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Equivalents In Outpouring Of Wider GAA Fans To Mayo's Win In All Ireland - 5 Like(s)
Replying To BarneyGrant: "I saw Kerry supporters throwing drinks over Dublin kids in Davin End in 2011. Certainly didn't hang around for the presentation." What a post in the middle of positive posts. If we opened a thread on behaviour of Dublin supporters over the years the forum would go into meltdown
Claretandblue (National) - 27/07/2026 16:24:11
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Galway Football thread - 3 Like(s)
Replying To The_DOC: "Are we the idiots for trying to be a dual county?
Just do what Kerry, Mayo, Donegal //Limerick , Kilkenny, Clare etc do and focus on one sport, throw a small bit of effort into the other one just so its looks like ya care.
Then get the entire county behind one sport?
I dunno, I assume all of Mayo will be supporting Galway next year so we can end our 26 year drought?" No we're not.
Every county should strive to be a dual county,even if the sentiment is slightly whimsical.
Seniorleague (National) - 27/07/2026 15:51:01
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Can Jack O'connor Over Take Jim Gavin? - 3 Like(s)
Replying To Pope_Benedict: "It's not possible to lose twice in the current format Sam Maguire, and still win the competition. Lose twice, you're gone." It is. Dublin were beaten by Westmeath and Louth. And didn't Mayo lose twice actually? Provincials and next rounds are all part of same competition.
BarneyGrant (National) - 27/07/2026 16:14:12
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Galway Football thread - 3 Like(s)
Replying To The_DOC: "Are we the idiots for trying to be a dual county?
Just do what Kerry, Mayo, Donegal //Limerick , Kilkenny, Clare etc do and focus on one sport, throw a small bit of effort into the other one just so its looks like ya care.
Then get the entire county behind one sport?
I dunno, I assume all of Mayo will be supporting Galway next year so we can end our 26 year drought?" I don't think being a dual county is the problem. But Galway football has a problem, and we have to solve it. Nobody owes us anything.
I don't think management is the real issue either. It may be a symptom of a wider malaise, and I've no interest in putting the boot into anyone who gives their best for this county. But I do question whether those in charge have a vision worthy of our heritage.
How is Tyrone able to get its act together while we can't? Is it a lack of resources, or a lack of will? Whatever the reason, they have built something that works. Why haven't we?
I support Connacht teams in every code, and I'm lucky enough to stand in the wonderful Dexcom Stadium regularly. Every time I do, I ask myself the same thing: why don't we have our own version of this?
Do we in the North and West put enough heat on those at the top? Or do we stop waiting and start building something ourselves, from the ground up?
I'm as liable as anyone to have a pop at our passivity on the pitch. Maybe it's just a mirror of the rest of us. I don't see a JP-style knight coming over the hill. I'm sure we'll have another tilt at an All-Ireland before this century is out. But I'd rather we stopped waiting for the stars to align, or for a maroon-and-white knight to do the work for us.
I wore my collar up like Brendan Lynskey as a kid. The 1980 team photo still hangs beside the Sacred Heart at home. Still, Galway football was always the cross to bear. I'd love to see it raised back to where it belongs. I'm sure I'm not alone in that.
And well done to the neighbours for getting the job done yesterday by playing football rather than the percentages. We should take inspiration from that.
Gaillimh abú.
Gaillimh_ar_dtús (National) - 27/07/2026 15:29:47
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Football Championship 2026 - 3 Like(s)
Replying To level: "I'm 90% delighted for Mayo. Just a class win.
I'm 10% delight that hlynch12's double went belly up. Just a class loss." I sincerely hope he did not have those bets, for his own sake.
BarneyGrant (National) - 27/07/2026 09:31:04
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Roscommon GAA thread - 2 Like(s)
Replying To Gavlar: "Absolutely sickening seeing mayo win the all Ireland fair play to them but absolutely hurts
Makes the Connacht title seem so small
Hope Dowd and the players have a reaction to it next year and take the all Ireland series seriously
would getting to the last 12 be a success why are we so bad in the championship compared to mayo and Galway" Some of it is mentality and ambition, Mayo and Galway look at winning Connacht as a stepping stone, their ambitions lie in getting to Croker and as deep as possible into championship. I think its a vague aspiration in Roscommon and not really focussed on because we talk ourselves into being a small county and sure isn't everything else a bonus. We are a small county but we produce very good footballers and we don't have a huge amount of other sports in competition with football. The county is pure football apart from a small area around Four Roads. As big as soccer is in Castlerea or Boyle it's still second fiddle to football. Roscommon lads are playing at a high level from secondary school competitions, through to county underage, into university and then club, there is no reason we shouldn't be aiming to get into the last 4 of the competition. We have a management team who definitely have ambition to up the standard going by the inclusion of Sherlock and Comerford this year, their challenge is getting the players heads there. There's a difference in thinking you'll win a game and having the belief in knowing how to win games. Big improvements this year but some old habits still need sorting out.
I know the 40's were an age ago and the game and format have changed beyond belief but after Roscommon winning in 43, Jimmy Murray said they wanted to get Kerry in the 44 final to be able to say they played and beat the best out there. That is incredible way of thinking compared to now where we'd be hoping to avoid Kerry or whoever. It's not like things were booming in the county either, the 40s were bleak. Huge emigration and the population dropping by 5000 between 1936 and 1946. There is almost nothing from that time relevant in how the game is played now but that mentality was evident in Mayo yesterday. They actually looked like a team that relished taking on Kerry.
FullOfPorter (National) - 27/07/2026 10:52:58
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Galway Football thread - 2 Like(s)
Replying To The_DOC: "Are we the idiots for trying to be a dual county?
Just do what Kerry, Mayo, Donegal //Limerick , Kilkenny, Clare etc do and focus on one sport, throw a small bit of effort into the other one just so its looks like ya care.
Then get the entire county behind one sport?
I dunno, I assume all of Mayo will be supporting Galway next year so we can end our 26 year drought?" The entire county will never buy in to one. Try and convince South Galway people to follow only football or North Galway to hurling and you'd have civil war.
We should be admired for playing both to such a high level. I, for one, am proud that we compete in both.
TanCanRan (National) - 27/07/2026 15:28:57
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Football Championship 2026 - 2 Like(s)
There has been an incredible rush to write teams off all year. Donegal nudged Mayo out of last year's championship with the last kick of the ball. Nearly everyone discounted Mayo. Dublin were written off after the league. Tyrone were written off as well despite an impressive quarter final win last year.
legendzxix (National) - 27/07/2026 12:26:15
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Wexford Hurling Thread - 2 Like(s)
One of the great All Ireland wins yesterday. Never seen anything like the outpouring of emotion. Made me think how would I feel if we did it . As someone who was just a small child in 96 I'd say I would be extremely emotiononal if we got over the line. I hope to see it at least once in my lifetime. Mayo showed yesterday what can be done when you work your socks off and believe you can do it . It's very hard to see us winning one any time soon but I really hope Derek and his management team get a spark out of us and get us back competing with the best
Afinestick96 (National) - 27/07/2026 08:38:25
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Can Jack O'connor Over Take Jim Gavin? - 2 Like(s)
Replying To sligo joe: "All of Dublins 9 wins since 2011, front door, some draws, no defeats!" Which is why they're the greatest team to ever play the game bar none. I don't expect to see any team replicate what the Dubs did during those years. Whilst this years championship has been exciting, you couldn't say it was a spectacle of skill, still a lot of teams afraid to go for two pointers and far too concentrated on possession. I think also the goal will have to increase to 4 points to encourage teams to attack and not take safe options like handpassing round the arc to get in positions to kick one pointers. As well, no team should be able to loose twice & still be in contention for an All Ireland. Still a few tweaks needed to the championship to increase the jeopardy required to improve the game.
Square_B (National) - 27/07/2026 08:33:47
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Equivalents In Outpouring Of Wider GAA Fans To Mayo's Win In All Ireland - 2 Like(s)
Replying To Fionn: "I am not sure the mass outpouring of joy at this Mayo victory will ever be topped in GAA tbh.
Massive massive underdogs and everyone outside of Kerry wanted to see them beat Kerry and finally win Sam again, after so many Final defeats.
The scoreline flattered the Munster men tbh.
What a day and what celebrations.
It will live long in the memory…!" I'd say the supporters of Derry, Donegal, Armagh, Tyrone, Offaly & Clare might have something to say about that. Even my own county to a lesser extent. Everything gets exaggerated to high heaven in the age of social media.
Square_B (National) - 27/07/2026 17:27:37
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Roscommon GAA thread - 2 Like(s)
Replying To FullOfPorter: "Some of it is mentality and ambition, Mayo and Galway look at winning Connacht as a stepping stone, their ambitions lie in getting to Croker and as deep as possible into championship. I think its a vague aspiration in Roscommon and not really focussed on because we talk ourselves into being a small county and sure isn't everything else a bonus. We are a small county but we produce very good footballers and we don't have a huge amount of other sports in competition with football. The county is pure football apart from a small area around Four Roads. As big as soccer is in Castlerea or Boyle it's still second fiddle to football. Roscommon lads are playing at a high level from secondary school competitions, through to county underage, into university and then club, there is no reason we shouldn't be aiming to get into the last 4 of the competition. We have a management team who definitely have ambition to up the standard going by the inclusion of Sherlock and Comerford this year, their challenge is getting the players heads there. There's a difference in thinking you'll win a game and having the belief in knowing how to win games. Big improvements this year but some old habits still need sorting out.
I know the 40's were an age ago and the game and format have changed beyond belief but after Roscommon winning in 43, Jimmy Murray said they wanted to get Kerry in the 44 final to be able to say they played and beat the best out there. That is incredible way of thinking compared to now where we'd be hoping to avoid Kerry or whoever. It's not like things were booming in the county either, the 40s were bleak. Huge emigration and the population dropping by 5000 between 1936 and 1946. There is almost nothing from that time relevant in how the game is played now but that mentality was evident in Mayo yesterday. They actually looked like a team that relished taking on Kerry." Jimmy Murray was an exceptional leader and that's what's needed. Before 1943, Roscommon hadn't won Connacht since 1914. They had lost by a point to Galway in the Connacht finals of 1941 and 1942. Murray said before the '43 Connacht final that we'll beat Galway today or they'll carry me off on a stretcher. Roscommon beat Galway that day and went on to beat Cavan in the All Ireland final and retained Sam the following year v Kerry. Murray was a man of steel with iron leadership. Roscommon beat this year's All Ireland champions by 10 points. We limped out of the championship against Monaghan because the team were happy with winning Connacht and had no real ambition beyond that. Well done to Mayo on their fight and energy yesterday though it always hurts to see red and green flying high in Ballaghaderreen.
endgame (National) - 27/07/2026 17:43:39
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Football Championship 2026 - 2 Like(s)
I'm 90% delighted for Mayo. Just a class win.
I'm 10% delight that hlynch12's double went belly up. Just a class loss.
level (National) - 27/07/2026 06:58:07
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Kerry All Ireland Champions 2026? - 2 Like(s)
I'm glad that it was Kerry that Mayo beat, or Dublin if it hadn't been Kerry. That's no negative take on either Kerry or Dublin but a reflection that both are the best in the business and that it has been at the hands of both (mostly) that Mayo has had its days of suffering on AI final day in Croke Park. Nobody can undervalue that win yesterday. No AI win should ever be undervalued but you know the way some people are.
It wasn't just that Mayo won or that it was after 75 years. It was how they won. As someone on the Sunday Game said: this is the new blueprint for how football should be played. It was total energy, total press from the get-go to the final whistle. I'm trying to think of a fitter more energetic team and I cannot think of one (perhaps Limerick hurlers, but hurling is for me, less physically taxing on the body over 70+ minutes). Mayo were probably 7-8 points the better side on the day.
Kerry will be back. That's the Kerry way. But when? The great Maurice Fitzgerald ended up with two AI medals at the end of his great career. David Clifford has two now. If he ends up with "only" two, I, for one, would not classify that as a bad innings at all.
foreveryoung (National) - 27/07/2026 17:47:29
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Galway Football thread - 2 Like(s)
Replying To The_DOC: "Are we the idiots for trying to be a dual county?
Just do what Kerry, Mayo, Donegal //Limerick , Kilkenny, Clare etc do and focus on one sport, throw a small bit of effort into the other one just so its looks like ya care.
Then get the entire county behind one sport?
I dunno, I assume all of Mayo will be supporting Galway next year so we can end our 26 year drought?" Galway will always be a dual county. Football is entrenched in half of the county and hurling is maybe even more entrenched in the other half. Don't see it ever changing to any great degree. Galway have won football All-Ireland's but hurling remained number one by a long way in the hurling half of the county.
Marooned (National) - 27/07/2026 18:14:32
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Mayo GAA Thread - 2 Like(s)
Replying To Seanfan: "We're in an era of "1 in a row" as a good few teams of similar standard around plus its hard to win an AI under the new systems." I suppose shows how good that Dublin team that were able to do 6 in a row, also probably shows that the Mayo team of 2016, 17 were a very good team and in any era they probably would have won at least 1 All Ireland. Yeah so many teams at a relatively similar level, sure Mayo hadn't even reached the quarter final the last few years. So about 7 or 8 teams will fancy their chances of winning Sam next year.
CartaDubh (National) - 27/07/2026 15:18:31
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Kerry All Ireland Champions 2026? - 1 Like(s)
Not a great year for kerry in hindsight.
Hammered twice by Donegal and lucky enough to win their games against Tyrone and Dublin,and well beaten yesterday,albeit its a measure of Kerry football that getting to an all Ireland final and a disappointing year can be said in the same sentence.
As much as Kerry folk will wax lyrical about the rivalry with Cork,we all know its not a rivalry anymore, and is frankly barely worth watching. Kerry are unquestionably the masters in that dynamic and their victory over them wasnt anything to write home about.
Seniorleague (National) - 27/07/2026 15:48:00
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Kerry All Ireland Champions 2026? - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Fionn: "I didn't realise that tbh. Fair play.
And who would begrudge them retaining their title.
I wouldn't anyway.
It would put that team right up there with other teams who have been able to win back2back.
Thrilled for Aidan O'Shea tbh.
And Andy Moran also. Top man.
Gonna be sad this see a player who has the potential to be the GOAT, Kobe, head off to Aus soon though.
He deserves the opportunity but what a loss to GAA." He could go over to Australia, play there for 10 years and come.back and still only be 28.
waynoI (National) - 27/07/2026 15:10:46
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Donegal GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
I think the main lesson to be learned from yesterday is that teams who let the handbrake off and take more risks are going to be more successful under the new rules. Moran would have been crucifed if his gung-ho tactics had backfired, but fortune favoured the brave. Fair play to them.
Lockjaw (National) - 27/07/2026 16:29:59
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Galway Football thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To ColmFlaherty: "Yesterday is a big eye opener, trust the youth.
Fionn McDonagh, Colm Costello and Shane McGrath need to have trust in them now to deliver." Really agree. Give them the shot. Fionn would have been exactly the injection we needed against Dublin. He's the kind of player who changes the momentum of a game, he's always a goal threat and instinctively alive to every loose ball. He is the best for hoovering up rebounds around the square, and those are often the moments that decide championship matches.
Gearoid1998ffowaed (National) - 27/07/2026 15:53:14
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