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Tomorrow night in Inchicore, Galway United will hope for better fortune. It was another good showing on Sunday in the FAI Cup quarter final, but ultimately United bowed out after extra-time.

An FAI Cup game might ordinarily provide some respite from the ongoing difficulties in the league, but Galway United could scarcely have asked for a more difficult assignment as they head to Inchicore on Sunday to take on St Patrick’s Athletic in front of the RTÉ cameras.

His comments pre-empted a return to the defensive defiance and stubbornness that characterised the 2024 season. It saw United finish last year with the second-best defensive record in the league.

With only a third of the games gone, it has already been a remarkable season. Galway United enter their game away to St Patrick’s Athletic with a share at the top of the table.

Every game is a big game. That is the simple creed espoused by John Caulfield. It has certainly felt that way since United’s return to the top flight.

A draw at Turner's Cross marked the spot that United need to build from for the remainder of the season. They struggled early, but showed grit and athleticism and grew into a game they could have even snuck late on.

Most of the 400 souls who saw Galway United take on Cobh Ramblers in 1997 might have consigned it to the dustbin of memory. But a humdrum night in the First Division sparked something in an impressionable lad from Newbridge making his first pilgrimage to a rainy Terryland.

John Caulfield is one of those fortunate enough to get to work at what he loves. The passion and positivity that oozes out of him in early January would be unnerving in most workplaces. However, the feel-good factor from last season seems to have carried over.

It might not have the billing some would have hoped for, even up to a week ago, but there is plenty of spice surrounding the Connacht Derby tomorrow night.