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Replying To Pope_Benedict: "Rabbitte at 6ft 4 should be more comfortable with high ceilings too." I see what you did their ; > ColmFlaherty (Galway) - Posts: 218 - 19/08/2026 13:47:38 2690441 Link
Replying To ColmFlaherty: "Loughrea vs Moycullen - Loughrea by 12: too strong for Moycullen. Gort vs Tommy Larkins - Larkins by 8: Cian Daniels and Jayo to run things once again. Clarinbridge vs Cappataggle - Clarinbridge by 8: Clarinbridge will have too strong of a team for Cappatagle. Liam Mellows vs Craughwell - Craughwell by 7: Tom Mon and the Leens to feature. Oranmore-Maree vs Sarsfields - Draw: Sarsfields struggled against Castlegar in R1 and managed to get a draw from the game, Oranmore struggled for a short while against St Thomas's but managed to pull it back. Niall Burke, the Connaire's and Cooney's to play well. Castlegar vs St Thomas's - St Thomas's by 8: they'll be too strong for Castlegar. Killimordaly vs Turloughmore - Turloughmore by 6: they'll improve since the opening round with the Whelan's and Sean's playing well. Athenry vs Ardrahan - Draw: Jason and the Hannon's to keep up their form with Cianan Fahy and Brian Callanan on song for Ardrahan." I like your picks but I believe the Clarenbridge match and the St Thomas's match will both be closer than 8 points. SouthGalway (Galway) - Posts: 283 - 19/08/2026 14:24:55 2690446 Link
Replying To galway19: "Galway won the u16 national cup today in Fermoy. Hammered Cork in the semi final and narrowly beat Waterford in the final. Limerick were the other semi finalists. Tipp and Kilkenny not really competitive at that grade which doesn't bode well for them in minor next year." Galway won it last year too and shared it the previous year. That didn't transfer to minor. Please don't mention a Leinster minor win this year. Leinster was very poor. Armchairreporter (Galway) - Posts: 156 - 19/08/2026 22:04:46 2690521 Link
Replying To ColmFlaherty: "Loughrea vs Moycullen - Loughrea by 12: too strong for Moycullen. Gort vs Tommy Larkins - Larkins by 8: Cian Daniels and Jayo to run things once again. Clarinbridge vs Cappataggle - Clarinbridge by 8: Clarinbridge will have too strong of a team for Cappatagle. Liam Mellows vs Craughwell - Craughwell by 7: Tom Mon and the Leens to feature. Oranmore-Maree vs Sarsfields - Draw: Sarsfields struggled against Castlegar in R1 and managed to get a draw from the game, Oranmore struggled for a short while against St Thomas's but managed to pull it back. Niall Burke, the Connaire's and Cooney's to play well. Castlegar vs St Thomas's - St Thomas's by 8: they'll be too strong for Castlegar. Killimordaly vs Turloughmore - Turloughmore by 6: they'll improve since the opening round with the Whelan's and Sean's playing well. Athenry vs Ardrahan - Draw: Jason and the Hannon's to keep up their form with Cianan Fahy and Brian Callanan on song for Ardrahan." I hear one of the Hannons has done his cruciate. Armchairreporter (Galway) - Posts: 156 - 19/08/2026 22:06:02 2690522 Link
Replying To Armchairreporter: "Galway won it last year too and shared it the previous year. That didn't transfer to minor. Please don't mention a Leinster minor win this year. Leinster was very poor." You won Leinster, but saying it was poor does your lads a disservice. You only managed to beat Laois by 4, Kilkenny by 2 and drew with Dublin. Yes you blew us away in the SF but we just didnt turn up on the day, that can happen with children which is all minors are. Some of those lads were 17, but most were 16 and a few were 15 at that time of year. You scraped over Kilkenny by just a point AET in the final. The only game you won well was the one against us. As regards how we all did relative to the Munster counties you have to remember the ages of these lads. We were 5 points up against Cork with 5 minutes to go, but blew it. You lost heavily to Limerick who were nowhere for most of the year, but got some momentum in the knockouts and ended up winning it out. Maybe the longish gap from the Final didnt help your lads. Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 20536 - 20/08/2026 11:36:07 2690576 Link
Replying To Armchairreporter: "I hear one of the Hannons has done his cruciate." That's unfortunate, uphill task for Athenry now IMO. ColmFlaherty (Galway) - Posts: 218 - 20/08/2026 13:12:01 2690601 Link
Not sure what to say about that Loughrea performance. They just look very poor at the moment. galway19 (Galway) - Posts: 1110 - 21/08/2026 22:29:28 2690832 Link
Replying To galway19: "Not sure what to say about that Loughrea performance. They just look very poor at the moment." Opens the Championship up even more now. ColmFlaherty (Galway) - Posts: 218 - 22/08/2026 10:41:04 2690853 Link
Replying To ColmFlaherty: "That's unfortunate, uphill task for Athenry now IMO." Where is this ardrahan hype coming from they barely beat kdaly without concannon Loughrea22 (Galway) - Posts: 3 - 22/08/2026 17:59:54 2690894 Link
Replying To Loughrea22: "Where is this ardrahan hype coming from they barely beat kdaly without concannon" Athenry a coming team IMO with Ardrahan slightly more established as a contender ColmFlaherty (Galway) - Posts: 218 - 22/08/2026 20:59:59 2690907 Link
That's the Senior Relegation play off sorted 4 group bottom teams, Moycullen, Cappataggle, Killimordaly and Oranmore-Maree (Castlegar will beat Oranmore in last group game) I fancied Cappataggle to get Relegated from the start of the Championship this year even though Killimordaly or Moycullen aren't much better either. It will be close to pick the worst team from those 3!! Intermediate Relegation is Beagh, Killimor, Rahoon-Newcastle and most likely Portumna katser (Galway) - Posts: 2933 - 23/08/2026 20:30:02 2690989 Link
Conceding 39 points is crazy from killimordaly. Has it ever happened before. Seniorleague (Galway) - Posts: 296 - 23/08/2026 22:00:30 2691007 Link
How did county players like trayers and rabbitte play dualcounty2027 (Galway) - Posts: 8 - 23/08/2026 23:07:09 2691016 Link
Replying To katser: "If ever there is a statement "how the mighty have fallen " it could sum up Portumna! I know it's early days in the Club Championship BUT, it already looks like Portumna will be in a Relegation battle to avoid dropping from Intermediate to 3rd tier Junior with most likely Mullagh, Killimor and Rahoon-Newcastle. 4 group bottom teams I expected to be these 4 Clubs. Surely Rahoon-Newcastle or Killimor have to be certs for the drop? Mullagh would be best out of those 4 and will survive. Could the once mighty Portumna drop? They got hammered 12pts by the mighty men from Meelick-Eyrecourt, Ahasragh-Fohenagh will also hammer them and Kinvara should beat them too by a few points." I hope you didnt put too much on Ahascragh to 'hammer' Portumna! conordee (Galway) - Posts: 474 - 23/08/2026 23:14:49 2691017 Link
Replying To Seniorleague: "Conceding 39 points is crazy from killimordaly. Has it ever happened before." And yet they scored 3-20 themselves, which is nearly as bizarre. How often do you score that and still lose by 10? That's 62 scores in the course of a match - literally a score a minute. Triffic (Galway) - Posts: 187 - 24/08/2026 10:49:47 2691046 Link
Oranmore Castlegar will be a 50:50 the next day. There is a kick in Oranmore yet and I wasn't impressed with Castlegar considering St Thomas' were missing a good few players on Saturday and they still couldn't beat them. Cappy are in bother again, their discipline was terrible against Clarinbridge. I'd be surprised if Mikey Fallon from Clarinbridge and Conor Lawless from Athenry weren't getting a call into the seniors next year. Both have savage pace which would be useful at intercounty level. galway19 (Galway) - Posts: 1110 - 24/08/2026 12:30:14 2691053 Link
Replying To Triffic: "And yet they scored 3-20 themselves, which is nearly as bizarre. How often do you score that and still lose by 10? That's 62 scores in the course of a match - literally a score a minute." I know, imagine being told beforehand that killimordaly would score, 3 20,not concede a goal,and STILL lose by 10. Daft. Seniorleague (Galway) - Posts: 296 - 24/08/2026 12:54:42 2691057 Link
Replying To conordee: "I hope you didnt put too much on Ahascragh to 'hammer' Portumna!" Joe was wayward with the frees he missed a lot, young Kelly scored the ones nearer to goal. It's all to play for the next day again kinvara. It's hard to call at the minute who'll go down was anyone at the TAD v Killimor game. 2maroonjerseys (Galway) - Posts: 188 - 24/08/2026 14:07:13 2691077 Link