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Leitrim GAA thread - 2 Like(s)
Replying To bláthach: "Good win yeah but made hard work of it considering Galway were missing a host of players." I thought it would be the other way round, great to see us sticking at it and getting that crucial win vs a far better resourced county and a day out in the AI semis.
B competitions are our level right now so let's see how the minors and 20s get on
gaelsboy (National) - 23/04/2025 23:16:15
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U20 Championships - 2 Like(s)
That's 2 years in a row Louth have beat Dublin at U-20. Can't be a bad thing
Getting over the line next week would be massive for Louth
As the manager said on the radio this morning the more and more our senior, minor and 20 teams keep getting to semi and finals, eventually one will get over the line and hopefully that will be the start of plenty of trophies as the work gone in underage is incredible and now with Gavin Delvin the main man overseeing everything it can only be a good thing
I will never forget 2010 and my now passed away grandad crying in Croke Park at the end. I really hope I can be in Croke Park with my young fella when we win a Leinster title at senior level even if it only happens once
DundalkGael (National) - 23/04/2025 11:09:47
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Galway Football thread - 2 Like(s)
Replying To Drax_the_destroyer: "Galway U20 team for the Shield final tonight against Leitrim is basically a 2nd string side. No Ross Coen,Costello,Monaghan etc even named on the bench does that mean they are done with the U20s and all with the senior panel now?" That is some disaster to lose that. I don't remember too many worse seasons in recent years.
TanCanRan (National) - 23/04/2025 20:09:42
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Leitrim GAA thread - 2 Like(s)
Replying To boxtyburgerbuns: "Might be better if yee were in it too, might actually win it" Not unless they moved the final to out the country somewhere. They'd never win it in Croke Park.
Tacaí Liatroma (National) - 23/04/2025 07:29:54
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Leitrim GAA thread - 2 Like(s)
Replying To Cumann1: "Yea Mayo would never be good enough to win the Tcup, very insightful.
Good luck in the Philly McGuinness cup tonight, similar to the Tcup" Mayo may as well be in the TC, probably would bottle that too though. Been in the last 75 Sam McGuires without winning it.
peiledoir20 (National) - 23/04/2025 12:54:49
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Roscommon GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To The_analyser: "John McManus and Conor Hand picked injuries in the warm up on Sunday ruling them out from playing any part." Must have been an intense warm up.......
More intense than the match performance it seems.
4 weeks now to save our season and 4 weeks for Davy Burke to prove he has a future as an Inter County manager.
Meanwhile best of luck to the Under 20s tonight.
Seanfanbocht (National) - 23/04/2025 12:25:43
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Leinster Hurling Championship - 1 Like(s)
Replying To LohansRedHelmet: "And rightly so. Look at the fare and attendances to match. KK and Galway had 8000, you would have had 50000 in Ennis last Sunday if we could have accommodated it" We need to improve our team. People will follow it then.
Same as for Limerick and Clare and Waterford. I can remember Munster championship games in the 90s and 00s with only a few thousand supporters from all 3 of those counties.
Even Tipp and Cork have had poor enough attendances when they were going badly. Hardly anyone from Tipp in Semple last year for the game against yourselves. Barely anyone following the 2016 Cork team either, there were barely a few thousand of them in Semple Stadium when we beat them in a 2nd round qualifier.
At the end of the day for most counties if they have a period of relative success the supporters will come out and back their team. Problem for Kilkenny is that relative success means winning AIs. They must be the worst supported county in Ireland that way.
Viking66 (National) - 23/04/2025 22:43:40
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Leitrim GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Square_B: "Great win this evening for the U20's... more of that please. I assume we go into a B championship now?" Good win yeah but made hard work of it considering Galway were missing a host of players.
bláthach (National) - 23/04/2025 22:40:39
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Leitrim GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Great win this evening for the U20's... more of that please. I assume we go into a B championship now?
Square_B (National) - 23/04/2025 20:21:28
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Wexford Hurling 2025 - 1 Like(s)
Do people here think rory played poor against antrim? The man scored with nearly every chance and won numerous frees that were converted. Pretty sure he drew a few yellow cards also. Not easy play in the full forward line when a man down either. Him and byrne done alot of work that day
Waltermitty2 (National) - 23/04/2025 17:20:57
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Can Gaelic Football (Handball?) Be Saved? - 1 Like(s)
Replying To cluichethar: "Did he not score in after a solo run in 76 into the Canal End? I remember in the 77 semi final he went on a great run but kicked it into the goalies arms. Maybe I'm getting too old for these memories." It might be me but the solo they regularly show is the one of him heading towards the Hill end and he misses that one, but what a brilliant player Gaelic football or soccer….!!!
ForeverBlue2 (National) - 23/04/2025 17:01:47
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Wexford Hurling 2025 - 1 Like(s)
Replying To goreyll: "Do all centra and SuperValu shops have access to the same tickets? Or do they all get a different allocation? Need to source on stand ticket for someone" All the same depends whats on their system at the time.
Tiger1 (National) - 23/04/2025 16:53:23
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Leitrim GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Seems to be a fairly popular thread amongst a lot of counties!
boxtyburgerbuns (National) - 23/04/2025 15:35:30
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Leinster Hurling Championship - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Onion Breath: "Because if replacing the McDonagh losers, that 4th v 4th game would only qualify the winner for the preliminary quarter final. So that's an extra round/week needed." Just to be clear - it would add an extra match, but wouldn't add an extra week to the time needed to run the championship. Take last year as an example:
- Group stages in the provinces finished on weekend of May 25 & 26.
- June Bank Holiday weekend was free.
- Provincial finals & Joe McDonagh Cup Final took place on weekend of June 8 & 9
- Preliminary quarter-finals took place on June 15.
So, the 4th v 4th playoff could have been on either the June Bank Holiday, or the weekend of the provincial finals & Joe McDonagh Cup Final.
It would be a "hard sell" however on finals weekend, so the Bank Holiday weekend would probably be the better choice.
Pikeman96 (National) - 23/04/2025 14:30:52
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Leitrim GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To peiledoir20: "Mayo may as well be in the TC, probably would bottle that too though. Been in the last 75 Sam McGuires without winning it." Aye, the same Mayo who have more All Irelands than Donegal and also about 35 more provincial titles too.
Gonzalez (National) - 23/04/2025 13:29:28
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Wexford Hurling 2025 - 1 Like(s)
Replying To StoreysTash: "This and Exile post above are absolute fact. My father coached teams for years and parents complaining about why young Johnny isn't playing and the hurl not leaving the boot of the car.
Parents are the number 1 driver of culture in their children. Kilkenny have massive culture and drive across the county so they feel no barrier to success is insurmountable.
Clare on Sunday, they were 12 down at half time (and I went to bed because it was late) and yet weren't beaten. In Wexford, there is a lack of that never say die attitude right across the board on and off the pitch. Fans in Wexford don't drive the team on, we just react to the pitch and often meekly. Our County Board are weak and don't stick up for ourselves and create a siege mentality which Brian Lohan and Clare etc would hang their hat on. Last Summer was the optimal time to say "We are hosting Feile, no way are we playing that match".
Unless things have changed since I left, and I doubt it, I feel we lack passion and a chip on our shoulder right across the county. Stop trying to be loved by everybody and start sticking up for ourselves. Tell people what they don't want to hear.
Structures are well and good but the best hurlers are made in the back garden." Counties and supporters react to success or a sign of it. In Munster, the grounds are full because they all belive they could win something. And a good game and atmosphere is guaranteed.
In Leinster, most of the games are fairly tedious and lack atmosphere. Across the province. The long distances between counties does not help. Like, The Nell is 2 hours for most Wexford people allowing for Saturday traffic. Galway in Kilkenny on Easter Saturday, I could see why people did not travel.
These games need to be Saturday night or Sunday games. Saturday afternoon does not help the appeal of the fixtures at all, its like "get them played and over with" rather than an occasion.
But even marketing the games. If you were driving through Wexford, how would you have known there was a Wexford match on? Could Liam Griffin, a man synonymous with complaining about promoting the game, put a bill board at Ferrycarrig listing the Wexford games each weekend through the season? You might get a few hundred casuals or those wanting to see a match. Even the Wexford soccer team have when their games are on next.
I always say the same in Dublin city, instead of 40k empty seats for a Leinster Final where is the billboard at O'Connell Bridge saying "Hurling, Croke Park, Sunday, 4pm, tickets gaa.ie"
Wexford and Leinster need to promote the games better, particularly when the product does not sell itself.
ExiledInWex (National) - 23/04/2025 12:25:08
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U20 Championships - 1 Like(s)
Replying To tirawleybaron: "I'm sure you think John O Mahony was coaching Galway for the love of Galway and the likes of Michael Donnellan switched club allegiance to Salthill because he loved the beach.
That Galway team was built off U21 provincial wins in 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1996, 1998 - it was inevitable with a good manager. The period of success should have lased longer based on the success in 2000 and 2002.
Galway only won one U21 titles between 2003 and 2010 resulting in an inevitable decline up to 2013/14.
The facts speak for themselves.
Galway are the best example of building at U21/20 (while threading water at senior), developing a load of good U21/U20 players and then investing in the Senior team to make the most of it (current team is based on U21/20 wins in 2013, 2017, 2019, 2020)
2013 - L Silke, D Comer; S Walsh, I Burke, T Flynn
2017 - S Kelly, K Molloy, D McHugh, C McDaid, P Cooke , C Brennan; , M Daly, R Finnerty, C D'arcy
2019 - S Mulkerrin,
2020 - Conor Flaherty, Jonathan McGrath, Sean Fitzgerald, Jack Glynn; Cathal Sweeney; Matthew Tierney, Tomo Culhane
Now they have an expensive management team since 2020 to try to deliver and All Ireland.
Since 2021, they haven't won a provincial U20 so the senior team will go into decline for a while whenever this current team starts to fade in 2-3 years." No need for the snarky comments. We're talking about O'Mahony managing Galway, not Salthill. I'm not sure what that has to do with anything.
We won an All-Ireland senior in 2001 and followed with U21s in 2002 and 2005. Joyce, Donnellan etc were still in their mid-20s at that stage, and those underage teams had the likes of Michael, Meehan, Gary Sice, Joe Bergin, Kieran Fitzgerald and plenty other very talented players. There's nothing to suggest that underage was neglected while O'Mahony was in charge of Galway. If anything it's after this that the level dropped. We also won U21 All-Irelands in 2011 and 2013. 4 U21 All-Irelands in 12 years is a damn good record and suggests plenty of good players coming through over the course of a decade.
Our failures at senior level went far beyond a lack of talent coming through.
WanPintWin (National) - 23/04/2025 12:24:08
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Football Provincial Championships 2025 - 1 Like(s)
Replying To tirawleybaron: "The football is generally much better to look at, but would you pay 30 quid in to watch most of them?
The championship needs the best teams playing each other - just as hurling does. Then we would have a sport no one could whine about." We're in year 3 of the top 16 playing each other but our Uachtarán, the media and supporters couldn't wait to dump that system.
More jeopardy was the war cry
We get top teams playing each other in the Quarter Finals, Semis and Final., all once off games.
Now we're going for a Sigerson system of once off games with a "back door".
We had Quarter Final series (aka Super 8s) but we got rid of them too.
One good thing about this was big crowds in County grounds.
Do we know what we want?
Seanfanbocht (National) - 23/04/2025 12:21:58
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New Format 2026 All Ireland - 1 Like(s)
One of the benefits of the round robin group stage was that for the first time teams were guaranteed to play at least one championship game at home. With the double elimination format that guarantee is gone. Some teams will not play a home championship game in any given season.
Compare that to hurling where all teams [at all 5 levels] have at least 2 home championship games. Anthony Daly recently mentioned the massive benefit to Ennis of the annual 2 home games in the Munster Championship
edu (National) - 23/04/2025 12:13:23
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Westmeath Football thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Meridian: "Yes but we are all on here complaining that we do not have facilities yet when an opportunity is presented to help get this initiative off the ground we do not support it. You may not like the campaign but it is a campaign nonetheless. Get behind it or go support soccer or rugby. I have my ticket, yes it is a lot of money but its what we have to do as GAA Supporters. I am proud to say I have done my bit for my County." Good on you. But regardless, shifting blame to clubs for underselling is simply a deflection from the failure of the marketing team. Why bother putting money into marketing at all if the onus was going to be on the clubs. We all need to get behind the fundraiser where we can but it doesn't detract from the failure to promote the fundraiser to a wider audience
Iakecounty90 (National) - 23/04/2025 12:12:22
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