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Monaghan GAA thread - 4 Like(s)
Must say I find it a bit disheartening to see the level of support for Banty returning here, and I think it's incredibly shortsighted too. I just see it as a huge step backwards.
He did some good work in his initial spell sure, but that was bringing up a team from the bottom and making them competitive - it's an entirely different proposition to take a team who have been relatively competitive like Monaghan for a while now, and taking them to the next level. I really don't see how Banty is the man for that - or Gallagher for that matter. As others have said, I think they would be completely found out with the new rules, they're relics of a different time. As I say, Banty did well in his first spell, but that's simply a different era of football at this stage.
Maybe I'll be proven wrong, and Banty is simply the face and he'll bring in some shrewd operators who are modern coaches and tacticians, and suited to the current ruleset. But if it's say Banty, Gallagher and McEntee - well my optimism for the near future of Monaghan football will plummet
patk (National) - 30/09/2026 11:31:58
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Galway Football thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Drax_the_destroyer: "Eamon Fitzmaurice next Galway Manager.
A few bits from the Irish Examiner
"Two key factors may have changed his perspective - firstly, Fitzmaurice would only have returned with a county like Galway and a project capable of going all the way to Sam Maguire. Plus, at least Galway and Kerry are in different provinces. Nevertheless, a Galway-Kerry All-Ireland final is something the 49-year-old daren't even think about - for the time being at least"
"How Fitzmaurice will balance his school principal duties and the two and a half hour twice-weekly trips to Loughgeorge in Galway will be interesting. He has never lost the taste for the dressing room, and his razor sharp insights and tactical nous might be a massive coup for Galway, but the readers of his Irish Examiner columns and viewers of RTÉ's GAA match commentaries will be the poorer for his departure"" Great appointment but did anyone tell him about Galway traffic....
FullOfPorter (National) - 30/09/2026 09:44:51
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The GAA - Financial And Marketing - 1 Like(s)
Replying To yew_tree: "How so? Fund raising not allowed now it is? Roscommon GAA were gifted a house "Win a house in Athlone" - which I've zero issue with btw. More power to them." Had to pay cost price and stamp duty!
Seanfan (National) - 30/09/2026 10:01:00
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Monaghan GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To GAAFAN1234512345: "It has to be mark Couihan now. He has done an excellent job with Truagh and would get Monaghan playing some insane football. Hess got the truagh boys all believing they can win the championship even though lets be realistic, scostown will walk it with their eyes closed.
Couihan was with the flower boys in tyrone previously and all his hard work has paid off as they are in the final four of Tyrone championship.
Couihan would be able get archie beattie in for coach and shane rice for S/C. He could possibly take banty in for the backroom team which would give the team a financial boost." Thought the players laughed at counis name a few years ago why would he get in this time
farneygael3 (National) - 30/09/2026 10:18:31
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Wexford Club Hurling 2026 - 1 Like(s)
Replying To camánouttathat: "I agree it's 50/50 with Rathnure and Martins. I wonder would the fact that St Martins are involved in the football have a bearing as they are out every week compared to Rathnure who have a weeks recovery. Only 6 teams have won both the senior hurling and senior football championships and St Anne's the only team to do the double. Would St Martins fancy their chances at the double also?
Didn't think Gorey were in great shape at start of the championship, and like another poster said don't have the killer instimct to put teams away. I think shels will have too much for them and have been going under the radar as most of the focus has been on Rathnure and St Martins
Im glad the draw worked out for Davidstown and Askamore on one side as I would love to see either side in the final. Davidstown are bit of a Cinderella story. Junior 4 years ago, clubhouse destroyed in storm 10 years ago and a lot of work put in with their grounds, small numbers compared to senior clubs and majority of intermediate clubs and now 60 minutes away from Intermediate final. Askamore have been there or there abouts but never kicked on and have a great chance now. St James have also been down this road before. I don't think they are as strong as previous years but they always fight to the end and will certainly put it up to Cloughbawn. Cloughbawn have been favorites for past 2 seasons and got caught on the hop with Fethard last year. If they don't get over the line this year I would worry for them. Nothing happening at underage joined with Ross at minor, 2nd team now in Junior B which is too big of a gap in standard of hurling for your 1st team subs. Could be Buffers Alley 2.0" Buffers Alley also have good young lads coming. Whether thats enough to get either club established at Senior in the coming years is another question though.
Neither club has the numbers most of the established Senior clubs have. Rathnure and Fethard the exceptions. Oylegate, Oulart and St Annes, while having more than Fethard and Rathnure, wouldn't have large numbers compared to Martins, Shels, Barntown, Harriers, Gorey or Ferns either.
Viking66 (National) - 30/09/2026 11:54:29
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Tiered Leinster SHC - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Pikeman96: "On the first part - true, but you'd have to suspect Kilkenny coming fourth this year was a real anomaly, and that going forward, they won't be outside the top two very often, never mind the top three.
Second part - also true. Group 1 each year would be made up of the four semi-finalists of the previous year. So yes, means that if you come through Group 2 and then beat a Group 1 team in a quarter-final, you'd be in Group 1 yourself the following year." Basically the 2 counties with the most hurlers, Kilkenny and Galway, will likely be playing mostly in Group 1, while the other 2 Group 1 places will possibly vary a little year on year?
Isn't that something like what we have already? Or from a development point of view something worse than we have already? At least under the current format the 5th and 6th placed teams get to play Kilkenny and Galway every year. Carlow drew with Kilkenny only recently.
Under this new system most of the group 2 counties will hardly ever get to play Kilkenny or Galway.
Viking66 (National) - 30/09/2026 12:24:19
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Zuckerberg Donates €150,000 To Three GAA Clubs Near Waterford Castle - 1 Like(s)
Replying To FullOfPorter: "Sports washing at its best. Soften up the locals, oldest trick in the book. Sure we have a long history of bending the knee to the man with the biggest wallet. Can't complain then about some of the carry on of their companies." Would these 3 clubs be big campaigners against Meta, otherwise? Is that the role of GAA clubs? To complain about the carry on of large US tech companies.
How are the clubs bending the knee? Are there some principles they're having to sacrifice as a result of getting this money?
They happen to be local to a castle bought by one of the richest men in the world. Apart from that, I'm not sure what you think they have to do now.
The money should come in handy. It's hard to find any wallet willing to open itself for the needs of GAA clubs.
WanPintWin (National) - 30/09/2026 13:26:37
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Tiered Leinster SHC - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Viking66: "Basically the 2 counties with the most hurlers, Kilkenny and Galway, will likely be playing mostly in Group 1, while the other 2 Group 1 places will possibly vary a little year on year?
Isn't that something like what we have already? Or from a development point of view something worse than we have already? At least under the current format the 5th and 6th placed teams get to play Kilkenny and Galway every year. Carlow drew with Kilkenny only recently.
Under this new system most of the group 2 counties will hardly ever get to play Kilkenny or Galway." Yup, and again much the same point I made in my initial longer post outlining what I see as the issues with this thing.
You'd expect both Kilkenny and Galway in Group 1 in any given year after making the semi-finals the previous year, either by virtue of finishing in the top two in Group 1 that previous year, or winning a quarter-final against a Group 2 team if they'd had a "bad" year and only came third or fourth.
Even this year, with Kilkenny having a bad year and coming fourth, they'd still have been fancied in any quarter-final against any team below them (either ourselves, Kildare, or any of the Joe McDonagh Cup teams).
Barring a surprise somewhere along the way, you'd expect the other two teams in Group 1 to come from Dublin, Offaly, and ourselves. And that the third of them would end up claiming one of the top two spots in Group 2.
That means that the teams such as Kildare, Laois, Westmeath, Antrim, etc., that this new system would be supposed to help, are basically playing off in Group 2 for one spot for one of them to play a quarter-final. And if Kilkenny finish in top two every year, they'd never get the chance to play the Cats at all, unless they spring that surprise in the quarter-final. And even then, would only be a 50-50 chance of playing Kilkenny, as they could be in the other semi-final instead!
The more I think about it, the more obvious it becomes that this system would actually put playing at the highest level more out of reach of all those counties than it is now.
Pikeman96 (National) - 30/09/2026 14:04:17
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Wexford Club Hurling 2026 - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Viking66: "Buffers Alley also have good young lads coming. Whether thats enough to get either club established at Senior in the coming years is another question though.
Neither club has the numbers most of the established Senior clubs have. Rathnure and Fethard the exceptions. Oylegate, Oulart and St Annes, while having more than Fethard and Rathnure, wouldn't have large numbers compared to Martins, Shels, Barntown, Harriers, Gorey or Ferns either." Viking you keep coming back to numbers. That is only an easy excuse for failure. If Rathnure and Fethard can be successful as in one of the best hurling teams in Rathnure and dual Senior for Fethard then basically there is no excuses for any other club. There are many more reasons why teams are successful or unsuccessful other than numbers. I noticed on the minor clubber commentary only 4 Monageer boys up to the age and only 7 Glynn lads. If there success was number driven they would have way more up to the age. I dare to say they are two of the younger teams age wise in the top 2 Divisions.
Trump2 (National) - 30/09/2026 14:27:10
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Galway Football thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To ColmFlaherty: "I'm keeping track of who gets in the GBay TOTWs and most of them have definitely been featured more than once." Wouldnt worry about that as a metric to be honest.
Galway Bay always have their favourites, some lads get on that team by just togging out.
Ollie Turner and Johnny Higgins have a soft spot for the same individuals.
GalwaysFinest (National) - 30/09/2026 16:11:43
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Sunday Game - 1 Like(s)
Replying To GreenandRed: " Replying To WanPintWin: "[quote=GreenandRed: "[quote=WanPintWin: "[quote=Seniorleague: "[quote=Commodore: "I read somewhere (forget where tbh) that 30% of babies born in Ireland today have parents who were born outside the country and our liberal immigration policy means that number will only increase as the years go by.
Unless the GAA ,an organisation that leans heavily on tradition for recruitment, can somehow generate more interest among new demographs football nd hurling could very conceivably become minority sports within a generation or two.
Seniorleague (Galway) - Posts: 344 - 28/09/2026 19:10:25 2
I would be skeptical of that 30% figure, sounds very high, but regardless of where their parents were born, they will be exposed to GAA at primary school and at summer Cul camps etc. I actually think the GAA does a great job at underage, participation is very high at underage level." Depends where you are in the country i suppose. I live in the east side of galway city and id imagine its at least 30%,probably more tbh,,whereas in other parts of the county and country it might be less. Im totally unaware of stats re underage participation but from what ive seen underage soccer and rugby teams,boxing clubs etc here are considerably more multi racial than our local gaa clubs Liam Mellows and St James."
Regardless of foreign born parents or not, Galway City is a bit of a wasteland for GAA, relative to its population. There's much greater availability of other sports there too. Foreign born parents will naturally gravitate to more familiar sports for their children."]Are you a foreign born parent?"]My other half is."]So is mine! Philippina. We've two girls playing LGFA. The eldest,16, only started during COVID. Apologies and happy to be wrong, but you sound a bit defeated on getting foreign parents interested in GAA if there's other sports available to them that they might be more familar with. Takes a bit of work and customer care skills from the clubs for defininite."]Not really where I'm from. I live rurally, and there isn't any issue out here getting kids of foreign parents involved in GAA clubs. The fact that the club and community are so interwined rurally helps greatly.
I do think it's a greater issue in the city. There's less of a community base around the GAA there, and also many sports clubs which would be more familiar to foreign parents. Participation rates in GAA are much lower there to start with, so it can be even more difficult to get others involved.
WanPintWin (National) - 30/09/2026 16:39:44
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