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Replying To winatallcost: "I have a vague memory of a burly player around the middle of the field on a very average Monaghan team. Never competed for major honours. As a Cavan man you were likely more familiar or perhaps a neighbour. I see Cavan on lookout for a new manager. Any thoughts? What's the potential within Cavan?" Rory Woods maybe? A good player. Lockjaw (Donegal) - Posts: 9878 - 09/07/2025 15:58:54 2624657 Link
Thing that makes meath v dangerous to donegal is unlike donegals most recent opponents bar mayo meath just go for it real belef and adventure and trust their players man on man. That could be disastrous for meath v mcguinness v drilled side but it also could reap huge dividends for meath. Think the way meath play is refreshing to watch seem v strong mentally as a young side with no fear. Put it this way if donegal play like they did v louth and monaghan in the first half they wont find it as easy to retrieve it in the second half. Donegal by 6-8 points if start well or Meath by three. V hard one to call. Been seriously impressed by meath this year didnt buckle v dublin when dubs got it back to two points they kicked on v kerry when a lot of teams would sat back and didnt phase them Galway swinging game round in quarter final. Meath just kept playing. Think donegal can't afford a bad start here. seanie08 (Monaghan) - Posts: 1909 - 09/07/2025 16:00:07 2624658 Link
Replying To Lockjaw: "Rory Woods maybe? A good player." He knows well, he's just sore about whatever was said on the podcast so is feigning ignorance for some reason. Like the aulfellas that comment "Who?" on every FB post that isn't to their specifically tailored to their interests and likes Breffni40 (Cavan) - Posts: 12446 - 09/07/2025 16:13:13 2624662 Link
Replying To greenfan: "Most clubs were only taking orders from club members." From club members yes. Maybe not for club members. A member could ask for 4. But they are the only member of that 4. Al_Maguire (Donegal) - Posts: 310 - 09/07/2025 16:27:14 2624666 Link
Replying To seanie08: "Thing that makes meath v dangerous to donegal is unlike donegals most recent opponents bar mayo meath just go for it real belef and adventure and trust their players man on man. That could be disastrous for meath v mcguinness v drilled side but it also could reap huge dividends for meath. Think the way meath play is refreshing to watch seem v strong mentally as a young side with no fear. Put it this way if donegal play like they did v louth and monaghan in the first half they wont find it as easy to retrieve it in the second half. Donegal by 6-8 points if start well or Meath by three. V hard one to call. Been seriously impressed by meath this year didnt buckle v dublin when dubs got it back to two points they kicked on v kerry when a lot of teams would sat back and didnt phase them Galway swinging game round in quarter final. Meath just kept playing. Think donegal can't afford a bad start here." Yeah it would be interesting to see what would happen if Donegal start well and race into a 7 or 8 point lead. Meath have shown that they won't lie down though, and such leads are not insurmountable by any means under the new rules. I just read a match report from the Leinster final. Some quotes below. Meath seem to play well in phases. Maybe under the new rules it's impossible to control a game fully, especially when the teams are fairly evenly matched? "Their patience in possession and superb ball-handling ground Meath down phase by phase, minute by minute, and in the end the Royals died the death of a thousand cuts." "In an incredible purple-patch they scored seven points in just five minutes. It came from a complete dominance of Louth's kick-outs. Time and again Meath won the ball cleanly, got on the front foot, and cut the Louth defence to pieces with their strong running, slick handling, and accurate shooting." "In that period of the game they could hardly manage to get their hands on the ball such was Louth's dominance off Meath kick-outs. Men like Tommy Durnin, Conor Grimes, and Ciaran Downey were dominating the skies and when the ball did come to ground it was invariably a red jersey that was hungriest to gobble it up." Lockjaw (Donegal) - Posts: 9878 - 09/07/2025 16:41:30 2624670 Link
The club ticket situation is a complete disaster, the GAA/Croke park need to make sure Club members are looked after first. Before going on public sell via ticket Master. The Downings chairperson was on highland radio this morning, he said they only got 65% of what they requested, and they are holding off distributing tickets in the hope of receiving another allocation from the County board. Rather than disappointing their members. Mary Coughlan was on Highland Radio after him. She said Donegal has approx. 13,500 club members. For the Meath game, the county board received requests for approx. 7,500 tickets from the clubs. Friday last week Donegal only received an allocation of 3,000 tickets, that's 40% of the 7,500 they requested/needed! From what she said, it looks like the County board ticketing request system had to compete with the Ticketmaster public sale/website system. Which is totally unacceptable. Croke park with a capacity of 82,300 and our county only gets 3,000 tickets initially. How can that be allowed to happen? She said the executive members and treasurer having been working constantly to source more tickets, they got an additional allocation on Monday and another allocation last night. So that explains why some clubs got tickets on Saturday, some on Monday and some last night. She said there still will be a shortfall of tickets for clubs/members. She said when the tickets are received, they use a formula to divide out the tickets on a pro rata basis, which is based on each club's total members. So using the original allocation of 3,000/7,500 = 40%. That means if a club has 100 members, they will get an allocation of 40 tickets. But if they have a request from 60 members, they'll be short 20 tickets. For an All-Ireland semi-final, every Club member/family membership, who request a ticket via their club, should be guaranteed a ticket, by being prioritised over the Ticketmaster sales system and SHOULD NOT BE OUTCOMPETED BY A TICKETMASTER ALGORITHIM ON BEHALF OF CROKE PARK. The_viewer (Donegal) - Posts: 21 - 09/07/2025 16:54:15 2624676 Link
Replying To Lockjaw: "Rory Woods maybe? A good player." Rory Woods was a good player but a different guy. Inside forward, well built guy but perhaps could not do it for a full game. There used to be another guy Freeman with alot of speed in full forward line. I think Clerkin was bit part. I think he came on and off alot, maybe struggled with fitness. winatallcost (Meath) - Posts: 740 - 09/07/2025 16:55:26 2624677 Link
Replying To Al_Maguire: "From club members yes. Maybe not for club members. A member could ask for 4. But they are the only member of that 4." Just curious why are people buying tickets from clubs instead of just getting them on ticketmaster. No guarantee club tickets will be any better than the ones on ticketmaster? Mfs (Mayo) - Posts: 268 - 09/07/2025 16:59:14 2624678 Link
Replying To Mfs: "Just curious why are people buying tickets from clubs instead of just getting them on ticketmaster. No guarantee club tickets will be any better than the ones on ticketmaster?" Good question. Might get a discount? Clubs booking seats and arranging buses to the games. Probably get a block of seats together where you'll see friends and family close to each other. My daughter heading with club here in Meath in Lower Davin with the club. Juvenile ticket and bus for €20. Seat and bus arranged, can't go wrong for that price. Ticketmaster good if you wanna head in on your own time. Both good options. GreenandRed (Mayo) - Posts: 8160 - 09/07/2025 17:28:09 2624685 Link
Replying To The_viewer: "The club ticket situation is a complete disaster, the GAA/Croke park need to make sure Club members are looked after first. Before going on public sell via ticket Master. The Downings chairperson was on highland radio this morning, he said they only got 65% of what they requested, and they are holding off distributing tickets in the hope of receiving another allocation from the County board. Rather than disappointing their members. Mary Coughlan was on Highland Radio after him. She said Donegal has approx. 13,500 club members. For the Meath game, the county board received requests for approx. 7,500 tickets from the clubs. Friday last week Donegal only received an allocation of 3,000 tickets, that's 40% of the 7,500 they requested/needed! From what she said, it looks like the County board ticketing request system had to compete with the Ticketmaster public sale/website system. Which is totally unacceptable. Croke park with a capacity of 82,300 and our county only gets 3,000 tickets initially. How can that be allowed to happen? She said the executive members and treasurer having been working constantly to source more tickets, they got an additional allocation on Monday and another allocation last night. So that explains why some clubs got tickets on Saturday, some on Monday and some last night. She said there still will be a shortfall of tickets for clubs/members. She said when the tickets are received, they use a formula to divide out the tickets on a pro rata basis, which is based on each club's total members. So using the original allocation of 3,000/7,500 = 40%. That means if a club has 100 members, they will get an allocation of 40 tickets. But if they have a request from 60 members, they'll be short 20 tickets. For an All-Ireland semi-final, every Club member/family membership, who request a ticket via their club, should be guaranteed a ticket, by being prioritised over the Ticketmaster sales system and SHOULD NOT BE OUTCOMPETED BY A TICKETMASTER ALGORITHIM ON BEHALF OF CROKE PARK." I've been dealing with Ticketmaster for the Donegal GAA Season tickets for 7 of us, and that's no walk in the park either. I agree with your point, 82500 capacity in Croke Park, 13500 Donegal GAA club members this year, with just under 1500 Donegal GAA season ticket holders (Many Season Ticket holders have paid club membership too, so some overlap), which is approximately 15000 tickets. The GAA need to have a serious look at that. Commodore (Donegal) - Posts: 1417 - 09/07/2025 17:36:58 2624689 Link
Replying To Mfs: "Just curious why are people buying tickets from clubs instead of just getting them on ticketmaster. No guarantee club tickets will be any better than the ones on ticketmaster?" For some supporters it will be simply because they've always done so, also some older supporters may not be tech savvy or have the ability to order online. It may also be the case that if their county was to reach the Final (when no tickets are on general sale) that their club may give priority to those members who ordered tickets with them throughout the championship. BeardedBorderGael (Donegal) - Posts: 52 - 09/07/2025 18:02:41 2624695 Link
Replying To Mfs: "Just curious why are people buying tickets from clubs instead of just getting them on ticketmaster. No guarantee club tickets will be any better than the ones on ticketmaster?" I'd imagine it's so they're around their own supporters and sitting together as 8 is max on Ticketmaster so bigger groups can sit together. Proudroyal (Meath) - Posts: 395 - 09/07/2025 18:11:46 2624697 Link
Replying To Mfs: "Just curious why are people buying tickets from clubs instead of just getting them on ticketmaster. No guarantee club tickets will be any better than the ones on ticketmaster?" There is no guarantee. However Club Members should be entitled to purchase tickets through their clubs before they go on general sale through Ticketmaster. In other words if Donegal have 13k Members that amount of tickets should have been set aside and resold through Ticketmaster at a later date if they weren't purchased through the clubs. Club Members are the heartbeat of the GAA in each County. Surely they should get tickets before they are sold randomly on Ticketmaster. Scenicparish (Donegal) - Posts: 658 - 09/07/2025 18:16:04 2624699 Link
Both teams wearing their home jersey on Sunday greenfan (Donegal) - Posts: 710 - 09/07/2025 19:33:12 2624706 Link
Replying To Mfs: "Just curious why are people buying tickets from clubs instead of just getting them on ticketmaster. No guarantee club tickets will be any better than the ones on ticketmaster?" Well personally I didn't. 7 of us going. Only 2 of us club members. Didn't think the club would give us that many. Al_Maguire (Donegal) - Posts: 310 - 09/07/2025 19:39:05 2624707 Link
Only Nally and restricted view on sale on ticket master Game heading for a sell out already or are ticketmaster playing silly buggers? shaggykev (Donegal) - Posts: 391 - 09/07/2025 20:26:22 2624714 Link
There's now an article on Donegal Live that the club allocation has now doubled to 6,000 tickets. Still short on order though. Also noted below. The club method may become a thing of the past for most matches. "Coughlan revealed that in conversations with officials from Meath and Kerry during the week, she learned those counties don't distribute tickets through clubs unless it's for a provincial or All-Ireland final. She believes Donegal may have to consider adopting a similar model to avoid the confusion and frustration experienced this week." Al_Maguire (Donegal) - Posts: 310 - 09/07/2025 20:49:36 2624717 Link