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Roscommon GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Tarismelting22: "\Roscommon is one of the best senior championships in the country" And before anyone says you're biased it's opinion shared by many pundits and Journalists around the country.
Strokestown county champions in 2022 and relegated the next year really showed how competitive the senior championship. Clann this year should look at that and be fully focused for their relegation play off.
Brigid's favourites but I wouldn't put any big cash on it when it's nearly a decade since any team retained the Fahey Cup. Brian Stack in the Irish Independent today rightly said they haven't look past the Roscommon championships when he was asked about Brigids All-Ireland hopes.
Intermediate championship strong also with 4 of the last 8 Connacht winners from Roscommon and was three other Roscommon Finalists losing narrowly.
We had a group format with more games a few years ago and it didn't work. A group stage with 1 home 1 away and 1 match in a neutral venue is a more group suitable format.
The_analyser (National) - 23/08/2026 23:24:07
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Leitrim GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Boxtyeater: "Any chance of informing us of who was playing today…..
No mention of a match either in the fixtures or results section on the C/B website.
Thanks and hugs and all that fluff…." If he's talking about the junior b game, I don't know what the definition of massive is, it was a whitewash according to website. But that's the nature of junior b and c, it's whoever is available on the day and looks like annaduff have a very stacked panel this year, could be a double for them in inter and junior but it's a few weeks to October when it all comes to a head
gaelsboy (National) - 23/08/2026 23:32:55
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Monaghan GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Overtheblackspot89: "Exactly Magheracloone have been shown 3 weeks in a row now" This narrative needs to stop, and quickly.
Magheracloone can welcome Clubber in no problem because they aren't short of cash, lots of money flowing there from Gypsum after the disaster a few years ago.
Every other club in Monaghan has been hit with a county board "maintenance fee" of 3-6k each depending on grade. That's why clubs aren't so forthcoming in clubber access to their grounds… because they want to get more people in the gate to pay the fee
Monaghanmad123 (National) - 24/08/2026 00:24:04
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Donegal GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
This week's scores:
Username Week 3
greenfan 24
HandBallRef 24
Samsforthehills26 23
Ulsterchamps_32 23
Pennyalfie 19
EP 19
HowManyStepsRef 17
peiledoir20 17
SouthOfTheGap 15
Lockjaw 13
ballboy101 13
TheRock2121 12
eunans4ever 0
rorysboys 0
Northwest90 0
Mountain_view 0
*** UPDATED LEADERBOARD ***
Username Score
ballboy101 63
HandBallRef 57
Pennyalfie 56
Lockjaw 55
greenfan 54
Ulsterchamps_32 53
peiledoir20 51
Samsforthehills26 49
SouthOfTheGap 41
EP 40
HowManyStepsRef 36
Mountain_view 27
TheRock2121 27
Northwest90 16
eunans4ever 0
rorysboys 0
Forgot to mention that this year's winner wins an all expenses paid cruise to the strait of Hormuz.
Lockjaw (National) - 24/08/2026 09:59:00
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Donegal GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Lockjaw: "This week's scores:
Username Week 3
greenfan 24
HandBallRef 24
Samsforthehills26 23
Ulsterchamps_32 23
Pennyalfie 19
EP 19
HowManyStepsRef 17
peiledoir20 17
SouthOfTheGap 15
Lockjaw 13
ballboy101 13
TheRock2121 12
eunans4ever 0
rorysboys 0
Northwest90 0
Mountain_view 0
*** UPDATED LEADERBOARD ***
Username Score
ballboy101 63
HandBallRef 57
Pennyalfie 56
Lockjaw 55
greenfan 54
Ulsterchamps_32 53
peiledoir20 51
Samsforthehills26 49
SouthOfTheGap 41
EP 40
HowManyStepsRef 36
Mountain_view 27
TheRock2121 27
Northwest90 16
eunans4ever 0
rorysboys 0
Forgot to mention that this year's winner wins an all expenses paid cruise to the strait of Hormuz." whats my score
farneygael3 (National) - 24/08/2026 12:28:47
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Should Football Teams Now Focus On Two-Pointers? - 1 Like(s)
To my mind, it may be best to target a similar 'yield' across the 'three' scoring varieties (including goals) - i.e. like having a narrow 'pts per attempt' range (e.g. 0.9 - 1.0 above) - but with the added dimension of incorporating 'per time interval'.
Overall, as the game evolves, the time factor may very well tip the scales towards one-pointers, as two- and three-pointers (goals) produce less efficient yield.
Ideally, 'similar yields' across goal, 'arc' and short point (per time interval) would allow a team to play with greater finesse and unpredictability, without impacting their total score.
What do you think?
omahant (USA) - Posts: 3523 - 22/08/2026 14:29:55
I agree that the best guarantee of success is to target a similar yield across the three scoring varieties, focus on Goals, 2-Pointers and 1 pointers in equal. Any team who isn't posing a 2-pointer threat, will likely face a deeper sitting defence who will clog up running lanes.
I'm sure almost every Inter-county coaching team have been crunching these numbers. However its clear that their calculations were based on the previous 2025 years stats and not on emerging changing variables that we seen this past 2026 season, such as improved defending across the board, which severely impacted scoring averages.
Top teams who could dominate midfield, and who prefer low risk 1 pointers, were then getting turned over in the final 3rd by teams with a better man to man defenders, and thus why we seen such early elimination. 2 pointers are also environment dependent, get a bad weather day and nobody will hit them.
Commodore (National) - 24/08/2026 13:12:42
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International Rules - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Seniorleague: "Sure,thats all fine, but if a motivated GAA player,who wants to get the best out of himself,is unfortunate enough to be stuck with a club where other players are turning up for games hungover and not really being committed at all,well then him deciding to move to a higher standard club surrounded by like minded players and coaches is fine by me, and id personally be far more in favour of that than a player leaving the gaa altogether to go to a different sport.
This is nothing against kobe btw,or any other player who leaves,i hope they achieve great success out there." At the end of the day you only get to play for so long and you should be loyal to yourself first and foremost and put your own interests first. Its only amateur after all.
Bon (National) - 24/08/2026 13:37:21
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Leitrim GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To moros: "Pearses and Boyle in Roscommon would harbour real ambitions too. Oran and Ros Gaels might be chasing too. Real top notch stuff. Remember Brigid's haven't huge reserves so any injuries maybe precarious. Love to all." St Brigids havent huge reserves. Is this a joke? They have had something like 13 players involved in Roscommon senior football panels in the past couple of years. They played virtually all of the Division 1 league without their county contingent this year which was 8 players and still got to a league final. And actually won the Division 1 league final last year. They have 6 or 7 subs that would make any other senior team in the county. I do agree that Pearses and Boyle will give them plenty of it in the knockouts and Brigids winning Roscommon isn't a foregone conclusion by any means but they have more than enough reserves to cope with injuries. Eddie Nolan and Shane Cunnane, two inter county midfielders didnt feature yet (Cunnane for 4 minutes in one game) and they still didn't need to get out of first gear.
BadgerDog (National) - 24/08/2026 13:48:21
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Monaghan GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To GAAFAN1234512345: "Scostown vs Latton was very good game at weekend. Thought Jack McCarron had a quiet game. Think Jack Lennon was marking him and done very well. Jack vs Jack" Yes Jack definitely got the better Jack. I would still rate Jack above Jack any other day of the week. Fair play to Jack but Jack also deserves some credit
TruaghGaell (National) - 24/08/2026 14:51:52
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Monaghan GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Farneylad275849: "Who's the top forwards in the championship so far?
1. Steven Mooney
2. James Maguire
3. Max McGinnity
Mooney hitting 9 points from play this weekend on Dylan Bryne surely makes him no 1 so far" Luke Hughie McKenna from truagh ??? Hes playing some tasty stuff. One for the future for Monaghan. Heard he was giving Ronan Boyle a tough time at training and Ronans one county best defenders keeping Stephen Mooney to 1 point.
GAAFAN1234512345 (National) - 24/08/2026 15:17:02
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Roscommon GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Anyone know anything on Diarmuid Murtagh club transfer.? Heard Rumours Truagh Gaels in monaghan are looking to sign him as that will be his local club in Monaghan. This would make them a very strong team with players at county standard like Diarmuid, Ronan Boyle, Louis Kelly, Luke Hughie Mckenna, Darren Oneill (Clare) and Shane Moran (Leitrim).
GAAFAN1234512345 (National) - 24/08/2026 15:47:45
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Should Football Teams Now Focus On Two-Pointers? - 1 Like(s)
Focus on defending them better. The amount of times you see two pointers at club and county level kicked under zero pressure and given loads of time to take a shot is ridiculous.
The_analyser (National) - 24/08/2026 16:27:18
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