Will the real Galway stand up?

Traditionally, a bit of a crew from Clarecastle always go to Galway for the Monday of race week — when hurling and life allows, of course — which often seems to coincide with another Galway hurling post-mortem.

Too often, I’ve met Galway hurlers in Taaffe’s bar off Shop Street drowning their sorrows, lamenting another lost season.

I saw a quote from Andy Smith this week who said that he isn’t going to the races next week, no matter what happens tomorrow, but that’s the big question for Galway again now. Are a crew of them going to be on Shop Street again on Monday? If they are, it’s another lost season tagged onto another lost decade, save for 2012.