Unlike most other Premier League sides that found themselves battling against the drop, Galway opted against making a managerial change at any point, as Shane Keegan, who was appointed last summer, lasted the entire season which ended in his side's relegation to the second division.
Galway were the unfortunate victims of the restructuring of the Premier League system, having finished third from bottom in a season in which they constantly looked like being on the brink of a major U-turn that eventually never came.
the warning signs from there from the get-go, as it took Galway as many as eleven games to claim their first win, with all other sides in the division having won at least once before that. However, their performances were not that bad, as they drew six of their opening ten games.
Not much changed following their first victory, as they kept playing decent football but struggled to get results, with Shane Keegan making numerous changes of his system over the course of the system before settling for a pure counter-attacking approach with around a third of the season to go.
The new approach worked reasonably well for his men, whose sole defeat in their last seven games came in their season finale against Dundalk, but their tendency to struggle to close games out was their undoing, as they went into their final game on the back of a run of three straight defeats and needing already-relegated Drogheda to beat Sligo to have any chance of staying up.
Ultimately, what Galway have displayed would have been enough to keep them up in any season other than this one and it remains to be seen if Keegan will receive a chance to try and get them back to the top flight.
