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Galway Hurling thread - 2 Like(s)
Congrats to Loughrea they found a way yesterday , and I thought it was a real tough hard and enjoyable county final , when you compare it to the tipp tappy stuff we saw from the Cork final recently . The pitch was in great nick , no wind and a perfect day in November . Great atmosphere and crowd and the players delivered for both clubs. Im going to go against the grain here and praise the Hurling board officials because the whole day was ran well, including have the Premier Junior as the curtain raiser , no reason this couldnt be an annual thing as the Inter final deserves to be the main game on the previous day. Tommys had the goal chances and too many wides but you couldny say they didnt perform, You compare them to Tullaroan in KK who didnt land a blow . Loughrea have to get motoring up front if they are to get back to Croke Park, inside line poor and the subs the same in that line , but brilliant to see Jamie Ryan get man of the match after all his injurys . Congrats to sylane in the junior they made hard work of it , but they should go close to an An All Ireland now .
Overall 4 enjoyable hurling finals in Galway over the weekend.
puckemhard (National) - 02/11/2026 09:11:16
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Roscommon GAA thread - 2 Like(s)
Winning provincial Intermediate title should be enough to gain promotion to senior.
Tooreen have won 6 of the last 8 Connacht finals and reached a couple of All-Ireland finals there is no question that they have been a senior quality club in that period of time and that group of players have been denied the opportunity to test themselves against senior clubs with a silly system in place.
If not enough for senior so be it and then return to Intermediate as is the case for many football clubs.
As good as Tooreen are for this level when any team lose by 37 points it's says more about the team that has received the beating.
Roscommon in the Christy ring Cup on the other hand played 5 won 0 drew 1 lost 4. Finished bottom and deserved relegation yet another silly system meant they stayed up because New York beat Tyrone preventing them opportunity to gain promotion.
Roscommon also played in Division 3 this year finishing 3rd missing out on a final place and the opportunity for promotion.
Overall year league and championship
P11 W4 D2 L5 win percentage of 36%
Roscommon manager Brian Hanley jumped ship after one year in charge. Middle of May was his last match and left in the middle of September why did it take him four months to reach that decision?
The Roscommon county board appointment to be similar to him as suggested above? I think what Roscommon hurling needs is someone that will stick around for a few years and try to build something and build confidence with a better win percentage record.
Gaa_lover (National) - 02/11/2026 14:47:50
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Westmeath Football thread - 1 Like(s)
Congratulations to the Downs yesterday and best of luck in the next round. Clonguish will feel they could have as easily won it with some good goal opportunities and large periods of dominance throughout the game. Both teams missing key forwards on the day but it still led to a very entertaining game. The Downs would want to use this game as something to measure where they are at because its a Clonguish team with an average age of about 22 who are only after winning their first county title as a group. On the other side, hopefully Clonguish they can kick on also and use this to their advantage/experience if they find themselves in a Leinster campaign again next year as its great to see a Longford team play well out of the county.
LongfordSham (National) - 02/11/2026 08:54:30
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Longford GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To gladiator: "Credit to Clonguish yesterday, answered a few questions about the quality of Longford football. Had great performances all over the field. unfortunately, both the Downs goals came from Clonguish mistakes, no doubt the result would have been on their side minus those. Jack D looked like a man who could benefit from a run of games which I doubt he will get with Roscommon, he missed a few chances he would normally stick away. But loads for them to build on.
Also managed to get to the Mostrim game on Saturday, a tough watch. I don't think it was a true reflection on intermediate in Longford, more so a mostrim team who didn't show up at all, not sure why. Their performance was miles off what they produced in the semi and final a few weeks ago. Certainly looked like the break did them no good, looked so sluggish and unfit all over the field
Any word on mentees management team or if any calls have been made to players for next year?" Fair play to Clonguish, pushed The Downs all the way. I actually watched Clonguish in a few games this year and felt they took it to another level performance wise yesterday compared to what they had shown in the county championship. From the outside looking in it looks like Clonguish are going to be the kingpins of Longford for the next decade at least. The standard of club football in Longford is quite poor overall and I don't think anyone is going to improve enough or has the talent coming through that Clonguish have. Definitely not the last we will see of them in a Leinster campaign.
I think the Mostrim game was definitely a true reflection on intermediate in Longford, its definitely one of the poorest standard intermediate championships in the country. the Longford intermediate champions have been hammered every year in this grade in Leinster. I have a few friends involved with an intermediate club in Longford and they reluctantly agree. Longford Gaelic Stats and Records have it that only 2 clubs have actually won a game in the last 27 years (Rathcline in 2005 and Fr Manning Gaels in 2019).
BadgerDog (National) - 02/11/2026 14:38:35
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Leitrim GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To gaelsboy: "Yeah, other counties it worked out . E.g. Roscommon got a few good years out of Conor Cox, don't think we have had too much success with imports. Brendan Gallagher had a credible few years I think, can't think of any others that came in and stuck about long since the 90s." we had some good ones in the 90's. Declan Darcy in particular, John Owens too and Jason Ward.
meathbasedfan (National) - 02/11/2026 15:37:46
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