|
Leitrim GAA thread - 3 Like(s)
Replying To moros: "Just a different act in the same play for you. Epoca de aur! Gwan the Rossies. We'll have Tay in Keshcarrigan some night. Love to all." That one poster with two accounts needs to be ignored than feeding him attention.
Gaa_lover (National) - 11/05/2026 13:20:41
|
|
Galway Football thread - 2 Like(s)
Replying To Pope_Benedict: "Who is the Galway player standing right in front of Heneghan on the 55 yard line, before the Ros player proceeds to streak past him up the middle, play a one two before netting with ease for Ros's 2nd goal in the first half? The same Galway player managed to jog to the 40 in 'pursuit' of Heneghan, and was probably 20yards behind the Ros player when he struck the goal.
It's not the type of defending that'll win big football matches. You'd imagine that item 1a on Tyrone's gameplan will be not to let Heneghan streak up the middle of their defence 4 times to setup 4 goal chances yielding 3-1." Think it was O'Flaherty. He had a bad day tracking runners. And he isn't slow. Just didn't seem fully engaged or tuned in. Another selection that didn't work.
Roche another strange selection. Did well for the early goal but Roscommon soon twigged his lack of pace and targeted his man on short kickouts. He couldn't cover the ground quickly enough.
Sideline stuck looking at these problems for far too long before doing anything.
Marooned (National) - 11/05/2026 11:59:45
|
|
Roscommon GAA thread - 2 Like(s)
Replying To letsgetgoing: "Just relaxing over a few pints after a mighty win. Congratulations to all the panel members, Mark Dowd and his full management team. A little shout out to Mick Comerford our S&C guy who has the team in top shape. Hopefully he can bring us further like he has done with Kilkenny in the past.
Delighted for Diarmuid Murtagh who has toiled for years in the St Faithleachs and Roscommon jerjeys.
To the best of my knowledge only four St Faithleachs players have captained the Roscommon senior team;
Pat Lindsay, Danny Murray, Ciaran Murtagh and Diarmuid Murtagh. All have lifted the Nestor Cup. Some record.
Bring on Tyrone!" Some record indeed for those St Faithleachs' lads. All fine players. I remember Lindsay and Murray from that fine 4-in-a-row team of 1977-80.
Congratulations of the great win today and on the clean sweep.
Let's hope ye can go even further.
foreveryoung (National) - 11/05/2026 03:17:37
|
|
Roscommon GAA thread - 2 Like(s)
Congratulations Roscommon, surely the greatest Connacht Final of all time. It was game over after Comer's goal but the 2-pointers came to the for yet again. Slowly and surely teams are realising that even a 6-7 point lead is not what it used to be. Great for the game.
Galway very gracious in defeat also, to their credit. It's remarkable looking from afar how Galway and Ros, though big rival in their own right, are united in their bitter disdain for their other, unmentionable, neighbours
Eddie the Exile (National) - 11/05/2026 11:03:19
|
|
Leitrim GAA thread - 2 Like(s)
Good morning everyone and thank you for looking for my opinions. I really appreciate it. I did not get to see the game yesterday as I am just back from business in the Arabian Gulf. Well done to Roscommon on their win. Thanks so much for winning it please. Appreciate it.
bláthach (National) - 11/05/2026 11:01:20
|
|
Galway Hurling thread - 1 Like(s)
Quite an enjoyable game to watch in Kildare on Saturday at the end. Glad I made the trip up.
Fair play to Kildare. Some great hurlers there and they had a timid Galway backline under all type of bother in the first half. Some of their shooting was exceptional where Galway struggled.
Whelan excellent and looks back to his best, kept them in the game when it had a danger of getting away from them. I think in general this game will do them more good than if they beat them by 20/30 points. Stuck to their guns and got the rewards in the end. Under previous management this might have been a loss.
Unfortunately I would say that is the last Conor Cooney start in a Galway jersey.
Amazing that Galway are really starting to click even with all the wides and some of their main men (Both Mannions, Morrissey etc.) yet to have really found their best form in the championship. That's a positive
Kinvara (National) - 11/05/2026 14:05:47
|
|
Monaghan GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To veterngaa: "Clubs would wana get their house in order." At least Blayney fielded a team, unlike the a certain south Monaghan crowd afraid of having their seasons hopes ended in April
MonaghanMan44life (National) - 11/05/2026 12:10:53
|
|
Galway Football thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To WanPintWin: "The free was against Hernon first. Moved forward against Comer for the two pointer because he supposedly delayed Roscommon taking the free.
The thing is, he definitely thought it was a Galway line ball, so it was pretty harsh. The free was also soft originally, but Hernon could have been smarter. Roscommon lad was going nowhere and was about to be turned over if he shadowed him.
Kickouts are still the biggest issues. Roscommon got a load of short ones away against the wind. Carroll had a handy option free so many times. They targeted Ryan Roche's lack of quickness being able to cover his man, who got free regularly.
Contrast it with the second half, where Flaherty didn't once have an option to go short. We had to go long almost every time, and when you're doing that it's basically a lottery. Think we won only one kickout after Comer's goal and obviously got no score in that time, while Roscommon scored 8 points.
We were also wide open down the middle of the defence in the first half. Roscommon looked like they had a goal on almost every time they ran at us. The lack of ability to get proper contact on the runners was very poor.
Roscommon very deserving winners and fair play to them. We have a lot to think about the before the Kildare game." I thought the free brought forward was extremely harsh because nearly the same thing happened 10 mins early where we won the line ball and rossies played on with it but line ball not brought forward. Maybe because it was free vs line ball but should be no distinction between them
systematic (National) - 11/05/2026 12:49:03
|
|
Galway Football thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To GalwaysFinest: "Its true, its our strongest panel in years, on paper.
But we still rely on the old reliables when available. Comer, Walsh, Conroy, Kelly.
Harsh to leave out Maher in that conversation because he is usually exceptional but yesterday just wasnt his day.
Shane McGrath and Oisin McDonagh (is he injured?) were finds of the league but didnt get much time yesterday.
Roche's involvement for the goal was excellent but surely McGrath and McDonagh have a lot to offer here.
When will Rob click when Damo and Shane are on the pitch too? Having all three firing would be a joy to watch.
Its fine margins, and if we win that game yesterday maybe these conversations dont happen, but its a tough pill to swallow considering we were in the driving seat and let momentum switch in the last few mins." Forwards not clicking had little to do with yesterday's loss. We kicked a few bad wides in the first half, but overall across the game we put a big score and were pretty efficient with our conversion rate.
The momentum swung in the final 8 minutes because we hardly had the ball. We had one attack in that time, prior to the late equaliser attempt. Apart from that Roscommon won the majority of the kickouts and worked their scores with a strong breeze. We were starved of possession in that time. On top of that, most of the kickouts in that timeframe were our own, but we couldn't work a way to retain possession.
Our purple patch in the second half, after their third goal, came from a lot of the breaking ball falling our way, as well as few good catches from Maher and D'Arcy. There was a stark difference between how Roscommon had options for the short one in the first half and how we had to go long every time in the second half.
In the modern game against a team with good attackers, losing 5 or 6 of your own kickouts in a row can be devastating. Roscommon outscored us 8 points to 0 in the last 9 minutes. We didn't even have an attempt at a score in that time, until Shane Walsh's kick at the very end, simply because we hardly had the ball.
WanPintWin (National) - 11/05/2026 12:50:04
|
|
Wexford Hurling Thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Fulgrim: "Charlie Mitchell, Offaly's captain, had a medical procedure after the KK match so he's probably out for our game on Saturday. Big loss for them but you have to imagine also motivation for the rest to push harder. Class young hurler, wish him all the best in his recovery." Thats sad news for him if true. Hopefully he makes a full recovery.
Viking66 (National) - 11/05/2026 13:31:54
|
|
Leitrim GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Gaa_lover: "That one poster with two accounts needs to be ignored than feeding him attention." Says the buck with at least four!
ohwow (National) - 11/05/2026 13:51:09
|
|
Westmeath Hurling thread - 1 Like(s)
Last Saturday was one of the poorest displays i have seen in Cusack since the the u20 a few years ago v Dublin. We could have lost by 30points if Laois weren't so wasteful. The performances are on a continual downward spiral. If you chat the players there is a lot of discontent with the setup. Christy Rings looms large for 2028.
Loughlenegale (National) - 11/05/2026 13:52:53
|
|
Dublin GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Fionn: "Nice double header in the football this Sunday for the Dubs, with the Jackies in the Ladies Leinster Senior Football Final v Kildare at 12. Our Ladies beat Meath at the weekend by 1-11 to 0-05
Dublin v Westmeath throws in @2pm." Surprised how easily they beat Meath who must have slipped a lot.
Be interesting to see how many turn up. Kerry/Cork was 30,000 where some were predicting not half that.
Westmeath will bring a big crowd but don't detect any groundswell for our lads. Will go if we have a good day in Salthill!
BarneyGrant (National) - 11/05/2026 11:29:37
|
|
Football Championship 2026 - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Expertinall: "Maybe, proof read your post, not sure of your point? Nobody has said Kerry are not a fantastic team, they are. Look at the way their 'squad' dealt with Cork yesterday, fantastic approach and tactics. But the munster championship only had one division 1 team in it, and cannot be seeded, to keep the status quo, as that leads to home advantage to both finalists. What part of that is moaning, or inaccurate ?" Janey you do go on and on.Our pwn championship has only one division one team in it also.Get a grip.For years Leinster often had only one team but it was the greatest team ever.
brayballer (National) - 11/05/2026 14:05:50
|
|
Football Championship 2026 - 1 Like(s)
Replying To isfeidirrlinn: "Cant see why provincial winners are not exempt from at least the next round as there has to be some advantage for winning the province.Winners of province and runners up both get home draws.Hope for the remainder of the c ship linesmen play a greater role on fouls etc as they do in rugby who whilst not my sport at least enforce the rules and give the referee assistance in what is given the size of the field tricky to get calls correct." Why should there be an advatage for winning a province when the provinces are not equal? Kerry have always had this huge advantage, we shouldn't go back to it
JimB1991 (National) - 11/05/2026 16:05:32
|
|
Roscommon GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To yew_tree: "Really…you just couldn't come on and say well done without taking a swipe at Mayo who had no involvement in yesterday's game….? We live rent free in some people's minds." You posted some late night ramblings yourself , fairly bitter stuff on the blog last night
Belclare98 (National) - 11/05/2026 16:06:09
|
|
Galway Football thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Pope_Benedict: "That's a good point about the marginality of our margins at the last 2-3 Connacht Finals. We were probably due to run out of road at Connacht Finals, based on the nature of our comfort margins in this game 2024-2026." Another interesting fact on our margins in general, I believe yesterday's game is the first championship match we've lost by more than 1 point since the 2022 All Ireland final. On the other side of things I can't recall us winning many games with a comfortable margin outside of Connacht in that timeframe either.
LárBáire (National) - 11/05/2026 16:19:08
|
|
Hurling Championship 2026 - 1 Like(s)
Maybe some of us are completely delusional in Wexford, but if you don't have hope, you have nothing.
I know our team is capable of better than we've shown so far this year, and in particular, better than we've shown in the last two games.
I also know that Wexford teams are capable of bouncing back after bad results, e.g. two years ago, we lost to Antrim in Corrigan Park and many people wrote our obituary, but the following week we beat Galway in Wexford Park and went on to qualify for the All-Ireland series anyway. Was only a controversial goal against us in Nowlan Park that stopped us from reaching the Leinster Final.
Obviously I hoped we'd bounce back against Dublin in Round 3 after that bad defeat to Kilkenny in Round 2. And obviously it didn't happen. But now I'm hoping we bounce back twice as hard in Tullamore. A win there and we'd be going into a final round home match with improved morale and a chance to make the All-Ireland series again, and possibly even a Leinster Final.
We have to hope. If you don't have hope, you have nothing.
Pikeman96 (National) - 11/05/2026 16:19:12
|
|
Hurling Championship 2026 - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Viking66: "Plenty of slips twixt cup and lips Pope.
If you lose to Dublin and if we beat Offaly, both possible results, we will beat you in the Park.
And if you beat Dublin and we beat Offaly we will beat you in the Park.
And if you beat Dublin and we lose to Offaly we will beat you in the Park if we have to win to stay up. You might win otherwise.
Of course you are currently favourites to win Leinster, but that doesn't mean that you will. You have been favourites several times before in the Round Robin era, and you have only won Leinster once in that time." You seem to conveniently forget that Galway is a Connacht team. Have a look at yesterday's Connacht final and you might get an inkling as to what that means to Connacht people. Reading some of the nonsense here about Munster and Leinster is a joke - it's a game of hurling played by club players chosen to play for their county. Provincialism hasn't worked in either code.
Crashingwaves (National) - 11/05/2026 16:46:08
|
|
Football Championship 2026 - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Seanfan: "Last semi final v Meath 1991.
Derek Duggan's mighty goal but the Tommy Dowd ran riot...." Won the Division 2 League Final in 2018. Tommy Dowd was class power and finishing. Derek Duggan also very good. That free kick distance gets longer every retelling!
GreenandRed (National) - 11/05/2026 16:54:10
|