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Replying To ValPadden: "In 2026, when it mattered: - Dublin beat Donegal and Galway comfortably enough. Were unlucky to get caught by Kerry in the Semi Final. - Armagh were skittled by Kerry, after losing to Louth! - Donegal lost to Cork, Down and Dublin! Think only genuine contenders are Dublin, Kerry, Tyrone, Mayo and Galway. top 5 based on last years results." In 2026 Galway beat........Leitrim, Kildare and Westmeath..... Seanfan (Roscommon) - Posts: 1003 - 28/10/2026 12:45:41 2698742 Link
Replying To Seanfan: "In 2026 Galway beat........Leitrim, Kildare and Westmeath....." when you put it that way, Galway shouldn't be included as a contender. Drop it to 4 - Kerry, Tyrone, Dublin and Mayo ValPadden (Galway) - Posts: 21 - 28/10/2026 14:44:40 2698751 Link
Some cracking matches proposed to kick-start the National League in January. Galway v Kerry. (I wonder how Eamonn Fitzmaurice and Jack O Connor both feel about that one?) Mayo v Donegal. Should be a good crowd at that one. Armagh v Roscommon. Close match last year Cork v Meath. Know each other well at this stage. letsgetgoing (Roscommon) - Posts: 967 - 30/10/2026 13:00:50 2698981 Link
Replying To ValPadden: "In 2026, when it mattered: - Dublin beat Donegal and Galway comfortably enough. Were unlucky to get caught by Kerry in the Semi Final. - Armagh were skittled by Kerry, after losing to Louth! - Donegal lost to Cork, Down and Dublin! Think only genuine contenders are Dublin, Kerry, Tyrone, Mayo and Galway. top 5 based on last years results." Honestly how do you justify Galway in that group. Its the same every year before season starts. They won't be contenders with current set of players. winatallcost (Meath) - Posts: 1084 - 01/11/2026 08:29:51 2699138 Link
Replying To winatallcost: "Honestly how do you justify Galway in that group. Its the same every year before season starts. They won't be contenders with current set of players." As I said they beat Leitrim, Kildare and Westmeath in 2026. Hard to predict anything after this year!! Especially as there are up to 10 teams who could beat each other on any given day. Seanfan (Roscommon) - Posts: 1003 - 01/11/2026 12:02:24 2699150 Link
Not sure I buy this "floodgates are open" theory and that just because Mayo finally won the all Ireland now everybody can. Mayo been challenging all my life. It was only a matter of when and not if we eventually got over the line (Only Kerry have been in more finals than Mayo in the last 35 years). For us it will now be about improving that final strike rate which I think we can do. Nothing guaranteed obviously looking towards the future. I've seen counties been mentioned as possible winners now who I've never even seen win a quarter final. One commentator on a midlands radio station wrote in August, "the era of Kerry and Dublin dominating is over." I'm not buying this. yew_tree (Mayo) - Posts: 12317 - 03/11/2026 20:40:33 2699373 Link
Replying To yew_tree: "Not sure I buy this "floodgates are open" theory and that just because Mayo finally won the all Ireland now everybody can. Mayo been challenging all my life. It was only a matter of when and not if we eventually got over the line (Only Kerry have been in more finals than Mayo in the last 35 years). For us it will now be about improving that final strike rate which I think we can do. Nothing guaranteed obviously looking towards the future. I've seen counties been mentioned as possible winners now who I've never even seen win a quarter final. One commentator on a midlands radio station wrote in August, "the era of Kerry and Dublin dominating is over." I'm not buying this." Hard to say for sure. In the late 90s and early 2000's there were plenty of teams coming through between 1990 and 2003 we had 10 different winners in 14 years - we then had a period of dominance by Kerry and Dublin where they won 13 of the next 17 up to 2020. Since then we've had 5 different winners in 6 years. Every chance that Donegal and Galway could extend that to 7 different winners in 8 years. Equally possible is we've entered a period of dominance by Kerry and Mayo who will share the next 5 between them! brianb (Kildare) - Posts: 514 - 11/11/2026 12:18:18 2700056 Link
Replying To yew_tree: "Not sure I buy this "floodgates are open" theory and that just because Mayo finally won the all Ireland now everybody can. Mayo been challenging all my life. It was only a matter of when and not if we eventually got over the line (Only Kerry have been in more finals than Mayo in the last 35 years). For us it will now be about improving that final strike rate which I think we can do. Nothing guaranteed obviously looking towards the future. I've seen counties been mentioned as possible winners now who I've never even seen win a quarter final. One commentator on a midlands radio station wrote in August, "the era of Kerry and Dublin dominating is over." I'm not buying this." Not to be pendatic, but being pendantic, I think Dublin have also been in more finals than Mayo in the last 35 years. 12 v 11 without including replays. With replays included they'd still have played in more, as they both had two each. WanPintWin (Galway) - Posts: 3168 - 11/11/2026 13:17:31 2700068 Link
Replying To WanPintWin: "Not to be pendatic, but being pendantic, I think Dublin have also been in more finals than Mayo in the last 35 years. 12 v 11 without including replays. With replays included they'd still have played in more, as they both had two each." By my count Mayo and Dublin were level on final appearances….ill need to check it again. Either way they are more or less level on that. yew_tree (Mayo) - Posts: 12317 - 11/11/2026 14:56:57 2700092 Link