All Ireland U21 semi final Cork v Galway 16.04.11 Cusack Park, Ennis 6:30pm

[ross4life]

Sounded like a great game on the radio, congrats Galway huge win over the hot favouries & hopefully they go on to win the All Ireland now.

[ross matt]

Well done Galway. Threw their heart and soul in to it judging by the radio. Looked like Cork would run away with it when 4 points up in the 2nd half. Mullholland is a serious manager.

[armaghniac]

Great goal by Galway, Cork had their chances to catch up but couldn't take their points.

[GalwayBayBoy]

Watched the deferred coverage there. The two Galway midfielders were fantastic. Both still 18 I think. Flynn ended up getting MOTM. Boyle and Hehir were excellent too. Boyle has some turn of foot for a big man.

[mckieran]

Good performance from Galway alright. The goal was absolutely crucial but it was a fantastic move and that really was the only difference between the 2 teams. Thought Cork were going to run away with it when they went a few points off but Galway showed a lot of character.

[spectator]

Deserved win for Galway which left Cork's vocal fans stunned with the end result. Galway possess two fine midfielders who's positioning and timing under the dropping ball were exceptional, esp in the first half. The workrate of both, but particularly Tomás Flynn was also very eyecatching. He also covered every blade of grass and along with Fiontán Ó'Curraoin set up a platform of possession for the Galway forwards, which they made sufficient use of in the end to win the game. Galway started brilliantly with immediate purpose and intent, laying down a marker by going several points in front early on. The worry one had about Galway's forwards was that they weren't clinical enough in finishing off their chances, but they got there in the end. Crucially, Mark Hehir kept the scoreboard ticking when scores were otherwise drying up at times. They were mindful of retaining possession and were very careful not to give it away carelessly if at all possible. The Cork HF line were seriously well built and on the occasions when they ran strongly at the Galway defence anything looked possible. Ciarán Sheehan was immense, he's some player, he certainly didn't deserve to end up on the losing side. It's desperately unlucky for him that he had two chances of points, one of which which went narrowly wide & another which rebounded off the post towards the end, when Cork were fighting for their lives. However there's a great team ethic in this Galway side and they worked their socks off for each other when Cork put them under serious pressure, which stood to them big time last night. Cork negated Galway's first half midfield dominance by coming out in the third quarter and crowding the midfield, whilst also considerably upping their own workrate around the middle third. This drew quite a few desperation fouls from the Galway defence for a while, forcing Galway to further increase their own workrate to try and get to grips with the situation. Aidan Walsh went off injured around that stage and it had an influence on how the game developed imo, as Galway regained parity in midfield following his injury. Ciarán Sheehan was now playing slightly deeper in midfield and having to make his devastating lung bursting runs from deeper into the attack, which probably took a bit from his threat to Galway. While Galway kicked on with a great comeback to regain the lead Cork were not out of it, but the rebels showed a lack of composure when kicking four wides in a row during the final ten minutes or so. There was little enough between both sides but undoubtedly Galway deserved it as they worked harder and played that bit more consistently throughout. Galway have a good defence, excellent midfield, good free-taker in Mark O'Hehir, excellent team ethic, composure and enough scoring forwards to go all the way. They'll be gutted if they don't win it outright now after seeing off this highly rated Cork side. Best of Luck to ye lads.

[galwayman]

Great win for our lads.A badly needed boost for football in Galway.A little ironic that our midfield dominance seems to have set the platform for this victory as it was our failure to win ball in this area in the 2nd half of last years AI minor semi final that let Cork back into the game to get the win.
Cavan are meant to have a very good team this year so it should be a cracking final.

[Jinxy]

Mind those two midfielders.
That lad Flynn is a gem.

[Duine Eile]

According to Galway Bay FM the final has been fixed for Sligo on 30th April

[galwayman]

Is there anywhere online this game can be viewed?
They haven't put it up on the TG4 website - at least I can't find it anyway.

[seafoid]

A real morale booster for Galway fuball.  It would be class to win the all-Ireland although you couldn't begrudge Cavan a bit of silverware.