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Donegal GAA thread - 2 Like(s)
Fair play to the team and management on Sunday. Only a second league title ever, and it's definitely something to savour and be proud of. The quadruple is still on…
Plenty of excellent performances, and a brilliant outing for Max Campbell starting his career-you couldn't have predicted that kind of impact.
Being 21 points up in the second half, you did start to wonder what Kerry were at- have they ever been 20+ points down in a match. They were miles off the pace.
There was one passage in the first half that summed up their lethargy. McGonagle turned over David Clifford, then Shane O'Donnell was turned over-which you wouldn't expect-and there were four Kerry players inside who were not tracking the Donegal runner coming out. Somewhat ironically they nearly ended up scoring a goal from it. You won't be seeing that lack of effort later in the year.
Similar to how Michael Murphy is used, Kerry might look at bringing Clifford out the field for kickouts later in the year. When you're starved of possession, you have to find ways to get your best player involved. Murphy's influence was massive-Donegal were 21 points up by the time he went off, which kind of says it all. The finish for the goal was also excellent.
There was a bit of discussion here recently about Ryan McHugh, and I think he was excellent. Three points, and constantly tasked with carrying the ball out, beating his man, and creating overlaps. The balance in his running, the subtle dip of the shoulder to help beat his man and his ability to use both his feet and hands. He understandably ran out of legs towards the end, but he had really emptied the tank.
Looking ahead to the serious championship games, Donegal will need the likes of Patton, Gallen, O'Baoill, Moore, Thompson, and Roarty all firing. That depth and competition for places will be crucial.
Anyway, a trophy to enjoy and huge credit to everyone involved.
Ulsterchamps_32 (National) - 01/04/2026 14:31:19
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Non-Gaa Forum - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Tirchonaill1: "Hopefully President Trump will declare victory tonight and say they are going home, otherwise prepare for fuel rationing and even higher prices I think.
Iran won't be developing any nukes after this bombardment, it will take years to rebuild what's been destroyed not to mention all the innocent lives lost, is the world any safer or better now? I doubt it,
Netanyahu is happier though anyway." Your man Yahoo is pulling the strings. Israel own America, ie, Wall Street.
Saynothing (National) - 01/04/2026 13:14:02
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Galway Hurling thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Stool Pigeon: "Why would Niland and Rabbitte not be available, are they injured?
Surely with Campbell named captain he's going to play, probably 6 with a view to sweeping?
There are 3 group games and let's hope they mix it up a bit from game to game. Only need to finish in the top 3 to get to the knockouts and you'd expect we would manage that at a minimum, though last year we did limbo comfortably under the minimum bar so we can't take too much for granted of course" The game against Kilkenny u20 is on a Wednesday in between two senior championship matches and you only have to win one group game in this Leinster u20 championship to get through. I can't imagine Rabbitte and Niland will play all the group games. Would surely make sense to rest them for one u20 group match and have them back in for the knockout games. Squad is good enough to top the group without them.
galway19 (National) - 01/04/2026 16:51:24
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