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Roscommon GAA thread - 3 Like(s)
Replying To The_analyser: "While a poorly maintained fixtures on the website is an annoyance patrons might somewhat tolerate, the decision by county board officials to impose a €25 admission fee with zero concessions for students or OAPs for Sunday's standalone senior final is entirely indefensible.
Nationwide, the standard price for a senior county final sits at €20, frequently packaged as a double-header with discounted €15 options available. To leverage a marquee local derby between Pádraig Pearses and St. Brigid's-two heavyweights of Connacht club football-with such prohibitive pricing is self-defeating. A fairly priced gate would easily attract a crowd of over 5,000; under these current conditions, that milestone is entirely out of reach" Spot on.
Appalling gouging.
Seanfan (National) - 13/10/2026 21:40:32
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Roscommon GAA thread - 2 Like(s)
Replying To The_analyser: "While a poorly maintained fixtures on the website is an annoyance patrons might somewhat tolerate, the decision by county board officials to impose a €25 admission fee with zero concessions for students or OAPs for Sunday's standalone senior final is entirely indefensible.
Nationwide, the standard price for a senior county final sits at €20, frequently packaged as a double-header with discounted €15 options available. To leverage a marquee local derby between Pádraig Pearses and St. Brigid's-two heavyweights of Connacht club football-with such prohibitive pricing is self-defeating. A fairly priced gate would easily attract a crowd of over 5,000; under these current conditions, that milestone is entirely out of reach" €25 is too expensive for a county final. Shooting ourselves in the foot
tommyc (National) - 13/10/2026 21:23:45
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Roscommon GAA thread - 2 Like(s)
Replying To The_analyser: "While a poorly maintained fixtures on the website is an annoyance patrons might somewhat tolerate, the decision by county board officials to impose a €25 admission fee with zero concessions for students or OAPs for Sunday's standalone senior final is entirely indefensible.
Nationwide, the standard price for a senior county final sits at €20, frequently packaged as a double-header with discounted €15 options available. To leverage a marquee local derby between Pádraig Pearses and St. Brigid's-two heavyweights of Connacht club football-with such prohibitive pricing is self-defeating. A fairly priced gate would easily attract a crowd of over 5,000; under these current conditions, that milestone is entirely out of reach" The Dublin County Board obviously understand the basic "law of demand" in economics for their county final this Sunday, between Cuala and Castleknock.
Adult Stand Ticket 20 euro -- sold out
Concession OAP and student stand ticket 10 euro - sold out
Adult terrace ticket 15 euro
Concession OAP and student terrace ticket 10 euro
Think the Roscommon county board got it wrong from several perspectives on this one.
letsgetgoing (National) - 14/10/2026 12:01:24
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Galway Football thread - 2 Like(s)
Replying To GDL: "No, not from what I saw, lumping the ball into the a cluster of people, sure that is what the Enda Colleran did back in the day. The keeper we should be looking at in addition to what we have is Kieran McDonagh (Caherlistrane)." This has to be a joke...
Galwaymaster9 (National) - 14/10/2026 12:40:32
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Tiered Leinster SHC - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Pikeman96: "To be honest, the only ones in Wexford I've heard say "might not be too bad" are ones I'd consider amongst the "day tripper to Croke Park" type of supporter, who are thinking back to the so-called good old days when we used to be there regularly for a Leinster semi-final double-header. Doesn't seem to occur to them that the semi-finals (if we made them) might be played separately in places like Nowlan Park or Portlaoise!
Don't actually know the views of the Management Committee level of the County Board on it. All my regular contact there told me is that it was discussed briefly at a recent meeting and is to be further considered some other time, possibly at the full County Board meeting next week. I know he doesn't particularly like it himself, but he's only voice among many there.
However, I do know several people involved in hurling in Carlow and a few more in Kildare, and they're all in favour of it. As I've said before, they think it would be great to have the chance to stay in Leinster for longer rather than maybe dropping back to McDonagh level after a year or two or three, and they particularly like the chance of being able to play a "big" knockout match.
I've even pointed out to some that the "big" knockout match wouldn't be a whole lot different to the McDonagh finalists v 3rd in Leinster ones that we used to have, but they claim it would. I don't fully understand how or why." 3rd v 5th should be a better standard of contest. The danger of losing will be missing out on Group A, otherwise you would be getting those McDonagh finalists as opponents. And not one, but two of them!!
The old Leinster qualifier group was a GAA solution to a GAA problem. It worked reasonably well for what it was. There was a bit of the luck of the draw with that. With the planned format - the lower 2 in group A will put their A status on the line in the quarter finals.
Say Kilkenny are battling against Dublin for 2nd, losing and entering a quarter final is a potential banana skin. None of them will want to be caught up in the web of Group B hurling in championship.
legendzxix (National) - 13/10/2026 21:04:57
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Galway Football thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Crashingwaves: "Yes, locals who are working abroad. Lots of people had to emigrate in the past but unfortunately couldn't return, especially west of the Corrib. Fair dues to them for coming to play for their club. There's no reasoning with jealousy!" Nice to see sanity rather than falsehoods and innuendo for a change on this tread.
backtooldwall (National) - 14/10/2026 00:13:47
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Donegal GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Finbar roarty for Collingwood any truth?
Jimsam12 (National) - 14/10/2026 06:00:55
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Roscommon GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To The_analyser: "While a poorly maintained fixtures on the website is an annoyance patrons might somewhat tolerate, the decision by county board officials to impose a €25 admission fee with zero concessions for students or OAPs for Sunday's standalone senior final is entirely indefensible.
Nationwide, the standard price for a senior county final sits at €20, frequently packaged as a double-header with discounted €15 options available. To leverage a marquee local derby between Pádraig Pearses and St. Brigid's-two heavyweights of Connacht club football-with such prohibitive pricing is self-defeating. A fairly priced gate would easily attract a crowd of over 5,000; under these current conditions, that milestone is entirely out of reach" Why should we tolerate it when we are paying €25 to watch a county final and we will all be asked to purchase tickets for the new fundraiser being launched. But we can't even check up to date fixtures or results! Need to do better
D.Hyde (National) - 14/10/2026 10:29:57
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County Championship Formats 2026 - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Viking66: "Thats me calling :-D" We have 3 groups of four in both codes in Cork, and I must say it's working very well.
bloodandbandage (National) - 14/10/2026 11:39:49
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International Rules - 1 Like(s)
hope this competition never surfaces again. Poaching
farneygael3 (National) - 14/10/2026 12:41:53
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International Rules - 1 Like(s)
Replying To ValPadden: "Roarty will be a big loss to Donegal and the GAA. Is it the money or the experience that's turning the players heads? Climate may be a consideration too. Sunshine beats wind and rain." It'd need to be a serious wage to be listening to Aussies non stop 12 months of the year. I wouldn't do it for 500k nevermind anything less.
FullOfPorter (National) - 14/10/2026 13:43:39
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Roscommon GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
€25 admission fee with zero concessions for students or OAPs is stupid business sense.
Connacht club championship matches last year which is level above any county final was 15€ to attend. And a level above that again the Roscommon v Galway Senior Connacht final in Dr Hyde back in May students and OAPs could attend for 20€
Drax_the_destroyer (National) - 14/10/2026 14:06:08
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International Rules - 1 Like(s)
Replying To ValPadden: "Roarty will be a big loss to Donegal and the GAA. Is it the money or the experience that's turning the players heads? Climate may be a consideration too. Sunshine beats wind and rain." Its a no brainer for young lads to go.
They will be full time athletes with little to no financial output as accommodation/flights/food/travel expenses covered.
To be honest I hope more go because it'll finally show up the GAA that we have have been treating our players poorly for far too long.
naomh_conaill_4 (National) - 14/10/2026 14:19:49
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International Rules - 1 Like(s)
Replying To ValPadden: "Roarty will be a big loss to Donegal and the GAA. Is it the money or the experience that's turning the players heads? Climate may be a consideration too. Sunshine beats wind and rain." An opportunity to play professional sport appeals to many young athletes. The money wouldn't be hectic for any of the young players heading over, but the possibility of doing well is there. It's a challenge which people want to try, and see how it goes. They'll be less likely to get the opportunity again at oan oder age.
It can open other opportunities too. Colin O'Riordan is coaching over there now.
WanPintWin (National) - 14/10/2026 14:22:19
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