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Replying To moros: "Not worth continuing. I seen some clubs didn't supply players at all. Hard to know how clubs like St Joseph's are considered North Roscommon. Looks like the idea from the County board is to keep this team in the competition but let it get hammered at the same time. Hardly development of any sort." The only thing Moros is it gives players a chance to experience senior football. The Joseph's lads will never get that chance and the Kilbride lads for example could be five to seven years before they might reach senior again. Once you get relegated from senior the standard everywhere just drops. Even training goes down. You have to hand it to western Gaels and their older lads for driving them on every year to stay up. Ros2013 (Roscommon) - Posts: 685 - 07/09/2026 15:04:55 2693054 Link
@moros yes St Josephs are Mid-Roscommon region than North. So yes with Kilbride also featuring the team should be called Mid and North Roscommon or just call them Divisional Roscommon and include any south Roscommon players that might be interested. Year one of this we had two teams was to be three but South Roscommon opted out. West Roscommon was the other team and they had 8 Elphin starters and they are more North than West. They lost to Pearses by 6 point's Would have been a more interesting game if Adam McDermott Conor Cox named to start had actually played. The_analyser (Roscommon) - Posts: 4470 - 07/09/2026 16:06:29 2693069 Link
Replying To The_analyser: "@moros yes St Josephs are Mid-Roscommon region than North. So yes with Kilbride also featuring the team should be called Mid and North Roscommon or just call them Divisional Roscommon and include any south Roscommon players that might be interested. Year one of this we had two teams was to be three but South Roscommon opted out. West Roscommon was the other team and they had 8 Elphin starters and they are more North than West. They lost to Pearses by 6 point's Would have been a more interesting game if Adam McDermott Conor Cox named to start had actually played." Fair enough. Call them a Roscommon Mid / North team but don't call them what their not. Still hard to know if it's feasible going forward? Have any of these teams ever won a game? I acknowledge that some lads get to play a Senior level game but is it ever going to produce a second game for them. moros (Roscommon) - Posts: 1505 - 07/09/2026 19:48:28 2693086 Link
Replying To moros: "Fair enough. Call them a Roscommon Mid / North team but don't call them what their not. Still hard to know if it's feasible going forward? Have any of these teams ever won a game? I acknowledge that some lads get to play a Senior level game but is it ever going to produce a second game for them." It would work if it was run properly. There's plenty of underage county talent playing with intermediate and junior clubs, but they need to be brought together and developed as a group. At the moment, simply turning up and trying to field a team isn't going to work. If you put those lads on a proper S&C programme alongside their club training, and then have them train together regularly as a group of players who are genuinely interested in playing senior, I think it could work really well. There are also too many clubs that either aren't interested or actively discourage lads from playing, and that isn't doing the players any good either. The whole purpose should be to develop a group of players who have the potential to play at senior county level and, in doing so, broaden the pool of players that the senior manager can choose from. Rossies4sam (Roscommon) - Posts: 3 - 09/09/2026 15:36:20 2693308 Link
Replying To Rossies4sam: "It would work if it was run properly. There's plenty of underage county talent playing with intermediate and junior clubs, but they need to be brought together and developed as a group. At the moment, simply turning up and trying to field a team isn't going to work. If you put those lads on a proper S&C programme alongside their club training, and then have them train together regularly as a group of players who are genuinely interested in playing senior, I think it could work really well. There are also too many clubs that either aren't interested or actively discourage lads from playing, and that isn't doing the players any good either. The whole purpose should be to develop a group of players who have the potential to play at senior county level and, in doing so, broaden the pool of players that the senior manager can choose from." It's played at the same time as the Inter and Junior championships. Unless your Club is already eliminated you're not going to put much effort or have much interest in a Regional team. Seanfan (Roscommon) - Posts: 917 - 09/09/2026 16:25:37 2693321 Link
Replying To Seanfan: "It's played at the same time as the Inter and Junior championships. Unless your Club is already eliminated you're not going to put much effort or have much interest in a Regional team." I'd agree with that point. If it's being run at the same time as the Intermediate and Junior championships, you're never going to get the buy-in or commitment needed from clubs or players while they're still involved in their own club campaigns. If the idea is genuinely to develop players for senior county level, there needs to be a better window in the calendar for it, or the players need to be brought into a structured group outside of that period. Otherwise, you're just trying to throw a team together when the timing doesn't really allow it. It probably means the calendar needs to be looked at if the Regional teams are going to achieve what it's supposed to. Rossies4sam (Roscommon) - Posts: 3 - 09/09/2026 16:54:15 2693322 Link