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Galway Hurling thread - 2 Like(s)
Replying To SouthGalway: "Interesting that Rory Burke is taking the frees for Galway v Offaly. I assumed it would be Aaron Niland." It's smart as Aaron and Evan got too much kudos on a blast of frees, now he is judged on work rate, score from play and passing.
WesternSeaBoard (National) - 13/01/2026 09:27:38
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Looking Forward To 2026 - 2 Like(s)
Replying To S1234: "And all yerra from kerry ones as per usual.." It'll be interesting to see if Cavan kick on from their win in Castlebar last year. It was a massive performance. Should set the bar.
legendzxix (National) - 13/01/2026 11:14:02
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Club Football Championships - General Discussion - 2 Like(s)
Replying To WanPintWin: "Does Kerry's structure give their intermediate and junior club winners an advantage? Absolutely. They will be favourites for both titles almost every year because of this.
Should they change their system because of this? Absolutely not. They should only change if they want to themselves. It's up to every county to run their championship as they see fit.
Kerry have a system that works for them. When the championship structure was devised, there was no such thing as an All-Ireland junior or intermediate club championship.
Most strong footballing counties have 16 team senior championships. Donegal, Tyrone, Armagh, Meath, Kildare, Galway, Mayo. Dublin and Cork have 16 also, but they have an additional senior tier as well. Galway had 20 senior football teams until not too long ago. We were sending our 21st team to the provincial and All-Ireland intermediate championship, whereas Kerry were sending their 9th.
Given Kerry's number of clubs and registered players, they are the outlier among all strong football counties. It gives them a disproportionate advantage at those levels and nobody should be surprised that An Ghaeltacht won yesterday. To be honest, I'm surprised in the years Kerry teams don't win the junior and intermediate club All-Irelands.
At the same time, it's nobody else's decision but their own." Good post WanPintWin. As a Kerryman I will admit that of course Kerry have a huge advantage in the intermediate and junior grades. However our system in Kerry works very well. Croke park ordered a few years back that the county championship has to be limited to 16 teams. Becuase in Kerry we have divisional teams ( an amalgamation of smaller clubs) that play in the county championship then we could only have 8 senior teams and 8 divisional teams. Of course then that means the 9th best club team in Kerry are intermediate and if they win that championship it gives them a big advantage in the All Ireland run. We in Kerry think having the divisional teams are brilliant ( altho if they win they cant represent the county as they are a few clubs amalgamated). Divisonal teams gives every player a chance to play senior county championship football no matter what grade their club is . If a player is good enough from a weak club they can play with a divisional team. In fact both the Cliffords would have never been able to play county championship football only for the divisional team as their club Fossa is not senior. Now this year the diviosional teams are decreasing so we have 9 senior club teams and next year I believe Kerry will have 10 senior club teams and 6 divisional teams. This still gives us an advantage but cuts it down a little as it will be our 11th best team representing Kerry at intermediate instead of 9. Our system is used for the betterment of Kerry football and we think its a great system for players in Kerry but yes it is advantagous to Kerry clubs representing the county.
gaa.88 (National) - 13/01/2026 12:50:04
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Galway Football thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To PressureKick: "In fairness it's the most amount of established championship starters ever named in an FBD 15. If you have any other examples I'm all ears but don't believe there is any. Andy obviously thought it was of more benefit than the usual development side" What are you on about?
MayoDan (National) - 12/01/2026 23:55:34
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Galway Football thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To WanPintWin: "I thought D'Arcy was very good against An Daingean. He won a lot of kickouts, far more than Mark O'Connor, and drove them forward. He was much stronger in the air.
O'Connor had his moments too, but was anonymous for good chunks of the game. Tom O'Sullivan and Paul Geaney were by a mile the main difference makers in that game. Just because An Daingean won, doesn't mean D'Arcy was outplayed. Ballyboden had the better of midfield for the majority of the game." What game were you watching? He was anonymous
cavan.galway (National) - 13/01/2026 08:10:55
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Roscommon GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To The_analyser: "On the Mayo hype it's doesn't appear to have reached their match going supporters yet as that was among the smallest Mayo crowd I ever recall for a FBD game against us and that includes the many Ballyhaunis and Ballinlough meetings I attended over the years.
No doubt more will turn up for the final in Tuam but I think supporters generally voted with their feet to the decision of the Connacht GAA charging 15€ to attend FBD games with no discount for students and OAPS. Meanwhile they charged 10€ for the stream.
Back to ourselves with Div 1 football around the corner we have to find a way to get out shooting efficiency up to 55 to 60% at least to be competitive. Yesterday we had 24 shots in 60 plus minutes and the efficiency was 29% that's simply not good enough.
And watching the game back another thing that's not good enough was our feeble effort to defend the 6 two pointers that Mayo scored yesterday, are we back to the nonsense of zonal marking again?" 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.
Seanfan (National) - 13/01/2026 12:09:19
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Looking Forward To 2026 - 1 Like(s)
Replying To legendzxix: "It'll be interesting to see if Cavan kick on from their win in Castlebar last year. It was a massive performance. Should set the bar." And their other AI games last Summer???
Seanfan (National) - 13/01/2026 12:10:20
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Wexford Club Hurling 2026 - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Timbertony: "Finished by end of July but yet have played a number of higher quality club games back to back replicating the inter county format? Is it realistic club standards will improve stopping every two weeks to change sports and then social breaks for music festivals?
Yes, the trade off will mean club championship winners are unlikely to be as competitive in Leinster but a price worth paying in my view. Interest in the group stages this year must have been an all time low." I would argue interest in the group stage was at an all time low due to the total lack of jepordary in the current format.
Afinestick96 (National) - 13/01/2026 12:11:27
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Donegal GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To RoryGall35: "Hey Folks..I see Abbey are in the semi finals of Mcgory cup again this year. Great achievement..I just wanted to ask if they have a good chance this year to win it and who they play next in semi-final..I remember last year final by a point I think and the team that beat them cleaned every other team by good few scores even a kerry team in the final..anyone know anything about the current team..thanks..great to see underage football in Donegal in good health" Hi Rory. I've been keeping an eye on their results without knowing much about the team. They've lost a few from last year but McCahill is still there and he must be a bit of a cheat code at this level. I imagine it'll be one of the Derry schools who'll be favourites again without knowing much about them. I remember last year's final. The winners were a very good side and outplayed Abbey for long periods but goals and a never say die spirit kept them in it. Brilliant really what is going on around Donegal town regarding the development of players. I genuinely think Four Masters can be Donegal and Ulster club champions in the next few years.
panamasam (National) - 13/01/2026 12:34:17
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Club Football Championships - General Discussion - 1 Like(s)
Replying To WanPintWin: "People always go on about the dimensions of Croke Park when talking about how it plays big. It's actually to do with the surface. It plays faster than any pitch in the country, as the surface is immaculate. The ball bounces much faster off the ground and players can use the space much more effectively. Unlike a pitch with a softer and thicker surface, Croke Park is not a defender's friend." Correct.Croke park has a different surface to every other gaa pitch and the ball bounces differently too off the surface.Players playing there for the first time will tell you its completely different. While Croke park is not the biggest dimension wise it is still fairly big with 145m x 88m with the largest being 145m x 90m. Semple stadium is 145m x 80m.
gaa.88 (National) - 13/01/2026 12:57:41
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Westmeath Football thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To BigSur: "I believe Joe Moran and Niall Mitchell are involved but both recovering from injury." harry nial has been a real find . he will be great help to ray at midfield . the form of brandon kelly is also a positive development . its also great to see the return of boidou . unfortunately no one from my own club due to nigel hartes injury but we do have jamie as part of management . all positive so far
mickcunningham (National) - 13/01/2026 14:20:18
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Wexford Club Hurling 2026 - 1 Like(s)
I think it is a very knee jerk reaction to have split season on the agenda after what has been probably one of the most successful Leinster Hurling campaigns in the last two seasons with Leinster Final wins at Senior / Intermediate and Junior.
By all means look at changing to format of the hurling and away from current model but do not go and then introduce split season too.
U21 should be straight knockout either played at start of season or end of season - no back door, no second chance.
MyOhMi (National) - 13/01/2026 16:19:40
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Westmeath Football thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Chops: "Roscommon had the finger on the pulse. A local house and tickets priced reasonably. 20 for 1 ticket. 50 for 3 tickets and 100 for 7 tickets." Roscommon GAA got it spot it on with pricing and they have ran several similar successful house draws now. They're hundreds of new houses being built in Mullingar now so you'd hope Westmeath GAA can learn from that house in Spain Draw & get it right next time with some new personnel driving it.
Matthew (National) - 13/01/2026 18:20:20
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Leitrim GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Good to see that the spring league has been scrapped, what do you all think of the new league format?
Loughallenbanks (National) - 13/01/2026 18:51:21
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