A good weekend of football surely. St Michaels had it fairly comfortable against MacCumhaills.
I managed to get to the Kilcar Gaoth Dobhair game. After a strong Kilcar start, Gaoth Dobhair eventually got to grips with them, and probably should have won a bit more comfortably than they did in the end. McBrearty's late goal briefly made the result uncertain, but the impressive Micheal Roarty landed a great two pointer to seal the deal.
The Four Masters result was very eye catching. I did think Dungloe might have had too much power for them. But the Four Masters lads fairly kicked for home and the ten point margin was certainly significant.
Termon. My God they must be gutted. They gave it everything but just couldn't kill Naomh Conaill off. You have to hand it to the Naomh Conaill lads, they just don't know when they're beaten. Big lessons for Termon this year. Between yesterday and the Gaeltacht final, they let sizable leads slip. But all credit to them, they have come on in leaps and bounds, and they'll be using the hurt sustained this year to drive them on in 2026 I'm sure.
I'm not trying to rain on anyone's parade and it's brilliant that we might see Four Masters in a senior championship final. But when you look at junior football it's a shambles. I know it's not sexy to look at problems at this stage of championship with the semi finalists flying. But if you take my club we were hammered twice in championship in our last week of football for 2025. One game was 3.18 to 0.03 and our last game was 5.25 to 0.02. How do we ask boys to be enthusiastic for 2026 when this happens them.
I know some people will say that's your issue, your obviously not doing things right and it can't be argued that in some respects that might be true and we haven't always done the right things since 2017 when we won Ulster. But we have young lads who are coming through but in the uncompetitive structures the county currently has at league and Championship we will not hold these lads if we are constantly getting hammered like we have been.
It's not just us there are other clubs who are in a similar situation and at some stage one of us will go to the wall all because we are a small club.
It's tough as a small club just keep that in mind when the bright championship light are flashing over the next few weeks.
Replying To Whateveryourhavingyourself: "I'm not trying to rain on anyone's parade and it's brilliant that we might see Four Masters in a senior championship final. But when you look at junior football it's a shambles. I know it's not sexy to look at problems at this stage of championship with the semi finalists flying. But if you take my club we were hammered twice in championship in our last week of football for 2025. One game was 3.18 to 0.03 and our last game was 5.25 to 0.02. How do we ask boys to be enthusiastic for 2026 when this happens them.
I know some people will say that's your issue, your obviously not doing things right and it can't be argued that in some respects that might be true and we haven't always done the right things since 2017 when we won Ulster. But we have young lads who are coming through but in the uncompetitive structures the county currently has at league and Championship we will not hold these lads if we are constantly getting hammered like we have been.
It's not just us there are other clubs who are in a similar situation and at some stage one of us will go to the wall all because we are a small club.
It's tough as a small club just keep that in mind when the bright championship light are flashing over the next few weeks."
Do you think it's time to go down the Kerry route where they have two tiers of junior championship in Junior and Junior Premier?
Based on this years results it might include the likes of yourselves, Urris, Robert Emmets, Pettigo and Lifford. It may give these teams a competitive outlet and and actual championship title to strive to rather than the weekly hammerings you've alluded to.