Kildare v Galway. Super 8s Round 2. 22 July 2pm #newbridgeornowhere

[Captain Obvious]

Last thing a team that played 5 games in 5 weeks wanted was a sending off after 47 minutes. With 15 men and if they were fresher Kildare would have won that game.  I can't see Galway playing as loose in defence for their semi final it will be back to a full defensive system for them.

[GalwayBayBoy]

Last thing a team that played 5 games in 5 weeks wanted was a sending off after 47 minutes. With 15 men and if they were fresher Kildare would have won that game. 

Equally had Galway taken their goal chances they would have been out of sight. Kildare keeper made some fantastic saves and Comer blew a 3 on 1.

[Mayo4Sam14]

Last thing a team that played 5 games in 5 weeks wanted was a sending off after 47 minutes. With 15 men and if they were fresher Kildare would have won that game. 

Equally had Galway taken their goal chances they would have been out of sight. Kildare keeper made some fantastic saves and Comer blew a 3 on 1.

If Galway took some of the load of chances missed after the red they'd have been well out of sight, always felt they were fairly comfortable in control

[Donnellys Hollow]

Frustration again for the second week running. Feely's lack of fitness has killed us in these first two rounds. If we had him out around the middle for the full 70 we would be winning more contested kickouts. Nearly every single one landing down Moolick's flank ended up with a Galway free for some reason. We might as well give Fionn Dowling or Packie Connell a go down in Killarney and get Feely right for next year.

I haven't watched it back but if Dan Flynn lashed out then we can have no complaints. Backs were hanging out of him all game but the only way to answer that carry on is on the scoreboard. Paddy Brophy had his best game in a long while and he needs to find that form consistently in the long term.

Hopefully this run will bring Kildare on and we get everyone back on board again next year. Leper might call it a day but there's plenty of football left in Peter Kelly and Keith Cribbin. McCormack committing would be a big boost and a close eye is kept on the county championship to try and find a few more like Kevin Flynn and James Murray. A few of the u20 team will add a bit more depth to the panel. Dempsey and Hyland being the two obvious candidates.

[Blowitupref]

Last thing a team that played 5 games in 5 weeks wanted was a sending off after 47 minutes. With 15 men and if they were fresher Kildare would have won that game. 

Equally had Galway taken their goal chances they would have been out of sight. Kildare keeper made some fantastic saves and Comer blew a 3 on 1.

If Galway took some of the load of chances missed after the red they'd have been well out of sight, always felt they were fairly comfortable in control

Both sides missed a glut of chances. Galway rarely looked in control in that game never mind comfortable and the sending off was a huge help to edging a close contest.

[An Fhairche Abu]

Nonsense, Galway should have won that pulling up, terrible wides in the 2nd half while owning the ball.
Galway missed 4 clear goal chances, and had another disallowed, how many did Kildare miss? Bar the crazy chance from Lavelle losing the flight of the ball?

[Mayo4Sam]

Galway aren't in the semi final yet. It's not looking like Kerry will beat Monaghan but if they do Galway could go out with a loss next weekend

[redzone]

Great reffing. Where's he from?

Indeed. Did paddy tally get a lift down with him from galbally

[galwayman]

Great reffing. Where's he from?

Indeed. Did paddy tally get a lift down with him from galbally

Anybody trying to claim that referee favorited us is talking absolute shite.

[cornetto]

So all to play for still.kerry at home to an out of it kildare so scoring difference will be a big plus for kerry who will end up with 3pts.
Galway are through on 4pts
Monaghan on 3pts need to draw or win against Galway it will be some battle.galway trying to avoid the dubs Monaghan fighting to stay in the c/ship.

[Dinny Breen]

Great reffing. Where's he from?

Indeed. Did paddy tally get a lift down with him from galbally

Anybody trying to claim that referee favorited us is talking absolute shite.

The ref was good bar kickouts where Galway created chaos with illegal blockers and screens. The number of decisions going against Kildare in these exchanges was comical. Clever from Galway though. Dan lashed out, didn't make much contact, was done for intent seemingly.

Feeley's last attempt to draw us level and he was blocked down summed up Kildare in the super 8, poor decisions  at key moments. We are losing but losing better.  I think O'Neill is moving on, next manager in has some good tools to work with, still a very young side.

Best of luck to Galway in the semis, good support today.

[seafoid]

Galway aren't in the semi final yet. It's not looking like Kerry will beat Monaghan but if they do Galway could go out with a loss next weekend

Kerry have 1 point. Galway have 4.

[Kuwabatake Sanjuro]

Great reffing. Where's he from?

Indeed. Did paddy tally get a lift down with him from galbally

O'Ceallaigh should have been off at the start, it was a proper punch. Cribbin didn't have the nous to lie down though and the umpires and linesmen refused to look at Galways antics all day.
Overall Galway deserved their win even if they don't look like the second best team in the country, Kildare showed heart which is probably enough at the moment. Hopefully we can evolve next season under new management and a reinforced squad.

There also seemed to be a bigger crowd there than the Mayo game if that was possible.

[GalwayBayBoy]

Damien Comer slowly reaching Aidan O'Shea levels of needing to be the victim of GBH in order to win a free.

Any news on Daly's injury. Poor lad started with 2 excellent points before the injury bug struck him again.

[Jinxy]

Damien Comer slowly reaching Aidan O'Shea levels of pretending to be the victim of GBH in order to win a free.