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Kerry 2022-Current Team Better Than 04-09 Team? - 2 Like(s)
Replying To ulsterrules: "I forgot how strong the 04-09 team was.
but in my opinion only Sean O'Shea and David Clifford make the 04-09 team at the expense of Declan O'Sullivan and Kieran Donaghy" Shane Ryan gets in, Gavin White in for Fitzmaurice and Moynihan to CHB. Joe O Connor would squeeze in at midfield and Paudie takes Darren O Sullivans place, Also Dylan Geaney on his form this year has hit a higher peak than OCinneide was capable of, hard to leave Jason Foley off too.
Two brilliant teams and I dont think Paudie or Joe O Connor are necessarily better footballers than their counterparts but perhaps better suited to the modern game. More depth in the current squad too.
I would say though the 04-09 team were probably one of the most, if not the most, silky eye catching teams ever seen when they were in full flow.
JimB1991 (National) - 21/07/2026 01:03:37
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Limerick Senior Hurling 2026 - 2 Like(s)
Some crowds around Limerick city last night , the amount of kids in Perry square for the teams homecoming was unreal , every pub in the city was wedged with a great athmosphere. The best homecoming night since the one in 2018 at the Gaelic grounds .
OpenStand (National) - 21/07/2026 11:29:28
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Hurling Championship 2026 - 1 Like(s)
Replying To wexford2012: "It absolutely will end you are right BUT the structural issues with the game remain.
In over 130 years the GAA hasn't really spread the game, its still largely strong where it was strong when the organisation was founded.
I'm sure everyone here agrees its a fantastic game but its hard to stand up the contention that its our 'national game' when large swathes don't play it all and that saddens me. Is there sufficient investment into the game? (Maybe it was just me but seeing JP McManus on the pitch yesterday with the team was uncomfortable, is the benefactor driven model, healthy, equitable, sustainable?). I question clubs and counties who choose to ignore one code, either of them to be fair, yet gain grants etc on the same basis of clubs and counties who promote a dual ethos.
It could be me but this years championship felt less vital, less important, Munster felt overhyped and while in past has astounded us, felt very ordinary, big Cork driven crowds aside. From a parochial perspective, a weak Dublin suits us in Wexford BUT from a big picture health of the game we really need to see Cork, Dublin and Antrim - out 3 urban centres really flying - I think hurling translates better into an urban environment than football but not as well as soccer.
We love that in hurling you can't 'park the bus' and that it never fell foul of the 'blanket' defence BUT is it too free scoring? Should it be routine for scores to come from 70 meters out? I miss the electric corner forward play of DJ, Lar Corbet, Eddie Brennan, where has this gone? Basketball is a similarly high scoring game who had concerns and they sought to tackle this through a number of ways, not all GAA relevant, but their 'luxury tax' that punishes teams who breech spending rules, while a revenue sharing model reditriutuied income away from stronger/wealthier clubs. I don't want to punish excellence, but stop success and resources becoming so concentrated that competitions become predictable and one-sided.
Yesterday it looked like the Leinster championship ill prepared Galway for the intensity they experience in the final, would Galway who had emerged from a Munster campaign have done better - I think so. Munster can pull up the ladder, say 'not our problem' but eventually it will be. Sitting on our laurels does not seem like an option, with a rejuvenated football championship and a more and more competitive sporting landscape, where we I expect we'll see more state investment into other sports (soccer is pushing hard as a soft power vehicle and 'integration' tool) to gain massive state subsidies for their academies. The GAA as an antidote to an increasingly homogenised, globalised, vanilla world into which we should incentivize," Why would JP McManus being on the Croke Park pitch make you feel uncomfortable? This man gave your county board money to spend as they saw fit. Has anyone else done that?
slayer (National) - 21/07/2026 08:56:56
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Galway Hurling thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To BigBàsMan: "Donoghue needs some scrutiny here lads. No plan B. No shrewd subs at HT when hegarty and lynch were cleaning up. More of the same from 2018 instead of Johnny Glynn it's jason rabbitte. One of the worst all Irelands I've ever seen it was completely one sided affair. That red card should've never happened, he should've been whipped off at HT." MD was like a Fox caught in the headlights on Sunday. We were totally hammered in the middle third and persisted with trying to run the ball thorough the lines. When the odd time we decided to let the ball in it was slow and cut out.
Both wing backs, midfield and the half forward line were eaten up and Whelan was out of it.
Are our so call big names beyond been taken off? On the other hand John Kiely had no problem taking his big names during the year and look at the result. Everyone will need to look in the mirror if we progress from here which has now become a bigger task.
Watchthepost (National) - 21/07/2026 09:57:36
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Non-Gaa Forum - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Goreylad1985: "Donegal was one of those pro-Treaty voting counties though..
Majority of TD's in Donegal sided with the Treaty.
The IRA in the county at the time of the Truce/Civil War went overwhelmingly majority pro-Treaty.
Even the Sinn Fein in Donegal was pro-Treaty." It was, but that doesn't make them right and for the record, my family were (and still are) anti-treaty and viewed those pro-Treaty TDs as traitors provided the British with the electoral vindication they needed to partition the Island and back for over a Century, isolating our fellow Countrymen.
Commodore (National) - 21/07/2026 15:42:40
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