|
Mayo GAA Thread - 5 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
|
|
Mayo GAA Thread - 3 Like(s)
Replying To Bon: "But sure what do people want it to say? He was sacked and there's no nice way of saying that." There is no sacking in amateur game. Gentleman agreements do be in place for a period time and if not working out they part ways in a gentleman way. For all the years of service McStay has given to Mayo as a player and manager he deserved a bit more respect in that statement last night.
Drax_the_destroyer (National) - 26/06/2025 15:43:20
|
|
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
|
|
Mayo GAA Thread - 2 Like(s)
Replying To sligo joe: "Maybe the advert for a new manager should go " this position will carry extraordinarily high expectation levels of success but on historical evidence the prospects of success are sub-zero"" Maybe it should Sligojoe but I don't agree it carries an "extraordinarily high expectation levels of success".
It carries an expectation that the manager gets the best out of the players at his disposal.
I don't believe Kevin got the best out of his players - and I don't think anyone else here does either.
Cbar (National) - 26/06/2025 16:26:50
|
|
Roscommon GAA thread - 2 Like(s)
Replying To Gaa_lover: "Davy Burke was appointed at the end of October, Roscommon was odds on to get relegated yet completed in division one to finish 3rd and just missed out on a league final spot.
Roscommon county board will likely look back on that and think no rush. Or might see Burke as their McGeeney and give him more time?
On another note I see Conor Carroll had transferred to St Brigids." Really don't like this regarding Carrol. Even though he's form has dropped this year it'll likely be the grain of rice that'll tip A really strong Brigids side to the county title and probably Connacht. Between one of Kilbrides players going medal hunting to the Gaels and the Carrol development , don't like where this is leading.
Ros2013 (National) - 26/06/2025 21:36:41
|
|
Donegal GAA thread - 2 Like(s)
Replying To tommyjohn: "If Monaghan are so "easy" and you have a better team, management and support, why are your backs against the wall?" 9 matches in 12 weeks, 6 day turnaround unlike any other team and facing an a good opponent who have played 4 games against weaker opposition and had a 2 week lead-in? Thats just my guess..
Donegal_abroad (National) - 26/06/2025 21:35:25
|
|
Galway Football thread - 2 Like(s)
Replying To Sheridan2010louth: "Frayne, Kinsella, Hogan, Caulfield, Gray, O'Halloran won a leinster minor 2021. Lost to Derry in the semi final. That age didn't have much success at u20s.
Brian O'Halloran one year younger has won an all ireland minor, 2 leinster minors and one leinster u20s. Conor Duke didn't play meath minor but was part of the u20s leinster winning team." Jez I forgot about meath recent underage success. No major surprise that they are coming strong now. Is Gray back in contention to play? He is some player.
anotheralias (National) - 26/06/2025 21:12:04
|
|
Donegal GAA thread - 2 Like(s)
Replying To eddieSize5Balls: "Looking forward to Saturday now. Yes our backs are against the wall but we've a better team, manager and a much bigger support. Need to be fairly disciplined and take our chances when we get them. If we can do that and keep Monaghan from scoring goals I think we will win.
The sport needs us to win because Monaghan would be an easy semi finalist for any of the other 6 teams left!" If Monaghan are so "easy" and you have a better team, management and support, why are your backs against the wall?
tommyjohn (National) - 26/06/2025 21:08:21
|
|
Mayo GAA Thread - 2 Like(s)
I think everyone would agree Kevin mcstay a top man and great Gael but it didn't work out for him, he didn't uncover enough players and also didn't embrace the new rules, I follow mayo club football relatively close and there are forwards in the county that should of been called up or had more of a run, mayo have a full back line that are very very good in coyne, mcbrien and brickinden, the likes of towey should of got more game time, also where is the likes of Conor diskin should surely be in the panel, a few of the under 20 forwards should also be drafted, but after the under 20s where out mayo called up defenders which was mad as they where okay in that area, I think mayo should go for a man outside the county that isn't involved in club politics and get a fresh perspective
Liftball (National) - 26/06/2025 20:24:53
|
|
Tailteann Cup 2025 - 2 Like(s)
Replying To Sligoman1234: "Ye were also a Division 1 team that year. Kildare have fallen well down the ladder since then. It takes time but a county with the resources at its disposal such as Kildare and as you mention All Ireland success at underage should be walking the TC." We were related to division 2 that year and had a miserable championship record the previous 5 years. Two years ago we ran Dublin to 2 points in Croke Park in a game we should have won and but for dodgy refereeing against Monaghan would have beat them. The last year of Glenn Ryan's tenure did severe damage. Not as far off as some makes us out to be. Well we are unbeaten so far in the the Tailteann cup and are now in the final so can't do much more than that until the the final
LilywhiteGael (National) - 26/06/2025 20:23:18
|
|
All Ireland Football Championship 2025 - 2 Like(s)
Replying To kerry4sam25: "Kerry Donegal final. Kerry generous odds at 7/2." Tyrone Galway it is then
TalkToFahy (National) - 26/06/2025 21:50:51
|
|
Donegal GAA thread - 2 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
|
|
Mayo GAA Thread - 2 Like(s)
Replying To Drax_the_destroyer: "There is no sacking in amateur game. Gentleman agreements do be in place for a period time and if not working out they part ways in a gentleman way. For all the years of service McStay has given to Mayo as a player and manager he deserved a bit more respect in that statement last night." McStay and his management team declined the offer to resign, made on a number of occasions since the defeat to Donegal. The Mayo GAA committee had no other option but to sack them.
Cockney_Cat (National) - 26/06/2025 17:09:39
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
Tailteann Cup 2025 - 2 Like(s)
Replying To Sligoman1234: "Well if ever Kildare needed a reality check as to their level certainly yesterday would have done the trick. Was a very poor game for a neutral to watch and you can't blame the conditions totally for it. They are the form team for the TC but wouldn't be one bit surprised if Limerick pipped them. Maybe JP will give the footballers the same treatment as the hurlers have got seeing as they're out of that contest!" In 2008 we played a similarly poor game in the last 22 of the championship. We were told that was our "level". Two years later the width of a crossbar and a square ball denied us a place in the All-Ireland Final. This young team, including a number of All-Ireland winners are only at the beginning of their journey
LilywhiteGael (National) - 26/06/2025 15:32:57
|
|
Dublin GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Fionn: "Con listed on the subs:-
Evan, Luke, Theo, Nathan, Ethan, Alex, Tom, Greg, Ross, Cian, CON, Niall, Brian.
No Eoghan....!
Gone back to the Hurlers... ;o)" Eh, no. Whitehall hurlers perhaps. Dublin backs are fine.
BarneyGrant (National) - 27/06/2025 10:40:09
|
|
Dublin Hurling - 1 Like(s)
Will Crummey go all the way to the DRA? Nothing to lose, has he?
ExiledInWex (National) - 27/06/2025 11:32:40
|
|
Dublin GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Hard to believe that Stephen Cluxton made his championship debut in goal for Dublin on 27th May 2001.
Absolutely bonkers - 24 years ago.
9 All Ireland medals
18 Leinsters
5 League medals
7 All Stars
Footballer of the Year
He will be 44 this year. Most likely his final season playing for the Dubs.
Fionn (National) - 27/06/2025 10:46:17
|