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**Philly** · 26/08/2004, 1:34 PM

Hey all! Just wondering how your teams doing coming up to this match. County are on a huge high as we are on great form and just had the best night of our short life by beating Bohs in Dalymount.
We heve signed a great keeper, Brendan Kenneddy from Dublin ****ty - as well as Ray Scully, whos very popular at Station Road. Sean Francis should start the game though he isn't match fit at the moment...
Will Folan be much of a loss to GUFC?
Of and were missing our two best central defenders for the match, so we will have a makeshift defence...

**Terry** · 26/08/2004, 1:59 PM

Folan hasn't played for a long time now and it is more of a positive than negative that he is gone. We have virtually a full squad for the match with no suspensions and only John Russell and Sean Flannery on the long term injury list. Of our last 10 league matches we have won 6 drawn 3 and lost 1

. Our top striker Moran can't get a place on the starting team due to the form of our 2 strikers Dupuy and O'Dowd. Dupuy has scored 8 goals in 10 league starts and has bonding beautifully with O'Dowd who has scored 2 in the last 2 matches

So, as you can see we are fairly confident.

Come on United

**galwaygirl** · 26/08/2004, 2:06 PM

Hey Philly,

Hopefully we'll start much the same line-up as we had for the Athlone game last friday week, which we won 4-0

Damien Dupuy and David O'Dowd are working very well together up front. Our top goalscorer this season (Moran) hasnt started a game since these two were put together. Also Nigel Keady and Conor Frawley are very consistent in the centre of defence.

**Philly** · 26/08/2004, 2:07 PM

I heard good stuff about Dupay from a young Galway fan I was talking to, Alan...
If yo know him tell him my phone got stolen and I have a new number! He plays drums for ye...

Yer two strikers should cause our non-existant central defenders problems!

Is Mannion under pressure?...

**galwaygirl** · 26/08/2004, 2:09 PM

ha ha, great minds think alike terry

think we must have been typing that at the same time

**galwaygirl** · 26/08/2004, 2:11 PM

It's Alan Walsh.....

Not sure will he be making the trip to kildare though. He usually travels to away games with his brother who is gone on holidays