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Carlow GAA thread - 2 Like(s)

Replying To CarlowJuniorB:  "Very dramatic here isn't it?

Both codes were more successful prior to the split."
That's simply not true, and anyone following the scene in Carlow closely knows it.

Not long ago the Senior Hurling Championship had just four teams. Under the split season it was built back up to six for 2026. The Intermediate Hurling Championship used to be a joke - with five teams, four of them B teams from senior clubs. It was a fantastic competition this year. We even have IHC players playing county!

We have Kildavin back hurling, Setanta competing at adult level, Naomh Bríd and Carlow Town clearly turning a corner, and Ballinkillen stabilising. That doesn't happen by accident. It happened because hurling finally had certainty and space in the calendar.

And the idea that football somehow suffered is just nonsense. We've just had our best Senior Football Championship in many years: proper drama, competitive games, talking points everywhere. MLR beating Éire Óg, Fenagh winning a first round game, a genuinely novel relegation final, and Fighting Cocks reaching a Leinster final.

So let's be honest about what's really driving this. For the first time ever, Éire Óg found themselves in a relegation playoff,, and suddenly the format is a "failed experiment". Funny how that works.

This is a day that will forever live in infamy. It's a thundering disgrace. I am around a long time now and I am totally disheartened by the engrained anti-hurling attitude in the north of the county. They honestly seem to be more accommodating to soccer and rugby than they are to our beautiful game. Shame on them all.

CARPS (National) - 20/12/2025 14:15:55

Westmeath Football thread - 2 Like(s)

Replying To lakecounty90:  "Mchugh needs to get on the fone to Conor McCormack.
2nd most best forward in the county sitting at home
Wont win anything if best players not playing"
Has to be a parody account

Bluelake (National) - 20/12/2025 19:42:51

Carlow GAA thread - 1 Like(s)

Replying To CARPS:  "One the darkest days in the history of Carlow hurling. It will kill all the progress made at Burren Rangers, Kildavin, Carlow Town and Naomh Brid. And set Ballinkillen back also.

Decades of contempt for the ancient game haven't gone away and its seeping out of the usual suspects once again. Once supposes the endeavors of Mount Leinster Rangers this year upset some people.

As for the new football format, it's a joke. Robbed from soccer.. The foreign games fans at Teach Asca have been watching too much Shamrock Rovers, or maybe a more appropriate example would be Liverpool.

The fools are dancing with their rage, I swerved in naught, something to perfection brought, as a great Sligo man once wrote.

Ceatharlach abú, an iománaíocht abú!"
Hope you're ok carps! We're all here for you

Collio (National) - 19/12/2025 21:38:30

Galway Hurling thread - 1 Like(s)

Replying To katser:  "Fantastic stalwart for Galway and definitely in the top bracket for most successful Galway hurlers of all time.
I reckon on head to head Joe Canning has won more overall for both Club and County."
Hard to interpret what 'overall' means in your context there, but Burke had more county senior championship wins. On the 'head to head' aspect, Canning was the central figure on an all Ireland winning minor side at 15 years old in 2004. Burke would have needed to make that side as a 14 year old to match that 'head to head', which left him at a disadvantage, one would imagine.

Pope_Benedict (National) - 20/12/2025 10:13:18

Galway Hurling thread - 1 Like(s)
Loughrea will need to be on it from the start tomorrow. They need to have their touch, their intensity and their accuracy 100% to beat slaughtneil. Slaughtneil are physical, fit and fast, but I believe Loughrea have better hurlers and are a better team this year compared to last year. Loughrea by 4

BigBàsMan (National) - 20/12/2025 10:59:58

Galway Football thread - 1 Like(s)
Galway team v Westmeath

Eamon McGrath
Jack Glynn
Sean Fitzgerald
Brian Cogger
Finnian O'Laoi
Sean Mulkerrin
Dylan McHugh
Mattias Barrett
Matthew Tierney
Daniel O'Flaherty
Matthew Thompson
Shane McGrath
Jack Mullen
Charlie Power
Liam Costello

Subs

Conor Gleeson
Conor Flaherty
Conal Gallagher
Jack Folan
Ciaran Mulhern
Mikey Mulryan
Darragh Burke
Johnny McGrath
Fionn McDonagh
Shane Walsh
Cillian O'Curraoin
Colm Costello
Cian Hernon

Marooned (National) - 20/12/2025 14:48:15

Galway Hurling thread - 1 Like(s)

Replying To CTGAA10:  "I really think Katser is trying to rise people.."
You're probably right but I wish I had his confidence. I just want Loughrea to win in any fashion. lol.

SouthGalway (National) - 20/12/2025 16:38:18

Football Better Than Hurling In 2025? Thank You Jim Gavin, - 1 Like(s)

Replying To alalalalalum:  "Well now there's no way there's passages in football where they keep it 10 mins, 2 maybe. But the masters of it were that Dublin team, and now this thread is praising the former manager who came up with that game style. Incredible"
Dublin and other good county and club teams adopted the keep ball tactic as response to total negativity on part of mediocre blanket defensive teams who had 15 inside 40 yards.

I like the restrictions on the manner in which teams can do this but it is still a valid tactic and requires huge nerve, pace, vision and power. Adds not detracts from excitement.

BarneyGrant (National) - 20/12/2025 19:09:06