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Westmeath Football thread - 3 Like(s)

Replying To lakecounty90:  "Mchugh needs to get on the fone to Conor McCormack.
2nd most best forward in the county sitting at home
Wont win anything if best players not playing"
Has to be a parody account

Bluelake (National) - 20/12/2025 19:42:51

Carlow GAA thread - 2 Like(s)

Replying To CarlowJuniorB:  "Very dramatic here isn't it?

Both codes were more successful prior to the split."
That's simply not true, and anyone following the scene in Carlow closely knows it.

Not long ago the Senior Hurling Championship had just four teams. Under the split season it was built back up to six for 2026. The Intermediate Hurling Championship used to be a joke - with five teams, four of them B teams from senior clubs. It was a fantastic competition this year. We even have IHC players playing county!

We have Kildavin back hurling, Setanta competing at adult level, Naomh Bríd and Carlow Town clearly turning a corner, and Ballinkillen stabilising. That doesn't happen by accident. It happened because hurling finally had certainty and space in the calendar.

And the idea that football somehow suffered is just nonsense. We've just had our best Senior Football Championship in many years: proper drama, competitive games, talking points everywhere. MLR beating Éire Óg, Fenagh winning a first round game, a genuinely novel relegation final, and Fighting Cocks reaching a Leinster final.

So let's be honest about what's really driving this. For the first time ever, Éire Óg found themselves in a relegation playoff,, and suddenly the format is a "failed experiment". Funny how that works.

This is a day that will forever live in infamy. It's a thundering disgrace. I am around a long time now and I am totally disheartened by the engrained anti-hurling attitude in the north of the county. They honestly seem to be more accommodating to soccer and rugby than they are to our beautiful game. Shame on them all.

CARPS (National) - 20/12/2025 14:15:55

Non-Gaa Forum - 2 Like(s)

Replying To Doylerwex:  "Life expectancy has increased mainly because of food and the type of work we do. Look at how much Ireland has changed since the 80s. Particularly life expectancy for men. How much we've grown physically is actually mental. Average height for both men and women in Ireland has increased by 3 inches in a generation which hasn't happened anywhere else in the western world in the 20th/21st century.

The thing about scientists too is these institutions received an awful lot of state funding so logically would be willing to tow the line to maintain that."
Not having to deal with polio, TB, measles & the like thanks to vaccination gave a bit of a helping hand too I'd say?

Lockjaw (National) - 21/12/2025 07:23:40

Galway Football thread - 1 Like(s)
Galway team v Westmeath

Eamon McGrath
Jack Glynn
Sean Fitzgerald
Brian Cogger
Finnian O'Laoi
Sean Mulkerrin
Dylan McHugh
Mattias Barrett
Matthew Tierney
Daniel O'Flaherty
Matthew Thompson
Shane McGrath
Jack Mullen
Charlie Power
Liam Costello

Subs

Conor Gleeson
Conor Flaherty
Conal Gallagher
Jack Folan
Ciaran Mulhern
Mikey Mulryan
Darragh Burke
Johnny McGrath
Fionn McDonagh
Shane Walsh
Cillian O'Curraoin
Colm Costello
Cian Hernon

Marooned (National) - 20/12/2025 14:48:15

Galway Hurling thread - 1 Like(s)

Replying To CTGAA10:  "I really think Katser is trying to rise people.."
You're probably right but I wish I had his confidence. I just want Loughrea to win in any fashion. lol.

SouthGalway (National) - 20/12/2025 16:38:18

Roscommon GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Monaghan are very similar to Roscommon. We think we're great until someone bigger slaps us in the face. Admittedly ye have been a lot better than us the past decade but some of these Scotstown lads must have 15 or 16 years of hard labour with the county and it's going to show in the soft ground against much younger but also experienced players. Funnily enough both clubs have poached and are enjoying the benefits of it. A sign of the times ahead.

Ros2013 (National) - 20/12/2025 18:58:45

Football Better Than Hurling In 2025? Thank You Jim Gavin, - 1 Like(s)

Replying To alalalalalum:  "Well now there's no way there's passages in football where they keep it 10 mins, 2 maybe. But the masters of it were that Dublin team, and now this thread is praising the former manager who came up with that game style. Incredible"
Dublin and other good county and club teams adopted the keep ball tactic as response to total negativity on part of mediocre blanket defensive teams who had 15 inside 40 yards.

I like the restrictions on the manner in which teams can do this but it is still a valid tactic and requires huge nerve, pace, vision and power. Adds not detracts from excitement.

BarneyGrant (National) - 20/12/2025 19:09:06

Galway Football thread - 1 Like(s)

Replying To jm25:  "Olaoi was excellent 3 pts in first 25

McGrath impressed

Tierney mchugh Thompson a level above

Starting full forward line disappointing"
Which McGrath impressed, Eamon or Shane? Shane seems to be in great form of late. Any good impact from the bench?

WonTon5 (National) - 20/12/2025 20:55:56

Galway Hurling thread - 1 Like(s)

Replying To katser:  "Honours....the definition of one being successful is what one has achieved.
Therefore JC with more All Ireland Club medals but less County medals than DB, would that make the aforementioned JC a more successful individual.
But then one could argue is Noel Lane more successful with 3 All Ireland Senior medals but zero at Club level!
IMO I would have JC as the most successful Galway hurler of all time."
I'd love to hear JC and DB answer that question " the definition of one being successful is what one has achieved". To see how far up their list hurling and GAA is in relation to what they have achieved in life.

Armchairreporter (National) - 21/12/2025 00:34:57