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Replying To ExiledCuCu: "Has anyone heard of a rule in a head to head championship group table where both teams are on equal points, but the team that scores more scoring points is considered better than the other team even though the other team has a better for/against amalgamated points difference?" Not related but in Meath LGFA underage games if one team gets hammered they put the result down on the website as 1-0 v 2-0 so as not to embarrass the team that got hammered. How that helps them improve is beyond me. GreenandRed (Mayo) - Posts: 8752 - 04/09/2026 11:20:33 2692670 Link
Replying To ExiledCuCu: "your point 3. must be factored into the ruling......the successful team scored 1 more point in total, but were 3 points inferior in score difference. So if the team scored 2 more points and lost by 50 goals they would have qualified for the next round.......I cant comment any further as the moderator seems to censor most of my input." I obviously don't know what exact results, teams or competition you're talking about in Cavan, but I'd point out that Cavan LGFA has to have competition regulations to state how such things are determined, and these must surely have been sent out to LGFA club secretaries before the championships began, if they're not published online. For instance, the Wexford ones I'm referring to are here: https://wexfordladiesgaelic.ie/2026-info-hub/rules--guidelines Your club secretary should either have the Cavan ones already, or else be very easily able to get them. For what it's worth, seems a strange way to me of doing things, but if they're the competition regulations then they're the same for everybody and would have been set out as such before the start of the competition. Pikeman96 (Wexford) - Posts: 3982 - 04/09/2026 12:26:32 2692687 Link
Replying To GreenandRed: "Not related but in Meath LGFA underage games if one team gets hammered they put the result down on the website as 1-0 v 2-0 so as not to embarrass the team that got hammered. How that helps them improve is beyond me." I can tell you they don't do that here. Quick look through U16 results shows me scorelines like 9-11 to 1-4, 8-15 to 0-4, 11-10 to 2-1, and 10-16 to 1-3. And actually just clicked into U14 as well, and two of the first four scorelines I see are 9-21 to 1-1, and 10-27 to 0-0. Pikeman96 (Wexford) - Posts: 3982 - 04/09/2026 12:36:40 2692694 Link
Replying To GreenandRed: "Not related but in Meath LGFA underage games if one team gets hammered they put the result down on the website as 1-0 v 2-0 so as not to embarrass the team that got hammered. How that helps them improve is beyond me." I understand the motivation for doing that. Our coaches are requested to instruct the team to only go for points if they are ahead by a large score line, empty the bench and take of the scoring forwards. Lob sided games are not good for either team. In the example I've given, apparently the rule was introduced at underage level to minimize the hammerings, but somehow it was brought into adult football years ago. If it was known (and that is the fault of management for not knowing), the team should have brought the fullback line and keeper up to midfield and forsaken defending so that they got the necessary 2 points to progress. ExiledCuCu (Cavan) - Posts: 311 - 04/09/2026 12:47:45 2692696 Link