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Wexford Football 2025 - 2 Like(s)
Is that the first time the football champions have been eliminated by the hurling champions in a football match in wexford?
Waltermitty2 (National) - 08/10/2026 14:27:49
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Galway Football thread - 2 Like(s)
Replying To Emmets67: "A very valid point there. Will be interesting to see how the senior team shapes up now the North Board High King has been dethroned." Obviously there are good players from all parts Galway and the bigger population is with 10-15 miles of city ,, but on most if not all Galway 9 senior all Ireland's the north board would have definitely I'd say produce the most forwards , even last : 2 one 98 and 01 u had Donnellan , Fallon savage Padraig and Tommy Joyce Joe Bergen shay Walsh ,, not sure whst it is but most successful all Ireland winning senior teams have north Galway forwards ,
Kickitout (National) - 08/10/2026 20:21:43
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Galway Football thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To 6speed: "As the topic of moycullen and transfers/backroom teams is brought up again, for some context:
From what I've heard Caroline currid is married to a friend of someone involved with Moycullen and did 2 sessions as a favour, absolutely in no way "part of the back room team"
Owen Gallagher played under Don Connellan for NUIG in sigerson in a team that had many moycullen players so it would make sense he'd want to play for Moycullen with that familiarity.
Niall Walsh is a guard that worked closely under Don Connellan, so again would make sense he'd want to play under someone he knows well. Exact same can be said for Tom Clarke.
Now in fairness I haven't heard anything about the goalkeeper and maloney. Eire98 was mentioning an O'Reilly recently as a transfer, and if that's Michael o Reilly (who hasn't played in 2 years due to emigrating), well the lad is born and raised in moycullen.
I can imagine any coaches or backroom team members are probably being compensated. But it's dishonest to make it out like moycullen are scouting for players and coaches. Look at it from those coaches point of view.
Over the past few years the 3 kelly brothers, Dessie Conneely, Neil mulcahy, Gerard Davoren, James mcloughlin, Peter Cooke, Sean o Connor, Fionn McDonagh, Owen Gallagher have all been involved in a Galway senior panel. I've also heard Conor Corcoran was in training and not forgetting David wynne who's as influential as ever for moycullen that was involved years ago. Thats a generational crop to come through.
Of those 13 players listed above only one of them isn't from Moycullen (Gallagher). So those coaches are looking at the appeal of a squad with 11-12 intercounty or thereabouts standard players. Not to mention it looks better on their CV being successful with a club that isn't one of the traditional powerhouses of Galway football." Very odd post. How can a work or college relationship be a factor in club eligibility? That is nonsense.
As has been highlighted elsewhere, Moycullen clearly went looking for a goalkeeper. As many clubs will already have known.
Nevin O'Donnell, Johnny Maloney, Tom Clarke, Owen Gallagher, Neil Walsh. It's a lot.
crankyincorofin (National) - 08/10/2026 12:42:36
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Galway Football thread - 1 Like(s)
I remember Moycullen when it was only a tiny village, a pub and a shop. People passed through it. Uachtar Ard was thriving until the 'troubles' started in the North. Today Moycullen is buzzing, people are moving in there due to its proximity to Galway city although they do most of their shopping in Moycullen. There were always good footballers in Maigh Cuilinn, some good hurlers, handballers and other sports. Fair play to them!
Crashingwaves (National) - 08/10/2026 12:50:01
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Carlow GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Carlowrising: "Div 3 will be a big step up, I'd like to see the below players (tiered A, B & C) involved to have our best chance of retaining Div3 staus. Difficult to shorten that to a 26 match day squad:
1. Ben McCarron / Kyle Foley / Regan Murphy
2. Colin Byrne / Paddy Regan / Cian Cashman
3. Niall Roche / Dara Curran / Shane Buggy
4. Paddy McDonnell / Lee Moore / T Roche
5. Pádraig Bolger / John Murphy / Jack Deacy
6. Mark Furey / Ciaran Moran / Niall Hickey
7. John Phiri / Sean Bambrick / Josh Moore
8. Conor Doyle / Adam Burgess / F Kavanagh
9. Eoghan Ruth / Choo Choo / Ian Atkinson
10. Mikey Bambrick / Aaron Amond / C Lomax
11. Colm Hulton / Jamie Clarke / Brandon Kelly
12. Ross Dunphy / James Dowling / Josh Egan
13. Adam McCarron / Mark Buggy / Liam Gavin
14. Chris Blake / Kevin Murphy / Conor Carew
15. Conor Crowley / Lee Walker / D Fitzgerald" Aha thank god your not selector
Carlowbushultra2021 (National) - 08/10/2026 13:43:34
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Tiered Leinster SHC - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Pope_Benedict: "I don't agree totally. I think on balance, it's an improvement. What are the advantages? 1) A significant reduction in the volume of round robin mismatches. 2) 2 counties added, but only 2 additional games to be played, so a perfect fit with existing calender. 3) the useless Joe Mc finalists v 3rd place provincial games will be dropped from the allireland schedule, at no loss whatsoever.
I take your point about a lack of jeopardy in the Group A games, but they should still be useful challenge games before the ko rounds, if teams want to treat them that way.
As for 'yoyoing', it's a factor in all levels of GAA and worldwide sports, and isn't something that's usually solved from without, but will solve from within when/if teams become capable of improving their standards. History shows that we've rarely seen such an improvement in 125+ years of hurling.
Nicky Brennan says it's about fixing the 'yoyoing', and 8 team involvement will improve that aspect, but the biggest improvement i see is the change from a 15_1 (and those 15 games were between 3or4 arguably 'strong' teams pitted about 2or3 arguably 'tier2 outfits, which meant that up to half the games were unappealing) split of round robin_ko games to a 12-6 split. That's a ratio change that I would welcome, and the competition has been crying out for imo." On your number 3 in what you say are "advantages", i.e. "he useless Joe Mc finalists v 3rd place provincial games will be dropped from the allireland schedule" -
A point I've been making is that one of the quarter-finals wouldn't be that different at all. It would be 3rd best against 6th best, rather than 3rd best against 7th or 8th best. But in any given year, you'd still expect it to be something like Galway/Dublin/Offaly/Wexford v Kildare/Carlow/Laois/Westmeath, which is exactly the sort of match-up you'd have had in those "useless" old games anyway.
By the way, here's a separate point that hadn't occurred to anybody here, and not to me until I read a bit more about this thing during lunchtime. How to determine the third Leinster team to go through to the All-Ireland series, to play the Munster runner-up?
Turns out there'd be a playoff between the two losing Leinster semi-finalists. Another form of an All-Ireland preliminary quarter-final.
Pikeman96 (National) - 08/10/2026 14:44:58
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Tiered Leinster SHC - 1 Like(s)
Replying To legendzxix: "Not a fan of the format but it's a Leinster matter.
The Group B winner should at least get to host the Group A bottom team in the quarter final. 3rd in Group A possibly hosting the Group B runners up.
Group B is kind of like the old qualifier group. Top 2 going through. If they win the quarter final, they take the place of their beaten opponent. Otherwise they stay in the Group B (Qualifier Group).
If Kerry make the McDonagh Cup final in the future - Kerry should be allowed into Munster. There would have to be musical chairs to fill the gap. Possibly allowing the Ring Cup to reduce to 5 teams for one year so that Group B and the McDonagh group retain 4 teams each. Wrinkles can be ironed out." Rule was actually changed three years ago to say that if Kerry ever win Joe McDonagh, they go into Munster, and Munster temporarily becomes a six-team competition.
But that throws up something else I've just thought of -
The Leinster proposal is that the Joe McDonagh Cup finalists of any given year would be in Group B the following year. Which on the face of it means that if Kerry reach the McDonagh Final, they'd go into Leinster.
And then if they win the McDonagh Final, they'd go into Munster. Would be a fair old fixtures pile-up if they're expected to play in both!
Seriously, though - would expect there'd have to be a safeguard built into the Leinster thing to prohibit Kerry from coming in if they made the McDonagh Final. And then you'd need another playoff, between the two losing McDonagh semi-finalists, to determine the last spot in Leinster Group B for the following year.
This whole thing doesn't get any better in my eyes, but considering top table of Leinster Council themselves are actually backing it, would be a big surprise if it doesn't come in.
Pikeman96 (National) - 08/10/2026 14:50:16
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Galway Football thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Alwaysencourage: "So if lads from Corofin live in Galway they should play for Salthill because they live in the city." No, because they'd be from Corofin. The point is in relation to lads from other counties, living in Galway city but then playing for a club that's not local to them, either where they're from or where they live.
WanPintWin (National) - 08/10/2026 17:07:17
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