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Hurling Club Championships 2024/25 - General Discussion - 4 Like(s)
Replying To CorkLiamMcCarthy24: "hey have a company worth billions as their sponsor.
They could afford to charter a special train for away games for their supporters.
Their senior teams are seperate entities more or less. The fact Con is the only crossover from the hurling AIs isn't because he's the only one still playing.
They might be less 'super' than Kilmacud or Ballyboden, but they ain't no small time rural entity either." Sars aren't either. And the costs of running a GAA club up in Dublin are huge compared to anywhere else also. Sars have huge grounds, 2 all weather pitches each side of a long ball wall, a massive clubhouse etc etc.
Viking66 (National) - 21/01/2025 06:51:33
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Senior Club Football Championships 2024/25 - General Discussion - 4 Like(s)
Replying To BarneyGrant: "It is only a "super club" because it was built up from nothing by a small group of people who wanted to promote hurling in particularly in a part of Dublin that was weak in regards to gaelic games.
I assume you would prefer had they not bothered? Or perhaps that they might disband?" There is a lot of things I would disagree with Barney one but this is absolutely correct. This superclub thing i rubbish, its like as if they have a factory where they produce the players of something, It is just an extension of the anti-Dublin brigade bitterness. There is a thread called the Anti-GAA agenda there should be one called the Anti-Dublin as there are some on here that would prefer the GAA didn't exist in Dublin.
zinny (National) - 21/01/2025 03:44:10
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Senior Club Football Championships 2024/25 - General Discussion - 3 Like(s)
Gas comments
But to be expected after any sort of Dublin GAA related win.
jimbodub (National) - 21/01/2025 09:29:49
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Mayo GAA Thread - 2 Like(s)
Its hard to know how the league will go, the new rules will have big impact. I do hope Mayo give new players a good run of games, and they might have to do this anyways with players not back yet or injured.
With the new rules, players with pace are even more important, and with the 2 point arc and the possibility of more space to attack, shooting and kick pass are vital to take advantage of new rules.
Mayo have always been able to bring through athletic players but maybe lacking in kicking ability, for inter county level.
It suits defensively as the full back line have always been left exposed/one on one so should be used it really, other counties that played a very defensive system will struggle and will test there full back line one on one defending.
I dont mind at all if Mayo get relegated, as long as new players are getting plenty of game time and the team are playing to a system or trying to find a way of playing. I do think Mayo will do better than most are thinking, and will win a few games.
The AH ref podcast, it fills a gap and be popular with people that are away, but I wouldn't be to excited over it. They talk alot of rubbish on it, like listening to lads on a bar stool, and that lad from Garrymore is an awful spoofer.
tommy132 (National) - 21/01/2025 12:23:31
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Senior Club Football Championships 2024/25 - General Discussion - 2 Like(s)
Replying To zinny: "There is a lot of things I would disagree with Barney one but this is absolutely correct. This superclub thing i rubbish, its like as if they have a factory where they produce the players of something, It is just an extension of the anti-Dublin brigade bitterness. There is a thread called the Anti-GAA agenda there should be one called the Anti-Dublin as there are some on here that would prefer the GAA didn't exist in Dublin." Agree 100%. I've made this point numerous times before. It's almost as if people would prefer that there was no GAA club in places like Dalkey or other parts of south Dublin.
Because of the huge work done by people in clubs like Cuala and Kilmacud, there are thousands of kids and adults playing football and hurling that otherwise would have been lost to Gaelic games.
Years ago the GAA had very little presence in these areas. These are clubs to be commended for the trojan work they've done.
WanPintWin (National) - 21/01/2025 10:19:20
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Hurling Club Championships 2024/25 - General Discussion - 1 Like(s)
Replying To LimerickForLiam24: "Are you Castletown man on boards.ie? He posted something posted similar. You must have drank a lot of Smithwicks Sunday. Very salty." He is on the Football Club Championship topic, going off on one also.
Let him at it - ignore.
A WUM wannabe....
Fionn (National) - 21/01/2025 10:22:11
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National Hurling League 2025 - 1 Like(s)
Congratulations to Na Fianna, Dublin hurling is on and upward trajectory
Looking forward to this weekend some decent games to look forward to.
In Division 1A
Wexford V Cork - Wexford Park is always a difficult place to go to if your an opposition team, but I think Cork are flying it at the moment and will probably have too much for Wexford.
Clare V Kilkenny - Two teams quietly doing their own thing, little or no talk out of them in the build up to the league so little or nothing to go on, Should be a good tight contest as always, but I think as its in Ennis I go for Clare by 3 points.
Galway V Tipperary - This could be a very tight game. I am expecting big things from Liam Cahill and Tipperary this year and by I know Micheal Donoghue is back in Galway but he is getting a 4 year term to rebuild a new team. I think this could be a draw.
In Division 1B
Dublin V Antrim - Very important match early on in the league but I actually think Croke Park will suit Dublin more than Antrim for this one and I think will win by 4 or 5 points.
LimerickandProud (National) - 20/01/2025 13:42:27
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Non-Gaa Forum - 1 Like(s)
Replying To boxtyburgerbuns: "Whatever one thinks it was some spectacle today, pageantry off the scale" Nah. Mickey Mouse in comparison to the British. No one does pageantry like them.
Greengrass (National) - 21/01/2025 12:16:56
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Senior Club Football Championships 2024/25 - General Discussion - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Saynothing: "Errigal are far from being a small rural parish team. They have the biggest catchment area in Tyrone. An area the same size brings in Moortown, Ardboe, Brockagh, Kevin Barry's, Derrytresk, Clonoe, Stewartstown and Coalisland.
They didn't turn up until the second half on Sunday and just left too much to do. The jury is out on the knock to the head of Darragh, like all things, it depends what county is involved." It is clear that the knee to his head was accidental. Cuala player was clearly focused on the ball. Well investigated by ref at time and there was no evident claims by Errigal lads themselves that it was anything malicious.
Hope he is okay. Errigal certainly missed him when the comeback was in full flow.
BarneyGrant (National) - 21/01/2025 12:08:52
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Senior Club Football Championships 2024/25 - General Discussion - 1 Like(s)
Replying To boxtyburgerbuns: "Another Dublin superclub beating a small rural parish. Not much of a competition" Errigal are far from being a small rural parish team. They have the biggest catchment area in Tyrone. An area the same size brings in Moortown, Ardboe, Brockagh, Kevin Barry's, Derrytresk, Clonoe, Stewartstown and Coalisland.
They didn't turn up until the second half on Sunday and just left too much to do. The jury is out on the knock to the head of Darragh, like all things, it depends what county is involved.
Saynothing (National) - 21/01/2025 11:30:33
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Non-Gaa Forum - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Cuhullain: "also, our own PR system needs a tweet or two come our next general election." In what way should it be tweaked?
KillingFields (National) - 21/01/2025 11:08:08
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Senior Club Football Championships 2024/25 - General Discussion - 1 Like(s)
Replying To WanPintWin: "Agree 100%. I've made this point numerous times before. It's almost as if people would prefer that there was no GAA club in places like Dalkey or other parts of south Dublin.
Because of the huge work done by people in clubs like Cuala and Kilmacud, there are thousands of kids and adults playing football and hurling that otherwise would have been lost to Gaelic games.
Years ago the GAA had very little presence in these areas. These are clubs to be commended for the trojan work they've done." I can understand the frustrations
If you have the playing numbers, accompanied with talented people in charge, who are passionate club people to boot, those playing numbers are a huge advantage because its gives the clubs involved the best chance of success.
You can't train a donkey into being a race horse though, they simply have the talent pool it takes to be the best.
But.. calling Cuala a super-club is a daft thing to say, it does sound like bitterness, and it needs to be fact checked.
Just like Trump waffling on like a gombeen about Spain being a member of BRICS in front of the world while sitting in the Oval office..
Best to call out nonsense when you see it, and check a few facts.
jimbodub (National) - 21/01/2025 10:49:27
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Senior Club Football Championships 2024/25 - General Discussion - 1 Like(s)
Replying To WanPintWin: "Agree 100%. I've made this point numerous times before. It's almost as if people would prefer that there was no GAA club in places like Dalkey or other parts of south Dublin.
Because of the huge work done by people in clubs like Cuala and Kilmacud, there are thousands of kids and adults playing football and hurling that otherwise would have been lost to Gaelic games.
Years ago the GAA had very little presence in these areas. These are clubs to be commended for the trojan work they've done." My own club would have taken some hit over years through bigger northside clubs taking players that might otherwise have come to ourselves but its not their doing really. Parish rule is meaningless and lads playing in schools are going to be drawn to the stronger clubs in general area.
South Dublin is different again in that there was little GAA presence so likes of Crokes, Boden and Cuala expanded very quickly from small clubs into huge ones because they accepted the challenge.
Has to be said that some others in more working class areas have not done so. Not entirely their own doing but many have lost their old school bases and not altogether through others moving in. All urban areas are having and will have this problem so when likes of Na Fianna and Cuala can turn that around, then fair play to them.
BarneyGrant (National) - 21/01/2025 10:35:01
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Mayo GAA Thread - 1 Like(s)
How do people think we'll do v Dublin? I've no confidence at all this season
davittsman (National) - 20/01/2025 23:37:26
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Hurling Club Championships 2024/25 - General Discussion - 1 Like(s)
Replying To BarneyGrant: "Martins gave Na Fianna their closest run outside Dublin. Dominated for good part of second half in Parnell and shooting let them down but Na Fianna in fairness have shown they can weather those sort of patches and come strong in end. Fruit years of losing games from winning positions.
Great team to watch. Most enjoyable campaign and I'm not a clubman of theirs." Delighted for Na Fianna - a great win for a great club, and fully deserved. If their manager can get Dublin to play with the same skill, intensity and intelligence it could be the start of something special for Dublin hurling.
midlands (National) - 20/01/2025 14:56:20
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Hurling Club Championships 2024/25 - General Discussion - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Throughthemidfieldhewasstormin: "It's like any game anyone lost, you can never really claim you deserve to win it or should've won it…we should know that lesson in Wexford more than most!
Loughrea probably should've been up 8/9 points at half time with their wides and ultimately that was the winning and loosing of the game for both sides but was probably the closest game Na Fianna had. I'd imagine if you were a Loughrea supporter you'd have seen that as a missed chance but Na Fianna took their chances and pipped the lead at the finish line and that's the most important time to take it. Score board never a liar when it's all said and done. Just saying that was the one game this year in the club all Ireland they looked most like loosing…considering they were loosing for 90% of it. Anyways well done to a super super team and what a performance in the final, score board did not fully represent their dominance and it could've easily been 19 points." It was the most 1 sided final in the last 5 years or so. Which was a shame for Sars, they deserved better for their performances over the year. At least those lads have Munster medals on their shelves, no mean feat in itself.
Viking66 (National) - 20/01/2025 17:52:24
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Dublin GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Fionn: "Wow - what a day yesterday. I honestly didn't expect it.
Privilege to be in Croker and witness that. Probably both teams kept their best performances until the final.
2 Dublin teams winning Senior All Ireland Club Titles. Thrilled.
Delighted for near neighbours Na Fianna.
Going one further than their footballers did in 2000.
Wonderful achievement for any Dublin club to win an All Ireland Club Senior Hurling title.
Great for the county and young Dublin hurlers.
Cuala - wow, for a small club and traditionally a Hurling club, it is some achievement to become All Ireland Club Senior Football Champions. To have now won the All Ireland Senior Club titles in both codes is something special.
Not too many Clubs have won All Ireland Senior Football & Hurling titles.
Mick Fitz becomes the 1st Dublin man to win 10 All Ireland Senior Medals, and his 11th All Ireland title.
Legend.
And now for Con - wow....
Unbelievable.
To win what he has, is more than remarkable.
A dual All Ireland Senior Club winner now.
2 All Ireland Senior Hurling Club titles
2 Leinster Senior Hurling Club titles
4 Dublin Senior Hurling Club titles
1 All Ireland Senior Football Club title
1 Leinster Senior Football Club title
1 Dublin Senior Football Club title
1 Sigerson title
6 All Ireland Senior Football titles with Dublin
9 Leinster Senior Football titles
3 Division One Football League titles
1 u21 All Ireland Football title
2 u21 Leinster Football titles
1 Leinster Minor Football title
3 All Stars
And he is still only 28....... imo he is right up there with the list of best GAA players of all time.
King Con for sure." Great Post Fionn
That's some reading
jimbodub (National) - 20/01/2025 20:09:42
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Mayo GAA Thread - 1 Like(s)
I think we will do well to stay in division 1. I've zero optimism for this year. We have a raft of very good young players in the county but they are 3-4 years away from senior. Could be a rocky few years ahead.
yew_tree (National) - 21/01/2025 09:27:44
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Senior Club Football Championships 2024/25 - General Discussion - 1 Like(s)
Replying To CorkLiamMcCarthy24: "Hard to compete with the super clubs.." Why aren't they winning it every year so? Also Cork have more GAA clubs than any other county?
yew_tree (National) - 21/01/2025 09:25:26
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Hurling Club Championships 2024/25 - General Discussion - 1 Like(s)
Replying To CorkLiamMcCarthy24: "hey have a company worth billions as their sponsor.
They could afford to charter a special train for away games for their supporters.
Their senior teams are seperate entities more or less. The fact Con is the only crossover from the hurling AIs isn't because he's the only one still playing.
They might be less 'super' than Kilmacud or Ballyboden, but they ain't no small time rural entity either." Are you Castletown man on boards.ie? He posted something posted similar. You must have drank a lot of Smithwicks Sunday. Very salty.
LimerickForLiam24 (National) - 21/01/2025 09:11:34
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