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We got the result that we expected to get in Pearse Stadium.
We are really struggling at the moment.
I was up in Owenbeg two years ago when we beat Derry comfortably.
Only 5 starters that day started today.
You just can't see where the scores are going to come from at the moment.
We're missing loads of players but even when we get them back (if we do) they will have been out for so long will it be too late for us to get some cohesion going - that's the question.
Being able to start a game with Silke, Kelly, Conroy, Tierney, Walsh, Comer, McDaid should transform a team in theory - it's half a team right there.
Somehow though I just feel as if it won't this year for some reason.
I think we'll bow out without firing a shot. Can't put a finger on it

Mayo 2023 are another warning sign for Derry.So are Galway 2023.  Journalists will always focus on the now and both teams got loads of attention in the run up to May, just like Derry now , but neither county was there at the business end.  Both counties have learnt their lesson .
Fans love winning but the All Ireland now is about pace, patience and avoiding injuries. Nobody was talking about Dublin this time last year.

What lesson have Galway learned? How have they shown to have learned from it?

They have been trying out other players in order to broaden the panel.The stars have not played in the first 3 matches.They aren't interested in the league final. I think that is significant. the all Ireland now starts in January.  It's more like the EPL now. Arsenal had basically the same team last season and they were gassed  with a month or so to go.

Let's be clear about this - the "stars" as you call them haven't played because they have been injured. Comer, McDaid and Silke have all been unavailable through injury for every game so far. Kelly was unavailable until last weekend and they are easing him back.
Shane played the first league game and hasn't played since purely because he is injured.
Not playing them is not part of some master plan it's circumstance.
They'd be trying out one or two anyway for sure but that's about it

A hard watch but an important win in terms of trying to stay in Div 1. 
Some terrible turnovers late on that could have been very costly but got away with them.  A poor enough day from placed balls also.  Great to have Kelly back but more of the frontline lads will be required in the next few weeks.

Absolutely there are a few lads not up to this level (in my opinion) getting game time at the moment.
If we can get everyone fit we'll be a different animal.
Sean Kelly, Liam Silke, Cillian McDaid, Shane Walsh, Damien Comer.
Daniel O Flaherty had a huge impact today when he came on. He has wheels

That Galway forward line is seriously poor.. Tyrone well in control without even doing much

The Galway forward line is always poor when Comer doesn't play.
It's ridiculous how reliant we are on him.
Nobody wanted to shoot in that first half other than Finnerty.
Loads of defenders carrying the ball side to side but that lateral play is meat and drink to county defences.
Fitzgerald, Mulkerrin carrying lots of ball but they're not a scoring threat and opposition teams know that so they can stand off them and worry about marking other players.
And then we bring on Cein D'Arcy yet again as a wing forward when he can't get up and down the pitch.
Frustrating

How bad are England at the moment when they only beat that Italy side by 3 points and conceded 24 against them?

They're still the type of dogged forward oriented team that can make life very difficult for Ireland at Twickenham - their performance against South Africa in the World Cup semi final showed what they could be capable of on a given day. They don't have the quality to sustain it over a full series of games but very much they are the one team capable of one huge performance.
Can't see Wales or Scotland troubling Ireland at home so Twickers is the big one

Now in mitigation Galway are down a lot of good players at the moment and given the teams selected I expected Mayo to win that game. However I have absolutely zero idea what the Galway management were trying to achieve there today.

Comer out before the game so they replace him with Niall Daly, a midfielder, and tell him to play up front. Through no fault of his own he doesn't play well up there so they sub him off again after 20 minutes. They have another midfielder, Cein Darcy, playing at wing forward marking one of the fastest wing-backs in the country in McLaughlin. To nobody's surprise he can't run with him but they leave him there anyway. Dylan McHugh a natural half back is playing in midfield and Sean Mulkerrin is playing at wing-back where I don't think I've ever seen him play. Cathal Sweeney a wing-back continues to be picked at corner-forward. Tierney came off the bench despite not being fully fit either and barely touched the ball. They just looked a disorganised mess. And I don't think they'll be getting any of the injured players back soon bar maybe Comer.

About the only bright spots is that the young lads O'Conghaile and O'Curraoin look like they are well able to kick scores when they get some service.  But they probably won't be picked anyway as they'll want someone who can run around the the half back line instead.

Yeah I couldn't believe it when I saw Daly in at 14. Why? Because he's tall?
Just a plain daft decision.
Cein D'arcy has had loads of chances. His problem is he doesn't have the athleticism for the middle third at this level. He'll get run into the ground. That was clear the last time he was in the panel.
It's very early days and we have players to come back but it doesn't bode well for the summer

Is it just me or have Galway been absolutely abysmal in this game.

Couple of great long range scores the only positive.

You're spot on.
Going to get a hiding in the second half. When we are not at full strength we're not at the races.
Don't have huge depth.

Pathetic first half from us with a gale behind us.
My fullback line fear pre game has come to pass. D'arcy getting another chance today after a few years out and caught badly for the goal.
Eoghan Kelly too slow for the corner.
Sean Mulkerrin looks off the pace.
Shane looks disinterested.
Just a disaster all over the pitch.
When Comer does not play - Galway do not play. Simple as that

Doesn't sound like Galway have a clean bill of health either with Silke & McDaid out with broken feet and Sean Kelly still out too. Plenty of rumours about Glynn & Tierney too but we'll know come the weekend and neither Hernon or Cooke will be around this year either.

O Maolchiarain was the FB before Kelly.- has he recovered from his injury yet?

He played in the club championship this year anyway, though I didn't see any of Oileáin Arann's games.
To be fair he is totally unproven at this level. Both of the seasons he played were straight knockout due to CovId, so he hasn't played much county senior football at all.

I used to care about stuff like this until i had children. The only AI that matters is the next one. The rest are in the past and their glories are there too. Nice to look back at, but living off past glories is dangerous.

I hear ya. Having kids definitely puts a different perspective on things.
Can't feck off every single weekend to a multitude of club and county football matches anymore either now.
Have to pick and choose a bit :-)

So we hired a car in France in the Summer.  Got a lovely letter yesterday from Goldcar to say we had incurred a penalty somewhere and would be receiving a fine in a couple of weeks.  Due to the fact that goldcar supplied our details to the authorities they charged us a €50 admin fee which automatically came out of my account.  How nice of them.  With my limited French I think it was for doing 56kmph in a 50kmph zone.  I await the fine.  Anyone any similar experiences of this?

I received two separate speeding fines from France during the summer as well. Pretty sure nothing would come of it if you didn't pay.
I was mulling over what to do - but decided to pay in the end.

Some equaliser at the death

A drink ban is pointless. I never drinked during fball seaason, I seen guys on or off drink and still could play the same. There no harm in a odd drink. Binge drinking another matter!

Absolute waste of time. You can't stop young lads from having a few beers from time to time and nor should you try to.
Now clearly lads should not be on the piss a few days before a championship game - that goes without saying - but that's very different to having a blanket drink ban.

[or foreplay]

What about sex - are they allowed to have sex? Maybe it only matters if it is:

1) on your own
2) with another first team member
3) with a squad member
4) with a squad member from the neighbouring parish
5) with a woman (over 40)
6) with a woman (under 40)
7) with a sheep
8 ) nun of the above
9) all the above

But only with management approval.

A quickie at best they'll approve? certainly no bondage or foreplay allowed.

I would have thought the Physio would be expecting an extensive warm up to prevent injury.
GPS should be attached and it has to be uploaded to the group.

I've seen a brave few physios that you'd happily have an extensive warm up with!!!

Load of shite these things,  Clarenbridge apparently. They obviously have serious ambition but show me any club who doesn't have at this time of year. I know we would have had drink bans but they were obeyed mostly in spirit than actuality. As players though when someone stepped out of line we dealt with it in-house. Bate the shite out of them in a tackling grid...that put the notion out of them to take the piss.

Load of bollix alright.
So a lad that makes a living in Dublin is seriously expected to travel down for training every week from January onwards? I assume they mean for a weekend session but still that's taking the piss.
No way you can expect a guy whose life is now elsewhere to travel back very single weekend for training.

I'm alm

I can tell you I spoke to 3 lads at lunch there, from Sligo, Galway and Mayo. Their league and championship totally seperate too. Bar the couple on northern counties I haven't come across any that are linked

Meath are the same

I'm almost certain it was a Croke Park directive that resulted in the unlinking of league and championship in Galway football anyway.
Around 2011 if memory serves.