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Hurling Club Championships 2024/25 - General Discussion - 4 Like(s)
Replying To CorkLiamMcCarthy24: "hey have a company worth billions as their sponsor.
They could afford to charter a special train for away games for their supporters.
Their senior teams are seperate entities more or less. The fact Con is the only crossover from the hurling AIs isn't because he's the only one still playing.
They might be less 'super' than Kilmacud or Ballyboden, but they ain't no small time rural entity either." Sars aren't either. And the costs of running a GAA club up in Dublin are huge compared to anywhere else also. Sars have huge grounds, 2 all weather pitches each side of a long ball wall, a massive clubhouse etc etc.
Viking66 (National) - 21/01/2025 06:51:33
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Senior Club Football Championships 2024/25 - General Discussion - 3 Like(s)
Gas comments
But to be expected after any sort of Dublin GAA related win.
jimbodub (National) - 21/01/2025 09:29:49
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Mayo GAA Thread - 2 Like(s)
Its hard to know how the league will go, the new rules will have big impact. I do hope Mayo give new players a good run of games, and they might have to do this anyways with players not back yet or injured.
With the new rules, players with pace are even more important, and with the 2 point arc and the possibility of more space to attack, shooting and kick pass are vital to take advantage of new rules.
Mayo have always been able to bring through athletic players but maybe lacking in kicking ability, for inter county level.
It suits defensively as the full back line have always been left exposed/one on one so should be used it really, other counties that played a very defensive system will struggle and will test there full back line one on one defending.
I dont mind at all if Mayo get relegated, as long as new players are getting plenty of game time and the team are playing to a system or trying to find a way of playing. I do think Mayo will do better than most are thinking, and will win a few games.
The AH ref podcast, it fills a gap and be popular with people that are away, but I wouldn't be to excited over it. They talk alot of rubbish on it, like listening to lads on a bar stool, and that lad from Garrymore is an awful spoofer.
tommy132 (National) - 21/01/2025 12:23:31
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Non-Gaa Forum - 2 Like(s)
Replying To boxtyburgerbuns: "Whatever one thinks it was some spectacle today, pageantry off the scale" Nah. Mickey Mouse in comparison to the British. No one does pageantry like them.
Greengrass (National) - 21/01/2025 12:16:56
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Westmeath Football thread - 2 Like(s)
Replying To Bluelake: "[quote=BarrRst: "As the year progresses, many comments will be made here on Westmeath County football. Before the League starts on Sunday, what do contributors think should be the Priorities and strategies of the new management for Westmeath Football for 2025 and in what order of ranking,
Here are some suggested Priority headings in no particular order of Ranking; add your own headings or comments.
Play Entertaining Games. Win games at all costs- entertaining or not. Rebuild and develop young players- with a view to the longer term. Stay in Division 2. Win Division 2. Adapt to new rules. Target and win particular games. etc etc" Staying in div 2 is probably the best we can hope for, it's a real uphill battle but we'll see. Is there any word on who will captain the team this year? Should be Ray Connellan in my opinion"]Not doubting Ray Connellans quality, however I believe the captain needs to be the one to stand up when we need leaders most, down through the years he has tended to go hiding when the going got tough, Louth 2 years ago in Navan springs to mind immediately. I feel Sam mc or Ronan Wallace are the men to lead this team going forward
Tailteannchamps (National) - 21/01/2025 16:19:23
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Senior Club Football Championships 2024/25 - General Discussion - 2 Like(s)
Replying To boxtyburgerbuns: "Another Dublin superclub beating a small rural parish. Not much of a competition" Errigal are far from being a small rural parish team. They have the biggest catchment area in Tyrone. An area the same size brings in Moortown, Ardboe, Brockagh, Kevin Barry's, Derrytresk, Clonoe, Stewartstown and Coalisland.
They didn't turn up until the second half on Sunday and just left too much to do. The jury is out on the knock to the head of Darragh, like all things, it depends what county is involved.
Saynothing (National) - 21/01/2025 11:30:33
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Senior Club Football Championships 2024/25 - General Discussion - 2 Like(s)
Replying To zinny: "There is a lot of things I would disagree with Barney one but this is absolutely correct. This superclub thing i rubbish, its like as if they have a factory where they produce the players of something, It is just an extension of the anti-Dublin brigade bitterness. There is a thread called the Anti-GAA agenda there should be one called the Anti-Dublin as there are some on here that would prefer the GAA didn't exist in Dublin." Agree 100%. I've made this point numerous times before. It's almost as if people would prefer that there was no GAA club in places like Dalkey or other parts of south Dublin.
Because of the huge work done by people in clubs like Cuala and Kilmacud, there are thousands of kids and adults playing football and hurling that otherwise would have been lost to Gaelic games.
Years ago the GAA had very little presence in these areas. These are clubs to be commended for the trojan work they've done.
WanPintWin (National) - 21/01/2025 10:19:20
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Senior Club Football Championships 2024/25 - General Discussion - 1 Like(s)
Replying To oneoff: "Were you not tipping Errigal Ciarán to win before the game?" I think the bookies were too.
jimbodub (National) - 21/01/2025 18:46:21
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Sligo GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Bumblebee123: "I'm still trying to work out this one after a year or more of listening to you harp on about bringing all these lads in. - "Offaly haven't been great the last few years despite the underage success. Sligo CB would point to them as what not to do with underage as they introduced fairly quickly into the senior set up."
And you want to introduce a goalie who's probably still on the beer and hasn't been in with them yet. Good man Sligonian. I agree with those above. If there's no Murphy, I think Offaly should be beating us. Where will the scoring come from? Buzz Buzz. Over." Get the excuse in early just in case.
MrUnderhill (National) - 21/01/2025 18:13:36
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Galway Football thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To galway2015: "Disappointing result for University of Galway in Sigerson. Would love to see a change of management here possibly utilising some of the up and coming coaches linked to the Galway Development Squads/U20s etc. Be nice progression and potentially a good learning curve prior to pushing on for senior role. Maurice Sheridan has been there long enough now. Time for a change that will be a positive for Galway football also." Absolutely. Maurice has had a decent run at this and time to change now. We should be better.
togoutlads (National) - 21/01/2025 21:29:14
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Leitrim GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To joeman123: "Great post, and as you say it is encouraging to see so many players committing. The management must be doing something right.
I comment the big numbers from Fenagh and particularly Mohill.
We all know where we are at with a very young team.
However there is one thing we all can do and that is Turn Up In Big Numbers to Ballinamore on Saturday and give good support to the team and management." Exactly, I do not think we were ever really favorites for promotion and we are probably favorites to be relegated this year, it is what is it and it does not stop us turning up and giving it the best. Laois will not know much about this team and everyone is still getting used to the new rules so anything can happen.
gaelsboy (National) - 21/01/2025 16:31:41
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Non-Gaa Forum - 1 Like(s)
Replying To CTGAA10: "Think it might be a scary 4 years and could also be a lot of comedy in that time..I just can't get over the way he pardoned all those who attacked the White House,think that shows his attitude towards law makers..I also couldn't get over the utter bitterness towards Biden..gracious just isn't in his head." They were POLITICAL PRISONERS. Bigger questions: why would Biden pardon the J6 Committee? What could THEY have possibly done wrong? Why pardon Fauci? What could HE have done wrong? As for Bitterness towards Biden there's plenty of cause for it. One small example for you: Biden stopped the wall on Day One of his Presidency (fair enough if you have a better way) then tried to sell the Metal for the Wall at Pennies on the dollar. But hey Biden cared a lot about UKRAINES Border.
Trump2020 (National) - 21/01/2025 16:26:40
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Westmeath Football thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To iarmhiabu: "[quote=BarrRst: "As the year progresses, many comments will be made here on Westmeath County football. Before the League starts on Sunday, what do contributors think should be the Priorities and strategies of the new management for Westmeath Football for 2025 and in what order of ranking,
Here are some suggested Priority headings in no particular order of Ranking; add your own headings or comments.
Play Entertaining Games. Win games at all costs- entertaining or not. Rebuild and develop young players- with a view to the longer term. Stay in Division 2. Win Division 2. Adapt to new rules. Target and win particular games. etc etc" It's a pivotal season for Westmeath Football. Avoiding relegation from Division 2 should be the main priority, that would be a stunning achievement as the team is the worst we have had in years. There's no question that retirements etc have left us with a squad bereft of experience, few teams in the country wouldn't be affected by losing 6 or 7 starters, especially influential players. You know the situation is bad when you're picking players who haven't played club football in 3 years. It's very difficult to replace those players who have gone but the reality is our strength in depth is poor because of no massive follow through and a case of blind loyalty that had existed for years. Relegation wouldn't be a bad thing, Division 3 would be a better environment to rebuild."]A ridiculous statement that this is worst team in years. Some supporter. I remember when alot of the players you named started in div 2 previously. Thank god social media wasn't as big back then. Those players were relegated a number of times but stuck with it and eventually got westmeath back to div 2 with some brilliant days in maroon. Please give the new batch the same time as I believe they to will become our future stars
Upforthegame23 (National) - 21/01/2025 19:07:50
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Galway Football thread - 1 Like(s)
Disappointing result for University of Galway in Sigerson. Would love to see a change of management here possibly utilising some of the up and coming coaches linked to the Galway Development Squads/U20s etc. Be nice progression and potentially a good learning curve prior to pushing on for senior role. Maurice Sheridan has been there long enough now. Time for a change that will be a positive for Galway football also.
galway2015 (National) - 21/01/2025 20:21:45
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Donegal GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To TheRock2121: "Id imagine when you look at the 20 odd clubs in the Mc Rory this year, the two Donegal teams have the least amount of clubs to pick from in comparison to the other 16-18 schools in the north. Credit to Abbey who are pulling from 3/4 clubs and also to SW who have six clubs in their panel.
Each Mc Rory team in the competition has about 10-20 clubs in their squad. Sometimes more. So both Donegal teams are doing well to compete against numerical disadvantages.
Abbey defeated Newry in the 1/4 finals. Newry had 20 feeder clubs in their entire squad so this is an achievement that can't go unnoticed. While the SW team bet a Omagh school with 14 different clubs in their squad going by the online match programme on Ulster GAA TV.. Some of these 14 clubs would be well away from the Omagh catchment area also, schools in the north recruit players from anywhere and everywhere.
Most of the schools in the north have several thousand boys in attendance so when you consider Abbey and the SW are mixed gender schools, both schools would fall way behind in terms of student population in addition to the amount of clubs they can pick from as highlighted above.
I read an interesting article about St Pat's Cavan who were in the Mc Rory this year. Their second squad/development squad, players 27-50 who didn't play Mc Rory football this year took to the field against Virginia College, the next highest-ranked secondary school team in Cavan, in the C Ulster competition. Pats Cavan were playing without 26 of their panel available due to then being ineligible due to the Mc Rory Cup.Remarkably, St Pat's came away with a two-point victory. Pat's have around 20 feeder clubs also. This shows that Mc Rory teams in Ulster go recruiting for the best players in that county, no matter the club/area they are from and players want to join these schools to play at the highest level.
Both Donegal schools are doing well to compete at this level." Yeah, I agree with a lot of that. But my point remains the same…..if you're the Abbey, and you are knocked out by an amalgamation put together by your own county board that's twice the size of you, you will be annoyed. And rightly so.
ThroughTheGap (National) - 21/01/2025 21:00:56
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Dublin GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Fionn: "[quote=jimbodub: "[quote=Fionn: "Wow - what a day yesterday. I honestly didn't expect it.
Privilege to be in Croker and witness that. Probably both teams kept their best performances until the final.
2 Dublin teams winning Senior All Ireland Club Titles. Thrilled.
Delighted for near neighbours Na Fianna.
Going one further than their footballers did in 2000.
Wonderful achievement for any Dublin club to win an All Ireland Club Senior Hurling title.
Great for the county and young Dublin hurlers.
Cuala - wow, for a small club and traditionally a Hurling club, it is some achievement to become All Ireland Club Senior Football Champions. To have now won the All Ireland Senior Club titles in both codes is something special.
Not too many Clubs have won All Ireland Senior Football & Hurling titles.
Mick Fitz becomes the 1st Dublin man to win 10 All Ireland Senior Medals, and his 11th All Ireland title.
Legend.
And now for Con - wow....
Unbelievable.
To win what he has, is more than remarkable.
A dual All Ireland Senior Club winner now.
2 All Ireland Senior Hurling Club titles
2 Leinster Senior Hurling Club titles
4 Dublin Senior Hurling Club titles
1 All Ireland Senior Football Club title
1 Leinster Senior Football Club title
1 Dublin Senior Football Club title
1 Sigerson title
6 All Ireland Senior Football titles with Dublin
9 Leinster Senior Football titles
3 Division One Football League titles
1 u21 All Ireland Football title
2 u21 Leinster Football titles
1 Leinster Minor Football title
3 All Stars
And he is still only 28....... imo he is right up there with the list of best GAA players of all time.
King Con for sure." Great Post Fionn
That's some reading"]Cheers Jimbo.
I think that might be the final curtain call for Mick Fitz but what a way to go out.
He has been top class throughout the club season for Cuala, even at 36.
Con needs a few weeks off now - very well deserved.
Hopefully Niall gets another chance with the Dubs - and Peter Duffy gets to try out also."]Any truth in Niall O'C being asked in by Dessie a couple of times over the past few years but he has always declined?? I'd feel a whole lot better about the Dubs prospects this year with him available and in form that's for sure! Dessie will surely have a few of them in throughout the league.
TrueBlue35 (National) - 21/01/2025 15:34:26
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Wexford Hurling 2025 - 1 Like(s)
Sad to see Liam Og go but his time has probably come, owes this county nothing. His performances against Clare and Waterford in 2014 were unreal and Kilkenny in 2023 to all but save us from the brink won't be forgotten. The county's loss will be our gain on the club scene.
OpenStandWall (National) - 21/01/2025 13:25:10
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Wexford Hurling 2025 - 1 Like(s)
Happy retirement Mogie.
A passionate Wexford man, a great hurler and a super servant to Wexford hurling.
Past hurler (National) - 21/01/2025 12:40:51
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Senior Club Football Championships 2024/25 - General Discussion - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Saynothing: "Errigal are far from being a small rural parish team. They have the biggest catchment area in Tyrone. An area the same size brings in Moortown, Ardboe, Brockagh, Kevin Barry's, Derrytresk, Clonoe, Stewartstown and Coalisland.
They didn't turn up until the second half on Sunday and just left too much to do. The jury is out on the knock to the head of Darragh, like all things, it depends what county is involved." It is clear that the knee to his head was accidental. Cuala player was clearly focused on the ball. Well investigated by ref at time and there was no evident claims by Errigal lads themselves that it was anything malicious.
Hope he is okay. Errigal certainly missed him when the comeback was in full flow.
BarneyGrant (National) - 21/01/2025 12:08:52
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Carlow GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To TrueBlue95: "Thanks. Hurling or Football first?" Hurling
Dualclub1 (National) - 21/01/2025 11:30:58
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