'It's not in a good place' - Galway at a crossroads

It's been a bad year for Henry Shefflin's Galway.

The Tribesmen exited the championship on Sunday after Micheál Donoghue, the man who led them to the All-Ireland in 2017, guided Dublin to a 2-27 to 1-24 win at Pearse Park.

That result sent the Dubs into the Leinster final and ended Galway's involvement in the summer race for Liam MacCarthy.

The Sunday Game analysts Joe Canning and Anthony Daly dissected some of Galway's problems, as they lick the wounds of a painful of exit.

"To be honest about it, it's fairly depressing," said former Galway talisman Canning.

"I know a lot of the guys obviously from playing with them over the last number of years. It's not in a good place at the moment.

"They just never got going all year, throughout the league, fits and starts, but then in the championship they were lucky to draw against Kilkenny. Kilkenny were missing a few of their top players. The sending-off against Antrim had a big bearing on it, they pulled away in that. Losing to Wexford, and then (Dublin) - it's not good. They'll be very disappointed with the year."

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Daly detected problems in Galway's overall style, adding: "You'd have to kind of question the approach as well. I thought at the start of the year, they were my team to win the league. Why not go and win the league?

"But they seemed to have kind of a throwaway attitude towards the end of that, that there was bigger things to do. The Leinster final last year seems to have really ruined the momentum.

"It was there for