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Team of the year named today.

7 for the All-Ireland winners
6 the All-Ireland runners up
1 each for the beaten All-Ireland semi-finalists



Ronan Donnelly (Tyrone)
Elliott Kerr (Tyrone)
Padraig Goodman (Tyrone)
Ronan Sheridan (Kerry)
Danny Murphy (Kerry)
David Sargent (Kerry)
Aodhan Quinn (Tyrone)
James Mulgrew (Tyrone)
John Curtin (Kerry)
Dara Curran (Roscommon)
Peter Colton (Tyrone)
Gearóid White (Kerry)
Ben Kelliher (Kerr)
Eoin Long (Tyrone)
Ben Holmes (Mayo)

Peter Colton named player of the year.

Are doing homecomings for losing teams - just one big embarrassment?

Why do we do them in Inter-county GAA? Does having them have any plus points?

Depends. If you reach your first final for many years it's worth doing.

Sandbox games at the weekend apparently had 4 point goals, restricted hand pass rule.  Once you crossed the half way line you couldn't go back and some adjustment to the kick outs and the hooter.

All sounds top heavy on the offensive side of things instead of looking to strike a balance between defence and attack.

Former Ros footballer and all round good guy Don Connellan aged about 50.

Very short illness?

Managed Moycullen to a Galway senior title recently and was also involved in the management of NUIG recent sigerson cup success if I recall right.

FT Dublin 2-16 Meath 0-10. 0-7 to 0-6 2nd half after that contest won before half time.

Half time Dublin 2-9 Meath 0-4

Goal for Tyrone with 6 minutes to go 2-13 to 1-12 they lead.

Result Tyrone 2-16 Laois 1-13.

Have any club championships started?

I see fixtures in the paper for Antrim 'championship' if you can call group stages championship. Straight knock-out the real thing...

Kerry seem to have the right formula though.

Tyrone seemed to be good though in Tyrone but pretty poor elsewhere

Considering the Tyrone senior team got to the All Ireland final and is so competitive the team they drew with in the first round of the  championship (Clonoe) was relegated.. ultra competitive. Tyrone Intermediate and Junior teams regularly win Ulster.. 🤷  it's not bad.
Kerry nominate teams to play in Junior that are clearly too strong for that level. They've a poor senior record.

Errigal Ciarán last January was the first ever Tyrone club to reach All-Ireland senior final.  Kerry clubs have reached 10 finals winning 6 but have only won one since the mid 90s has their current format played a part in that?

Junior final result.

Louth 0-13 Antrim 1-8

Half time in the Intermediate final

Tyrone 1-7 Laois 1-5

Bed of Roses
Blaze of Glory
Living on a prayer.


Seen them live once in the RDS around 15 years ago, still sounded good back then. tickets was a lot cheaper then as was Dublin accommodation.

[Groups up 24%]

Connacht SFC up 29%
Ulster up 4%
Leinster up 45%
Munster down 3%.

Groups up 24%
Knock out stages up 26%.

21% increase overall.

Some evidence congress jumped the gun in ending that format? Group stage also had more competitive games than the last month of action.

The Provincial chiefs in Connacht,Leinster and Ulster certainly won't want to lose it's connection to the All-Ireland series with those attendance figures

All on this Sunday in Croke Park and live on TG4.

All-Ireland SFC final
Meath v Dublin, 4.15pm

All-Ireland IFC final
Laois v Tyrone, 1.45pm

All-Ireland JFC final
Antrim v Louth, 11.45am

Expected attendance is 45,000.

One silver lining of the final, and hopefully stats will reflect this, that the two pointers are worth the added risk.

It seemed a total no brainer to me.

Not when you don't score them. Look how many Donegal missed in the 2nd half. Look how many Meath missed in their semi-final. It's so easy to say teams should use the 2-pointers but when your ballooning possession wide of the posts what's the point of that?

It's a real gripe when analysts used to say to "beat a blanket defence just kick long-range points". As if all teams were capable of scoring consistently from 40m but choose not too.

A proper analysis would be to find out how many 2 point attempts from play are scored. Even if someone did it just for the final id be interested.

Did Kerry miss any? Ryan missed a free or 2, don't think Donegal even went for any more than 2 or 3

They missed plenty.  Kerry scored 5 two pointers from 12 attempts.   Donegal no two pointer Sunday from three attempts.   Both scored big in their semi finals but only scored 1 two pointer each.

30 two pointers Kerry scored in this years championship and mainly came from two players. David Clifford and Sean O'Shea who scored 27 of the 30.

Donie Smith after 13 years.

made his senior debut for Roscommon in the 2012 Championship against Tyrone and went on to make 133 appearances in the primrose and blue.


• 2 Connacht Senior Football Championships (2017, 2019)
• 4 National Football League Division 2 titles (2015, 2018, 2020, 2022)
• 1 National Football League Division 3 title (2014)

scoring record of 8 goals and 273 points.

13 years of intercounty is a serious stint in this day and age.

Certainly is and had three years with the U21s 2012 to 2014 where Roscommon reached two All-Ireland finals losing out to star studded Dublin team. 2011 and 2010 played Minor winning one Connacht title.

Donie Smith after 13 years.

made his senior debut for Roscommon in the 2012 Championship against Tyrone and went on to make 133 appearances in the primrose and blue.


• 2 Connacht Senior Football Championships (2017, 2019)
• 4 National Football League Division 2 titles (2015, 2018, 2020, 2022)
• 1 National Football League Division 3 title (2014)

scoring record of 8 goals and 273 points.