Roscommon GAA Discussion Thread

Hulk Hands wrote: »

If Roscommon last played Mayo/Galway at home then the next match should be away. that's common sense. It's not other counties fault that Roscommon can't provide a suitable ground. if after this year, it looks long term like Roscommon will have no home ground, then maybe rearrange the agreement to neutral every year. No way the winner of Mayo/Galway should agree to that this year however

Next year it's Roscommon's turn to play away to either Galway or Mayo, so it's not going to be an issue in 2015.

I think the taking turns thing is fair in one sense, but takes part of the luck of the draw away

RoscommonTom wrote: »

So it's neutral of weve galway and in castlebar if we've the mayos. Id fancy us to beat galway but not the mayos in castlebar

I would imagine Castlebar would also be the venue if it's Galway.

megadodge wrote: »

Roscommon are due to play Galway away next time we meet. Ros played Galway in the Hyde in 2012.

We are trying to delete that game from our memories although our last game in Salthill was an absolute thumping too

To bigger and brighter days in 2015

rossie1977 wrote: »

5 in a row roscommon titles for bridgets. getting worrying though that bridgets are so far ahead of everyone else in the county and very few future county players on their panel

St Brigids 3-12 St Faithleachs 0-7

Some win for them, I seen a bit of the mayo final on tv and I dont think brigids have too much to worry about from ballytubber, is it corofin on the other side

Syferus wrote: »

Best performance by Brigids since the AI final last year. Five in a row and 8 in 10 years tells its own story about where Brigids are. They are simply the best club team in the history of Roscommon football and that includes the great Clann team of the late 80s and early 90s.

It's up to everyone else to raise up their efforts than trying to wait for Brigids to fall back. We have a gold standard in the county and if clubs need the blueprint for success they only need to cast their eyes down to Kiltoom/Cam.

Paraig Kelly needs to be on the county panel next year.

Ballintubber are flying too and no one will be looking beyond the date at McHale Park in November.

Your right, must be the best team ever in Ros, Did you take any snaps at the match today, you had some mighty ones the last year

Syferus wrote: »

Five in a row and 8 in 10 years tells its own story about where Brigids are. They are simply the best club team in the history of Roscommon football and that includes the great Clann team of the late 80s and early 90s.

Very debatable are you old to see those Clann na nGael sides play?

For the record they won eight in a row county titles and 16 in two decades. 6 in a row Connacht titles and reached four All Ireland finals in a row.

Syferus wrote: »

The game has changed immeasurably since even the late 90s. The best club teams now are far more professional than they were coming up on now 30 years ago. The same applies at county level.

Clann were the great losers, Brigids are the great winners. Winning one will always count more than any number of losses.

Ya i have read that opinion a few times on modern football and it comes mostly from those that just started watching football the last 10 or 15 years.

If thats your true view especially the bit in bold then its probably best you keep it to yourself.

nice_guy80 wrote: »

Brigids altered their style of football and approach to games after the first All Ireland loss. It is what got them over the line the second time
It also helps that they are probably the best run club in the county in terms of finance, facilities, organisation etc

Altered their style after that defeat to near neighbours Garrycastle I'd say. McHale,McHugh arrived then but like Mayo have found out you need extra bit of luck to get over the line something that Clann probably didn't have. A ridiculous comment above to call Clann great losers when they still hold the record for the amount of Roscommon,Connacht titles won.

For what it's worth, one win is worth more than any amount of losses. Ask any Mayo person.

Brigids were able to cross the line and Clann weren't. Of course, that doesn't make Clann "losers", which is a very harsh assessment, but it's all about winning and on the big day Clann consistently came up short.

It really was an awful shame that they didn't nail at least one, as some of their semi-final wins were outstanding against-the-odds displays, but when they couldn't beat a side as relatively inexperienced as Baltinglass (Tony Mac was marked by a 19 year old that day) and Brigids have Nemo and Crossmaglen on their list of vanquished opponents, I know who I think is the better team. With no disrespect intended.

Could be the end of the era for brigids, mighty team but a few nights be the wrong side of the 30 now

RoscommonTom wrote: »

New Jersey not to bad, I like the lines going down it. never heard of the sponsor , i had heard Ros Mart would be the sponsor but dont know what happened there,

Yeah very nice retro effect in the style of 4 in a row team. Think its a tribute to the late Dermot Early. The new sponsor is based in San Francisco I think and played for Ros with Dermot, can't think of his name. Think he travelled to the States on a football trip and stayed illegally and made it big in the building trade.
He doesn't want to really publicise his sponsorship hence Club Rossie on the jersey. Is his name Tom Hogan or something like that?

New sponsor is Tom Hunt,played for Ros in the 70's .He has a huge civil engineering company in San Fran.Fair play to him for sponsoring the 3 teams and not exactly getting much from it like most sponsors through advertising .