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Westmeath Football thread - 2 Like(s)
Replying To Temple56: "Morgan Gavigan has to be called up by Mark McHugh. A super talent!
Also I was in the Brigid yesterday for double header, some of the Athlone and Garrycastle players are well good enough to play county football! Not sure why they don't is it because there not from Mullingar?" Yes that's the reason why. McHugh was told there's a quota system in place and Connellan and Allen filled the quota. Garrycastle appealed the decision as they felt Mickey Greene was worth his place but overruled by county board.
Claretandblue (National) - 31/08/2026 18:14:23
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Man Utd V Leeds Utd - Croke Park - 2 Like(s)
Replying To BarneyGrant: "Ballygunner now have some their own split season now before Munster begins!
Gilroy hit nail on head about finals being moved and allowing that borefest across the channel to dominate even what schoolchildren are talking about at a time when our finals used to be the centre of the sporting and indeed cultural year." I didn't hear anyone talking about it out our way, kids or adults. Hardly knew it was on. It was a random Wednesday night in Croke Park. What else would be on that evening instead of it?
I'll say it again, but we had hundreds of games and thousands of players playing club championships in both codes across the country for the month of August. Great weather, brilliant pitches and some cracking matches. That's what I bring my kids to, and they have plenty of their own games too.
A far cry from my own playing days, when you hadn't a clue when some of your championship matches would be played and you got the short end of the stick weather wise.
WanPintWin (National) - 01/09/2026 10:38:27
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Galway Football thread - 2 Like(s)
Replying To Fox.1n.7he.b0x: "I have to agree with this, my club are miles off it but id rather see Corofin or Salthill win it rather than them, at least they have soldiered with there club all the way from under 8s" Indeed, Ruairi Lavelle, Michael Donnellan, Alan Keirns, Maurice Sheridan and Donal O'Sullivan often reminisce about the good old days. The go games at U8 and U10 and then a swim from the Blackrock tower.
GDL (National) - 01/09/2026 11:36:32
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Westmeath Football thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Temple56: "Morgan Gavigan has to be called up by Mark McHugh. A super talent!
Also I was in the Brigid yesterday for double header, some of the Athlone and Garrycastle players are well good enough to play county football! Not sure why they don't is it because there not from Mullingar?" Mark McHugh was in the Bridge, if they're good enough he'll bring them in, geography won't matter.
stonemadbeany (National) - 31/08/2026 18:19:08
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Westmeath Football thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To 2maroonjerseys: "Merit is needed to win the championship not just because they're successful in the past means nothing. Championship is designed by nature for the best teams to win. If anything this new system has shown has much coasting was done in the previous format. Do enough to get to the knockout and then go flat out. It's been remarked on here that lomans look flat unfit in games. Probably they haven't adjusted to the new system however flawed it is. 4 draws tells its own story regarding the table. No doubt whichever two don't get through will be clamouring to get the old system back next yr.
If anything I'm surprised they've all been caught napping regarding getting out off the group. Real bite has been added to the group stages and it's only now we can see that. Being the 4th best team in group A and not getting out should be painful and focus the mind on dog eat dog championship football not happy clappy let's all get medals football. Someone will always be unhappy with formats it's up to teams to get to grips with it straight away and play what's in front of you.
Who knows the whole thing might change totally again next yr." The new system is atrocious. As was expected by everyone that had actually thought it through.
If you want to prevent coasting by having 3 from each group, then fair enough. But the groups have to be equally strong in that case. Personally I don't think it would be as good as the format we had, but I can see the argument for it.
This weekend has half the teams in the championship with nothing to play for. Shamrocks, Caulry, Tubberclair, Athlone, Moate, Killucan all know their fate. And barring a bizarre outcome you can add CK to that list too. So more than half the teams, realistically, have nothing on the line in the last game.
anon (National) - 31/08/2026 18:27:59
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Galway Football thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Fox.1n.7he.b0x: "Wouldn't surprise me one bit," Jaysus you are hilarious altogether.
Alwaysencourage (National) - 31/08/2026 20:14:42
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Wicklow GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Lets keep it going Tinahely doing a Tinahely. Arklows to lose
heavyheart19 (National) - 31/08/2026 22:02:08
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Monaghan GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Big one in Junior this weekend Currin vs Drumhowan. Currin the only team to take points off Drumhowan yet and i Fancy them to bate Drumhowan this weekend.
Farneyarmy2013 (National) - 01/09/2026 10:10:04
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Man Utd V Leeds Utd - Croke Park - 1 Like(s)
@Viking66 - 2014 is actually a perfect example of how the current split season prevents that sort of thing from happening now.
Main reason our club championships ran a little late that year was due to our U21 hurlers reaching the All-Ireland Final in the middle of September. With so many of them playing in the adult club championships and so many of them being dual players, both our club hurling and football championships had to work around them.
The football wasn't helped either by how the Senior Hurling Final (Shelmaliers v St. Anne's) ended in a draw and how the same two teams were due to meet in a Senior Football semi-final the following week. If the football had proceeded as planned, it would have meant football semi-final then, football final the following Saturday, winners playing in Leinster the next day, and hurling replay not taking place in time for Leinster at all.
Fixtures committee of the time decided that the lesser of two evils was to have the hurling replay when the football semi-finals should have been played. Basically, we were going to be without a representative in Leinster in either hurling or football, and they decided it was in our better interests to have somebody in hurling.
But again, main reason for it was we lost a number of weekends in August & September for club championship action due to a county team still going strong. The split season means that couldn't happen now.
Pikeman96 (National) - 01/09/2026 10:39:31
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Galway Football thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To GDL: "Indeed, Ruairi Lavelle, Michael Donnellan, Alan Keirns, Maurice Sheridan and Donal O'Sullivan often reminisce about the good old days. The go games at U8 and U10 and then a swim from the Blackrock tower." They certainly weren't a good comparison to use, for obvious reasons, however I will say that the current team is much more homegrown than previous versions. Their top players all came up the underage ranks, Maher, Finnerty, O'Flaherty, Sweeney.
WanPintWin (National) - 01/09/2026 13:33:02
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