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Roscommon GAA thread - 3 Like(s)
Impressive stuff from our U17s tonight with 14 changes to the starting 15 to run out 14 point winners against Leitrim. We made good use of the wind advantage to lead by 10 points at half-time and a goal early in the 2nd half ended the game as a contest.
That's 9 Connacht championship wins in a row at this level now and hopefully it can become 10 as would mean another Connacht title, well done to all the players and management.
The_analyser (National) - 10/04/2026 20:25:34
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Does Anyone See Past Limerick Winning The Hurling All Ireland? - 2 Like(s)
Replying To Viking66: "If you are going back to the 80s, then why not go back to the 50s?
And at the end of the day who really cares about minor or u21 AIs?
Most of our most successful players in history never won a Leinster minor title, never mind an AI minor one. And we have dozens of lads who won minor AIs who never won a Senior AI.
And Galway are the same. They had 4 AI winning minor teams in a row in the last decade that never won an u20 AI, and most of whom never even played Senior intercounty, never mind won a Senior AI." I would imagine the 16 and 17 year olds playing minor inter county hurling care and the 18/19 and 20 year olds playing u20 care!!! Ridiculous statement
Goreylad1985 (National) - 10/04/2026 16:33:23
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Non-Gaa Forum - 2 Like(s)
Why did you bother applying if you acknowledged I was right in your last paragraph.
If some can afford it and others can't that's inequality.
Doylerwex (Wexford) - Posts: 4413 - 10/04/2026 18:43:02
Incorrect. I agreed that cost can be factor that impacts options, but that is not to say the opportunity is taken away.
We have education equality in so far as all people in Ireland have the opportunity to avail of 3rd level education. People from poorer backgrounds, who ordinarily wouldn't be able to afford College/University fees etc can get their full fees paid and avail of an additional monthly maintenance grant towards living costs if they are from a household below a certain income threshold.
Your equality argument is based on affordability, its not about equality of opportunity to 3rd level, its more about the lack of options if you don't have sufficient funding or wealth. You want every Irish person to be able to study wherever they want, fully funded by the state, basically you want wealth equality, where every single person earns the same, no privilege etc.....i.e. Communism!!
Commodore (National) - 10/04/2026 21:32:57
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Some Updates On The Football Review - 1 Like(s)
Replying To tirawleybaron: "Below is from the FRC "enhancements"
DISCIPLINE
The seven core playing rule enhancements are buttressed by a number of disciplinary infractions which are as follows:
• The penalty for tactical fouling for the purpose of deliberately delaying or impeding play results in the ball being moved forward 50m. If this results in the ball being moved inside the 40m arc, a Team can opt to take their free from the arc to try and score two points.
• A player who concedes a free must retreat immediately. A Player who commits a foul while in possession must hand the ball directly to their nearest opponent on the full and retreat. Failure to do so advances the ball 50m.
• To deliberately and cynically hold up but not pull down an opponent for the purposes of gaining an advantage shall be a black card offence.
• There will be zero tolerance to head high challenges.
• To contribute to a melee (third or subsequent player in with the purpose of NOT removing your teammate) receives a black card.
• To show dissent with the referee's decision to award a freekick to the opposing team results in the free being moved forward 50m.
• Misconduct by a Team Official(s) that warrants a Yellow or Red Card results in a free kick on the offending team's 13m line.
• Teams will nominate a designated player (i.e. captain or his deputy) for the purpose of seeking clarification of a decision made by the referee.
• Matches will be governed by an official clock in charge of time, which will be controlled by the match referee who can stop and restart the clock by signaling to linesmen.
Looks like Cork missed a trick by not challenging the ref and demanding their 50m advancement. Instead they just let the ref get it wrong without questioning him at the time" It shouldn't be up to a team to challenge a ref. It's up to the ref to apply the rules properly. There's clearly ambiguity about this, as we have Eamonn Fitzmaurice saying it should have been moved up, but others saying the ref was correct. This confusion isn't helping refs and I'm sure Brendan Griffin thought he took the correct course of action and the teams probably thought he did too. Meath certainly thought there would be no 50m penalty, as otherwise they wouldn't have done it. It's a loophole that they exploited and ensured they won the game. Any other team would be mad not to do the same.
Until the GAA clarify this for everyone and sort it out, it's basically giving free licence to foul away in similar scenarios at the end of games. Pin a team in their own half and just keep fouling them there. It only takes 2 fouls to run down the last 30 or 40 seconds.
WanPintWin (National) - 10/04/2026 14:09:27
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Does Anyone See Past Limerick Winning The Hurling All Ireland? - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Pope_Benedict: "You're belittling u21 wins and u21 competition, and then go on to belittle players who didn't win u21s. Make up your mind like a good lad.
The correlation between u21 and senior success is quite high imo. Clare Limerick Tipp Cork have dominated the grade for 14 seasons, and have the beat senior sides our of it for the last 8 years. Galway's 4 senior wins 1980-2017 were preceded by u21 wins in '72, '78, '83, '86, 2007 and 2011.
Most of Wexford's senior intercounty success was post 2nd world war, but before the introduction of underage intercounty competition in the sixties, which perhaps is jaundicing your view there about the value of intercounty minor and u21 grades as underage talent pipelines for senior success." Awfulnonsensealtogether. Imagine demeaning all Ireland minor and u21 winning teams. Everyone remembers great minors like dj Carey, Joe canning, eoin Kelly etc.
Limerick current team came from 2 u21 winning teams
richiepmurphy (National) - 10/04/2026 15:04:18
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Croke Park expansion - 1 Like(s)
Replying To RoyalBadger: "They can showcase all they want, UEFA ain't going there with terracing." You never hear of temporary seating.?????
https://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2026/0410/1567598-mckenna-eyes-champions-league-final-at-croke-park/
Fionn (National) - 10/04/2026 15:24:54
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Some Updates On The Football Review - 1 Like(s)
It's interesting how many pundits' interpretation of it was that the referee gave the correct decision. They, nor the ref himself seem to have read the updated rules in that case, or else haven't interpreted it as clearly as you have.
Based on this, there's a clear need for clarity.
WanPintWin (National) - 10/04/2026 16:14:31
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Leitrim GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Defeat to Roscommon minors tonight by 1-13 to 0-02.
Sligo and Roscommon are both ahead of us in population I know, but comparable to us in numbers of clubs.
We are still the only county without a title in any level of Connacht club championship.
We are the only county without a win at all in either under 20 or minor championship.
I've said it before - our guys look good until the play outside our county bounds. Then they get really exposed to their level.
I don't know what the other counties are doing - but it's different to what we are doing. Not an option anymore - it is a fact
leitrim4sam (National) - 10/04/2026 20:16:52
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Donegal GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To winatallcost: "What you mean in all likelihood you would be facing the winner of Tyrone and Armagh? Sure hasn't the draw been made so all you have to do is get over a weak Down team to play the winner." We never take any match for granted. Anything can happen on the day.
Ye should know better than most? You beat Dublin last year, you then thought the Leinster championship was won but............
Scenicparish (National) - 10/04/2026 20:29:36
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Football Championship 2026 - 1 Like(s)
Replying To tirawleybaron: "As usual your opinion is coloured by the simple fact that Kerry would benefit most from your suggestion.
For the all ireland draw to be fair, giving Kerry extra advantages for beating Cork and not much else just cant be allowed." Provincial loser also gets home advantage
So it's a win, win for two counties in munster
every year. They could just alternate the cup, and move on to the all-ireland!
Expertinall (National) - 10/04/2026 21:14:28
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Football Championship 2026 - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Sharlene: "Will matches have to be postponed because of the fuel protests?" If that's what it takes for the governments to take heed then so be it. Government are making a killing out of fuel and squandering it.
Saynothing (National) - 10/04/2026 22:22:47
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Football Championship 2026 - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Tirchonaill1: "I'd agree with that, though it's a guaranteed advantage to Kerry most would say but I suppose it's not Kerry's fault Munster is weak enough and uncompetitive in football terms in comparison to the likes of Ulster especially." For all the talk about Ulster ,I think Leinster and Connaught are more competitive this year and Munster although maybe weak still have two teams stronger than Donegal.Kerry destroyed Donegal last year and Cork beat Donegal the previous year.
brayballer (National) - 11/04/2026 01:15:13
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Non-Gaa Forum - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Doylerwex: "Why did you bother applying if you acknowledged I was right in your last paragraph.
If some can afford it and others can't that's inequality." No, that's what's called a meritocracy.
What you seem to be pining for is some sort of socialist Eden.
What country would you most like us to be like, out of interest?
cavanman47 (National) - 11/04/2026 06:00:20
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Football Championship 2026 - 1 Like(s)
Replying To brayballer: "For all the talk about Ulster ,I think Leinster and Connaught are more competitive this year and Munster although maybe weak still have two teams stronger than Donegal.Kerry destroyed Donegal last year and Cork beat Donegal the previous year." Kerry are still number 1, but there's no world in which you can say Cork are better than Donegal at the moment. You're only on the wind-up with that.
Donegal are top-2 in most people's books at the moment. Whether Cork beat them in 2024 is irrelevant. Cork can be a handful on their day, but they're still inconsistent. They lost by 20 points to Derry a weeks ago. Donegal are at a different level.
WanPintWin (National) - 11/04/2026 12:21:25
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