Club Championships 2023/24

It will be interesting to see if some of the Glen players like Tallon and Ethan Doherty's brother join the Derry team if they win the final. Apparently some don't want to. The reality of the situation is that winning club All Ireland's won't make you a house hold name of the sport. Of course you will be a legend in your parish but not anywhere else in Ireland. The next step for them is to reply to Mickey Harte's voicemails

Glen are not very new on the scene at all. They might only have won their first title in 2021 but the team has been coming for years now.

They won an absolutely ludicrous four Ulster Minor club titles on the spin from 2011 on which has generated this outstanding squad.

This game going ahead tomorrow?

Way less of a chance of a named storm belting in on St.Patrick's Day. Just saying....

The biblical snow in 2018 was actually in March...

Also playing a provincial final in December, an All Ireland semi 2 months later and final 5 weeks later was the high of madness looking back on it, and talking to former players who played Paddy's day finals they confirmed this to me.

As for the games narrow wins for the Derry and Galway men.

Wouldn't call it greed as putting them back a week wouldn't have any financial impact, its just a lack of common sense more than anything.

In fact putting them back a week (had they done so yesterday) could have led to a much bigger attendance as with the forecast there will be very very few neutrals there today.

Wonder if the red weather warning will affect things..( considering a St Thomas are in the final). Fans would be traveling back during the time of the warning.

GAA asleep at the wheel here, families likely leaving already for Dublin.

The only good decision can be to cancel at this point surely. Glen supporters would have a similarly dangerous trek home during high level orange conditions.

Some of you guys really shouldn't be living in an island in the middle of the North Atlantic. It's wet, it's windy... so what? I've been to games in March and April that were held in wet and windy days, it's pat for the course! The GAA of course is an easy target to have a pop at when you're sitting by the fire looking out the windows for something to complain about....

That said, the conditions will have a bearing on the games today, and how the teams adapt will be critical. Wind and rain will probably suit a bigger, physical Glen team I'd imagine, will probably tilt the scales in their favour.

It's the Thomas fans travelling back to Galway in midst of a ted warning in the county that you have to call into question.Putting fans in a difficult position where asking them to travel across the country in treacherous weather conditions. I'm based in Galway here and you wouldn't put the dog out in the conditions we have here today. Call it off and play double header in croker next Saturday 3 and 5 clock and Dubs monaghan game can be played after. With that it's not competing with the numerous league matches that being played and televised on Sunday.

It's not the wind speeds in Croke Park although they will be crazy, it's the people travelling home in the dark in winds which they'll possibly never have experienced before - 120km+gusts, there will be trees and powerlines down and thousands on the road in the height of it means the risk of injury goes way up.

Would you have thousands out on the road during storm Darwin? If not then, definitely not today.

This should be rescheduled for the Feb bank hol wknd.

Beyond the inclement weather this weekend there’s no case to be made to delay the finals intentionally in future. They were moved forward to prevent the absurdity of three games extending the club championships from mid-December to mid-March in the first place.

Drivers will have to stick to motorways as much as possible. I once drove across/up Galway in the dark evening, from Gort to Athleague in Ros, didn’t know the roads and had constant cars behind up my arse. The shi++iest roads in Ireland and a scary experience.