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Donegal GAA thread - 3 Like(s)
I'm not getting carried away with the National League team performances so far, a lot of our games could have went either way and in many cases we are playing teams who are also missing a lot of top players.
However I am excited by some of the Individual performances by Donegal players so far, like Gavin Mulreanny, Finbar Roarty, Conor O'Donnell, Michael Langan, Jason McGee, Hugh McFadden, Eoghan Ban Gallagher, Caolan McGonigle, Ryan McHugh, Shane O'Donnell and new faces like Shea Malone, McCahill etc.
Its probably the first league campaign in which Jason McGee has been available and fit for every single game and he is cranking up the gears game on game, and Michael Langan is a big presence, Hugh McFadden is reinvigorated, Caolan McGonigle is a warrior and well what can you say about Murphy.
There is something exciting there, like when all the pieces come together later in the summer, I think this will be a very special team by recent standards.
Commodore (National) - 01/03/2026 23:39:38
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Allianz protest - 3 Like(s)
Why should the GAA as a sporting organisation be pro-Palestinian?
Yes its wrong that the Palestinians are suffering in Gaza currently, yes there's a humanitarian crisis there, but the people who rushed the podium maybe shouldve stopped and thought about what has happened in the last 2000 plus years in that region, before taking sides.
"From the river to the sea" wasn't a phrase coined by the Israelis. In their eyes they are fighting for their right to exist. It doesn't justify the suffering in Gaza currently, but equally it does explain it. The 2 state solution proposed by the UN in the 1940s wasn't rejected by the Israelis, it was rejected by the Arabs. And the spark for the current suffering was the brutal attack by Hamas on October 7th, an attack that was always going to lead to a reaction, which was its purpose in the first place.
Im not pro Israeli or pro Palestinian, what happens there is none of my business, and it isnt a problem that I can solve either, even if I decided I wanted to.
Most importantly I'm certainly not a member of the GAA because I share every other members political, religious, social or ideological beliefs. What I do share with all the other members is a love of the games, and Id personally prefer that we as an Assocation should focus on what we are about. The preservation and regulation of those games. Which is the position our own Ethics Committee reached.
Viking66 (National) - 01/03/2026 17:27:44
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Galway Football thread - 3 Like(s)
Replying To S1234: "Not that Galway don't get away with a load of stuff masters of the dark arts.... !" It must be tiring constantly keeping up this gimmick
cavan.galway (National) - 02/03/2026 10:59:47
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Galway Football thread - 2 Like(s)
Replying To PressureKick: "No wonder Kobe McDonald has decided to move to Australia if the past few pages from Mayo posters are anything to go by" Pathetic comment. I see ye threw it away v donegal with a man up most of the game is well . Well done though galway for sam!
S1234 (National) - 01/03/2026 17:17:57
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Allianz protest - 2 Like(s)
Replying To Viking66: "Why should the GAA as a sporting organisation be pro-Palestinian?
Yes its wrong that the Palestinians are suffering in Gaza currently, yes there's a humanitarian crisis there, but the people who rushed the podium maybe shouldve stopped and thought about what has happened in the last 2000 plus years in that region, before taking sides.
"From the river to the sea" wasn't a phrase coined by the Israelis. In their eyes they are fighting for their right to exist. It doesn't justify the suffering in Gaza currently, but equally it does explain it. The 2 state solution proposed by the UN in the 1940s wasn't rejected by the Israelis, it was rejected by the Arabs. And the spark for the current suffering was the brutal attack by Hamas on October 7th, an attack that was always going to lead to a reaction, which was its purpose in the first place.
Im not pro Israeli or pro Palestinian, what happens there is none of my business, and it isnt a problem that I can solve either, even if I decided I wanted to.
Most importantly I'm certainly not a member of the GAA because I share every other members political, religious, social or ideological beliefs. What I do share with all the other members is a love of the games, and Id personally prefer that we as an Assocation should focus on what we are about. The preservation and regulation of those games. Which is the position our own Ethics Committee reached." The Palestinian suffering started long before October 7th. Ever hear of Nakba?
peiledoir20 (National) - 01/03/2026 19:20:00
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National Football League 2026 - 2 Like(s)
Replying To legendzxix: "An eventful day. Cork were beat out the gate by Derry. An absolute mauling. No mercy and rightly so.
Monaghan all but relegated. Division 3 promotion has gotten interesting. Wexford, Clare, Westmeath and Laois all in the hunt. 5 teams then in the promotion picture in Division 4 after Longford's impressive win." That match just shows the difference in standard between Ulster and Munster. Another handy run to the knockout stages for the Kingdom this year....
Scenicparish (National) - 02/03/2026 09:06:07
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Leitrim GAA thread - 2 Like(s)
Replying To Boxtyeater: "He isn't. I was at it. But they lost a few players and slid down to D4 and it isn't leafy Donnybrook in this D4.
Meanwhile we, imbued with optimism at the start, have the princely figure of 4 points from a possible 10 and the minus column looks frightening.
The problem seems to be in defence, although fitness, defensive systems or lack thereof, s&c or taking possession into contact may be the issue.
In any event it's now fairly certain we'll be in this particular D4 another year.
There's the matter of the championship to come however. We'll give it a good rattle this year!!!
There's the alarm going off …….Grrr……" I'd agree whole heartedly with this.
We have nice footballers. Nice to view within our club scene. Our boys look great prospects within the Leitrim club scene, some look amazing. We are nice to play against. One we get to playing anything outside our county bounds we are exposed big time!!
We lack physicality, we lack strength, fitness, intelligence, ability to play under pressure, support play and ideas.
Skill wise I think we are actually ok. Give a Leitrim player time and space and they will execute a long range pass, good score, bit of skill etc.. as good as any other player from anywhere. But when you put them under pressure, or limit their space, or impose yourself on them in any form, they cannot do it. We get run through and batted off the ball over and over. We get turned over - over and over again.
We are light and tame. Extremely willing but extremely limited.
For me it all boils down to the club scene. We are living 30 years in the past. Going through the motions. Our players are playing to the best of their ability. In inter county (at all levels) they then come up against teams that have been exposed to higher levels of football than any Leitrim player has ever experienced. More pressure, less space, more physicality, more systems of play. And we simply cannot cope.
Our football intelligence is so low. Watching them at times is like I imagine our players thinking like "ok - I have the ball , what will I do? Ok - I have nowhere to go- emmm you seem free beside me - (even though you are in a position to do nothing) - take it off me please-ok you now have given it back to me - what will I do now- who else can I give it to?" and this goes on and on because the teams we are facing have defensive systems in place that our players have never seen the likes of before and do not know how to cope with them.
Poacher (or any other manger) can help but they can't reprogram players from scratch. The manager can maximise the ability they have now and I believe the manager is not the problem. Leitrim players are maxed out and are incapable of playing any better.
Schools, clubs (in provincial champs at all levels) inter-county @ minor, u20, senior results across the last 20 years don't lie- more fingers on your hands than wins.
Our club scene is 30 years behind the rest of Connacht. Results speak for themselves
leitrim4sam (National) - 01/03/2026 22:11:13
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Roscommon GAA thread - 2 Like(s)
That might have been the best thing to happen to us today in the long run. At the same time losing by that much is unacceptable and a repeat in The Hyde is damaging. Dowd will have learnt a lot . There were certainly ten scores missed in about 15 mins in first half and the lack of composure and panic
As the game went on was
Startling. The changes may have upset the team
But you have to give game time for preparation of
Connacht.
Ros2013 (National) - 01/03/2026 17:50:03
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Galway Football thread - 2 Like(s)
Well that second half was a brutal watch. More inclined to pass backwards than forwards. No one with the nerve to pull the trigger for a point, instead trying to walk it into the goals in the face of a packed Donegal back line. Gleason still offering nothing; at this point his his '65s aren't even reliable. And remind me again which team had someone sent off?
This looked like a team were players were more afraid to take chances, than interested in winning. Lucky to get the draw.
festinog (National) - 01/03/2026 17:34:15
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Roscommon GAA thread - 2 Like(s)
Replying To Drax_the_destroyer: "Watched back on the full game. Roscommon who was so accurate and clinical against Armagh,Galway was so wasteful today. Dublins scoring total of 1-21 not much different to what Armagh,Galway scored against Roscommon yet a lot more of the Dublins scores came from cheap turn overs.
Was Roscommon involved in heavy training the last week or did the 3 games in 14 days really test the conditioning of the players especially the new faces?" Thankfully we didn't play the way we did yesterday in the previous games or we would be on zero points and a 10 plus point beating off Kerry instead of one point defeat on the hooter.
How and why we were so poor will have to be mulled over before round 6 by the players and management now. Donegal,Mayo to play and both will be going all out to reach the league final. We need the return of grit, determination high work rate that was seen against Kerry,Galway, Armagh and Monaghan. And sort out our shooting, we had roughly the same amount of efforts as Dublin yesterday and our strike rate was poor at 30%.
The_analyser (National) - 02/03/2026 11:10:21
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Allianz protest - 2 Like(s)
Replying To southmeathgael: "The amount of champagne socialists in Ireland is worrying, so much virtue signalling" Yeah complaining about the 65000 dead in Gaza is "virtue signalling".
galwayford (National) - 02/03/2026 11:37:15
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Leitrim GAA thread - 2 Like(s)
the whole thing is a shambles.
meathbasedfan (National) - 01/03/2026 15:36:18
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Monaghan GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
They may cancel that team holiday to Spain
CountyStar1234 (National) - 01/03/2026 21:57:52
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Leitrim GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To leitrim4sam: "I'd agree whole heartedly with this.
We have nice footballers. Nice to view within our club scene. Our boys look great prospects within the Leitrim club scene, some look amazing. We are nice to play against. One we get to playing anything outside our county bounds we are exposed big time!!
We lack physicality, we lack strength, fitness, intelligence, ability to play under pressure, support play and ideas.
Skill wise I think we are actually ok. Give a Leitrim player time and space and they will execute a long range pass, good score, bit of skill etc.. as good as any other player from anywhere. But when you put them under pressure, or limit their space, or impose yourself on them in any form, they cannot do it. We get run through and batted off the ball over and over. We get turned over - over and over again.
We are light and tame. Extremely willing but extremely limited.
For me it all boils down to the club scene. We are living 30 years in the past. Going through the motions. Our players are playing to the best of their ability. In inter county (at all levels) they then come up against teams that have been exposed to higher levels of football than any Leitrim player has ever experienced. More pressure, less space, more physicality, more systems of play. And we simply cannot cope.
Our football intelligence is so low. Watching them at times is like I imagine our players thinking like "ok - I have the ball , what will I do? Ok - I have nowhere to go- emmm you seem free beside me - (even though you are in a position to do nothing) - take it off me please-ok you now have given it back to me - what will I do now- who else can I give it to?" and this goes on and on because the teams we are facing have defensive systems in place that our players have never seen the likes of before and do not know how to cope with them.
Poacher (or any other manger) can help but they can't reprogram players from scratch. The manager can maximise the ability they have now and I believe the manager is not the problem. Leitrim players are maxed out and are incapable of playing any better.
Schools, clubs (in provincial champs at all levels) inter-county @ minor, u20, senior results across the last 20 years don't lie- more fingers on your hands than wins.
Our club scene is 30 years behind the rest of Connacht. Results speak for themselves" Sums it up perfectly.
What we've been doing the last 20 years isn't working. How much evidence do we need before we accept this fact? The steps taken by the County board to improve this are miniscule. Its reflective of our football. Too slow, too naive, too nice and destined to fail.
We've been sold a lie that we've too few clubs whereas the reality is we've too many. Talent is diluted, hence the quality is diluted. Lots of time and space but moving at a snails pace in comparison to every other county. We are producing good players but they're playing atrocious football all the way up and then they're eaten alive in the big bad world of inter county.
Made out to be world beaters and players believe the hype about themselves. Get onto a county panel. Get all the gear. Get their picture in the Observer. Lots of people to tell them they're great lads. The observer tells them they're great.
Not the players fault. It's the system they're come from. Don't agree? Wait for the nonsense to start about our u20s and our minors. "This is the best crop we've had in years. Some great footballers"
Leave the county and we're exposed to reality.
Our county final gets on the telly! Our 15 minutes. People telling us it was a great match because the result was in the balance. That doesn't mean it was good football. We're equating excitement with quality. That's why we revert back every year into the same delusion that our club fare is good quality. Its not. Its atrocious. Across the board. Now they've come up with the genius plan that they'll start the underage leagues in February to ward off any threat from other sports. Force kids to choose. Meanwhile they'll play a handful of games during the summer months. Other sports didn't create this mess for Leitrim GAA.
Unfortunately we've enough people telling us that it's grand. There's a cosy consensus that we can't ruffle feathers or call this out. You're a crank if you do. Let's just ignore the evidence in front of our eyes. Rinse and repeat ad nauseum.
ThePowerhouse (National) - 02/03/2026 10:08:54
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Dublin GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Fionn: "Big win for our Hurlers today also.
To score 1-31 was very pleasing.
Hopefully we can keep it going now.
Scoring difference could be a major factor in our promotion attempt....." If Clare beat Wexford - by no means a given then - two comfortable wins over Down and Carlow (always a tough enough encounter in Carlow) will see them promoted on points difference. You would think.
BarneyGrant (National) - 01/03/2026 21:29:23
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Leitrim GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To martinjoe: "No 2021 mayo v Tipp Ai semi Cillian O Connor 04-09. Covid nobody at the game" Right. Mixing it up with 2016. Tipp also got to quarter or semi-final then, right?
foreveryoung (National) - 01/03/2026 21:22:16
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Non-Gaa Forum - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Freethinker: "Does appear as if he is in thrall of "strong men". Netanyahu certainly seems to be calling the shots. I see that POTUS thinks that there might be casualties in war. At least that is what he told us in his speech. " it happens some times that there are casualties in war" - wtf ???" Trump the draft dodger and who mocked a war hero for getting caught and taken prisoners in Vietnam (Senator McCain). If I was a US serviceman I'd be sick.
yew_tree (National) - 01/03/2026 21:13:35
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Roscommon GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Seanfan: "Reality intervened in a big way today.
But we didn't help our cause by doing just about everything wrong for most of the fame.
Hopefully it's not a case of not being able to stand the heat as the League hots up!" Watched back on the full game. Roscommon who was so accurate and clinical against Armagh,Galway was so wasteful today. Dublins scoring total of 1-21 not much different to what Armagh,Galway scored against Roscommon yet a lot more of the Dublins scores came from cheap turn overs.
Was Roscommon involved in heavy training the last week or did the 3 games in 14 days really test the conditioning of the players especially the new faces?
Drax_the_destroyer (National) - 01/03/2026 23:53:07
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Leitrim GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Square_B: "Only seen the score, well that's that. Possibly the shortest promotion challenge ever. So deflating. I'm afraid we can bring in all the managers and coaches we like but we'll be going nowhere unless we have all our best men on the field. I can't see the year being finished out strong now, Longford are in pole position having bet Carlow and we probably won't beat Carlow. It's mad how things go, Wexford are 2 games away from promotion to Division 2. Where to from here is the next question." Bring back Andy.
ORIELMAN85 (National) - 02/03/2026 00:24:00
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Dublin GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Had ye backed today…thanks for that. I couldn't see ye losing today considering ye needed the points.
yew_tree (National) - 01/03/2026 21:08:50
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