Connacht Club Championships Senior, Intermediate & Junior

[Rudi]

If its riding your into. Nothing could beat the riding Brigids got against the same opposition Connacht final 2013. Duffy my arse is still sore.

In fairness the ref made mistakes yesterday for both sides, unlike Duffy he did not favour one side over the other. Castlebar will be no push-overs in the final. Clann can be proud of first big day out in Connacht in 19 years. They were beaten 3 times in the Roscommon championship this year.

How is that possible?

2groups of 6 teams. Group A was a strong group where the top 2 made the semis. Teams that finished 3rd and 4th made the 1/4s. Top 2 in group B made 1/4s also. 5 games per group. Clan lost v brigids, parses and Ros gales. Top 2 teams in B exited at 1/4 stages. Brigids and ros gales despite beating clan and pearses in the group stages, lost out in the semis. It's not as mental as it sounds.

[Nihilist]

2groups of 6 teams. Group A was a strong group where the top 2 made the semis. Teams that finished 3rd and 4th made the 1/4s. Top 2 in group B made 1/4s also. 5 games per group. Clan lost v brigids, parses and Ros gales. Top 2 teams in B exited at 1/4 stages. Brigids and ros gales despite beating clan and pearses in the group stages, lost out in the semis. It's not as mental as it sounds.

It sounds like a League and not a championship.

[Syferus]

2groups of 6 teams. Group A was a strong group where the top 2 made the semis. Teams that finished 3rd and 4th made the 1/4s. Top 2 in group B made 1/4s also. 5 games per group. Clan lost v brigids, parses and Ros gales. Top 2 teams in B exited at 1/4 stages. Brigids and ros gales despite beating clan and pearses in the group stages, lost out in the semis. It's not as mental as it sounds.

It sounds like a League and not a championship.

Worked very well at the different grades this year. Kevin McStay was chairman of the committee that recommended the changes too so he definitely isn't unhappy with it.

[Nihilist]

Worked very well at the different grades this year. Kevin McStay was chairman of the committee that recommended the changes too so he definitely isn't unhappy with it.

How long since it was put in place?
And is it at all grades i.e. Intermediate, Junior, U-21 and Underage that it applies?

[macdanger2]

How is the "strong" group decided??

[Rossfan]

How is the "strong" group decided??

The top 2 in each of the previous years 3 groups of 4.
This year the bottom 2 in the strong group go down to the weak group and are replaced by the top 2 in the weak group.
Bottom 2 in weak group play a relegation final ( to Inter).
Similar system at Inter.

[macdanger2]

Have never heard of a system like that before. It's almost like an A and B championship within the championship. It probably leads to fairly evenly matched games

[Syferus]

Have never heard of a system like that before. It's almost like an A and B championship within the championship. It probably leads to fairly evenly matched games

That's the whole point. The fact we got Clann winning at senior and Glaveys (the just promoted Junior champions) winning at Inter this year is a positive end result for the first year of the new system.

[Farrandeelin]

Well done to both Ardnaree and Hollymount on giving us Mayo GAA followers a bit of good news on this terrible, dark and dreary weekend (in more ways than one). This weekend is about them.

[seafoid]

Well done to both Ardnaree and Hollymount on giving us Mayo GAA followers a bit of good news on this terrible, dark and dreary weekend (in more ways than one). This weekend is about them.

Ardnaree look like a fabulous team. Unbeaten over the year.

[muppet]

Well done to both Ardnaree and Hollymount on giving us Mayo GAA followers a bit of good news on this terrible, dark and dreary weekend (in more ways than one). This weekend is about them.

Yes congrats on two great results.

Now for the Mitchels next week!

[Syferus]

Well done to both Ardnaree and Hollymount on giving us Mayo GAA followers a bit of good news on this terrible, dark and dreary weekend (in more ways than one). This weekend is about them.

What was that about Galway teams sweeping all before them?

Corofin should prevent Mayo from doing likewise.

[From the Bunker]

Ardnaree very impressive today. A late 1-3 from Clifden made the scoreline respectable. Heard Declan O'Dea had the lads out training in the wind and rain yesterday to get them ready for how to deal with conditions today. Logical when you think about it. Who is up next?

[galwayman]

Expected Ardnaree to win for sure - Clifden aren't up to much.
Was at the intermediate final - Moycullen could well have won it after dominating in the second half against the breeze.One or two bad shot options towards the end were costly.
Also they played poorly with the wind behind them in the first half.
Next week will be close

[GalwayBayBoy]

Expected Ardnaree to win for sure - Clifden aren't up to much.

Seen a bit of them this year and yeah Clifden are no great shakes. Not a patch on the Aran Islands team that won Connacht last year. I'd say they will struggle to remain intermediate next year.