Best of luck to all the lads today, play strong hard and fair with confidence. Your a great team and you will a few extra 16th men and women in the stands today. Go for it and make us proud, An Lu Abu

ninjasmyth (Louth) - Posts: 768 - 11/07/2026 16:15:53    2685204

Good luck to Gavin and the lads.

Saynothing (Tyrone) - Posts: 2873 - 11/07/2026 17:52:26    2685224

Commiserations following the semi-final. Unfortunately, it seemed to be a case of just a bridge too far. It was uncannily like our run to the semis last year in all honesty.

In saying that, Ive loved following Louth these last few years and I think (I hope) some of historic emnity between Louth/Meath is being washed away in a mutual respect these days. Look forward to meeting you again.

Congrats again on a stellar championship.

Young_gael (Meath) - Posts: 626 - 11/07/2026 19:48:58    2685258

Timmy86 (Sligo) - Posts: 378 - 12/07/2026 00:12:36    2685333

Hard luck Louth. We just killed the game in the third quarter. Hard to know what lies ahead for us. We've been in this position many times before…no good unless we seal the deal now. Been a great season for Louth. All the best next year. Yer fans were brilliant today.

yew_tree (Mayo) - Posts: 12211 - 12/07/2026 00:52:28    2685336

To all you Louth supporters out there, stay the course, what a year ye have had. What a journey, i know ye are all down and sore right now. I remember as a young Mayo lad back in 1993, fierce confident, we get to another AI after 1989, and we got absolutely hammered by Cork in that Semi final. And Derry beats Cork a few weeks later comfortably. This reminds me a lot of us back then for you guys. I remember fighting for our lives down in division three. Those were dark days in Mayo football and as a supporter you do think, things are hopeless. Keep going, keep building and keep fighting, ye are not that far off the mark. Someone in Leinster needs to give it to the Dubs these next few years. Also as a Mayo supporter, moving forward like we don't need reminding, we have won absolutely nothing. We got to where we need to be that's all. Was very proud of our lads today, we played well all over the field. Will we be good enough the next day, only time will tell? To beat Kerry or Dublin we got to be 10-15% better than we were today and that's going to take one hell of an effort!!

Pittsburgh (Mayo) - Posts: 1 - 12/07/2026 04:50:42    2685345

Didn't happen for the boys yesterday. But still immensely proud. Thanks for a great year.

kudos (Louth) - Posts: 313 - 12/07/2026 10:18:38    2685361

richiepmurphy (Kilkenny) - Posts: 140 - 12/07/2026 12:35:45    2685379

Thanks to the players and management for a brilliant year from league right until the all ireland semi. Many learnings with both difficult and incredible days. All the emotions were there this year. Good luck to Mayo, fingers crossed its your year because you were awesome.

Shearer (Louth) - Posts: 942 - 13/07/2026 13:54:10    2685594

Brilliant season for us Louth fans. Wins against Offaly, Kildare, and Wexford who would typically be amongst our peer competition might have been the sum total of a typical OK year for most seasons past. Between league and championship, we had brilliant wins against Tyrone, Derry, Cavan, Armagh, and Monaghan and that makes for some record against strong Ulster teams. Losing in the league to the two teams that got promoted, and only by a single point against Meath (which, unbelievably, felt like a rare Meath win against us).

The Dublin win was immense psychologically. 2023 it was 5-21 to 0-15, 2024 it was 1-19 to 2-12. For the 2026 first game to finish 0-20 to 0-10 felt like a step backwards so the 4-18 to 1-24 win was a new high and continued the march of progress.

First half against Mayo was a new experience -- Croker at capacity and the feeling, the belief that this was going to go the distance. We've become used to Louth teams finding a way to win as they come down the home straight. Didn't happen on Saturday but we haven't had days out like these in our lifetime. This doesn't feel like the setback years of 1993 when Laois took us down a notch, 2002 vs Meath Geraghty goal, and the 2010 loss vs Dublin (which honestly did more damage that the Meath game IMO). Those days felt like we met insurmountable barriers. This feels like we're knocking on the door and we can figure it out.

It's some sacrifice these folks all make and we're grateful. This is a panel that has a lot further to go and, as long as they want more days like Saturday and want to be competing at the top table, it's there for them and we'll be fully behind them. Meath was our ceiling for a long time. Then it was Dublin. We haven't seen the ceiling for this panel yet and they're young. We'll figure out how to get past the current hurdle and come back again. The alternative -- putting in 90% as much effort for 20% of the results -- sucks.

So thanks to the team, panel, and management. Couldn't be more grateful.

level (Louth) - Posts: 109 - 13/07/2026 20:05:32    2685654