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Replying To jm25: "I see loads of kids at Connacht Galway utd game that start at these times neither team has too far too travel so no issue with me." Yes that's not a problem until its the GAA ! just like the skirts for the comogie players , while there wasn't a whisper about women hockey! is it that the all of poor old me sad people gravitate towards the GAA.The only possible gripe remaining is maybe the colour of the grass.Times, dates. location and even what teams should be allowed are all questioned at differing times during these ongoing performances. backtooldwall (Galway) - Posts: 199 - 15/10/2025 12:55:16 2640120 Link
Oranmore Maree with another U19A county title. Beating Claregalway by 9 points. Some production line they have going at underage there. Hasn't fed through to the senior side yet though. The biggest challenge in a way is developing those young players into good senior footballers. Marooned (Galway) - Posts: 2445 - 16/10/2025 00:00:53 2640224 Link
Replying To Marooned: "Oranmore Maree with another U19A county title. Beating Claregalway by 9 points. Some production line they have going at underage there. Hasn't fed through to the senior side yet though. The biggest challenge in a way is developing those young players into good senior footballers." I think the problem is 2 many different sports in the area, look at the year there intermediate footballers had absolutely shocking and they had been tipped as one of the fav to win it! With the volume of people living in this area they should be competing a lot better in the intermediate grade, Fox.1n.7he.b0x (Galway) - Posts: 186 - 16/10/2025 12:11:15 2640280 Link
Replying To Marooned: "Oranmore Maree with another U19A county title. Beating Claregalway by 9 points. Some production line they have going at underage there. Hasn't fed through to the senior side yet though. The biggest challenge in a way is developing those young players into good senior footballers." Claregalway themselves are possibly the poster boys for this issue. They were winning North Board Minor A's for fun there a few years back. They're an established senior club now off the back of it, in fairness, but aren't threatening to replicate that extensive minor/u21 success at senior level. Pope_Benedict (Galway) - Posts: 4493 - 16/10/2025 12:42:20 2640283 Link
Ya totally agree a decade ago it was Claregalway & Salthill will be winning and competing in cunty finals between them. salthill might end the drought saturday week. Oranmore were among favorites in intermediate and ended up bottom and in a relegation fight. No doubt there is a pool of talent there and they will surely make the step up to senior soon but in my opinion will have plenty of work to do to compete for Frank Fox. In hurling they are a well established Senior A team now and will hope to continue to improve. Eire89 (Galway) - Posts: 447 - 16/10/2025 14:25:52 2640301 Link
In regards Claregalway I seen roll of honour in minor Claregalway have only won 2 county finals in total Oranmore definitely the coming club in both codes have won minor and under 20 hurling and under 19 football and by all accounts are as good as shoe in for minor football as well eventually it will come through to adult I think Kickitout (Galway) - Posts: 1110 - 16/10/2025 17:20:31 2640326 Link
Oranmore Maree with another U19A county title. Beating Claregalway by 9 points. Some production line they have going at underage there. Hasn't fed through to the senior side yet though. The biggest challenge in a way is developing those young players into good senior footballers. Marooned (Galway) - Posts: 2445 - 16/10/2025 18:51:47 2640330 Link
Replying To Eire89: "Ya totally agree a decade ago it was Claregalway & Salthill will be winning and competing in cunty finals between them. salthill might end the drought saturday week. Oranmore were among favorites in intermediate and ended up bottom and in a relegation fight. No doubt there is a pool of talent there and they will surely make the step up to senior soon but in my opinion will have plenty of work to do to compete for Frank Fox. In hurling they are a well established Senior A team now and will hope to continue to improve." What finals???!!!!!!! The_DOC (Galway) - Posts: 826 - 17/10/2025 09:01:07 2640361 Link
Replying To The_DOC: "What finals???!!!!!!!" Those cxxty finals!!! Galwaymaster9 (Galway) - Posts: 435 - 17/10/2025 10:59:31 2640374 Link
Replying To The_DOC: "What finals???!!!!!!!" It's an interesting conversation about Underage success especially Minor/u19/u20/u21 success and how it correlates to Senior success. Corofins dominance was built on the back of many Minor (u18) land u21 titles in the 90s and 00s that started the juggernaut it is today. Moycullen won a county Minor A in 2013 and quite a few were on the side that made the breakthrough in Senior. MM won a Minor A in 2014 and also went into win FF . Salthill won numerous from 2015-2020 which seems to be the back bone of this team. St James won two minors As in the 00s which back boned the team to get up to senior. Same with St Michael's. Claregalways success is probably the only one that it's hard to make a case for when they got to senior (have they made a senior semi final yet?). If we look at the senior county championship winners of the past 25 years is there any who haven't had minor or u19/20/21 A success ? Killererin maybe on the early 00s. I think they won an u21 A around 2009/10! Could be wrong about that. Green&Gold2013 (Galway) - Posts: 52 - 17/10/2025 11:32:53 2640384 Link
Replying To Pope_Benedict: "Claregalway themselves are possibly the poster boys for this issue. They were winning North Board Minor A's for fun there a few years back. They're an established senior club now off the back of it, in fairness, but aren't threatening to replicate that extensive minor/u21 success at senior level." Well said. Every year it's the same line, Claregalway are coming, it's only a matter of time. And every year they flop at senior. Underage medals mean nothing when they meet men. They can't handle real physical football. They've been a "coming team" for eight years and still haven't done a thing. Too small, too soft, and it shows every time the pressure comes on. Salthill are a big physical team, like Corofin, Moycullen and the rest of the top teams. In senior football you need at least half your team to be big, physical men, and Claregalway don't have that. They're still relying on the small silky footballer, which may work at underage, but when a 19 year old meets a seasoned 29 year old it's a different story. This could be Salthill's year, but I don't think so, Moycullen will take them again in the final. Yvrjd (Galway) - Posts: 23 - 17/10/2025 11:35:39 2640387 Link
Replying To Green&Gold2013: "It's an interesting conversation about Underage success especially Minor/u19/u20/u21 success and how it correlates to Senior success. Corofins dominance was built on the back of many Minor (u18) land u21 titles in the 90s and 00s that started the juggernaut it is today. Moycullen won a county Minor A in 2013 and quite a few were on the side that made the breakthrough in Senior. MM won a Minor A in 2014 and also went into win FF . Salthill won numerous from 2015-2020 which seems to be the back bone of this team. St James won two minors As in the 00s which back boned the team to get up to senior. Same with St Michael's. Claregalways success is probably the only one that it's hard to make a case for when they got to senior (have they made a senior semi final yet?). If we look at the senior county championship winners of the past 25 years is there any who haven't had minor or u19/20/21 A success ? Killererin maybe on the early 00s. I think they won an u21 A around 2009/10! Could be wrong about that." S/K have been the most prolific over the two age groups with at least one double followed by M/M and Corofin, Moycullen won just two minor in the last ten years but I think they almost half of their current senior team stems from these two minor years.As stated Claregalway and Oranmore picked some over that period also. backtooldwall (Galway) - Posts: 199 - 17/10/2025 14:58:32 2640420 Link
Replying To Yvrjd: "Well said. Every year it's the same line, Claregalway are coming, it's only a matter of time. And every year they flop at senior. Underage medals mean nothing when they meet men. They can't handle real physical football. They've been a "coming team" for eight years and still haven't done a thing. Too small, too soft, and it shows every time the pressure comes on. Salthill are a big physical team, like Corofin, Moycullen and the rest of the top teams. In senior football you need at least half your team to be big, physical men, and Claregalway don't have that. They're still relying on the small silky footballer, which may work at underage, but when a 19 year old meets a seasoned 29 year old it's a different story. This could be Salthill's year, but I don't think so, Moycullen will take them again in the final." In claregalways case a lot of there underage success was achieved using players from turloughmore carnmore and even castlegar once they reached 19/20 they concentrate on hurling and don't play football anymore minor77 (Galway) - Posts: 293 - 17/10/2025 15:01:57 2640422 Link
Have we ever seem dominance at under age to the degree of Oranmore Maree the past 2 years? They have had an outrageous 2024 and 2025 in both codes. I understand they have bog numbers but it more than that, my hat goes off to the coaches at grass roots level pushing this success. I don't follow them closely, are most players dual players? 2024 Hurling: U15 A Cup U15 National A Feile Minor A Hurling Lost U20 Semi to eventual winners Football: U19 A Final Minor A football U16 A Lost U15A Final 2025 Hurling: U20 A Hurling Minor A Hurling Football: Minor A Championship Minor A League U19 A Championship U19 A League Pending 2025 Fixtures U16 A final - Hurling U16 A Semi - Football WonTon5 (Galway) - Posts: 83 - 19/10/2025 18:15:21 2640662 Link
Replying To WonTon5: "Have we ever seem dominance at under age to the degree of Oranmore Maree the past 2 years? They have had an outrageous 2024 and 2025 in both codes. I understand they have bog numbers but it more than that, my hat goes off to the coaches at grass roots level pushing this success. I don't follow them closely, are most players dual players? 2024 Hurling: U15 A Cup U15 National A Feile Minor A Hurling Lost U20 Semi to eventual winners Football: U19 A Final Minor A football U16 A Lost U15A Final 2025 Hurling: U20 A Hurling Minor A Hurling Football: Minor A Championship Minor A League U19 A Championship U19 A League Pending 2025 Fixtures U16 A final - Hurling U16 A Semi - Football" I'm not from their but have seen the plans and the work that has started in Renville, they will be the envy of the county. First fully floodlit 4G pitch in Galway. It's not just numbers, serious work being put in by the likes of Derek Cullinane, Tim Rabbitte, Sean Og de Paor, Paul Pender, Gerry Fahy and many others at the football, not familiar with the hurling side. Will be interesting to see in the next 5 years if they can kick on at adult level. smallfrank (Galway) - Posts: 561 - 19/10/2025 22:28:07 2640701 Link
The camogie team from Oranmore have been in loads of Senior Finals recently but just survived relegation this year. In Ladies Foorball they won U16A Championship and are in the Minor A Championship Final. Their 4G pitch it pretty much finished. The big population and experienced coaches are a huge factor. ref (Galway) - Posts: 265 - 19/10/2025 22:42:09 2640703 Link
A combination of some great work being done at underage and the massive numbers and resources they have. They're naturally a dual club too, which means neither code gets obviously favoured or neglected compared to the other. They can field 5 or more teams at some of the younger age groups, which means they're going to have a volume of talented players. Of course all that would count for nothing without a good structure and proper coaching. Progressing at adult level will be a bigger challenge. They won't face the exact same issues as Claregalway, who had a lot of players who we're hurling first for Carnmore and Turlough. They will have some of the same issues though, where some of the most talented players may want to focus on one code only at adult level. Particularly those who have a chance of making intercounty panels. Some of their best players from last weekend's minor hurling final, were also key players in today's football win. I'd expect them to get up to senior football soon, but it may take a bit longer than expected. Getting to the stage of challenging for senior titles though, is a much bigger step. Likewise on the hurling side. They're a solid established senior team now, but getting to the next level will take a lot of effort and there are no guarantees. They have all the raw materials to do so, and they'll be interesting to watch. WanPintWin (Galway) - Posts: 2643 - 19/10/2025 23:13:17 2640712 Link
Salthill Knocknacarragh V Moycullen next Saturday evening in the Stadium. It does'nt get better than this. galwayford (Galway) - Posts: 2695 - 20/10/2025 12:44:50 2640790 Link
Is the Salthill moycullen game on rte Saturday night? Gaagael15 (Galway) - Posts: 14 - 20/10/2025 13:08:45 2640797 Link
Replying To galwayford: "Salthill Knocknacarragh V Moycullen next Saturday evening in the Stadium. It does'nt get better than this." Well, it does actually.. Galwaymaster9 (Galway) - Posts: 435 - 20/10/2025 18:20:55 2640861 Link