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Galway Football thread - 2 Like(s)
Replying To Emmets67: "A very valid point there. Will be interesting to see how the senior team shapes up now the North Board High King has been dethroned." Obviously there are good players from all parts Galway and the bigger population is with 10-15 miles of city ,, but on most if not all Galway 9 senior all Ireland's the north board would have definitely I'd say produce the most forwards , even last : 2 one 98 and 01 u had Donnellan , Fallon savage Padraig and Tommy Joyce Joe Bergen shay Walsh ,, not sure whst it is but most successful all Ireland winning senior teams have north Galway forwards ,
Kickitout (National) - 08/10/2026 20:21:43
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Tiered Leinster SHC - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Pope_Benedict: "I don't agree totally. I think on balance, it's an improvement. What are the advantages? 1) A significant reduction in the volume of round robin mismatches. 2) 2 counties added, but only 2 additional games to be played, so a perfect fit with existing calender. 3) the useless Joe Mc finalists v 3rd place provincial games will be dropped from the allireland schedule, at no loss whatsoever.
I take your point about a lack of jeopardy in the Group A games, but they should still be useful challenge games before the ko rounds, if teams want to treat them that way.
As for 'yoyoing', it's a factor in all levels of GAA and worldwide sports, and isn't something that's usually solved from without, but will solve from within when/if teams become capable of improving their standards. History shows that we've rarely seen such an improvement in 125+ years of hurling.
Nicky Brennan says it's about fixing the 'yoyoing', and 8 team involvement will improve that aspect, but the biggest improvement i see is the change from a 15_1 (and those 15 games were between 3or4 arguably 'strong' teams pitted about 2or3 arguably 'tier2 outfits, which meant that up to half the games were unappealing) split of round robin_ko games to a 12-6 split. That's a ratio change that I would welcome, and the competition has been crying out for imo." On your number 3 in what you say are "advantages", i.e. "he useless Joe Mc finalists v 3rd place provincial games will be dropped from the allireland schedule" -
A point I've been making is that one of the quarter-finals wouldn't be that different at all. It would be 3rd best against 6th best, rather than 3rd best against 7th or 8th best. But in any given year, you'd still expect it to be something like Galway/Dublin/Offaly/Wexford v Kildare/Carlow/Laois/Westmeath, which is exactly the sort of match-up you'd have had in those "useless" old games anyway.
By the way, here's a separate point that hadn't occurred to anybody here, and not to me until I read a bit more about this thing during lunchtime. How to determine the third Leinster team to go through to the All-Ireland series, to play the Munster runner-up?
Turns out there'd be a playoff between the two losing Leinster semi-finalists. Another form of an All-Ireland preliminary quarter-final.
Pikeman96 (National) - 08/10/2026 14:44:58
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Tiered Leinster SHC - 1 Like(s)
Replying To legendzxix: "Not a fan of the format but it's a Leinster matter.
The Group B winner should at least get to host the Group A bottom team in the quarter final. 3rd in Group A possibly hosting the Group B runners up.
Group B is kind of like the old qualifier group. Top 2 going through. If they win the quarter final, they take the place of their beaten opponent. Otherwise they stay in the Group B (Qualifier Group).
If Kerry make the McDonagh Cup final in the future - Kerry should be allowed into Munster. There would have to be musical chairs to fill the gap. Possibly allowing the Ring Cup to reduce to 5 teams for one year so that Group B and the McDonagh group retain 4 teams each. Wrinkles can be ironed out." Rule was actually changed three years ago to say that if Kerry ever win Joe McDonagh, they go into Munster, and Munster temporarily becomes a six-team competition.
But that throws up something else I've just thought of -
The Leinster proposal is that the Joe McDonagh Cup finalists of any given year would be in Group B the following year. Which on the face of it means that if Kerry reach the McDonagh Final, they'd go into Leinster.
And then if they win the McDonagh Final, they'd go into Munster. Would be a fair old fixtures pile-up if they're expected to play in both!
Seriously, though - would expect there'd have to be a safeguard built into the Leinster thing to prohibit Kerry from coming in if they made the McDonagh Final. And then you'd need another playoff, between the two losing McDonagh semi-finalists, to determine the last spot in Leinster Group B for the following year.
This whole thing doesn't get any better in my eyes, but considering top table of Leinster Council themselves are actually backing it, would be a big surprise if it doesn't come in.
Pikeman96 (National) - 08/10/2026 14:50:16
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Galway Football thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Alwaysencourage: "So if lads from Corofin live in Galway they should play for Salthill because they live in the city." No, because they'd be from Corofin. The point is in relation to lads from other counties, living in Galway city but then playing for a club that's not local to them, either where they're from or where they live.
WanPintWin (National) - 08/10/2026 17:07:17
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