Our German might come in handy for the rest of the season, there could a lot of games left depending on how we do in Europe and the FA Cup.  Mourinho wanted rid of him and thought the best way to get rid of him was to isolate him, Schweinstieger was happy to sit on his arse and take the money which shows the height of his ambitions. LVG let him away with far too much last year but that is in the past now and he might be useful until the end of the season.

Good to see Tuanzebe make his debut although he's a centre half not a rightback. Fosuh-Mensah looked very rusty but he's not a fullback either.

Surprised this wasn't posted on here somewhere today

https://www.joe.co.uk/sport/passionate-liverpool-supporter-speaks-with-such-eloquence-and-conviction-that-even-man-united-fans-may-agree/109725

Good lad.

He's right but this has been happening for nigh on 20 years. Average age of a season ticket holder at OT is a lot older than it was 25 years ago and its the young that tend to make more noise. Fans just don't make enough noise sitting down as they do standing up.

All a bit touchy about Gerrard, who said he wasn't a great player?

I don't rate him as highly a central midfielder as Keane, Scholes or Vieira but hr produced moments of brilliance in the final 3rd that neither of those 3 did on a consistent basis. He was a world class attacking player.

He had flaws in his game, not the most tactically disciplined!  But the guy's moved on a few years now and yet opposing fans seem to bring up his name more than Liverpool supporters.

Surely its obvious why that is, a scouser who played for Liverpool for over 15 years and who's slip played a part in Liverpool not winning the league. Until Liverpool win the league United will always sing about him and the slip.

He was a world star something which Liverpool lack currently.

All a bit touchy about Gerrard, who said he wasn't a great player?

I don't rate him as highly a central midfielder as Keane, Scholes or Vieira but hr produced moments of brilliance in the final 3rd that neither of those 3 did on a consistent basis. He was a world class attacking player.

They're not difficult MM cause you have seen them multiple times and at various speeds....

I think technology has worked well with the goal decisions and could work  with offsides but anything else I'd be against. The natural breaks in the game aren't there that exist in other game that use video technology like rugby, cricket and American football.

Disagree Boycey, both Rojo's tackles, Luiz tackle on Fellaini and Barkley's challenge on Henderson all looked like red cards straight off and all seen by the refs. They were all given yellow cards, no excuse for not sending any of those players off.

Agree on technology, think it will eventually come in for offsides but happy for it to stop there. If linesman don't have to worry about offside decisions that will surely help the referee's in their decision making.

First post on here and you're questioning my post on referee's, too right you've been accused of being an abu.

That's harsh. I think it was a reasonable enough question. You're right about the officiating though, it's shite. I think most teams have been affected at this stage.

Is it any more shite than it ever was though, or is it just Sky/Bt or whoever pushing their own agenda? BT even have Howard fecking Webb as part of their matchday commentary team giving real time analysis of the decisions. Then at the interval they'll play the incident at super duper slow motion making the referee or linesman look a right berk and all the experts in the studio will line up to slaughter the officials who got one chance to make a call on it.

Its a lot worse this season, its a really difficult job though and they will always accept mistakes but there's been far too many mistakes this season. Look at United's game against Palace for example; How could he not send Rojo off for that tackle? Then missed the Palace defender with a very blatant hand ball, think he ended up punching it and then there was Mata's goal which was ruled out for offside when he it wasn't even close. United's first goal was offside and a handall although that was difficult to see. There's no way the officials should be getting that number of decisions wrong, 3 of them were very straight forward and not difficult at all.

First post on here and you're questioning my post on referee's, too right you've been accused of being an abu.

Liverpool won 11 games in a row in 2013/14, its tough keeping that going; Always going to be a slip up at some point 

The problem with the ABU's is they only see things one way.


Off the top of my head the tackle on Mata v Stoke, nailed on pen.  The challenge by Bravo on Rooney when he could easily have broken his leg, nailed on pen and red card. The challenge by Monreal against Valencia which was a nailed on pen. The foul by the Burnley full back on Darmian and Herrera's red card when he slipped. We took 3 points from those 4 games.

There was Luiz's terrible tackle on Fellaini although given we were 2-0 down at the time and how poor we were its unlikely we'd have gotten anything but you never know. There's a few more too which I can't think off.

That was a very poor 1st half performance but probably picked the right game to play like that. The ref has been slaughtered by Keith Hackett & Graham Poll the last few weeks in the media about been too soft, clearly that was playing on his mind when he gave that pen; That was another dreadful decision, never seen a season like it and it keeps continuing. There's been poor decisions in nearly every match this season, we've certainly benefitted from a few namely the times Rojo should have seen red of when the West Ham player was sent off although I still think we'd have beaten West Ham that day. Overall the bad decisions have likely cost us more points than we've gained. We've had one pen in the last 39 league games, thats a very weird stat.

As for Hull they've certainly improved since Silva took over, we'll have to play a lot better at OT next week to beat them.

Galway beaten by Clare last night, doesn't sound great although I'd imagine that side will be totally different come championship given the amount of lads playing for NUIG yesterday and GMIT today.