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Replying To Seanfan:  "Looking at how poor Ros Gaels were last year I'm really worried that we're in for a disaster year.
RG were mired in pre FRC muck and looking at Ros last Sunday has me thinking it will be more of the same.
Hopefully it's just January FBD blues but danger signals evident.
Add in Brigids lads missing and rumours of some taking a year out from County.
The game in Killarney could be very humiliating."
Hard to know but we will find out very quickly. Mark is highly rated by anyone who has spoke about him and it's very early days. We will need our senior players like smith and murtagh to step up and lead the way this year. They need to be consistent this year

dave1988 (Roscommon) - Posts: 1325 - 13/01/2026 13:06:31    2650923

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Replying To Seanfan:  "Looking at how poor Ros Gaels were last year I'm really worried that we're in for a disaster year.
RG were mired in pre FRC muck and looking at Ros last Sunday has me thinking it will be more of the same.
Hopefully it's just January FBD blues but danger signals evident.
Add in Brigids lads missing and rumours of some taking a year out from County.
The game in Killarney could be very humiliating."
Not sure about the Roscommon Gaels comparison. They had some injuries in key areas, and other players opting out. They certainly hit a wall in the 2nd half of the Quarter final against Brigids. The year before under him Roscommon Gaels reached the final and were competitive against Pearses, also he was the head coach on the Strokestown team the won the county title against the odds.

Dowd has a few different people alongside him at Roscommon than he had at the Gaels. Iain Daly on the defensive side of things and as Glaveys manager last summer he came up with a plan to restrict Brigids to a low score and beat them (come Sunday it will hopefully be Brigids only defeat)

The task of Improving our forward play will be surely be given to Jason Sherlock and he was part of the Dublin dominant team who had arguably the best shooting efficiency the game has ever seen. Even getting our shooting efficiency up to 55 to 69% consistency would bring big progress for the year ahead but last showed a mountain of work is needed behind the scenes

The_analyser (Roscommon) - Posts: 4235 - 13/01/2026 14:54:39    2650942

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