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Mayo 1-11

Oughterard GAA, the second oldest club in Galway, is hosting a centenary social to commemorate the event on October 4.

So another year drifts by and the Galway senior footballers once again cannot make any real impression at the business end of the season on the inter-county championship.

Last Sunday at Tuam Stadium city side St Michael’s were too strong for pre-match favourites Kilconly and progressed to the county intermediate final on a score-line of 1-11 to 1-07.

Galway were not prepared to adopt negative tactics

Pictured offering their support to the ‘Metre to a Mile’ fundraising event to be held in the Kingfisher Clubs next Friday November 21 were Matthew Clancy of the Galway Senior Football team and Eugene Cloonan of the Galway Senior Hurling Team. ‘Metre to a Mile’ is held in aid of GOAL with in excess of €42,000 being raised last year. The funds raised from this year’s event are going towards building houses in Uganda for people affected by AIDS and homelessness in one of the poorest countries in the world.

At the outset of 2008 as Galway football entered a decisive new chapter, the Connacht FBD League was utilised intelligently. Liam Sammon's approach saw Galway embrace the challenges with the required passion and zeal to book the considerable bounty of a trip to New York that awaits the winners.

It was a pleasure to have been in Pearse Stadium last Sunday to watch the brilliant display of forward play by Caltra’s Michael Meehan.

I was in McHale Park to see Mayo disembowel Roscommon at their ease and I was in Markievicz Park to see Galway stumble luckily to a narrow 1-13 to 0-12 victory over Sligo. Based on the respective performances from both panels and managements, there will only be one result in Pearse Stadium in just over two weeks’ time. And that is a Mayo victory.

Sometimes there can be no hiding from hard facts. And here are two: Firstly, the Galway senior football team have not won an All-Ireland quarter final since 2001. Secondly, they have not won a single game in Croke Park in the past eight years and on the clear evidence provided last Sunday against Sligo, even if they did beat Mayo in two weeks time, which is a big if, that statistic is unlikely to change.