Inside Track with John McIntyre

WHEN a team wins its opening round National League game, it creates a positive vibe around the camp. Neither the Galway hurlers nor footballers managed that at the weekend, but both produced performances which bode well for at least the rest of their respective campaigns.

At one juncture early in the second half, the Galway footballers were staring down the barrel of a heavy defeat. Eleven points behind and with the Mayo supporters giving fill vent to their feelings in the bumper crowd of close to 12,000, team boss Padraic Joyce must have feared an embarrassing thumping.

But even when Galway weren’t moving........

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