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Sligo GAA thread - 3 Like(s)
Replying To eoinog: "Do you get paid to showboat between the different counties ?. You have about 3 posts on the Galway page about the game." Paid and showboat?. Watched the match live posted at half time and full time on the Galway thread and then gave my praise to Sligo on here. As for you enough of playing the WUM more than tiresome at this stage.
Drax_the_destroyer (National) - 03/04/2025 13:28:14
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Micko - 2 Like(s)
Wicklow 1-15 Down 0-17.
Thank you Micko.
sponger (National) - 03/04/2025 13:33:16
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Donegal GAA thread - 2 Like(s)
Replying To panamasam: "Brilliant win. The pace and the execution was a sight to behold. Definitely the best drilled underage Donegal side that I've seen in quite a few years. McCahill has looked exceptional anytime I've seen him play and is one expect to establish himself as a top senior in the next few years but in truth there are a few in that team who will do the same. It's only a group game so nothing won yet and Derry looks exceptionally strong too. I expect it'll be alot closer if to meet Tyrone again. However this is an excellent opportunity to reach an Ulster final and maybe win won. I attended a Leinster U-20 game last week and the standard last night was light years ahead. The defending and turnovers were excellent, hallmarks of the senior side. Plus the fitness levels were through the roof so no surprise to hear many of the twenties were in with the seniors. A couple of negatives were maybe under utilising the kicking game especially during the Tyrone press. We were lucky a couple of times when over holding the ball and while not a major negative it was a shame to not see Finbar Roarty and McElholm go head to head as both in with the seniors. The latter was a massive loss to Tyrone so they have the potential to improve drastically if he is allowed to play later in the championship." Massive result last night, great credit due to manager and his backroom team and players for how they are going about their business. Great to see Shane Ward involved too following debacle with minors a few years ago. A long time time since we have beaten a Tyrone or derry time at minor or u20 level augers we'll for future
totalrecall (National) - 03/04/2025 14:42:40
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Leitrim GAA thread - 2 Like(s)
Replying To Taytofoley83: "I guess we can finally see the (it's been like this for 15 years btw) the state of Leitrim football. It's miles off where it could be. It's time to call the county board out they've failed the sponsors players and supporters. They've pumped endless money in senior set ups but that's like building a hotel on a bog with no foundations. They've forgotten about the underage set up for years and were reaping the rewards of this now. When was the last Connaught Final appearance at any age level for us, not being in a senior one for 24 years is mad. When you think of the province were in where winning 1 game some years could get you their. Granted Mayo,Galway and Roscommon are streets ahead of us but now sligo have started working from the bottom up and let's be honest it would be 50/50 if we'd beat New York or London at present standing. There is supremely talented ballers in Leitrim no doubt but the physique of those players unfortunately aren't geared for inter county. I will say to another poster on here that we fail to compete when our senior champions head into Connaught. Ballinamore should've bested westport in a Connaught final, (westport won intermediate allireland same year) Ballinamore also should've beaten Mountbellew in Connaught Senior aswell only few years ago). Mohill took Bridgits to the wire two years ago and Bridgits were the kick of the ball from beating Glen in the All Ireland Final. So we can compete, but the moral of it all is we need the best players in the county on the field at the moment we don't have that, there's 3 years of proper s and c from the Andy Moran tenure gone down the swanny and the new group are at scratch. But County Board need to talk to the players and see why they left Poachers set up.
Proper foundations in underage starting with matches for our club players. We have I think it was u15u17s last year if you got to a final you got 6 games in the year if you didn't make the final you got 5. 5 games in 12 months, mayo have up towards the 30, same in Galway. That's just a basic one, more games will mean higher standards. So many problems to fix its just disappointing." We have so many examples close at hand of counties performing at their optimum. They're not necessarily following the same blueprint as each other. They've applied the right plan to their own challenges.
Sligo is one example. It was evident 7 or 8 years ago that Sligo were investing in proper coaching at underage level. Their record at underage in recent years speaks for itself. They're building towards sustainable success at senior level. Sligo GAA has to compete with soccer and rugby for players. They've met these challenges head on and are reaping the rewards.
We don't have a plan. If there is a malaise regarding the "effort" made by Leitrim Gaa to instill proper coaching standards that's understandable. They've had lots of time to implement a plan but have failed miserably. There's a lack of confidence in them. It's seen as a box ticking exercise.
ThePowerhouse (National) - 03/04/2025 11:08:01
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Leitrim GAA thread - 2 Like(s)
Replying To gaelsboy: "All great ideas... except if you did a clear out of coaches and CB officials deemed apathetic or not up to scratch to do their appointed role, you would badly struggle to fill those positions, no one would be lining up to take them.
Am i right or wrong? Any willing and able personnel should be directed towards underage structures, adult is a cesspool of wasted money and resources for the next 5 years at least.
Plenty of other counties are not and will not win any titles in the near future but when you are falling behind the likes on London and NY in terms of panel strength we may throw our hat into the AI junior championship with Kilkenny, we might get a win or two there" I don't necessarily agree with your point about there being a lack of replacements at coaching level or county board level. As it stands a lot of people have turned their backs on the county because of how its been run. I believe there is a willingness to change but it requires the right person/people taking charge.
With all due respect to those in power at present it has to be looked at as if it is a business thats failing. This does not necessarily mean that the present County board should resign but there should be an acknowledgement that the problems are too big for them to solve alone. There are well intentioned people there but they don't have the skillset to change things.
It has to be treated like the crisis that it is. If it was a business it would be closed but obviously we can't do that. Instead we have to acknowledge where we are going wrong and take steps to correct them. It requires suitably qualified people to take charge of this. If we have to pay these people then thats money well spent. The absolute certainty is that they cannot be from Leitrim. We are loathe to offend anyone. Hence our current position.
With regard to our coaches. It's clear that there is an unwillingness to move on. Presumably their performance would be part of any review/plan. Harsh lessons would have to be learned. A valuable one would be to ensure that its not allowed to happen again. You'd be expected to perform like those of us in the real world.
We are at our lowest point. Unfortunately it can get worse but i genuinely feel that if there was a coherent plan put in place by professional people the people who have turned their backs would support it. There's not a hope in hell of that right now.
ThePowerhouse (National) - 03/04/2025 16:08:26
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Do Kerry Get Frees A Bit Too Easy? - 2 Like(s)
Replying To peiledoir20: "It's three days after that game lad, get over it. Time to put away the tissues now." I have lad, couldn't care less. My first comment on all this. It's an internet forum and I was replying to the Kerry poster. That's the nature of forums. I didn't know there was a time limit. Have a nice day.
yew_tree (National) - 03/04/2025 08:21:03
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Galway Football thread - 2 Like(s)
Our underage football set up seems to be on the slide. The talent is there in the clubs, but there is something wrong at county level. Not good enough.
The Development squads of hurling v football are interesting to watch. Hurling is out ahead now. Hurling are trialling all the young dual players first and selecting squads before football are even getting going.
Also, this Galway Town soccer feeder team malarkey, as a development path for Galway United, has many of the most talented, multi code playing young sportsmen taken in with pipe dreams of becoming professional soccer players. Once these 14, 15 and 16 year olds 'sign' with Galway United, they're, let's just say, strongly discouraged to persist with other codes. Some brilliant young footballers are being taken out of the equation for football for both club and county. It's ridiculous of Galway United to tell these young men not to play Gaelic games for club and county, and its putting people off supporting them. They should change this policy and there needs to be a bit of honesty with parents and kids about the likelihood of their Johnny playing for Liverpool! The stats tell the tale. There are 22 million registered youth soccer players (u18) globally. That may be a very conservative number. In La Liga in Spain, of the gifted soccer players that make it into those top flight teams' academies, just 4% have made it through to play for those teams. And just another 6% of those La Liga dev squads go on to play at any professional grade in lower leagues. In England, the FA reported just 0.5% of players under 9 years old that are signed by professional teams eventually go on to play for the first team. So less than half of one percent of those kids already gifted enough to be called into a Liverpool or Arsenal or Man U academy actually make it. The chances of Galway Town / Galway United bringing through a player that can have a well paying career in soccer are minuscule. And yet they take tons of talent out of the Galway pipeline by selling the dream. It's a pity.
togoutlads (National) - 02/04/2025 23:23:12
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Leitrim GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To 3rdmidfielder: "The definition of stupidly is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.
It's a crisis at this stage.
I think we need to think outside the box. I don't believe we can fix it ourselves, we will need outside help.
We need to employ experts to do a root and branch review of everything from our county teams to club structures etc. It should be an easy fix (with the right people driving it), it's not Rocket science.
I don't think we can fix the problem ourselves. I don't what to run down the county board or club delegates they are doing their best, but what they are doing is not working.
In my opinion it would be money well spent. And Croke Park should help out.
An intercounty team conceding an national league game should have raised enough alarm bells. All to hold lads back for an under 20 championship where we have already received two trashings.
Was it worth the embarrassment?" I've always had a good oul grá for Leitrim but just amazed at what has been allowed to happen recently. The nub here is yee sabotaged your own county senior team which was already depleted, by unbelievably allowing your U20 management withdraw their players. In the process ye devastate the seniors ability to field a team in a NFL game.
All for what?,, Yir U20's despite all the promulgation still got hammered and your seniors left unable to field.
The nub here is, who stood over this crazy decision?
PeterQ92 (National) - 03/04/2025 16:28:36
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Leitrim GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
I would always say, being a good footballer is like learning a foreign language. Doing it for a couple of hours a week won't make you fluent, the same way doing a couple of training sessions a week won't make you a good footballer. I've been to a good few club games down in Tipperary over the years and you have hundred of young lads of all ages running around with hurly in their hands. You don't have many young lads running around with a football at leitrim club games. You can blame coaches and all that but it very much comes back to the clubs and that and as seen over the years, when our clubs looks good in leitrim but are extremely poor going into Connacht. It's very much a culture problem as many players see winning a leitrim title as career high rather than representing the county
Leitrim_12 (National) - 03/04/2025 17:07:53
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Leitrim GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To ThePowerhouse: "100%" Just to clarify, I agree with your overall point. I'm not saying it was worth the embarrassment!
ThePowerhouse (National) - 03/04/2025 15:27:52
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Roscommon GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
For Sligo U20s to top the group they would need to win their remaining games and hope Roscommon slip up in at least one of their remaining two games.
Gaa_lover (National) - 03/04/2025 20:55:41
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Micko - 1 Like(s)
Saddened to hear of Micko's passing. At a time when the word legend is bandied about far too easily Micko was a true GAA legend and icon.
As a Kildare man he gave me memories that will ladt until my dyiing day. The famous 13 men victory over Laois in '97, the three game saga with Meath. The glory that is '98, although sadly didn't end with Sam still brought us unforgettable days, ending the Dublin hoodoo, winning our first Leinster in 42 years. And 2000, the comeback against Offaly and coming from six points down to beat the Dubs in the Leinster Final.
We will never see his likes again.
Deepest sympathy to the O'Dwyer family.
Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam dílis
LilywhiteGael (National) - 03/04/2025 15:20:58
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Leitrim GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To 3rdmidfielder: "The definition of stupidly is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.
It's a crisis at this stage.
I think we need to think outside the box. I don't believe we can fix it ourselves, we will need outside help.
We need to employ experts to do a root and branch review of everything from our county teams to club structures etc. It should be an easy fix (with the right people driving it), it's not Rocket science.
I don't think we can fix the problem ourselves. I don't what to run down the county board or club delegates they are doing their best, but what they are doing is not working.
In my opinion it would be money well spent. And Croke Park should help out.
An intercounty team conceding an national league game should have raised enough alarm bells. All to hold lads back for an under 20 championship where we have already received two trashings.
Was it worth the embarrassment?" 100%
ThePowerhouse (National) - 03/04/2025 15:05:31
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Kerry GAA Thread - 1 Like(s)
Just popping in to offer my respect and condolences for the great Mick O'Dwyer.
Himself and Heffo saved gaelic football and made it sexy.
'Legend' for once will not be loosely thrown around.
realdub (National) - 03/04/2025 14:45:05
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Micko - 1 Like(s)
I remember years ago John Kelly used to host a late night artsy programme on RTÉ 1. There'd be a section where the panel reviewed latest video releases.
Anyway in the runup to Christmas 1998 the panel were reviewing A Year til Sunday & David Norris was on the panel. When asked for his view, Norris said he was bored stiff by the video, but he found the tradition of the losing manager addressing the winners as "quite extraordinary".
It cut to the clip of Micko addressing the victorious Galway team with humility, wit & grace. I was never Micko's biggest fan, but that clip always stuck with me. As much as he won, the measure of him was how he reacted to defeat.
Ar Dheis Dé go raibh a h-anam
Smokeless Red (National) - 03/04/2025 18:02:21
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Leitrim GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To 3rdmidfielder: "The definition of stupidly is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.
It's a crisis at this stage.
I think we need to think outside the box. I don't believe we can fix it ourselves, we will need outside help.
We need to employ experts to do a root and branch review of everything from our county teams to club structures etc. It should be an easy fix (with the right people driving it), it's not Rocket science.
I don't think we can fix the problem ourselves. I don't what to run down the county board or club delegates they are doing their best, but what they are doing is not working.
In my opinion it would be money well spent. And Croke Park should help out.
An intercounty team conceding an national league game should have raised enough alarm bells. All to hold lads back for an under 20 championship where we have already received two trashings.
Was it worth the embarrassment?" All great ideas... except if you did a clear out of coaches and CB officials deemed apathetic or not up to scratch to do their appointed role, you would badly struggle to fill those positions, no one would be lining up to take them.
Am i right or wrong? Any willing and able personnel should be directed towards underage structures, adult is a cesspool of wasted money and resources for the next 5 years at least.
Plenty of other counties are not and will not win any titles in the near future but when you are falling behind the likes on London and NY in terms of panel strength we may throw our hat into the AI junior championship with Kilkenny, we might get a win or two there
gaelsboy (National) - 03/04/2025 14:25:49
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Galway Football thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To suckvalleypaddy: "Very negative rubbish here as usual about the younger teams, they are learning, end of story" I am sorry but that's a cop out there is no reason we can't be better coached other than what they are be coached which has been rubbish, looking at last night's game looked like they had no clue what they were at, Management coming out saying they were flat and Wednesday games are not fair is also rubbish, it's always who you know in the county board the 2 managers of the most important groups for development of players are not proven managers, and someone will say savo was player manger with Cortoon but that's still not enough in my opinion, which i am allowed to have we are looking at winning a senior all Ireland we need lads coming through at both codes,
Fox.1n.7he.b0x (National) - 03/04/2025 14:02:39
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Galway Football thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Green&Gold2013: "Galway underage results the last few years have been poor and worrying. We must start looking into this. Our Development squads from u17 down are not up to the standard.
The quality of coaches is poor but also the coach to player ratio is at least 30 to 1. What are the development officers doing to recruit quality coaches from clubs to help out ? Are we putting enough GDOs in schools ? I know for a fact there has been quality dual players who have favoured the Hurling as the development squads are run more professionally.
13/14/15/16 year olds are no fools, it's not good enough to throw out a ball and tell them to go play. On a side note I think the S&C side of things is a positive with the introduction of Setanta but our skill levels and game IQ is what needs developing." Very poor last evening, while we seem to have very capable players on team and panel, the running game being persisted with is playing into the hands of other teams.
giveitlong (National) - 03/04/2025 13:40:10
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Leitrim GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Question needs to be asked of the management team, these young lads have been training for 6 months plus. People blowing up James Glancy for being this great coach, I don't see it.
Is this the best they could get out of the team over 6 months plus.
williesboy (National) - 03/04/2025 13:31:35
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Micko - 1 Like(s)
RIP to a great man, he was an absolute gentleman.
Bon (National) - 03/04/2025 13:16:03
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