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Connacht FBD 2022 - 7 Like(s)
A ego trip by John Prenty when common sense option is to play these games outdoors.
Gaa_lover (National) - 10/12/2021 15:42:05
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Connacht Club Football Championship - 7 Like(s)
Replying To sourmilk93: "Agree shouldn't happen no matter what. That said the player involved has just been part of one of the biggest games in recent history for his club and the game was decided by a terrible ref performance. Delighted to see Pearses win but Mountbellew were robbed. Ref decided game in the end" Can you elaborate on the robbed comment. Having watched the full game online the slightly better team won. The one main talking point was that mark that wasn't given but who's to say it would be scored if given or that Pearses didn't score directly afterwards.
The lack of discipline from Mountbellew Moylough was ridiculous throughout that game, that more than anything else robbed themselves of victory and the scenes at the end of the game was totally uncalled for.
Gaa_lover (National) - 12/12/2021 13:23:38
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Inter County Championship 2020 - 6 Like(s)
Replying To ross4sam11: "Bookies/Pundits predictions aside, this is a game Ross should be winning... if the tables were turned and we were heading in to play Mayo with almost half a team playing their second championship game then Mayo would beat us comfortably by double scores... not that I am saying we will win comfortably, far from it as history tells us Ross never ever beat Mayo comfortably.. Ross by 4 the weekend for me, its a huge huge test of our development and whether we have made progress.. 2 years of beating Mayo when it matters will be monumental.. if we slip back into old habits of losing meekly then it will take all the gloss off promotion & general buzz of getting a few players back in the squad" Mayo with almost half a team playing their second championship
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That is not true but it goes to show how much James Horan has played the media and how it has allowed many into thinking Mayo with Keegan, Coen, Clarke, D O Connor, McLoughlin, Barrett, Loftus,A O'Shea,C O Connor, Durcan, Ruane etc all likely starters on Sunday is a inexperienced team
Gaa_lover (Roscommon) - 03/11/2020 21:48:48
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Westmeath Footballers 2020 - 6 Like(s)
Replying To Iarmhi04: "You say Roscommon do poorly in the super eights every year, but if they are in the super eights every year they must be a top 8 team? Even if they do poorly!" I'd leave him be. He's probably a few fries short of a Happy Meal.
Gaa_lover (Westmeath) - 12/02/2020 19:01:24
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Non-Gaa Forum - 5 Like(s)
Replying To DuhallowRed: "Biden is coming in April. I wonder will he remember" Isn't as stupid as the last fella who probably still thinks he's president.
Gaa_lover (National) - 16/03/2023 16:16:51
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Division two 2018 - 5 Like(s)
Replying To Maestro: "Have you seen the highlights, one of the softest penalties you're likely to ever get." Seen the highlights today, three separate fouls was made on that penalty, hold/pull back of the arm,a push and trip. The little or no reaction of the Meath players to the awarding of penalty says it all.
Gaa_lover (Roscommon) - 30/01/2018 21:36:11
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The Next Senior Football Manager - 5 Like(s)
Replying To dave1988: "So you think shine fit is better than the murtaghs and smith brothers.." Didn't Shine not at full fitness and missed a number of group games scored more in the club championship this year than the Murtagh and Smiths?
Gaa_lover (Roscommon) - 13/11/2018 14:13:19
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Roscommon Vs Galway - 5 Like(s)
Replying To salvador: "Massive confidence in Galway on the back of a wonderful league campaign where only Dublin went to to toe with them and beating Mayo yet again.burke and Sean andy are awesome additions, probable all Stars. Kevin Walsh alluding to the Dubs again this week points to they're ambition, Galway are 3rd Favs for Sam and it looks impossible to see them slip up or be ambushed by us this year.
Meanwhile We have been desperately poor especially defensively in league and it will take a miraculous performance on current form to be competitive with Galway with the replay hammering by Mayo hanging heavy. Mullooly is a crippling loss at the back. As long as we give it our best shot and fight to the end most Ros fans will be happy with that." Doing fairly well in league last two years is irrelevant when it comes to championship.
salvador (Roscommon) - Posts: 428 - 22/04/2017 22:58:53 1981788
Now you are hyping up Galway based on wonderful league campaign! no consistency in any of your posts at all .....
Gaa_lover (National) - 14/06/2018 15:30:56
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Galway Football thread - 5 Like(s)
Replying To anotheralias: "There was some suggestions on the Mayo GAA blog that Mayo have a younger age profile than Galway ( and implied in that is that they will be getting better relative to us).
This prompted me do a bit of research.
Taking the starting Mayo 15 v Donegal ( the last serious game for Mayo) and our starting 15 v Kerry.
Taking ages (as best I could ) from internet. The averages are very similar 25.26 and 25.33.
There was a bit of a difference in the standard deviation ( 3.47 versus 3.97) which would suggest that Mayo have more players closer to the prime age of 25 than Galway have , But the bottom line is that there really is no significant difference in age profile.
Sometimes its nice to deal with facts rather than sweeping statements that might suit a particular narrative." Only good thing I see about the Mayo GAA blog is their result achieve. The guy that runs it deserve credit for that but he's just ordinary supporter who seems to have lost the run of himself and somewhat believes he's a voice of all Mayo supporters now and has worked his way onto the Mayo news podcast which includes asking national journalist questions. he also has family members involved now also.
Gaa_lover (National) - 29/03/2023 16:42:33
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New Galway Football Manager - 5 Like(s)
Replying To PressureKick: "Who are the people coming from other counties onto a Galway page liking this post and disliking others? Really odd behaviour, you'd really want to get a life.
The inaccuracies here are funny. Two excellent Archer goals at the start had Galway way behind in that u20 game and yet they got it back to level despite missing loads of chances. Joyces tactics looked spot on that day, he can't go out and correct players missing easy frees and chances. They dominated possession and didnt execute. Conveniently ignore them winning the Kerins cup at ease beating Cork, Dublin & Kerry along the way.
Divillys coaching credentials are superb. UCD have been consistently high scoring in sigerson, a competition renowned for low scores due to poor conditions of games played in winter. But sure lets make stuff up to try have a little dig, all coming from concerned posters from Roscommon, a county that only plays 1 sport and has less than 1/4 the All Irelands of Galway and half the Connacht titles. Maybe turn your concern inward." I thought the Archer goals came about due to fairly loose defending from Mulkerrin who is highly rated by Galway supporters, Dublin ran out comfortable 7 points winners in a game they always had extra gears to Galway and margin of victory didn't flatter them. That result and performance looked much worse when for Galway when Dublin lost the final by 8 point to Cork in match they were outscored from the 10th minutes 3-16 to 0-8.
Galway supporters on here and elsewhere are right to voice their concerns about this appointment, after all Alan Mulholland was appointed off the back of winning U21 All Ireland which also happened to be a higher and better grade than Sigerson cup level and he really struggled in senior management.
Gaa_lover (Galway) - 13/10/2019 13:31:37
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Sligo GAA thread - 5 Like(s)
Replying To Sligobuck21: "[quote=Gaa_lover: "paranoid? time that you drop the ignoramus remarks one would expect from 12 year old than grown adult. These are championship matches with the flag ship team in action and Sligo of the 16 teams had arguably the worst support of any county.
Tony McEntee rally call before the group stage has fallen on deaf ears.
"We need that. We need every advantage. Home advantage, the crowd behind us. The players will get a lift from that. This is hard for most players to get; in Division 4 you are looking at hundreds at these matches. You don't get atmosphere. There is no occasion at it. You might get some families and friends but that is all you are getting. Now that we are getting crowds and great success form the 20s, if we get thousands into Markievicz Park it will lift everything."" It's very simple.
Adult ticket €25, student/oap €20, juvenile €5. Let's say family of 4 you could be paying €60 (2 adults 2 juveniles), family of 5 €65+ (2 adults 3 juveniles), family of 6 €70+ (2 adults 4 juveniles) and chances are most people are going to have atleast one student which isn't even accounted for in my pricing.
So firstly it's costly.
Everyone has come on here from other counties to say that they knew Sligo wouldn't win a game or that they shouldn't be in this competition. So would the Sligo people not know that themselves considering they're from the county. Why would they pay over €70 on tickets, plus money on fuel and food for away games when they could go off with the family on a rare hot day. People can say all they like that it's bad support but it's easy to say that but then contradict yourself by saying that the matches are dead rubbers because they weren't going to win. Which is the exact thing Roscommon people have done saying one second the Sligo support was poor, but the next saying they knew they would win and Shane Curran was 100% correct and anyone with a brain would know that. And I'm not complaining that they said that because it was highly likely they would win. I just don't get the contradiction.
Thirdly, it's easier to support a team that's winning. Yes the u20s had a larger support, yes they are underage, but tell me this : In a county like Sligo who are starved of success would you rather bring your kids and pay money to see a team who's going to lose or pay half the price to see a team who's going to win and have a great day out.
There's no two ways about it the Sligo support for the seniors has been poor. BUT… everyone is here to look at Sligo and saying how their crowds are so poor yet the same people are saying it's going to be a cake walk for Sligos opposition. So should Sligo people be paying the guts off 200/300 euro to see 3 group games that the whole country thinks they're going to lose.
Don't get me wrong, I've gone to 6 games this year in the league and all of the championship ones so far. But I don't expect every Sligo fan to fork out such money and give up so much time when the whole country thinks we are going to lose.
My whole point is : Don't bother complaining about the Sligo support if you're going to say in the next breath that the game was a waste and Sligo were always going to lose. I don't care if you say it's a championship game and therefore there should be more support… because I disagree with that. McEntee from the outset said realistically we aren't going to beat these teams and we are looking to just improve. So in my opinion, if anything Sligo should have bigger crowds at their league games.
Did Armagh pack out their stadium before they went on their run of form the last few years. Did Derry have the same crowds they do now when they were in division 3 and 4. No no they didn't.
I can only imagine the amount of people that are going to come and still give out about the support and give out about this post. But tell me this… honestly if your county was going into a match costing you €50-€100 minimum on tickets, €20 on fuel, money to feed the family for the day, during a heatwave (in a county full of beaches), bank holiday weekend so high chance of family/friends home, not expected to win, not given a beggars chance by anyone but the few die hard supporters. A division 4 team against the 3rd placed Div 1 team.
Would you go???
I've been to over 80% of the games, but I don't expect everyone to do the same until we are a division 2 team. Because then we will have a better chance. That's just life. It's realistic.
We are improving and in a few years I've no doubt we will be competing with the Div 1 and 2 teams. But we aren't there yet but I know for a fact we will be in soon time. And I will come back to this post when we are.
The End. Thank you."]Firstly ticket prices was cheaper than the Connacht championship matches and Sligo even brought more to the New York game than the last two games. Living in general is costly as is supporting your county team.
Kildare at home was winnable game and against your neighbours shouldn't need a reason for going. home championship games and against your neighbour in the last 16 of the championship is more rare for Sligo than sunny days in the summer.
As I've said already the senior team is the flagship team, Sligo Senior manager called for a bigger support and it's fallen on deaf ears. Thick and thin is supporting a team in all team sports, don't expect sell outs crowds to turn up but Sligo should be getting more than 2k at the Kildare home match and bringing more than a few hundred to Hyde Park last Sunday.
Gaa_lover (National) - 07/06/2023 18:49:47
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Galway Football 2020 - 5 Like(s)
Replying To hopballref: "Great win for Corofin. They are truly an exceptional club team.
I can't however see too many of them making Galway first 15.
Liam Silke a shoe in.
Burke and Molloy will be fighting for a spot. Thats about it really." Based on the last few Corofin games i watched. The players that should be on the county panel
Liam Silke (obviously)
Daithi Burke (will likely choose hurling instead)
Dylan Wall and Jason Leonard.
Molloy well talked up but he has a bit to go before stepping up to senior county level and can see why Kevin Walsh wasn't to keen in giving him much game time. Ian Burke looks like a player that needs at least a year break away from football. Power a decent club keeper but he's not county standard.
In Kevin O'Brien Corofin have a better manager than Galway senior county team next year, food for thought perhaps?
Gaa_lover (Galway) - 25/11/2019 15:41:53
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Galway Football thread - 5 Like(s)
Replying To tommy k: "Don't agree but of course you're entitled to your opinion." More a fact that the current Corofin team weren't good enough to reach the county final and All Ireland semi final is another step up from that.
Gaa_lover (National) - 08/01/2023 21:06:07
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Clare - 5 Like(s)
With Meaths good record against Clare i thought they'd have enough to edge it but not only did Clare deserve their win they really should have won by more but for the penalty save and another goal chance late on wasted. That should be the end of McEntee now probably stayed on a year longer than he should.
Gaa_lover (Meath) - 04/06/2022 20:03:05
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Galway Football thread - 5 Like(s)
Replying To TanCanRan: "No, I'm not. Making up stuff when you've got no reply. Sad." Already replied to you more than i should have. I don't make stuff up and as i suspected the same poster alright. What you wrote after Moycullens championship exit last year.
Flash in the pan so from the Man City of Galway football (Moycullen).
TanCanRan (Galway) - Posts: 113 - 31/10/2021 19:00:50 2387997
Gaa_lover (National) - 18/12/2022 13:08:11
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Who Can Stop Kerry Minors? - 4 Like(s)
Replying To KingdomBoy1: "I've tried explaining it to the poor fella but he's obviously a bit on the slow side RAHKILL if he would just look up the allireland minor football roll of honor it might get through to him." I'll go back to my original post on this thread as clearly this is going way over your head.
"The fact is Kerry's U18s won 4 in a row All Ireland's not 5.
2014,2015,2016 and 2017 the last year of U18.
The first ever U17 All Ireland was won by Tyrone in 2017 while Kerry that year was beaten by Roscommon in the All Ireland semi final.
Last year Kerry won the U17 All Ireland and they have opportunity to win 2 in a row this year."
No belittling or bitterness about Kerry or what else some has posted here just facts of the matter and if you can't understand them, well then its you that are a little slow.
Gaa_lover (National) - 19/05/2019 13:52:52
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Division One 2017 - 4 Like(s)
Donegal way fitter yesterday? Where do you come up with this stuff.
Donegal seniors played no pre-season their U21s played the McKenna cup instead and apart of a few challenges they are probably the most rusty team in division one.
Last year Donegal with a far,far stronger and more experienced starting 15 won 3 league games in a row which included a win against Mayo before losing to Roscommon at home. Cathal Cregg and Niall Daly were two of the stand out players that day but hey they wouldnt have made any difference yesterday so says you.
Gaa_lover (Roscommon) - 13/02/2017 13:16:40
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Why Are RTÉ Not Showing The Div 1&2 League Final Live? - 4 Like(s)
What is this thread about, someone that started watching the game this year and not knowing league finals are on TG4?
Gaa_lover (National) - 02/04/2023 21:14:07
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Club Championship 2018 - 4 Like(s)
Both teams struggling to score in their respective semi finals might had something to do with how solid and organized Roscommon Gaels and Strokestown was in defence against them. Brigids and Clann are well organized also and it would be a big surprise if this is a high scoring county final. It's strange that Roscommon can have so many solid and organized senior club teams in defence while the county team are the very opposite in defence.
Gaa_lover (Roscommon) - 06/10/2018 15:25:35
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Leitrim GAA thread - 4 Like(s)
Replying To howdareu: "To be fair hes giving his or her opinions which everyone is entitled to do. Assume this poster is from leitrim and probably does not want to be lectured from people in other counties which I can understand especially when that county isn't really at the top table either." Out of interest did your last account kentuckytucky get banned?
Gaa_lover (National) - 02/06/2022 20:48:26
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