National Football Leagues 2026

Crazy bringing these games up to Croke Park. The place is like a morgue. There was more atmosphere during Covid.

Louth wont be so fussed looking at Meath here.

poor atmosphere. Ben a while since I heard so many players shouting. Thought Meath would have brought a crowd. Funny nearly sounded like more Cork supporters in Omagh last week. Such are issues with cavernous Venue like CP. Still thought better atmosphere last night

Better atmosphere last night than today Sao far. What difference does losing the hour make? Don’t think that many people getting up for 8 o clock mass. We’ve already had the 2 week break between league and championship argument hashed out

Chris Og Jones just keeps scoring the same goal. Note to keepers- he’s going to dummy and roll it in at the near post

Meath were effectively down to 14 for that Cork goal.

Cork running down their own clock

Mad stuff

Having the buzzer go bang on at full time does kill some of the excitement. Preferred it last year when you had a chance of one last attack

Why did they change the last play after the hooter rule?

For instance Meath had a kick out with 10 seconds left,the game is over.Under last years rule Cork could have won the kick out and had a chance to work a two pointer to draw it.Way more exciting and cuts out some of the BS of running down the clock.

It was crazy to change from last year to what we have now.

Division 4,3 finals last night and again today in Division 2 final has showed the end of games are a bit of a farce with the hooter.

GAA HQ if they have common sense with bin the hooter before the championship starts and leave timekeeping to refs, we got on fine during the club championship without any hooter.

Bit of an oversimplification. Leaving out important nuance there. Croke Park advantage for good sides fast play wide pitch.. And conversely a disadvantage for poor sides. It has shown this year where Dublin struggled in CP and Meath excelled.

I think the hooter takes away some of the work for the ref. Makes time keeping more accurate. Works well ladies football etc. Everyone knows where they stand. No “how long is left?” Etc. Up to players to get used to it.

The hooter was fine last year with the team in possession allowed to finish the play.

I really don't understand why they changed it to the mess it is now.

Yeah hooter goes, one last play. The excitement would be class. If ball goes out of play before hooter all it to be kicked back in. We beat Galway with that rule last year and I didn't like it.

Perhaps, but I can see some controversies arising. Arguments about whether the ball is over the bar or in the net before the hooter goes. Is it up to the referee and umpires now to judge what happened?

Jayus that is a good question. I assume the ref gets the final say?