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Tailteann Cup 2026 - 4 Like(s)
Replying To Pikeman96: "Why the "double standard"? Because one is run on a group basis, while the other is run on a "knockout with a back door" basis. Both formats as agreed at Congress, where all counties have a vote on it. It's really quite simple.
Anyway, as recently as last year, the same could have happened in football - a county could lose a provincial match, lose two more in the group stage of the Sam Maguire but go through in third place, and still go on to win the Sam Maguire despite having lost three times." As you say, groups were used for the last three years in football and the system was abandoned this year largely because of the incessant whinging about teams being able to lose three times. No such objection exists in the case of hurling even though Leinster teams can lose four matches. So definite double standards considering the same body deals with both structures.
CeachtPeile (National) - 10/05/2026 22:25:06
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Galway Football thread - 3 Like(s)
Lads, Barry McHugh couldn't track back against Roscommon in 2018 but 8 years later after a break from the panel he's become Ja Fallon the second. Can we move on please, he's not on the panel and won't be featuring
smallfrank (National) - 10/05/2026 22:16:04
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Leitrim GAA thread - 2 Like(s)
Replying To leitrim4sam: "Roscommon have won the Connacht minor, u20 and senior championships this year. A clean sweep. They have won the Connacht U30 in 2 of the last 3 years and made the final 3 years in a row.
We struggle to win a game in any grade in any year let alone win championships.
My question to hogan stand users is … what are Roscommon doing different to us?
Because something is different" They have some natural advantages that we cannot compare to, larger urban areas such as Roscommon town and hinterlands of Athlone and Ballinasloe, population, more secondary schools, more businesses to tap for sponsorship, and a loyal benefactor such as Sean Mulryan are all things we can't readily replicate
However, Roscommon have a bit of vision and innovation within the county, has been seen through the personnel on their co committees and at board level of the last 15 odd years or so. People looking to innovate, and push on. They have a strong fundraising arm in Club Rossie. They clearly have a super coaching structure at underage form club level that's feeding into their dev squads and that can be seen with the likes of Ian Daly and John Rogers, M Dowds selectors, formerly involved with successful Ros U20 teams. This would suggest they have a better developed homegrown coaching structure.
These are things that we can develop perhaps.
While naturally conflicted as a Leitrim person watching the post match celebrations; it's hard to be grudge the Rossies as we are no match for them in terms of a rivalry anymore, and they play a lovely brand of freewheeling, hard running football.
It also begs the question that we need to be asking, which is how do we get ourselves to that level.
Because if we're not asking that question and actively implementing plans on all fronts to improve, from coaching, to finance, to player development to refereeing, then what are we at?
Being content to accept our lot since the mid 00's has us where we are.
A good diet of whatever they're eating over the border the last 20 odd years would do us no harm.
Dodgy_Pass (National) - 10/05/2026 22:21:23
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Roscommon GAA thread - 2 Like(s)
Congratulations Roscommon, surely the greatest Connacht Final of all time. It was game over after Comer's goal but the 2-pointers came to the for yet again. Slowly and surely teams are realising that even a 6-7 point lead is not what it used to be. Great for the game.
Galway very gracious in defeat also, to their credit. It's remarkable looking from afar how Galway and Ros, though big rival in their own right, are united in their bitter disdain for their other, unmentionable, neighbours
Eddie the Exile (National) - 11/05/2026 11:03:19
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Leitrim GAA thread - 2 Like(s)
Good morning everyone and thank you for looking for my opinions. I really appreciate it. I did not get to see the game yesterday as I am just back from business in the Arabian Gulf. Well done to Roscommon on their win. Thanks so much for winning it please. Appreciate it.
bláthach (National) - 11/05/2026 11:01:20
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Galway Football thread - 2 Like(s)
Replying To Pope_Benedict: "Who is the Galway player standing right in front of Heneghan on the 55 yard line, before the Ros player proceeds to streak past him up the middle, play a one two before netting with ease for Ros's 2nd goal in the first half? The same Galway player managed to jog to the 40 in 'pursuit' of Heneghan, and was probably 20yards behind the Ros player when he struck the goal.
It's not the type of defending that'll win big football matches. You'd imagine that item 1a on Tyrone's gameplan will be not to let Heneghan streak up the middle of their defence 4 times to setup 4 goal chances yielding 3-1." Think it was O'Flaherty. He had a bad day tracking runners. And he isn't slow. Just didn't seem fully engaged or tuned in. Another selection that didn't work.
Roche another strange selection. Did well for the early goal but Roscommon soon twigged his lack of pace and targeted his man on short kickouts. He couldn't cover the ground quickly enough.
Sideline stuck looking at these problems for far too long before doing anything.
Marooned (National) - 11/05/2026 11:59:45
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Roscommon GAA thread - 2 Like(s)
Replying To letsgetgoing: "Just relaxing over a few pints after a mighty win. Congratulations to all the panel members, Mark Dowd and his full management team. A little shout out to Mick Comerford our S&C guy who has the team in top shape. Hopefully he can bring us further like he has done with Kilkenny in the past.
Delighted for Diarmuid Murtagh who has toiled for years in the St Faithleachs and Roscommon jerjeys.
To the best of my knowledge only four St Faithleachs players have captained the Roscommon senior team;
Pat Lindsay, Danny Murray, Ciaran Murtagh and Diarmuid Murtagh. All have lifted the Nestor Cup. Some record.
Bring on Tyrone!" Some record indeed for those St Faithleachs' lads. All fine players. I remember Lindsay and Murray from that fine 4-in-a-row team of 1977-80.
Congratulations of the great win today and on the clean sweep.
Let's hope ye can go even further.
foreveryoung (National) - 11/05/2026 03:17:37
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Galway Football thread - 2 Like(s)
Ah well lads not to be, 9 minutes to play and 6 points ahead most myself included thought Galway was heading for five Connacht titles in a row. Credit to the rossies some seriously good scores to win it out.
A really good high quality final and the positives is Comer and Walsh fit and looking good for the All-Ireland series, head up for All-Ireland series should beat Kildare and then one win away from reaching the last 8.
Drax_the_destroyer (National) - 10/05/2026 23:00:56
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Wexford Hurling Thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Fulgrim: "Charlie Mitchell, Offaly's captain, had a medical procedure after the KK match so he's probably out for our game on Saturday. Big loss for them but you have to imagine also motivation for the rest to push harder. Class young hurler, wish him all the best in his recovery." Thats sad news for him if true. Hopefully he makes a full recovery.
Viking66 (National) - 11/05/2026 13:31:54
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Hurling Championship 2026 - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Tadhg2020: "I have to be honest viking, I didnt see much fight at all. I know you are a fan and all but I think you are stretching it a bit looking for the silver lining there. I dont think there is anything positive that can be taken from that game from a wexford point of view.
Thata not to say that there isnt more in you but there is no evidence to support that there is to date. Wexford are severely lacking in all the metrics used to analyse performance atm.
Dublin weren't a whole lot better but they do have Burke and one or 2 more. They are way too slow and ponderous on the ball and telegraph their intent. They dont play at the pace or intensity required. I saw them in the league final too and they were the same." They weren't that slow against Limerick last year in Croke Park. Did the Munster campaign turn into a monster campaign?
Crashingwaves (National) - 11/05/2026 16:55:04
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Football Championship 2026 - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Seanfan: "Last semi final v Meath 1991.
Derek Duggan's mighty goal but the Tommy Dowd ran riot...." Won the Division 2 League Final in 2018. Tommy Dowd was class power and finishing. Derek Duggan also very good. That free kick distance gets longer every retelling!
GreenandRed (National) - 11/05/2026 16:54:10
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Dublin GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Fionn: "Nice double header in the football this Sunday for the Dubs, with the Jackies in the Ladies Leinster Senior Football Final v Kildare at 12. Our Ladies beat Meath at the weekend by 1-11 to 0-05
Dublin v Westmeath throws in @2pm." Surprised how easily they beat Meath who must have slipped a lot.
Be interesting to see how many turn up. Kerry/Cork was 30,000 where some were predicting not half that.
Westmeath will bring a big crowd but don't detect any groundswell for our lads. Will go if we have a good day in Salthill!
BarneyGrant (National) - 11/05/2026 11:29:37
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Galway Football thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To ColmFlaherty: "Yesterday has got me thinking of what could have been if we had Matthew Thompson and Peter Cooke" such rubbish. cooke has had many chances with galway and never did it simple as that.
we had a so called great bench before the game. daly hernon tierney had no impact when introduced
comer got some great scores but also cost us at the end when not letting go of the ros common player.
we go with the players we have.
candlewax (National) - 11/05/2026 11:50:39
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Monaghan GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To veterngaa: "Clubs would wana get their house in order." At least Blayney fielded a team, unlike the a certain south Monaghan crowd afraid of having their seasons hopes ended in April
MonaghanMan44life (National) - 11/05/2026 12:10:53
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Galway Football thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To WanPintWin: "The free was against Hernon first. Moved forward against Comer for the two pointer because he supposedly delayed Roscommon taking the free.
The thing is, he definitely thought it was a Galway line ball, so it was pretty harsh. The free was also soft originally, but Hernon could have been smarter. Roscommon lad was going nowhere and was about to be turned over if he shadowed him.
Kickouts are still the biggest issues. Roscommon got a load of short ones away against the wind. Carroll had a handy option free so many times. They targeted Ryan Roche's lack of quickness being able to cover his man, who got free regularly.
Contrast it with the second half, where Flaherty didn't once have an option to go short. We had to go long almost every time, and when you're doing that it's basically a lottery. Think we won only one kickout after Comer's goal and obviously got no score in that time, while Roscommon scored 8 points.
We were also wide open down the middle of the defence in the first half. Roscommon looked like they had a goal on almost every time they ran at us. The lack of ability to get proper contact on the runners was very poor.
Roscommon very deserving winners and fair play to them. We have a lot to think about the before the Kildare game." I thought the free brought forward was extremely harsh because nearly the same thing happened 10 mins early where we won the line ball and rossies played on with it but line ball not brought forward. Maybe because it was free vs line ball but should be no distinction between them
systematic (National) - 11/05/2026 12:49:03
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Galway Football thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To GalwaysFinest: "Its true, its our strongest panel in years, on paper.
But we still rely on the old reliables when available. Comer, Walsh, Conroy, Kelly.
Harsh to leave out Maher in that conversation because he is usually exceptional but yesterday just wasnt his day.
Shane McGrath and Oisin McDonagh (is he injured?) were finds of the league but didnt get much time yesterday.
Roche's involvement for the goal was excellent but surely McGrath and McDonagh have a lot to offer here.
When will Rob click when Damo and Shane are on the pitch too? Having all three firing would be a joy to watch.
Its fine margins, and if we win that game yesterday maybe these conversations dont happen, but its a tough pill to swallow considering we were in the driving seat and let momentum switch in the last few mins." Forwards not clicking had little to do with yesterday's loss. We kicked a few bad wides in the first half, but overall across the game we put a big score and were pretty efficient with our conversion rate.
The momentum swung in the final 8 minutes because we hardly had the ball. We had one attack in that time, prior to the late equaliser attempt. Apart from that Roscommon won the majority of the kickouts and worked their scores with a strong breeze. We were starved of possession in that time. On top of that, most of the kickouts in that timeframe were our own, but we couldn't work a way to retain possession.
Our purple patch in the second half, after their third goal, came from a lot of the breaking ball falling our way, as well as few good catches from Maher and D'Arcy. There was a stark difference between how Roscommon had options for the short one in the first half and how we had to go long every time in the second half.
In the modern game against a team with good attackers, losing 5 or 6 of your own kickouts in a row can be devastating. Roscommon outscored us 8 points to 0 in the last 9 minutes. We didn't even have an attempt at a score in that time, until Shane Walsh's kick at the very end, simply because we hardly had the ball.
WanPintWin (National) - 11/05/2026 12:50:04
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Leitrim GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To moros: "Just a different act in the same play for you. Epoca de aur! Gwan the Rossies. We'll have Tay in Keshcarrigan some night. Love to all." That one poster with two accounts needs to be ignored than feeding him attention.
Gaa_lover (National) - 11/05/2026 13:20:41
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Hurling Championship 2026 - 1 Like(s)
Maybe some of us are completely delusional in Wexford, but if you don't have hope, you have nothing.
I know our team is capable of better than we've shown so far this year, and in particular, better than we've shown in the last two games.
I also know that Wexford teams are capable of bouncing back after bad results, e.g. two years ago, we lost to Antrim in Corrigan Park and many people wrote our obituary, but the following week we beat Galway in Wexford Park and went on to qualify for the All-Ireland series anyway. Was only a controversial goal against us in Nowlan Park that stopped us from reaching the Leinster Final.
Obviously I hoped we'd bounce back against Dublin in Round 3 after that bad defeat to Kilkenny in Round 2. And obviously it didn't happen. But now I'm hoping we bounce back twice as hard in Tullamore. A win there and we'd be going into a final round home match with improved morale and a chance to make the All-Ireland series again, and possibly even a Leinster Final.
We have to hope. If you don't have hope, you have nothing.
Pikeman96 (National) - 11/05/2026 16:19:12
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Westmeath Hurling thread - 1 Like(s)
Last Saturday was one of the poorest displays i have seen in Cusack since the the u20 a few years ago v Dublin. We could have lost by 30points if Laois weren't so wasteful. The performances are on a continual downward spiral. If you chat the players there is a lot of discontent with the setup. Christy Rings looms large for 2028.
Loughlenegale (National) - 11/05/2026 13:52:53
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Galway Hurling thread - 1 Like(s)
Quite an enjoyable game to watch in Kildare on Saturday at the end. Glad I made the trip up.
Fair play to Kildare. Some great hurlers there and they had a timid Galway backline under all type of bother in the first half. Some of their shooting was exceptional where Galway struggled.
Whelan excellent and looks back to his best, kept them in the game when it had a danger of getting away from them. I think in general this game will do them more good than if they beat them by 20/30 points. Stuck to their guns and got the rewards in the end. Under previous management this might have been a loss.
Unfortunately I would say that is the last Conor Cooney start in a Galway jersey.
Amazing that Galway are really starting to click even with all the wides and some of their main men (Both Mannions, Morrissey etc.) yet to have really found their best form in the championship. That's a positive
Kinvara (National) - 11/05/2026 14:05:47
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