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Must be home to Tyrone this year as well.

I wouldn't say either team are finished, yeah they might not win back to back titles next year again but will still be there at the business end next year.

I disagree. I think Newbridge and Magherafelt will be battling it out for top spot, and others will move up the pecking order. I think Lavey (based on age profile) is the most likely to move Glen/Slaughtneil off a top 3 or 4 spot, then Steelstown or Dungiven.

Both Slaughtneil and Glen have 5 or 6 starters over 30, and the quality isn't there in their younger players to replace some of these icons.

They will still compete for sure, but it will be rebuilding for both of them. The circle of life.

If anyone thinks differently, provide some details, not wishful thinking. Let's get some debate going.
 

The younger players slaughtneil have brought in this year havent looked a bit out of place imo. I dont think Glen got it together at all this year, theyll need some new blood for sure but i expect them to bounce back and challenge again, too many good player not too.

I do agree Lavey are next likely to push into the top 4 but youve lost me at Dungiven and Steelstown? Are you just going off age profile?

In fairness Dungiven and Magherafelt have shared the last 4 minor titles evenly between them, so I can see why Dungiven was included.

[There's no gate for those games so it's not that the county board are looking to profit off hosting them.]

With just the u16 football finals to play and no venues up yet, I've noticed alot of the underage finals have been on the back pitches at Owenbeg, I dont think theyre appropriate for such a big occasion for the kids and their families. Pitches in awful condition, poor floodlights and no dugouts. Plenty of good club grounds which could have been used which is usually the case

There's not many clubs at this time of year willing to host games, regardless of the occasion or game. There is no 'prestige' in hosting an U16 final, particularly now we seem to have so many of them across the grades.

There's no gate for those games so it's not that the county board are looking to profit off hosting them. It's probably cos nobody else wants them.

So you're telling me I need to get that £5 back from Bellaghy for the U14 Final double header that they hosted a couple of weeks ago.

A few of those lads will be with the U20s. It'll probably run the same as last year.. they'll be with the 20s until their season is over.

After that showing, will Lowry get any game time tomorrow?

Well he was playing Hurling today.

He was also on sideline/pitch in Galbally when the final whistle went.

Armagh don't have two forwards that can do that and they won an AI

Don't think I ever seen a hot shot league table at the end of a season and 1 county has 2 or three players on it. Maybe it has happened with a left and right footed free taker.
Scores were spread as teams attacked in big numbers, rotated etc. Full backs regularly chipping in with goals and points for example

The list of the top 10 scorers from play in the 2025 All-Ireland SFC includes:
2 from Kerry,
3 from Donegal and
2 from Galway.

[Yes, if there was no game, there was no trouble. But at the same time the game also had nothing to do with it]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce3511lx7v3o

The groundballers definitely have the hooligan issue well boxed off 

Below is a exhaustive list of things that you won't see at a GAA game this summer

1.
"At about 19:00 BST, prior to a game [...], the two large groups attacked each other with sticks, bats and iron bars and caused damage to buildings and parked cars."

Not exactly football specific, but carry on

I will.  And you guys carry on booking the riot cops.  You need them.

The lack of cops, of any description, is a large part of the issue here.

I'm not here to defend Bohs hangers on taking on Derry. But if you were at the game you wouldn't have especially noticed.

So its just the hanger on's which cause the problem? Just lads looking a riot and wear a scarf of any team to get into digs from other hanger on's from the other team?

In this specific case, there has been a problem for years with local youths launching whatever was to hand at away fans. DCFC have no control over outside the stadium, the PSNI refuse to deal with it. Some Bohs scrotes travelled independently to dish out some revenge.

So this was Derry shitehawks who have nothing to do with their local team versus Bohs pups who couldn't get a ticket for this even if they tried.

Yes, if there was no game, there was no trouble. But at the same time the game also had nothing to do with it

Read that sentence back and give yer head a wobble.

Have you ever been to Derry?

The local shites are just as likely to pop at fans at Celtic Park as they are the Brandywell. Literally next door. Same absence of cops. Would it be beyond reality for Dubs or Armagh fans to pop back? Would it then be simply GAA crowd trouble? Or a great deal more complicated?

Been in Celtic Park countless times.  And I'll tell you from experience re: the bit in bold - They're not.

And they have not.

And therefore, no opposing fans have ever had a 'pop back'

Because there is no culture of organised violence/hooliganism in the GAA

Gangs of hoods hell bent on an pre-arranged scrap just DONT EXIST in our games

It's a soccer thing and your time would be better spent trying to sort it out rather than projecting/deflecting onto other sports

Nobody decries the absence of cops at GAA games - because they are not needed

The desperation in your post is actually hilarious

Hold up.

Nobody is claiming the Derry side of this equation were Derry City fans. Nobody. They are local shites who attack soccer fans. Same time, same place. If there was a Derry CLG game under lights there is nothing to suggest they wouldn't move 100m up the road for their giggles. Same conditions exist - no cops, visiting fans, the full knowledge nothing will be done.

If you want to condense my point, it is absolutely unfair to blame soccer for those 'recreational rioters' because soccer was their target.

The response to them from kinda soccer fans is a different story.

But the evidence is available to refute that claim... There have been numerous Saturday evening games under lights in Celtic Park over the last few years. Including two league games against The Dubs. Did we see any videos, news reports, anecdotal observations about any trouble/attacks caused by locals?

Is this result from the minor championship this evening correct??

Banagher 0-03 Kilrea 0-03

The Rte Sunday Sport named a similar team - two changes from the one above. Mulroy for Conaty and Shane O'Donnell for Conor O'Donnell.

Until 7 months ago, every player in Ireland had grown up on a certain ruleset.

Kerry's and David Clifford's impressive 2025 Croke Park performances feel somewhat fraudulent to me as they needed lifetime rule changes to achieve them.

Fraudulent performances ffs, I've heard it all now 

Clifford's scoring:
2021: 2–17
2022: 2–27
2023: 5–41
2024: 3–54
2025: 11–84

Maybe the massive uplift in 2025 had nothing to do with the rules.

Any context here on games played etc? League and Championship? Source?
Gaelic Statsman on twitter has Clifford scoring 3-30 in league and 8-48 in the Championship. Wiki has it at 11-92.

Sunday Game Team of the Year
1. Shane Ryan - Kerry
2. Sean Rafferty - Meath
3. Jason Foley - Kerry
4. Brendan McCole - Donegal
5. Brian O'Beaglaoich - Kerry
6. Gavin White - Kerry
7. Kieran McGeary - Tyrone
8. Joe O'Connor - Kerry
9. Michael Langan - Donegal
10. Sean O'Shea - Kerry
11. Paidi Clifford - Kerry
12. Oisin Conaty - Armagh
13. David Clifford - Kerry
14. Michael Murphy - Donegal
15. Conor O'Donnell - Donegal

Didn't realise at the time, but Donegal had 16 players out for the parade.

Sounded like Jarlath was retiring Michael Murphy in his speech.

Donegal are making so many bad decisions you'd have to think they can get that tightened up at HT!

Kerry the same with their shot selection.. a few times there Kerry seemed to get bored with possession and took stupid 2pt pot shots.