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Replying To Boxtyeater:  "The shrewd Leitrim football men are obviously dissecting the days performance before issuing a conclusion.
Their spokesmen will somehow persuade us that we were victorious.

Maybe we've reached the end of this nonsense."
Poor day yesterday. Obviously delighted with the win but not much else. Poor attendance ( whatever happened to the 12,000 sold tickets ?), awful first half for Leitrim, they couldn't seem to get anything right. With the game practically won at half time, our lads lacked intensity in second half, Leitrim upped theirs, pushed us back, and showed what they are capable of. That sub ( Kelly) looks the real deal, any more promising youngsters coming through ?

Yellaman (Wexford) - Posts: 282 - 07/06/2026 13:35:05    2678483

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FAO Yellaman:

We've had a bad run with injuries to key players and this to my mind is brought about by the intensity of the season between colleges competitions, national league and then the championship. Mayo for example lost to Roscommon on their 1st day out and didn't appear again until last Sunday.
Part of our issues is that we seem to have a plethora of young lads battling for the forwards jerseys. Not so many challengers for defensive positions and this has proved our undoing all year. For years we've been blessed with quality, combatative defenders and just when we discover quality forwards the defence, whether via personnel or positional placements/rule changes have been too frequently exposed.

I'd like to say that we're bristling with underage talent but the Connacht championship story makes poor reading.

But we'll come again, a somewhat, albeit slightly, better year than 2025.

Boxtyeater (Leitrim) - Posts: 798 - 07/06/2026 14:06:15    2678493

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Replying To Yellaman:  "Poor day yesterday. Obviously delighted with the win but not much else. Poor attendance ( whatever happened to the 12,000 sold tickets ?), awful first half for Leitrim, they couldn't seem to get anything right. With the game practically won at half time, our lads lacked intensity in second half, Leitrim upped theirs, pushed us back, and showed what they are capable of. That sub ( Kelly) looks the real deal, any more promising youngsters coming through ?"
I wouldn't pay too much attention to some of the so-called Leitrim posters here. There's a fair bit of nonsense being talked, and I doubt many of them have actually been at a Leitrim game in a long time.
From yesterday's match, our first half was very poor and Wexford were completely comfortable. Jack made a big difference when he came on. The last time we played each other, Wexford had 11 of the same players involved yesterday, while Leitrim only had two. We were missing around six players through injury, and to be fair they're six of our most important players.
It's a young team and there are signs of improvement, but next year will be a crucial one. We need to do what ye did - get out of Division 4 and, just as importantly, stay out of it for a few years.

Leitrim_12 (Leitrim) - Posts: 98 - 07/06/2026 15:21:32    2678517

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Replying To Yellaman:  "Poor day yesterday. Obviously delighted with the win but not much else. Poor attendance ( whatever happened to the 12,000 sold tickets ?), awful first half for Leitrim, they couldn't seem to get anything right. With the game practically won at half time, our lads lacked intensity in second half, Leitrim upped theirs, pushed us back, and showed what they are capable of. That sub ( Kelly) looks the real deal, any more promising youngsters coming through ?"
Watching Kelly play Football was worth the drive up by itself.

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 19961 - 07/06/2026 17:40:25    2678548

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Hard luck to Leitrim yesterday, down a lot of important players McNulty, prior and mcgloin. Good to see Paul keaney get some minutes as he has serious ability. Hopefully we get the likes of daragh Rooney who is back with Melvin Gaels, radek oberwan , Darren cox and donal Casey back to fitness along with some new additions , anyone being standing out at club level as I've not watched much league action

Leitrimforsam2024 (Leitrim) - Posts: 58 - 07/06/2026 22:11:17    2678592

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Any sign of Gantricks. He seems to have gone missing. I'm a bit worried about him. Love to all.

moros (Roscommon) - Posts: 1427 - 08/06/2026 15:23:36    2678698

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Replying To moros:  "Any sign of Gantricks. He seems to have gone missing. I'm a bit worried about him. Love to all."
He's probably still meeting with them " few shrewd Leitrim football men " trying to figure where all those 12,000 tickets went..... they certainly weren't in Pairc Sean on Saturday.

Yellaman (Wexford) - Posts: 282 - 08/06/2026 16:19:36    2678710

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Hard luck also to our neighbours Roscommon who were outclassed by what is not even the best team in Ulster in all Ireland minor quarter final thank you so much. Very disappointing that they were the only provincial winners who didn't win please. Why is this? I think that it's because Connacht football is at a very very low level across all age levels thank you all in advance as I know you all agree.

bláthach (Leitrim) - Posts: 570 - 08/06/2026 18:55:34    2678731

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