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Non-Gaa Forum - 4 Like(s)
Gerry Adam 1 - BBC 0
Saynothing (National) - 30/05/2025 12:10:47
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Galway Hurling thread - 2 Like(s)
Replying To Pope_Benedict: "Cusack highlighted indiscretions in the Dublin Galway game, and DID NOT highlight similar indiscretions seen in the Cork Waterford game on the same day. There were actually far more dirty strikes in the Munster game, but Cusack took the biased approach and jumped on the 3 eye catching egregious incidents from Parnell Park. Tail wags the dog here, and the GAA has been 'seen to act' accordingly." Richie Hogan spoke very well about this on the radio yesterday evening. All this nonsense we've been hearing about the ref not applying the rules.
It's obvious to anyone watching the game what happened, if you look at the 3 incidents that occurred. Fahy's little swipe happened behind the play, so the ref didn't see it. He'd be relying on his umpires to flag that one.
Daithí's shoulder he explained as being into the chest, which it was. A shoulder to the chest is not a straight red. Now it was incredibly hard and had a whiplash effect, but the ref got only one look at it and explained to the players why he gave a yellow.
On Donoghue's hurl across Fleming's neck, again the ref couldn't see it. Both players had their back to the ref and were facing the endline. Nobody in commentary even noted it until they saw the replay. Likewise, there was little reaction from the crowd. If the ref had seen it, he would have given a red. But it was almost impossible for him to see what actually happened.
Enough with the hysterics from lads who have access to 10 slow-motion replays and seem to think the game should be reffed on that basis.
WanPintWin (National) - 30/05/2025 12:02:34
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Westmeath Football thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To iarmhiabu: "What difference would it make if the ACFL Finals were taken out of Cusack Park? Was there even 500 at the Division 1&2 Finals last year? There would be a better atmosphere if you spread them across club grounds. We can be honest and say the League Finals are glorified challenge matches. The two best teams in the county aren't that bothered about it anyway. Garrycastle v Kinnegad is a bit of an anti climax for the Division 1 Final. Garrycastle will probably win because they will have their best team out, no county players for the first time in a long time while Kinnegad have Cooney, Giles and Daly? involved with the county and arguably their best player Gahan is playing for Westmeath in NY. What impact could the venue for the League Finals possibly have on the fundraiser?" Your missing the point here. There's teams from Division 3 down who have worked all year to get into a final and they may never have another chance to play in Cusack Park. It's not all about Kinnegad and Loman's. And our league finals should absolutely be in the county ground. Any alternative view is quite undermining of the competition. The notion you would toss for home advantage for a league final is lazy from the county board and just adds to the collective disconnect between them and the clubs. Best of Luck asking clubs for thousands of €€ in unsold fundraising tickets if this is the case.
OverTheHill85 (National) - 30/05/2025 12:14:46
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Dublin GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Fionn: "Great to see Evan, Eoghan, the Small brothers, Scully, Luke, and above all LEE, all listed on the subs bench.
Murch and Con are injured." Super news on Lee Gannon.Did nt think we would see him anymore this season.
brayballer (National) - 30/05/2025 18:00:35
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Your Favourite Football/Hurling Podcast - 1 Like(s)
Replying To CeachtPeile: "The RTÉ GAA podcast is normally interesting but a very annoying feature is its bias towards the top teams and its complete disregard for the other teams and levels. This manifests itself during the league with an almost complete focus on Division 1 football and Division 1A in hurling. There is the rare token mention of Division 2 football and Division 1B hurling but that's it. The lower divisions (particularly in hurling) might as well not be there.
It's the same now in championship with this week's episode really taking the biscuit. Jacqui Hurley's opening statement was that there was no hurling this weekend. This is so blinkered with absolutely no regard for the fact that there are three national finals on (Ring, Rackard and Meagher Cup finals) - again it's as it they didn't exist.
The football coverage that followed didn't even cover all the Sam Maguire games - no analysis at all of Louth v Down; Monaghan v Clare or Meath v Roscommon. And, needless to say, the Tailteann Cup wasn't even referred to and rarely is." There's too much chat from Rory O'Neill for me on the RTE podcast. I think it would improve if it had another hurler or footballer or journalist on there. I like the Indo GAA pod with Michael Verney, Dick Clerkin and Pat Spillane.
GreenandRed (National) - 30/05/2025 17:08:39
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Attendances 2025 - 1 Like(s)
Replying To ORIELMAN85: "Full house at Ulster Final. Great atmosphere. Also a great crowd and tremendous atmosphere in Newbridge last Saturday. Fantastic crowd and atmosphere in Armagh on Wednesday evening. Result was not a true reflection of how good the game was. Will be a massive crowd in Breffni on Sunday, even if Walter Mitty is at home resting his vocals after his pretend trip to Croke Park on Saturday. We never had it so good." Up to 50,000 expected in Croke Park Sunday.
Not bad for a sport which apparently doesn't attract many spectators!
Seanfanbocht (National) - 30/05/2025 16:59:04
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Roscommon GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Proudroyal: "Well All,heading down to the match with the family tomorrow evening.I was just wondering if there was somewhere you could recommend for some good food? Also where would be best to park?Hopefully be a good game but weather doesn't look great." Lots of places to eat in Roscommon. Four places close to each other in the center of town are Jacksons Restaurant, Gleesons, Regans and Rogue & Co. ( Several other places)
The best parking spots will depend on what direction you approach Roscommon town from and if you want a relatively fast get away. If you are coming via Mulli gar and Lanesborough the Tesco Car Park ( via the mart road) or parking near Superman's might be an option. The Hyde is within walking distance of the town center like Navan. If you are coming via Athlone a lot of people park on the main road but you would want to be down early to get a spot near the pitch and walk into town for your meal. Harlows is a good place for a pint beside Jacksons restaurant and Down the Hatch is a small GAA pub that might get busy.
May the best team win. Hopefully the Rossies!
letsgetgoing (National) - 30/05/2025 16:47:52
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Roscommon GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Proudroyal: "Well All,heading down to the match with the family tomorrow evening.I was just wondering if there was somewhere you could recommend for some good food? Also where would be best to park?Hopefully be a good game but weather doesn't look great." Abbey Hotel and Coachmans Inn do good bar food. Great Indian on the square beside Red Parrot if you like that. Regans and Gleesons on the square nice sit down restaurant places. Rogue on Main street good food during the day but will be closed after the match. Anywhere in front of the Mart and along by Sean Doyle windows is usually good.
Enjoy the trip down!
FullOfPorter (National) - 30/05/2025 16:27:09
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Tier 2 And Tier 3 Minor Football - 1 Like(s)
The idea of the tiers is that regardless of your previous history of success at underage, your current team plays at a level they are competitive at.
Would be a good idea to replicate in U20 and senior also.
3 tiers is a natural fit for the GAA mindset.
tirawleybaron (National) - 30/05/2025 12:36:33
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Mayo GAA Thread - 1 Like(s)
You get all sorts of bad behaviour and abuse at GAA matches - a lot of them go to club matches because you hear plenty of it there.
Definitely not an exclusive set of people to either Mayo or any of the three categories of people listed in an earlier post.
The fact is, the for a lot of people in Rural Ireland, the GAA field has been the sole sporting facility for 100 years. In those places, the success of the club and or county is the only team(s) they support. Often, as club success is so fleeting (successful team generally backboned by two or three families producing 3-4 brothers at the same time) that the only real hope of a team winning is Mayo.
Those people have watched a succession of teams (over the past 36 years) be good enough to win but not doing it when its needed. For the past 15 years they watched Mayo give it everything and never throwing in the towel.
The last day against Cavan, a lot of the players chucked in the towel.
Mayo supporters have spent a lot of money following the team and were happy to do so when the players gave it everything.
It was obvious against Cavan that the team were not playing for the manager. A manager that gave up a well paid job in RTE to be a full time manager of Mayo (apparently for free!!).
Now he is gone they need to step up and show that the vast resources spent on them was not wasted completely.
The vitriol shouted at a man trying to do his job is not acceptable - not to many of us would put up with someone shouting abuse at you while your working. In some line of work, the man who was shouting that abuse would be visiting the hospital ward afterwards.
tirawleybaron (National) - 30/05/2025 12:28:42
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Galway Football thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To gbay: "bit disappointed with team selection.
thought it was the perfect opportunity to freshen things up..
id have given mccrath a rest and started glynn and silke in full back line..
bring daly into 6 and move kelly to 7 or possibly start molloy instead of mchugh.
id have brough o flaherty into wing forward and left out darcy.
pity comer and tomo are not available again and where is o laoi..very good ball carrier and hard..so frustrating.
im hoping for a win obviously but for some reason i cant see it..
the team is gone stale in my opinion and needs freshening up..
maybe joyce might surprise us all before throw in but i douth it,
anyways best of luck to team/supporters and safe travels.
Gaillimh abu" Id have started Fitz at full back, Silke centre back with Kelly going to left half. Id be happy to see Daly there also but still a very strong 6 backline with Mulkerrins, Flaherty, Daly and Molly all to come in as needed. Conroy has a good record against Derry and Id expect him and McDaid to switch in and out. O Laoi is injured as possibly Tomo as well as far as I heard. Darcy was marked out of it against Dublin but very hard to leave him out, huge man, strong, fast, well able to win ball, create and score. I think Shane is better off in the inside line, we have enough lads out side to get the ball into him and Finnerty, they could cause chaos with Tierney and Thompson floating in and out, keep the best scorers close to the scoring zone. No standby players named so who know we might see Comer yet, as someone else pointed out, we could be out if we lose so if he is fit for 20 min then no point holding him back.
Trucker1 (National) - 30/05/2025 12:24:29
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Galway Football thread - 1 Like(s)
Team named for Derry game, same starting 15 as was named for Dublin. Heaney and Costello added to the subs in place of Culhane and O Conghaile.
Big reaction needed early to set the tone, don't think we've really fired out of the blocks early in a game since championship started.
LárBáire (National) - 30/05/2025 06:27:37
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Galway Hurling thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Pope_Benedict: "As Johnny Logan sang 'what's another week'. Whether you're gone in late May or early June doesn't amount to a hill of beans really.
I would acknowledge though that Waterford are in a *****y place in this current format, having to get at least TWO 'results' from 4 games against arguably the top 4 teams in the country currently in Clare, Cork, Limerick and Tipp to progress." But if you can't get at least TWO results out of 4 games why would you deserve to go further?
That's a matter for them to sort out for themselves and you can be sure Mullane would be very quiet on the subject if it was (for example) Tipperary repeatedly missing out on qualification in recent years instead of Waterford.
What he should be pushing for if he wants a change is an open draw but that essentially means no more provincial finals so he'll keep his mouth closed on that front.
Having 4 qualify from 5 in Munster and Leinster reduces the whole thing to a series of glorified challenge matches, it's a terrible idea.
Stool Pigeon (National) - 30/05/2025 11:58:59
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Wexford Hurling 2025 - 1 Like(s)
Replying To icehonesty: "Everyone wants to win.
Few are prepared to do what it takes to win." That's true to a point. At the end of the day players are amateurs, and many have other things going on in their lives. You won't get buy in from a club panel to train like county players for any more than 1-3 years max.
Viking66 (National) - 30/05/2025 11:46:25
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Galway Football thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To gbay: "bit disappointed with team selection.
thought it was the perfect opportunity to freshen things up..
id have given mccrath a rest and started glynn and silke in full back line..
bring daly into 6 and move kelly to 7 or possibly start molloy instead of mchugh.
id have brough o flaherty into wing forward and left out darcy.
pity comer and tomo are not available again and where is o laoi..very good ball carrier and hard..so frustrating.
im hoping for a win obviously but for some reason i cant see it..
the team is gone stale in my opinion and needs freshening up..
maybe joyce might surprise us all before throw in but i douth it,
anyways best of luck to team/supporters and safe travels.
Gaillimh abu" Small changes might be okay , but I disagree that this is the time to make too many radical changes or think about giving lads a "rest" . This is a crucial game . If we lose to Derry and Armagh beat or draw with Dublin , we are out of the championship on Sunday evening regardless of what happens in Round 3
anotheralias (National) - 30/05/2025 10:55:38
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Galway Hurling thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To John Doe: "Mullane is correct in that it's crazy and wrong that Kildare and Laois are still in the Liam McCarthy cup at the knockout stage while the likes of Clare, Wexford and Waterford are gone.
Simple solution would be 4th place teams in Leinster and Munster replace the Joe McDonagh finalists in AL c-ship." This is done to death every year. If you come 4th in your provinice out of 5 teams you have no busines going anywhere. I notice there was far less cribbing from Galway and Tipp last year than you seem to get annually from Waterford. I get a laugh when the likes of Mullane whinging about this are the same ones who say there's no jeopardy for Kilkenny i leinster, and then turn around and want to eliminate 90% of the jeopardy from Munster. The Joe Mc finalists qualifying for the Liam Mccarthy is written in stone as it was agreed witht Laois, Carlow and I think Westmeath in 2018 when they were relegated in order to make the provincial round robins work, the old Leisnter qualifier group became the Joe Mcdonagh, so that's not changing anytime soon and rightfully so. It's a good system in how it balances getting the best teams playing against each other and getting the best of the best through to the latter stages, while also keepign the next tier involved at the top level and giving them something to strive for.
For traditional Leinster teams there's also the advantage that having a disasterous year and getting relegated as Wexford almost did a few years ago would not (In theory) break a 150 year stretch of competing for Liam Mccarthy, something Musnter teams don't have to worry about because of how the province is ringfenced. Given time I think the current system will see imporovements int he competitiveness of the Joe MC (Already seen in Westmeath and Carlow's results the last few years) and get to the stage where the prelims are proper banana skins for teams other than Dublin, but patience is needed. What's not needed is bowing to former players needing to fill column inches and Podcast minutes and complaining when their counties are ***** and don't get out of their province.
Overdahill (National) - 30/05/2025 10:30:27
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Galway Football thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To systematic: "The boundary is technically the rahoon road. Hard to know exactly where both end in the inner city due to FGEO not pulling any players - but claddagh & woodquay should be FG and then shantalla is St Michaels, Taylors hill is salthill. They pull from each other though as there are rahoon people playing for salthill and clybaun people playing with Michael's.
Controversy a while ago about salthill building new pitch other side of rahoon road in Michael's catchment.
City clubs indeed have relaxed rules on catchment area & transfers. Still not sure if that applies to the club boundaries outside the city too - also difficult to know where Michael's end and moycullen starts, same with Barna vs Knocknacarra." I understand the boundary for Barna and Knocknacarra is the Cappagh Road.
WanPintWin (National) - 30/05/2025 10:23:57
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Galway Football thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To GreenandRed: "Yeah. Barna Knocknacarra have a club but don't think they've any adult teams yet. Could also play for NUIG or OLBC. Where does the boundary between St Michael's and Salthill/Knocknacarra border the clubs and can youth players switch between them based on schools attended or other reasons? Apologies, nothing to do with the topic, asking out of nosiness!" The boundary is technically the rahoon road. Hard to know exactly where both end in the inner city due to FGEO not pulling any players - but claddagh & woodquay should be FG and then shantalla is St Michaels, Taylors hill is salthill. They pull from each other though as there are rahoon people playing for salthill and clybaun people playing with Michael's.
Controversy a while ago about salthill building new pitch other side of rahoon road in Michael's catchment.
City clubs indeed have relaxed rules on catchment area & transfers. Still not sure if that applies to the club boundaries outside the city too - also difficult to know where Michael's end and moycullen starts, same with Barna vs Knocknacarra.
systematic (National) - 30/05/2025 07:36:43
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