National Football Leagues 2026

I'm assuming Allianz doesn't insure any of those Dublin player's sponsered cars

It was 23,707 - but must have been 8-10k for the Derry v Meath match. Can’t remember a lower attendance since. a CP league match where there was frost/sleet and was on the same day as a big Ireland 6 nations match.

Absolut horrible day to be out at a game. Normally be a huge amount of kids at league games but hard to justify bringing them out on a day like that. Driving up the moterway to Croke park i thought the games could be called. Weather had a massive effect on the attendance id of thought.

Up Donegal

I think if Meath play Dublin in Leinster. I honestly would have Meath favourites. Not only do Meath have 4/5 different two point options. They have pure power. That midfield they have means business. Defend in packs as well. The match v Derry was good because of the contrast in styles.

Unlike Dublin both Meath and Derry have a system and tactic that is well practiced and all the players know their roles.

What ahppened exactly? Was watching the deferred coverage in the pub but nobidy seemd to know

great game between mayo and galway , i watched it back this evening excellent game robbie hennelly is some man he must have made 4 point blank saves and kicked a few great two pointers in the process

mayo have some brilliant forwards coming through from the last few under 20s , but they need a clone for sam callanan , at the moment hes the glue holding that back line together

Was pleasantly surprised by that Ros performance. With 7 debutants and without the Brigids and Strokestown lads... that was a daunting fixture, away to the AI Champions.

And we really should have beaten them, despite an atrocious refereeing performance from Cawley.

The key moment for me was half-way through the second half when Cregg elected to shoot himself from a tight angle instead of squaring to the unmarked Doyle for a tap-in goal.

It's remarkable to say, that as good as he was with 9 points, he left at least 1 if not two goals behind him.

It can't be said often enough, but Cawley gave the worst refereeing performance I've seen in many years there today. 80% of his bad decisions favoured Kerry and that final score 2 seconds after the hooter, was the icing on the cake from his ****-show of a day.

Kerry Roscommon game again showed the ridiculous of the 50m offense for not handing the ball back. Mike Breen handed the ball back perfectly and Ref penalised Kerry 50m, gifting Roscommon 2 pts.

So many people incorrectly thinking there was only 2 seconds left for the last free 🤦. That was the tg4 clock which was out of sync with the match clock. Anyone who has watched the tg4 ladies football would have known the tg4 clock is always a few seconds ahead of the match clock!

In this day and age of electronics they should be able to hook the real clock up to to the TV broadcast, so that the issue does not arise.

Nice entertainment for for 1st league game between galway and mayo. Actually looked a lovely day there, meanwhile it was miserable where I live.

Mayos 3 goals were well taken and showed good composure. In contrast Rob finnerty had a chance in the 1st half but absolutely blasted it over the bar. My point is why do some players hit the ball so hard when so near the goal. Just roll it like Mayos 2nd goal

Galway were missing some really important players yesterday - Cillian McDaid, John Maher, Paul Conroy, Matthew Thompson. You could (debatably) add Damien Comer there too, but he is injured more often than he plays, so he's a bit of an anomaly.