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Replying To Green&Gold2013: "I'd argue they should be at least making a county quarter final each year considering its population base and lack of other sports competing against hurling. Two county titles is an underachievement. Maybe I'm wrong but I have never heard a hurler going around saying he played in 10 county quarter finals and expecting a clap on the back. It's all about who has the medals and everything else is a kick in the you know what." Didn't l Rea beat portumna in 2010 semi final also ?? But I would agree they didn't get it done often enough in spite of the opposition's quality But seriously can you educate yourself regarding some of your statements here , no other sports competing !!…….I would say every sport from rugby ,soccer ,football , athletics, tennis , basketball ,volleyball, squash, and more take place at a competitive level in Loughrea , and in regard the population , true it is large in number but a significant portion of that is a transient workforce and more still simply move to the town but represent other clubs , Loughrea are an outlier in terms of a town with a successful hurling club , look at Ballinasloe for example, truth is Loughrea are a small enough club with a fraction of the membership of some of the clubs they are competing with Bib (Galway) - Posts: 21 - 29/08/2025 20:33:50 2634156 Link
Replying To Armchairreporter: "Put ur house on the bridge" He won't get planning for that! Crashingwaves (Galway) - Posts: 272 - 29/08/2025 20:53:58 2634157 Link
Replying To Bib: "Didn't l Rea beat portumna in 2010 semi final also ?? But I would agree they didn't get it done often enough in spite of the opposition's quality But seriously can you educate yourself regarding some of your statements here , no other sports competing !!…….I would say every sport from rugby ,soccer ,football , athletics, tennis , basketball ,volleyball, squash, and more take place at a competitive level in Loughrea , and in regard the population , true it is large in number but a significant portion of that is a transient workforce and more still simply move to the town but represent other clubs , Loughrea are an outlier in terms of a town with a successful hurling club , look at Ballinasloe for example, truth is Loughrea are a small enough club with a fraction of the membership of some of the clubs they are competing with" Squash, volleyball and tennis. Stop the likes. Hurling is number one. They don't have players saying no I won't be at training today I am going playing in the county volleyball championship. Soccer and football are also only hobby sports in Loughrea. Apart from one maybe two they don't lose potential senior hurlers to the sports above like what might be the case in the city clubs. Like most town clubs in both football and hurling they have a soft under belly. Green&Gold2013 (Galway) - Posts: 48 - 29/08/2025 21:51:15 2634164 Link
Replying To Bib: "Didn't l Rea beat portumna in 2010 semi final also ?? But I would agree they didn't get it done often enough in spite of the opposition's quality But seriously can you educate yourself regarding some of your statements here , no other sports competing !!…….I would say every sport from rugby ,soccer ,football , athletics, tennis , basketball ,volleyball, squash, and more take place at a competitive level in Loughrea , and in regard the population , true it is large in number but a significant portion of that is a transient workforce and more still simply move to the town but represent other clubs , Loughrea are an outlier in terms of a town with a successful hurling club , look at Ballinasloe for example, truth is Loughrea are a small enough club with a fraction of the membership of some of the clubs they are competing with" I wouldn't say loughrea are a smaller club. Compare them to the likes off Tommy larkins cappataggle ahrascragh fohenagh mullagh etc I say the membership is double if not triple than these clubs and more. Look at all the underage loughrea has had the level they are playing at over the years. Granted there are times when a good crop comes with the rural teams and can beat the teams like loughrea turlough,sarsfields etc. It's been like this for years. Loughrea in my opinion would be classed as bigger teams with the likes of turloughmore sarsfields Clarinbridge oranmore (recent years ). Off_the_post (Galway) - Posts: 17 - 30/08/2025 01:32:11 2634188 Link
Replying To Off_the_post: "I wouldn't say loughrea are a smaller club. Compare them to the likes off Tommy larkins cappataggle ahrascragh fohenagh mullagh etc I say the membership is double if not triple than these clubs and more. Look at all the underage loughrea has had the level they are playing at over the years. Granted there are times when a good crop comes with the rural teams and can beat the teams like loughrea turlough,sarsfields etc. It's been like this for years. Loughrea in my opinion would be classed as bigger teams with the likes of turloughmore sarsfields Clarinbridge oranmore (recent years )." Sarsfields a big club? Surely not! The population of New Inn and Ballaun combined would be small enough I would think! PoolSturgeon (Galway) - Posts: 2075 - 30/08/2025 11:15:11 2634212 Link
Good win for the u16 Galway side to win the Eugene Carey (A all-ireland) cup again. Beat Tipp handily in the final after narrowly getting over Cork in the semi final. galway19 (Galway) - Posts: 995 - 30/08/2025 15:26:56 2634249 Link
A win for Galway in the u15 Arrabawn cup final to go on top of the u16 cup win today. A very strong minor group next year by the looks of it. galway19 (Galway) - Posts: 995 - 30/08/2025 17:12:31 2634256 Link
Replying To PoolSturgeon: "Sarsfields a big club? Surely not! The population of New Inn and Ballaun combined would be small enough I would think!" Maybe to loughrea and Clarinbridge etc But compare them to their neighbours cappy , ahrascragh pearses killimordaly they are more dominant than these teams. Sarsfields are more competitive in the A championships underage and are always there or there abouts. Next weekend i can guarantee most people believe sarsfields will beat cappy even though they bet cappy them last year. People still believe sarsfields threw away the game with the changes they made. Sarsfields are always gonna be classed as a big team as they are always competitive in alot of the A championships and are there are there abouts in the championship.. Off_the_post (Galway) - Posts: 17 - 31/08/2025 00:42:22 2634287 Link
Replying To galway19: "A win for Galway in the u15 Arrabawn cup final to go on top of the u16 cup win today. A very strong minor group next year by the looks of it." Good wins for the lads.what were the teams ,would be interested looking at the breakdown on how many clubs were represented Off_the_post (Galway) - Posts: 17 - 31/08/2025 19:42:45 2634386 Link
Replying To Green&Gold2013: "Squash, volleyball and tennis. Stop the likes. Hurling is number one. They don't have players saying no I won't be at training today I am going playing in the county volleyball championship. Soccer and football are also only hobby sports in Loughrea. Apart from one maybe two they don't lose potential senior hurlers to the sports above like what might be the case in the city clubs. Like most town clubs in both football and hurling they have a soft under belly." It's great that you managed to disagree with your original post so saves me the bother , Anyway , soft underbellies aside , Loughrea are the current county champions , and medals , as you say are all important , Bib (Galway) - Posts: 21 - 01/09/2025 10:48:49 2634447 Link
Replying To Green&Gold2013: "I'd argue they should be at least making a county quarter final each year considering its population base and lack of other sports competing against hurling. Two county titles is an underachievement. Maybe I'm wrong but I have never heard a hurler going around saying he played in 10 county quarter finals and expecting a clap on the back. It's all about who has the medals and everything else is a kick in the you know what." Lack of other sports? They have 3 mens football teams, 3 mens soccer teams, a very good athletic club, a very good rugby club. Quite an ignorant comment BigBàsMan (Galway) - Posts: 184 - 01/09/2025 18:03:18 2634530 Link
Replying To Green&Gold2013: "Squash, volleyball and tennis. Stop the likes. Hurling is number one. They don't have players saying no I won't be at training today I am going playing in the county volleyball championship. Soccer and football are also only hobby sports in Loughrea. Apart from one maybe two they don't lose potential senior hurlers to the sports above like what might be the case in the city clubs. Like most town clubs in both football and hurling they have a soft under belly." A soft underbelly you say. I've never heard anyone call Loughrea soft. As a matter of fact, they've probably been the hardest team to beat over the last 20 years. BigBàsMan (Galway) - Posts: 184 - 01/09/2025 18:06:33 2634531 Link
Replying To BigBàsMan: "A soft underbelly you say. I've never heard anyone call Loughrea soft. As a matter of fact, they've probably been the hardest team to beat over the last 20 years." The only Galway town to win both Collage and V.S All Ireland Senior Hurling Finals in the same year 1995! KB (Broder) scored 3-01 of D O'Suillivan that day, But the Rock went on to win 1 Minor All Ireland, 2 u21 All Irelands and 3 Senior All Irelands afterwards!!! katser (Galway) - Posts: 2703 - 02/09/2025 15:55:05 2634632 Link
Sarsfields Cappy the standout game this weekend. There will be plenty of timber in that one after the way last year's game played out. Sarsfields owe them one. galway19 (Galway) - Posts: 995 - 02/09/2025 19:17:48 2634659 Link
Replying To katser: "The only Galway town to win both Collage and V.S All Ireland Senior Hurling Finals in the same year 1995! KB (Broder) scored 3-01 of D O'Suillivan that day, But the Rock went on to win 1 Minor All Ireland, 2 u21 All Irelands and 3 Senior All Irelands afterwards!!!" Back when hurling was survival of the fittest. Eat or be eaten. Good achievement. Loughrea schools always had plenty of input from surrounding parishes. Kilconieran, sarsfields, cappy, mullagh, tynagh abbey duniry, Leitrim kilnadeema, Thomas' etc. They will battle it out with respective clubs but have battled together at secondary school level. No bad blood at the end of the day BigBàsMan (Galway) - Posts: 184 - 03/09/2025 19:25:59 2634810 Link
Replying To BigBàsMan: "Back when hurling was survival of the fittest. Eat or be eaten. Good achievement. Loughrea schools always had plenty of input from surrounding parishes. Kilconieran, sarsfields, cappy, mullagh, tynagh abbey duniry, Leitrim kilnadeema, Thomas' etc. They will battle it out with respective clubs but have battled together at secondary school level. No bad blood at the end of the day" Alot of current and past Loughrea hurlers came from parents who moved to the town from those respective rural Clubs. katser (Galway) - Posts: 2703 - 04/09/2025 12:28:15 2634867 Link
A tour de force from John Cooney at centre back for Sarsfields tonight. Has to be involved in the county panel next year. Cappy into the relegation- last year was a complete fluke for them. Couldn't get near a Sarsfields side without Darren Morrissey, Alex Connaire or Paddy MacCartaigh this evening and Joseph Cooney only played ten minutes. galway19 (Galway) - Posts: 995 - 06/09/2025 20:03:48 2635101 Link
Replying To galway19: "A tour de force from John Cooney at centre back for Sarsfields tonight. Has to be involved in the county panel next year. Cappy into the relegation- last year was a complete fluke for them. Couldn't get near a Sarsfields side without Darren Morrissey, Alex Connaire or Paddy MacCartaigh this evening and Joseph Cooney only played ten minutes." I wouldn't say a complete fluke. More like the end of what was a good run for them. Cappy have been at the business end since Mellows were winning it. Their run is over probably, but there's been nothing flukey about their standard for the last decade or so. They're been in the last 4 numerous times in recent years. Pope_Benedict (Galway) - Posts: 4397 - 06/09/2025 21:01:18 2635108 Link
Replying To galway19: "A tour de force from John Cooney at centre back for Sarsfields tonight. Has to be involved in the county panel next year. Cappy into the relegation- last year was a complete fluke for them. Couldn't get near a Sarsfields side without Darren Morrissey, Alex Connaire or Paddy MacCartaigh this evening and Joseph Cooney only played ten minutes." Seafóid. A complete fluke is a team who hadn't come close to making a final, and then getting blown away when they get there. Cappy had made the quarter-finals for each of the previous 7 years, getting to semi-finals in 4 of those years. That's a very consistent championship team, nothing flukey about them. They were very competitive in the final, which showed the level wasn't too high for them at all. They've definitely dipped this year, but they've been anything but flukey over the past decade. WanPintWin (Galway) - Posts: 2503 - 07/09/2025 00:44:05 2635121 Link
Replying To Pope_Benedict: "I wouldn't say a complete fluke. More like the end of what was a good run for them. Cappy have been at the business end since Mellows were winning it. Their run is over probably, but there's been nothing flukey about their standard for the last decade or so. They're been in the last 4 numerous times in recent years." Well there will be no one feeling sorry for them dropping into relegation anyway after their carry on two weeks ago. They tried to rough up Oranmore and then started a brawl near the end of the game. Interesting enough they didn't dare try the hard man stuff against Sarsfields galway19 (Galway) - Posts: 995 - 07/09/2025 09:54:53 2635136 Link