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Former Kildare minor captain Paul Mescal. Like after Gladiator comes out he's going to another level.

Just bumping this up again...
Dean Smith or even Graham Potter?
It's a month before the friendlies so surely that's a deadline...

The IRFU went viral with the young kid singing Ireland's Call. Now they have the young Liverpool fan Daire in this week. They are really going after kids and they

I'll ask this as a WTF do the GAA social, comms and marketing actually do? Any campaign comes from the sponsor. There is no content on socials or YouTube for kids. They can tell you anything you want to know about Mbappe but they'd need a research PhD to chase up what a county player likes...

And the poxy thing is that these kids can run on the field after a game and actually meet their heroes.

It will open a lot of marketing options and to be honest the LGFA campaigns with Lidl could teach the GAA a lot. There will be a more Govt funding and a lot of the stuff at club level is moving along that way anyway.

The women's associations actually the issue a lot of the times in terms of fixtures overlapping and general BS. That will need a clean-out there.

Feel sorry for Glenn Ryan?! He knew the media were on the job all week but gave them another story when he attacked a local journalist who has always been very supportive.
Basically accused him of not reporting something and then refused to back down. This is in front of the Examiner, The Indo and The Times...

We are easy fodder on and off the field.

This is terrible...

https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/arid-41334637.html

Bar David Hyland there were no nailed on starters after going off the scene in Kildare.
Kirwan always gets bottled up but shoots anyway. In the end he was hiding out the field.
Ben McCormack did his usual carry it into traffic on the big arc before losing it...

These are main men up top...we are so open at the back but everyone knows this.

Some of the very basic errors are a joke and I always say no other team have such an ability to not learn year on year.

Like that was bad club standard at times.

KILDARE can't win a Leinster...
BUT THE DUBS...
Kildare can't beat Fermanagh...BUT THE DUBS?

We have the worst kip of a ground in the country for 25 years.
No streaming of club games and general lack of vision.

Thank you to people defending us and Meath. Leinster is goosed but Christ we don't need to lie down every year either.

Just to jump on here as I work in D4 and this week the roads around are nice and quiet as the schools are off. Come next week the X5, X7s and other monster truck EVs will be back out dropping the one kid to school in a place where they are really well served with public transport and bike lanes.

They need to stop subsidising rich people buying massive SUVs and put money into public transport.

Well because the Dubs are going into a serious set-up and can be eased in. They don't need a load of players every year whereas we bring lads into chaos and a dressing room with no real leaders and a set-up that's often one year away from a heave. Then they just lose their way.

Also, for a lot of those teams we had a lot of physically big athletic lads who can't do it with fully grown men. The lack of in game intelligence with Kildare at senior levels is a joke too.

That U20 team has serious young lads who had grit and desire, but they will just be lost in the mix again. Sure FFS the Captain and midfielder of the 2018 U21 team was on the bench v Fermanagh while the goalie on that team was starting wing forward...he was hauled off at half-time. We are wasting any hope.

I am from Kildare and it's a great thing to say shure lookit - the Dubs! What's the excuse for not being able to beat Fermanagh? Or losing to teams with much fewer resources.

What is happening with the manager situation?!
Given saying no in terms of Carsley, but others who might have more insider knowledge of the FAI say its being sorted behind closed doors.

New sponsor and manager could be in place for the Belgium match...

An article from Pilly Mc and then this from RTÉ on Kildare in the space of a week...

https://www.rte.ie/sport/football/2024/0209/1431485-kildare-failing-to-harness-enormous-potential/

Things are bad at the minute but you'd hope some outside attention might be a reality check. The feckin Armagh game is live on TG4 too, so more national coverage.

We talk a lot of good players, but we don't have enough relaible lads. Can I ask other posters here - your county men stand out for the clubs every week?

I agree, but the likes of Donal Óg and the other lads do pay lip service. Then if the sacred cow of MUNSTER HURLING!!! gets slighted or not lauded enough then he goes nuclear.
The same lad had a needless diog at the Tailteann Cup last year and I reckon plenty like him don't respect hurling outside the big lads.

It's a strange one where they moan about hurling not growing but then it's a massive issue if any of the Liam McCarthy lads' funds go to help weaker counties.

I do tend to say the real hurling men are the ones who are plugging away in the trenches.

Donal Óg gets ten monologues a year written into his contract? It's so painfully set up and the man does not give a flyin' f**k about Ulster Hurling.

He was on one about the split season and then when a Westmeath player said he loved it...there was nothing said. I'd be more keen to hear from the likes of the Louth Captain who was on last night.

But, hurling folk are more precious than rugby people. If you don't scream hurling is the best game ever then they have an issue. Maybe some people don't like it. Maybe kids, even the ones who start young simply do not enjoy it as much as other sports...that's just a thought mind.