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Leitrim GAA thread - 5 Like(s)
Honeyman, Cox and Guckian were our best players on show yesterday.
Conor Quinn had some really good catches but physically he can't sustain it for a long period and not near a full game. Hopefully now with S&C he will improve further.
Our U20 players are really standing out which is good for the future - but theyve all been earmarked to make an impact for years.
Worryingly I'm not seeing any of the 'new players' who have been drafted in this year making an impact or coming to terms with the higher level of football they are at. Not sure if thats a poor reflection on the coaching they are receiving or if they are just not able for it.
On a separate note (hopefully the Admin won't cut this) The county board need to really cut out the nonsense with the posts on our social media pages from a fan (who is obviously a great reflection of our support) but I'm not sure why his opinions are being broadcast ahead of everyone elses. It was nice the first few times but unfortunately now the posts are just cringy and increasingly irrelevant.
Leitrim1234 (National) - 03/03/2025 12:24:16
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Wexford Hurling 2025 - 3 Like(s)
Replying To theboys: "No he wasn't he was sweeping for most of it if u look at it!!!" He wasn't sweeping at any stage of the game. Not sure what match you were at.
countyman2022 (National) - 03/03/2025 08:53:06
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Non-Gaa Forum - 3 Like(s)
Replying To Lockjaw: "So true. I wonder would some Irish people be as belligerent about immigration if their sick child needed emergency medal attention from a Filopino nurse, or God forbid, a Syrian doctor?" They're too ignorant to join the dots. Find a racist and you'll discover that their lives are a failure. Look at the chief protagonists in this country. Bunch of wasters and scroungers.
ThePowerhouse (National) - 03/03/2025 10:27:13
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Leitrim GAA thread - 3 Like(s)
Replying To Square_B: "Nothing but an apologist... poor auld Leitrim mentality. What a joke." You haven't got a clue of what's going on, you just come on here and rant on your random nonsense, you must be a terrible frustrated person, trying to live out what seems your own inadequacy in other people! You probably need to attend a few matches and see with your own blinkered eyes the efforts being made by some excellent young players to improve performance of Leitrim football. Any way have a nice week ahead.
Leitrim@1960 (National) - 03/03/2025 12:44:11
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David Clifford GOAT - 3 Like(s)
Replying To CorkLiamMcCarthy24: "Con overrated. Wouldn't make a full strength Kerry team." Why would he want to. If he played for Kerry sure he wouldn't have all those All Ireland medals in his back pocket now would he
Liffeylad (National) - 02/03/2025 21:19:36
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Leitrim GAA thread - 2 Like(s)
Replying To martinjoe: "Well it looks like Poacher is starting to turn things around, great effort form such a young team." Is there no Mayo thread you can comment on?
Square_B (National) - 02/03/2025 17:09:03
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Galway Hurling thread - 2 Like(s)
Replying To Viking66: "Most of the newer faces only in the 1st League game though?" What I'd consider 'new players' not necessariyl debutants:
Tipp: Sean Murphy
Michael Garvey
TJ Brennan (Not new but looking to break into the team)
Donal O Se
Rory Burke
Oisin Lohan
Liam Collins
Shane Morgan
John Fleming
Burns (Brief run off the bench)
Kilkenny:
Shane Morgan
Gavin Lee ( new to CB)
TJ Brennan
FLeming
Tiernan Killeen (Has only really broken into the team this year)
Fleming
John Cooney
McLoughlin (Like Killeen newish)
Burns (Off Bench)
Clare:
Dan Loftus
Lee
Cillian Trayers
Fleming
Killeen
Burns
Morgan
Wexford:
Lee
Garvey
Mcloughlin
Burns
Killeen
Colm Molloy
So I would say the experimentation has decreased gradually as the league has gone on but MD has done a good job of trending towards the championship team while still casting a wide net.
While some of the above are not 'new' exactly, the Likes of Lee and Killeen starting at 6 and 11 is a breath of fresh air. i think one of the big frustrations with Shefflin was that you'd see a wide variety of lads on the Walsh Cup and they would never be backed when the league started not to mind championship. we're still not technically safe so hard to know what way we'll approcah the last 2 games
Overdahill (National) - 03/03/2025 09:40:34
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Wexford Hurling 2025 - 2 Like(s)
He got a lovely point in the game. I hope Reck didn't get a bad injury. He has had hamstring issues before although I thought he looked OK walking off.
Agree with Wexford being wasteful we'd 9 more wides than Galway, seems to be a Wexford trait over the years. I thought we were competitive till the end apart from first 15 mins of 2nd half.
Also thought Stacks decisions were spiteful against us at times. Dunno if intentional or not maybe he trying to be anything but a home town ref decision man but I thought he was shocking.
Especially in last 10 mins. He gave so many borderline frees to them and of course they wound down the clock very well.
WEXILE (National) - 03/03/2025 10:49:04
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Galway Football thread - 2 Like(s)
Replying To Alwaysencourage: "Lord above it would kill Ciaran Whelan to give Galway any kudos at all.The only reason he is against two pointer rule is that Dublin haven't mastered it yet but when they do he will be all for it.Also Galway saved the penalty so give a bit of respect to the keeper." Cawley giving that penalty!!
Just watched it there, never a penalty in a million years,
Belclare7 (National) - 02/03/2025 22:17:53
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Sligo GAA thread - 2 Like(s)
Replying To RealSouthSligo: "In all fairness man, I enjoy your posts but this one is simply rubbish and sorry to say it highlights your football knowledge. On this forum, people (Including yourself) have stated that Sligo Management are too slow in making changes, then , when they do and the result goes against them - it is the management's fault. As you highlighted you were not at the game so these opinions are not your own. All we know you could be speaking to a biased opinion.
When is someone going to ask the question to the players? Management cannot go on the field and play the game for them, the group have be disappointed themselves with the final result. "McEntee was not on the field against Laois either" - no idea what this comment means ? Took a risk - Why did they take a risk? Players did not start because they were not playing well, does mean that Management keep starting lads that are not performing.
I am not on this forum to slate anyone but sorry - had to call you out this time.
Overall I was very happy with the performance to be honest, I have been at all Sligo games this year, this was their best performance (Bar last 7 mins) . Clare beating Kildare last Sunday means we probably need 3 wins from our last 3 games to be confident of staying up.
Great to see a huge Sligo support there, I would say we matched and probably had more fans than Fermanagh." I've been fairly supportive of the management all throughout his tenure and agree with you that they have faced unfair criticism at times. However, in this particular game I feel that the changes came to early on, in particular Quinn's case. It was definitely their best performance and deserved a win given how long they had controlled the game for. Yes players have to take responsibility on the field, but they also need to be coached how to see out the game, or those who come on need to have clear instructions and be ready to take on the pace of the game. You need to keep the foot down with the new rules, Derry found that out yesterday against Donegal.
Throwing on lads perhaps for the sake of giving them a run out or "resting" fellas who put in a great shift and thinking the game was done and dusted, was not a wise move. I ask the question about McEntee being gone from the line as I'm wondering is it a suspension or preferential decision to get an aerial view of the game.
We have to get at least 2 wins now, but the key one is against Antrim. Obviously you want to go out and win every game but beating Antrim at this stage is a must more so than Clare.
Sligoman1234 (National) - 03/03/2025 10:59:00
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Non-Gaa Forum - 2 Like(s)
Replying To Trump2020: "Why would any Irish come back to an Ireland where it's "Irish Last" in favor of non Irish and even non European in an attempt to make the country look like the worse parts of Detroit or London? Meanwhile the worthless Irish "news" Media lulls them to sleep by keeping them distracted with gender nonsense or worrying about Trump. Wake up woke people." That's a point I've always been making to people too, Trump and all his antics is a great smokescreen to deflect from the shortcomings of our own leaders and how they've failed the people of this country. But sure, let's all just keep obsessed with orange fella...
Bon (National) - 02/03/2025 19:38:05
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Monaghan GAA thread - 2 Like(s)
Good win today that display in second half will keep the feet on the ground after great display in first half. No bad thing. Big one in two weeks said at start of this league if we got our heads right we'd be fine in this division as players are there. The winning feeling compared to last year has just about done that. Meath are flying. Live in the county and good buzz and a seriousness about them for first time in years. Navan be a good test of where monaghan are really at be a big crowd as paddys weekend. Whoever wins will more than likely go up with roscommon. Think both sides are in sam maguire now regardless which is really important also. Hopefully bar the long term injuries we will be at full strength.
seanie08 (National) - 02/03/2025 17:31:43
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Leitrim GAA thread - 2 Like(s)
Replying To Square_B: "Is there no Mayo thread you can comment on?" Why are you always so hostile to other counties contributing to this thread? There is quite a lot of good will from other counties to Leitrim, of course if you had played the game at any decent level you might better understand this! Have a nice evening! Well done to the young kids that played for Leitrim today, you can really see the improvement, hopefully the u20 players will benefit from the intensity of division 3 football when it comes to their own championship! Leitrim Abu!
Leitrim@1960 (National) - 02/03/2025 18:46:42
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David Clifford GOAT - 2 Like(s)
Replying To oneoff: "By who?
Classic Mayo the world is always out to get ye isn't it?" Lol Lol.
TheFlaker (National) - 03/03/2025 14:50:02
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David Clifford GOAT - 2 Like(s)
Replying To anon: "I don't think he has come up short in too many performances at key times.
Year 1 - scored 4-14 across 3 Super 8 games as a 19 year old but Kerry didn't make it through the group
Year 2 - in the drawn game Johnny Cooper was sent off in the first half for constantly fouling him including giving away a penalty. Scored 5 points in the replay
Year 3 - Probably underperformed by his standards against Cork, but still scored 4 points and hit the post for what would have been an absolutely outrageous goal, all in horrendous weather conditions
Year 4 - Scored 8 points in the semi final against Tyrone
Year 5 - Won All Ireland. Kicked 8 points and won MotM.
Year 6 - Scored 3 points and set up another 1-2 including a beauty of a pass for the goal
Year 7 - Another performance that was probably below his usual standards but scored 4 points.
That's just the big games you are trying to claim he underperformed in. Any normal player would be happy with any of those performances.
Won 5 All Stars, 2 PotY and a YPotY in those 7 seasons, in an era where Kerry have been far from the dominant team
If he retired tomorrow he'd be considered one of the greatest ever, if he continues playing at the level he's at for 6 or 7 more years there won't be a debate in my opinion. Describing him as just "good" or just one of many great players in this era is way underplaying how good he really is." I don't think matches where he scored 2 points and 1 point from play respectively are great evidence for your argument.
greatpoint (National) - 02/03/2025 18:06:12
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2025 National Football League - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Drax_the_destroyer: "Westmeath manager has said the goal was scored three seconds after the hooter. If that game was covered live I'm thinking a lot more would be made of it. Lucky win in the end for Meath in a match would would have expected them to win pulling up." Once the hooter goes shouldn't they just play on till ball goes dead again like in union and league will avoid the controversy
jm25 (National) - 03/03/2025 16:28:04
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Leitrim GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To meathbasedfan: "better performance yesterday, Cox and Honeyman very lively which bodes well, keeper is an issue, kickouts very one dimensional, no variety, also not great under a high ball." my post was edited by admin.
i asked whats the story with beirne, is he gone from the panel. he wasn't togged yesterday.
meathbasedfan (National) - 03/03/2025 10:06:14
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Galway Football thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To jm25: "No wind comment makes your comment irrelevant there was a huge wind there today.
The rest fair enough Galway and Tyrone played good supporting roles in the Brendan Cawley show" Ah ffs a slight breeze, you must never go into Pearse stadium...
Belclare7 (National) - 02/03/2025 17:02:42
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Donegal GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Commodore: "Yeah he is definitely a huge presence, and I think the new rules actually suit him better in a way, as there is more space open for him. Its important to rotate the squad further for the last two games to freshen them all up ahead of the Derry game, good to see Caolan McColgan and Odhran McFadden Ferry back.
Twin Towers of Jason McGee and Michael Langan have missed the entire League campaign, with Langan only featuring for about 1 minute against Kerry. Getting those two back will be massive for us if we are to seriously challenge for the All Ireland.
The new rules have basically killed the art of kick-outs, there is no time for tactical kickouts, keepers have to urgently just welly it up the field, which means teams with a larger percentage of high fielders distributed across the pitch will likely dominate the kickouts. And dominating the kickouts gives a huge advantage." I think it is impossible to predict what will happen this year.One day if the breaks go your way from kickouts you could completely dominate and you could be cleaned out of it the next day if the breaks go the other way.Midfield is going to be a total lottery.Likewise with the 2 pointers,any team that gets lucky with a few speculative long range efforts could make hay.I don't like the 2 pointers because it promotes too much possession football around the arc.It creates too much indecision in players minds i.e. will we work the ball forward or keep it around the arc.It totally disrupts the natural flow of the game which is compounded by the 12 v 11.
gunman (National) - 03/03/2025 10:49:21
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Leitrim GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To 3rdmidfielder: "Martinjoe knows nothing about Leitrim and is very condescending towards Leitrim football. I've no problem with Leitrim people giving out about Leitrim football but I don't like people from outside the county talking down to us." Completely. So condescending, a dog on the street would know more. He only wandered in here after his hero was appointed and we all know how that went.
Square_B (National) - 03/03/2025 15:52:40
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