Galway juniors coast to victory

Published: 13 January 2023

From this week's Galway City Tribune

Author: Our Reporter
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From this week's Galway City Tribune

Galway 1-25

Roscommon 1-20

Kevin Egan in Bekan

FOR every other intercounty football or hurling team operating at this time of year, their competitions represent some form of pre-season.

For the Galway development squad that was managed by Eamon O’Shea and coached by Tommy Dunne over the past six weeks, last Saturday night’s Connacht senior hurling league final represented the culmination of their season.

Based on the impressive performances that the group – assembled exclusively from players hurling for junior-only clubs – produced in their two wins over New York and Roscommon, the question will now be asked, where do they go from here?

It’s hard to tell if there is that much quality in the group, or if this result was much more about the issues facing Roscommon hurling at the moment, since the final five points of the game were scored by the Rossies, and thus the margin at the end was unreflective of the scale of Galway’s dominance.

In the early stages, the contest was moderately competitive. All six starting forwards had scored from play for the Tribesmen by the 20th minute, though Roscommon led at that stage of the game through a close-range Brendan Mulry goal.

However the second quarter was utterly dominated by Galway, as they suffocated the Roscommon attack, got great ball into the forward division, and kicked on after Eamonn Trayers’ goal to lead by 1-16 to 1-7 at the interval.

For more, read this week’s Galway City Tribune.

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