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Galway Football thread - 2 Like(s)
Replying To Gearoid1998ffowaed: "I'd have Peter Cooke and Dessie as the icing on the cake" I wouldn't like to see the bill to fly the pair of them back
Emmets67 (National) - 24/03/2026 22:37:39
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How Do We Take Hurling On From Here - 2 Like(s)
Replying To Tadhg2020: "Its an insurance policy for the traditional counties. Thats my point. Thats how it works out well for ye as in whoever is the weakest of the 5 now that Offaly are back. Thats what it is for. It provides a buffer zone for the rest so that an Offaly should never happen again. It probably wont because even on yere( other 5) worst day you wont finish below that 6th team. Does anyone really believe that anyone other than kildare will finish bottom?
The other teams can pretend that it was great for hurling. It was for a year or 2 but everyone , including the teams that voted for it, knew what it was really about and that once Offaly got their act together somewhat that none of the 5 would be relegated. Even if wexford do keep losing to the weakest team in it.( i didnt realise it waa so common for ye to do that). So again, how does it benefit Laois, Carlow(i forgot them last time), Antrim , Westmeath or Kildare to be in this 6 team championship anymore than it did benefit them being in the 5 team one now that Offaly are back?
It doesn't." Have to say I find it somewhat ironic that you criticise this as being a perceived "insurance policy" for traditional counties, when Munster has the ultimate insurance policy for them!
Pikeman96 (National) - 24/03/2026 11:51:31
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Donegal GAA thread - 2 Like(s)
Replying To Ulsterchamps_32: "I watched it back on YouTube and really can't understand how that was instructed to be moved up by the linesman.
Also the fact it leads to concession of two points is not very well conceived as a rule. In a higher profile closer game it would be a huge talking point.
Overall the ref I found decent. He was letting a bit of contact and not blowing things up unnecessarily." I was sat quite close to where it happened. To be honest it was absolute nonsense they got 2 points from it. Langan was unlucky to not win the kickout and it came off his fingers. The ball goes out of play and he turns his back walking back to get on position and the Monaghan player just kicks the ball off his back. Immediately him and a teammate get in the ear of the linesman waving their arms and it paid off getting a thoroughly undeserved 2 points...... nonsense.
panamasam (National) - 24/03/2026 17:38:06
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Dublin GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Fionn: "Ah it is great that Wexford got Promoted.
Fair play." Problem will be staying up next year. Hopefully we will have the lads back who missed all of this year with injury or recovering from injury back fully fit, we will need them all if we are to be competitive in div2.
Viking66 (National) - 24/03/2026 13:37:05
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National Football League 2026 - 1 Like(s)
I think Galway are really being overlooked this year. The star power they have is unmatched throughout the country. Finnerty is the best footballer in the game at the minute and its not even close. He'd get a shot off in a telephone box. With the likes of Comer and Walsh to come back I dont expect too much of a challenge in Connacht. Only teams that I think have a real chance at competing with us are Kerry (on a dry day) and Donegal (on a wet day). All this aside from the fact that Thompson is yet to come back and we competed with and bet any big team in the league with half a team. Says a lot about the strength of the panel.....
Galwayman67420 (National) - 25/03/2026 09:24:29
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Wexford Hurling Thread - 1 Like(s)
@elgransenor - John Nolan of GOH was our regular goalkeeper for much of the 1980s. I've always believed he was son of the Pat Nolan (GOH) goalkeeper. But I could be wrong...
Pikeman96 (National) - 24/03/2026 21:29:21
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Wicklow GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
I am a dual hurling/football fan and I do not like the idea of pitting one code against the other but the reality is that football has always been prioritised over hurling in Wicklow for decades.This has been detrimental to hurling and standards have slipped as a result. As hurling clubs are always outnumbered by football clubs, it has been difficult for hurling centred motions to be passed at county board meetings. With the county hurlers on an upward curve, 8 clubs playing senior hurling this year, and 8 different clubs partaking in the Hurling Nua programme - the county board have a golden opportunity to level the playing field and mimic what has been done in the likes of Kildare and Carlow.
TheChampion (National) - 24/03/2026 21:28:21
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Openess Of Croke Park And Pitch Sizes - 1 Like(s)
Always like a good discussion on pitch sizes. Humphrey Kelleher has a lovely book on county pitches "A Place to Play" and it has the accurate pitch sizes and the story of the county ground.
Google earth is also.vetu useful with its measuring tool.
One that always amuses me is Semple stadium. There's this notion that it's a big but it's actually small. It's only 80 metres wide.
Ulsterchamps_32 (National) - 24/03/2026 17:40:58
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How Do We Take Hurling On From Here - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Tadhg2020: "And , as you have pointed out yourself a few times, wexford have been competitive in Bob as have Dublin. Its not reflected in the attendances though.
In relation to Wexford, in particular, I always find that puzzling. You cant sell out an 18k capacity wexford park for your championship fixtures but bring 40k plus to CP any time you are any good. That baffles me. Perhaps if the people got behind the team ye wouldnt slip up so often( as described by you)." I'll agree with you on this one, and it's a point I've often made myself.
We have a lot of people who consider themselves "great" hurling supporters when what they really mean is that they like a big day out to Croke Park. Even couple of years ago, when we were due to play in one of the All-Ireland quarter-finals in Thurles, people were complaining "they should have them in Croke Park, Thurles won't hold the crowd", and also complaining about how tickets were being sold through clubs, claiming that many wouldn't then be able to get one. But then we didn't even sell our full allocation of 8,000 tickets, and had to send some back.
Or the one that still sticks in my craw was the 2019 Leinster Final. There were various videos doing the rounds on social media of the "great" Wexford support queuing up to get in about 20 minutes before throw-in. Not a single one of these "great" supporters had bothered their behind to go in a couple of hours earlier to see our Minors win their own Leinster Final.
Of course every county has bandwagonners, but we seem to have them in far greater proportion than most. And unfortunately, the bandwagon doesn't get to roll too often.
Pikeman96 (National) - 24/03/2026 17:08:32
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Sligo GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
I agree with martinjoe and Maggie pie. Leitrim are dangerous lads. Like ros in 2010 we should not overlook them. Mc nulty is some player and a few others too.
Great to see the bit of fight. Sligo teams generally would fight to the end and that is what any fan wants to see.
Maggie pie I think we should be fighting for promotion but the league table never lies. We have a lot of new players to be fair. So many lads not playing this year that would normally start. Eddie poc mullen etc
I can see us getting to croke park and giving any team in the tailteann semi final a rattle. Big field will suit us if we could add a bit more kicking. I think we will beat leitrim too but just about! Sligo by 3. As good as form as the other 3 un connaught are I think we could give any of them a rattle too. Galway would be the strongest of them I think.
Special mention to lally and cawley. As mentioned before we have a chance if we score goals. Pace again is huge. Also to evan lyons young ross and casserly. Great bits of stuff! Up the black and white.!
Southsligoman (National) - 24/03/2026 16:02:24
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Openess Of Croke Park And Pitch Sizes - 1 Like(s)
Replying To yew_tree: "Croke Park feels different due to the height and size of the stands that surround it. That's it. It's also a faster field than most. That's it." Yeah, that was basically my point. A pitch can look bigger or smaller depending on what surrounds it. But so-called "tight" pitches aren't always actually "tight" after all.
Pikeman96 (National) - 24/03/2026 15:03:15
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Wicklow GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Hawkeye2: "Agree with all of this. Have said it on here many times that i'd love to see even half of the funding & focus we put into Football being placed into Hurling as I firmly believe we have significant more potential to progress in the small ball than we do Football. Carlow, Westmeath and now Kildare have shown what can be done with the right approach and, like ourselves , are all counties that would consider themselves 'Football Counties'.
I noticed one of the social media sports outlets (sportsjoe maybe) had a post on the Leinster Football Champ ranking and we are bottom of the pile.
I also see some now familiar comments on the minors along the line of "these are supposed to be a really good group this year.........". If I had a tenner for every time I heard that over the last 15 years. Best of luck of to them and I hope they are a good group but we'll only see if we have a good group or not when we beat one of Dublin, Kildare ,Meath (and you'd have to include Louth in there now too), in a meaningful championship match." Agreed on all re hurling The u20 game in Roundwood tomorrow should be informative.
Freethinker (National) - 24/03/2026 14:21:21
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Non-Gaa Forum - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Tirchonaill1: "All you educated chaps on here that know everything about everything hadn't the wit to know that once Iran was attacked the Strait of Hormuz was going to be blocked and the price of oil was going to sky rocket.
I bet that great man in the White house and his cronies as you call them were well ahead of the game and made a monetary killing from it, also the Russians are profiting big time selling their oil at higher prices now.
These fellas you all love to hate may just be very smart men behind the bluster that confounds the woke types." You do know this is a bad thing? Are you stupid?
TheFlaker (National) - 24/03/2026 14:11:01
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Non-Gaa Forum - 1 Like(s)
Replying To PoolSturgeon: "If you believe that you will believe anything. He said that just to calm the markets. Some cronies will have made a fortune out of this again but when reality sinks in that the war is going to go on ,the markets will crash again and the price of oil will soar once more. Trump thought this war would be over in 3 days , kill the Supreme Leader, and the whole regime would collapse. But the Iranians have been preparing for this for the last 20 years and (despite what you will hear all the propagandists claim) have enough firepower to keep going til at least the mid-term elections. Time is on their side. It has been a monumental misjudgement by Trump. The only way this war will finish early is if Trump declares "victory" without achieving his stated war aims cos if he wants to get regime change he will have to authorize a full invasion and send tens of thousands of American troops there for months and probably several years." In what way was Trump in any way qualified to come to that conclusion? What does he really know about Iran? Would he even be able to find it on a map? Does he think that if someone killed him America would collapse perhaps?
Viking66 (National) - 24/03/2026 10:38:29
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Donegal GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Very impressed with Shea Malone against Monaghan. For his first goal he got the ball out in the corner , it was in no way a goal chance till he cut in and beat his marker and put it in the back of the net. He seems to have gained a notch or two of speed but maybe it's just that the ground is that bit harder. He can step off both feet and is very fast over the first five metres at least. He took his other scores very well too. Strong contender to get a championship start I'd say.
Looking at the goals we coughed up in the first half it shows that with the new rules defenders need to be fast runners. There's so much more space in behind and you get a lot of one-on-one foot races which can end up in goals. Stephen O'Hanlon was too fast for a lot of our defenders and caused us trouble. Caolan McColgan is one of our fastest defenders and although he can make mistakes on the ball sometimes his speed could be a major asset in certain games.
We are in a good enough place if we can get our injured lads back. The only question I'd have is can you win an all Ireland with the new rules without kick passing. It's like we are allergic to kicking the ball forward. I know the running game is in our DNA but with the new rules it's crying out for lads to have the head up and get some early long ball into the forward line. Anyway it doesn't look like it's going to be a part of our gameplan and we are doing allright without it but will this running game get us all the way to sam? don't know.
High_and_wide (National) - 24/03/2026 13:16:12
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Non-Gaa Forum - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Tirchonaill1: "We are blessed to have all you experts on current affairs and geopolitics on these forums, the ordinary man hasn't a hope of having the level of understanding of these things the likes of yourself has." No bother at all. You are very welcome. If you sought out alternative news sources not just the narrative you are being fed, everything that has happened so far has been predicted by people whom you wont hear on RTE, BBC, or any of the US corporate networks. Mearsheimer, Sachs, Col McGregor and many others have been saying for at least the last 2 years that if the US/ Israel declared all out war on Iran that they would close down the Straits of Hormuz and send the world economy into a tailspin. They havent been wrong yet. But some people dont want to know, particularly the cabal in the current US administration.
PoolSturgeon (National) - 24/03/2026 12:10:11
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Westmeath Football thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Formertownie: "As bad as ye feel lads and its devastating to lose like that after controlling the game gor so long . Games are nt over until the final whistle.
Can you imagine how we felt when we lost to ye in hurling in 2023 after being 17pts up at half time .
Don't think we ve fully recovered to this day .
Ye will have better days and learn from it ." Westmeath football feels like it's in a very dark place right now. It's hard to see how we recover from this anytime soon, and at the moment there are very few positives. We seem to think we're a Sam Maguire level side, yet we're struggling to beat teams like Laois, Wexford, or Limerick. Just four or five years ago we were on par with Louth and Meath, look at where they are now compared to us. Even a Tailteann Cup win this year doesn't look likely.
There are deeper issues too. We still don't have a Centre of Excellence. There's little visible fundraising. Trust between the clubs and the county board has eroded significantly. Cusack Park, unfortunately, is considered one of the poorer grounds in the country.
There was hope that the new chairperson might rebuild some of that trust, but the first major decision was to overhaul the club championship a change that few were calling for. The new format has been widely criticised and rather than being admired as it once was, it's now being ridiculed by others.
At underage level, both minor and U20 teams have underperformed for well over 10 years, which only adds to the concern about the future.
The only recent bright spot has been the CBS win last week, though it's worth noting that Westmeath GAA wasn't directly involved. Hopefully, the minor and U20 teams can provide something positive in the next day or so.
Temple56 (National) - 24/03/2026 12:08:21
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RIP Michael Lyster - 1 Like(s)
Replying To suckvalleypaddy: "RIP and thank you for countless hours of engaging analysis and fun
with the 3 amigos on the telly.
Condolences to the Lyster family." RIP Michael Lyster, unfortunately the good old days of the Sunday Game are long gone. Love or hate the 3 amigos they were entertainment.
Saynothing (National) - 24/03/2026 11:52:42
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Westmeath Football thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Fighting-Cocks69: "Fair play to Alan and the commentary team last night - good to hear them calling out the poor management of some of our younger lads being taken off early all year, especially a few of the forwards. Delighted they mentioned how it can hit confidence going forward. Good to hear Pat O'Brien just saying it as it is too, no sugar-coating. Podcast was a great listen, very honest and properly critical." Still curious why Shane Donoghue has been removed from the podcast. Is it because he spoke up for the clubs at the last county board meeting regarding the championship structure? He was excellent on the podcast always honest and unafraid to share his views, even when they differed from others on the county board.
Temple56 (National) - 24/03/2026 11:48:58
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Monaghan GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To ConyersHill04: "Its quite simple.
Its easy for others to criticise our support when they are in a position of strength.
If you read my comment you'd see that Donegal were in their own turmoil not that long ago and there wasn't thousands of fans following them queueing outside grounds then. McGuinness had the aura and swagger to swing the momentum." Whats that got to do with Monaghan. Sitting in Clones was embarrassing on Sunday. Sunny day fans are not true Monaghan supporters. If you truly support the lads that go out snd give their time to the Monaghan cause, then you show up on the bad days as well as the good days. There might have been an excuse for not being in Killarney but none for not being in Clones on a beautiful Spring day.
ORIELMAN85 (National) - 24/03/2026 11:44:07
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