AI club hurling 2025/2026

[OakLeaf]

Said after 15 minutes they Martins wides were going to haunt them at ft

Aye, they've been poor this second half. Take a miracle from here.

[seafoid]

St Martins never got going in the second half. Ballygunner versus Loughrea should be a good match.

[seafoid]

https://www.paddypower.com/gaelic-games/club-hurling

Ballygunner 3/10
Loughrea 5/2

[DownFanatic]

Did Slaughtneil underperform yesterday or was there a massive gap in standard? From what I seen, I thought Loughrea were superior in nearly every sector.

[johnnycool]

Did Slaughtneil underperform yesterday or was there a massive gap in standard? From what I seen, I thought Loughrea were superior in nearly every sector.

A bit of both.

Rodgers had a serious off day by his own standards, fumbling, missing lifts, catches, even striking the ball the few times he did manage to get hold of it. He wasn't the only one for Sleacht Néill to have similar days.

If anything Loughrea did to Sleacht Néill what Sleacht Néill have been doing to the rest of Ulster for the last 10 years, they denied their forwards any space to operate, won the dirty ball, were cleaner in their hurling, worked it out to their 65 and then hit the space in front of their 2 man ff line who were well able to hold up the ball for the runners coming through or get the space and time to take their man on and create a score.

What surprised me was how Sleacht Néill allowed that space in front of Burns and the other lad Morgan to happen, it's not something they do in Ulster, but they were losing all the duels up the field as well, especially in the second half and resorted to long, high balls into a crowded area and couldn't get going from there.

It was a very good performance from Loughrea and barring the stupid swipe, I don't even think it was a full blooded pull, from the young fella Killeen they would be happy where they are going into the final v an injury depleted Ballygunner.

Those injuries to Fitzgerald and Kevin Mahony which both looked to be hamstrings could well swing the final in Loughrea's favour if they don't make it.

St Martins give it there all, and played some really good hurling, but they were always going to run out of steam as the effort they put in in the first half was unreal, there was no way they could sustain that for the 60 minutes and they didn't have enough of a lead to hold onto with the Gunners firing over a serious amount of scores in the second half.

It'll be an interesting final, if Fitzgerald especially can make it back then I'd slightly fancy Ballygunner but Loughrea have some really good defenders and it will be interesting how they go about closing down Fitzgerald and Hutchinson.

I don't think Sean Stack had his best day on the whistle yesterday, in particular the goal, not goal incident which ended up being a free out to Ballygunner...

It's easy with the benefit of replays and all, but there was at least one blatant swing on the Martins lad before he hit the ground, so in the very least it should have been a penalty.
When the ball somehow ended up in the net with the Martins lad lying on the ground with the ball in his hand, to a certain extent I can have sympathy with the ref in thinking it had to be a throw ball, he was badly let down there by his umpires who should have seen that the ball was kicked out of his hand by the Ballygunner defender.

Fine margins an all that, would have meant Martins going in at half time 1-6 to 0-4 up, who knows if that would have made any difference come the end, as Martins were blown away in the second half altogether.

[Milltown Row2]

For me Loughrea snuffed out S'neils best player, he would normally be setting up the play but was anonymous the whole game..

Better stick work on a shitty pitch and releasing the ball into space before the tackles came in allowed them better opportunities

As said already, some of leaders didn't show up or were not allowed to show up

Pretty decent performance from Loughrea. The lad getting sent off was pure stupidity, if there are no other angles to see it then it is down to the ref's report. Lunacy

Ballygunner found a way, they have had to do that a few times over the years, even in Limerick this year they just had to dig in, when it goes great for them they look the best, and when a team, like St Martins did yesterday physically matched them, they had to grind it out.. injuries aside (4 weeks to final?) I think they should come through but be a lot tighter than I thought it would be..

[Gallybander]

https://www.paddypower.com/gaelic-games/club-hurling

Ballygunner 3/10
Loughrea 5/2

I wouldn't go near BG at those odds. They should be just about favourites but nothing more. they made heavy work of Martins.

Dessie is playing some stuff now, compared to his output earlier in the year.

[Truthsayer]

Did Slaughtneil underperform yesterday or was there a massive gap in standard? From what I seen, I thought Loughrea were superior in nearly every sector.

Reality is Ulster has only won 2 All Ireland senior club titles. Same as county, we're just not at that level. Ulster is probably Slaughtneil's ceiling. Loughrea whole other level.. unfortunately.

[Blowitupref]

Saturday January 10th in Croke Park

Junior All-Ireland final

Easkey (Sligo) v Kilbrittain (Cork) 3:15pm

Intermediate All-Ireland final

Tooreen(Mayo) v Upperchurch-Drombane (Tipperary) 5:15pm


Sunday January 18th Croke Park

Senior All-Ireland final

Loughrea (Galway) Ballygunner (Waterford) 1:30pm

All finals live on TG4.

[johnnycool]

Did Slaughtneil underperform yesterday or was there a massive gap in standard? From what I seen, I thought Loughrea were superior in nearly every sector.

Reality is Ulster has only won 2 All Ireland senior club titles. Same as county, we're just not at that level. Ulster is probably Slaughtneil's ceiling. Loughrea whole other level.. unfortunately.

That's two more than won at Senior Intercounty level and a heck of a lot more AI final appearances also than at Intercounty level.

It's been a good while since an Ulster Team looked out of their depth at senior club and even though Sleacht Néill were beaten by a good margin in the end they didn't let anyone in Derry or Ulster down by their performance.

Hurling can be cruel on a team when it comes to the scoreboard whereas in football a crap team can park the bus, get beat by 4 or 5 points, but never actually look like ever winning the game.

[Captain Obvious]

Did Slaughtneil underperform yesterday or was there a massive gap in standard? From what I seen, I thought Loughrea were superior in nearly every sector.

Reality is Ulster has only won 2 All Ireland senior club titles. Same as county, we're just not at that level. Ulster is probably Slaughtneil's ceiling. Loughrea whole other level.. unfortunately.

That's two more than won at Senior Intercounty level and a heck of a lot more AI final appearances also than at Intercounty level.

It's been a good while since an Ulster Team looked out of their depth at senior club and even though Sleacht Néill were beaten by a good margin in the end they didn't let anyone in Derry or Ulster down by their performance.

Hurling can be cruel on a team when it comes to the scoreboard whereas in football a crap team can park the bus, get beat by 4 or 5 points, but never actually look like ever winning the game.

More so under the old rules than the over the top offensive heavy new rules that was put in place this year.

[Milltown Row2]

 

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[Blowitupref]

On today


All-Ireland club IHC final
Tooreen (Mayo) v Upperchurch-Drombane (Tipperary), Croke Park, 5.15pm - TG4

All-Ireland club JHC final
Easkey (Sligo) v Kilbrittain (Cork), Croke Park, 3.15pm - TG4

Odds

Tooreen  11/10
Upperchurch-Drombane 10/11
draw 17/2

Kilbrittain 1/7
Draw 14/1
Easkey 11/2

[Blowitupref]

Deserved half time lead for the Sligo men. Easkey 0-11 Kilbrittain 0-10. Debatable call by the ref to not allow the Easkey goal and bring it back for a free.

0-12 each on 40 mins but a big moment with Easkey down to 14 men with their top scorer Kilcullen sent off.

[BigGreenField]

If a red card for a low level of what looked accidental contact then players will be dipping their heads when being tackled to draw the red.

The yellow just given much more deliberate and dangerous action.