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Hurling - Merging Counties - 3 Like(s)
As a hurling man in Roscommon, I wouldn't be against a rest of Connacht amalgamation and think it would be quite exciting actually. We used to be a clear no 2 in Connacht, those days are over ,Mayo have taken that mantle and Sligo have come on in leaps and bounds and there's always an exceptional hurler or two in Leitrim . If you filtered the best on offer from the 4 counties, got the right preparation and were prepared to persevere, you would expect to be very competitive at Tier 2 with a chance to break through the glass ceiling.
I also think there is a bit of a bond between the hurling communities in the counties and the deep inter county football rivalry wouldn't be a factor.
facethepuckout (National) - 09/11/2025 22:02:09
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Donegal GAA thread - 2 Like(s)
Too many clubs in Senior Championship. Needs a shakeup. 16 should be reduced to 12.
It means top of Intermediate is way below that of other counties.
Monaghan, while a smaller population, has 10 Senior clubs so Intermediate champions are around 11th best. In Donegal it's around 17th best.
12 clubs in Senior, 2 groups of 6, seeded based on League (makes League more important), 5 games, top two in each into semis.
Same in Intermediate & Junior and maybe look at a second Junior level to include top reserve teams with bottom Junior clubs.
Newman21 (National) - 10/11/2025 08:19:10
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Club Championship Predictions Competition - Week2 - 2 Like(s)
This week's scores and updated leaderboard:
Week2:
Username Weekly Score
drumalee 10
eoinog 10
Juande Ramos 9
Tirchonaill1 9
Lula 8
SayNothing 7
peiledoir 7
legendzxix 6
Viking66 6
Yourjoking 6
Lockjaw 5
Dermy 5
bloodandbandage 5
FullOfPorter 5
CTGAA10 4
ORIELMAN 4
Auldleitrimgael 0
supersub 0
*** UPDATED LEADERBOARD ***
Username Overall Score
Juande Ramos 17
drumalee 14
eoinog 14
Tirchonaill1 13
FullOfPorter 13
Dermy 12
SayNothing 11
peiledoir 11
legendzxix 10
Viking66 10
Yourjoking 10
Lockjaw 9
bloodandbandage 9
Lula 8
CTGAA10 7
ORIELMAN 7
Auldleitrimgael 3
supersub 3
Lockjaw (National) - 10/11/2025 09:03:39
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Carlow GAA thread - 2 Like(s)
Replying To Collio: "2 v 1 'twice as many', stop trying to make things look better than they are. Simple fact is club hurling is not as strong as you people try to make it out to be." Club provinvial hurling is generally closer to intercounty standard than club provincial Football. Most of the teams that make provincial club hurling championships have a higher percentage of intercounty players than most of the clubs who make intercounty football championships.
Check it out for yourself.
Viking66 (National) - 10/11/2025 12:31:07
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Leitrim GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To IronSleeve: "Like a lot of problems, the solution is money. Carrot and stick. Increase the referee fee for each game significantly. This is paid for by fining clubs heavily who don't put forward refs. Quotas for each club e.g. one team in championship football a club has to have one ref available. Three teams three refs." Fining clubs for misbehaving coaches/supporters would prove lucrative. Less abuse, more refs. I'm no shrinking violet but the behaviour of coaches/supporters is getting harder and harder to listen to. If it happened on the street they'd end up in court. Apparently normal functioning members of our own communities lose all sanity once they enter a ground.
Doubling up on matches would also solve a number of issues. Ref an underage match (25 mins a side) and a youth or adult one after. Have seen it done. Same venue. Less cost for the ref, twice the money. Gets rid of the backlog at underage as well.
ThePowerhouse (National) - 10/11/2025 10:25:52
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Carlow GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Viking66: "Club provinvial hurling is generally closer to intercounty standard than club provincial Football. Most of the teams that make provincial club hurling championships have a higher percentage of intercounty players than most of the clubs who make intercounty football championships.
Check it out for yourself." That's plainly because there's less hurling clubs/hurlers compared to football.
Can we stop with the whining from both sides please?
CarlowJuniorB (National) - 10/11/2025 15:37:27
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Club Championship Predictions Competition - Week3 - 1 Like(s)
These are the fixtures I could find for this coming weekend
Athy v Summerhill
St Martins v Portarlington
The Downs v Tullamore
Castletown Liam Mellows v Ballyboden
Leitrim Gaels v Moycullen
St Brigids v Ballina
Clonmel v St Finbarrs
Lockjaw (National) - 10/11/2025 13:43:27
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Roscommon GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
All confirmed, Connacht GAA needed a day to decide on Croans venue and have gone with Ballyforan a pity it's clashing as would have liked to attend all three semi finals
On Saturday
Connacht Intermediate semi-final.
Strokestown v Allen Gaels (Leitrim) in Dr Hyde Park at 1:30pm
On Sunday
Connacht Senior Semi final.
St Brigids v Ballina (Mayo) in Dr Hyde Park at 1:30pm
Connacht Junior semi final
St Croan's v Kiltimagh (Mayo) in Ballyforan at 1:30pm
The_analyser (National) - 10/11/2025 13:40:20
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Non-Gaa Forum - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Doylerwex: "This conversation has taken a turn. That depends on whether or not you believe Mary was born with original sin which is the essence of my point.
We are all sinners.
I don't agree with the second part. How many people do you know that don't do bad stuff?
Try as I might I'm committing at least one of the 7 deadly sins every week." Sin was a religious concept to leave you perpetually with guilt and obeying the church is conveniently your only way of ridding yourself of the sin. Hey lads not sure ye realise but ye are all sinners, and you will never get into heaven without ridding yourself of the terrible sin you are all born with...how do we do that Patrick....oh the only way is joining my church and doing everything I tell you. If a salesman came to your door trying to pull that stunt you'd rightly call them a scam artist.
FullOfPorter (National) - 10/11/2025 13:36:53
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Sligo GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Shamrock Gaels were unable to match the physically stronger Galway team. I was surprised at how heavy the pitch was. Football in November suits stronger and more physical teams. The Kelly's had big games for Moycullen.
Taypot (National) - 10/11/2025 11:37:51
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Donegal GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Newman21: "Too many clubs in Senior Championship. Needs a shakeup. 16 should be reduced to 12.
It means top of Intermediate is way below that of other counties.
Monaghan, while a smaller population, has 10 Senior clubs so Intermediate champions are around 11th best. In Donegal it's around 17th best.
12 clubs in Senior, 2 groups of 6, seeded based on League (makes League more important), 5 games, top two in each into semis.
Same in Intermediate & Junior and maybe look at a second Junior level to include top reserve teams with bottom Junior clubs." Whole heartedly agree, been very poor at Senior level since Gweedore won it. Junior we tend to do ok when the Junior team is playing division 2 league football. Muff last season got to the All Ireland Junior Final. Overall we do need to change the structures of the championship. League football has become a non event, make it so division 1 = Senior Championship, Division 2 = Intermediate and division 3 = Junior it would make leagues more competitive. Also I think running off the championships so soon might have led the teams to being undercooked, nearly a 4 week break for most teams since their county finals.
dgcrusader (National) - 10/11/2025 11:08:00
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Carlow GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Collio: "They also haven't won a game in Leinster since 2017." 2018 they lost by 6 to a good Coolderry team.
2019 St Mullins beat Cuala from Dublin and Rathdowney from Laois.
2021 MLR lost by 6 to Ballyhale, who narrowly lost the AI final.
2022 St Mullins beat our county champions
2023 MLR lost to OLG, who lost the AI final by just 1 point.
2024 St Mullins lost to KK from Offaly.
That's all pretty good when you consider the long lay off your county champions have.
Since Hanrahans won their last title in 2000 you have reached twice as many Hurling Leinster finals as Football ones.
Viking66 (National) - 10/11/2025 10:40:53
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Roscommon GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To leitrim4sam: "Disrespect shown to Leitrim clubs is shocking. Moycullen still have to beat Leitrim Gaels to reach the final, now I agree they'll be hottest of hot favourites to do so- but still they have to beat them.
Some of the comments on here:
" Pearses, Ballina, Moycullen is as tough as any route to a provincial title."
" Now I expect Brigids to beat Ballina but in the final they'll be up against the favourites Moycullen"
" Moycullen defensively are not that great or at least not good enough to go all the way. Their midfield without Cooke not great either. But he will be there for a Connacht final."
Now I also think Moycullen will be in the final, they are strong strong favourites to advance but have some respect, they have another game to play first.
As for intermediate :
"Intermediate looks very tough, Kilmeena will fancy themselves and Caltra will be no pushover"
Allen Gaels will be no push over either" Respect is generally earned. No Leitrim club has won the senior Connacht club title and it's 1997 since reaching the final a stat that unlikely to change against Moycullen regardless of how many Fermanagh brothers has been added to the Leitrim Gaels team or how many training sessions Jim McGuinness had with the team.
It's ten year since a Leitrim club reached the Intermediate Connacht final and again no Leitrim club has won that title. Allen Gaels beating both Strokestown,Kilmeena will certainly earn respect but I can't see that happening.
Gaa_lover (National) - 09/11/2025 21:54:42
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Club Championship Predictions Competition - Week2 - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Lockjaw: "This week's scores and updated leaderboard:
Week2:
Username Weekly Score
drumalee 10
eoinog 10
Juande Ramos 9
Tirchonaill1 9
Lula 8
SayNothing 7
peiledoir 7
legendzxix 6
Viking66 6
Yourjoking 6
Lockjaw 5
Dermy 5
bloodandbandage 5
FullOfPorter 5
CTGAA10 4
ORIELMAN 4
Auldleitrimgael 0
supersub 0
*** UPDATED LEADERBOARD ***
Username Overall Score
Juande Ramos 17
drumalee 14
eoinog 14
Tirchonaill1 13
FullOfPorter 13
Dermy 12
SayNothing 11
peiledoir 11
legendzxix 10
Viking66 10
Yourjoking 10
Lockjaw 9
bloodandbandage 9
Lula 8
CTGAA10 7
ORIELMAN 7
Auldleitrimgael 3
supersub 3" Hi Lockjaw. Could u check my score when u have time. Think I predicted the correct score in the Ballina match. Thanks
Dermy (National) - 10/11/2025 09:51:39
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Longford GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Well done to Northern Gaels on their win in the under 21 C Championship.
Spinx (National) - 10/11/2025 08:46:47
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Non-Gaa Forum - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Doylerwex: "I agree with that. The only good person ever was crucified." Is it not true to say Mary was equally as good a person when they were both on earth, also not doing bad stuff is another way of doing good.
supersub15 (National) - 10/11/2025 08:40:49
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Sligo GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
From not giving Shamrock Gaels any chance before the game to saying a great opportunity was wasted after losing by 11 points?
Gaa_lover (National) - 09/11/2025 22:00:47
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