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Westmeath Football thread - 2 Like(s)
Replying To iarmhiabu: "While we spend our time doing nothing to improve our finances, Roscommon net a €650,000 profit from their latest house draw." Westmeath will do well to get much support for another fundraiser after how the last one went. Plus most of the money raised has already been spent with none ring fenced for the COE.
Wmeath2 (National) - 12/01/2026 22:46:09
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Roscommon GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Loughallenbanks: "Seeing how poor Glenullin were yesterday highlights the level Strokestown are at compared to clubs outside of Connacht. Marginally bet two mediocre teams in Leitrim and Mayo but lost out on a poor Glenullin side, you would think a Gofund me of 10k would win an all Ireland" They bet the Mayo team by 10 points not marginally and them plus Allen Gaels weren't mediocre. Glenullin was far from a poor side any team that win Derry and Ulster aren't and were scoring for fun coming into the final. Their high scoring was stopped with a boring retain possession tactics/game a way of playing that we were told was over with the new rules.
Kerry clubs record in the Junior club championship speaks for itself over the last number years, of course having only 8 clubs in their senior championship greatly helps them to be so successful in Junior and intermediate and when it comes to Gofund all three clubs made serious money. Still surprised a Kerry team played that way which was a big focus on stopping Glenullin scoring than playing the Kerry way of attacking football and lots of kick passing
Gaa_lover (National) - 12/01/2026 13:06:46
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Longford GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To williesboy: "Paul O Hara and O. Mooney new Killoe management." Mooney is an excellent capture by Killoe.
He comes with some serious credentials.
He would know Paul from their time spent in New York.
That's the holders and pretenders that have Fermanagh men at the wheel for this coming year.
Spinx (National) - 12/01/2026 13:25:37
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Club Football Championships - General Discussion - 1 Like(s)
Replying To sligo joe: "It doesn't really matter if An Gaeltacht "could" have been beaten in earlier rounds. The fact is if An Gaeltacht was in Derry or any other reasonably strong football county they would be playing Senior and on the other hand if Glenullin was in Kerry they would be Junior." That's to the credit of Kerry in how they organise their championship. Clubs can slip very quickly down the ladder if they don't maintain certain standard. Happened to An Gaeltacht themselves after the end of Ó Sé dynasty.
An Gaeltacht beat Daingean recently - albeit a not full strength Daingean - and will be competitive in senior. Teams very rarely do well in Dublin after being promoted and the SFC carries way too much dead weight. Ten years ago there were 64 teams in it!
Dublin inter and junior champions have appalling record in Leinster - not sure any club has won it? Mostly due to mediocre teams being senior rather than inter and even junior.
BarneyGrant (National) - 12/01/2026 14:09:51
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Westmeath Hurling thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Claretandblue: "100%. Management should be given three years minimum to make some progress" I think this will depend on results & player buy in. If results go wrong & players lose faith it can all fall apart very quickly as we know from previous years. Hopefully they can get a result in Kerry & push on from there.
Left Full (National) - 12/01/2026 15:23:32
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Club Hurling - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Claretandblue: "Please point out where I said that children shouldn't be allowed to play hurling?" You didnt. But you name checked a county where many children can't play hurling unless they drive a very long way to do it.
Viking66 (National) - 12/01/2026 15:27:57
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Carlow GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
I think there may have been minor hurling trials last week, not sure how long they will take place for. Not surprising they may be slightly behind given the late appointment of management. The minor football management also had the regional event to help identify players.
ACarlowGael (National) - 12/01/2026 19:13:19
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Longford GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Longfordlad1985: "Abbeylara- Frankie Dolan
Ardagh- Liam Keenan
Ballymahon- ?
Ballymore- Lawrence Brady
Carrickedmond- Eugene McCormack
Cashel- Liam Belton
Clonguish- Dom Corriggan
Colmcille- Ger Carberry
Dromard- Niall Vance
Fr Manning Gaels- Gary Donohoe
Keenagh- ?
Killoe- Owen Mooney
Legan?
Longford Slashers- Conor Clarke
Mostrim- Niall Sheridan
Mullinaghta- Mickey Harkin
Ratchline- Gareth Johnston
Sean Connollys- Tommy Donohoe
Kilashee- Eammon Farrell
Granard- Pat Flanagan
Grattans- Ruiari Mcelligot
Those are the managers so far any thoughts on the appointments" Keenagh have went with the same manager as last year.
williesboy (National) - 12/01/2026 21:26:04
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Club Football Championships - General Discussion - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Dothesimplethingswell: "I dont know how others view this but I feel that playing the club finals in Croke Park (the biggest in the country as far as I know) can really alienate teams especially at junior level. You need an incredible level of fitness to play in Croker and we have to be realistic in that this is club football and not county. I know the prestige of playing in Croker is huge but look at the some the low scoring yesterday I think Glenullin had 1 point after 45 mins and you could see some lads on the Clogher team really struggling also. None of the 4 teams yesterday brought anything like the performances they produced up to now, to Croke Park yesterday and I feel we would have much better performances in a county ground where the supporters can be seen and heard and not lost in an 82,000 capacity stadium." Croke Park is maximum size per the rule book: 145m by 88m.
However, quite a few pitches are 90m wide: Cusack Park, Dr Hyde Park, P Uí Chaoimh, Pearse Stadium, O Connor Park, Markievicz Park and probably others.
So, it is a myth that Croke Park is "the biggest in the country".
The "wide open spaces" of Semple Stadium is another myth: it is only 80 metres wide. (It was easy for Maurice Fitzgerald!).
Aibrean (National) - 12/01/2026 21:46:06
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Club Football Championships - General Discussion - 1 Like(s)
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.
WanPintWin (National) - 12/01/2026 23:09:33
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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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Galway Hurling thread - 1 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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