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Mayo GAA Thread - 7 Like(s)
Replying To S1234: "It's not Andys fault that you lot don't have the players . Look him and Monaghan now they are flying because they DO have the players unlike yourselves !" Stop ruining every thread by insulting other posters and other counties.
yew_tree (National) - 27/06/2025 12:26:15
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All Ireland Football Championship 2025 - 3 Like(s)
Replying To kerry4sam25: "Jack Barry back centre field is a game changer. Marc O'Se said he was flying in training. Kerry by 4-6" Jack is not even on the panel. You did not even bother to check the team which was announced yesterday.
I doubt you are from Kerry.
Aibrean (National) - 27/06/2025 20:17:30
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Leitrim GAA thread - 3 Like(s)
Replying To gaelsboy: "This is some childish stuff boys. Bravo. No wonder other counties laugh at us." Other counties aren't really laughing at ye, they are only laughing at boxty (something or other) and blatach who are really cringy. I suspect they are related to the eslin fella that was on the go last year. Same mentality
eoinog (National) - 27/06/2025 12:47:43
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All Ireland Football Championship 2025 - 3 Like(s)
Replying To Cabbagepatch1667: "The caveat has always been they will avoid previous parings where possible. Obviously if everyone has played each other, it can't be avoided." No they don't, why are Donegal playing Monaghan this weekend then? Donegal should be playing Meath and it could have been Galway v Monaghan, Monaghan could also have played Dublin and Tyrone could have played Galway as this would have avoided all the previous encounters. The CCCC make it up as they go along.
Ulsterchamps72 (National) - 27/06/2025 16:40:31
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Donegal GAA thread - 3 Like(s)
Replying To SouthOfTheGap: "https://m.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/dick-clerkin-main-narrative-from-donegal-and-jim-mcguinness-is-one-of-grievance-hard-facts-show-they-are-to-blame/a1983320502.html?fbclid=IwY2xjawLLQu9leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHoZfz2QgHN-A3UTyh34xO3i2SF7WzNVezbzhsITtQe4eo1DHI9_UJudTE9M6_aem_-XHBKC_VaWe-W99ClDAnlw
Rent Free" It didn't take long for my point about Dick Clerkin to be proven. One day lol. Him and Sean Cavanagh are transparently anti Donegal and have been for a long time. Neither man remembers the McGuinness first era with too much fondness.
Donegal_abroad (National) - 27/06/2025 12:07:48
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All Ireland Football Championship 2025 - 2 Like(s)
Replying To kerry4sam25: "Paidi Clifford, Geaney, Mike Breen back for Sunday. Barry Dan, David Shaw out. Jack Barry and Diarmauid O'Connor 50/50
Shane Ryan
Dylan Casey Jason Foley Tom Sullivan
Brian O'Beglaoich Mike Breen Gavin White
Diarmuid O'Connor Joseph O'Connor
Graham O'Sullivan Paidi Clifford Seanie O'Shea
David Clifford Paul Geaney Dylan Geaney
Very few Armagh lads make that team." Poor prediction. 4 not even on team. 4 not even on panel. Positions all wrong.
I doubt you are from Kerry.
Aibrean (National) - 27/06/2025 20:09:21
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Superclubs - 2 Like(s)
Replying To tirawleybaron: "Considering the demise of Parnells and the relevations that they were paying players to play in the Dublin County championship (which is likely not an isolated situation), should all urban clubs be limited to selecting players living in their specific locality only.
More so, should the county boards in Dublin, Antrim, Cork etc - take steps to ensure this stuff doesn't happen" Didn't a high profile player in your own county move to a more high profile club from his own down the road not so long ago?
boxtyburgerbuns (National) - 27/06/2025 13:17:41
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Monaghan GAA thread - 2 Like(s)
Safe travels tomorrow lads. I'm gonna hit the road early and actually stop in Monaghan on the way down for a wee stretch of the legs. I'd say the roads will be busy what with ourselves and also Tyrone supporters heading the same way. Funny with all the chatter about fixture scheduling I didn't hear much mention of the inevitable traffic congestion tomorrow. Maybe we'll all end up agreeing with Jimmy McGuinness after all! :D
Always had great time for Monaghan teams. Play with a hard but fair edge, and also have produced some damn good footballers over the years. May the best team win, and if we do end up losing to yez, I genuinely will be supporting you for the rest of the campaign.
Lockjaw (National) - 27/06/2025 11:06:09
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All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship 2025 - 2 Like(s)
Replying To zinny: "I am not sure if I ever played without a helmet although they were not mandatory at the time. and a lot of people didn't use them. There were genuine accidents and deliberate pulls - Tony Doran in 1981 - but the nowhere near the level of carelessness we have today. I agree lads shouldn't be going down unless they are hurt but players are putting refs in an impossible position because there is so much of the hurl around the head these days, split second decisions to determine what is real and not. But there is also another way of looking at it, players don't do what their managers are against, managers are employed by the county board who are elected by the clubs and most of the time a lot of the board go to congress and elect the president so who is responsible for change. The player and the ref are the ones that take the blame when it all goes wrong." Agree zinny and its probably that players now take the ball in to contact where as 20 years ago it went on the ground (which looking back was awful tactic).
I think the reality is as said above if a player doesn't go down and get the opponent sent off and the opposition did it 5 minutes later then you would be saying "why didn't I"?
Look I'm honest to say Crummey should have been sent off v Wexford for a very dangerous hit on Chin but to Chin's credit he hopped back up and didn't go down like he was shot.
A man of honour, not a cheat. Others need to learn the same.
ExiledInWex (National) - 27/06/2025 11:31:58
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Roscommon GAA thread - 2 Like(s)
Replying To FullOfPorter: "Do they have to get the clubs to vote on a reappointment? Maybe they waiting on feedback from players as well." Going to clubs/delegates is the normal procedure our neighbours Mayo seem to overshoot the runaway.
Our county board were willing to keep McStay and Cunningham on for another year or two but both to the surprise of the county board stepped down, McStay said he was retiring from management then and the manner of the Mayo send off I bet he wished he did now.
Davy Burkes three year term is up now so it's up to the board and delegates to weigh up where we are and where we want to go. Their decision will show what ambitions they have. Should also we noted that we have already entered transitional period, lads in their 30s their best days are behind them and some will now retire. A number of young players have been given their debuts with many more to follow. Some will struggle to make the step a natural process but over the next 3/5 we'll need a shrewd management team in place to guide them along. Davy Burke with his different coaches every year is not that man IMO.
The_analyser (National) - 27/06/2025 14:45:02
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All Ireland Football Championship 2025 - 2 Like(s)
Replying To kerry4sam25: "Jack Barry back centre field is a game changer. Marc O'Se said he was flying in training. Kerry by 4-6" If Kerry have to bring in a man who was on the beer in Oz for the past 18 months, they wont go well against the All Ireland champions.
He was hardly a generational player when he left - throwing him in only insults every other centre fielder in Kerry. How little the county manager must think of the clubs layers in Kerry that he will draft in a lad just home from a years craic in Oz.
tirawleybaron (National) - 27/06/2025 12:33:44
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Superclubs - 1 Like(s)
Replying To OpenStand: "3 Super clubs in Limerick City - Na Piarsaigh , Monaleen & Mungret with huge numbers of players , administrators & sponsors and are winning most underage titles . Na Pairsaigh in hurling putting out 3 teams at many ages and often all 3 teams win on the same night .
Meanwhile many rural clubs are struggling to field teams at all ages and even at adult , most rural clubs need to amalgamate or else face irrelevance in the near future , lots of underage amalgamations need to happen at adult level as well to have any hope of putting out teams not to mind winning anything going forward ." I know little of Limerick City but is it not fair to blame Na Piarsaigh for example for becoming so strong when for a long time they were the ones putting the effort into expanding hurling in the city? Surely they ought not be punished for that?
I'd say same about Crokes and Ballyboden and Na Fianna here. Was a time when the areas they are in and even the schools were a desert for hurling. They have been helped by expansion of city of course but deserve huge credit.
Lots of small clubs remained small because they didn't bother their backsides. Stark but true.
BarneyGrant (National) - 27/06/2025 15:55:44
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Superclubs - 1 Like(s)
Replying To tirawleybaron: "Considering the demise of Parnells and the relevations that they were paying players to play in the Dublin County championship (which is likely not an isolated situation), should all urban clubs be limited to selecting players living in their specific locality only.
More so, should the county boards in Dublin, Antrim, Cork etc - take steps to ensure this stuff doesn't happen" Parnells were not a super club at all. A super club would most likely have handled being newly rich better. They did as you say try to effectively buy a county football championship and that team was run almost as a separate entity! Most of their teams were at lower level -and almost all football.
As member of a small club I would all be in favour of limiting them to some extent - through schools if that was possible - but in general it is impossible to run Dublin on parish basis.
Even going back to early years the big clubs like Faughs, O'Tooles, Commercials, Kickhams, Geraldines etc were made up of people from all parts of city and country. Many of them were linked to trades - Commercials/bar trade; Gerladines/Guinesses etc.
BarneyGrant (National) - 27/06/2025 13:28:06
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Mayo GAA Thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To tirawleybaron: "Square_B - surely your current manager refusing to field a team in the league was an all time low? What did Moran do that was worse than that? Get promotion to Div 3?
McStay managed Roscommon, Rochford coached Donegal, Donie Buckley coached Kerry and Monaghan.
They know the gig they signed up to. They didnt get the results expected in Mayo, nor did they deliver what they promised.
Supposedly the refused to resign. If that is the case, why would you give a gushing statement of praise for someone we all wanted to see the back of?
As of the hulabaloo about a statement removing a professional management team - give it a rest. It wasn't too long ago that a ref would get locked in the boot of a car after a championship match. Now we have a load of keyboard warriors (and ex players who refused to play for this management team) upset about the wording of county board statement.
I have some advise for those of you that have an issue with it.
1. Stand in front of a mirror.
2. Raise a closed fist
3. punch yourself in the face with it.
4. Cop on and toughen up" You wouldn't consider loosing to New York a low? He should have got the gate after that. It was an all time low (at the time) and the next one was recent. The jury is still out on the current man. However, any man that needs another county level manager to get over the line isn't much of a manager but like fools we agreed to it and footed up the cost of it. It certainly got us far....
Square_B (National) - 27/06/2025 14:06:14
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GAATV - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Square_B: "Yawn... it's alright, the GAA aren't targeting anyone in Cavan as ye pay for nothing anyhow." The whole of the country at this stage has a Firestick including most pubs… nobody but a fool is subscribing to GAA+…!
ForeverBlue2 (National) - 27/06/2025 14:07:54
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Mayo GAA Thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To ORIELMAN85: "Keep you bloody hands off Andy. Múineachain Abú." Two big jobs coming up for him, his home county and also the Mayo job. Might be hard to keep him!
boxtyburgerbuns (National) - 27/06/2025 15:21:50
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Westmeath Football thread - 1 Like(s)
What are peoples thoughts on the article regarding clubs having to pay the shortfall on any tickets they haven't sold? I don't think there's any excuse for a club to sell zero tickets but some clubs have made a genuine effort and may only have sold 50-60% of their allocation and now have to come up with €4,000-€5,000; this to me does seem unfair as there's only so much a club can do to promote the draw, they can't force members to buy them at a time they have to sell their own membership, lotto and any fundraising required to keep themselves afloat.
I think the delegates pushing the sanctions are a little disingenuous as they are from much larger populated areas with significantly greater numbers than some clubs who may have made a genuine attempt but came up short. I would be fairly certain my own club and a few surrounding clubs will take a huge hit on their income if sanctioned and I know our committee have promoted the project but people simply haven't bought in to the level the county board require.
Also, has the house in Spain been purchased already or is it from the proceedings of the draw?
OverTheHill85 (National) - 27/06/2025 13:02:07
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Armagh Now All Ireland Favourites - 1 Like(s)
Armagh flash in pan side. Struggled to put away a poor Dublin team. Don't score goals either.
kerry4sam25 (National) - 27/06/2025 15:57:36
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Superclubs - 1 Like(s)
Replying To OpenStand: "3 Super clubs in Limerick City - Na Piarsaigh , Monaleen & Mungret with huge numbers of players , administrators & sponsors and are winning most underage titles . Na Pairsaigh in hurling putting out 3 teams at many ages and often all 3 teams win on the same night .
Meanwhile many rural clubs are struggling to field teams at all ages and even at adult , most rural clubs need to amalgamate or else face irrelevance in the near future , lots of underage amalgamations need to happen at adult level as well to have any hope of putting out teams not to mind winning anything going forward ." As a Mungret Man, All I can say is that this club has taken years to get its act together and I would say is only now finally starting to realise its potential after decades of hard work. All the work is being done on in the club, on the ground by local people, parents and volunteers raising money and building facilities to give their children, grand children and clubmates the best possible chance to thrive. This Super club narrative implies that there is some big benefactors pumping money and resources in this is not the case. We put our club together with little or no help from anyone outside the member and we wont pass any apologies for the success that is starting to come.
People also forget there is huge competition for players with other sports. Within a few kilometres of the Mungret Club house we have 3 AIL Rugby Clubs (Garryowen, Old Crescent and Young Munster), 3 decent Junior Soccer Clubs (Mungret Regional, Regional United and Breska Rovers), various Hockey clubs, Tennis clubs and Golf etc.
I can fully appreciate the difficulties some rural clubs have fielding teams and keeping players etc. We were a small village club outside the city ourselves not that long ago and we took many a beating from neighbouring clubs in both the city (like Old Christians, Claughaun, St. Patrick) and the county (Patrickswell, Ballybrown, South Liberties and Kilmallock). So if we have a bit of Success at any level (Men or Women, Boys or Girls) we are going to enjoy it now.
LimerickandProud (National) - 27/06/2025 16:57:01
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Dublin Hurling - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Fionn: "I have to say Slayer, the Limerick fans at the game and online have been so gracious in defeat. Great to see them all wish us well, and a lot of them genuinely happy for us. Top class, Limerick fans. Top class." Most GAA people are in my opinion. You get a few from each county/club that aren't, but most are good folk.
Bon (National) - 27/06/2025 18:10:59
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