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Galway Hurling thread - 2 Like(s)
Replying To katser: "Think you already no the answer to that!
We are not going well, poor team selection and poor instruction tactics from the management.
But, I still fancy us to win our next 4 games and get to the Leinster Final." And if you are correct , suddenly the narrative will change magically to " very good team selection and brilliant instruction tactics from the management!"
PoolSturgeon (National) - 22/04/2025 16:51:13
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U20 Championships - 2 Like(s)
That's 2 years in a row Louth have beat Dublin at U-20. Can't be a bad thing
Getting over the line next week would be massive for Louth
As the manager said on the radio this morning the more and more our senior, minor and 20 teams keep getting to semi and finals, eventually one will get over the line and hopefully that will be the start of plenty of trophies as the work gone in underage is incredible and now with Gavin Delvin the main man overseeing everything it can only be a good thing
I will never forget 2010 and my now passed away grandad crying in Croke Park at the end. I really hope I can be in Croke Park with my young fella when we win a Leinster title at senior level even if it only happens once
DundalkGael (National) - 23/04/2025 11:09:47
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Munster Hurling Championship 2025 - 2 Like(s)
Replying To CorkLiamMcCarthy24: "Cork will win the All Ireland this year. Mark my words." You may update that user name
ExiledInWex (National) - 22/04/2025 18:21:10
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Roscommon GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To The_analyser: "John McManus and Conor Hand picked injuries in the warm up on Sunday ruling them out from playing any part." Must have been an intense warm up.......
More intense than the match performance it seems.
4 weeks now to save our season and 4 weeks for Davy Burke to prove he has a future as an Inter County manager.
Meanwhile best of luck to the Under 20s tonight.
Seanfanbocht (National) - 23/04/2025 12:25:43
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Monaghan GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To SouthMonMan: "U20 Ulster Final is not on till next Wednesday (April 30th). Semi finals are tomorrow night.
If you are asking about the B final, I doubt its streamed. Monaghan should win that." I'm backing my county men regardless what division. 3 subs the other night, rest of players thought they were above this level. Hopefully they'll be left at home Monday night again.
farneygael3 (National) - 22/04/2025 23:35:52
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Galway Football thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To jacktheboy: "Galway to win by biggest margin even in a final maybe more than 20 points." It's all irrelevant anyway, your boys have Sam in the bag!
ahsure. (National) - 23/04/2025 01:38:47
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Leitrim GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To boxtyburgerbuns: "Might be better if yee were in it too, might actually win it" Not unless they moved the final to out the country somewhere. They'd never win it in Croke Park.
Tacaí Liatroma (National) - 23/04/2025 07:29:54
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Galway Hurling thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Doylerwex: "Based on your historic predictions I'll get down to the bookies and back the dubs :)" You could be like the Galway poster on here who drove all the way to Wexford Park to "support " Galway and before the game decides to back Wexford. Think it was last year!
katser (National) - 23/04/2025 09:54:58
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Mayo GAA Thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To tirawleybaron: "1. Colm Reape v Connor Gleeson; - Even
2. Jack Coyne v Cillian McDaid - Even
3. David McBrien v Damien Comer - Mayo
4. Sam Callinan v Robert Finnerty - Even
5. Enda Hession v Shane Walsh - Galway
6. Donnacha McHugh v Matthew Tierney - Even
7. Fenton Kelly v Céin D'Arcy - Galway
8. Stephen Coen v Paul Conroy - Even
9. Matthew Ruane v John Maher - Galway
10. Davitt Neary v Liam Silke - Mayo
11. Darren McHale v Seán Kelly - Galway
12. Jordan Flynn v Dylan McHugh - Mayo
13. Aidan O'Shea v Jack Glynn - Mayo
14. Jack Carney v Seán Fitzgerald - Galway
15. Ryan O'Donoghue v Johnny McGrath - Galway
SUBS:
16. Adrian Phillips v Conor Flaherty
17. Conor Reid v Kieran Molloy
18. Diarmuid O'Connor v Johnny Heaney
19. Eoghan McLaughlin v Cathal Sweeney
20. Eoin O'Donoghue v Tomo Culhane
21. Fergal Boland v Liam O Conghaile
22. Frank Irwin v Finnian O Laoi
23. Dylan Thornton v Sam O Neill
24. Niall Coggins v Matthey Thompson
25. Paul Towey v Daniel O Flaherty
26. Shairoze Akram v Sean Mulkeerin
Galway have the edge on paper - but if ( a big IF), Ruane, Carney and Hession have big games (which they have shown before), then there wont be a kick of a ball between them." Some absolute nonsense in that, even the ones you give Galway the edge or even are questionable.
Reape is clearly a better keeper currently
Seems a great lad but never seen it with Coen, much rather see him start then likes of hession callinan who are much more dangerous. How he is even with conroy is beyond me.
Not to say it won't be close there was a massive gap in 16-18 in mayo favour and Galway managed to pull off a few shocks.
jm25 (National) - 23/04/2025 10:58:57
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Galway Hurling thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To katser: "You could be like the Galway poster on here who drove all the way to Wexford Park to "support " Galway and before the game decides to back Wexford. Think it was last year!" Remember that :-D
Viking66 (National) - 23/04/2025 11:23:15
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Westmeath Football thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Meridian: "Yes but we are all on here complaining that we do not have facilities yet when an opportunity is presented to help get this initiative off the ground we do not support it. You may not like the campaign but it is a campaign nonetheless. Get behind it or go support soccer or rugby. I have my ticket, yes it is a lot of money but its what we have to do as GAA Supporters. I am proud to say I have done my bit for my County." Good on you. But regardless, shifting blame to clubs for underselling is simply a deflection from the failure of the marketing team. Why bother putting money into marketing at all if the onus was going to be on the clubs. We all need to get behind the fundraiser where we can but it doesn't detract from the failure to promote the fundraiser to a wider audience
Iakecounty90 (National) - 23/04/2025 12:12:22
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New Format 2026 All Ireland - 1 Like(s)
One of the benefits of the round robin group stage was that for the first time teams were guaranteed to play at least one championship game at home. With the double elimination format that guarantee is gone. Some teams will not play a home championship game in any given season.
Compare that to hurling where all teams [at all 5 levels] have at least 2 home championship games. Anthony Daly recently mentioned the massive benefit to Ennis of the annual 2 home games in the Munster Championship
edu (National) - 23/04/2025 12:13:23
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Football Provincial Championships 2025 - 1 Like(s)
Replying To tirawleybaron: "The football is generally much better to look at, but would you pay 30 quid in to watch most of them?
The championship needs the best teams playing each other - just as hurling does. Then we would have a sport no one could whine about." We're in year 3 of the top 16 playing each other but our Uachtarán, the media and supporters couldn't wait to dump that system.
More jeopardy was the war cry
We get top teams playing each other in the Quarter Finals, Semis and Final., all once off games.
Now we're going for a Sigerson system of once off games with a "back door".
We had Quarter Final series (aka Super 8s) but we got rid of them too.
One good thing about this was big crowds in County grounds.
Do we know what we want?
Seanfanbocht (National) - 23/04/2025 12:21:58
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U20 Championships - 1 Like(s)
Replying To tirawleybaron: "I'm sure you think John O Mahony was coaching Galway for the love of Galway and the likes of Michael Donnellan switched club allegiance to Salthill because he loved the beach.
That Galway team was built off U21 provincial wins in 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1996, 1998 - it was inevitable with a good manager. The period of success should have lased longer based on the success in 2000 and 2002.
Galway only won one U21 titles between 2003 and 2010 resulting in an inevitable decline up to 2013/14.
The facts speak for themselves.
Galway are the best example of building at U21/20 (while threading water at senior), developing a load of good U21/U20 players and then investing in the Senior team to make the most of it (current team is based on U21/20 wins in 2013, 2017, 2019, 2020)
2013 - L Silke, D Comer; S Walsh, I Burke, T Flynn
2017 - S Kelly, K Molloy, D McHugh, C McDaid, P Cooke , C Brennan; , M Daly, R Finnerty, C D'arcy
2019 - S Mulkerrin,
2020 - Conor Flaherty, Jonathan McGrath, Sean Fitzgerald, Jack Glynn; Cathal Sweeney; Matthew Tierney, Tomo Culhane
Now they have an expensive management team since 2020 to try to deliver and All Ireland.
Since 2021, they haven't won a provincial U20 so the senior team will go into decline for a while whenever this current team starts to fade in 2-3 years." No need for the snarky comments. We're talking about O'Mahony managing Galway, not Salthill. I'm not sure what that has to do with anything.
We won an All-Ireland senior in 2001 and followed with U21s in 2002 and 2005. Joyce, Donnellan etc were still in their mid-20s at that stage, and those underage teams had the likes of Michael, Meehan, Gary Sice, Joe Bergin, Kieran Fitzgerald and plenty other very talented players. There's nothing to suggest that underage was neglected while O'Mahony was in charge of Galway. If anything it's after this that the level dropped. We also won U21 All-Irelands in 2011 and 2013. 4 U21 All-Irelands in 12 years is a damn good record and suggests plenty of good players coming through over the course of a decade.
Our failures at senior level went far beyond a lack of talent coming through.
WanPintWin (National) - 23/04/2025 12:24:08
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Wexford Hurling 2025 - 1 Like(s)
Replying To StoreysTash: "This and Exile post above are absolute fact. My father coached teams for years and parents complaining about why young Johnny isn't playing and the hurl not leaving the boot of the car.
Parents are the number 1 driver of culture in their children. Kilkenny have massive culture and drive across the county so they feel no barrier to success is insurmountable.
Clare on Sunday, they were 12 down at half time (and I went to bed because it was late) and yet weren't beaten. In Wexford, there is a lack of that never say die attitude right across the board on and off the pitch. Fans in Wexford don't drive the team on, we just react to the pitch and often meekly. Our County Board are weak and don't stick up for ourselves and create a siege mentality which Brian Lohan and Clare etc would hang their hat on. Last Summer was the optimal time to say "We are hosting Feile, no way are we playing that match".
Unless things have changed since I left, and I doubt it, I feel we lack passion and a chip on our shoulder right across the county. Stop trying to be loved by everybody and start sticking up for ourselves. Tell people what they don't want to hear.
Structures are well and good but the best hurlers are made in the back garden." Counties and supporters react to success or a sign of it. In Munster, the grounds are full because they all belive they could win something. And a good game and atmosphere is guaranteed.
In Leinster, most of the games are fairly tedious and lack atmosphere. Across the province. The long distances between counties does not help. Like, The Nell is 2 hours for most Wexford people allowing for Saturday traffic. Galway in Kilkenny on Easter Saturday, I could see why people did not travel.
These games need to be Saturday night or Sunday games. Saturday afternoon does not help the appeal of the fixtures at all, its like "get them played and over with" rather than an occasion.
But even marketing the games. If you were driving through Wexford, how would you have known there was a Wexford match on? Could Liam Griffin, a man synonymous with complaining about promoting the game, put a bill board at Ferrycarrig listing the Wexford games each weekend through the season? You might get a few hundred casuals or those wanting to see a match. Even the Wexford soccer team have when their games are on next.
I always say the same in Dublin city, instead of 40k empty seats for a Leinster Final where is the billboard at O'Connell Bridge saying "Hurling, Croke Park, Sunday, 4pm, tickets gaa.ie"
Wexford and Leinster need to promote the games better, particularly when the product does not sell itself.
ExiledInWex (National) - 23/04/2025 12:25:08
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Galway Hurling thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Doylerwex: "I'm not liking this pressure.
It would be foolish to take Galway in salthill for granted especially for us who are about as consistent as march weather." Playing in Salthill is a lottery for any team....including Galway!!
BostonGuy (National) - 22/04/2025 14:33:08
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Galway Hurling thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To katser: "There shall be big pressure on Wexford if they loose to Dublin and then face a dangerous unpredictable Galway in Salthill! But for what it's worth....I fancy Wexford to beat Dublin and come West full of confidence!" Based on your historic predictions I'll get down to the bookies and back the dubs :)
Doylerwex (National) - 22/04/2025 22:18:18
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Carlow GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Delighted to see the progress ye have been making in Hurling and the way ye can put it up to the traditionally strong counties.
I have long advocated that in Wicklow we have more potential to make progress in Hurling than in Football and we should be using Carlow as the template to follow.
Fair play to you , keep it going!
Hawkeye2 (National) - 22/04/2025 21:39:14
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New Format 2026 All Ireland - 1 Like(s)
One of the benefits of the round robin group stage was that for the first time teams were guaranteed to play at least one championship game at home. With the double elimination format that guarantee is gone. Some teams will not play a home championship game in any given season.
Compare that to hurling where all teams [at all 5 levels] have 2 home championship games. Anthony Daly recently mentioned the massive benefit to Ennis of the annual 2 home games in the Munster Championship
edu (National) - 22/04/2025 20:48:57
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Non-Gaa Forum - 1 Like(s)
Replying To zinny: "I don't not understand your comment on the far right and Zionists. Zionists or Zionism is not related to the far right. Isreal was formed by the Zionists so to say they are their biggest supporters is a bit odd.
If what you are suggesting is that some of the biggest supporters of Isreal are US Christian fundamentals or right wing European parties" Those 2 certainly are.
Seanfanbocht (National) - 22/04/2025 20:16:51
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