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Replying To Gantric: "Would love to get a rattle at Mayo now in the qualifiers, I like to consider myself a typical shrewd Leitrim man and I think we would take them in the qualifiers, Mayo are 4th in the province now behind ourselves and Galway and then a big drop back to Roscommon." You sound more like Gastric than Gantric. When in the name of God will Leitrim be in th Sam qualifiers, and I don't see Mayo in the Tall Tin anytime soon.
ORIELMAN85 (Monaghan) - Posts: 1015 - 26/04/2026 23:23:53
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Now that the dust has settled on the weekend games it's time to start looking forward to the qualifier draw for us. No one to fear in there except maybe Donegal.
Gantric (Leitrim) - Posts: 21 - 27/04/2026 09:19:16
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Replying To ohwow: "Great to see minnows doing so well this weekend. Big two in the province were very complacent it seems. An easy path for Galway to the all Ireland series awaits and the best of luck to them." Off u toddle to the tailtean.
Leave the talk of football to the big boys.
OhtobeARossie (Roscommon) - Posts: 1821 - 27/04/2026 09:47:48
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Replying To Gantric: "Now that the dust has settled on the weekend games it's time to start looking forward to the qualifier draw for us. No one to fear in there except maybe Donegal." Jamaican woodbines at play here?
totalrecall (Leitrim) - Posts: 1224 - 27/04/2026 09:54:35
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Replying To OhtobeARossie: "Off u toddle to the tailtean.
Leave the talk of football to the big boys." Oh yes I'd always leave talk of football to the big boys, someone from Kerry or Dublin know what they're talking about for sure when it comes to such matters.
And I'd suggest you and your fellow county folk would pay heed to your own statement too, leave it to the big boys!
ohwow (Leitrim) - Posts: 153 - 27/04/2026 10:07:49
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Saturday was very much a case of what might have been. As I said before, we need to covert 80-90% of chances to beat these teams and we just had too many wides. It's frustrating, particularly when Galway missed a fair few but the heads never dipped, we kept plugging away, we had an edge, aggression and desire and the belief was there - even after 10points down, the body language remained positive. Squidgy epitomised all of this with his display.
In another championship, another year, it would have become a 20point hammering with people streaming out of the ground. That had started with the fairweather supporters only to see them turn back and stay to the end.....well done them!
The referee seemed slow to award us a free at times and quick to award them to Galway. Case in point when he blew for an alleged foul when McNulty collected the ball in the air on the shed side when we had them on the ropes. No idea what for but Galway were then able to take the sting out of our play as they did so well many times.
Tom Prior was everywhere and rightfully got his MOTM award.
Gaffey for goals if a great find this year. A bit more fine tuning an he could be the main option for those long distance 2pointers.
Honeyman had a fantastic 2pointer-Oisín McLoughlin was eye catching-(lovely pick up! !) He timed his run from deep for a possible penalty follow up to perfection whilst the Galway lads were flat footed. Great point too.
A clear penalty btw - the attacker will always get those decisions even if its 50:50.
Crowd watch - again, a below par attendance. Galway travelled well but we didn't turn up the way we should have for a home semi-final following a hard fought quarter final win. Where were Connacht Council going with them stand prices??? It put people right off. I think of London 3 years ago allowed people in for free for league game to try and drum up a good crowd to get behind the team. I'm not sure what the answer is - group discounts, kids go free ? But it diluted down our home advantage severely. Same thing happened over in Castlebar.
If you are going to charge then at least have toilets that have seats, a bit of a clean, full soap dispensers, speakers that work on the shed side and no obstruction of scaffolding for TV cameras rendering half the shed unusable.
Apart from that, the pitch was immaculate and the pipe band never disappoint to add that sense of championship occasion.
I hope the lads are given a good week or 2 off before giving the Tailteann a good rattle - they have shown they are capable of going toe to toe with anyone on a given championship day - we've earned a bit of respect back again and there's good feeling back. Huge credit must go to Poacher. I for one had my reservations during that league campaign last year but I've seen and heard more than enough to be buoyed by what's to come.
Fair play to the rossies. It's a pity we are not in the final with them. They were a class act that 2nd half in Castlebar and I would tip them to stop Galway's gallop for a 5 in a row.
Well done also to our Hurlers who are tuning up nicely. 3/3 and may give us a day out yet with that form.
Finally, this message board needs surgery and fast. It's becoming more difficult to pick out the genuine commentators. The administrators need to open their eyes and stop allowing the increasing drivel to get on here. As pointed out by others, it was a great place to come on and contribute to a discussion about all things Leitrim football and you may not always agree but it was constructive and well intended.
It has clearly been hijacked by doom scrollers who cannot master a basic English sentence and have SFA to do with their days. They will be crowing to an empty room if it goes on much longer.
Liatroim Abú
Mugatay (Leitrim) - Posts: 186 - 27/04/2026 13:06:45
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The sooner these lads with multiple accounts are stopped from spouting rubbish and making a mockery of this forum the better. Well done to Leitrim on a great show on Saturday, hopefully we can have a decent run in the Tailteann cup.
JimmyNail (Leitrim) - Posts: 345 - 27/04/2026 13:17:37
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Replying To JimmyNail: "The sooner these lads with multiple accounts are stopped from spouting rubbish and making a mockery of this forum the better. Well done to Leitrim on a great show on Saturday, hopefully we can have a decent run in the Tailteann cup." Here here, pure unadulterated rubbish.
Anyhow, we got the dreaded 'Team 16' ... tough one but look, a good test which will help in the next rounds.
Square_B (Leitrim) - Posts: 2016 - 27/04/2026 13:26:02
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Well lads. After seeing Galway in the flesh and us on the tv at the weekend, do ye think we should win it?
I'm very confident of a 5/6 point win.
Were ye excellent or were Galway dire, or a bit of both?
Oddball (Roscommon) - Posts: 1029 - 27/04/2026 13:26:08
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Replying To JimmyNail: "The sooner these lads with multiple accounts are stopped from spouting rubbish and making a mockery of this forum the better. Well done to Leitrim on a great show on Saturday, hopefully we can have a decent run in the Tailteann cup." Agreed
eoinog (Sligo) - Posts: 2397 - 27/04/2026 14:02:14
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Replying To Mugatay: "Saturday was very much a case of what might have been. As I said before, we need to covert 80-90% of chances to beat these teams and we just had too many wides. It's frustrating, particularly when Galway missed a fair few but the heads never dipped, we kept plugging away, we had an edge, aggression and desire and the belief was there - even after 10points down, the body language remained positive. Squidgy epitomised all of this with his display.
In another championship, another year, it would have become a 20point hammering with people streaming out of the ground. That had started with the fairweather supporters only to see them turn back and stay to the end.....well done them!
The referee seemed slow to award us a free at times and quick to award them to Galway. Case in point when he blew for an alleged foul when McNulty collected the ball in the air on the shed side when we had them on the ropes. No idea what for but Galway were then able to take the sting out of our play as they did so well many times.
Tom Prior was everywhere and rightfully got his MOTM award.
Gaffey for goals if a great find this year. A bit more fine tuning an he could be the main option for those long distance 2pointers.
Honeyman had a fantastic 2pointer-Oisín McLoughlin was eye catching-(lovely pick up! !) He timed his run from deep for a possible penalty follow up to perfection whilst the Galway lads were flat footed. Great point too.
A clear penalty btw - the attacker will always get those decisions even if its 50:50.
Crowd watch - again, a below par attendance. Galway travelled well but we didn't turn up the way we should have for a home semi-final following a hard fought quarter final win. Where were Connacht Council going with them stand prices??? It put people right off. I think of London 3 years ago allowed people in for free for league game to try and drum up a good crowd to get behind the team. I'm not sure what the answer is - group discounts, kids go free ? But it diluted down our home advantage severely. Same thing happened over in Castlebar.
If you are going to charge then at least have toilets that have seats, a bit of a clean, full soap dispensers, speakers that work on the shed side and no obstruction of scaffolding for TV cameras rendering half the shed unusable.
Apart from that, the pitch was immaculate and the pipe band never disappoint to add that sense of championship occasion.
I hope the lads are given a good week or 2 off before giving the Tailteann a good rattle - they have shown they are capable of going toe to toe with anyone on a given championship day - we've earned a bit of respect back again and there's good feeling back. Huge credit must go to Poacher. I for one had my reservations during that league campaign last year but I've seen and heard more than enough to be buoyed by what's to come.
Fair play to the rossies. It's a pity we are not in the final with them. They were a class act that 2nd half in Castlebar and I would tip them to stop Galway's gallop for a 5 in a row.
Well done also to our Hurlers who are tuning up nicely. 3/3 and may give us a day out yet with that form.
Finally, this message board needs surgery and fast. It's becoming more difficult to pick out the genuine commentators. The administrators need to open their eyes and stop allowing the increasing drivel to get on here. As pointed out by others, it was a great place to come on and contribute to a discussion about all things Leitrim football and you may not always agree but it was constructive and well intended.
It has clearly been hijacked by doom scrollers who cannot master a basic English sentence and have SFA to do with their days. They will be crowing to an empty room if it goes on much longer.
Liatroim Abú" Don't understand how there isn't a gantry built on the roof of the shed for cameras
It was amusing the connacht council charging 30 quid for the pleasure of sitting on concrete benches, people were just walking in without any bother no matter what ticket they had to sit on them.
I have a feeling there will be a better Leitrim turnout at whatever fixture we have in connacht next year, no matter where it is. Makes a mockery of the league and form in it.
Poacher deserves great credit but he needs to drop the poor us routine in after game interviews, they are tiresome. There's lots of counties in similar boats to us, you never hear the Longford managers going on like that for example
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Replying To Oddball: "Well lads. After seeing Galway in the flesh and us on the tv at the weekend, do ye think we should win it?
I'm very confident of a 5/6 point win.
Were ye excellent or were Galway dire, or a bit of both?" Galways top men coming back in, a comfortable win of 8 or 9 for them I'm afraid
ohwow (Leitrim) - Posts: 153 - 27/04/2026 14:33:53
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Replying To Oddball: "Well lads. After seeing Galway in the flesh and us on the tv at the weekend, do ye think we should win it?
I'm very confident of a 5/6 point win.
Were ye excellent or were Galway dire, or a bit of both?" Calm down lad. Roscommon have to show they can back up that performance as good as it was. That's the task. Love to all.
moros (Roscommon) - Posts: 1367 - 27/04/2026 15:03:30
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Poacher V Moran in the qualifiers would be tasty, Tom Prior to negate Aidan O' Shea, would be a fascinating battle.
Gantric (Leitrim) - Posts: 21 - 27/04/2026 15:30:42
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