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Donegal GAA thread - 3 Like(s)
Get back to coaching skills first, stats second at underage and coach to players strengths.. We have a generation of academic coaches brought up on coaching almost exclusively by stats and rigid gameplans since 2021 and they are risk adverse as they judge performance almost on stats alone . The new rules have brought skills, contact and individual leadership back into the game.. stats should support not dictate https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6826353/2025/12/08/footballers-data-goals-assists-most-important/
LKGael (National) - 23/04/2026 11:57:37
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Wexford Football 2025 - 2 Like(s)
Replying To Pikeman96: "I said I wasn't about to try defend you :)
Bit churlish to try deny that Louth are on the rise. Even if you just confine it to League standings, like you seem to want to do:
In both 2024 and '25, they finished sixth in Division 2. This year, they went into the last round of games with a chance of promotion. Is that not an improvement - i.e. on the rise?
Or in championship - they've gone from being in only one Leinster Final in more than 60 years, to being in the last three finals in a row. Is that not an improvement too - i.e. also on the rise?
Or think about ourselves here. Clearly on something of a rise now (despite last Sunday's result!) after two successive League promotions. But think about the League in the few years before that:
2022 - finished 6th in Division 4. Only won two matches.
2023 - Moved up to 4th place. Finished two points off promotion.
2024 - Finished in 3rd place. Missed promotion only on the head-to-head result with Leitrim after they beat us with a highly controversial last-minute penalty.
I'd contend that we were already on the rise during those few years. But based on how you view Louth, your take on it would be - "Huh. In Division 4 for the three years. If any use, would have made the step up quicker."" Louth have been doing alot of things right over recent years, starting with increasing the number of GPOs/GDAs going around the schools, and working up from there.
Good results on the pitch have naturally followed.
Viking66 (National) - 23/04/2026 14:27:10
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Foreign Born - 2 Like(s)
Replying To countyman2022: "Theres alot from counties in the North who are not Irish with All Ireland medals." Name them, there are none.
Saynothing (National) - 23/04/2026 16:00:02
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Roscommon GAA thread - 2 Like(s)
Replying To MayoDan: "1 game per week is not a punishing schedule for young lads.. Mayo's best performance so far was against Galway and that was their 3rd week in a row playing.
It's quite likely one, if not two, of Mayo's best U20 players will play a significant role for the seniors this Sunday which is a much bigger issue to be dealing with." Irrelevant. Galway wasn't rested coming into that game.
The_analyser (National) - 23/04/2026 09:58:28
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Non-Gaa Forum - 2 Like(s)
Barney - you say "One third from annual report of Prison Service is closer to the daily snapshot for one day chosen by you."
Please show where that report says that.
What it actually says is that 75.3% of committals to prison were Irish nationals. Simple maths shows that means 24.7% were non-nationals. Not one third.
Only mention of one third anywhere (other than by yourself) is in the self-proclaimed "good" estimate on Gript.
And even that refers to the number of committals, whereas your original claim here was that one third of the prison population were non-nationals.
I gave you the most up-to-date correct figures available for the actual prison population, from the same source (Irish Prison Service), and you now dismiss them as just "a daily snapshot" because of how they give such a lie to your own wildly erroneous claim.
Let's leave aside all talk of citizenship, how you seem to believe good people turn bad after getting it, and so on, and concentrate instead on how you're both confusing and conflating a number of different things. Do you still not see?
Pikeman96 (National) - 23/04/2026 15:43:25
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Football Format Changes Discussion - 2 Like(s)
Replying To tirawleybaron: "Just because you inherit a way of doing things, doesn't mean its the way things always should be done.
The Limerick view is not exactly un biased on this. If Limerick get a lucky draw they can get into the Sam Maguire competition by only beating div3 and 4 teams. That's the inherent problem.
Kerry used to have a July Munster final v Cork, then an Ireland semi final in August and All Ireland in September - 3 games, 3 months -All Ireland - could plan for it every year.
Now, Cork & Kerry - particularly if the Munster championship is seeded - will have a munster final tune up, then are seeded in last 16 of All Ireland, with a home draw. This year, Cork had to play relegated Limerick (now Div 4) and Tipp (div 4) to get seeded into last 16 of All Ireland.
Tyrone, are now facing an away trip (potentially all the way down in Tralee or Cork).
What part of the above can you not see as being unbalanced and inherently unfair?
Hurling used to give Galway and Antrim byes into the All Ireland semi finals - they finally admitted it was unfair and changed - its time football copped on also." Short-term - 4 Provincial Champions and 4 highest NFL teams in Pot 1, home venue.
Seanfan (National) - 23/04/2026 10:12:38
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Leitrim GAA thread - 2 Like(s)
Replying To 3rdmidfielder: "Agreed.
This was a great place to discuss Leitrim football, but there is a serious amount of nonsense on it now.
Anyway Im hoping for a good performance on Saturday, Galway are a different animal to anything we faced in a long time. Leitrim Abù." Indeed, I think some of the bucks on this page actually need some help... the help needed is up for debate....
Anyhow moving on, it's going to be a nice sunny day in Carrick on Saturday and my fear is that we'll run out of puff and Galway will just run through us so any tactics will have to take this into account. Not expecting a win... anything under 10 would be a good result to take into the Tailteann and learnings for 2027.
Square_B (National) - 23/04/2026 15:32:34
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Leitrim GAA thread - 2 Like(s)
Replying To leitrimlad15: "I hope they get the road work competed outside Pairc Sean before the game Saturday or it will be carnage." As a rossie living in carrick. I have the same concerns about how long its taking to dig a basic trench along a road. I am now starting to wonder, is this a tactic deployed by poacher to stop the galway bus getting into the pitch.
hontherossie (National) - 23/04/2026 15:13:50
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Leitrim GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To hontherossie: "As a rossie living in carrick. I have the same concerns about how long its taking to dig a basic trench along a road. I am now starting to wonder, is this a tactic deployed by poacher to stop the galway bus getting into the pitch." It's probably just roadworks in fairness
ohwow (National) - 23/04/2026 15:42:34
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Leitrim GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Square_B: "Pot calls the kettle black." Agreed.
This was a great place to discuss Leitrim football, but there is a serious amount of nonsense on it now.
Anyway Im hoping for a good performance on Saturday, Galway are a different animal to anything we faced in a long time. Leitrim Abù.
3rdmidfielder (National) - 23/04/2026 13:54:00
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Football Format Changes Discussion - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Tadhg2020: "Firstly, while I may be originally from Limerick I currently live in Roscommon having lived in Dublin, Kerry, meath and Kildare along the way. My children are Rossies. They are heading to Castlebar on Sunday not just in hope of a win. The Connacht championship is very important to the Rossies. Having had similar discussions over the years with my friends and neighbours, not one of them believe that winning Connacht will have the same status if the link between the Provincial Championship and Sam is broken. Not one honest person would agree with that perspective.
As for me having a biased perspective, I should have as so should everyone. I want it to mean something should limerick ever win a Munster again just as it did for Clare and Tipp. It just wont if the GAA dilute its standing. Thats just a fact.
As for limerick getting a handy draw. You need to educate yourself. The Munster Football Championship is seeded. This greatly annoyed our senior footballers ( limerick voted for it against their wishes) but it is seeded none the less.
You can knock yourself out on this topic but the votes aren't there to bring in the change you want. The winning of a Provincial championship is the holy grail for most counties and they dont want that diminished in any way. It is also the cash cow of the Provincial Councils. They dont want that diminished either. Connacht are charging 35 euro for a child to sit in the stand on Sunday. Prunty says its to generate revenue through the only mechanism that's available to them(250k loss apparently). That shows that he believes there is interest. I dont think he would be doing that if there was no link between Connacht and Sam." The holy grail suggests its the ultimate prize, so why would it need to feed into another competition. The ultimate prize is an all Ireland at your grade.
When you say the votes aren't there, didnt the proposal to remove the link in 2021 get over 50% of the vote just not the 60% needed. Think the GPA were in favour and believe players in some counties who voted against were in favour too but their voices got sidelined.
That propsal wasn't perfect either as it allowed division 3 and 4 winners into the Senior All Ireland, which makes no sense as you're reward for winning your division is likely a slaughtering in the All Ireland series.
The point is though you're making out the vast majority want to retain the link between the provincial and All Ireland and their is no appetite for a change in that but I don't think thats the case at all.
JimB1991 (National) - 23/04/2026 14:08:52
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Roscommon GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To MayoDan: "It's not a question of relying on teenagers, but if they're clearly good enough to start it is disrespectful not to play them in a championship game.
Tommy Conroy has barely played in the last 18 months and looked very rusty anytime he has. Form and ability are more important than senior championship appearances at the end of the day" A fit Tommy Conroy starts for Mayo and the league was used to get him up to speed. You have Towey,Boland plus a few other more established players that could be named to start this Sunday.
One of those teenagers started once in the league for Mayo which was in the heavy loss to Kerry and you have yourself convinced that he should start this Sunday over more seasoned campaigners?
Gaa_lover (National) - 23/04/2026 14:51:06
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Galway Football thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Marooned: "Thought Mulryan looked like the best forward on the pitch. Galway just couldn't get enough ball into him. Especially after half time. Mulhern very loose in possession." Mulhern has shown that he is physically not able for senior yet.
Loads of talent but he's getting horsed out of games easily - even last night with the 20s not to mind the seniors.
He needs to get stronger and eliminate the looseness in his play going forward.
galwayman2 (National) - 23/04/2026 15:14:16
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Westmeath Football thread - 1 Like(s)
Lads, it appears from recent post that there is no Video of the full match available anywhere online, there is no "Westmeath podcast"
How then can it be expected to leverage the excitement of the recent historic win over Meath in a funding campaign???
BarrRst (National) - 23/04/2026 12:35:19
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Leitrim GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Great to see and hear from Ros folk from Carrick on this forum. Plenty of reasonable comments. Love to all.
moros (National) - 23/04/2026 17:13:21
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Leitrim GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To ohwow: "It's probably just roadworks in fairness" Regarding roadworks its just Stephen Poachers way of parking the Bus,,,, Weekend predictions all fun aside ,if Galway do manage to overcome Leitrim in Carrick Its safe to say the margin could be a lot smaller than Roscommons impending defeat to Mayo....
fundamunda (National) - 23/04/2026 18:55:20
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Roscommon GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Gaa_lover: "A fit Tommy Conroy starts for Mayo and the league was used to get him up to speed. You have Towey,Boland plus a few other more established players that could be named to start this Sunday.
One of those teenagers started once in the league for Mayo which was in the heavy loss to Kerry and you have yourself convinced that he should start this Sunday over more seasoned campaigners?" Are you suggesting it was Kobe McDonald's fault Mayo conceded 2-29 vs Kerry? Think it was more of a collective issue myself..
Anyway Kobe has been named to start so Andy has clearly forgiven him for costing us that game!
MayoDan (National) - 23/04/2026 19:19:24
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Galway Football thread - 1 Like(s)
Strong rumours that walsh comer and barry mchugh all amongst the fray for saturday.
caltra04 (National) - 23/04/2026 13:11:35
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Roscommon GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Seanfan: "Well done indeed lads.
I feared the worst when Galway got those handy points at start of 2nd half.
We need everything to go right next week and high possession to scores rate." We need to improve our efficiency in front of goal. This is a good Roscommon U20 team but they've been wasteful in their games so far. Roscommon won't beat Mayo without a big improvement in accuracy up front.
endgame (National) - 23/04/2026 13:11:17
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Monaghan GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Farneyblueandwhite: "Not really considering cavan had twice the wide count of monaghan and missed 4 or 5 goals whereas we missed 2 goal chances but look a win is a win" The better teams take a higher percentage of their scoring opportunities. Monaghan were simply better than Cavan.
Shelbourne1 (National) - 22/04/2026 23:17:23
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