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Allianz National Leagues 2026 - 4 Like(s)
Replying To S1234: "Lol it was a fair spot for both sides but it McGuiness and Donegal crowd so don't expect much more then that from ye .
Ye beat knocked us out by the last kick of the game hardly a hammering is it ." As long as we beat ye and knocked ye out that's all that mattered. The long journey home didn't feel as bad....
Scenicparish (National) - 16/01/2026 20:24:28
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Galway Hurling thread - 3 Like(s)
Replying To katser: "Loughrea have two hopes of winning on Sunday.........Bob Hope and No Hope!" Which county are you from, Katie? You're not a Galway girl anyway…
Crashingwaves (National) - 16/01/2026 15:40:33
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Allianz National Leagues 2026 - 3 Like(s)
Replying To S1234: "Lol it was a fair spot for both sides but it McGuiness and Donegal crowd so don't expect much more then that from ye .
Ye beat knocked us out by the last kick of the game hardly a hammering is it ." I would say you were like Ralph Wiggum when Lisa Simpson broke his heart that day.
Lockjaw (National) - 16/01/2026 14:03:49
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Wexford Hurling Thread - 2 Like(s)
Replying To Waltermitty2: "The current martins underage teams are some of the weakest the club has ever produced. Certainly wouldn't be getting too excited about hammering them." You and I know that. Young lads in my club don't. I want them getting the boost from thinking they've beaten the best, and they themselves can be the best.
Doylerwex (National) - 16/01/2026 18:02:32
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Dublin GAA thread - 2 Like(s)
Replying To Fionn: "If we cant find a player who can kick 2 pointers, then we should just pack it in, and concentrate on Hurling....." I'd take that!
BarneyGrant (National) - 16/01/2026 16:32:34
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Allianz National Leagues 2026 - 2 Like(s)
Replying To S1234: "Lol it was a fair spot for both sides but it McGuiness and Donegal crowd so don't expect much more then that from ye .
Ye beat knocked us out by the last kick of the game hardly a hammering is it ." It's not how much we done it by it's how we done it. I still have a good oul chuckle about it now and again.
peiledoir20 (National) - 16/01/2026 12:15:24
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Galway Hurling thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To BigBàsMan: "I'm glad you posted this a good omen for loughrea. You've been wrong all year" Loughrea have two hopes of winning on Sunday.........Bob Hope and No Hope!
katser (National) - 16/01/2026 13:14:00
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Allianz National Leagues 2026 - 1 Like(s)
Replying To peiledoir20: "It's not how much we done it by it's how we done it. I still have a good oul chuckle about it now and again." I suppose it's all academic now. Kerry won the All Ireland. As Mayo fans were told many times, it's not what you do in the way to a final but what you do in it and you must win it. Only one team is successful every year.
yew_tree (National) - 16/01/2026 15:40:31
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Westmeath Hurling thread - 1 Like(s)
CBS Mullingar vs CBS Kilkenny in the A semi final next Wednesday in Portlaoise. Hopefully they will have the good support.
Dheen (National) - 16/01/2026 14:40:26
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Galway Football thread - 1 Like(s)
Galway Minor Football: I believe the panel has been trimmed. Does anyone have the panel with names/clubs? When does the league kick off?
Dualstar22 (National) - 16/01/2026 09:18:03
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Westmeath Football thread - 1 Like(s)
Good luck tonight lads deserve midfield spot for Harry Naill has plenty of potential and these are the games to gain vital experience.
Undertheroad (National) - 16/01/2026 13:12:42
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Allianz National Leagues 2026 - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Lockjaw: "Well it wasn't ideal. But we got the result we wanted so it was a case of all's well that ends well that day.
How did ye fare out in the rest of the Championship after that?" Invisibly! We were awful in 2025 league and championship. Never made any gains from the new rules. Well tested by Leitrim and Sligo. In the Connacht final we spent too much of the first half admiring the Galway forwards kicking points. In the second half failed to score in last 15 minutes. Galway defended well when they needed to. But some analysis of that game decided we played well. We didn't, just better than the, mostly, awful stuff we played earlier in the year. Not the first time we failed to close out a game, not just in 2025. Well beaten by Cavan. We beat Tyrone and well worth that win. We're heading to 37 years since we lost our first final in 38 years. We need to stop looking at scorelines and inventing upsides but look at reality. We can look to Kerry, Armagh, Dublin, Donegal, Galway, Tryone, over the years, to look at scoring more than opponents on big days, learn some lessons rather than think we were or are at their level.
Last Sunday was a nice win against very understrength Roscommon in a roomy Dr Hyde Park. A bit like the game, 'nice'. For me the big lesson was the Roscommon goal. It was tried twice before and we we prevented a goal. But Roscommon persisted and got their reward, best bit of skill on the day, the pass to Cregg and the finish. The kind of ball we should have been given to Aido, but he had to wander out around the arc looking to get on ball. We'll judge Andy's first year when we exit the championship but there's loads of room for improvement so I'm optimistic as a man can be in January!
Maigh Eo Abú!
GreenandRed (National) - 16/01/2026 12:31:29
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Galway Football thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Dualstar22: "Galway Minor Football: I believe the panel has been trimmed. Does anyone have the panel with names/clubs? When does the league kick off?" Nothing released yet, I'm going to assume the biggest numbers are coming from Claregalway, Oranmore and Michael Breathnachs who should have 3/4 players each involved, i could be wrong
WonTon5 (National) - 16/01/2026 12:23:44
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Donegal GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Commodore: "I think McGuinness was fuming at the wasted goal chances on offer, twice in injury time we seen Eoin McGeehan wide open in front of goal, and ball carriers selfishly went for the point. Overall I think the new faces grew into the game as it went on, but it was still the experienced hands that drove it on. Daire O'Baoill looked immense, although its only January.
Overall its good to get another game in before the National League." It was actually very uncharacteristic of McCahill to take the easy point. Usually he is very goal driven when he gets half a sniff but it's a massive learning curve for him. As pointed out a 5 point lead can be whittled away very quickly so that ball needs to be hand passed to McGeehin for the walk in goal. I'm sure he'll learn from it but make no mistake he is going to be a name on many lips in the very near future.
panamasam (National) - 16/01/2026 12:12:24
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Wexford Hurling Thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Viking66: "As regards the Underage/Senior success its like a chicken and egg situation. We reached Senior AI hurling finals in 1951 and 1954, after winning Leinster in those years. We were in 5 Leinster Senior hurling finals in a row between those years. In 1955 we reached our first ever Leinster minor final. Maybe that period of Senior success encouraged the younger generation?
As I pointed out in my last post, we didnt win a Leinster minor title until 1963, when we went on to win the AI. We had appeared in 6 Senior AI finals in the previous 12 years at that stage, winning 3.
Unfortunately for us after our underage success in the 1960s, the 1970s saw Corks best ever Senior team, backboned by players who beat us in no less than 5 AI U21 finals in the 8 years after our lone u21 AI win in 1965, and arguably Kilkennys second best team ever. We won 3 Leinsters but no AIs. We fell back after that at all levels, until the lads of the early mid 90s came together. After that AI win there was a renewed buzz around hurling, a noticeable uptick in lads hurling hurling on the street especially in urban areas including villages, and we reached 2 u21 AI finals in a row in the early noughties, probably left the one against Limerick behind us.
Sadly for us those players had to contend with Kilkennys best team ever.
We fell away again.
Im not saying we as a county are quitters, but......" We're not a county of quitters but I'd argue we are too satisfied with mediocrity and have a savage lack of belief that we need to try to address.
How exactly we do that I'm not sure.
I was delighted the Martin's did what they did. Our chaps were talking about it. We hammered them with our underage groups. They started asking themselves "if they can do it why can't we?" Which I'll be using for all of 2026 with our young lads.
Doylerwex (National) - 16/01/2026 11:47:16
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Leitrim GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Leitrim4sam26: "Obviously didn't watch too much of him, he had an excellent championship. Was all over jack foley when Drumkeerin played kiltubrid bet him all over the pitch. Was immense against Dromahair was definitely their standout player. Hes a better player then the Harkins and offers more to a Leitrim team physically and athletically." I agree with this was very good against Dromahair in semi final. I think he's got something to offer mabye not as a starter but as an impact player definitely as he's very strong and fast and can kick 2 pointers something Leitrim lack at present
Leitrimforsam2024 (National) - 16/01/2026 09:48:12
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Donegal GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Tirchonaill1: "Yeah we have to learn to go for goals more, if that was Murphy free he'd get the ball or whoever took the point would hear about it, just pass the ball into the net too, no need for these raspers, Colm Mc Fadden should be able to tell them how it's done." I agree. Look it's only the McKenna Cup but it's still no harm getting into good habits.
McGeehin could have walked the ball into the net if McCahill had passed to him. I don't want to be harsh on the young lad, but with the new rules, seemingly healthy leads can be very quickly whittled away.
We had a 5 point lead with about 90 seconds left the other night. Derry got a fortuitous goal but time was up. But the ref could just as easily have allowed one more play. Who knows - a free kick outside the arc. All of a sudden your 5 point lead is gone and you're absolutely kicking yourself wondering how you didn't put the game to bed.
Under the old rules, a 10 point loss would be deemed a bit of a hammering. But that's old money now.
Lockjaw (National) - 16/01/2026 09:43:05
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