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Club Football Championships - General Discussion - 2 Like(s)
Replying To BarneyGrant: "They were talking to one of the Gaeltacht selectors afterwards and he was pretty blunt about it. If other team immediately retreats on change of possession the team in possession has either to hold ball up and look for opportunities or aimlessly kick it back to them.
It was not An Gaeltacht's fault that it was a dreadful spectacle, Derry lads only attempted to engage when the match was already lost," It wasn't An Ghaeltacht's issue at all. The onus is on the team out of possession to try to win it back. They refused to, and just let An Ghaeltacht throw it around, hold on to the ball for ages, before eventually finding a gap and kicking a score. I can understand a team being cagey early on, but they just kept doing the same thing right through the first half until the game was gone.
What's been so good about the new rules is that most teams and pressuring the ball carrier further up the pitch. It has led to more contests for possession, Less structured play and more opportunities for scores.
Yesterday unfortunately was a reminder of the grim stuff we'd seen in recent past.
WanPintWin (National) - 12/01/2026 10:00:58
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Club Football Championships - General Discussion - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Drax_the_destroyer: "New or old rules we still have issues. It was one of the worst All-Ireland finals I've ever seen also. An Ghaeltacht Passing It around and doing nothing with it for large periods while the Derry chaps sat back admiring it with just a point scored with 43 minutes played.
Kerry teams has won enough hopefully Brigids can do the business next weekend." They were talking to one of the Gaeltacht selectors afterwards and he was pretty blunt about it. If other team immediately retreats on change of possession the team in possession has either to hold ball up and look for opportunities or aimlessly kick it back to them.
It was not An Gaeltacht's fault that it was a dreadful spectacle, Derry lads only attempted to engage when the match was already lost,
BarneyGrant (National) - 12/01/2026 09:22:26
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Roscommon GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Drax_the_destroyer: "Certainly hype about Mayo now, 4th in the betting is remarkable for a team who made their exit at the last 12 in 2024 and last 16 exit last summer.
National media have brought into it also with lots of Mayo coverage and lots of Andy Moran interviews. Andy picked a team with many established players so no surprise they won comfortably against a makeshift Roscommon team. Will he go strong again in Tuam against a development Galway team and allow further hype be added to the team before the NFL starts" Is there anymore Mayo coverage than other years? Don't think so personally. National coverage of Mayo has reduced if anything.
Mayo picked several new players yesterday alongside more established ones which is surely the best way to integrate them? The likes of rod and aos finished up with the club in September and Mayo were out since mid June so it's not like they're being flogged. Tommy Conroy didn't kick a ball for the county last year so needs game time
MayoDan (National) - 12/01/2026 09:23:52
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Roscommon GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Seanfan: "Would ye ever take yer rhubarb talk off to the Mayo thread.
We have enough problems without having to read that stuff on our thread...." Perhaps tell a couple of your lads to focus on Roscommon instead of obsessing over Mayo.
TheFlaker (National) - 12/01/2026 10:26:51
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Longford GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Paul O Hara and O. Mooney new Killoe management.
williesboy (National) - 12/01/2026 11:54:21
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Club Hurling - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Claretandblue: "Presume you're referring to Toureen as an example, Mayo is a football county, there's no point in debating that, they could win a football All Ireland in the next ten years, they will never win a hurling one, it's reality, dual counties that are successful in both codes don't exist unless the county is huge in population and high standards already exist." That doesn't mean that children in the county shouldn't get the opportunity to play hurling. There are plenty of counties where every child has access to Football who never have won an AI in Football, or arent going to win one in the next 10 years.
Viking66 (National) - 12/01/2026 12:09:16
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Galway Football thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Drax_the_destroyer: "Joyce most certainly will continue the experiment way and if you take a trimming off a near Mayo championships team so what? Sure let all hype get heaped on them before the more important league game between the two" You're the one trying to hype Mayo up on every thread here. Loads of potential starters were absent yesterday FYI but you seem to be in the know about Mayo's 2026 championship team.
MayoDan (National) - 12/01/2026 12:29:17
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Roscommon GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Loughallenbanks: "Seeing how poor Glenullin were yesterday highlights the level Strokestown are at compared to clubs outside of Connacht. Marginally bet two mediocre teams in Leitrim and Mayo but lost out on a poor Glenullin side, you would think a Gofund me of 10k would win an all Ireland" They bet the Mayo team by 10 points not marginally and them plus Allen Gaels weren't mediocre. Glenullin was far from a poor side any team that win Derry and Ulster aren't and were scoring for fun coming into the final. Their high scoring was stopped with a boring retain possession tactics/game a way of playing that we were told was over with the new rules.
Kerry clubs record in the Junior club championship speaks for itself over the last number years, of course having only 8 clubs in their senior championship greatly helps them to be so successful in Junior and intermediate and when it comes to Gofund all three clubs made serious money. Still surprised a Kerry team played that way which was a big focus on stopping Glenullin scoring than playing the Kerry way of attacking football and lots of kick passing
Gaa_lover (National) - 12/01/2026 13:06:46
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Longford GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To williesboy: "Paul O Hara and O. Mooney new Killoe management." Mooney is an excellent capture by Killoe.
He comes with some serious credentials.
He would know Paul from their time spent in New York.
That's the holders and pretenders that have Fermanagh men at the wheel for this coming year.
Spinx (National) - 12/01/2026 13:25:37
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Club Football Championships - General Discussion - 1 Like(s)
Replying To sligo joe: "It doesn't really matter if An Gaeltacht "could" have been beaten in earlier rounds. The fact is if An Gaeltacht was in Derry or any other reasonably strong football county they would be playing Senior and on the other hand if Glenullin was in Kerry they would be Junior." That's to the credit of Kerry in how they organise their championship. Clubs can slip very quickly down the ladder if they don't maintain certain standard. Happened to An Gaeltacht themselves after the end of Ó Sé dynasty.
An Gaeltacht beat Daingean recently - albeit a not full strength Daingean - and will be competitive in senior. Teams very rarely do well in Dublin after being promoted and the SFC carries way too much dead weight. Ten years ago there were 64 teams in it!
Dublin inter and junior champions have appalling record in Leinster - not sure any club has won it? Mostly due to mediocre teams being senior rather than inter and even junior.
BarneyGrant (National) - 12/01/2026 14:09:51
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Club Hurling - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Claretandblue: "Please point out where I said that children shouldn't be allowed to play hurling?" You didnt. But you name checked a county where many children can't play hurling unless they drive a very long way to do it.
Viking66 (National) - 12/01/2026 15:27:57
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Carlow GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
I think there may have been minor hurling trials last week, not sure how long they will take place for. Not surprising they may be slightly behind given the late appointment of management. The minor football management also had the regional event to help identify players.
ACarlowGael (National) - 12/01/2026 19:13:19
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Longford GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Longfordlad1985: "Abbeylara- Frankie Dolan
Ardagh- Liam Keenan
Ballymahon- ?
Ballymore- Lawrence Brady
Carrickedmond- Eugene McCormack
Cashel- Liam Belton
Clonguish- Dom Corriggan
Colmcille- Ger Carberry
Dromard- Niall Vance
Fr Manning Gaels- Gary Donohoe
Keenagh- ?
Killoe- Owen Mooney
Legan?
Longford Slashers- Conor Clarke
Mostrim- Niall Sheridan
Mullinaghta- Mickey Harkin
Ratchline- Gareth Johnston
Sean Connollys- Tommy Donohoe
Kilashee- Eammon Farrell
Granard- Pat Flanagan
Grattans- Ruiari Mcelligot
Those are the managers so far any thoughts on the appointments" Keenagh have went with the same manager as last year.
williesboy (National) - 12/01/2026 21:26:04
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Westmeath Football thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To iarmhiabu: "While we spend our time doing nothing to improve our finances, Roscommon net a €650,000 profit from their latest house draw." Westmeath will do well to get much support for another fundraiser after how the last one went. Plus most of the money raised has already been spent with none ring fenced for the COE.
Wmeath2 (National) - 12/01/2026 22:46:09
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Club Football Championships - General Discussion - 1 Like(s)
Does Kerry's structure give their intermediate and junior club winners an advantage? Absolutely. They will be favourites for both titles almost every year because of this.
Should they change their system because of this? Absolutely not. They should only change if they want to themselves. It's up to every county to run their championship as they see fit.
Kerry have a system that works for them. When the championship structure was devised, there was no such thing as an All-Ireland junior or intermediate club championship.
Most strong footballing counties have 16 team senior championships. Donegal, Tyrone, Armagh, Meath, Kildare, Galway, Mayo. Dublin and Cork have 16 also, but they have an additional senior tier as well. Galway had 20 senior football teams until not too long ago. We were sending our 21st team to the provincial and All-Ireland intermediate championship, whereas Kerry were sending their 9th.
Given Kerry's number of clubs and registered players, they are the outlier among all strong football counties. It gives them a disproportionate advantage at those levels and nobody should be surprised that An Ghaeltacht won yesterday. To be honest, I'm surprised in the years Kerry teams don't win the junior and intermediate club All-Irelands.
At the same time, it's nobody else's decision but their own.
WanPintWin (National) - 12/01/2026 23:09:33
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