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Roscommon GAA thread - 3 Like(s)
Good coverage of a disappointing topic on the Herald. Thought Michael Finneran's piece was interesting and the bit about once management are on about complacency it's nearly too late. Whether it's complacency or putting too much stock in beating Mayo and Galway or a mixture of a few things, there needs to be be attitude and mentality change when it comes to championship football which I'm sure management will be looking to address. If they thought they had a handle on it (I did), they had a rude awakening last Saturday. Fighting to the end win, lose or draw needs to be a given. I still think we need more of an edge to us as well. Too often over the last ten years relying on the Daly brothers to be the one's with fire in the belly. It doesn't need to be crazy lose the head stuff but need more hard hitting and aggression through the team. The Ulster teams have it in abundance. Galway, Meath, Kerry and as controlled as Jim Gavins Dublin were, they had plenty of edge as well.
FullOfPorter (National) - 18/06/2026 16:46:50
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Armagh Overrated - 2 Like(s)
Replying To hlynch12: "Just like Donegal a lot of hype about Armagh. Lucky avoid relegation, won a Ulster championship, nobody took serious. Hammered the gap last year against Kerry having won soft All Ireland year before. IS this Armagh team overrated?" Need to change bait there gasun AKA.
GreenandRed (National) - 18/06/2026 16:09:16
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GAATV - 2 Like(s)
Replying To combo: "Has the GAA have shown where the money in GAAPLUS is spent? Id love to know what a gameday costs or what the youtube channel costs are" Every cent of GAA income and expenditure is published in their annual report. It's available publicly.
WanPintWin (National) - 19/06/2026 10:30:05
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Westmeath Football thread - 2 Like(s)
Replying To jobber: "Are you for real. Galway were slightly the better team no more no less. But any criticism against WH players on here is seen as sacrilige but thats a losers viewpoint and this team with huge potential will never reach that of we live in this delusion." Slightly better? Here's some facts. Galway won 67% of their own kickouts and 54% of Westmeaths. That's a mountain of lost possession. Conroy at 37 kicked 5 points. How much did our midfield kick? 2 points between them. Galways starting full forward line kicked 2-9 with 2-8 from play. Our inside forwards kicked 8 points, 5 of those from frees. We were outgunned simple as. We have a good young team that needs to be playing league football at a higher level. We need to be playing the Galways and Monaghans and Dublins more often to get that level. I hope we can lift it against Monaghan and get to a quarter final. It has been an incredible year and a quarter final would be the cherry on top.
Chops (National) - 19/06/2026 10:53:52
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Tailteann Cup 2026 - 2 Like(s)
Replying To legendzxix: "A Fermanagh - Wicklow final would be a novel pairing for two counties without provincial honours.
Taking the semi finals out of the limelight is history repeating itself. Happened to the Ring and Rackard finals as well. It is surprising that D3 and D4 counties aren't lobbying for a return of the All Ireland qualifiers over 2 knockout rounds for the 7 league qualifier spots. The Tailteann Cup could always be played out after in straight knockout, with the winner still rewarded with an All Ireland spot.
Hope all going to Croke Park on Saturday enjoy the occasion anyways!" Oh please, not this play off suggestion again. It is daft and would completely undermine the league, which has finally gained credibility and status as a competition. It would also fatally undermine the Tailteann Cup. You could have the scenario where Down beat Donegal (as they did a few weeks ago) in a play-off relegating Donegal, league champions, to the Tailteann Cup - utterly ridiculous. So that's a hat trick of damaged competitions with the Sam Maguire undermined as well.
CeachtPeile (National) - 19/06/2026 12:48:49
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GAA President - Jarlath Burns - 1 Like(s)
"We are a participation sport. We are not a sport for sedentary people who just want to sit and watch it on their television."
Not sure I agree with burns here. Many people can't go to games
Kew (National) - 18/06/2026 16:45:13
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GAATV - 1 Like(s)
Jarlath Burns: Older fans not complaining about GAA+
Burns said having every championship game available to watch on television or through streaming is "not a good model".
GAA president Jarlath Burns said the association's own research shows that elderly people are not complaining about games being shown on GAA+.
"I know that we have received some criticism, older members not being able to (watch GAA+) but that's not what our own research is showing us," Burns told the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture, and Sport.
"We have actually done a deal with Broadband Ireland that everybody who gets a package with Broadband Ireland gets free GAA+. It's free in hospitals, it's free in old people's homes.
"We are not getting feedback from older people to say that they are complaining about it. They are just happy to be able to watch the games. In fact they are now complaining that we're not doing enough games on GAA+."
Burns said having every championship game available to watch on television or through streaming is "not a good model", adding that at some point, Gaelic games would simply become "wallpaper".
"Our members are quite happy - and they have told us in all of the research that we have done - with the fact that we have 300 free-to-air games every year," said Burns.
"We have 180 championship games and 30 match days. We simply cannot show every game and also we have a question that we have to ask ourselves: How much is enough? Because we don't want to show every game live on television.
"We are a participation sport. We are not a sport for sedentary people who just want to sit and watch it on their television."
Burns continued: "If we are going to make GAA+ a free-to-air service, we are going to have to take out a significant number of millions out of our income. And we're going to ask ourselves the question, what do we not fund?
"We will be renegotiating the broadcast arrangements next year. We will take into consideration everything that has been said.
"Ideally we would love to show even more than 300 games a year, free-to-air. We would love to show more than that.
"But it is impossible under the current scenario where we are working with a public service broadcaster."
GAA director general Tom Ryan added: "Our natural disposition is to be self-sufficient and I suppose that's part of the imperative behind GAA+ as well - we try to make our own way."
What you guys think of this? I can't understand why they are not able to show more game? County boards manage it.
Kew (National) - 18/06/2026 16:48:19
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GAATV - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Kew: "Jarlath Burns: Older fans not complaining about GAA+
Burns said having every championship game available to watch on television or through streaming is "not a good model".
GAA president Jarlath Burns said the association's own research shows that elderly people are not complaining about games being shown on GAA+.
"I know that we have received some criticism, older members not being able to (watch GAA+) but that's not what our own research is showing us," Burns told the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture, and Sport.
"We have actually done a deal with Broadband Ireland that everybody who gets a package with Broadband Ireland gets free GAA+. It's free in hospitals, it's free in old people's homes.
"We are not getting feedback from older people to say that they are complaining about it. They are just happy to be able to watch the games. In fact they are now complaining that we're not doing enough games on GAA+."
Burns said having every championship game available to watch on television or through streaming is "not a good model", adding that at some point, Gaelic games would simply become "wallpaper".
"Our members are quite happy - and they have told us in all of the research that we have done - with the fact that we have 300 free-to-air games every year," said Burns.
"We have 180 championship games and 30 match days. We simply cannot show every game and also we have a question that we have to ask ourselves: How much is enough? Because we don't want to show every game live on television.
"We are a participation sport. We are not a sport for sedentary people who just want to sit and watch it on their television."
Burns continued: "If we are going to make GAA+ a free-to-air service, we are going to have to take out a significant number of millions out of our income. And we're going to ask ourselves the question, what do we not fund?
"We will be renegotiating the broadcast arrangements next year. We will take into consideration everything that has been said.
"Ideally we would love to show even more than 300 games a year, free-to-air. We would love to show more than that.
"But it is impossible under the current scenario where we are working with a public service broadcaster."
GAA director general Tom Ryan added: "Our natural disposition is to be self-sufficient and I suppose that's part of the imperative behind GAA+ as well - we try to make our own way."
What you guys think of this? I can't understand why they are not able to show more game? County boards manage it." The position is clearly laid out in the article above.
The GAA is entitled to fully maximise the commercial revenue they can earn from the product they own. What part of that do you not understand?
Square_B (National) - 18/06/2026 17:06:00
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Kerry Peaking At Right Time? - 1 Like(s)
Shane Ryan, Gavin White and Sean O'Shea to start Satuday for Shane Murphy, Sean O'Brien and Paul Geaney. Tom O'Sullivan, Jack Barry, Dara Moynihan, Micheal Burns and Barry DAn O'Sullivan back for semi final. Starting to fall into place for KErry.
hlynch12 (National) - 18/06/2026 21:27:30
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Dublin GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Apparently 35k tickets have been sold for Croker on Sunday... more than justifies the need to hold the game in Croker.
Square_B (National) - 18/06/2026 21:50:52
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Football Championship 2026 - 1 Like(s)
Replying To hlynch12: "Armagh minutes from QF now likely to be finished Saturday. A lot lads flights booked for States Monday" I heard some of them booked them for Saturday. They're not even going to bother with the game.
WanPintWin (National) - 19/06/2026 09:31:33
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Mayo GAA Thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To yew_tree: "In fairness Mayo there 2011-2021 won plenty of tight games and were mentally strong. That was a different team, this is a new team. I'd be concerned too about finishing out games.
We lost two recent Connacht titles to Galway that could and probably should have been won. Defeats to Derry at home and Donegal last year when we had the draw we needed and let it slip….
Streetwise, clinical and ruthlessness are something we had but this group has not yet shown. 12 points up against Monaghan and nearly let it slip….thats unforgivable. I'm beginning to worry a small bit that we may be gone back to the "nice" lads pre Horan era.
Nice lads win nothing. We need to show something this Sunday. Meath are a good team, a dangerous team but we are at home and of our lads have anything about them they need to be winning this game, otherwise I'm
Not sure where they are going…." Try being a Ros supporter. Going through the DTs here a week after.
Ros2013 (National) - 19/06/2026 09:48:06
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Westmeath Football thread - 1 Like(s)
Team named
Daly
Treanor Drumm T Baker
Wallace Allen Whittaker
Ormsby
Cooney
O'Sullivan McCartan Dillon
Heslin S Baker Kelly
Ray not named on bench Danny Scahill on bench. Midfield going to need a lot of help from half backs and half forwards. Could see Senan Baker or Heslin dropping deep to help with kockouts. Going to be a big ask to lift it again. Best of luck to the lads. They have given us a year to remember. They have emptied the tank in every game for themselves, their families and supporters. We need to get behind them for another 70 minutes.
Chops (National) - 19/06/2026 10:33:47
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Football Championship 2026 - 1 Like(s)
I am not sure about the results of any of the four games this weekend. There has been no team that has been consistently good in this years championship. At the start of the year I thought it was Kerry as favourites with Donegal, Armagh and Galway in the chasing pack but not so sure now. Could this be a year where some team comes from nowhere and lifts SAM? The new rules and new format has definitely shaken things up - which is a good thing. Its a shame more of the games aren't on free to air TV.
Green_Gold (National) - 19/06/2026 11:47:49
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Westmeath Football thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Joeynyc: "Seems to be a lot of experts on the thread" A post based on data not personal opinion ,how refreshing. I saw people in Galway ive never seen in Cusack Park ,isnt it great ,there bringing their kids who are the future of the game in Westmeath . We have all got behind this squad so far this championship ,stay the course ,dont revert to the normal personal jibing at players because they dont play with my club.
Thechick (National) - 19/06/2026 13:05:28
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Mayo GAA Thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To yew_tree: "Ye have yer own problems." You can sing that. Good luck against Meath. We were luck last year and drew with them
In The Hyde. Don't think they've evolved too much and are missing two of their best players. Could be a Galway mayo quarter yet.
Ros2013 (National) - 19/06/2026 14:07:30
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