Inside Track with John McIntyre

THERE’S a lazy narrative circulating about the Galway footballers at present. The widespread perception is that they’ve got lucky in the team’s last two championship games against Northern opposition.

Sure, they were eight points down and in dire straits against both Derry and Armagh, but it wasn’t as though either of those opponents handed Galway the ball and told them to keep it until the scoreboard was more in their favour. No, anything the Tribesmen got, they had to earn it.

That’s the thing with this group of Galway footballers – they don’t know when they are beaten. That’s a tremendous asset to have when........

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