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So much for lobsided easy provincial championships, time for a changeing of the guard in Connacht.
But who will be the new Kings?

I'd say about 60/40 in favour of Galway. Roscommon could do something and win the game, if all things fall in to place for us. But it's championship football against Galway and the pecking order in the province makes them the most likely winners when there is not that much difference in quality between the sides, added to the fact that the thing we have most form for is making a balls of it.

Should be interesting anyway!

Is that like the changing of the guard that happened in Connacht in 2010?

Still can't see past Roscommon and it's only their stepping stone to greater things..

Should be a great occasion in Salthill. I'd imagine it'll draw a very big crowd too. Bookies have it dead even. Great to get a home game anyway. How much revenue is the GAA pi$sing away by not having a proper inter-county championship structure where every team is guaranteed a few home games in a meaningful competition?

Quote from: Asal Mor on June 19, 2016, 07:24:49 AM
Should be a great occasion in Salthill. I'd imagine it'll draw a very big crowd too. Bookies have it dead even. Great to get a home game anyway. How much revenue is the GAA pi$sing away by not having a proper inter-county championship structure where every team is guaranteed a few home games in a meaningful competition?

Would people actually go to them though? More games would mean more apathy.

If we can get a midfield and HB line we could give Galway a game.
Tall order in 3 weeks though :-\

1500 Galway supporters at most in Castlebar last evening so gaa not pissing away much money where galway are concerned, Galway supporters only turn up for big games they think they will win, after that its total apathy.

Quote from: manfromdelmonte on June 19, 2016, 08:57:47 AM

Quote from: Asal Mor on June 19, 2016, 07:24:49 AM
Should be a great occasion in Salthill. I'd imagine it'll draw a very big crowd too. Bookies have it dead even. Great to get a home game anyway. How much revenue is the GAA pi$sing away by not having a proper inter-county championship structure where every team is guaranteed a few home games in a meaningful competition?

Would people actually go to them though? More games would mean more apathy.

At the moment we have one well-structured, balanced competition that the top teams aren't too fussed about winnning, and one ridiculously structured, imbalanced competition which everyone wants to win but only guarantees teams 2 games, often against teams at a completely different level.The league should be scrapped in favor of one meaningful competition, which could actually be structured similarly to the league but called the championship.

Quote from: giveballaghback on June 19, 2016, 10:26:12 AM
1500 Galway supporters at most in Castlebar last evening so gaa not pissing away much money where galway are concerned, Galway supporters only turn up for big games they think they will win, after that its total apathy.

There was a decent Galway support there yesterday evening in fairness, outnumbered by Mayo obviously but not by 20 to 1! If you were sitting in traffic in Castlebar and Balla yesterday evening you'd have seen a fair few Galway supporters, a win like that makes the journey home so much easier though!

Syferus vs. Seafóid.
A battle for the ages to decide who is the king of the Connacht posters.

Will the Galway supporters get confused and turn up at the greyhound track instead of Salthill seeing as they're all supporting the latest bandwagon out west

Aren't we lucky to have so many bandwagons to jump on?

Quote from: Jinxy on June 19, 2016, 02:42:51 PM
Syferus vs. Seafóid.
A battle for the ages to decide who is the king of the Connacht posters.

Syf can have it. I just want Meath to beat the Dubs

Quote from: seafoid on June 19, 2016, 08:38:12 PM

Quote from: Jinxy on June 19, 2016, 02:42:51 PM
Syferus vs. Seafóid.
A battle for the ages to decide who is the king of the Connacht posters.

Syf can have it. I just want Meath to beat the Dubs

Keep dreaming

I think its going to be a decent Connacht Final for once

Galway fan complaining to me yesterday

"it will take me 3 f... hours to get into the ground and another 3 to get back out again"

he hasnt been to a connacht final in about ten years

So the bandwagon is starting to load up. :D
Mind you Salthill is one feckin disaster to get in and out of.
Better set off at 7am I suppose.

I was talking to a cousin of mine in Strokestown and he's licking his lips at the thoughts of getting hold of Galway.
He was terrified of Mayo but he reckons it's in the bag now.

Quote from: Jinxy on June 20, 2016, 09:14:05 AM
I was talking to a cousin of mine in Strokestown and he's licking his lips at the thoughts of getting hold of Galway.
He was terrified of Mayo but he reckons it's in the bag now.

I didn't know syf was your cousin, jinxy

Ros will obviously be unbackable for this . Division 1 and everything and a bus. Plus all the years of hurt . As well as trauma and whiplash   and never enough respect. It will be tough to know what to put up on the dressing room wall. Maybe Ray Silke saying ee 2001 "there was no way Roscommon were going to beat us twice".

Sure ye have the Final won already.
Players shouldered off the field, the Fields of Athenry sang, etc
Ye just have the oul' formality of collecting the Cup ( for about the 50th time) on the 10th July.
Us little upstarteens couldn't get in the way of that :-[
Bookies make it 50/50 I'm told.

Quote from: seafoid on June 20, 2016, 11:06:36 AM
Ros will obviously be unbackable for this . Division 1 and everything and a bus. Plus all the years of hurt . As well as trauma and whiplash   and never enough respect. It will be tough to know what to put up on the dressing room wall. Maybe Ray Silke saying ee 2001 "there was no way Roscommon were going to beat us twice".

Roscommon don't even have a pitch to play on or train on... and there's Galway with yer fancy Loughgeorge setup
Ros will be lucky to keep it kicked out to ye

It wouldn't be fair for Galway to re emerge to compete with the Roscommon renaissance.
More novenas required.

As disappointing as it is for a Mayo supporter to not be involved , I'm still looking forward to this one , hopefully our minors can get through and I'll have an excuse to go down to it then .

Tough one to call , Galway will have momentum and confidence plus home advantage albeit I'd hazard a guess Ross will outnumber them on the terraces . I'd give a hesitant nod to Roscommon to come away with the Nestor cup (poor aul jj after setting up residence in castlebar for five years having to go to that dastardly place for a year ) , they showed at times  against Sligo they are powerful up front with the amount of goals and goal chances they had .

Quote from: seafoid on June 20, 2016, 11:06:36 AM
Ros will obviously be unbackable for this . Division 1 and everything and a bus. Plus all the years of hurt . As well as trauma and whiplash   and never enough respect. It will be tough to know what to put up on the dressing room wall. Maybe Ray Silke saying ee 2001 "there was no way Roscommon were going to beat us twice".

The bus will be the clincher alright.  Worth a few points to them. Once they keep the players awsy from pool tables they should be safe enough.

Hard one to call. Emphasis has switched now for Galway. Pressure to put in a performance in Mayo has switched to pressure to win at home v Roscommon. There will be expectation now from Galway supporters that they win this. It's a different dynamic now for their newer players especially. Roscommon wont sleepwalk into the game like Mayo did. Roscommon don't have a great midfield or 6 but could work around that. Roscommon getting players back might have more bench as well. Maybe Roscommon.

Can't believe Syferus hasn't posted in this thread yet.

He's still in shock after Saturday ;D

Both teams are into the last 12 at worst. But I'd say both a really greedy for Quarter final spots and Silverware. Roscommons focus for the last 8 months would have been playing Mayo in Castlebar and that's one folder that they did not expect to be staying on the shelf. The same could be said of Galway. A game with the Rossies was the last thing on their mind a couple of days ago.

It's been 4 years ago since these sides played each other in the Championship. Galway winning 0-10 to 3-15.

Very very tough game to call.
Mentally a hugely different challenge for Galway having focused all their energy completely on Mayo for months.
Roscommon have a very dangerous set of forwards which worries me

Quote from: From the Bunker on June 20, 2016, 11:34:05 PM


It's been 4 years ago since these sides played each other in the Championship. Galway winning 0-10 to 3-15.

We were in some state that year :( . Galway were being touted as potential A I winners by their lovers in the media after that demolition
Then Sligo brought them back to earth.

Quote from: Farrandeelin on June 20, 2016, 11:23:39 PM
Can't believe Syferus hasn't posted in this thread yet.

Poor oul Syf had 20 pages ready to go for a bumper Connacht final thread in anticipation of Mayo winning and it's all up in a heap.
He's plugged it all into MS Word now and he's working his way through it with the 'Find and replace' function.

Quote from: Rossfan on June 20, 2016, 11:25:37 PM
He's still in shock after Saturday ;D

g

Not the only one, sheeesh!

Well actually no. Wasn't shocked or even surprised tbh.

Quote from: galwayman on June 20, 2016, 11:38:28 PM
Very very tough game to call.
Mentally a hugely different challenge for Galway having focused all their energy completely on Mayo for months.
Roscommon have a very dangerous set of forwards which worries me

They were good against Sligo but poor before that. They have a lot of potential but not the consistency . The maroon jersey should be worth at least 2 points .

Quote from: seafoid on June 21, 2016, 07:35:41 AM

Quote from: galwayman on June 20, 2016, 11:38:28 PM
Very very tough game to call.
Mentally a hugely different challenge for Galway having focused all their energy completely on Mayo for months.
Roscommon have a very dangerous set of forwards which worries me

They were good against Sligo but poor before that. They have a lot of potential but not the consistency . The maroon jersey should be worth at least 2 points .

If that was the case Westmeath would have a bucket of AIs

can t wait to see the 2 bald men fighting over a comb

Quote from: rosnarun on June 21, 2016, 02:22:50 PM
can t wait to see the 2 bald men fighting over a comb

Ye might have nothing else to do after 9th July ;)
Meanwgile we'll be preparing for Round 4A against Armagh which might be played around the 15th August.

Let's not make a coont of this thread , its for the Connacht final between th two teams who got their on merit. Nowt to do with Mayo or their failings.

Apart from a Helicopter or parachute is the ANY easy way to effn Salthill?

Quote from: Rossfan on June 21, 2016, 04:47:05 PM
Apart from a Helicopter or parachute is the ANY easy way to effn Salthill?

Boat. Hopefully nice day for sailing.

Quote from: Rossfan on June 21, 2016, 04:47:05 PM
Apart from a Helicopter or parachute is the ANY easy way to effn Salthill?

BnB

Quote from: Rossfan on June 21, 2016, 04:47:05 PM
Apart from a Helicopter or parachute is the ANY easy way to effn Salthill?

Park in the city. Walk,cycle or get the city bus out to Salthill.

Quote from: rosnarun on June 21, 2016, 02:22:50 PM
can t wait to see the 2 bald men fighting over a comb

Speaking of hair or lack of it did Samson get his hair cut on Saturday night?

Quote from: Rossfan on June 21, 2016, 04:47:05 PM
Apart from a Helicopter or parachute is the ANY easy way to effn Salthill?

Submarine, Horseback

Quote from: twohands!!! on June 21, 2016, 10:40:13 PM

Quote from: Rossfan on June 21, 2016, 04:47:05 PM
Apart from a Helicopter or parachute is the ANY easy way to effn Salthill?

Submarine, Horseback

Magic blanket!

Quote from: Blowitupref on June 21, 2016, 06:23:38 PM

Quote from: Rossfan on June 21, 2016, 04:47:05 PM
Apart from a Helicopter or parachute is the ANY easy way to effn Salthill?

Park in the city. Walk,cycle or get the city bus out to Salthill.

How reliable is the bus from the city?

In my days in college there (admittedly a few years ago now), the bus could be 30 mins late or 30 mins early and then take 1.5 hours or 20 mins!!!!

Are the buses anyway more consistent/regular now?

I would walk out from the city to the stadium.
If you cut over into Lower Salthill (over by Wards Hotel) it won't take as long as going via the Prom.
You can take a right after PJ Flahertys pub and that will bring you to Pearse.

Quote from: galwayman on June 22, 2016, 10:07:46 AM
I would walk out from the city to the stadium.
If you cut over into Lower Salthill (over by Wards Hotel) it won't take as long as going via the Prom.
You can take a right after PJ Flahertys pub and that will bring you to Pearse.

it's still about a 40 minute walk though isn't it?

I think I'll leave the 3/4 year old at home!!!

Parking in the city centre and walking out or taking a bus/taxi out is definitely the way to go. Otherwise the drive from Salthill into the city centre afterwards will take you the best part of an hour. Probably a 30 minute walk back in but it's preferable to an hour sitting in very slow moving traffic.

A lot of pressure on the Ros, there will be far more expectancy from within the county to deliver now that Mayo are out; Naturally there will pressure on Galway too but at least Galway already have made plenty of progress with the defeat of Mayo.

Its a big opportunity as the draw has really opened up, there isn't too many top teams on the A side of the draw and the winner could well end up playing Tipp in a quarter final depending on draw.

Tactically will KW stick to the same strategy as he did on Mayo's kickouts or will he change given the Rossies are not nearly as strong as Mayo are around the middle.

No pressure on Ros at all - we've achieved our two aims for 2016.
Of course we'll now feel it's all to play for in the CF and McS/McH will be spared all the rámeis about them coming up against their native County( + Ballagh).

Galway's to lose but sure they've lost Connacht Finals before and Prior >:( >:( >:( won't be the ref this time.

Quote from: Rossfan on June 22, 2016, 03:29:59 PM
No pressure on Ros at all - we've achieved our two aims for 2016.
Of course we'll now feel it's all to play for in the CF and McS/McH will be spared all the rámeis about them coming up against their native County( + Ballagh).

Galway's to lose but sure they've lost Connacht Finals before and Prior >:( >:( >:( won't be the ref this time.

arf, I heard Roscommon men on Sunday claim they would beat Galway comfortably; Just a matter of turning up.

Maybe we should play some of them fellas so ;D

Quote from: Maroon Manc on June 22, 2016, 04:39:04 PM

Quote from: Rossfan on June 22, 2016, 03:29:59 PM
No pressure on Ros at all - we've achieved our two aims for 2016.
Of course we'll now feel it's all to play for in the CF and McS/McH will be spared all the rámeis about them coming up against their native County( + Ballagh).

Galway's to lose but sure they've lost Connacht Finals before and Prior >:( >:( >:( won't be the ref this time.

arf, I heard Roscommon men on Sunday claim they would beat Galway comfortably; Just a matter of turning up.

I heard Galway men at the match Saturday say they'd walk through Roscommon.

















....that's a lie. There were no Galway men at the match.

The only Galway lads at it  we're selling the hats scarves and headbands. :P

Quote from: Syferus on June 22, 2016, 06:29:18 PM

Quote from: Maroon Manc on June 22, 2016, 04:39:04 PM

Quote from: Rossfan on June 22, 2016, 03:29:59 PM
No pressure on Ros at all - we've achieved our two aims for 2016.
Of course we'll now feel it's all to play for in the CF and McS/McH will be spared all the rámeis about them coming up against their native County( + Ballagh).

Galway's to lose but sure they've lost Connacht Finals before and Prior >:( >:( >:( won't be the ref this time.

arf, I heard Roscommon men on Sunday claim they would beat Galway comfortably; Just a matter of turning up.

I heard Galway men at the match Saturday say they'd walk through Roscommon.

Fans from Ros also talk shite

Quote from: Syferus on May 22, 2016, 11:31:41 PM
We beat them by a cricket score in a competive match in Cork. Worrying times for Galway football. Walsh was never the answer. I don't know if anyone really is. Apathy has taken root in Galway football by the looks of things.

















....that's a lie. There were no Galway men at the match.

Such a massive opportunity for the winner to get to an all Ireland final , this is just what Roscommon have been waiting for and unfortunately I really fancy them to do this after watching Saturday's game over x4 times now , Galway were value for their win but Mayo would of held out only for the daft kickout by henelly.

Quote from: larryin89 on June 23, 2016, 11:19:12 AM
Such a massive opportunity for the winner to get to an all Ireland final , this is just what Roscommon have been waiting for and unfortunately I really fancy them to do this after watching Saturday's game over x4 times now , Galway were value for their win but Mayo would of held out only for the daft kickout by henelly.

In fairness that was Galway's 3rd good goal chance of the game. Cummins almost scored one in the first minute and Heaney should probably have buried his chance in the net but hit it high and Hennelly got a slight touch to send it over the bar.

Quote from: GalwayBayBoy on June 23, 2016, 12:06:36 PM

Quote from: larryin89 on June 23, 2016, 11:19:12 AM
Such a massive opportunity for the winner to get to an all Ireland final , this is just what Roscommon have been waiting for and unfortunately I really fancy them to do this after watching Saturday's game over x4 times now , Galway were value for their win but Mayo would of held out only for the daft kickout by henelly.

In fairness that was Galway's 3rd good goal chance of the game. Cummins almost scored one in the first minute and Heaney should probably have buried his chance in the net but hit it high and Hennelly got a slight touch to send it over the bar.

Fair enough buddy , I'm not going to go on about it , we will see how the rest of the championship pans out for both sides and that will tell whether Mayo were out of sorts , took their eye off the ball etc or Galway are decent .

Quote from: larryin89 on June 23, 2016, 12:15:16 PM

Quote from: GalwayBayBoy on June 23, 2016, 12:06:36 PM

Quote from: larryin89 on June 23, 2016, 11:19:12 AM
Such a massive opportunity for the winner to get to an all Ireland final , this is just what Roscommon have been waiting for and unfortunately I really fancy them to do this after watching Saturday's game over x4 times now , Galway were value for their win but Mayo would of held out only for the daft kickout by henelly.

In fairness that was Galway's 3rd good goal chance of the game. Cummins almost scored one in the first minute and Heaney should probably have buried his chance in the net but hit it high and Hennelly got a slight touch to send it over the bar.

Fair enough buddy , I'm not going to go on about it , we will see how the rest of the championship pans out for both sides and that will tell whether Mayo were out of sorts , took their eye off the ball etc or Galway are decent .

Whoever wins Nestor can consider it a very good year neither side had or will have the high expectations like Mayo to reach All Ireland final and the winner of Connacht title this July will probably celebrate that success too much to be focused for the All Ireland series.

Connacht final loser will probably be more focused and can recover to reach the quarter final but that could be against the 2nd best team in Ireland Kerry.

Mayo will come through qualifiers but it won't be until the All quarter final that it's fully known if Saturday was a sign of a group of players in decline or not.

Quote from: larryin89 on June 23, 2016, 11:19:12 AM
Such a massive opportunity for the winner to get to an all Ireland final , this is just what Roscommon have been waiting for and unfortunately I really fancy them to do this after watching Saturday's game over x4 times now , Galway were value for their win but Mayo would of held out only for the daft kickout by henelly.

Agree that Galway wouldn't have won only for the goal but I do think the win will do wonders for this group of players, it will have given them great belief which only appeared after the goal. I really don't think the players fully believed they could win until that goal went in; Its a young group who now have a big win under their belts whilst Roscommon have no big championship win, you probably have to go back to 2003 for Roscommon's last huge win against good opposition although given the law of averages their due a win. No win against Galway since 2001 and no win in Salthill since the 70's! ( don't know how true is the latter)

1988 ;)

Quote from: Maroon Manc on June 22, 2016, 02:42:12 PM
A lot of pressure on the Ros, there will be far more expectancy from within the county to deliver now that Mayo are out; Naturally there will pressure on Galway too but at least Galway already have made plenty of progress with the defeat of Mayo.

Its a big opportunity as the draw has really opened up, there isn't too many top teams on the A side of the draw and the winner could well end up playing Tipp in a quarter final depending on draw.

Tactically will KW stick to the same strategy as he did on Mayo's kickouts or will he change given the Rossies are not nearly as strong as Mayo are around the middle.

No pressure at all. 
If Galway win then fair play to them
I think its going to be a cracker

In fairness big wins aren't much use if you can't back it up with a trophy as Sligo found out in 2010 or Galway themselves found out in 2007. A defeat now for Galway will knock their group of young players back again. A lot of pressure on Galway to perform in this final after that big win in MacHale park.

No matter what anybody says, will be a setback for either county to lose. I remember after we beat favourites Mayo in 1986 (who had drawn with Dublin in '85 and had high hopes), it was right sucker punch to lose to Galway in the Connacht final, especially to a late goal. Fella beside me on the embankment roared at the final whistle, "feck ye Galway, we did yere dirty work." So Galway have done the dirty work this year and would be equally galling to lose to Roscommon. Likewise, with no victory over Galway since 2001 and no victory in Salthill since 88, it's now or never time for us. I do think we'll win but lots of demons will have to be overcome.

Quote from: weareros on June 23, 2016, 03:43:14 PM
No matter what anybody says, will be a setback for either county to lose. I remember after we beat favourites Mayo in 1986 (who had drawn with Dublin in '85 and had high hopes), it was right sucker punch to lose to Galway in the Connacht final, especially to a late goal. Fella beside me on the embankment roared at the final whistle, "feck ye Galway, we did yere dirty work." So Galway have done the dirty work this year and would be equally galling to lose to Roscommon. Likewise, with no victory over Galway since 2001 and no victory in Salthill since 88, it's now or never time for us. I do think we'll win but lots of demons will have to be overcome.

These are the sorts of games that make championship football special.

I think that the Roscommon management team are a good team and would have the edge over Kevin Walshes group. But Galway are always a tough nut to ctack. McStay knows that an All Ireland appearance is on the cards. They put in some great league performances

All Ireland appearance.....houl' on a biteen :o
We'd have bate Galway, A Qualifier and Kerry.
Without a midfield or HB line!!
Let's just play Galway first.

Would be a remarkable achievement for Roscommon to win Connacht after what happened round one in New York however Galway after beating Mayo are hardly going to let this opportunity pass are they?

Potted history.

QuoteRoscommon and Galway have met a total of 52 times in Connacht, with the maroon and white 30-18 ahead on victories, with four draws.

Quote from: Captain Obvious on June 23, 2016, 07:24:47 PM
Would be a remarkable achievement for Roscommon to win Connacht after what happened round one in New York however Galway after beating Mayo are hardly going to let this opportunity pass are they?

Not as remarkable as Mayo 2011 when in their previous three Championship games, they lost to Sligo, Longford and need two injury time points to draw and extra time to beat London.

Quote from: GalwayBayBoy on June 24, 2016, 02:42:20 PM
Potted history.

QuoteRoscommon and Galway have met a total of 52 times in Connacht, with the maroon and white 30-18 ahead on victories, with four draws.

Broken dreams and crossbars.

Quote from: Captain Obvious on June 23, 2016, 07:24:47 PM
Would be a remarkable achievement for Roscommon to win Connacht after what happened round one in New York however Galway after beating Mayo are hardly going to let this opportunity pass are they?

There 2010 Connacht title was more remarkable given they managed to avoid playing Galway & Mayo.

Quote from: Maroon Manc on June 24, 2016, 02:58:59 PM

Quote from: Captain Obvious on June 23, 2016, 07:24:47 PM
Would be a remarkable achievement for Roscommon to win Connacht after what happened round one in New York however Galway after beating Mayo are hardly going to let this opportunity pass are they?

There 2010 Connacht title was more remarkable given they managed to avoid playing Galway & Mayo.

Hardly avoiding ye when we do our part but both of ye are so shite ye can't get to the final.

Quote from: GalwayBayBoy on June 24, 2016, 02:42:20 PM
Potted history.

QuoteRoscommon and Galway have met a total of 52 times in Connacht, with the maroon and white 30-18 ahead on victories, with four draws.

Hard to believe it's the first Galway v Roscommon Connacht final since 1998. Have to go back to 1978 for a Salthill final between the two.

Quote from: Syferus on June 24, 2016, 03:08:47 PM

Quote from: Maroon Manc on June 24, 2016, 02:58:59 PM

Quote from: Captain Obvious on June 23, 2016, 07:24:47 PM
Would be a remarkable achievement for Roscommon to win Connacht after what happened round one in New York however Galway after beating Mayo are hardly going to let this opportunity pass are they?

There 2010 Connacht title was more remarkable given they managed to avoid playing Galway & Mayo.

Hardly avoiding B when we do our part but both are so shite they can't get to the final.

I'd probably agree with you (as always) if only I knew WTF you're on about. ;D
Any interpreters on the board?

Quote from: Syferus on June 24, 2016, 02:57:53 PM

Quote from: GalwayBayBoy on June 24, 2016, 02:42:20 PM
Potted history.

QuoteRoscommon and Galway have met a total of 52 times in Connacht, with the maroon and white 30-18 ahead on victories, with four draws.

Broken dreams and crossbars.

Tragedy and long wet winter months of what ifs. Backstabbing and contempt. Dodgy refs and the weight of mediocrity.  The brutality of imbalance. And that is before going anywhere near the rhubarbs.  Roscommon football. You can't buy it.

http://connachtgaa.ie/tickets/

Another 5 euro added to already over priced tickets.

It's a FINAL man!!

Quote from: Rossfan on June 27, 2016, 04:53:35 PM
It's a FINAL man!!

Glad to be in the main event for a change. JP can have his fiver.

Collins out with a hamstring injury. Our best and most important back. Probably a straight choice between the talented but raw Mulhooly and Carty who hasn't played a minute of competitive football in 2016 to replace him. Advantage Galway..

Quote from: Syferus on June 30, 2016, 05:47:40 PM
Collins out with a hamstring injury. Our best and most important back. Probably a straight choice between the talented but raw Mulhooly and Carty who hasn't played a minute of competitive football in 2016 to replace him. Advantage Galway..

I'm confused!? I thought Roscommon had at least 3 rolls Royce callibre of player for each position?  This is all we have been listening to the last decade nearly as this stage such is the depth of talent in all them minor and under 21 teams or is that just bulls!t!?

Another Roscommon man down with a hamstring injury, surely its gone beyond a coincidence at this stage?

Certainly advantage Galway. Roscommons defence far from great to begin with and now without their best and most physical defender makes them even weaker.

Quote from: Mclf on June 30, 2016, 05:58:28 PM

Quote from: Syferus on June 30, 2016, 05:47:40 PM
Collins out with a hamstring injury. Our best and most important back. Probably a straight choice between the talented but raw Mulhooly and Carty who hasn't played a minute of competitive football in 2016 to replace him. Advantage Galway..

I'm confused!? I thought Roscommon had at least 3 rolls Royce callibre of player for each position?  This is all we have been listening to the last decade nearly as this stage such is the depth of talent in all them minor and under 21 teams or is that just bulls!t!?

This box now blocked.

Collins only came on against Sligo, was he carrying knock at that stage?

Quote from: Syferus on June 30, 2016, 05:47:40 PM
Collins out with a hamstring injury. Our best and most important back. Probably a straight choice between the talented but raw Mulhooly and Carty who hasn't played a minute of competitive football in 2016 to replace him. Advantage Galway..

Carty to come on and play the game of his life, losing 3 teeth in a superhuman  block to deny Galway a goal at the death only to find himself under a collapsing crossbar for a tragic death. Syferus writes a song about it. The day Ros lost by a point.
He becomes a saint.

How come county boards still have not got tickets for Connacht final? Will be interesting to see where prenty puts all the season ticket holders

Quote from: mayo.mick on July 01, 2016, 11:30:23 AM
How come county boards still have not got tickets for Connacht final? Will be interesting to see where prenty puts all the season ticket holders

the stand? Presumably

Quote from: PW Nally on July 01, 2016, 10:06:16 AM
Collins only came on against Sligo, was he carrying knock at that stage?

Hamstring.

Quote from: manfromdelmonte on July 01, 2016, 11:46:41 AM

Quote from: mayo.mick on July 01, 2016, 11:30:23 AM
How come county boards still have not got tickets for Connacht final? Will be interesting to see where prenty puts all the season ticket holders

the stand? Presumably

Ros and Galway haven't near as many season ticket holders as Mayowestros.

Quote from: PW Nally on July 01, 2016, 10:06:16 AM
Collins only came on against Sligo, was he carrying knock at that stage?

So they say.

Got the email from HQ - reserved seating, print ticket Monday. :D

Quote from: Rossfan on July 01, 2016, 02:06:29 PM

Quote from: manfromdelmonte on July 01, 2016, 11:46:41 AM

Quote from: mayo.mick on July 01, 2016, 11:30:23 AM
How come county boards still have not got tickets for Connacht final? Will be interesting to see where prenty puts all the season ticket holders

the stand? Presumably

Ros and Galway haven't near as many season ticket holders as Mayowestros.

How many names do ye have for Mayo ?

The excitement is building from Ballyforan to Ballyfarnon, from Ballyleague to Ballaghaderreen.
Does anyone in Salthill, Renmore, Mervue, Loughrea, Portumna etc know this game is on?

Quote from: Rossfan on July 04, 2016, 11:00:36 AM
The excitement is building from Ballyforan to Ballyfarnon, from Ballyleague to Ballaghaderreen.
Does anyone in Salthill, Renmore, Mervue, Loughrea, Portumna etc know this game is on?

Conor Hayes believes there is a similar emotional deficit in the current arrangement, suggesting that the celebrations after winning Leinster in 2012 were largely because of the historic nature of the win.
"It's not a lack of respect; it's a lack of engagement. Compare this Sunday with the following Sunday when the Galway footballers play Roscommon in the Connacht football final.
"I know people wouldn't see me as a big football man but I'd be more excited about winning that than winning the Leinster hurling.

Quote from: Rossfan on July 04, 2016, 11:00:36 AM
The excitement is building from Ballyforan to Ballyfarnon, from Ballyleague to Ballaghaderreen.
Does anyone in Salthill, Renmore, Mervue, Loughrea, Portumna etc know this game is on?

Whatever about the city suburbs there is almost zero interest in football in places like Loughrea and Portumna. Hurling is all that matters there.

Full back Collins out for the rest of the season with a hamstring tear and is a huge loss to Roscommon.
Ros will struggle to contain Comer with no recognised full back or at least no one with experience anyway.
Still I trust O Donnell and McStay to reshuffle and cope with the situation.

While he's no Harry Keegan Collins is a big loss on a team with only 3 or 4 natural defenders.
Best wishes Neil  and hope to see you back to your best in 2017.
As for the rest of ye
WIN IT FOR NEIL !!!!!

Galway had a good workout against Clare last week behind closed doors,galway won by a few points.the defence still being worked on, as could be suspect under high ball.really think galway would prefer to be away for this,just cannot perform at home.here's hoping!

I hear ros had a good challenge against England kept them scoreless and won by a pointed corner.

Syferus and oliverkelly. This is yere thread. Enjoy it. Enjoy laughing at poor oul Mayo and our woes also. But keep yere little spat out of other threads please.

Quote from: Farrandeelin on July 05, 2016, 11:41:35 AM
Syferus and oliverkelly. This is yere thread. Enjoy it. Enjoy laughing at poor oul Mayo and our woes also. But keep yere little spat out of other threads please.

It's hardly a spat.

Who's oliver kelly?

Quote from: Jinxy on July 05, 2016, 12:15:45 PM
Who's oliver kelly?

His mother was one of the Mannions from Gorthaganny

Now I have him.

Quote from: Rossfan on July 04, 2016, 04:58:12 PM
While he's no Harry Keegan Collins is a big loss on a team with only 3 or 4 natural defenders.
Best wishes Neil  and hope to see you back to your best in 2017.
As for the rest of ye
WIN IT FOR NEIL !!!!!

shur in mothern football there is no such thing as defensive roles. Corner forwards make goal saving blocks
how many teams have players with scoring forwards? They are a luxury when fellas have to track back incessantly

Quote from: Farrandeelin on July 05, 2016, 11:41:35 AM
Syferus and oliverkelly. This is yere thread. Enjoy it. Enjoy laughing at poor oul Mayo and our woes also. But keep yere little spat out of other threads please.

Syfín seems to be gone all tense and uptight over the Fermanagh game while th'other buck has obviously no negative tales from the camp.
If this game was Ros v Mayowestros we'd be on page 50 by now ;D

Rhubarbi always fall for the Ros taunts for some reason. That typically drives about 40pages

I think there a bit of Rossie in you seafoid, not many choakers know about Gorthaganny ;D

Quote from: giveballaghback on July 05, 2016, 06:57:14 PM
I think there a bit of Rossie in you seafoid, not many choakers know about Gorthaganny ;D

The mother is a Rossie.
Syf often chokes talking about Gorthaganny

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Quote from: giveballaghback on July 05, 2016, 06:57:14 PM
I think there a bit of Rossie in you seafoid, not many choakers know about Gorthaganny ;D

The mother is a Rossie.
Syf often chokes talking about Gorthaganny

Great statue up there.

Worth a visit by anyone who knows their GAA

Quote from: manfromdelmonte on July 05, 2016, 07:30:37 PM

Quote from: seafoid on July 05, 2016, 07:02:05 PM

Quote from: giveballaghback on July 05, 2016, 06:57:14 PM
I think there a bit of Rossie in you seafoid, not many choakers know about Gorthaganny ;D

The mother is a Rossie.
Syf often chokes talking about Gorthaganny

Great statue up there.

Worth a visit by anyone who knows their GAA

I think every county should have a GAA museum with all the local legends featured

Who is likely to line out at midfield for Roscommon on Sunday?

Have Cathal Shine & Higgins played for the club since the Sligo match?

Quote from: Maroon Manc on July 05, 2016, 07:57:58 PM
Who is likely to line out at midfield for Roscommon on Sunday?

Have Cathal Shine & Higgins played for the club since the Sligo match?

No comment!

Quote from: Maroon Manc on July 05, 2016, 07:57:58 PM
Who is likely to line out at midfield for Roscommon on Sunday?

Have Cathal Shine & Higgins played for the club since the Sligo match?

Syferus and AN Other from.occupied Ballaghadereen

Jaysus seafoid you are a rossie, syf is a rhubarb for sure, I dont know what the world is coming to.
On a more serious note imo ros will set up with a sweeper on Sunday, it will be a no goal policy, I think we may see a side to ros we have not seen before this year. All sorts of stories of who will start and who will make the bench, its a good situation to be in, a few years we were just trying to put a panel together.
Roll on Sunday.

Is Diarmuid Murtagh fit?

Quote from: manfromdelmonte on July 05, 2016, 10:40:27 PM
Is Diarmuid Murtagh fit?

He is in consideration for a starting place.

Quote from: Rossfan on July 05, 2016, 04:31:56 PM

Quote from: Farrandeelin on July 05, 2016, 11:41:35 AM
Syferus and oliverkelly. This is yere thread. Enjoy it. Enjoy laughing at poor oul Mayo and our woes also. But keep yere little spat out of other threads please.

Syfín seems to be gone all tense and uptight over the Fermanagh game while th'other buck has obviously no negative tales from the camp.
If this game was Ros v Mayowestros we'd be on page 50 by now ;D

He is rightly worried that this could be the beginning of the end for his beloved Mayo team

Team for Sunday
Claff
Seànie McI Murray
Keenan Mullooly Daly
ESmith CShine
Fintan Ciaràin Dev
Donal Smith Shine/Kilbride and Cregger.
A right oul shoot out and hopefully us to win by a point.
Scoreboard to overheat and blow up with 10 to go.
Conor Lane is Ref so....Galway to be looked after a la Bannon and effn Prior
But I shtill bate the hoors ...... :D

Claffey
Seanie carty mc inerney
Mc m   Mull     Murray
   Keenan Daly
Fintan  ciaran  dev
E smith  senan  cathal
Enda and Cathal take turns out as 3rd midfielder.

Carty no starty.

Quote from: giveballaghback on July 05, 2016, 10:04:15 PM
Jaysus seafoid you are a rossie, syf is a rhubarb for sure, I dont know what the world is coming to.
On a more serious note imo ros will set up with a sweeper on Sunday, it will be a no goal policy, I think we may see a side to ros we have not seen before this year. All sorts of stories of who will start and who will make the bench, its a good situation to be in, a few years we were just trying to put a panel together.
Roll on Sunday.

Galway to score a goal in the first 5 minutes. I bet the match will be trína chéile

Quote from: Syferus on July 06, 2016, 12:28:23 AM
Carty no starty.

Carty will start and there'll be more surprises for u

No fancy Ros pictures for this match? Did someone leave them on the bus?

Quote from: barking mad on July 06, 2016, 07:13:07 AM

Quote from: Syferus on July 06, 2016, 12:28:23 AM
Carty no starty.

Carty will start and there'll be more surprises for u

I know of one players positional switch which will be a surprise.

Must say I am looking forward to this match, despite Mayo not being in it. It will be nice watching as a neutral, which I hope will be a good honest game of football. Hard to call. The Mayo match will have brought Galway on immensely IMO.

Quote from: Farrandeelin on July 06, 2016, 09:31:42 AM
Must say I am looking forward to this match, despite Mayo not being in it. It will be nice watching as a neutral, which I hope will be a good honest game of football. Hard to call. The Mayo match will have brought Galway on immensely IMO.

I agree, it will have done wonders for confidence. I really don't think that until Flynn's goal went in that Galway believed they could beat Mayo, from then on Galway played with confidence and a bit of an edge to them that wasn't there prior to the game. Hopefully that continues on to Sunday.

KW is getting earlier and earlier with his teams, can't remember anyone naming a team 4 days in advance previously.

Some jersey switches but Galway are going with the same 15 that started against Mayo.

B Power (Corofin)
E Kerin (Annaghdown)
D Kyne (Clonbur)
D Wynne (Moycullen)
G Bradshaw (Moycullen)
L Silke (Corofin)
G O'Donnell (Tuam Stars)
P Conroy (St. James')
T Flynn (Athenry)
G Sice (Corofin)
D Comer (Annaghdown)
J Heaney (Killannin)
E Brannigan (St. Michaels)
S Walsh (Kilkerrin-Clonberne)
D Cummins (Claregalway)

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Quote from: barking mad on July 06, 2016, 07:13:07 AM

Quote from: Syferus on July 06, 2016, 12:28:23 AM
Carty no starty.

Carty will start and there'll be more surprises for u

I know of one players positional switch which will be a surprise.

Special job for a special player who can play anywhere from 5 to 15 ollie;-)

Quote from: oliverkelly on July 06, 2016, 09:25:51 AM

Quote from: barking mad on July 06, 2016, 07:13:07 AM

Quote from: Syferus on July 06, 2016, 12:28:23 AM
Carty no starty.

Carty will start and there'll be more surprises for u

I know of one players positional switch which will be a surprise.

Shhhhhh.

https://youtu.be/muZnnBVpj30
A sobering thought for our defence against cavan,very suspect when ran at,high ball also a feature.hopefully the intervening 8wks have tightened things up. One match doesent make or break a team, watched them train last night in salthill.forwards were still on the pitch at 9.30 kicking from all angles,gud job it wasnt sunday alot of wides will put it down to darkness!!

Ros should be raging favs but are only 6/5 with PP

A dose of this would be nice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBHboSON_sw

the Galway jersey must be worth a few points.

Quote from: seafoid on July 06, 2016, 06:53:40 PM
A dose of this would be nice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBHboSON_sw

the Galway jersey must be worth a few points.

or this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y86U8s-95Ik (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y86U8s-95Ik) ..........in the Connacht Championship in the same year!

Quote from: From the Bunker on July 06, 2016, 07:10:50 PM

Quote from: seafoid on July 06, 2016, 06:53:40 PM
A dose of this would be nice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBHboSON_sw

the Galway jersey must be worth a few points.

or this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y86U8s-95Ik (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y86U8s-95Ik) ..........in the Connacht Championship in the same year!

That was a kick in the arse. Will Mayo respond similarly?

Ye are getting like Meath thinking yer great cause of the past
Good chance Sunday night all ye will have is distant memories still.

Yes Galway football followers are notorious for getting completely carried away with themselves, unlike our counterparts in Roscommon who keep a level head at all times.

Quote from: An Fhairche Abu on July 06, 2016, 08:26:55 PM
Yes Galway football followers are notorious for getting completely carried away with themselves, unlike our counterparts in Roscommon who keep a level head at all times.

Now now AFB, doing even dare to start talking some sense in here, you might upset a few lads!!!

Quote from: An Fhairche Abu on July 06, 2016, 08:26:55 PM
Yes Galway football followers are notorious for getting completely carried away with themselves, unlike our counterparts in Roscommon who keep a level head at all times.

Haha

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Quote from: An Fhairche Abu on July 06, 2016, 08:26:55 PM
Yes Galway football followers are notorious for getting completely carried away with themselves, unlike our counterparts in Roscommon who keep a level head at all times.

Now now AFB, doing even dare to start talking some sense in here, you might upset a few lads!!!

Not the first time Galway lads have done their talking away from the field.

Quote from: Syferus on July 06, 2016, 11:16:06 PM

Quote from: GaillimhIarthair on July 06, 2016, 08:42:00 PM

Quote from: An Fhairche Abu on July 06, 2016, 08:26:55 PM
Yes Galway football followers are notorious for getting completely carried away with themselves, unlike our counterparts in Roscommon who keep a level head at all times.

Now now AFB, doing even dare to start talking some sense in here, you might upset a few lads!!!

Not the first time Galway lads have done their talking away from the field.

Syf, you remind me of this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLQl3WQQoQ0

It is a pity Mayo are not in the final cos the emotion would be far more flowery

Announced Ros team
O'Malley !!
Seànie Mullooly McI
Murray Percy McManus
N Daly Compton
Fintan Ciaràin Keenan
Dev Enda S Cregger (©Syfín)

Ah well...... Round 4A here we come.

No Shines?

Hard one to call and to be honest, I don't mind who wins but hoping it'll be a good game.

Galway were impressive enough against mayo and executed their gameplan very well. They had lined that game up from a long way out though, will they be able to reach the same levels of intensity against Roscommon? They have a definite advantage at MF and their forwards should get some joy out of a weak enough Ros backline. The fresh FB line which were lauded for their display against a poor Mayo forward line will need to earn their corn on Sunday; if Ros can get enough ball, they'll do damage.

Roscommon would also have been lining this one up since the start of the year although they surely expected to be in McHale Park; whether that will have affected their preparation remains to be seen. I'd expect McStay to be able to refocus them on galway. That said, it would have been reasonably acceptable to lose to a high flying Mayo side but losing to a galway team coming from nowhere would definitely irk the Rossies and put a little pressure on McStay.

I think galway might have already played their final so I'll go with Ros by 2

Are u mad rosfan that's the best 15 we have assembled all year bar Collins and diarmuid
I think ul be in for a few surprises yet but that 15 is excellent
Soften Galway up run them to a standstill and send on d shine, Harney, c Connolly, and senan to finish it off.
Some panel when fully fit c shine, Higgins, kilroy and near fit d murtagh could not make 26

I would fancy Roscommon to win if they had Diarmuid Murtagh,Ian Kilbride,Kevin Higgins,Cathal Shine and Neil Collins to call on but now without them all I think Galway will win and probably win comfortably.

Best team ever
Easy win for Galway
Pressure on McStay if we lose

Lot of drama about tonight.

Quote from: Cunny Funt on July 07, 2016, 11:37:29 PM
I would fancy Roscommon to win if they had Diarmuid Murtagh,Ian Kilbride,Kevin Higgins,Cathal Shine and Neil Collins to call on but now without them all I think Galway will win and probably win comfortably.

Four of the five you listed are fit but couldn't make the team..

Quote from: Syferus on July 08, 2016, 12:45:29 AM

Quote from: Cunny Funt on July 07, 2016, 11:37:29 PM
I would fancy Roscommon to win if they had Diarmuid Murtagh,Ian Kilbride,Kevin Higgins,Cathal Shine and Neil Collins to call on but now without them all I think Galway will win and probably win comfortably.

Four of the five you listed are fit but couldn't make the team..

Not fit enough to make the 26. Bench options can swing a close competitive contest and Roscommon without all of those options weakens their hand.

Quote from: Cunny Funt on July 08, 2016, 12:53:14 AM

Quote from: Syferus on July 08, 2016, 12:45:29 AM

Quote from: Cunny Funt on July 07, 2016, 11:37:29 PM
I would fancy Roscommon to win if they had Diarmuid Murtagh,Ian Kilbride,Kevin Higgins,Cathal Shine and Neil Collins to call on but now without them all I think Galway will win and probably win comfortably.

Four of the five you listed are fit but couldn't make the team..

Not fit enough to make the 26. Bench options can swing a close competitive contest and Roscommon without all of those options weakens their hand.

Fully training. Team and bench has been picked on merit and not name all year. People wrote us off in every big match year this year that wasn't against minows. Management have stayed true to what got us to this point and I'm more confident that we will win now than I was last week.

Quote from: Rossfan on July 07, 2016, 11:42:03 PM
Best team ever
Easy win for Galway
Pressure on McStay if we loseIdiot

Lot of drama about tonight.

Rossfan your one idiot

Quote from: Jinxy on July 07, 2016, 10:31:59 PM
No Shines?

They are  having the ould  lobby washed down. The bus is due in.

It reminds me of the Field starring Roscommon as the Bull McCave and Galway as a Dan in a fancy new car.

Quote from: Syferus on July 08, 2016, 12:55:48 AM

Quote from: Cunny Funt on July 08, 2016, 12:53:14 AM

Quote from: Syferus on July 08, 2016, 12:45:29 AM

Quote from: Cunny Funt on July 07, 2016, 11:37:29 PM
I would fancy Roscommon to win if they had Diarmuid Murtagh,Ian Kilbride,Kevin Higgins,Cathal Shine and Neil Collins to call on but now without them all I think Galway will win and probably win comfortably.

Four of the five you listed are fit but couldn't make the team..

Not fit enough to make the 26. Bench options can swing a close competitive contest and Roscommon without all of those options weakens their hand.

Fully training. Team and bench has been picked on merit and not name all year. People wrote us off in every big match year this year that wasn't against minows. Management have stayed true to what got us to this point and I'm more confident that we will win now than I was last week.

Does that mean you've switched your attention back to your own fcking county and we'll get a break from you on the Mayo threads?

Quote from: Tubberman on July 08, 2016, 08:51:14 AM

Quote from: Syferus on July 08, 2016, 12:55:48 AM

Quote from: Cunny Funt on July 08, 2016, 12:53:14 AM

Quote from: Syferus on July 08, 2016, 12:45:29 AM

Quote from: Cunny Funt on July 07, 2016, 11:37:29 PM
I would fancy Roscommon to win if they had Diarmuid Murtagh,Ian Kilbride,Kevin Higgins,Cathal Shine and Neil Collins to call on but now without them all I think Galway will win and probably win comfortably.

Four of the five you listed are fit but couldn't make the team..

Not fit enough to make the 26. Bench options can swing a close competitive contest and Roscommon without all of those options weakens their hand.

Fully training. Team and bench has been picked on merit and not name all year. People wrote us off in every big match year this year that wasn't against minows. Management have stayed true to what got us to this point and I'm more confident that we will win now than I was last week.

Does that mean you've switched your attention back to your own fcking county and we'll get a break from you on the Mayo threads?

Come off it, he is as much of a Mayo man as you deep down if you read between the lines.

Quote from: Tubberman on July 08, 2016, 08:51:14 AM

Quote from: Syferus on July 08, 2016, 12:55:48 AM

Quote from: Cunny Funt on July 08, 2016, 12:53:14 AM

Quote from: Syferus on July 08, 2016, 12:45:29 AM

Quote from: Cunny Funt on July 07, 2016, 11:37:29 PM
I would fancy Roscommon to win if they had Diarmuid Murtagh,Ian Kilbride,Kevin Higgins,Cathal Shine and Neil Collins to call on but now without them all I think Galway will win and probably win comfortably.

Four of the five you listed are fit but couldn't make the team..

Not fit enough to make the 26. Bench options can swing a close competitive contest and Roscommon without all of those options weakens their hand.

Fully training. Team and bench has been picked on merit and not name all year. People wrote us off in every big match year this year that wasn't against minows. Management have stayed true to what got us to this point and I'm more confident that we will win now than I was last week.

Does that mean you've switched your attention back to your own fcking county and we'll get a break from you on the Mayo threads?

Didn't take long for the Rhubarb invasion to hit once the team was announced. Mean bastards.

Feel free to list the Roscommon subs someone?

I'm right in thinking once the 26 is named it can't be changed? Although the 26 names released are not necessarily the same 26 names that are sent to HQ.

The tactical battle will be interesting. Ros had a better league but Galway have better form.

Oh baby baby

Shane Curran the ex Ros goalie has announced he will be going to Salthill for the match. Huge interest on youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWaRiD5ym74

Syf is predicted to go f**king crazy especially if the FDs win

Quote from: Maroon Manc on July 08, 2016, 10:28:49 AM
Feel free to list the Roscommon subs someone?

I'm right in thinking once the 26 is named it can't be changed? Although the 26 names released are not necessarily the same 26 names that are sent to HQ.

Geoffrey Claffey, Cian Connolly, Donie Shine, Donie Smith, Fergal Lennon, James McDermott, Niall Carty, Niall Kilroy, Senan Kilbride, Thomas Corcoran, Ultan Harney.

Not sure what the official rule is but I can confirm this is the 26 that will tog Sunday.

Quote from: seafoid on July 08, 2016, 03:58:25 AM
It reminds me of the Field starring Roscommon as the Bull McCave and Galway as a Dan in a fancy new car.

The Bull McCabe would be Mayo.
This fella is Roscommon.

(http://cdn3.bigcommerce.com/s-x8dfmo/products/3834/images/26892/John-Hurt-in-The-Field-Premium-Photograph-and-Poster-1004708__52792.1432421143.1280.1280.jpg?c=2)

Quote from: oliverkelly on July 08, 2016, 11:50:11 AM

Quote from: Maroon Manc on July 08, 2016, 10:28:49 AM
Feel free to list the Roscommon subs someone?

I'm right in thinking once the 26 is named it can't be changed? Although the 26 names released are not necessarily the same 26 names that are sent to HQ.

Geoffrey Claffey, Cian Connolly, Donie Shine, Donie Smith, Fergal Lennon, James McDermott, Niall Carty, Niall Kilroy, Senan Kilbride, Thomas Corcoran, Ultan Harney.

Not sure what the official rule is but I can confirm this is the 26 that will tog Sunday.

Cheers, plenty of attacking options on the bench for the Ros.

Quote from: Jinxy on July 08, 2016, 11:59:34 AM

Quote from: seafoid on July 08, 2016, 03:58:25 AM
It reminds me of the Field starring Roscommon as the Bull McCave and Galway as a Dan in a fancy new car.

The Bull McCabe would be Mayo.
This fella is Roscommon.

(http://cdn3.bigcommerce.com/s-x8dfmo/products/3834/images/26892/John-Hurt-in-The-Field-Premium-Photograph-and-Poster-1004708__52792.1432421143.1280.1280.jpg?c=2)

The field would be Sam
The widow would be the Dubs

Quote from: Maroon Manc on July 08, 2016, 12:29:36 PM

Quote from: oliverkelly on July 08, 2016, 11:50:11 AM

Quote from: Maroon Manc on July 08, 2016, 10:28:49 AM
Feel free to list the Roscommon subs someone?

I'm right in thinking once the 26 is named it can't be changed? Although the 26 names released are not necessarily the same 26 names that are sent to HQ.

Geoffrey Claffey, Cian Connolly, Donie Shine, Donie Smith, Fergal Lennon, James McDermott, Niall Carty, Niall Kilroy, Senan Kilbride, Thomas Corcoran, Ultan Harney.

Not sure what the official rule is but I can confirm this is the 26 that will tog Sunday.

Cheers, plenty of attacking options on the bench for the Ros.

Plenty of options from 8-15. Only Niall Carty would be a back with experience on the bench. Kilroy is tenacious and can play sweeper, Lennon is an U21 back who is a big powerful lad we'd be looking to develop but if he comes on he's going to be making his debut for Roscommon in the white heat of a Connacht final.

Quote from: seafoid on July 08, 2016, 12:47:57 PM

Quote from: Jinxy on July 08, 2016, 11:59:34 AM

Quote from: seafoid on July 08, 2016, 03:58:25 AM
It reminds me of the Field starring Roscommon as the Bull McCave and Galway as a Dan in a fancy new car.

The Bull McCabe would be Mayo.
This fella is Roscommon.

(http://cdn3.bigcommerce.com/s-x8dfmo/products/3834/images/26892/John-Hurt-in-The-Field-Premium-Photograph-and-Poster-1004708__52792.1432421143.1280.1280.jpg?c=2)

The field would be Sam
The widow would be the Dubs

Leitrim is the lamb in the basket.

Wrap up well lads.

Have been to Salthill twice for games . Bitterly cold both times,  even the game in June. Still thawing out from the league hurling game I went to many years ago.

On the Ros team how many 06 minors & St Brigids players ?

Quote from: seafoid on July 08, 2016, 01:06:53 PM
On the Ros team how many 06 minors & St Brigids players ?

One Brigids, Niall Mc. Two 06 minors, Fintan Cregg and Dev. Neither of whom were on the panel last year.

Quote from: Syferus on July 08, 2016, 01:10:39 PM

Quote from: seafoid on July 08, 2016, 01:06:53 PM
On the Ros team how many 06 minors & St Brigids players ?

One Brigids, Niall Mc. Two 06 minors, Fintan Cregg and Dev. Neither of whom were on the panel last year.

Is that all? I thought there would be more

Quote from: Tubberman on July 08, 2016, 08:51:14 AM

Quote from: Syferus on July 08, 2016, 12:55:48 AM

Quote from: Cunny Funt on July 08, 2016, 12:53:14 AM

Quote from: Syferus on July 08, 2016, 12:45:29 AM

Quote from: Cunny Funt on July 07, 2016, 11:37:29 PM
I would fancy Roscommon to win if they had Diarmuid Murtagh,Ian Kilbride,Kevin Higgins,Cathal Shine and Neil Collins to call on but now without them all I think Galway will win and probably win comfortably.

Four of the five you listed are fit but couldn't make the team..

Not fit enough to make the 26. Bench options can swing a close competitive contest and Roscommon without all of those options weakens their hand.

Fully training. Team and bench has been picked on merit and not name all year. People wrote us off in every big match year this year that wasn't against minows. Management have stayed true to what got us to this point and I'm more confident that we will win now than I was last week.

Does that mean you've switched your attention back to your own fcking county and we'll get a break from you on the Mayo threads?

;D ;D ;D
Some hope of that, right  Syf?

Quote from: seafoid on July 08, 2016, 01:12:13 PM

Quote from: Syferus on July 08, 2016, 01:10:39 PM

Quote from: seafoid on July 08, 2016, 01:06:53 PM
On the Ros team how many 06 minors & St Brigids players ?

One Brigids, Niall Mc. Two 06 minors, Fintan Cregg and Dev. Neither of whom were on the panel last year.

Is that all? I thought there would be more

Keenan also, was captain of the 06 minors.

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Quote from: seafoid on July 08, 2016, 01:06:53 PM
On the Ros team how many 06 minors & St Brigids players ?

One Brigids, Niall Mc. Two 06 minors, Fintan Cregg and Dev. Neither of whom were on the panel last year.

Is that all? I thought there would be more

Kennan also, was captain of the 06 minors.

Shine, McHugh, Higgins, Carty all part of the panel.

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Quote from: seafoid on July 08, 2016, 01:06:53 PM
On the Ros team how many 06 minors & St Brigids players ?

One Brigids, Niall Mc. Two 06 minors, Fintan Cregg and Dev. Neither of whom were on the panel last year.

Is that all? I thought there would be more

Keenan also, was captain of the 06 minors.

In what year?
David Flynn was captain of minors in 2006

Also there are four members of 2006 minor panel starting, Not surprised Sfy hasn't a clue but O'malley  was on 06 panel and Keenan started.

http://www.oddschecker.com/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/galway-v-roscommon/first-goalscorer

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Quote from: seafoid on July 08, 2016, 01:06:53 PM
On the Ros team how many 06 minors & St Brigids players ?

One Brigids, Niall Mc. Two 06 minors, Fintan Cregg and Dev. Neither of whom were on the panel last year.

Is that all? I thought there would be more

Keenan also, was captain of the 06 minors.

In what year?
David Flynn was captain of minors in 2006

Also there are four members of 2006 minor panel starting, Not surprised Sfy hasn't a clue but O'malley  was on 06 panel and Keenan started.

Darren was the back-up keeper. You'd want to be a bit more respectful, to say the least.

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Quote from: seafoid on July 08, 2016, 01:06:53 PM
On the Ros team how many 06 minors & St Brigids players ?

One Brigids, Niall Mc. Two 06 minors, Fintan Cregg and Dev. Neither of whom were on the panel last year.

Is that all? I thought there would be more

Keenan also, was captain of the 06 minors.

In what year?
David Flynn was captain of minors in 2006

Also there are four members of 2006 minor panel starting, Not surprised Sfy hasn't a clue but O'malley  was on 06 panel and Keenan started.

Darren was the back-up keeper. You'd want to be a bit more respectful, to say the least.

Yeah he was back up keeper a poster asked how many of the 06 minors playing and there are four(O'Malley,Keenan,Devanney and Cregg) not two like you taught. Don't answer stuff about Roscommon football when you haven't a clue

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Quote from: seafoid on July 08, 2016, 03:58:25 AM
It reminds me of the Field starring Roscommon as the Bull McCave and Galway as a Dan in a fancy new car.

The Bull McCabe would be Mayo.
This fella is Roscommon.

(http://cdn3.bigcommerce.com/s-x8dfmo/products/3834/images/26892/John-Hurt-in-The-Field-Premium-Photograph-and-Poster-1004708__52792.1432421143.1280.1280.jpg?c=2)

The field would be Sam
The widow would be the Dubs

Leitrim is the lamb in the basket.

no the Lamb is fucked

Q on Diarmuid Murtagh.

I have to say I always thought that he had the potential to be one of the Rossies better forwards.
Was he the one who came on as a sub V Mayo a few years ago and scored a few points. Has he been injured or has he just not progressed to senior level. Maybe I am mixing him up with someone else.

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Quote from: seafoid on July 08, 2016, 01:12:13 PM

Quote from: Syferus on July 08, 2016, 01:10:39 PM

Quote from: seafoid on July 08, 2016, 01:06:53 PM
On the Ros team how many 06 minors & St Brigids players ?

One Brigids, Niall Mc. Two 06 minors, Fintan Cregg and Dev. Neither of whom were on the panel last year.

Is that all? I thought there would be more

Keenan also, was captain of the 06 minors.

In what year?
David Flynn was captain of minors in 2006

Also there are four members of 2006 minor panel starting, Not surprised Sfy hasn't a clue but O'malley  was on 06 panel and Keenan started.

Darren was the back-up keeper. You'd want to be a bit more respectful, to say the least.

Yeah he was back up keeper a poster asked how many of the 06 minors playing and there are four(O'Malley,Keenan,Devanney and Cregg) not two like you taught. Don't answer stuff about Roscommon football when you haven't a clue

Spot on Oliver but when Mayo is his first county it's hard to keep up to speed with what is going on with other counties.

Syfín and Oliver could do with shutting down for a few days.
Maybe GAA board could have a moratorium like the media have to for elections?

Diarmuid has had a lot of injuries. Like Ultan Harney not helped by year round football on a plethora of teams for the last 5 years.

13 pages is pathetic but it reflects the lack of needle between Ros and Galway. Galway just don't care about Ros.

Ros v Mayo can go up to 100 pages
http://gaaboard.com/board/index.php?topic=12254.370;wap2

Only the one championship match between the two in the last 7 years is odd considering the size of the province whilst Galway and Mayo have met 5 times during that period.

From the roscommon people newspaper
"I am not convinced that this is a super Galway team and they caught Mayo on a very bad day in the semi-final. They have good players all over their team, but I have a doubt about their defence, and, on the basis that Roscommon are capable of putting up a big score, I am going for a narrow win for the Rossies"
It's a fair point,if the ross forwards can get ball,I think galway could be in trouble.

And if Galway forwards get ball we'll be in bother as defending is not our strong point to say the least.

Quote from: cornetto on July 08, 2016, 03:11:34 PM
From the roscommon people newspaper
"I am not convinced that this is a super Galway team and they caught Mayo on a very bad day in the semi-final. They have good players all over their team, but I have a doubt about their defence, and, on the basis that Roscommon are capable of putting up a big score, I am going for a narrow win for the Rossies"
It's a fair point,if the ross forwards can get ball,I think galway could be in trouble.

I agree, they caught Mayo cold. If they were any good they would be in division 1. Problem is nobody knows what Roscommon can do. Put up 4.25 down in Cork or scrape past NY.

Quote from: joemamas on July 08, 2016, 02:37:22 PM
Q on Diarmuid Murtagh.

I have to say I always thought that he had the potential to be one of the Rossies better forwards.
Was he the one who came on as a sub V Mayo a few years ago and scored a few points. Has he been injured or has he just not progressed to senior level. Maybe I am mixing him up with someone else.

Our best forward but recovering from injury. Was still U21 this year and came on in league against Mayo and scored 1-1 in a few minutes. As I said, more than any other forward from play that day. Right call by management not to risk him. He's been overplayed and played while injured in the past.

Quote from: seafoid on July 08, 2016, 02:47:54 PM
13 pages is pathetic but it reflects the lack of needle between Ros and Galway. Galway just don't care about Ros.

Ros v Mayo can go up to 100 pages
http://gaaboard.com/board/index.php?topic=12254.370;wap2
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Galway don't care about anything unless their winning, look at their fancy dan hurlers ffs. Oysters and hoors is all you will get in Galway :) ;)

Needless to say whatever team can impose their style of play on the game will put themselves in a good position to win the game. Whenever I've seen Roscommon recently they very much look like a running team when they are at their best. With players making runs from deep, runs off the shoulder and trying to punch holes in the opposition defence to create overlaps. Galway will certainly play it short out of defence and into midfield but they still try and kick ball into the forwards more often than not. Listening to Liam McHale on the radio there the last night it certainly sounded like they planned on keeping it tight at the back during the opening 15/20 minutes of the game. They seem very wary of the threat of Damien Comer as he's scored something like 3 goals in the past 2 games against Roscommon and generally been a nuisance to them at the back. I'd certainly expect they will maybe try and drop someone in front of him to try and negate him. At least to start off the game.

And of course the weather may have an affect on the game as well. Looks like it's going to be wet and windy on Sunday so unfortunately it may not be the best spectacle. And when the ground is 500 odd yards away from the Atlantic ocean, windy usually means very windy.

Both teams will feel ,with justification that they can win.
However that windy good of a place can feck up the best laid plans and could turn what might have been a feast of attractive Connacht adventurous football into a tight pukey game.
Either way it's anyone's game a D all to play for.

3 teams on a similar level is good for the province

Quote from: oliverkelly on July 08, 2016, 11:50:11 AM

Quote from: Maroon Manc on July 08, 2016, 10:28:49 AM
Feel free to list the Roscommon subs someone?

I'm right in thinking once the 26 is named it can't be changed? Although the 26 names released are not necessarily the same 26 names that are sent to HQ.

Geoffrey Claffey, Cian Connolly, Donie Shine, Donie Smith, Fergal Lennon, James McDermott, Niall Carty, Niall Kilroy, Senan Kilbride, Thomas Corcoran, Ultan Harney.

Not sure what the official rule is but I can confirm this is the 26 that will tog Sunday.

Is Ultan Harney injured, or recovering? He'd start on any team if he was fully fit I'd imagine. Or has his form dropped? Which can happen young players.

Injuries and over use for 5 years.

Quote from: Rossfan on July 08, 2016, 05:33:24 PM
Injuries and over use for 5 years.

Management laying the groundwork for the next few years by planning farther than the next 70 minutes when it comes to players. Hopefully a lot of the persistent injuries will clear up now heading towards 2017. It'd be nice if certain clubs don't spend the Autumn starting players a child would know is injured, though.

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I would fancy Roscommon to win if they had Diarmuid Murtagh,Ian Kilbride,Kevin Higgins,Cathal Shine and Neil Collins to call on but now without them all I think Galway will win and probably win comfortably.

Four of the five you listed are fit but couldn't make the team..

Not fit enough to make the 26. Bench options can swing a close competitive contest and Roscommon without all of those options weakens their hand.

Fully training. Team and bench has been picked on merit and not name all year. People wrote us off in every big match year this year that wasn't against minows. Management have stayed true to what got us to this point and I'm more confident that we will win now than I was last week.

Does that mean you've switched your attention back to your own fcking county and we'll get a break from you on the Mayo threads?

No such joy....

I usually don't give a flying f about mayo tubber but apparently best place to watch yer match tomorrow is breaffy club house there may be fireworks tomorrow night at it and a show that's better than the match.

Jesus F H Christ on a bike there's more replies on a backdoor game involving Mayo than the Connacht final. The championship really is only half dressed without us😉

Quote from: Farrandeelin on July 09, 2016, 07:32:06 AM
Jesus F H Christ on a bike there's more replies on a backdoor game involving Mayo than the Connacht final. The championship really is only half dressed without us😉

Rossie therapists have been booked out since it became known that Mayo wouldn't be in the final.

Nothing compared to the sense of " bewilderment" among the Rhubarbs.
Anyway let them stew ...we need to be figuring out how long it takes to walk to the wind tunnel from some far away parking place.
As for the match..... draw and off to fund Prenty park next Saturday  :-[

Quote from: Rossfan on July 09, 2016, 08:35:13 AM
Nothing compared to the sense of " bewilderment" among the Rhubarbs.
Anyway let them stew ...we need to be figuring out how long it takes to walk to the wind tunnel from some far away parking place.
As for the match..... draw and off to fund Prenty park next Saturday :-[

Nope, draw and we're back to Salthill. Galway will travel to Roscommon then for next 2 championship games against Ros. As regards the match, I'm hopeful. All the right noises have been coming from the camp saying the Mayo victory will count for nothing if they don't go on and win it. Shane Walsh and Damo Comer were quiet enough the last day so I'm hoping they make up for it tomorrow even though Damo has done damage to Roscommon in the past so I'm sure they'll have a plan in place for him. Forecast doesn't look great for tomorrow which could see us having a sloppy, low scoring game but once we have a Galway win who cares!  :D

We are to busy talking about the Connacht final rhubarb doesn't concern ye.
Ye are more concerned about who's yer next manager and which of the o sea family chair the next coup in breaffy club house.

Quote from: Farrandeelin on July 09, 2016, 07:32:06 AM
Jesus F H Christ on a bike there's more replies on a backdoor game involving Mayo than the Connacht final. The championship really is only half dressed without us😉

This is consistent all over the net in fairness. Broadband is still a novelty in Mayo and there's no mass on midweek. What else are folk to be doing?

https://www.facebook.com/coco.benjani/posts/10157052835225487

A lot better than that Jimmy shite or the Saw Doctors making a show of themselves singing about Mayo.

Quote from: Syferus on July 09, 2016, 03:21:14 PM
https://www.facebook.com/coco.benjani/posts/10157052835225487

A lot better than that Jimmy shite or the Saw Doctors making a show of themselves signing about Mayo.

How twee.

http://m.hoganstand.com/Home/Details/257845?county=Roscommon

A Ros-Galway final in Tuam would have been some occasion. Galway GAA have a lot to answer for.

Tuam stadium isn't owned by Galway GAA as far as I know.

Quote from: An Fhairche Abu on July 09, 2016, 08:23:59 PM
Tuam stadium isn't owned by Galway GAA as far as I know.

Not owning the Hyde didn't mean we went and built a stadium in Athlone in fairness.

Every pundit tipping the Ross, haven't heard any neutral predict a Galway win.

Quote from: Maroon Manc on July 09, 2016, 08:40:28 PM
Every pundit tipping the Ross, haven't heard any neutral predict a Galway win.

We were underdogs the last day too, let them have at it I say!  ;)

Quote from: Syferus on July 09, 2016, 03:21:14 PM
https://www.facebook.com/coco.benjani/posts/10157052835225487

A lot better than that Jimmy shite or the Saw Doctors making a show of themselves singing about Mayo.

Jeez the irony :) :) :)

Quote from: Duine Eile on July 09, 2016, 08:47:29 PM

Quote from: Maroon Manc on July 09, 2016, 08:40:28 PM
Every pundit tipping the Ross, haven't heard any neutral predict a Galway win.

We were underdogs the last day too, let them have at it I say!  ;)

Ye are literally the favourites. why play this game of nonsense hot potato with favouritism? Is it of any real benefit?

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Quote from: Maroon Manc on July 09, 2016, 08:40:28 PM
Every pundit tipping the Ross, haven't heard any neutral predict a Galway win.

We were underdogs the last day too, let them have at it I say!  ;)

Ye are literally the favourites. why play this game of nonsense hot potato with favouritism? Is it of any real benefit?

This is a 50/50 for the bookies and home advantage is what has Galway marginal favourites with them I think, it matters not a jot tomorrow on the pitch.
Most pundits have gone for Roscommon, there's no harm in the lads stating that, it's just what's been written/said.

Galway are hot favs they beat a brilliant mayo side full of free scoring forwards and divers and a ref

They should play this stuff on the PA at the match instead of the shite that will be played.
Carolan was one of the greatest Rossies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAQD-ehto7I

A blow in from Meath
Time to see if th'oul tractor will start and get her ready for the turning twisting winding roads....

Quote from: Maroon Manc on July 09, 2016, 08:40:28 PM
Every pundit tipping the Ross, haven't heard any neutral predict a Galway win.

Of the one preview I read Peter Canavan tipped Galway to win.

Up Ros.

Lots of folk in Salthill wishing they hadn't had that big, greasy fry for the brekkie this morning, I'd say.

Jeez, weather looks shite.

Quote from: Beffs on July 10, 2016, 01:50:24 PM
Lots of folk in Salthill wishing they hadn't had that big, greasy fry for the brekkie this morning, I'd say.

Jeez, weather looks shite.

Not even a patch on 2011.

In what way, the weather, or the urge to vomit?

Roscommon won toss and elected to play with the wind.

Quote from: GalwayBayBoy on July 10, 2016, 01:55:07 PM
Roscommon won toss and elected to play with the wind.

Don't fancy spotting the opposition an eight point lead again.

Horrible day for football.Would expect Ros to take it by 4 or 5 .

Well Holy God, an anthem that isn't massacred for once !

I am going for a Galway win but I'll be cheering for the Rossies.
Maybe it's because I like Kevin McStay and think he got shafted by his own or maybe it's because of the entertainment value of the likes of Syferus and Rossfan.
You won't get bucks like them this side of the Alamo.

Wipe the camera lens FFS !

The Galway keeper is some unit.

Bit like an ulster match this.

"Defensive shite".

Quote from: imtommygunn on July 10, 2016, 02:10:54 PM
Bit like an ulster match this.

Best matches so far in Ulster.

Lads, would ye look at the conditions they're playing in.

A bad ulster match i should have said ;D

Advice to galway players... Stop bouncing the fecking ball.

Samba football from the Rossies there.

Galway forwards to run riot at some stage in the second half.

Rossies too cautious and fearful.
Trying to play the percentages.
Galway's fancy dan forwards much more direct and confident.

Quote from: imtommygunn on July 10, 2016, 02:12:52 PM
A bad ulster match i should have said ;D

Advice to galway players... Stop bouncing the fecking ball.

You mean there are good ones?  ;D

McStay must be the most cunningest of them all if this is how he planned the first half to go

Dessie Dolan making some decent points today.
Marty usual shite

Kevin Walsh gift-wrapping this Connacht title for us by not marking up on our kickouts. Seems extremely poor tactics given our weakness in the middle but even on their own kickouts Galway avoid kicking long.

Surely they'll readjust in the second half and we have to be ready. Playing within ourselves so far and 50% of a complete championship performance is in the bank at halftime. Not many times we could say that.

Time to drive on in the first ten minutes of the second half.

Still fancy Ros.First 10 min vital and if Ros can tag on a point or 2 the momentum will shift in there favor

Quote from: Syferus on July 10, 2016, 02:43:56 PM
Kevin Walsh gift-wrapping this Connacht title for us by not marking up on our kickouts. Seems extremely poor tactics given our weakness in the middle but even on their own kickouts Galway avoid kicking long.

Surely they'll readjust in the second half and we have to be ready. Playing within ourselves so far and 50% of a complete championship performance is in the bank at halftime. Not many times we could say that.

Time to drive on in the first ten minutes of the second half.

50% of a complete championship performance :-)
You're pure entertainment Syf.

Quote from: Syferus on July 10, 2016, 02:43:56 PM
Kevin Walsh gift-wrapping this Connacht title for us by not marking up on our kickouts. Seems extremely poor tactics given our weakness in the middle but even on their own kickouts Galway avoid kicking long.

Surely they'll readjust in the second half and we have to be ready. Playing within ourselves so far and 50% of a complete championship performance is in the bank at halftime. Not many times we could say that.

Time to drive on in the first ten minutes of the second half.

Think the opposite is true.Ros should have been pushing up on Galway kick outs.

Awful scuttery goal to concede. A couple of rebounds and a toe poke into the net. Pity about that as otherwise it would have been a great first half into a gale. Albeit poor quality but conditions really are atrocious.

Guy on Shannonside not willie said everything going to plan so far for Kevin Mcstay and Fergal O Donnell

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Quote from: Syferus on July 10, 2016, 02:43:56 PM
Kevin Walsh gift-wrapping this Connacht title for us by not marking up on our kickouts. Seems extremely poor tactics given our weakness in the middle but even on their own kickouts Galway avoid kicking long.

Surely they'll readjust in the second half and we have to be ready. Playing within ourselves so far and 50% of a complete championship performance is in the bank at halftime. Not many times we could say that.

Time to drive on in the first ten minutes of the second half.

Think the opposite is true.Ros should have been pushing up on Galway kick outs.

Not a hope of that. We were way too loose against Sligo so we were always going to start conservatively and have bodies deep and give Galway the free kicks if they wanted them. Finals are for winning and there's no point being out the gate at the half. Our best defensive display so far this year and hopefully it continues because when Galway's legs tire and if they're still behind they'll have to pour forward and there will be acres of space to expose them.

3 points up with the wind for Ros. Is it enough?

Very disappointing so far.  Hopefully the 2nd half will be better.  I don't understand Roscommon in the first half playing like they were against the wind.

Quote from: seafoid on July 10, 2016, 02:50:42 PM
3 points up with the wind for Ros. Is it enough?

Might be as Galway minors were only 2 up at HT.

Quote from: seafoid on July 10, 2016, 02:50:42 PM
3 points up with the wind for Ros. Is it enough?

Galway minors only had a 2 point lead with the wind at half-time and won by 6 in the end. Wind won't win the game by itself.

Not sure dessie likes roscommon.

Quote from: imtommygunn on July 10, 2016, 03:05:31 PM
Not sure dessie likes roscommon.

Ah he does, cousins are only across the river!

Galway are the only team trying to play football here.
The poverty of ambition from Roscommon is bewildering.

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Quote from: imtommygunn on July 10, 2016, 03:05:31 PM
Not sure dessie likes roscommon.

Ah he does, cousins are only across the river!

Marty, on the other hand, still has a hard-on for Galway.
Galway gone ahead with 20 to go, but this is all part of the Ros masterplan.

Could end a draw I reckon

Everything is great according to Dessie.

literally can hardly make out the game on tv, any chance rte clean the damn camera screens

Why don't Roscommon forwards even try to take on Galway backs

Ah Cahal Cregg...FFS !

At least the Tyrone Cavan game had intensity the first day in awful conditions. This is muck.

Any way both teams could be eliminated
Oh by the way nothing wrong the current state of handball

Quote from: Jinxy on July 10, 2016, 03:11:17 PM
Galway are the only team trying to play football here.
The poverty of ambition from Roscommon is bewildering.

The thing about playing Ros is getting through it.

Quote from: joemamas on July 10, 2016, 03:20:04 PM
Why don't Roscommon forwards even try to take on Galway backs

ffs, they're handpassing themselves out of the game!
It's been a feature of Roscommon  play for years that they start fluting about, hand passing from one side of the field to the other out about the 45 and allowing the backs to get back into position.
Galway are doing plenty of arsing about also but they are more willing o have a shot at goal. Roscommon has only themselves to blame if they lose this one.

270 handpases :o

Roscommon still in this. Galway should be winning by more.

Draw on the cards

Raging. Threw that away in the end. 2 points up near the end in those conditions. Should see it out. Some bad options taken by some players in the last 6 or 7 minutes.

People should stop trying to kid on this Roscommon team are any good.

Roscommon didn't even take shot at end to win. Disgrace.

Galway should have won that quite comfortably. Worrying for them that they didn't.
If Ros actually try to win the fcking game next time out, they may well do it.
Replay in MacHale Park?

some game of basketball today, oh boy!

Quote from: Tubberman on July 10, 2016, 03:38:42 PM
Galway should have won that quite comfortably. Worrying for them that they didn't.
If Ros actually try to win the fcking game next time out, they may well do it.
Replay in MacHale Park?

In Pearse again. Was decided beforehand.

Fixture chaos looming

Total rubbish an embarrassment for Connacht football.

Roscommon with 300 hand passes. 

Terrible, hopefully the hurling is better

Roscommon co manager on newstalk said replay is in Castlebar

Quote from: mrdeeds on July 10, 2016, 03:38:35 PM
Roscommon didn't even take shot at end to win. Disgrace.

Exactly just have a go at trying to win it. Galway weren't going to get down the pitch for a score at that stage.

Quote from: Il Bomber Destro on July 10, 2016, 03:38:30 PM
People should stop trying to kid on this Roscommon team are any good.

I think 60% of that is from one poster

Spillane and Brolly so correct especially Pat's last points.
FFS Connacht council should everyone who paid in today in for free or at least half price

Oh that was f..king dire stuff that Roscommon outfit are pure dung.

Brolly - Galway will win, Roscommon are useless and getting worse

Terrible match, Galway threw it away, very poor free given away at the end there.

Rossies to win the replay

Flynn passing the ball to Walsh when he was running straight down at goal and only need to take a few steps and fist it over the bar was the most defining moment that cost Galway, as much as people will probably blame Walsh for that I would attribute far more blame to Flynn.

Galway's defence was very solid throughout, Cummins had a good game and Conroy went well at midfield. Galway were good value for a 4/5 point win in a low scoring game and will be sick at throwing that away.

mc stay hiding up in the stand must think he is on the sunday game gig

How did this game go? Was switching between the tennis and the tour on the telly.

Quote from: Il Bomber Destro on July 10, 2016, 03:48:21 PM
Flynn passing the ball to Walsh when he was running straight down at goal and only need to take a few steps and fist it over the bar was the most defining moment that cost Galway, as much as people will probably blame Walsh for that I would attribute far more blame to Flynn.

Yeah that was a nailed on score to finish the game and they made a complete hames of it. Two players who both took the wrong option but yeah Flynn was in acres of space to just tap the ball over. No idea why he passed to a player in a worse position than himself.

Quote from: moysider on July 10, 2016, 03:49:00 PM
How did this game go? Was switching between the tennis and the tour on the telly.

Thrilling draw in a game for the ages.

Yup teams have so much pace the only way to stop them is park the bus and that is Gaelic Football today

get used to it

Quote from: Kurtz on July 10, 2016, 03:56:12 PM
Yup teams have so much pace the only way to stop them is park the bus and that is Gaelic Football today

get used to it

The problem is not the style of play, the problem is poor teams like Roscommon today who try and play this way despite them clearly not having a clue to implement this.

Did Roscommon get their management team in through a FAS scheme?

Quote from: moysider on July 10, 2016, 03:49:00 PM
How did this game go? Was switching between the tennis and the tour on the telly.

Best part was national anthem

Worst game of the championship so far. Galway had no courage when the game was there to be won and Roscommons 1st half tactics were bizarre.

Galway bottled it

Theres been far worse games. I was at two of them in CP. Prefer to watch a close contest of bad football than see one team maul another. I wont be very tuned in by second half of Dubs trouncing Westmeath in second half next week either, regardless of quality of play. Conditions determine style of play and clearly didnt help today.

Still no wiser about who will win the replay.

Quote from: sligoman2 on July 10, 2016, 03:40:18 PM
Total rubbish an embarrassment for Connacht football.

Roscommon with 300 hand passes. 

Terrible, hopefully the hurling is better

Hurling is always better

Quote from: Farrandeelin on July 10, 2016, 04:17:57 PM
Still no wiser about who will win the replay.

+1

Heart still in chest. Barely.

Quote from: GalwayBayBoy on July 10, 2016, 03:37:41 PM
Raging. Threw that away in the end. 2 points up near the end in those conditions. Should see it out. Some bad options taken by some players in the last 6 or 7 minutes.

Turning point was the keeper taking a late free off the deck when 2 points up instead of taking it from the hands and keeping possession.
Ros got a point back off that.
Tom Flynn at the end did Shane Walsh no favours to be honest with the pass.
He could have at least drawn the defender before giving the pass if he wasn't going to attempt to fist it over himself

Quote from: galwayman on July 10, 2016, 04:34:32 PM

Quote from: GalwayBayBoy on July 10, 2016, 03:37:41 PM
Raging. Threw that away in the end. 2 points up near the end in those conditions. Should see it out. Some bad options taken by some players in the last 6 or 7 minutes.

Turning point was the keeper taking a late free off the deck when 2 points up instead of taking it from the hands and keeping possession.
Ros got a point back off that.
Tom Flynn at the end did Shane Walsh no favours to be honest with the pass.
He could have at least drawn the defender before giving the pass if he wasn't going to attempt to fist it over himself

True he didn't seem confident in going for the score himself so passed the buck really to Walsh. And hadn't even drawn the defender as you said.

Quote from: Il Bomber Destro on July 10, 2016, 03:57:54 PM

Quote from: Kurtz on July 10, 2016, 03:56:12 PM
Yup teams have so much pace the only way to stop them is park the bus and that is Gaelic Football today

get used to it

The problem is not the style of play, the problem is poor teams like Roscommon today who try and play this way despite them clearly not having a clue to implement this.

Did Roscommon get their management team in through a FAS scheme?

Same in soccer eg Norn Irn

Replay next Sat in McHale Park.Time to be confirmed

Quote from: maigheo on July 10, 2016, 05:19:22 PM
Replay next Sat in McHale Park.Time to be confirmed

Never been happier for a match to be fixed for Prenty Park.

Quote from: seafoid on July 10, 2016, 04:45:43 PM

Quote from: Il Bomber Destro on July 10, 2016, 03:57:54 PM

Quote from: Kurtz on July 10, 2016, 03:56:12 PM
Yup teams have so much pace the only way to stop them is park the bus and that is Gaelic Football today

get used to it

The problem is not the style of play, the problem is poor teams like Roscommon today who try and play this way despite them clearly not having a clue to implement this.

Did Roscommon get their management team in through a FAS scheme?

Same in soccer eg Norn Irn

No it's not it's the exact opposite. Norn iron have a system where everyone knows what they're doin. They are not great but they play a system which works for them.

The problem with blanket defense is that many counties perceive that getting numbers back is enough. It is not about numbers it is about everyone knowing what they are doing.  Stopping defenders attacking, stopping runs through the middle, being there to push players out etc etc.

Quote from: maigheo on July 10, 2016, 05:19:22 PM
Replay next Sat in McHale Park.Time to be confirmed

And if Mayo get drawn at home in qualifiers? Will they go for a double-header which would give a full house probably, or schedule mayo match for Sunday?

Quote from: Tubberman on July 10, 2016, 05:33:23 PM

Quote from: maigheo on July 10, 2016, 05:19:22 PM
Replay next Sat in McHale Park.Time to be confirmed

And if Mayo get drawn at home in qualifiers? Will they go for a double-header which would give a full house probably, or schedule mayo match for Sunday?

With the losers playing their R4 match the next week it will be the Mayo match that gets played Sunday in that scenario.

If good sense prevails.

Anyone giving out about how bad that game was should have stepped foot in salthill today. Was worst conditions Iv seen in ages. The wind was like a fooking hurricane.
Our tactics were a disaster afraid to shoot in first half and with wind on our backs. Don't no why we decided play with it in first half.
Impossible play against wind in second half Galway played 14/15 men in there own 45 and next impossible score from anywhere outside 25 metres. Glad game is in castlebar next week.
Also taught we couldn't buy a free off ref not first time he favourited Galway

Left that behind us, Roscommon will be happier to get the draw out of the match as Galway should have been able to comfortably see that out.

That was an absolutely shocking spectacle.

Quote from: oliverkelly on July 10, 2016, 05:39:18 PM
Anyone giving out about how bad that game was should have stepped foot in salthill today. Was worst conditions Iv seen in ages. The wind was like a fooking hurricane.
Our tactics were a disaster afraid to shoot in first half and with wind on our backs. Don't no why we decided play with it in first half.
Impossible play against wind in second half Galway played 14/15 men in there own 45 and next impossible score from anywhere outside 25 metres. Glad game is in castlebar next week.
Also taught we couldn't buy a free off ref not first time he favourited Galway

Don't think you can give out about the referee, the most obvious mistake he made was not awarding Cummins a free in front of goal in the second half when he was hit in the face by the Roscommon defender. Marty Morrisey bizarrely called it a good tackle at the time. Roscommon were trying to engineer soft frees throughout the second half, Cregg in particular just ran into defenders and threw himself to the ground on a few occasions.

Lane is a horrific ref and definitely should have allowed Roscommon an advantage near the end but he wasn't a factor today.

Tuam is better weather wise and access wise. Salthill should be sold to the rugby team. The weather could be used to intimidate visiting teams.

Quote from: Syferus on July 10, 2016, 05:37:59 PM

Quote from: Tubberman on July 10, 2016, 05:33:23 PM

Quote from: maigheo on July 10, 2016, 05:19:22 PM
Replay next Sat in McHale Park.Time to be confirmed

And if Mayo get drawn at home in qualifiers? Will they go for a double-header which would give a full house probably, or schedule mayo match for Sunday?

With the losers playing their R4 match the next week it will be the Mayo match that gets played Sunday in that scenario.

If good sense prevails.

That is what I am hoping happens.

Quote from: Il Bomber Destro on July 10, 2016, 06:05:49 PM

Quote from: oliverkelly on July 10, 2016, 05:39:18 PM
Anyone giving out about how bad that game was should have stepped foot in salthill today. Was worst conditions Iv seen in ages. The wind was like a fooking hurricane.
Our tactics were a disaster afraid to shoot in first half and with wind on our backs. Don't no why we decided play with it in first half.
Impossible play against wind in second half Galway played 14/15 men in there own 45 and next impossible score from anywhere outside 25 metres. Glad game is in castlebar next week.
Also taught we couldn't buy a free off ref not first time he favourited Galway

Don't think you can give out about the referee, the most obvious mistake he made was not awarding Cummins a free in front of goal in the second half when he was hit in the face by the Roscommon defender. Marty Morrisey bizarrely called it a good tackle at the time.

Even on replay himself and Dessie were saying how cleanly the defender won the ball when you could see Cummins was actually fouled. Hit on the face and then the arm. The defender didn't actually touch the ball at all.

Quote from: GalwayBayBoy on July 10, 2016, 06:49:36 PM

Quote from: Il Bomber Destro on July 10, 2016, 06:05:49 PM

Quote from: oliverkelly on July 10, 2016, 05:39:18 PM
Anyone giving out about how bad that game was should have stepped foot in salthill today. Was worst conditions Iv seen in ages. The wind was like a fooking hurricane.
Our tactics were a disaster afraid to shoot in first half and with wind on our backs. Don't no why we decided play with it in first half.
Impossible play against wind in second half Galway played 14/15 men in there own 45 and next impossible score from anywhere outside 25 metres. Glad game is in castlebar next week.
Also taught we couldn't buy a free off ref not first time he favourited Galway

Don't think you can give out about the referee, the most obvious mistake he made was not awarding Cummins a free in front of goal in the second half when he was hit in the face by the Roscommon defender. Marty Morrisey bizarrely called it a good tackle at the time.

Even on replay himself and Dessie were saying how cleanly the defender won the ball when you could see Cummins was actually fouled. Hit on the face and then the arm. The defender didn't actually touch the ball at all.

Gary Sice was some joke before the start of the second half trying to belt Seanie Purcell in the face..

McStay needs to do some serious work on the Rossie's conversion rate in the hot-zone.

Remember the film "being John malcovich". I'd like to see a film called "being Syphillis", to see the world through his eyes would be quite an education.

Quote from: Jinxy on July 10, 2016, 07:17:03 PM
McStay needs to do some serious work on the Rossie's conversion rate in the hot-zone.

They didn't get the ball into the honey pot enough today.

Quote from: Il Bomber Destro on July 10, 2016, 07:36:26 PM

Quote from: Jinxy on July 10, 2016, 07:17:03 PM
McStay needs to do some serious work on the Rossie's conversion rate in the hot-zone.

They didn't get the ball into the honey pot enough today.

The rock, Bomber. Call it the rock. ;)

Lack of leaders in the Roscommon team. No one in the forwards willing to take responsibility and take a shot in that last attack injury time. Bizarre and depressing to watch. Why play a blanket defence with a gale force wind in your back?

I now see why Rossfan wants the handpass banned.

at least there was no diving

Quote from: manfromdelmonte on July 10, 2016, 10:04:57 PM
at least there was no diving

Directed at me?

Quote from: manfromdelmonte on July 10, 2016, 10:04:57 PM
at least there was no diving

https://twitter.com/INPHOjames/status/752245287327072256

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CnCCQuyW8AEifnt.jpg)

Quote from: manfromdelmonte on July 10, 2016, 10:04:57 PM
at least there was no diving

The game was crying out for somebody with the craft to engineer a defining score. Both Galway and Roscommon need to unearth some quality forwards for the replay.

Quote from: dublin7 on July 10, 2016, 09:35:07 PM
Lack of leaders in the Roscommon team. No one in the forwards willing to take responsibility and take a shot in that last attack injury time. Bizarre and depressing to watch. Why play a blanket defence with a gale force wind in your back?

Was that scoring opportunity really on? From what I seen Galway had numbers back and weren't going to allow Roscommon to get a shot off.

Both sides were poor with the gale force wind at their back and I don't think either side can say they deserved to win that game. The replay can only get better.

Very easy for lads sat at home with know idea of how truly terrible conditions were to say someone have a go at the end. At best it would have only reached goalies hands with that wind against us and then what pray ref blows it up before Galway hit us on break??
Bullshit comments from lads not in salthill. Lads done right thing and kept ball in hand

Quote from: Cunny Funt on July 10, 2016, 10:27:17 PM

Quote from: dublin7 on July 10, 2016, 09:35:07 PM
Lack of leaders in the Roscommon team. No one in the forwards willing to take responsibility and take a shot in that last attack injury time. Bizarre and depressing to watch. Why play a blanket defence with a gale force wind in your back?

Was that scoring opportunity really on? From what I seen Galway had numbers back and weren't going to allow Roscommon to get a shot off.

Both sides were poor with the gale force wind at their back and I don't think either side can say they deserved to win that game. The replay can only get better.

There was no scoring opportunity on. They would have been crazy to go for a longshot in case it dropped short and gave Galway another chance to come down the field. Roscommon did well to get a replay under the circumstances.
Expect that Ros. will win replay.

Quote from: moysider on July 10, 2016, 11:09:36 PM

Quote from: Cunny Funt on July 10, 2016, 10:27:17 PM

Quote from: dublin7 on July 10, 2016, 09:35:07 PM
Lack of leaders in the Roscommon team. No one in the forwards willing to take responsibility and take a shot in that last attack injury time. Bizarre and depressing to watch. Why play a blanket defence with a gale force wind in your back?

Was that scoring opportunity really on? From what I seen Galway had numbers back and weren't going to allow Roscommon to get a shot off.

Both sides were poor with the gale force wind at their back and I don't think either side can say they deserved to win that game. The replay can only get better.

There was no scoring opportunity on. They would have been crazy to go for a longshot in case it dropped short and gave Galway another chance to come down the field. Roscommon did well to get a replay under the circumstances.
Expect that Ros. will win replay.

And then fill the publicans' coffers in Castlebar..

Quote from: Syferus on July 10, 2016, 11:14:17 PM

Quote from: moysider on July 10, 2016, 11:09:36 PM

Quote from: Cunny Funt on July 10, 2016, 10:27:17 PM

Quote from: dublin7 on July 10, 2016, 09:35:07 PM
Lack of leaders in the Roscommon team. No one in the forwards willing to take responsibility and take a shot in that last attack injury time. Bizarre and depressing to watch. Why play a blanket defence with a gale force wind in your back?

Was that scoring opportunity really on? From what I seen Galway had numbers back and weren't going to allow Roscommon to get a shot off.

Both sides were poor with the gale force wind at their back and I don't think either side can say they deserved to win that game. The replay can only get better.

There was no scoring opportunity on. They would have been crazy to go for a longshot in case it dropped short and gave Galway another chance to come down the field. Roscommon did well to get a replay under the circumstances.
Expect that Ros. will win replay.

And then fill the publicans' coffers in Castlebar..

Ye can if ye choose to do so.

I expect Galway's bandwagon to dissipate a bit on Saturday, playing away from home and after a dour first match. Doubt it will effect our turnout massively though so we should have a clear advantage in the stands. Any edge might be enough to swing this one.

Quote from: Syferus on July 10, 2016, 11:26:57 PM
I expect Galway's bandwagon to disapate a bit on Saturday, playing away from home and after adorable first match. Doubt it will effect our turnout massively though so we should have a clear advantage in the stands. Any edge might be enough to swing this one.

If there is a double header with Mayo, there won't be much!

Quote from: Syferus on July 10, 2016, 11:26:57 PM
I expect Galway's bandwagon to disapate a bit on Saturday, playing away from home and after adorable first match. Doubt it will effect our turnout massively though so we should have a clear advantage in the stands. Any edge might be enough to swing this one.

"adorable first match", what does that mean?

Quote from: An Fhairche Abu on July 10, 2016, 11:42:34 PM

Quote from: Syferus on July 10, 2016, 11:26:57 PM
I expect Galway's bandwagon to disapate a bit on Saturday, playing away from home and after adorable first match. Doubt it will effect our turnout massively though so we should have a clear advantage in the stands. Any edge might be enough to swing this one.

"adorable first match", what does that mean?

A dour. Autocorrect.

Choosing to Watch Roscommon is like Volunteering for an enema. Next time it's the tennis.  Will mc stay still stay with them for the replay. As brolly says useless. Mayo will take care of the pick of them if a later meeting occurs. To hell or Connaught never seemed truer.

Just watched this game now, two poor teams. Like a bad club match where both teams think they should play a blanket defence but have no idea how to do it and are completely clueless about how to move from defence into attack. The games moved on lads, keep up! I don't usually agree with Joe Brolly but "Roscommon are useless" was bang on the money!

All of the qualifiers will be praying for the Connacht champions in the draw. I don't see either Galway or Roscommon getting past the quarter final stage.

Neither team would get by an Ulster first round. The angry grey minions Longford must be hoping for these guys in the draw. Twice the team. Black weekend for Connaught football.

Great to see some big talk from Ulster. Pity it rarely happens on the field..

Quote from: Syferus on July 11, 2016, 12:42:47 AM
Great to see some big talk from Ulster. Pity it rarely happens on the field..

I don't think Roscommon have much of a reputation of doing their talking on the pitch to be fair. Anyway,  I thought you were one of the ones always complaining about Tyrone being full of talk on the pitch.

Now that Roscommon have made it into playing in games that neutrals have an interest in watching, you will have to accept, that when you play an awful brand of football, you will get called on it.

Quote from: rrhf on July 11, 2016, 12:41:02 AM
Neither team would get by an Ulster first round. The angry grey minions Longford must be hoping for these guys in the draw. Twice the team. Black weekend for Connaught football.

Would Longford get by an Ulster first round?
Today in Connacht Final was a bit like Ulster but with more wind and rain.

Quote from: moysider on July 11, 2016, 01:12:11 AM

Quote from: rrhf on July 11, 2016, 12:41:02 AM
Neither team would get by an Ulster first round. The angry grey minions Longford must be hoping for these guys in the draw. Twice the team. Black weekend for Connaught football.

Would Longford get by an Ulster first round?
Today in Connacht Final was a bit like Ulster but with more wind and rain.

Well, they beat the reigning Ulster Champions yesterday!

Quote from: BennyHarp on July 11, 2016, 01:19:15 AM

Quote from: moysider on July 11, 2016, 01:12:11 AM

Quote from: rrhf on July 11, 2016, 12:41:02 AM
Neither team would get by an Ulster first round. The angry grey minions Longford must be hoping for these guys in the draw. Twice the team. Black weekend for Connaught football.

Would Longford get by an Ulster first round?
Today in Connacht Final was a bit like Ulster but with more wind and rain.

Well, they beat the reigning Ulster Champions yesterday!

Exactly. How did they get along earlier in Leinster? Longford have not won a Leinster since Larry was a kid yet they take out Ulster champions.
It doesn't add up does it? A lot of stuff in football and sport don't add up. That's what makes it so interesting I suppose?

Quote from: Syferus on July 10, 2016, 11:26:57 PM
I expect Galway's bandwagon to dissipate a bit on Saturday, playing away from home and after a dour first match. Doubt it will effect our turnout massively though so we should have a clear advantage in the stands. Any edge might be enough to swing this one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Mitty

Quote from: rrhf on July 11, 2016, 12:41:02 AM
Neither team would get by an Ulster first round. The angry grey minions Longford must be hoping for these guys in the draw. Twice the team. Black weekend for Connaught football.

Bullshit comment rosconmon beat the bollox of Cavan last two years in championship that's same Cavan team that brought Tyrone to replay. As I said unless you were at game and seen conditions first hand don't consent cause your only making yourself look like a clown

We have all went out in the rain before.

Quote from: rrhf on July 11, 2016, 07:36:21 AM
We have all went out in the rain before.

Great reply. Have you ever been in salthill on a day like yesterday? Anyway nice see you had no comeback when I pointed out we have bet shite out of both Cavan and Down in last few years clearly making your original statement show you up to be a clown. Galway have also beaten Ulster teams in recent years.
Ulster football is shore end of story. We all seen what a D3 side like Longford can do to the reigning champions of that Micky mouse province up there.

Quote from: rrhf on July 11, 2016, 07:36:21 AM
We have all went out in the rain before.

Rain is nothing putting a fn pitch 400m from the sea is ludicrous it ain't lanzarote down there
Ros had a strong wind for first 10 mins then it died to barely a gust for rest of half.
Then at ht it piissed and it became as strong a wind as i ever seen a team play against
Genuinely thought Ros would get beaten by 7 or 8 points in 2nd half Galway left it behind them.
Shows u how bad salthill is when Sligo didn't want to play connacht final there last year and ros don't want to play replay there preferring to go to prentys pitch and help pay towards its black hole debt gauls us.

Quote from: oliverkelly on July 11, 2016, 07:24:15 AM

Quote from: rrhf on July 11, 2016, 12:41:02 AM
Neither team would get by an Ulster first round. The angry grey minions Longford must be hoping for these guys in the draw. Twice the team. Black weekend for Connaught football.

Bullshit comment rosconmon beat the bollox of Cavan last two years in championship that's same Cavan team that brought Tyrone to replay. As I said unless you were at game and seen conditions first hand don't consent cause your only making yourself look like a clown

Fair enough, But the weather doesn't explain why you play with 15 men behind the ball with a gale force wind at your back. The weather doesn't explain why, time after time, there was nobody supporting the man in possession off his shoulder, criminal if your playing a defensive system with men behind the ball. The weather doesn't explain really poor decision making in when facing a defensive wall hoofing the ball wide on numerous occasions. But sure you beat Cavan a few years ago then you should be fine.

Quote from: BennyHarp on July 11, 2016, 08:10:34 AM

Quote from: oliverkelly on July 11, 2016, 07:24:15 AM

Quote from: rrhf on July 11, 2016, 12:41:02 AM
Neither team would get by an Ulster first round. The angry grey minions Longford must be hoping for these guys in the draw. Twice the team. Black weekend for Connaught football.

Bullshit comment rosconmon beat the bollox of Cavan last two years in championship that's same Cavan team that brought Tyrone to replay. As I said unless you were at game and seen conditions first hand don't consent cause your only making yourself look like a clown

Fair enough, But the weather doesn't explain why you play with 15 men behind the ball with a gale force wind at your back. The weather doesn't explain why, time after time, there was nobody supporting the man in possession off his shoulder, criminal if your playing a defensive system with men behind the ball. The weather doesn't explain really poor decision making in when facing a defensive wall hoofing the ball wide on numerous occasions. But sure you beat Cavan a few years ago then you should be fine.

Oh yeah but sure it was worst match of all time and was so so so defensive, Fook off there was one more point each scored in the great ulster game between Monaghan and Donegal in perfect conditions. I agree our tactics were all wrong but it was not as easy play out there yesterday than it looked like on the tele. I would have no problem playing any ulster side. Sure didn't we hammer Donegal in there home patch only few months ago and some clown reckons we wouldn't win a first round game in Ulster

Quote from: oliverkelly on July 11, 2016, 08:30:24 AM

Quote from: BennyHarp on July 11, 2016, 08:10:34 AM

Quote from: oliverkelly on July 11, 2016, 07:24:15 AM

Quote from: rrhf on July 11, 2016, 12:41:02 AM
Neither team would get by an Ulster first round. The angry grey minions Longford must be hoping for these guys in the draw. Twice the team. Black weekend for Connaught football.

Bullshit comment rosconmon beat the bollox of Cavan last two years in championship that's same Cavan team that brought Tyrone to replay. As I said unless you were at game and seen conditions first hand don't consent cause your only making yourself look like a clown

Fair enough, But the weather doesn't explain why you play with 15 men behind the ball with a gale force wind at your back. The weather doesn't explain why, time after time, there was nobody supporting the man in possession off his shoulder, criminal if your playing a defensive system with men behind the ball. The weather doesn't explain really poor decision making in when facing a defensive wall hoofing the ball wide on numerous occasions. But sure you beat Cavan a few years ago then you should be fine.

Oh yeah but sure it was worst match of all time and was so so so defensive, Fook off there was one more point each scored in the great ulster game between Monaghan and Donegal in perfect conditions. I agree our tactics were all wrong but it was not as easy play out there yesterday than it looked like on the tele. I would have no problem playing any ulster side. Sure didn't we hammer Donegal in there home patch only few months ago and some clown reckons we wouldn't win a first round game in Ulster

What was the weather like in the Bronx?? 😂

This thread is hilarious.
The Roscommon lads are as easily wound up as the Tyrone lads it seems.

Quote from: oliverkelly on July 11, 2016, 07:49:19 AM

Quote from: rrhf on July 11, 2016, 07:36:21 AM
We have all went out in the rain before.

Great reply. Have you ever been in salthill on a day like yesterday? Anyway nice see you had no comeback when I pointed out we have bet shite out of both Cavan and Down in last few years clearly making your original statement show you up to be a clown. Galway have also beaten Ulster teams in recent years.
Ulster football is shore end of story. We all seen what a D3 side like Longford can do to the reigning champions of that Micky mouse province up there.

Exposed to poorly weather, no shelter..rains a part of it...never heard worse...We overcame struggles up here your sheltered western arses never had to deal with.

Quote from: rrhf on July 11, 2016, 09:27:57 AM

Quote from: oliverkelly on July 11, 2016, 07:49:19 AM

Quote from: rrhf on July 11, 2016, 07:36:21 AM
We have all went out in the rain before.

Great reply. Have you ever been in salthill on a day like yesterday? Anyway nice see you had no comeback when I pointed out we have bet shite out of both Cavan and Down in last few years clearly making your original statement show you up to be a clown. Galway have also beaten Ulster teams in recent years.
Ulster football is shore end of story. We all seen what a D3 side like Longford can do to the reigning champions of that Micky mouse province up there.

Exposed to poorly weather, no shelter..rains a part of it...never heard worse...We overcame struggles up here your sheltered western arses never had to deal with.

Oh Christ... the Rossies and Tymoanies are some combo :-D

My point is the weather was one of the main factors yesterday was a shite game, Every Ulster game is shite simples.Next Saturday will be much better game in better pitch in hopefully better conditions. At least Connacht teams try play football when conditions allow.
Benny Harp was quite similar to yesterday not as bad
https://www.google.ie/search?q=roscommon+v+new+york+rain&biw=1920&bih=985&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjDlbL1guvNAhXpBcAKHfXGD1QQ_AUIBygC#imgdii=EXhdP0AsXC1RRM%3A%3BEXhdP0AsXC1RRM%3A%3BBMSNsBl2WUbIRM%3A&imgrc=EXhdP0AsXC1RRM%3A

Fair enough. Both team management need to plan ahead though and take into account that football gets played on rainy days as well. Some hypothetical wet weather training could really boost their chances and may just acclimatise them better.

The rain must have taken them by shock. It never rains in the West!

Very disappointed with the result in the end, thought Galway had control on the game from start to finish and always looked the likely winner. You have to give Roscommon credit for coming back though as I couldn't see them scoring 2 points in the final few minutes.

The football was poor but lets what the replay brings first before completely righting off both teams. Last years All Ireland final was hardly a spectacular game with a scoreline of 0-12 to 0-09, some of the Roscommon lads are too quick to bite. You'd have to be very biased to suggest the ref was in favour of Galway, both teams scored 3 points from free's, I did think Cummins should have had a free near the end and I'd like to see the free that was awarded to the Ros in the build up to the goal although Galway  had enough defenders to cope with it.

I see some see some are suggesting Galway should have pushed up on Roscommon kick outs but you've go to consider Galway were in control and were 2 points up with only a few minutes to go so it would have been daft to change tactics when Galway were in control. If Galway were 2 points down I'm sure they would have pushed up and applied a lot more pressure.

6 days doesn't give any time to really change the game plan so both teams will play the same way. I thought we scored some nice points especially against the wind and Cummins had his best game for Galway, I just hope he can keep that level of consistency in front of the posts.

Quote from: rrhf on July 11, 2016, 10:01:43 AM
Fair enough. Both team management need to plan ahead though and take into account that football gets played on rainy days as well. Some hypothetical wet weather training could really boost their chances and may just acclimatise them better.

I agree they should have and they got it wrong like I have said our tactics were completely wrong. But don't judge a team on one performance in nightmare conditions. I couldn't understand why we weren't shooting from distance in first half with what looked like a gale on our backs but wind was swirling all over the shop when I was on pitch after game and makes Conroys long distance free all the more spectacular.
I am hoping conditions are better next week and I can assure you it wont be as hard on the eye

I remember John Maughan buying all the Mayo lads new gloves when rain was promised for '96 AI semi-final.
Now that was proper, proper management.

Quote from: Maroon Manc on July 11, 2016, 10:04:48 AM
Very disappointed with the result in the end, thought Galway had control on the game from start to finish and always looked the likely winner. You have to give Roscommon credit for coming back though as I couldn't see them scoring 2 points in the final few minutes.

The football was poor but lets what the replay brings first before completely righting off both teams. Last years All Ireland final was hardly a spectacular game with a scoreline of 0-12 to 0-09, some of the Roscommon lads are too quick to bite. You'd have to be very biased to suggest the ref was in favour of Galway, both teams scored 3 points from free's, I did think Cummins should have had a free near the end and I'd like to see the free that was awarded to the Ros in the build up to the goal although Galway  had enough defenders to cope with it.

I see some see some are suggesting Galway should have pushed up on Roscommon kick outs but you've go to consider Galway were in control and were 2 points up with only a few minutes to go so it would have been daft to change tactics when Galway were in control. If Galway were 2 points down I'm sure they would have pushed up and applied a lot more pressure.

6 days doesn't give any time to really change the game plan so both teams will play the same way. I thought we scored some nice points especially against the wind and Cummins had his best game for Galway, I just hope he can keep that level of consistency in front of the posts.

Ye gave us easy possession all day so it was a literal 50:50 game when it came to nearly every meaningful stat. Two teams afraid to attack, Galway at home will be most worried after that performance because it won't be the same sort of game the next day and I have my doubts Galway can play any other game than the one they just did anyways effectively.

With no midfielders and a dodgy defensive I can understand why we set up so defensively.
But management please how about fast "transition" to attack and kicking with the wind???
Replay Sunday now they say in Prenty park .
If ever there was an argument for Banning tossball yesterday strengthened it.

Quote from: Rossfan on July 11, 2016, 11:34:00 AM
With no midfielders and a dodgy defensive I can understand why we set up so defensively.
But management please how about fast "transition" to attack and kicking with the wind???
Replay Sunday now they say in Prenty park .
If ever there was an argument for Banning tossball yesterday strengthened it.

Confirmed for Sunday @ 3.30.

And your point in bold is the key problem I have with yesterday's tactics!
It's all well and good setting up defensively but if you don't attack at pace from defense it just gives a team (Galway) time to set up there own blanket defense.

Scheduling it for Sunday ensures that the losers have the bare minimum recovery time for the qualifier match on the 23rd.
The winners of the Mayo/Kildare match aren't out the following weekend and don't play until the 30th I think, no reason they can't play on the Sunday instead, I don't want to hear about the Kildare minor match, we are talking about Senior games here.
Disgraceful decision.

Angelina Nugent ‏@AngelinaNugent1  6m6 minutes ago
Connacht Final replay Sunday at 3.30pm! Looks like Mayo game stand alone Saturday-not confirmed yet.

Quote from: An Fhairche Abu on July 11, 2016, 11:57:35 AM
Scheduling it for Sunday ensures that the losers have the bare minimum recovery time for the qualifier match on the 23rd.
The winners of the Mayo/Kildare match aren't out the following weekend and don't play until the 30th I think, no reason they can't play on the Sunday instead, I don't want to hear about the Kildare minor match, we are talking about Senior games here.
Disgraceful decision.

Don't be ridiculous. In what world would it be ok to fix a kildare minor leinster final in croke park on the same day as a kildare qualifier in castlebar.?

I agree that the CF loser will have a difficult turnaround for the following weekend, so it just makes it more important that we win it!!  :P

Is John Prenty taking the f**king piss. Done to try and get as much money as possible with no thought for the teams.

..that said it suits me better than Saturday. CF has become as close to an old school provincial final. Win it or your season is as good as over.

3:30 Sunday? What a joke.

Quote from: oliverkelly on July 11, 2016, 07:24:15 AM

Quote from: rrhf on July 11, 2016, 12:41:02 AM
Neither team would get by an Ulster first round. The angry grey minions Longford must be hoping for these guys in the draw. Twice the team. Black weekend for Connaught football.

Bullshit comment rosconmon beat the bollox of Cavan last two years in championship that's same Cavan team that brought Tyrone to replay. As I said unless you were at game and seen conditions first hand don't consent cause your only making yourself look like a clown

Roscommon have been dumped out of the Championship by three different Ulster teams in the past three years, none of whom have won any of the past 5 Ulster titles.

Quote from: westbound on July 11, 2016, 12:02:55 PM

Quote from: An Fhairche Abu on July 11, 2016, 11:57:35 AM
Scheduling it for Sunday ensures that the losers have the bare minimum recovery time for the qualifier match on the 23rd.
The winners of the Mayo/Kildare match aren't out the following weekend and don't play until the 30th I think, no reason they can't play on the Sunday instead, I don't want to hear about the Kildare minor match, we are talking about Senior games here.
Disgraceful decision.

Don't be ridiculous. In what world would it be ok to fix a kildare minor leinster final in croke park on the same day as a kildare qualifier in castlebar.?

I agree that the CF loser will have a difficult turnaround for the following weekend, so it just makes it more important that we win it!!  :P

A world where the Seniors are inestimably more important than minors, minors from another province at that. Match has been changed from Saturday to Sunday as a result of Mayo's qualifier draw. This is the Connacht final we are talking about here, not some qualifier.

Syferus is correct that the replay is now an old school do or die contest for both counties.

GAA supporters never fail to disappoint in calling a decision over fixture scheduling "a disgrace".  ;D

Some things should never change.

I'd say a decision on the Mayo Kildare qualifier had more to do with sky having rights to these qualifiers than anything else. That is the pick of the games next weekend so was always going to be fixed for Saturday evening.

If the Connacht Final replay was fixed for the Saturday, with the Mayo qualifier in the 'traditional' Sunday afternoon timeslot, there'd be people bitchin as well.

Bitchin about things GAA is a traditional part of the Irish Summer, a but like a wet day in Salthill

I really don't understand the complaints about this.

This is the only REASONABLE solution.

Maybe have the game at 2 oclock instead of 3.30 but that is splitting hairs.

You CANNOT expect kildare to play their game on sunday with minors in leinster final.

I'm not sure if mchale park is big enough to hold this double header (my guess is it probably isn't -38K capacity 25K from connacht final and >13K for qualifer exceeds capacity) but it's also not reasonable to expect mayo and kildare to pay Connacht final prices for a qualifier. And factor in that mayo season ticket holders would nearly fill the stand we'd have difficulty getting any significant amount of stand tickets for ourselves and galway. We'd have plenty of giving out about that if that was the case!

Keep in mind that if Galway or ourselves had been good enough to win yesterday then neither team would have to worry about a 6/7 day turnaround.
Also, keep in mind that if we had a ground capable of hosting a connacht final there'd be no problem!

I do agree though that winning the replay is vitally important now to avoid the 6/7 day turnaround, but I don't think playing at 3.30 on sunday instead of saturday evening is gonna make much difference in reality. The qualifier could be pushed back the following week until the sunday and it still 7 days to recover.

Hopefully Roscommon won't have to worry about the 1 week recovery!

Who's call was the venue?? Roscommon's? Surely it could be played in salthill on Saturday

Once a decade is enough to go to that place >:(

Quote from: macdanger2 on July 11, 2016, 01:17:36 PM
Who's call was the venue?? Roscommon's? Surely it could be played in salthill on Saturday

The wind tunnel is worth 2/3 points to Galway.

Ros win their last Connacht final in Castlebar

Quote from: manfromdelmonte on July 11, 2016, 01:22:20 PM

Quote from: macdanger2 on July 11, 2016, 01:17:36 PM
Who's call was the venue?? Roscommon's? Surely it could be played in salthill on Saturday

The wind tunnel is worth 2/3 points to Galway.

I could believe that only Galway's home record the past 3 years or so has been pretty poor. Nearly all their best performances in league and championship have come away from home.

Galways record in Salthill recently is appalling, they haven't won any of their 4 games there this year.

No tv coverage for replay bumper crowd for castlebar.

Looks like I'll be listening to the game on the radio, I can't recall the last provincial final that wasn't televised?

There may be a referendum on whether it should ever be shown again  :D
Connexit

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised  ;D :o

Quote from: GalwayBayBoy on July 11, 2016, 01:25:23 PM

Quote from: manfromdelmonte on July 11, 2016, 01:22:20 PM

Quote from: macdanger2 on July 11, 2016, 01:17:36 PM
Who's call was the venue?? Roscommon's? Surely it could be played in salthill on Saturday

The wind tunnel is worth 2/3 points to Galway.

I could believe that only Galway's home record the past 3 years or so has been pretty poor. Nearly all their best performances in league and championship have come away from home.

Salthill is a brutal ground for supporters and for football.  McHale the right choice by a mile.

Quote from: Syferus on July 11, 2016, 12:09:00 PM
Is John Prenty taking the f**king piss. Done to try and get as much money as possible with no thought for the teams.

..that said it suits me better than Saturday. CF has become as close to an old school provincial final. Win it or your season is as good as over.

Ah, come on Syf.  ;D
Even by your own non-conventional standards, that a bit ott.
Where else could a CF be played?

Back in Salthill again? I don't think anyone, even you, would  want a repeat of last Sunday.'s experience.
Markey Park? Too small.
Pairc Sean? Same as Sligo, as well as been very isolated.
Roscommon? The Hyde?  ;D Not unless the players agree to play in wellies.

What other options are there?

Well if roscommon chose the venue knowing there might be a clash then the blame lies solely with them imo.

Quote from: macdanger2 on July 11, 2016, 01:52:18 PM
Well if roscommon chose the venue knowing there might be a clash then the blame lies solely with them imo.

Yep although if Mayo had been drawn away then I assume the Connacht final would be on Saturday evening.

Quote from: Lar Naparka on July 11, 2016, 01:51:29 PM

Quote from: Syferus on July 11, 2016, 12:09:00 PM
Is John Prenty taking the f**king piss. Done to try and get as much money as possible with no thought for the teams.

..that said it suits me better than Saturday. CF has become as close to an old school provincial final. Win it or your season is as good as over.

Ah, come on Syf.  ;D
Even by your own non-conventional standards, that a bit ott.
Where else could a CF be played?

Back in Salthill again? I don't think anyone, even you, would  want a repeat of last Sunday.'s experience.
Markey Park? Too small.
Pairc Sean? Same as Sligo, as well as been very isolated.
Roscommon? The Hyde?  ;D Not unless the players agree to play in wellies.

What other options are there?

Plus half the population of Roscommon could take a train to within half a mile of McHale Park if they wanted to

Quote from: Lar Naparka on July 11, 2016, 01:51:29 PM

Quote from: Syferus on July 11, 2016, 12:09:00 PM
Is John Prenty taking the f**king piss. Done to try and get as much money as possible with no thought for the teams.

..that said it suits me better than Saturday. CF has become as close to an old school provincial final. Win it or your season is as good as over.

Ah, come on Syf.  ;D
Even by your own non-conventional standards, that a bit ott.
Where else could a CF be played?

Back in Salthill again? I don't think anyone, even you, would  want a repeat of last Sunday.'s experience.
Markey Park? Too small.
Pairc Sean? Same as Sligo, as well as been very isolated.
Roscommon? The Hyde?  ;D Not unless the players agree to play in wellies.

What other options are there?

Kiltoom.

Galway offered next two c/ship games at home to roscommon,if replay was in salthill,mcstay declined the offer as he wanted no advantage to galway,which has to be expected.

Is this a piss take, 3.30 on Sunday whilst we have to watch the one sided rubbish that is the leinster football final

Gaago surely going to show it online?

Quote from: Jinxy on July 11, 2016, 01:59:18 PM

Quote from: Lar Naparka on July 11, 2016, 01:51:29 PM

Quote from: Syferus on July 11, 2016, 12:09:00 PM
Is John Prenty taking the f**king piss. Done to try and get as much money as possible with no thought for the teams.

..that said it suits me better than Saturday. CF has become as close to an old school provincial final. Win it or your season is as good as over.

Ah, come on Syf.  ;D
Even by your own non-conventional standards, that a bit ott.
Where else could a CF be played?

Back in Salthill again? I don't think anyone, even you, would  want a repeat of last Sunday.'s experience.
Markey Park? Too small.
Pairc Sean? Same as Sligo, as well as been very isolated.
Roscommon? The Hyde?  ;D Not unless the players agree to play in wellies.

What other options are there?

Kiltoom.

Strokestown? Not enough parking though, apparently

Hopefully the 6 day turnaround will be the Rossies' problem.

From yesterday, I really hope that Cummins and Heaney being called ashore was an injury or fatigue related issue, Shane Walsh and Brannigan should have been hooked long before either. Still waiting on a really good performance from Walsh in the championship for Galway. Always seems to take the wrong option although having seen it back last night, I'll give him a pass for the blocked shot at the finish, Flynn should never have passed when he did. Would Adrian Varley be a better option to start?
Declan Kyne and Gary O'Donnell were excellent at the back again.

Quote from: An Fhairche Abu on July 11, 2016, 02:13:34 PM
Hopefully the 6 day turnaround will be the Rossies' problem.

From yesterday, I really hope that Cummins and Heaney being called ashore was an injury or fatigue related issue, Shane Walsh and Brannigan should have been hooked long before either. Still waiting on a really good performance from Walsh in the championship for Galway. Always seems to take the wrong option although having seen it back last night, I'll give him a pass for the blocked shot at the finish, Flynn should never have passed when he did. Would Adrian Varley be a better option to start?
Declan Kyne and Gary O'Donnell were excellent at the back again.

You'd have to wonder if their hands will be healed in time.

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Quote from: SLIGONIAN on July 11, 2016, 02:05:14 PM
Is this a piss take, 3.30 on Sunday whilst we have to watch the one sided rubbish that is the leinster football final

Gaago surely going to show it online?

If it is not on GAAgo, then I hope somebody has the capability to do a live cam like somebody did at the recent Donegal V Monaghan.
For a sporting body that talks about its trying to market its games and extend its global reach, you would figure they would try to accommodate supporters outside of Ireland.

No doubt Syferus will bring his periscope with him.

Quote from: Jinxy on July 11, 2016, 03:06:50 PM
No doubt Syferus will bring his periscope with him.

:P

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If they are trying to market its games and extend its global reach the last thing they'd be doing is showing a repeat of last Sunday's shite to the international audience.

Quote from: criostlinn on July 11, 2016, 06:15:11 PM
If they are trying to market its games and extend its global reach the last thing they'd be doing is showing a repeat of last Sunday's shite to the international audience.

Or last Saturday's excuse for entertainment in McHale.

Quote from: criostlinn on July 11, 2016, 06:15:11 PM
If they are trying to market its games and extend its global reach the last thing they'd be doing is showing a repeat of last Sunday's shite to the international audience.

In fairness the 'Holy Grail' Hurling Munster final was no better. The Munster football final was a dead rubber game as well. And as for the Leinster football final which will be televised, this looks like another Turkey shoot!

The verdict is in from last Saturday

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Quote from: Rossfan on July 09, 2016, 08:35:13 AM
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As for the match..... draw and off to fund Prenty park next Saturday  :-[

Damn...just got the day wrong :D

Quote from: An Fhairche Abu on July 11, 2016, 02:13:34 PM
Hopefully the 6 day turnaround will be the Rossies' problem.

From yesterday, I really hope that Cummins and Heaney being called ashore was an injury or fatigue related issue, Shane Walsh and Brannigan should have been hooked long before either. Still waiting on a really good performance from Walsh in the championship for Galway. Always seems to take the wrong option although having seen it back last night, I'll give him a pass for the blocked shot at the finish, Flynn should never have passed when he did. Would Adrian Varley be a better option to start?
Declan Kyne and Gary O'Donnell were excellent at the back again.

Particularly as Danny's replacement was Patrick Sweeney.
How he continually gets brought on is beyond me.

Quote from: galwayman on July 11, 2016, 08:23:35 PM

Quote from: An Fhairche Abu on July 11, 2016, 02:13:34 PM
Hopefully the 6 day turnaround will be the Rossies' problem.

From yesterday, I really hope that Cummins and Heaney being called ashore was an injury or fatigue related issue, Shane Walsh and Brannigan should have been hooked long before either. Still waiting on a really good performance from Walsh in the championship for Galway. Always seems to take the wrong option although having seen it back last night, I'll give him a pass for the blocked shot at the finish, Flynn should never have passed when he did. Would Adrian Varley be a better option to start?
Declan Kyne and Gary O'Donnell were excellent at the back again.

Particularly as Danny's replacement was Patrick Sweeney.
How he continually gets brought on is beyond me.

In fairness in almost every time I've seen Cummins there's been a lot of effort but very little end product too. No fan of Walsh but subbing out Cummins was probably to do with how knackered he was more than anything else.

I've watched the game again and even more disappointed we let that slip, Galway scored 5 points in the first 14 minutes of the 2nd half and only 2 points in the remaining 25 minutes. Galway lost their shape on very few occasions with one of then being when Power unusually took a poor free kick of the ground, he should have either gone short or gone long but instead kicked it into an area where we were short on bodies and within about 10 seconds of his kick the Rossies had a point. I haven't seen the final stats but I know Roscommon weren't far of making double the amount of hand passes Galway did. Galway have a settled pattern of play they've clearly spent the last 3 months working on so you can't expect Roscommon to come to replicate that in a couple of weeks. Its easy for the Rossies to say they can play better next week  collectively but thats easier said than done with very little time to work on the training pitch.

If we can win next Sunday the extra game will be of huge benefit down the line although lose and i'll be very worried about the qualifier. I agree Roscommon have more quality on the bench and I really can't fathom how Patrick Sweeney continues to get game time, not seen anything to suggest he's good enough.

Its time to call a spade a spade, shite football from 2 teams going no where if they dont change their ways, if a wet stormey day was the issue why did it not stop ros in killarney against kerry, truth is we have gone backwards in the last couple of months, we are at nothing if that is where this team is heading. If any other county had served up that crap I would be shouting from the rooftops so I am not going to make an exception for my own county.
Trying to play a system we have no idea how to play or have not got the players capable of playing it is futile, we should go back to the style we played against Donegal etc a high energy running game, have a cut, any Rossie with a brain knows we are not going to win any all-ireland either way, just do the best we can and dont let other teams dictate how we play, that way we will win or lose on our terms.

Has all that early training/fitness for the League caught up with a lot of our lads??

Quote from: manfromdelmonte on July 11, 2016, 01:22:20 PM

Quote from: macdanger2 on July 11, 2016, 01:17:36 PM
Who's call was the venue?? Roscommon's? Surely it could be played in salthill on Saturday

The wind tunnel is worth 2/3 points to Galway.

Ros win their last Connacht final in Castlebar

So did Galway.

Quote from: Farrandeelin on July 11, 2016, 10:15:34 PM

Quote from: manfromdelmonte on July 11, 2016, 01:22:20 PM

Quote from: macdanger2 on July 11, 2016, 01:17:36 PM
Who's call was the venue?? Roscommon's? Surely it could be played in salthill on Saturday

The wind tunnel is worth 2/3 points to Galway.

Ros win their last Connacht final in Castlebar

So did Galway.

I can't count that far back.

Quote from: giveballaghback on July 11, 2016, 09:01:56 PM
Its time to call a spade a spade, shite football from 2 teams going no where if they dont change their ways, if a wet stormey day was the issue why did it not stop ros in killarney against kerry, truth is we have gone backwards in the last couple of months, we are at nothing if that is where this team is heading. If any other county had served up that crap I would be shouting from the rooftops so I am not going to make an exception for my own county.
Trying to play a system we have no idea how to play or have not got the players capable of playing it is futile, we should go back to the style we played against Donegal etc a high energy running game, have a cut, any Rossie with a brain knows we are not going to win any all-ireland either way, just do the best we can and dont let other teams dictate how we play, that way we will win or lose on our terms.

+1
You called it as you see it and the truth isn't pretty but has to be faced up to.

http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/gridlock-leads-to-deadlock-as-roscommon-catch-galway-1.2717121

The edginess that was below the surface was everywhere now. This was the legacy of Mayo's period of domination. Any team has to learn how to go and win a major game. Neither Roscommon nor Galway were quite there on this occasion.

Quote from: seafoid on July 12, 2016, 06:40:19 AM
http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/gridlock-leads-to-deadlock-as-roscommon-catch-galway-1.2717121

The edginess that was below the surface was everywhere now. This was the legacy of Mayo's period of domination. Any team has to learn how to go and win a major game. Neither Roscommon nor Galway were quite there on this occasion.

Who is the Enda Varley mentioned in that report. It can hardly be our Enda from Garrymore, can it?

Quote from: Rossfan on July 11, 2016, 10:00:09 PM
Has all that early training/fitness for the League caught up with a lot of our lads??

Maybe, ads looked heavy legged Sunday but conditions didn't help. I think(hope) management only set us up play that way because it was an ultra defensive Galway side we were playing. It was first time this year we have played a sweeper.
I cant agree with managements selection of two backs in midfield, Daly is doing fine but Keenan and it is no disrespect to him is only there to man mark or take opposition midfielder out of game,He is a half back and he is never going be a midflder attacking and have opposition worrying about him. It is a very negative mentality. I think we need go with Daly and Compton in middle next week and try win area rather than trying break even.
Short kickouts went alright but Galway retreated straight away and by time we had ball carried out of defence they had 14 men inside their 45 leaving little or no space. We need be able vary kickouts and hit odd long one to try get at Galways defence before its fully crowded out. O;'Malley done very well other day but it looked like he was instructed to go short every time and I suppose he had to with no aerial ball winners on pitch until Corcoran,Shine and Harney came in, I think we need an option out there this coming Sunday

Before the match the common knowledge was that Galway had poor backs. Before the Mayo match the common knowledge was that Walsh was useless. I think he is building a blend between puke and flúirseach which would be the traditional Galway style. Well able to defend but also to score on the counter. It is getting very interesting 5 years on from Antrim.
Galway is a big mental hurdle for Ros regardless of D1 status 

The 2011 & 2012 Connacht final were poor affairs too, Mayo didn't look like All Ireland challengers in either games with just edging Roscommon & Sligo; Its all about the result for either team and then build from there.

Next day we need a midfielder in midfield and the ball to reach the attack quicker.
And I don't mean long balls into one isolated full forward with 3 markers and the nearest of the Ros team 70 metres away.
If Galway go with their 45m blanket and we haven't the speed/strength to break through it how about 3 full forwards and kick the ball over the blanket - which will only have 11 players main it then.

Quote from: Rossfan on July 12, 2016, 11:12:26 AM
Next day we need a midfielder in midfield and the ball to reach the attack quicker.
And I don't mean long balls into one isolated full forward with 3 markers and the nearest of the Ros team 70 metres away.
If Galway go with their 45m blanket and we haven't the speed/strength to break through it how about 3 full forwards and kick the ball over the blanket - which will only have 11 players main it then.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpA0oPR_EOQ

I would be worried about the counters if I was a Rossie

Connacht Final in 2011

Mayo 0-13
Roscommon 0-11

That was a terrible game on a terrible day, weather wise.
Mayo got to the AI semi final that year

When is the last time Roscommon played in a decent Connacht final that the spectators enjoyed ?

Quote from: seafoid on July 12, 2016, 02:06:29 PM
When is the last time Roscommon played in a decent Connacht final that the spectators enjoyed ?

2001 one of best and most enjoyable Connacht finals ever. When was last time Galway did?

Quote from: seafoid on July 12, 2016, 02:06:29 PM
When is the last time Roscommon played in a decent Connacht final that the spectators enjoyed ?

2010 from my perspective, which is more recent than can be said for Galway.

Quote from: Tubberman on July 12, 2016, 02:09:32 PM

Quote from: seafoid on July 12, 2016, 02:06:29 PM
When is the last time Roscommon played in a decent Connacht final that the spectators enjoyed ?

2010 from my perspective, which is more recent than can be said for Galway.

Just came back to say 2010 game was a classic with Donies free to win it.

http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/jim-mcguinness-defensive-coaches-leading-game-down-dead-end-1.2718416 (http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/jim-mcguinness-defensive-coaches-leading-game-down-dead-end-1.2718416)

Sounds like Jim is getting worried he is responsible for killing GAA as we used to know it.

Quote from: Fuzzman on July 12, 2016, 03:14:38 PM
http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/jim-mcguinness-defensive-coaches-leading-game-down-dead-end-1.2718416 (http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/jim-mcguinness-defensive-coaches-leading-game-down-dead-end-1.2718416)

Sounds like Jim is getting worried he is responsible for killing GAA as we used to know it.

Are most pitches in Donegal really on the coast?

Galway got crap for years for not being able to play puke football.

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Quote from: Fuzzman on July 12, 2016, 03:14:38 PM
http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/jim-mcguinness-defensive-coaches-leading-game-down-dead-end-1.2718416 (http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/jim-mcguinness-defensive-coaches-leading-game-down-dead-end-1.2718416)

Sounds like Jim is getting worried he is responsible for killing GAA as we used to know it.

Are most pitches in Donegal really on the coast?

Galway got crap for years for not being able to play puke football.

Didn't Joe Kernan go down West to show them how to play modern football properly?

Quote from: Fuzzman on July 12, 2016, 03:14:38 PM
http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/jim-mcguinness-defensive-coaches-leading-game-down-dead-end-1.2718416 (http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/jim-mcguinness-defensive-coaches-leading-game-down-dead-end-1.2718416)

Sounds like Jim is getting worried he is responsible for killing GAA as we used to know it.

"Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.".

Jim's comment after watching the Connacht final.

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Quote from: seafoid on July 12, 2016, 03:24:17 PM

Quote from: Fuzzman on July 12, 2016, 03:14:38 PM
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Sounds like Jim is getting worried he is responsible for killing GAA as we used to know it.

Are most pitches in Donegal really on the coast?

Galway got crap for years for not being able to play puke football.

Didn't Joe Kernan go down West to show them how to play modern football properly?

http://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-football/tribesmens-crisis-of-identity-2806121.html

A decade without success and they begin to wonder now. When they lost a high-scoring, entertaining game to Kerry in the 2008 All-Ireland quarter-final, some credited manager Liam Sammon for the quality of Galway's football while others questioned an approach that saw them go toe to toe with a superior team. With the tactical revolution of the noughties, they argued, Galway with their dreamy notions of a purer age were being left behind. Tactically outdated and naive.
In that light it is possible to view the curious experiment with Joe Kernan and last year's appointment of ó Flatharta as Galway's attempt to move with the times, seeking to blend their traditional style with a new defensive-minded toughness. But it has seemed too half-hearted, feeding a chronic identity crisis where Galway end up being neither one thing nor the other. Hanley neatly condensed the debate during the week, pointing out the strength of feeling for the old ways while offering the important qualifier that football today is increasingly a "results business".
"It's complicated," says Mulholland. "Everyone involved in Galway football is conscious of it. There's a brand of Galway football and people are very wary about compromising it. We're Galway football. Is it acceptable to compromise? 1966, 1998, 2001. Ten years on and we're still trying to play Galway football. It's nice to have that but two All-Irelands in 40-odd years? Would people prefer to win All-Irelands?"

God ye poor Galway souls lived off that 2008 Quarter final v Kerry. It sort of filled a gap for under achievement. Ye played nice football, Kerry played nice football, the rain came down, the lights went on, The Journalists got to write a nice story. Kerry people got to talk about how nice it was to play nice football and win (as opposed to playing so called ugly football v Tyrone/Armagh and losing). After seven years of mediocrity, this game bought Galway a few more years of coasting on the '98 and '01 years.

Mayo played Kerry in the 2005 All Ireland Football Quarter final. Kerry played nice football, We played nice football, we lost by 3 points. We got no plaudits. Why? Because underneath everybody knew Kerry could have beat us by any amount they liked. They had done it the year before in the AI final. Kerry don't do hammerings at quarter final stages, they just do what they have to do!

Quote from: From the Bunker on July 12, 2016, 05:48:42 PM
. Kerry don't do hammerings at quarter final stages, they just do what they have to do!

Try telling the Kildare lads that

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Quote from: From the Bunker on July 12, 2016, 05:48:42 PM
. Kerry don't do hammerings at quarter final stages, they just do what they have to do!

Try telling the Kildare lads that

Unless completely lie down on your arse!

Anyway who's going to win the replay?
I can see us winning it by 3.

Quote from: Rossfan on July 12, 2016, 05:57:44 PM
Anyway who's going to win the replay?
I can see us winning it by 3.

Ye have a chance if ye abandon with the Tom foolery ye were at the last day!

Quote from: From the Bunker on July 12, 2016, 05:48:42 PM
God ye poor Galway souls lived off that 2008 Quarter final v Kerry. It sort of filled a gap for under achievement. Ye played nice football, Kerry played nice football, the rain came down, the lights went on, The Journalists got to write a nice story. Kerry people got to talk about how nice it was to play nice football and win (as opposed to playing so called ugly football v Tyrone/Armagh and losing). After seven years of mediocrity, this game bought Galway a few more years of coasting on the '98 and '01 years.

Mayo played Kerry in the 2005 All Ireland Football Quarter final. Kerry played nice football, We played nice football, we lost by 3 points. We got no plaudits. Why? Because underneath everybody knew Kerry could have beat us by any amount they liked. They had done it the year before in the AI final. Kerry don't do hammerings at quarter final stages, they just do what they have to do!

Mediocrity is the default state.
Every so often a decent team comes along.

Quote from: seafoid on July 12, 2016, 06:09:17 PM

Quote from: From the Bunker on July 12, 2016, 05:48:42 PM
God ye poor Galway souls lived off that 2008 Quarter final v Kerry. It sort of filled a gap for under achievement. Ye played nice football, Kerry played nice football, the rain came down, the lights went on, The Journalists got to write a nice story. Kerry people got to talk about how nice it was to play nice football and win (as opposed to playing so called ugly football v Tyrone/Armagh and losing). After seven years of mediocrity, this game bought Galway a few more years of coasting on the '98 and '01 years.

Mayo played Kerry in the 2005 All Ireland Football Quarter final. Kerry played nice football, We played nice football, we lost by 3 points. We got no plaudits. Why? Because underneath everybody knew Kerry could have beat us by any amount they liked. They had done it the year before in the AI final. Kerry don't do hammerings at quarter final stages, they just do what they have to do!

Mediocrity is the default state.
Every so often a decent team comes along.

What state are the present side?

Quote from: From the Bunker on July 12, 2016, 06:00:56 PM

Quote from: Rossfan on July 12, 2016, 05:57:44 PM
Anyway who's going to win the replay?
I can see us winning it by 3.

Ye have a chance if ye abandon with the Tom foolery ye were at the last day!

With the cameras away we can blast away and play proper football and keep the powder dry for the business end of the championship.  All part of McFOD's masterclass.

Roscommon don't have the time to change the game plan too much, its either play the same way as they did last Sunday or revert back to the way they played in the league which I don't see happening. Maybe they might play Kilbride & Shine in the full forward line but even then Galway will have plenty of extra bodies back by the time the ball goes into them; The Ross are hardly likely to press Galway's kickouts and they'll go short on their own so its hard to make a case for putting 2 big men in the full forward line.

Quote from: Maroon Manc on July 12, 2016, 06:26:50 PM
Roscommon don't have the time to change the game plan too much, its either play the same way as they did last Sunday or revert back to the way they played in the league which I don't see happening. Maybe they might play Kilbride & Shine in the full forward line but even then Galway will have plenty of extra bodies back by the time the ball goes into them; The Ross are hardly likely to press Galway's kickouts and they'll go short on their own so its hard to make a case for putting 2 big men in the full forward line.

Good post. I hope your wrong and we do play more attacking but I doubt it.

Think too much typical GAA puritanical thorn whipping thrown  at the lack of purity on display Sunday but as Father Devine noted in The Roscommon Herald it was real Theresa Mannion weather. Of course the worry from a Ros POV is that MacHale is a tighter pitch and can be windy too and Galway's defensive system will allow little space. I would prefer to see the likes of Donie and Senan start because on form they can take a long range point and in early stages that might be our only route to scores. Mighty relieved to have another chance though..

Quote from: Maroon Manc on July 12, 2016, 06:26:50 PM
Roscommon don't have the time to change the game plan too much, its either play the same way as they did last Sunday or revert back to the way they played in the league which I don't see happening. Maybe they might play Kilbride & Shine in the full forward line but even then Galway will have plenty of extra bodies back by the time the ball goes into them; The Ross are hardly likely to press Galway's kickouts and they'll go short on their own so its hard to make a case for putting 2 big men in the full forward line.

Very easy to make tactical changes that alter what we set out to do Sunday, which we didn't even execute on as the whole point had to have been transitioning to attack at pace not at the speed of octagarians. Nonsense to think that a gameplan cooked up in a few weeks and 100% of our wide open league play are the only options.

It will be a balance between the two and unfortunately for Galway that might be the very worst thing for them to encounter.

Quote from: From the Bunker on July 12, 2016, 05:48:42 PM
God ye poor Galway souls lived off that 2008 Quarter final v Kerry.

I had forgotten about it after a few days. Like the vast majority of games we lose. People from other counties seem to go on about it more than Galway people do.

I think the replay has extra time written all over it. The strength of the benches could prove the difference and it will likely take a moment of inspiration or a error like 1998 to separate the two. The winner should go on to reach the All Ireland semi final the loser with a 6 day turnaround will likely lose their round 4 qualifier. High stakes game that should be screened live on TV.

Liam McHale on Newstalk laying all the blame on Galway for the boring encounter  ::)

Proper order too :D

Lads, this might be useful for watching the Connacht final live.  The lads here post up the live feeds from the cameras to the satellites. They're the raw feed so there'd be no commentary or edits. Usually post the details on the morning of a match when they pick the frequency up. (I've only recently found this)

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057554774

Quote from: Syferus on July 12, 2016, 07:22:23 PM

Quote from: Maroon Manc on July 12, 2016, 06:26:50 PM
Roscommon don't have the time to change the game plan too much, its either play the same way as they did last Sunday or revert back to the way they played in the league which I don't see happening. Maybe they might play Kilbride & Shine in the full forward line but even then Galway will have plenty of extra bodies back by the time the ball goes into them; The Ross are hardly likely to press Galway's kickouts and they'll go short on their own so its hard to make a case for putting 2 big men in the full forward line.

Very easy to make tactical changes that alter what we set out to do Sunday, which we didn't even execute on as the whole point had to have been transitioning to attack at pace not at the speed of octagarians. Nonsense to think that a gameplan cooked up in a few weeks and 100% of our wide open league play are the only options.

It will be a balance between the two and unfortunately for Galway that might be the very worst thing for them to encounter.

Maith an buachaill

Liam McHale on Newstalk laying all the blame on Galway for the boring encounter  ::)
Perfectly right 10 minutes into the second half level with a gale on there asses and they decide to put a maroon wall on there 45 and try and hit us on the counter
What on gods earth was Walsh thinking.
I genuinely believed we would be beaten by 8 points at least 10 into the second half.
He let us off the hook thanks, cause now it's time to concentrate on our own game and forget about the rubbish Walsh sets up.

Quote from: Maroon Manc on July 12, 2016, 08:39:07 PM
Liam McHale on Newstalk laying all the blame on Galway for the boring encounter  ::)

He must have a short memory. He was on the radio last week too saying how Roscommon have to get numbers back in defence and keep it tight until the game settles down.

Not sure how the narrative has emerged the past day or two that Galway were the only side getting lots of players back behind the ball.

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Quote from: Maroon Manc on July 12, 2016, 08:39:07 PM
Liam McHale on Newstalk laying all the blame on Galway for the boring encounter  ::)

He must have a short memory. He was on the radio last week too saying how Roscommon have to get numbers back in defence and keep it tight until the game settles down.

Not sure how the narrative has emerged the past day or two that Galway were the only side getting lots of players back behind the ball.

He sure was, spoke about important it was to double up on Comer. Apparently Galway have played like this for 2 years too, funny enough I haven't seen much evidence of it in that time frame. You only have to look at the damage AOS and the space he got on Hanley last summer for the evidence of that.

I don't recall Galway being on the receiving end of any criticism for an almost identical performance against Mayo.

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Quote from: Maroon Manc on July 12, 2016, 08:39:07 PM
Liam McHale on Newstalk laying all the blame on Galway for the boring encounter  ::)

He must have a short memory. He was on the radio last week too saying how Roscommon have to get numbers back in defence and keep it tight until the game settles down.

Not sure how the narrative has emerged the past day or two that Galway were the only side getting lots of players back behind the ball.

Ah now I don't think that narrative has emerged. The narrative that has emerged is that both teams played shockingly defensive with a galeforce wind, albeit swirling wind, at their backs. It's just that Galway executed the blanket defence with a galeforce wind at their backs better so much so that I didn't think there was a hope in hell of us getting two late points.

Quote from: Maroon Manc on July 12, 2016, 08:39:07 PM
Liam McHale on Newstalk laying all the blame on Galway for the boring encounter  ::)

Liam McHale is a mouthpiece.
Wouldn't be paying too much attention to anything he says.

Quote from: galwayman on July 12, 2016, 11:04:20 PM

Quote from: Maroon Manc on July 12, 2016, 08:39:07 PM
Liam McHale on Newstalk laying all the blame on Galway for the boring encounter  ::)

Liam McHale is a mouthpiece.
Wouldn't be paying too much attention to anything he says.

Liam's a legend! But the tends to open his mouth too wide!

Quote from: Maroon Manc on July 12, 2016, 08:39:07 PM
Liam McHale on Newstalk laying all the blame on Galway for the boring encounter  ::)

Have you watched Galway play much? It was clear back in January in the FBD that Walah intended to set up to play elbows and blankets almost exclusively - it's been a theme of Galway's play under him and something that clearly is a basic tenant of his tactics. Many of the same Galway players were ripped open by us in the FBD final last year leading to four goals and that would have meant he was extra keen to shut up shop.

We on the other hand have spent the year playing some of the most positive football in the whole country so it's hard to really see how you could disagree with the suggestion Sunday's spectacle was driven by Galway and not us. Pissing rain, mad wind, only Galway would have benefited from us playing open football on Sunday. Our problem was paying too much respect to a Galway side who has done nothing to deserve that respect and sitting too many men back to defend their attacks. The mistake is unlikely to be repeated.

Very easy to roll your eyes but Galway haven't a leg to stand on when it comes to negative tactics. It's a pity a team filled with AI winners at U21 and club feel so inferior they set up to play football like a bad D3 team.

McHale is a fine coach and was instrumental for Brigids' AI win with McStay. Very happy to have him involved.

Speaking about mouths.

Quote from: GalwayBayBoy on July 12, 2016, 11:31:06 PM
Speaking about mouths.

I genuinely cannot see how any Galway supporter could say with a straight face that Walsh plays blanket football. He's been chopping and changing his keeper for two years as well as his FB line, and that's only made him more conservative. There is not a more defensive team than Galway right now in the top two divisions IMHO.

Quote from: Syferus on July 12, 2016, 11:49:15 PMThere is not a more defensive team than Galway right now in the top two divisions IMHO.

I for one am delighted to see us being more defensive, for far too long it's been a case of moral victories, (Kerry in 2008) one point defeats to the likes of Antrim and Westmeath, listening to old lads lamenting and saying being defensive is not the Galway way, we have the forwards to beat anyone etc etc. That's a load of crap, football has moved on, it's a results game by any means and way now, if that means we play with 14 behind the ball but win a few games doing it then so be it. Roll on Sunday.

Quote from: GalwayBayBoy on July 12, 2016, 11:31:06 PM
Speaking about mouths.

Haha brilliant!

Syferus you are so full of shit and so one eyed it is beyond belief.

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Quote from: Syferus on July 12, 2016, 11:49:15 PMThere is not a more defensive team than Galway right now in the top two divisions IMHO.

I for one am delighted to see us being more defensive, for far too long it's been a case of moral victories, (Kerry in 2008) one point defeats to the likes of Antrim and Westmeath, listening to old lads lamenting and saying being defensive is not the Galway way, we have the forwards to beat anyone etc etc. That's a load of crap, football has moved on, it's a results game by any means and way now, if that means we play with 14 behind the ball but win a few games doing it then so be it. Roll on Sunday.

Lose on Sunday and you've won two league games, beaten a shot Mayo side that took ye for granted and are likely be be done for the year after the next weekend. Walsh's job will come under serious scrutiny then too. So a lot is riding on the CF for Walsh and the idea this form of football is actually gonig to get a worthwhile result. It might be best for both Roscommon and Galway in the longer run if positive football is what carries the day. Under Walsh I don't think Galway have any intention of offering positive football.

Most of these players played against each other in some of the most exciting football matches I've ever seen in any grade yet here they are with playing woeful football. Players without agency are just robots kicking a bit of cow skin around a field. No young kid picks up a football dreaming of playing the type of football that has become Galway's and a lot of Ulster's / lower division teams' brand. It's a sad state of affairs that this form of football hasn't been rooted out of senior yet.

Galway are very defensive, granted, but I thought Roscommon were just as conservative in their own way. Conceding kick-outs when you've a hurricane behind you is about as negative as it gets. Scared football.

Quote from: Syferus on July 13, 2016, 01:56:02 AM

Quote from: Duine Eile on July 13, 2016, 12:12:46 AM

Quote from: Syferus on July 12, 2016, 11:49:15 PMThere is not a more defensive team than Galway right now in the top two divisions IMHO.

I for one am delighted to see us being more defensive, for far too long it's been a case of moral victories, (Kerry in 2008) one point defeats to the likes of Antrim and Westmeath, listening to old lads lamenting and saying being defensive is not the Galway way, we have the forwards to beat anyone etc etc. That's a load of crap, football has moved on, it's a results game by any means and way now, if that means we play with 14 behind the ball but win a few games doing it then so be it. Roll on Sunday.

Lose on Sunday and you've won two league games, beaten a shot Mayo side that took ye for granted and are likely be be done for the year after the next weekend. Walsh's job will come under serious scrutiny then too. So a lot is riding on the CF for Walsh and the idea this form of football is actually gonig to get a worthwhile result. It might be best for both Roscommon and Galway in the longer run if positive football is what carries the day. Under Walsh I don't think Galway have any intention of offering positive football.

Most of these players played against each other in some of the most exciting football matches I've ever seen in any grade yet here they are with playing woeful football. Players without agency are just robots kicking a bit of cow skin around a field. No young kid picks up a football dreaming of playing the type of football that has become Galway's and a lot of Ulster's / lower division teams' brand. It's a sad state of affairs that this form of football hasn't been rooted out of senior yet.

If it's dry the next day those forwards will run at the Rossies. And the crowd can sense when Galway football is rolling. They know it when they see it. KW learnt a lot with Sligo. The team is turning into something decent. Like a dog lying in a corner
They will bite you and never warn you
Look out
They'll tear your insides out

Quote from: galwayman on July 13, 2016, 12:32:03 AM
Syferus you are so full of shit and so one eyed it is beyond belief.

It must be hard being Rossfan. syf drives him up the wall.

Typical Syf would be "Galway and Mayo are clearing the road for Roscommon to take over." 'or " McFOD are far superior to any tacticians in Mayo" It is a pity Ros don't have the players to go with the verbiage.

Quote from: galwayman on July 13, 2016, 12:32:03 AM
Syferus you are so full of shit and so one eyed it is beyond belief.

Unfortunately this forum lacks the "ignore" function that is common elsewhere to filter out posters whose musings you feel (subjectively of course) are of no value.

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Quote from: Syferus on July 12, 2016, 11:49:15 PM
There is not a more defensive team than Galway right now in the top two divisions IMHO.

I for one am delighted to see us being more defensive, for far too long it's been a case of moral victories, (Kerry in 2008) one point defeats to the likes of Antrim and Westmeath, listening to old lads lamenting and saying being defensive is not the Galway way, we have the forwards to beat anyone etc etc. That's a load of crap, football has moved on, it's a results game by any means and way now, if that means we play with 14 behind the ball but win a few games doing it then so be it. Roll on Sunday.

Lose on Sunday and you've won two league games, beaten a shot Mayo side that took ye for granted and are likely be be done for the year after the next weekend. Walsh's job will come under serious scrutiny then too. So a lot is riding on the CF for Walsh and the idea this form of football is actually gonig to get a worthwhile result. It might be best for both Roscommon and Galway in the longer run if positive football is what carries the day. Under Walsh I don't think Galway have any intention of offering positive football.

Most of these players played against each other in some of the most exciting football matches I've ever seen in any grade yet here they are with playing woeful football. Players without agency are just robots kicking a bit of cow skin around a field. No young kid picks up a football dreaming of playing the type of football that has become Galway's and a lot of Ulster's / lower division teams' brand. It's a sad state of affairs that this form of football hasn't been rooted out of senior yet.

If it's dry the next day those forwards will run at the Rossies. And the crowd can sense when Galway football is rolling. They know it when they see it. KW learnt a lot with Sligo. The team is turning into something decent. Like a dog lying in a corner
They will bite you and never warn you
Look out
They'll tear your insides out

I hope to god that dog comes out to play all I seen Sunday was a dog so afraid  he wasn't allowed off the leash in case he would run off and not come back.

Ros need to improve a lot. The question is whether or not they can.

Stop throwing the dog a bone fella's and he'll eventually not come back.

Quote from: Ohtoohtobe on July 13, 2016, 03:51:58 AM
Galway are very defensive, granted, but I thought Roscommon were just as conservative in their own way. Conceding kick-outs when you've a hurricane behind you is about as negative as it gets. Scared football.

Correct, even more so given the stat on the hand passes as they had nearly twice as many as Galway.

The reason Galway conceded kickouts with the wind in the 2nd half was they were in control and always looked like winning the game so Kevin Walsh had no reason to change the tactics.

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Quote from: galwayman on July 13, 2016, 12:32:03 AM
Syferus you are so full of shit and so one eyed it is beyond belief.

Unfortunately this forum lacks the "ignore" function that is common elsewhere to filter out posters whose musings you feel (subjectively of course) are of no value.

There is an ignore function if you want to use it.

Well said Darragh, spot on.

Darragh Ó Sé: Fear doing football more harm than defensive systems ever will

Connacht final was boring because players were afraid to try anything outside the script

Irish Times article  (http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/darragh-%C3%B3-s%C3%A9-fear-doing-football-more-harm-than-defensive-systems-ever-will-1.2719455)

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Quote from: galwayman on July 13, 2016, 12:32:03 AM
Syferus you are so full of shit and so one eyed it is beyond belief.

Unfortunately this forum lacks the "ignore" function that is common elsewhere to filter out posters whose musings you feel (subjectively of course) are of no value.

There is an ignore function if you want to use it.

It's not surprising that saying something as factual and well known as Galway setting up very defensively has been a theme and their brand under Walsh would illicit the above hand wringing personal stuff here.

Quote from: seafoid on July 13, 2016, 08:13:40 AM
Ros need to improve a lot. The question is whether or not they can.

If we improve at all we will beat Galway we played shite and drew. From what I witnesses Sunday lots more room for improvement in Roscommon, Cant say same about Galway. Drier pitch and conditions will suit us more than Galway

Quote from: Fear ón Srath Bán on July 13, 2016, 09:50:08 AM
Well said Darragh, spot on.

Darragh Ó Sé: Fear doing football more harm than defensive systems ever will

Connacht final was boring because players were afraid to try anything outside the script

Irish Times article  (http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/darragh-%C3%B3-s%C3%A9-fear-doing-football-more-harm-than-defensive-systems-ever-will-1.2719455)

why do they spell it Darragh? Isn't he a Gaelgeoir?

Quote from: Maroon Manc on July 13, 2016, 09:02:11 AM
Stop throwing the dog a bone fella's and he'll eventually not come back.

He is more attracted to table legs

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Quote from: galwayman on July 13, 2016, 12:32:03 AM
Syferus you are so full of shit and so one eyed it is beyond belief.

Unfortunately this forum lacks the "ignore" function that is common elsewhere to filter out posters whose musings you feel (subjectively of course) are of no value.

There is an ignore function if you want to use it.

It's not surprising that saying something as factual and well known as Galway setting up very defensively has been a theme and their brand under Walsh would illicit the above hand wringing personal stuff here.

False. You're just being called out once more for spouting bullshite and you carry on regardless.

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Quote from: galwayman on July 13, 2016, 12:32:03 AM
Syferus you are so full of shit and so one eyed it is beyond belief.

Unfortunately this forum lacks the "ignore" function that is common elsewhere to filter out posters whose musings you feel (subjectively of course) are of no value.

There is an ignore function if you want to use it.

It's not surprising that saying something as factual and well known as Galway setting up very defensively has been a theme and their brand under Walsh would illicit the above hand wringing personal stuff here.

False. You're just being called out once more for spouting bullshite and you carry on regardless.

You can "call me out" as much as you want but it doesn't change the basic fact that Galway are a team who set out to play very defensive, conservative football. No one could accuse us of the same this year so it's only right that Galway get most of the stick for what we saw on Sunday. If Galway wanted to play a game of football we'd be happy to oblige..

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Syferus you are so full of shit and so one eyed it is beyond belief.

Unfortunately this forum lacks the "ignore" function that is common elsewhere to filter out posters whose musings you feel (subjectively of course) are of no value.

There is an ignore function if you want to use it.

It's not surprising that saying something as factual and well known as Galway setting up very defensively has been a theme and their brand under Walsh would illicit the above hand wringing personal stuff here.

False. You're just being called out once more for spouting bullshite and you carry on regardless.

You can "call me out" las much as you want but it doesn't change the basic fact that Galway are a team who set out to play very defensive, conservative football. No one could accuse us of the same this year so it's only right that Galway get most of the stick for what we saw on Sunday. If Galway wanted to play a game of football we'd be happy to oblige..

This is the Roscommon team that played with the whole panel behind the ball while having the strong wind in the first half?

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Syferus you are so full of shit and so one eyed it is beyond belief.

Unfortunately this forum lacks the "ignore" function that is common elsewhere to filter out posters whose musings you feel (subjectively of course) are of no value.

There is an ignore function if you want to use it.

It's not surprising that saying something as factual and well known as Galway setting up very defensively has been a theme and their brand under Walsh would illicit the above hand wringing personal stuff here.

False. You're just being called out once more for spouting bullshite and you carry on regardless.

You can "call me out" las much as you want but it doesn't change the basic fact that Galway are a team who set out to play very defensive, conservative football. No one could accuse us of the same this year so it's only right that Galway get most of the stick for what we saw on Sunday. If Galway wanted to play a game of football we'd be happy to oblige..

This is the Roscommon team that played with the whole panel behind the ball while having the strong wind in the first half?

The Roscommon team that was the highest scorers in the league and one of the highest conceders too. Neither being hallmarks of a team trying to play defensive football.

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Quote from: galwayman on July 13, 2016, 12:32:03 AM
Syferus you are so full of shit and so one eyed it is beyond belief.

Unfortunately this forum lacks the "ignore" function that is common elsewhere to filter out posters whose musings you feel (subjectively of course) are of no value.

There is an ignore function if you want to use it.

It's not surprising that saying something as factual and well known as Galway setting up very defensively has been a theme and their brand under Walsh would illicit the above hand wringing personal stuff here.

False. You're just being called out once more for spouting bullshite and you carry on regardless.

You can "call me out" las much as you want but it doesn't change the basic fact that Galway are a team who set out to play very defensive, conservative football. No one could accuse us of the same this year so it's only right that Galway get most of the stick for what we saw on Sunday. If Galway wanted to play a game of football we'd be happy to oblige..

This is the Roscommon team that played with the whole panel behind the ball while having the strong wind in the first half?

The Roscommon team that was the highest scorers in the league and one of the highest conceders too. Neither being hallmarks of a team trying to play defensive football.

Salthill Sunday you guys were a joke. Defensive extreme playing games with wind.

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Quote from: galwayman on July 13, 2016, 12:32:03 AM
Syferus you are so full of shit and so one eyed it is beyond belief.

Unfortunately this forum lacks the "ignore" function that is common elsewhere to filter out posters whose musings you feel (subjectively of course) are of no value.

There is an ignore function if you want to use it.

Many thanks Far, should have dug a bit deeper to find it before, will put it to good use now.

Quote from: An Fhairche Abu on July 13, 2016, 07:42:50 AM

Quote from: galwayman on July 13, 2016, 12:32:03 AM
Syferus you are so full of shit and so one eyed it is beyond belief.

Unfortunately this forum lacks the "ignore" function that is common elsewhere to filter out posters whose musings you feel (subjectively of course) are of no value.

This board has an ''Ignore' function.
Click on 'Profile' near the top of the page.
Select 'Account Settings'.
Then choose 'Modify Profile'.
There, click on 'Buddies/Ignore List'.
Stick in the screen name of whoever you want to ignore.

Quote from: An Fhairche Abu on July 13, 2016, 10:45:51 AM

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Quote from: galwayman on July 13, 2016, 12:32:03 AM
Syferus you are so full of shit and so one eyed it is beyond belief.

Unfortunately this forum lacks the "ignore" function that is common elsewhere to filter out posters whose musings you feel (subjectively of course) are of no value.

There is an ignore function if you want to use it.

Many thanks Far, should have dug a bit deeper to find it before, will put it to good use now.

The only thing is...if anybody quotes whoever you want to ignore, it will be shown in the quote.

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Quote from: galwayman on July 13, 2016, 12:32:03 AM
Syferus you are so full of shit and so one eyed it is beyond belief.

Unfortunately this forum lacks the "ignore" function that is common elsewhere to filter out posters whose musings you feel (subjectively of course) are of no value.

There is an ignore function if you want to use it.

It's not surprising that saying something as factual and well known as Galway setting up very defensively has been a theme and their brand under Walsh would illicit the above hand wringing personal stuff here.

False. You're just being called out once more for spouting bullshite and you carry on regardless.

You can "call me out" las much as you want but it doesn't change the basic fact that Galway are a team who set out to play very defensive, conservative football. No one could accuse us of the same this year so it's only right that Galway get most of the stick for what we saw on Sunday. If Galway wanted to play a game of football we'd be happy to oblige..

This is the Roscommon team that played with the whole panel behind the ball while having the strong wind in the first half?

The Roscommon team that was the highest scorers in the league and one of the highest conceders too. Neither being hallmarks of a team trying to play defensive football.

Salthill Sunday you guys were a joke. Defensive extreme playing games with wind.

Yes we were very defensive with the wind in fist half but if you actually watched game, We always keep at least 3 guys inside galway half in first half same cant be said for Galway when wind was even stronger in second half. A lot of second half particularly last 15 mins the only players in Roscommon half were goalie and one defender. Not often I agree with sfy but on this he is correct

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Quote from: galwayman on July 13, 2016, 12:32:03 AM
Syferus you are so full of shit and so one eyed it is beyond belief.

Unfortunately this forum lacks the "ignore" function that is common elsewhere to filter out posters whose musings you feel (subjectively of course) are of no value.

There is an ignore function if you want to use it.

Many thanks Far, should have dug a bit deeper to find it before, will put it to good use now.

The only thing is...if anybody quotes whoever you want to ignore, it will be shown in the quote.

Perestroika wesht of Ireland style.

https://dontfoul.wordpress.com/

Very good analysis although I don't know if his right in that been extent of Galways ability.
I think there a 16 point side.
Can we outscore that
Yes but we must get a 4 or 5 point lead and get them to abandon the maroon wall or we will struggle again

Quote from: oliverkelly on July 13, 2016, 11:26:33 AM


Yes we were very defensive with the wind in fist half but if you actually watched game, We always keep at least 3 guys inside galway half in first half same cant be said for Galway when wind was even stronger in second half. A lot of second half particularly last 15 mins the only players in Roscommon half were goalie and one defender. Not often I agree with sfy but on this he is correct

It's an eternal verity of the GAA universe that if two teams play a dour game of football, the team with the less aristocratic tradition ships the blame.

Galway people more than happy to admit they play defensive football that isn't great to watch but several of the lads from Roscommon are having great difficulty in coming to terms with their dour performance on Sunday and blaming it on Galway. You couldn't make it up.

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Yes we were very defensive with the wind in fist half but if you actually watched game, We always keep at least 3 guys inside galway half in first half same cant be said for Galway when wind was even stronger in second half. A lot of second half particularly last 15 mins the only players in Roscommon half were goalie and one defender. Not often I agree with sfy but on this he is correct

It's an eternal verity of the GAA universe that if two teams play a dour game of football, the team with the less aristocratic tradition ships the blame.

Yeah, either that or the team that had 748 handpasses.

Quote from: Maroon Manc on July 13, 2016, 11:48:16 AM
Galway people more than happy to admit they play defensive football that isn't great to watch but several of the lads from Roscommon are having great difficulty in coming to terms with their dour performance on Sunday and blaming it on Galway. You couldn't make it up.

It was a poor game because of (a) conditions (b) both teams played defensive with the wind (c) fear of losing took hold. Its a big deal for either team to win a Connacht championship, hopefully Ros will get back to the offensive approach that won 4 games on the trot back in the spring. Galway were about 4 points the better team the last day, fair play to our lads for kicking 2 late points. Game is hard to call the next day, hopefully our lads abandon the blanket, Galway under Walsh won't.

Quote from: Maroon Manc on July 13, 2016, 11:48:16 AM
Galway people more than happy to admit they play defensive football that isn't great to watch but several of the lads from Roscommon are having great difficulty in coming to terms with their dour performance on Sunday and blaming it on Galway. You couldn't make it up.

Defensive control but also the traditional Galway scoring threat. It is 50% puke 50% flúirseach. The forwards are great when they smell blood . I think it was Keith Duggan who wrote about swagger and authority. Smacht.

If only Mayo could find it.

You should always play to your strengths.
Ros people are naturally offensive.

Quote from: Jinxy on July 13, 2016, 12:36:50 PM
You should always play to your strengths.
Ros people are naturally offensive.

Ros Mayo and Cavan won 10 all Irelands during a period of deflation between the 30s and 50s. Deflation is back. It is very offensive . Never mind the flashy Ros jerseys.

But Syferus is not a Rossie rep even if he does generate most of the content

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Quote from: Maroon Manc on July 13, 2016, 11:48:16 AM
Galway people more than happy to admit they play defensive football that isn't great to watch but several of the lads from Roscommon are having great difficulty in coming to terms with their dour performance on Sunday and blaming it on Galway. You couldn't make it up.

Defensive control but also the traditional Galway scoring threat. It is 50% puke 50% flúirseach. The forwards are great when they smell blood . I think it was Keith Duggan who wrote about swagger and authority. Smacht.

If only Mayo could find it.

Galway Smacht = Italian Catenaccio

* Possibly first brought to Galway by Christopher Columbus in 1477

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Quote from: Maroon Manc on July 13, 2016, 11:48:16 AM
Galway people more than happy to admit they play defensive football that isn't great to watch but several of the lads from Roscommon are having great difficulty in coming to terms with their dour performance on Sunday and blaming it on Galway. You couldn't make it up.

It was a poor game because of (a) conditions (b) both teams played defensive with the wind (c) fear of losing took hold. Its a big deal for either team to win a Connacht championship, hopefully Ros will get back to the offensive approach that won 4 games on the trot back in the spring. Galway were about 4 points the better team the last day, fair play to our lads for kicking 2 late points. Game is hard to call the next day, hopefully our lads abandon the blanket, Galway under Walsh won't.

I agree with all of that, not sure I see Roscommon reverting to the way they played during the league but time will tell on that.

Quote from: Jinxy on July 13, 2016, 12:36:50 PM
You should always play to your strengths.
Ros people are naturally offensive.

They are indeed. Didn't Tom Kennedy say the same thing! ;D

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Liam McHale on Newstalk laying all the blame on Galway for the boring encounter  ::)

Have you watched Galway play much? It was clear back in January in the FBD that Walah intended to set up to play elbows and blankets almost exclusively - it's been a theme of Galway's play under him and something that clearly is a basic tenant of his tactics. Many of the same Galway players were ripped open by us in the FBD final last year leading to four goals and that would have meant he was extra keen to shut up shop.

We on the other hand have spent the year playing some of the most positive football in the whole country so it's hard to really see how you could disagree with the suggestion Sunday's spectacle was driven by Galway and not us. Pissing rain, mad wind, only Galway would have benefited from us playing open football on Sunday. Our problem was paying too much respect to a Galway side who has done nothing to deserve that respect and sitting too many men back to defend their attacks. The mistake is unlikely to be repeated.

Very easy to roll your eyes but Galway haven't a leg to stand on when it comes to negative tactics. It's a pity a team filled with AI winners at U21 and club feel so inferior they set up to play football like a bad D3 team.

McHale is a fine coach and was instrumental for Brigids' AI win with McStay. Very happy to have him involved.

Since you bring that point up and are so eager to paint Galway as the most defensive team in the country - may I pose your own question to you?
Have YOU watched Galway much this year? Did you attend ANY of our league games? I would be fairly confident you did not.
I personally attended most of our league games.
Galway did not actually play that defensively throughout the league at all. I was there and they simply did not.

You go on as if Roscommon played swashbuckling attacking football on Sunday.
You keep referring to the league while continually referencing how defensive Galway are/have been all year.
As I have stated above this is simple untrue. Don't be making sweeping statements about which you know nothing.
You weren't there so how could you have any idea.
I cannot talk about Roscommon's supposed attacking style throughout the league. I wasn't there so how could I know other than relying on hearsay.

Nobody is disputing the fact that Galway setup defensively on Sunday (I certainly am not). But please drop that bullshit you are espousing about us being the most defensive team since time immemorial.
While Roscommon are painted as some form of football purists.

Every thread on this board you seem to revel in getting digs in at both ourselves and Mayo. I don't see other posters doing likewise.

Chip on the shoulder?

Replay is live on RTE website and on gaago for those living overseas like me.

Excellent column by Dara O'Se which relates largely to last Sundays Connacht final and the current game in general.

http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/darragh-%C3%B3-s%C3%A9-fear-doing-football-more-harm-than-defensive-systems-ever-will-1.2719455

Match is being shown live on the Rte player

http://www.rte.ie/sport/gaa/2016/0713/802099-connacht-final-replay-roscommon-galway-rte/

Darragh OShea article hits the nail on the head, it says it all, I said in an earlier post that Ros should play their own game in the replay and not be shackled by fear of how Galway will play.
At least 4 personal changes next Sunday and give the ball fast and long, keep a full forward line in position at all times, if they stay in then Galway backs will have to stay back to cover them, it will open up the game and if the ngame opens up I have every confidence Ros can win.

The only place Galway people seem to be attacking is in this thread.

Quote from: Syferus on July 14, 2016, 01:58:56 AM
The only place Galway people seem to be attacking is in this thread.

You are so cute, Syf.

Agree with Ballagh - 3 in the FF line, 2 who can win the ball and a lively score getter.
Galway will probably put 4 marking them and will have only ten available for their blanket making it a bit threadbare.
We also need fast ball out of defence a la Div 1 not the oul D3 crap we were at Sunday.

Quote from: Rossfan on July 14, 2016, 09:19:50 AM
Agree with Ballagh - 3 in the FF line, 2 who can win the ball and a lively score getter.
Galway will probably put 4 marking them and will have only ten available for their blanket making it a bit threadbare.
We also need fast ball out of defence a la Div 1 not the oul D3 crap we were at Sunday.

Ros need someone singing I believe Ican fly and the 2001 video of Ja saying there was no way we were going to lose to Roscommon twice. The players need the sense of destiny and victimhood that Syf has but it would have to be turned into football rather than nonsense.

It took a goalie mistake for Galway to beat Roscommon in 1998 in extra time and I feel they are so well matched that it will take something similar this weekend and it could go to extra time

Rossies seem very confident going by the comments in both here and their own stolensheep board. 

A lot of hopeless optimists on internet forums(a??) ;D
I think most realistic people are saying if we learn some lessons, a better team selection and game plan we can win it.

Quote from: Rossfan on July 14, 2016, 11:00:06 AM
A lot of hopeless optimists on internet forums(a??) ;D
I think most realistic people are saying if we learn some lessons, a better team selection and game plan we can win it.

Kevin Walsh is oversold. He is the best manager we have had in a good while

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Quote from: Rossfan on July 14, 2016, 11:00:06 AM
A lot of hopeless optimists on internet forums(a??) ;D
I think most realistic people are saying if we learn some lessons, a better team selection and game plan we can win it.

Kevin Walsh is oversold. He is the best manager we have had in a good while

No better than Mullholand.

Quote from: Rossfan on July 14, 2016, 11:00:06 AM
A lot of hopeless optimists on internet forums(a??) ;D
I think most realistic people are saying if we learn some lessons, a better team selection and game plan we can win it.

Im not saying ye cant win it but what i dont get is this bravado of the best forwards in the land attitude when cummins and comer were the stand out forwards on dispaly the last day and indeed v mayo.  If walsh kicks into gear i just dont believe ye have the defenders to cop with three of them on fire.

Time will tell but as we get closer im starting to think i might slip galway into my little accum for the weekend.

There is not a chance that the Ros won't play a sweeper with Comer in at ff, its very clear that your management is terrified of him.

I'd be feeling confident if there was another weeks rest between the game as the Ros do have a stronger bench. It will be interesting to see how the Ros play and if the media backlash has got to their management.

Row won't play a sweeper they don't have to Galway play only a 2 man inside line, if we played the orthodox 6 forwards which will be the case ye may even drop more back which I can't see possible but I wouldn't be surprised after Sunday to see comer dropped to backs to help out
Last time I seen so many in defence was first half against Cavan 2 years ago and we kicked them off the field in end
A) cause it was a dry day and we scored with ease from range.
B) cause Cavan hadn't a clue how to play when we were ahead by 4 plus points when they eventually decided to have a go we hit them with ease on the break
I'm expecting something similar Sunday.

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Quote from: Rossfan on July 14, 2016, 11:00:06 AM
A lot of hopeless optimists on internet forums(a??) ;D
I think most realistic people are saying if we learn some lessons, a better team selection and game plan we can win it.

Im not saying ye cant win it but what i dont get is this bravado of the best forwards in the land attitude when cummins and comer were the stand out forwards on dispaly the last day and indeed v mayo.  If walsh kicks into gear i just dont believe ye have the defenders to cop with three of them on fire.

Time will tell but as we get closer im starting to think i might slip galway into my little accum for the weekend.

I agree Cummins was stand out forward last weekend but was hardly a day for forwards to shine when both team were so slow going forward and got held up on 45 allowing no space inside. Also Comer was extremely disappointing last weekend done nothing he will hardly be as bad again. so don't know how you claim he was a stand out

Quote from: barking mad on July 14, 2016, 12:38:17 PM
Row won't play a sweeper they don't have to Galway play only a 2 man inside line, if we played the orthodox 6 forwards which will be the case ye may even drop more back which I can't see possible but I wouldn't be surprised after Sunday to see comer dropped to backs to help out
Last time I seen so many in defence was first half against Cavan 2 years ago and we kicked them off the field in end
A) cause it was a dry day and we scored with ease from range.
B) cause Cavan hadn't a clue how to play when we were ahead by 4 plus points when they eventually decided to have a go we hit them with ease on the break
I'm expecting something similar Sunday.

It was pissing rain that day in Cavan two years ago.

There was no wind of great consequence and I thought it pissed before it fairly dry during.I'm on about the hammering syf when they only get 6 or 7 points, not last year's score fest that Harney got planted in.

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Quote from: Rossfan on July 14, 2016, 11:00:06 AM
A lot of hopeless optimists on internet forums(a??) ;D
I think most realistic people are saying if we learn some lessons, a better team selection and game plan we can win it.

Kevin Walsh is oversold. He is the best manager we have had in a good while

No better than Mullholand.

You have been dissing him since he was appointed, Syf, while blowing up Ros . You would do very well in equity sales or wonderbra design. 
I note it wasn't the Rossies who broke the Mayo monopoly.
Mulholland brought the team as far as he could from the nadir. But Walsh is a better tactician.
and I'm sure he is working on something to blow the flowers out of the water.   

If galway lose

Mayo win it's galway v cork/ longford

Kildare win it's galway v cork/longford or kildare

if roscommon lose

Sligo win it's Ross v cavan/derry.

Clare win it's Ross v cavan/derry or clare

I'd imagine to GAA want Ros,Cavan and Sligo to join Tipp in Round 4A to get a decent crowd at a Croker double header.
If it's Galway, Derry and Clare they could have a double header in Kiltoom ( with Syfín as Ref  ;D).
Hope the Ref on Sunday hasn't been nobbled  :o

Galway have better forwards

"Then came Varley's dashing, thumped point on the run. It was a score that was vintage Galway in its flamboyance and authority. Had Galway closed the match out, their 45th title would have been written down as an assured performance by a young team growing in stature and street smarts. "

A week late is grand.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ACMDW42eOI

Quote from: cornetto on July 14, 2016, 08:03:24 PM
If galway lose

Mayo win it's galway v cork/ longford

Kildare win it's galway v cork/longford or kildare

if roscommon lose

Sligo win it's Ross v cavan/derry.

Clare win it's Ross v cavan/derry or clare

Wrong. Connacht final loser takes on one of A winners. Mayo,Cork,Kildare and Longford are on B side of the draw.

6 day turn around for the Connacht final loser and as Monaghan found out a likely early exit from this years championship.

Roscommon have better forwards probably 10 good forwards on ros panel
7 to 8 would walk on Galway panel and 4 probably start
I'll let ye have Walsh and comer
And if between the 2 teams if they could muster a midfield ild have Flynn no 10 so 3 from each county

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Quote from: cornetto on July 14, 2016, 08:03:24 PM
If galway lose

Mayo win it's galway v cork/ longford

Kildare win it's galway v cork/longford or kildare

if roscommon lose

Sligo win it's Ross v cavan/derry.

Clare win it's Ross v cavan/derry or clare

Wrong. Connacht final loser takes on one of A winners. Mayo,Cork,Kildare and Longford are on B side of the draw.

6 day turn around for the Connacht final loser and as Monaghan found out a likely early exit from this years championship.

Pretty sure thats wrong too. Uls and leinster losers are into b

The time to judge some of these Roscommon forwards is after the championship, I really don't know how anyone can say Roscommon have one of the best forward lines in the country as hitting some big scores early on in the league doesn't count.

I've seen no evidence this year or in the last few years to suggest Roscommon have a better forward line than Galway; Now a few months down the line I'll certainly give Roscommon more credit should they take off in the next few games.

Quote from: larryin89 on July 14, 2016, 09:43:44 PM

Quote from: Cunny Funt on July 14, 2016, 08:24:45 PM

Quote from: cornetto on July 14, 2016, 08:03:24 PM
If galway lose

Mayo win it's galway v cork/ longford

Kildare win it's galway v cork/longford or kildare

if roscommon lose

Sligo win it's Ross v cavan/derry.

Clare win it's Ross v cavan/derry or clare

Wrong. Connacht final loser takes on one of A winners. Mayo,Cork,Kildare and Longford are on B side of the draw.

6 day turn around for the Connacht final loser and as Monaghan found out a likely early exit from this years championship.

Pretty sure thats wrong too. Uls and leinster losers are into b

What's also wrong?

Leinster Ulster final losers take on the B winners in round 4. Connacht Munster losers take on the two A winners.

Quote from: Maroon Manc on July 14, 2016, 10:02:10 PM
The time to judge some of these Roscommon forwards is after the championship, I really don't know how anyone can say Roscommon have one of the best forward lines in the country as hitting some big scores early on in the league doesn't count.

I've seen no evidence this year or in the last few years to suggest Roscommon have a better forward line than Galway; Now a few months down the line I'll certainly give Roscommon more credit should they take off in the next few games.

they were on fire against NY

Quote from: Maroon Manc on July 14, 2016, 10:02:10 PM
The time to judge some of these Roscommon forwards is after the championship, I really don't know how anyone can say Roscommon have one of the best forward lines in the country as hitting some big scores early on in the league doesn't count.

I've seen no evidence this year or in the last few years to suggest Roscommon have a better forward line than Galway; Now a few months down the line I'll certainly give Roscommon more credit should they take off in the next few games.

When the Galway forward line regularly consists of a single player it's fair enough to say we've the better forward line..

Roscommon forwards generally let play their positions with obvious concessions to the modern game.  Galway's simply are not. It's a pity as these players have played against each other in some of the most memorable matches I've ever witnessed. Roscommon at least trying to be positive but Galway have zero intentions of being expansive and will ride the blanket boat until it's evitable sinking. How times how changed when it's Galway of all counties that's afraid to play football.

We'll see if Galway are in a hole at some point on Sunday and have to pour forward if that fear is well founded or not.

Quote from: Syferus on July 14, 2016, 10:51:08 PM

Quote from: Maroon Manc on July 14, 2016, 10:02:10 PM
The time to judge some of these Roscommon forwards is after the championship, I really don't know how anyone can say Roscommon have one of the best forward lines in the country as hitting some big scores early on in the league doesn't count.

I've seen no evidence this year or in the last few years to suggest Roscommon have a better forward line than Galway; Now a few months down the line I'll certainly give Roscommon more credit should they take off in the next few games.

When the Galway forward line regularly consists of a single player it's fair enough to say we've the better forward line..

Yeah but it doesn't though so it's a moot point.

I agree with someone above though that lauding a forward line for putting up good scores against half interested sides in the early rounds of the league is not a valid basis to crown them as world beaters. I don't think our own lads are world beaters either by the way but they can score given the opportunity.

I do think Roscommon have more options off the bench though. This is where the 4 or 5 lads that would be on the Galway panel that are currently in the US are going to be missed from a Galway perspective. Whether it be this weekend or the next.

Stop blathering Syfín or are you so excited your hero uimhir a dó is named FF Sunday.
He did a lot last Sunday when he came on!!!
Anyway it's unlikely the announced team will start but for what it's worth -
Darren, little Davy Mullooly McI, Seànie McManus Percy, Daly Compton, Fintan Dev  Keenan, Cregger SK. Ciaràin.
More interesting is Higgins named in the 26.
Hope Donie Smith isn't left too long on the bench.
All to play for......

Quote from: GalwayBayBoy on July 14, 2016, 11:26:54 PM

Quote from: Syferus on July 14, 2016, 10:51:08 PM

Quote from: Maroon Manc on July 14, 2016, 10:02:10 PM
The time to judge some of these Roscommon forwards is after the championship, I really don't know how anyone can say Roscommon have one of the best forward lines in the country as hitting some big scores early on in the league doesn't count.

I've seen no evidence this year or in the last few years to suggest Roscommon have a better forward line than Galway; Now a few months down the line I'll certainly give Roscommon more credit should they take off in the next few games.

When the Galway forward line regularly consists of a single player it's fair enough to say we've the better forward line..

Yeah but it doesn't though so it's a moot point.

I agree with someone above though that lauding a forward line for putting up good scores against half interested sides in the early rounds of the league is not a valid basis to crown them as world beaters. I don't think our own lads are world beaters either by the way but they can score given the opportunity.

I do think Roscommon have more options off the bench though. This is where the 4 or 5 lads that would be on the Galway panel that are currently in the US are going to be missed from a Galway perspective. Whether it be this weekend or the next.

Walsh is not putting them in a position to score and never will he ever unless he's chasing a game and is desperate.

Quote from: Syferus on July 14, 2016, 11:31:55 PM

Quote from: GalwayBayBoy on July 14, 2016, 11:26:54 PM

Quote from: Syferus on July 14, 2016, 10:51:08 PM

Quote from: Maroon Manc on July 14, 2016, 10:02:10 PM
The time to judge some of these Roscommon forwards is after the championship, I really don't know how anyone can say Roscommon have one of the best forward lines in the country as hitting some big scores early on in the league doesn't count.

I've seen no evidence this year or in the last few years to suggest Roscommon have a better forward line than Galway; Now a few months down the line I'll certainly give Roscommon more credit should they take off in the next few games.

When the Galway forward line regularly consists of a single player it's fair enough to say we've the better forward line..

Yeah but it doesn't though so it's a moot point.

I agree with someone above though that lauding a forward line for putting up good scores against half interested sides in the early rounds of the league is not a valid basis to crown them as world beaters. I don't think our own lads are world beaters either by the way but they can score given the opportunity.

I do think Roscommon have more options off the bench though. This is where the 4 or 5 lads that would be on the Galway panel that are currently in the US are going to be missed from a Galway perspective. Whether it be this weekend or the next.

Walsh is not putting them in a position to score and never will he ever unless he's chasing a game and is desperate.

Tempting fate Syf. It would be awful for your thesis if Galway scored 3 goals in the first 15 mins

Feckers got 2 in the first 5 mins of the FBD Final.
Mind you they only got 2 points in the last 20 or so minutes With a gale and rainstorm last Sunday.

Quote from: Rossfan on July 14, 2016, 11:45:41 PM
Feckers got 2 in the first 5 mins of the FBD Final.
Mind you they only got 2 points in the last 20 or so minutes With a gale and rainstorm last Sunday.

It might come as a shock to Seafoid but the only Sean Purcell playing on Sunday will be for Roscommon..

Kevin Walsh will probably have a few of Syf's posts up on the wall and a bit of rap playing in the dressingroom

Lookit, lads. It's like this for the Rossies

"Bitch ass have you confessin'
Like a D T left in state of depression"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gps6J9SKi6I

Nigga you know what's up
Or don't you?
Word to who made ya
I'm a rude bitch nigga
What are you made up of?
I'm a eat your food up boo
I could bust your 8
I'm a do one too
f**k you gone do?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdiggyoQhoc

I feel sorry for Rossfan

You need help lad

A few of these would do the job

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_hhc_Qs2hw

the point here starting at 7.48 is a good example of Galway at their best

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NL4pULVTXcI
I don't buy the notions that the forwards can't score or that Walsh is hopeless. This is a very good young team.
and the Mayo game was very open

Seafroid cut back on those tablets biatch

What are the Rossie bringing to this match other than handpassing?

Quote from: seafoid on July 15, 2016, 02:38:35 PM
What are the Rossie bringing to this match other than handpassing?

Division one experience?

Galway named as the European capital of culture for 2020.

Can Galway make it a double or will Roscommon be named as the Connacht capital for football in 2016.

See what I did there.

Quote from: seafoid on July 15, 2016, 02:38:35 PM
What are the Rossie bringing to this match other than handpassing?

So how many tossballs did the Capital of Culture's team do last Sunday?
1, 3 5 or.......hundreds :) ;)

Quote from: Syferus on July 13, 2016, 10:41:00 AM

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Quote from: An Fhairche Abu on July 13, 2016, 07:42:50 AM

Quote from: galwayman on July 13, 2016, 12:32:03 AM
Syferus you are so full of shit and so one eyed it is beyond belief.

Unfortunately this forum lacks the "ignore" function that is common elsewhere to filter out posters whose musings you feel (subjectively of course) are of no value.

There is an ignore function if you want to use it.

It's not surprising that saying something as factual and well known as Galway setting up very defensively has been a theme and their brand under Walsh would illicit the above hand wringing personal stuff here.

False. You're just being called out once more for spouting bullshite and you carry on regardless.

You can "call me out" las much as you want but it doesn't change the basic fact that Galway are a team who set out to play very defensive, conservative football. No one could accuse us of the same this year so it's only right that Galway get most of the stick for what we saw on Sunday. If Galway wanted to play a game of football we'd be happy to oblige..

This is the Roscommon team that played with the whole panel behind the ball while having the strong wind in the first half?

The Roscommon team that was the highest scorers in the league and one of the highest conceders too. Neither being hallmarks of a team trying to play defensive football.

It's also the Roscommon team that packed everyone back in their own half with a gale force wind behind them.

If Galway are a naturally defensive team under Walsh then that's fine. They actually looked like there was method to what they were doing and no doubt about they played the best football last Sunday.

Roscommon on the other hand look like they just went defensive for the sake of it. If they are the ones afraid to play their own game then they should take the brunt of the criticism for last week, they had twice as many handpasses as Galway. A flukey goal kept them in it at the end of the day.

All about winning and couldn't care less how the team goes about doing it given the lack of success in recent years.

If that Roscommon team starts I don't see much difference to the last day apart from going a bit more direct to Kilbride although by the time they've worked the ball from the goalie to the corner back up the pitch Kilbride will be well covered. Roscommon would need to start winning kickouts around the middle to make use of him which is going to be difficult if both teams are letting the goalies go short.

Quote from: Maroon Manc on July 15, 2016, 03:11:35 PM
All about winning and couldn't care less how the team goes about doing it given the lack of success in recent years.

If that Roscommon team starts I don't see much difference to the last day apart from going a bit more direct to Kilbride although by the time they've worked the ball from the goalie to the corner back up the pitch Kilbride will be well covered. Roscommon would need to start winning kickouts around the middle to make use of him which is going to be difficult if both teams are letting the goalies go short.

Don't forget working the ball to the wing back, then back to the full back, then over to the other corner back then out to the centre back then on to the other wing back.
#transition

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Quote from: Syferus on July 13, 2016, 10:41:00 AM

Quote from: PW Nally on July 13, 2016, 10:34:19 AM

Quote from: Syferus on July 13, 2016, 10:30:26 AM

Quote from: PW Nally on July 13, 2016, 10:27:48 AM

Quote from: Syferus on July 13, 2016, 09:55:27 AM

Quote from: Farrandeelin on July 13, 2016, 09:16:30 AM

Quote from: An Fhairche Abu on July 13, 2016, 07:42:50 AM

Quote from: galwayman on July 13, 2016, 12:32:03 AM
Syferus you are so full of shit and so one eyed it is beyond belief.

Unfortunately this forum lacks the "ignore" function that is common elsewhere to filter out posters whose musings you feel (subjectively of course) are of no value.

There is an ignore function if you want to use it.

It's not surprising that saying something as factual and well known as Galway setting up very defensively has been a theme and their brand under Walsh would illicit the above hand wringing personal stuff here.

False. You're just being called out once more for spouting bullshite and you carry on regardless.

You can "call me out" las much as you want but it doesn't change the basic fact that Galway are a team who set out to play very defensive, conservative football. No one could accuse us of the same this year so it's only right that Galway get most of the stick for what we saw on Sunday. If Galway wanted to play a game of football we'd be happy to oblige..

This is the Roscommon team that played with the whole panel behind the ball while having the strong wind in the first half?

The Roscommon team that was the highest scorers in the league and one of the highest conceders too. Neither being hallmarks of a team trying to play defensive football.

It's also the Roscommon team that packed everyone back in their own half with a gale force wind behind them.

If Galway are a naturally defensive team under Walsh then that's fine. They actually looked like there was method to what they were doing and no doubt about they played the best football last Sunday.

Roscommon on the other hand look like they just went defensive for the sake of it. If they are the ones afraid to play their own game then they should take the brunt of the criticism for last week, they had twice as many handpasses as Galway. A flukey goal kept them in it at the end of the day.

I have seen Galway play a few times the last few years and they weren't as defensive as they were Sunday. Galway due to those defensive tactics ended up scoring less with the gale than Roscommon and the last twenty minutes Galway only scored a point. You don't deserve to win with game stats like that.

Quote from: Jinxy on July 15, 2016, 03:18:52 PM

Quote from: Maroon Manc on July 15, 2016, 03:11:35 PM
All about winning and couldn't care less how the team goes about doing it given the lack of success in recent years.

If that Roscommon team starts I don't see much difference to the last day apart from going a bit more direct to Kilbride although by the time they've worked the ball from the goalie to the corner back up the pitch Kilbride will be well covered. Roscommon would need to start winning kickouts around the middle to make use of him which is going to be difficult if both teams are letting the goalies go short.

Don't forget working the ball to the wing back, then back to the full back, then over to the other corner back then out to the centre back then on to the other wing back.
#transition

How's Meaths transition going?

Quote from: manfromdelmonte on July 15, 2016, 04:50:44 PM

Quote from: Jinxy on July 15, 2016, 03:18:52 PM

Quote from: Maroon Manc on July 15, 2016, 03:11:35 PM
All about winning and couldn't care less how the team goes about doing it given the lack of success in recent years.

If that Roscommon team starts I don't see much difference to the last day apart from going a bit more direct to Kilbride although by the time they've worked the ball from the goalie to the corner back up the pitch Kilbride will be well covered. Roscommon would need to start winning kickouts around the middle to make use of him which is going to be difficult if both teams are letting the goalies go short.

Don't forget working the ball to the wing back, then back to the full back, then over to the other corner back then out to the centre back then on to the other wing back.
#transition

How's Meaths transition going?

Meath has almost finished the surgery and is living as a woman near Bettystown .

Quote from: manfromdelmonte on July 15, 2016, 04:50:44 PM

Quote from: Jinxy on July 15, 2016, 03:18:52 PM

Quote from: Maroon Manc on July 15, 2016, 03:11:35 PM
All about winning and couldn't care less how the team goes about doing it given the lack of success in recent years.

If that Roscommon team starts I don't see much difference to the last day apart from going a bit more direct to Kilbride although by the time they've worked the ball from the goalie to the corner back up the pitch Kilbride will be well covered. Roscommon would need to start winning kickouts around the middle to make use of him which is going to be difficult if both teams are letting the goalies go short.

Don't forget working the ball to the wing back, then back to the full back, then over to the other corner back then out to the centre back then on to the other wing back.
#transition

How's Meaths transition going?

From Senior to Junior I presume?!

Quote from: Syferus on July 14, 2016, 10:51:08 PM

Quote from: Maroon Manc on July 14, 2016, 10:02:10 PM
The time to judge some of these Roscommon forwards is after the championship, I really don't know how anyone can say Roscommon have one of the best forward lines in the country as hitting some big scores early on in the league doesn't count.

I've seen no evidence this year or in the last few years to suggest Roscommon have a better forward line than Galway; Now a few months down the line I'll certainly give Roscommon more credit should they take off in the next few games.

When the Galway forward line regularly consists of a single player it's fair enough to say we've the better forward line..

Roscommon forwards generally let play their positions with obvious concessions to the modern game.  Galway's simply are not. It's a pity as these players have played against each other in some of the most memorable matches I've ever witnessed. Roscommon at least trying to be positive but Galway have zero intentions of being expansive and will ride the blanket boat until it's evitable sinking. How times how changed when it's Galway of all counties that's afraid to play football.

We'll see if Galway are in a hole at some point on Sunday and have to pour forward if that fear is well founded or not.

Hah, laughable stuff. Let you be the only contrarian in the country, with the vast majority of the media reaction admonishing Ros only for their tactics. Ros turned the game into a clownshow with the ridiculous lateral passing, meaning Galway had to funnel everyone back to even have a chance at regaining possession. Relying on a pox lucky goal and a bit of defensive indiscipline to snatch an ill deserved draw. Wont take you too seriously though. To a man every Ros lad I chatted to Sunday night was depressed with the display and referenced their luck. Wasn't exactly delighted with Galway display but at least there was an effort to get themselves into a position to win it. Inexperience and luck cost them

And only scoring 2 points in the last 20 odd minutes with a far stronger wind and rain than Ros had in the first half.

You must have been talking to some very c**k-eyed Ros men. Took some balls to work those final two points after so much mediocrity and it's something most Ros teams would not have done. I fully believe last Sunday will stand to us more than it will Galway.

Weather looking a lot better for this Sunday than last. We'll see full well who has the best forwards on Sunday.

Quote from: Syferus on July 15, 2016, 08:23:23 PM
You must have been talking to some very c**k-eyed Ros men. Took some balls to work those final two points after so much mediocrity and it's something most Ros teams would not have done. I fully believe last Sunday will stand to us more than it will Galway.

Weather looking a lot better for this Sunday than last. We'll see full well who has the best forwards on Sunday.

We will. We will also see who has the psych stuff sorted out. Can Ros beat Galway in the sun or will the old anxieties return .

Galway name the same team as last week.

Quote from: Syferus on July 15, 2016, 08:23:23 PM
You must have been talking to some very c**k-eyed Ros men. Took some balls to work those final two points after so much mediocrity and it's something most Ros teams would not have done. I fully believe last Sunday will stand to us more than it will Galway.

Weather looking a lot better for this Sunday than last. We'll see full well who has the best forwards on Sunday.

If memory server me correct, you were the one saying we had the best forwards in Connacht in advance of the Galway game in 2012 when we ended up getting a 14 point drubbing. I don't know what all the big talk serves for a team where I think 11 who played last Sunday were under 23 years of age. Evans was at the same nonsense last year bigging them up. Do you realise that supporters like you only heap pressure on these young lads. Anyone who knows anything about Roscommon football knows the best course of action is to dampen expectations. There used to an editor of the Herald once who refused to cover the county team lest they get a big head. Absolutely no need for us to shout from the rooftops. Galway supporters believe it's 1998 all over again, the sleeping giant has risen, the Mayo beast has been slain, the press are saying Galway were the only ones who played good football last Sunday, Brolly we hear is saying we are useless, the Tyrone bucks are saying we are responsible for the ruination of the game, the Meath bucks are aghast that we could have made so many handpasses in a game and forgot to use our foot. There's absolutely no need for us to loo out mouths off. Take a turn at Crennane Bridge, drive through Kilmovee, beep horn at Larry's house, head to Knock and say a few prayers instead of all this Ballagh Braggadocio that will only bring us bad luck.

Quote from: weareros on July 15, 2016, 10:51:48 PM

Quote from: Syferus on July 15, 2016, 08:23:23 PM
You must have been talking to some very c**k-eyed Ros men. Took some balls to work those final two points after so much mediocrity and it's something most Ros teams would not have done. I fully believe last Sunday will stand to us more than it will Galway.

Weather looking a lot better for this Sunday than last. We'll see full well who has the best forwards on Sunday.

If memory server me correct, you were the one saying we had the best forwards in Connacht in advance of the Galway game in 2012 when we ended up getting a 14 point drubbing. I don't know what all the big talk serves for a team where I think 11 who played last Sunday were under 23 years of age. Evans was at the same nonsense last year bigging them up. Do you realise that supporters like you only heap pressure on these young lads. Anyone who knows anything about Roscommon football knows the best course of action is to dampen expectations. There used to an editor of the Herald once who refused to cover the county team lest they get a big head. Absolutely no need for us to shout from the rooftops. Galway supporters believe it's 1998 all over again, the sleeping giant has risen, the Mayo beast has been slain, the press are saying Galway were the only ones who played good football last Sunday, Brolly we hear is saying we are useless, the Tyrone bucks are saying we are responsible for the ruination of the game, the Meath bucks are aghast that we could have made so many handpasses in a game and forgot to use our foot. There's absolutely no need for us to loo out mouths off. Take a turn at Crennane Bridge, drive through Kilmovee, beep horn at Larry's house, head to Knock and say a few prayers instead of all this Ballagh Braggadocio that will only bring us bad luck.

Nonsense. Luck, are you serious? You make your own luck on the field.

Never engaged in the mealy-mouthedness that infects a lot of posters on this forum who think they're the the PRO of their county board and better not say or do anything controversial.  Not about to start now.

Bullshit u make ur own luck.
If u sit back and wait for luck to kick in yer at f**k all.
Good day promised as long as the rhubarbs have pitch in reasonable condition there will be
Only 1 winner and it won't be the maroon wall who may wait on the 45 in castlebar to play there managers x county next week there..

Must be a full moon over parts of Ros tonight. ::)
Think I'll stir out for a pint.

Quote from: Rossfan on July 16, 2016, 12:06:56 AM
Must be a full moon over parts of Ros tonight. ::)
Think I'll stir out for a pint.

tis a pity you could not take Syferus with you but I am sure you do not want to be promoting underage drinking

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Quote from: Rossfan on July 16, 2016, 12:06:56 AM
Must be a full moon over parts of Ros tonight. ::)
Think I'll stir out for a pint.

tis a pity you could not take Syferus with you but I am sure you do not want to be promoting underage drinking

He offered to stand a round with his communion money.

Quote from: barking mad on July 15, 2016, 11:00:56 PM
Bullshit u make ur own luck.
If u sit back and wait for luck to kick in yer at f**k all.
Good day promised as long as the rhubarbs have pitch in reasonable condition there will be
Only 1 winner and it won't be the maroon wall who may wait on the 45 in castlebar to play there managers x county next week there..

Galway were shite in 2012 . But still. Roscommon is personal. They beat them in Shangri La. I don't think it was called THE Hyde at that stage.
Then they lost to Sligo . Walsh was the manager who took them down.  They were knocked out by antrim in the qualifiers. So they were really shite.

Cregg and Kilbride were playing. In the forwards.
Only half rampant would do on Sunday .

Irish Times - Monday, May 21, 2012
Rampant Galway put Rossies to the sword


KEITH DUGGAN at Dr Hyde Park
CONNACHT SFC FIRST ROUND: Galway 3-15 Roscommon 0-10: IN the 33rd minute of this match, Joe Bergin didn't so much catch as wolf a ball down from the sky to set in motion another Galway attack. The sight must have had Galway football people licking their chops.

The big Mountbellew man has made plenty of spectacular catches in his decade of service to the maroon cause, but he has rarely been as intense and central to the Galway game plan as he was here in Hyde Park.
It says something that on a day when Galway Paul Conroy gave a revelatory performance at full-forward and Gareth Bradshaw maintained the excellent form he has demonstrated all league that Bergin was still probably the pick of the bunch.
Alan Mulholland's could not have designed a more perfect championship debut than the way it panned out here. Suffice to say it was the biggest win Galway have ever posted in Roscommon town.

The afternoon even felt vaguely summery and if the choc-ices weren't enough, the visitors were treated to the sight of Messrs Meehan and Joyce entering the theatre to resume the most tantalising double act in Gaelic games. Meehan has been a beacon for all that is good in Galway football for so long it is hard to credit he is only yet 27.

He has had a nightmarish couple of years with his ankle injury, and his first act on the field was to follow Sean McDermott on a three-quarter length sprint as the Roscommon corner back sought clarification that Meehan's ankle was, in fact, up to the job.
He played an excellent 20 minutes, albeit in undemanding circumstances, and his rehabilitation towards full fitness is an ongoing project.

The decision to cast Paul Conroy as a traditional full forward during the league paid dividends here. The St James's man advertised his mindset with a smart turn-and-shoot point in the 10th minute and proceeded to cause terror among the Roscommon rearguard thereafter.

His lay-off to Mark Hehir for Galway's first goal came about when the home team were in disarray: a moment of distraction appeared to afflict the team after Michael Finneran departed with an injury, and when Conroy took possession, he looked up to see his team-mate blazing a trail to the Roscommon goal with no primrose shirt in pursuit.

That score seemed to shake Roscommon and Galway reeled off four smooth points, with a sublime pick-up and flick by Conroy for Sice the highlight of that spell. The contest was effectively ended in the 23rd minute. Johnny Duane, looking tidy and comfortable at centre back, plucked a ball from the sky and, after taking a return pass from Kieran McGrath, lobbed a perfectly weighted ball downfield for his full forward.

Conroy dominated the tussle for possession and had goal on his mind before his feet hit the turf. His finish was low and decisive. Trailing by 2-6 to 0-3, Roscommon's day was in tatters.

Their first two points, brilliant efforts from Senan Kilbride and Karol Mannion in the 4th and 5th minutes, seemed to suggest that Roscommon confidence was high and that they were in the mood to make life awkward for their neighbours. But they had no answer to a blistering period of maroon dominance.
Encouraging spells either side of half-time gave the home support in the crowd of 12,962 something to shout about, but it was a brief rebellion. Cathal Cregg was bright and menacing every time he got the ball and he set Donal Shine up for Roscommon's best goal chance in the 33rd minute.

Shine has been the talisman for the recent revival in Primrose football but he had an underwhelming day here, struggling to get much change out of Keith Kelly and also in his place-kicking duties.

However, he did put David O'Gara through in the 38th minute and had the substitute goaled – his shot blazed over the crossbar – Roscommon might have engineered some sort of revival.
Instead, Conroy thumped another fine point into the graveyard goal and Galway were back in business. Meehan clearly enjoyed his return, firing two points and collecting a long ball from Joyce and tap-dancing through the Roscommon defence before flicking a pass from Sice to goal from close range.

By then, all of the anticipated championship intensity had left Hyde Park and suddenly the heady days of Roscommon's provincial title coup of two years ago seemed very far away. It might have gotten worse too as Danny Cummins, loitering around the Roscommon square, palmed a ball against the crossbar only to have it rebound off him and fly inches wide.

The whistle must have come as a relief for Roscommon, who face a long wait after this dispiriting exit. Galway have just under weeks for a Saturday fixture in Salthill which will see Mulholland and Kevin Walsh, minor and senior team-mates from a fair few moons ago, patrolling the sidelines.

GALWAY : A Faherty; K McGrath (0-1); F Hanley; K Kelly; G Bradshaw (0-2); J Duane; G O'Donnell; J Bergin (0-2); G Higgins; G Sice (1-3, 0-2 frees); D Burke; T Flynn; S Armstrong (0-1); P Conroy (1-4); M Hehir (1-0). Subs: M Meehan (0-2, 0-1 free) for S Armstrong (45 mins); Pádraic Joyce for D Burke (51 mins); T Fahy for G O'Donnell (54 mins); D Cummins for M Hehir (65 mins). Yellow cards: Burke (28 mins); Hehir (36 mins); Bradshaw (55 mins).

ROSCOMMON: G Claffey; S McDermott; N Carty; S Purcell; C Dineen; P Domican; I Kilbride; M Finneran; K Mannion (0-1); D Keenan; C Cregg (0-1); J Rogers; S Kilbride (0-3, 0-2 frees); D McDermott; D Shine (0-2, frees). Subs: N Daly for M Finneran (inj: 11 mins); D O'Gara (0-2) for J Rogers (23 mins); G Heneghan (0-1) for D Keenan (47 mins); K Higgins for D McDermott (57 mins); C Shine for I Kilbride (65 mins). Yellow card: I Kilbride (53 mins).
Referee: J McQuillan (Cavan).

For God's sake seasick will ya get a job a woman or a man if that's your thing

How's the head sea sick
What a day outside probably bit windy up ur part but that'll pass over after tomorrow
Ice cream is a melting, tar is a melting and Galway hopes are a melting.
Nearly time to get it on..

Quote from: mjg on July 16, 2016, 07:21:12 AM
For God's sake seasick will ya get a job a woman or a man if that's your thing

He's outsyfíning Syfín at this stage but at least Syfín is not 11 or 12 ;D
I'm still of the view it's 50/50 and will depend on things like who learned the most last day or who's improved more. There's also the bounce if a ball, mistakes or a Ref's decision.
All to play for.
UP ROS!!!!

Quote from: Rossfan on July 16, 2016, 08:43:42 AM

Quote from: mjg on July 16, 2016, 07:21:12 AM
For God's sake seasick will ya get a job a woman or a man if that's your thing

He's outsyfíning Syfín at this stage but at least Syfín is not 11 or 12 ;D
I'm still of the view it's 50/50 and will depend on things like who learned the most last day or who's improved more. There's also the bounce if a ball, mistakes or a Ref's decision.
All to play for.
UP ROS!!!!

It would be great if Sligo could beat Clare and Mayo get over Kildare.
I still think Galway have the edge over the rossies.

Collins is a big loss, it would appear

http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/galway-should-have-the-slightest-of-edges-over-roscommon-1.2723509

Once Mayo were beaten both of these counties had to revise radically their season's agenda. Galway knew there was no point beating the champions and not following it up whereas Roscommon may have been tempted to view a meeting with the Connacht standard bearers as the opportunity to test themselves, see how they got on in the qualifiers and pore over the notes for next year.

Instead both teams knew that defeat last Sunday would count as a blow to their morale.
That was and remains the context for the much reviled draw in Salthill a week ago. No matter how badly they each wanted to win, neither wanted to risk anything that might have led to a careless defeat.

Roscommon were heading into their first final in six years with a number of young players and short their regular full back, the injured Neil Collins, and so their deployment of a sweeper was no great surprise.

Their opponents have been playing the defensive game for a good bit longer but ironically they were the ones who conceded the only goal.

The rules of replays – which team learns more and which has most room to improve – are harder to interpret in this given the foul conditions and nervousness all around during the draw but it does appear that Galway have more to regret, having led by two in the closing minutes on a day when such a lead had the feel of an investment.

As to who learned the most, the suspicion is that the starting line-outs will be the key to determining that rather than the sides initially named.

Roscommon were also pleased with how unexpectedly well they had coped at centrefield against Tom Flynn, scorer of the vital goal against Mayo, and June Footballer of the Month, Paul Conroy. This was of course helped by the conditions, which persuaded both teams to go predominantly short on the restarts – a tactic which didn't allow Galway to optimise their strength in the area and surprisingly so after half-time with a howling wind at their backs – but nonetheless Niall Daly's performance against the elements in the second-half was impressively influential.

Kevin Walsh's team weren't though without their own consolations after losing the late lead. They had started poorly and did well to recover the initiative.

On a day which suited no one, least of all their sprightly forwards, Galway still got a sharp performance from Danny Cummins, who helped himself to three points and the RTÉ Man of the Match award.

The weather should be better on Sunday and this means improvement from both teams. It remains really difficult to call.

Roscommon should have taken more out of the circumstances of the draw and they have the more impressive looking substitute bench.

Galway, however, have room to improve, which primarily concerns their centrefield but there was also more cut to their attack.

More significantly they managed to impose their own system on the match, restricting Roscommon's opportunities but also finding decent attacking positions at the other end to compile their total.

Their greater practice with this set-up means they will have less difficulty replicating the strategy.

They just about remain favourites

http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/connacht-rugby-losing-jarlath-fallon-was-galway-s-gain-1.2723711

Connacht rugby losing Jarlath Fallon was Galway's gain

Former goalkeeper Derek Thompson hopes Roscommon can return to winning cycle after he broke it in 1998


Warren Gatland may have found himself on the wrong side of public opinion in Ireland from time to time over the years, but there is one part of Ireland that should forever hail the antipodean master of the pre-match soundbite because, if it wasn't for him, Galway might never have won the All-Ireland football final in 1998.

As it was, the then-Connacht rugby coach never did manage to secure the signature of a young rugby player on his radar called Jarlath Fallon. Ja went back to the Galway footballers, and ended the year with a Connacht title, an All-Ireland medal and an All-Star award.

Roscommon have cause to rue Gatland's change of heart, because they had their foot on the throat of Fallon and that Galway team twice in '98, drawing the Connacht final in Tuam, before only losing to a freak goal in extra-time in the replay. And as the final whistle blew last Sunday, many minds no doubt wandered back 18 years to a similarly foul Galway summer's day when the two counties played out a dour draw that ended level after a late free (Roscommon's Donie Smith doing the honours last week, Neil Finnegan hitting the late leveller for Galway in 1998).

Star man
That replay – the last Connacht final replay before Sunday's game in Castlebar – on a beautiful summer's evening in Roscommon in front of a crowd of almost 30,000, would turn out to be the making of Galway, and the making of their star man. Fallon had spent the previous winter playing for Galwegians in Division Two of the AIL, and he had done enough to catch the eye of the provincial coach, a little-known Kiwi by the name of Warren Gatland.
"Looking back on my rugby days, I probably fell between two stools a little bit, between the amateur and professional eras. Back in 1993 I got a few caps for Connacht, I went to an interpros series in Scotland, which was the beginnings of the idea of a Celtic League I suppose. I was tinkering with it for a couple of years after that, but I gave it one big year in 1997."

Fallon was good enough in that 1997/'98 rugby season to think seriously about ditching Gaelic football, despite the fact he was already a Connacht-title winning captain of Galway, and an All-Star from 1995.

'Full-time contract'
"I was hoping for a full-time contract, but I only got offered a part-time contract by Gatland, so in the end I turned it down. If I'd gotten offered a full-time contract for the year I would definitely have taken it. I was only back in with Galway three weeks before the Mayo game but we played two challenge games, and I played two halves – against Longford and Cork. There was a spot there at number 12, and I snuck in."
Galway went to Castlebar in May and beat hot favourites Mayo, who had lost the previous two All-Ireland finals. They defeated Leitrim in the Connacht semi-final, before drawing with Roscommon, 11 points apiece in Tuam. Fallon was feeling his way back into form, before he finally caught fire in the replay in Roscommon.

He scored five points from play that day, but it was a shot of his that dropped short in extra-time that would prove to be the decisive moment. It was a weak effort that was easily picked up by Roscommon goalkeeper Derek Thompson, but as he moved to hand-pass the ball to a colleague, it fell from his grasp and Michael Donnellan was on hand to blast it into an empty net.

Thompson remembers the drawn game and the replay as being the reason why he got interested in the game in the first place. "Going to Tuam, and playing in front of a huge crowd in the Hyde, that's what it was all about when you were a kid, playing these lovely provincial venues in the Connacht championship – all the history and everything.

"We all go back and blame [the referee] Séamus Prior for the decision to award Galway that free in the closing moments. But, no more than last Sunday, everyone wanted to see both teams go at it again in better weather after the drawn game in Tuam."

They did indeed go at it again in the Hyde, and played out a dramatic, physical, end-to-end tussle that could have gone either way. It finished 1-17 to 0-17 after extra time, and Fallon remembers a much-improved Galway performance that still wasn't enough to shake off Roscommon.

'Serious outfit'
"It was typical Roscommon, huge physicality, all go, and really put us to the pin of our collar. They were a serious outfit. If there was a back door they would have been there or thereabouts. It's easy to be wise now but I suppose looking back on it we had Michael Donnellan and Padraic Joyce, who became some of the best players of their generation, and maybe Roscommon didn't have players of that quality . . . sure who did?"
Thompson remembers it pretty much the same way. "As good as Galway played, we still wouldn't go away. All we needed was a shove to help us over the line . . ."

Instead, what Roscommon got was a stroke of bad luck. And 18 years later, Thompson is philosophical about the goal that decided the game.

"Roscommon people were great about it, but it was a defining moment, no doubt about it. I remember sitting on my couch late one night a few months later in Dublin watching the video, going through it frame by frame trying to figure out what happened.

"It's what people always want to talk about. The RTÉ coverage started with it on Sunday of course, and a few people around me were annoyed about that, saying would they ever leave it alone . . . but of course they're going to show it. That's the moment that decided the game and, if there's a draw in 10 years' time, they'll use it again, it's only natural."

As he says himself, the events of the last couple of months have fairly put it in perspective. Thompson woke one night in March at 4am, "having a full belt of a heart attack, at 44 years of age, so that wasn't on the cards. An hour and 20 minutes after the ambulance was called, I had two stents put in at the Mater, so life has changed a bit for me now. I'm back to work but I'll be slowing down and minding myself."

The feeling that 1998 was a missed opportunity won't go away. "When Galway won the All-Ireland there was certainly a feeling that it could've been us. We wouldn't have feared Derry in the semi-final, and getting to play Kildare – the Dermot Early connection, there would've been massive nostalgia. Ros last won an All-Ireland in 1944, then 18 years after that we got to a final, in 1962. Eighteen years after that we got back to another final, in 1980. So who broke the 18-year cycle after that only myself. And now its 18 years since '98, so who knows . . ."

Family connection
For Ja, there's a family connection to the team that lines out in Castlebar on Sunday – his first cousin Gary O'Donnell is captain. "He's come up the hard way – grew up in Gort, a hurling town really, and he's gotten plenty of criticism over the years too but to be made captain by his peers is such a huge honour. It would be great for him, 21 years after I did it myself, to captain a Connacht title-winning team."

Jez Seafoid, you are really living in the past. The last 8 years have been some nightmare for you. Cafe Del Mar must be worn out in the last month?

Quote from: From the Bunker on July 16, 2016, 11:59:31 AM
Jez Seafoid, you are really living in the past. The last 8 years have been some nightmare for you. Cafe Del Mar must be worn out in the last month?

I thought the Rossies would be interested in a bit of analysis. They aren't usually featured on the sports pages in the summer.

I think Mayo need a bit of lifted by the Lighthouse family.  Or else I believe I can fly.

Quote from: Rossfan on July 16, 2016, 08:43:42 AM

Quote from: mjg on July 16, 2016, 07:21:12 AM
For God's sake seasick will ya get a job a woman or a man if that's your thing

He's outsyfíning Syfín at this stage but at least Syfín is not 11 or 12 ;D
I'm still of the view it's 50/50 and will depend on things like who learned the most last day or who's improved more. There's also the bounce if a ball, mistakes or a Ref's decision.
All to play for.
UP ROS!!!!

Would agree with your assessment Rossfan. I still can't predict one way or the other. The weather was so bad the last day, I'm not sure either could learn much to be honest.

I'm just thankful that barring another draw after ET we can all move on to another match thread and get out of this absolute mess of whataboutery.

Quote from: An Fhairche Abu on July 16, 2016, 01:48:41 PM
I'm just thankful that barring another draw after ET we can all move on to another match thread and get out of this absolute mess of whataboutery.

It'll be yer last one of the year so make it count.

Quote from: Syferus on July 16, 2016, 01:52:58 PM

Quote from: An Fhairche Abu on July 16, 2016, 01:48:41 PM
I'm just thankful that barring another draw after ET we can all move on to another match thread and get out of this absolute mess of whataboutery.

It'll be yer last one of the year so make it count.

Have you a parent from Tipperary?

The only time I recall Syf's cocksuredness being vindicated was when Brigids won the all Ireland. The sad thing in Connacht is that all the population dynamics are with Galway. 2 people I know at home migrated from Castlerea. 

Quote from: seafoid on July 16, 2016, 03:22:36 PM

Quote from: Syferus on July 16, 2016, 01:52:58 PM

Quote from: An Fhairche Abu on July 16, 2016, 01:48:41 PM
I'm just thankful that barring another draw after ET we can all move on to another match thread and get out of this absolute mess of whataboutery.

It'll be yer last one of the year so make it count.

Have you a parent from Tipperary?

Have you a parent from Roscommon?

Quote from: seafoid on July 16, 2016, 03:39:34 PM
The only time I recall Syf's cocksuredness being vindicated was when Brigids won the all Ireland. The sad thing in Connacht is that all the population dynamics are with Galway. 2 people I know at home migrated from Castlerea.

Tell the truth sea food they were released from castlerea to go back live in your estate.

Losers to play either Clare or Derry have I got that correct?

Quote from: Syferus on July 16, 2016, 01:52:58 PM

Quote from: An Fhairche Abu on July 16, 2016, 01:48:41 PM
I'm just thankful that barring another draw after ET we can all move on to another match thread and get out of this absolute mess of whataboutery.

It'll be yer last one of the year so make it count.

We'll see soon enough.
Be delighted to be rid of your snide remarks one way or another.

Quote from: galwayman on July 16, 2016, 07:43:55 PM

Quote from: Syferus on July 16, 2016, 01:52:58 PM

Quote from: An Fhairche Abu on July 16, 2016, 01:48:41 PM
I'm just thankful that barring another draw after ET we can all move on to another match thread and get out of this absolute mess of whataboutery.

It'll be yer last one of the year so make it count.

We'll see soon enough.
Be delighted to be rid of your snide remarks one way or another.

Won't it be delicious when we we and you can't, though?

Only started the poking after people decided to attack for pointing out Galway spent the year playing defensive football while we spent it playing positive football..

Quote from: Syferus on July 16, 2016, 07:49:07 PM

Quote from: galwayman on July 16, 2016, 07:43:55 PM

Quote from: Syferus on July 16, 2016, 01:52:58 PM

Quote from: An Fhairche Abu on July 16, 2016, 01:48:41 PM
I'm just thankful that barring another draw after ET we can all move on to another match thread and get out of this absolute mess of whataboutery.

It'll be yer last one of the year so make it count.

We'll see soon enough.
Be delighted to be rid of your snide remarks one way or another.

Won't it be delicious when we we and you can't, though?

Only started the poking after people decided to attack for pointing out Gaalway spent the year playing defensive football while we spent it playing posture football.

Bullshit. You are at it constantly.
You don't see lads like Rossfan at that crap.
You're an embarrassment to a proud football county.

Quote from: GalwayBayBoy on July 16, 2016, 07:13:48 PM
Losers to play either Clare or Derry have I got that correct?

correct.

Quote from: galwayman on July 16, 2016, 08:29:52 PM

Quote from: Syferus on July 16, 2016, 07:49:07 PM

Quote from: galwayman on July 16, 2016, 07:43:55 PM

Quote from: Syferus on July 16, 2016, 01:52:58 PM

Quote from: An Fhairche Abu on July 16, 2016, 01:48:41 PM
I'm just thankful that barring another draw after ET we can all move on to another match thread and get out of this absolute mess of whataboutery.

It'll be yer last one of the year so make it count.

We'll see soon enough.
Be delighted to be rid of your snide remarks one way or another.

Won't it be delicious when we we and you can't, though?

Only started the poking after people decided to attack for pointing out Gaalway spent the year playing defensive football while we spent it playing posture football.

Bullshit. You are at it constantly.
You don't see lads like Rossfan at that crap.
You're an embarrassment to a proud football county.

You clearly haven't been reading your own contributions.. or Rossfan's for that matter..

Would you shtop  Syferus. Hyperbole is your thing. I hope some day Ros have a team to equal it.

Pitch in top notch condition this evening. Lets hope for a good day tomorrow and a better game!

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Best of luck to Roscommon team and management today. I think it will be a very different game to last Sunday, If the rossies play to their strengths and stop worring about what in my opinion is a very limited Galway outfit then I think we should win, however if we let galway dictate the terms of the game like last week then we will be in trouble.
Time to take the shackles off and play football.
The best is yet to come.

Things have changed a lot since 1980 when the Rossies were last in an all Ireland final. The population of Galway city must have doubled . The population of Ros probably hasn't changed. A good few Galway players now are from commuter areas rather than the area of a few parishes the 3 in a row team came from. Flynn is from a hurling town.  The economics are against Roscommon . That is not good.

What are u sprouting sea weed
Time for talking is over time to walk the walk.

The tar is bilin', th'ice cream will be meltin'.....which team will be wiltin'......
Time to crank up th'oul 135 and point her west to the land if darkness.
Hopeful but not very much so.
UP ROS!!!!!!

A lot at stake today! Winners will see it as a successful year! Losers could rapidly see the year peter out. I still expect this to be a cautious affair with this in mind. I fancy Roscommon. without playing well last week they kept in the game and if they had the balls near the end could have stole it.

Galway get first score. Ros hit a wide.

G 0-3 RN 0-0

Anyone else having trouble with RTE Player?

Me too. Curses.

I expect Galway to finish with a few to spare but I'd prefer to see Roscommon win.

dont see the game on the player

G 0-4 RN 0-1. Listening to MWR

Quote from: Wildweasel74 on July 17, 2016, 03:47:43 PM
dont see the game on the player

Me neither. Damn error #2032

Galway well on top it seems

Who is this clown commentating on gaago