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It’s incredible how fast the landscape in team sport can change. One minute, you’re unquestionably the best team around, delivering success after success and seemingly destined to remain at the summit for years to come. The next, you’re looking over your shoulder as hungry challengers begin to close the gap and eventually pass you out.

Is it too early to be talking about a possible football and hurling double? Almost certainly. But where’s the fun in being sensible?

Galway senior footballers will look to book their passage into the All-Ireland quarter-finals when they face Leinster champions Westmeath at Pearse Stadium this Sunday.

With the Galway senior footballers and hurlers both tasting defeat in their most recent championship outings, attention now turns to the defining stretch of the season — the period that will ultimately shape whether their campaigns are judged a success or a disappointment.

Though they were never going to say it publicly, once the championship draw was made, Padraic Joyce and Galway’s focus would have inevitably shifted towards a Connacht final on May 10.

Galway's senior footballers travel to Páirc Seán MacDiarmada to take on Leitrim in the Connacht Senior Football Championship semi-final this Saturday.

With the Connacht championship now firmly on the horizon, attention inevitably turns to what Galway’s starting XV might look like. League football often raises as many questions as answers, and that certainly seems to be the case this year.

Survival but no finals or silverware. That’s the bottom line for Galway’s two flagship GAA teams after their National League campaigns wrapped up last weekend.

The six points Galway have already accumulated in Division One of this year’s National Football League would have been enough to guarantee safety in seven of the last nine seasons played under this format. The reason it’s not eight from ten is the Covid-impacted 2021 campaign, when the divisions were split into North and South sections.

Two games. Two encouraging displays against last year’s All-Ireland finalists. But ultimately, two defeats and zero points. That is the stark reality of Galway’s opening to the 2026 National Hurling League.