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Replying To BigBàsMan: "Listen, there was no intentional strike at the player. The tow players were tangling and Killeen was trying to break free from him. It's hurling, he didn't stand back and lash him if that's what your insinuating. If he's missing, Loughrea have so much depth of players to choose from any of Shane o Brien, Jamie Ryan, Sean sweeney, Gavin Maher, Alan Kelly, tiernan Killeen and even Kieran hanrahan can play there. Loughrea were missing their best forward Darren shaughnessy on Sunday, he will be back in the forwards, be it at 11 or 14 or 12. The focus is on winning the AI. And they'll do it." A Galway team in an all ireland anything can happen might get blown out of the water or might win but you couldnt be sure Tiger1 (Wexford) - Posts: 426 - 23/12/2025 18:40:47 2649350 Link
As a Galway man, I still find it hard to look past Ballygunner here. The reason why is to win an All-Ireland you need a stone-cold killer upfront. Loughrea forwards are missing that ruthlessness and real class to finish teams off. A Conor Cooney, Joe Canning or Eugene Cloonan. They have a lot of forwards chipping in but no real elite intercounty forward and I think it'll finally catch the in the final. That's probably the only thing they're missing. If Conor Cooney (the Thomas' version) played for Loughrea, I think they'd do it. The have everything else. TanCanRan (Galway) - Posts: 316 - 23/12/2025 19:15:18 2649352 Link
Replying To Tiger1: "A Galway team in an all ireland anything can happen might get blown out of the water or might win but you couldnt be sure" As a county, Galway joint lead the roll of honour in this event at 14 wins, and have won more than a third of the finals played since the turn of the 90s, encompassing the last 35 finals or so. You can be sure of that. Pope_Benedict (Galway) - Posts: 4506 - 24/12/2025 07:39:19 2649370 Link
Replying To Pope_Benedict: "As a county, Galway joint lead the roll of honour in this event at 14 wins, and have won more than a third of the finals played since the turn of the 90s, encompassing the last 35 finals or so. You can be sure of that." Galway club sides are always competitive. It does help that one always competes in an AISF too though as regards wins overall. Most of the top clubs theres nothing much between them. Your champions get a bye, while the others have to win 2 or 3 games against similar standard clubs from other counties before they even get there. Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 17917 - 24/12/2025 11:21:20 2649378 Link
Replying To Viking66: "Galway club sides are always competitive. It does help that one always competes in an AISF too though as regards wins overall. Most of the top clubs theres nothing much between them. Your champions get a bye, while the others have to win 2 or 3 games against similar standard clubs from other counties before they even get there." I do agree with your analysis, you make a good case for everybody getting an equal opportunity to compete which is a very powerful argument for an open draw with a fair grading system based on results. Provincial vested interests will veto anything in this direction. backtooldwall (Galway) - Posts: 205 - 02/01/2026 10:22:46 2649390 Link
Replying To backtooldwall: "I do agree with your analysis, you make a good case for everybody getting an equal opportunity to compete which is a very powerful argument for an open draw with a fair grading system based on results. Provincial vested interests will veto anything in this direction." Its not just the Provincial councils. I know players from several clubs who have won Leinster titles at Senior, or Intermediate or Junior and are rightly very proud of them. And many non playing club members also. Id be pretty certain if you asked a Galway club Footballer did he value a Connacht Club Provincial Football medal he would absolutely say yes. Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 17917 - 02/01/2026 11:58:12 2649395 Link
Replying To Viking66: "Its not just the Provincial councils. I know players from several clubs who have won Leinster titles at Senior, or Intermediate or Junior and are rightly very proud of them. And many non playing club members also. Id be pretty certain if you asked a Galway club Footballer did he value a Connacht Club Provincial Football medal he would absolutely say yes." I didn't mention Provincial councils I said vested interests in provinces, i don't suggest dropping any Competitions I only agreed that to attain all Ireland champion status every team should have equal opportunity based on achievement and not on gift of location. backtooldwall (Galway) - Posts: 205 - 02/01/2026 14:51:07 2649420 Link
Congrats to Athenry Camogie, massive achievement maroondiesel (Mayo) - Posts: 1255 - 05/01/2026 13:30:29 2649883 Link
Replying To TanCanRan: "As a Galway man, I still find it hard to look past Ballygunner here. The reason why is to win an All-Ireland you need a stone-cold killer upfront. Loughrea forwards are missing that ruthlessness and real class to finish teams off. A Conor Cooney, Joe Canning or Eugene Cloonan. They have a lot of forwards chipping in but no real elite intercounty forward and I think it'll finally catch the in the final. That's probably the only thing they're missing. If Conor Cooney (the Thomas' version) played for Loughrea, I think they'd do it. The have everything else." This is a very funny post. You'd prefer to have all the scores coming from one player "elite intercounty forward" and not a good spread of scores from all the forwards? Anthony burns has been the best forward in Galway club championship by a mile. He will probably be in the Galway full forward line also. Tiernan Killeen single handedly beat clarinbridge on their own. Cleaned a lot of galways defenders that day too. He's just as good as club level as Conor cooney who was held to 1 point from play in the county final and 1-15 from 6 Galway appearances last year. I'm going with Loughrea to beat ballygunner on the 18th. BigBàsMan (Galway) - Posts: 255 - 05/01/2026 13:52:06 2649889 Link
Replying To maroondiesel: "Congrats to Athenry Camogie, massive achievement" Wonderful achievement, delighted for them. Crashingwaves (Galway) - Posts: 276 - 05/01/2026 14:21:42 2649896 Link
Any word on Cullen Killeen's red card? GalwaysFinest (Galway) - Posts: 207 - 06/01/2026 09:51:04 2650001 Link
Replying To Viking66: "Galway club sides are always competitive. It does help that one always competes in an AISF too though as regards wins overall. Most of the top clubs theres nothing much between them. Your champions get a bye, while the others have to win 2 or 3 games against similar standard clubs from other counties before they even get there." All your post pointed out is that the Provincial System is uneven. Everyone knows that. Different amount of people, different amount of counties, different amount of parishes, etc. Galway IS a province in the Hurling sense. The provinces will never be even so it's a pointless thing to even bring up. A possible way to make it fairer is to do some kind of seeding system in the counties where the top 5 teams get thrown into a computer and play matches until you get an eventual winner SouthGalway (Galway) - Posts: 152 - 06/01/2026 18:25:56 2650087 Link