Quote from: galwayman on May 18, 2024, 07:54:19 PMQuote from: tbrick18 on May 18, 2024, 07:41:04 PMVery poor from Derry, sending off aside. So flat.I'm trying to take my Galway hat off here (not easy of course) but I honestly didn't feel that we were getting frees easier.
First half us where the game was lost, too many dropped short.
Too many of derrys star players were nowhere to be seen, glass didn't seem interested.
We were chasing the game, lachlan Murray just scored 3 I think, made a score saving tackle and Harte takes him off. Can't see the logic in that.
Galway were good. Should rightly leapfrog derry in the AI rankings and must be in that top 3 tier now.
Didn't listen to the commentary after the game but there can be no defending mckinless.
However, I did think in general galway got their frees easier than us.
In terms of scores from frees I'm not sure how many we ended up with but when we had 1-12 on the board only two of those were frees.
I can think of two off the top of my head tap over frees Derry got that were never frees (to me anyway).
McGuigan wins a high ball in first half & doesn't call a mark. He gets shepherded and throws himself down and gets a free.
One in second half (I think number 10) who runs into 2-3 Galway defenders and gets a very soft free.
Anyhow I'm only picking them as examples. The red card changed the game.
Who knows what would have happened if it didn't happen. It was going to be tight regardless
My understanding was that if a player doesn't call the mark for the free kick he plays on but cannot be tackled until he has taken 4 steps - Mc Guigan was tackled immediately he caught the ball.