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Dublin might prefer O'Toole Park anyway.

I wouldn't expect Dublin to suddenly forfeit home advantage or anything, mind you. I'd say a switch to O'Toole Park is quite plausible - it's a long time since I've been there and it's fairly basic, but I'd say it would cater for the 700-1,000 people that might be likely to show up for this game ...

Nigel has given great service to Offaly and for the span of his career, success was usually a distant prospect.

The recent challenges he's been facing in keeping up and the physical toll it exerts on the body are clear. This may be missed by the outsider. He is being extremely modest in thinking ...

At least the Sunday Game spared us any 'out of character', 'not much in it' bilge about the Daithi Burke stroke.

Unfortunately over on the Mattie forum, they're seeing it differently. They're having a full meltdown over refereeing conspiracies against them and how their top brass should have it ...

I don’t think Wexford is a big game in terms of our survival hopes because even if we beat them, we still can’t afford to lose to Antrim or we’d be relegated on head to head.

It’s win vs Antrim or bust.


A win, draw, or narrow defeat after a great performance against Wexford is a waste of time ...

G91 wrote: ↑Sun Apr 27, 2025 1:28 pm The sun was in the same eyes of the Galway forwards completely pointless

Nope, if a high ball is dropping in the square, it's a bigger deal if the keeper or defender loses sight of it.

Another factor working against Offaly was the sun. In the first half it was in Offaly's eyes. This may have contributed to Shirley not dealing with the '65 for the 2nd goal. Also, at one stage I think it was Jason Sampson was directly under a dropping ball and lost sight of it completely and it ...

To put some context on last week against Dublin, Offaly had a shot of winning in the closing stages but there's no way you could say it Offaly were better, or equal to Dublin.

At various stages circumstances worked in our favour, like both goals against the run of play when Dublin were getting ...

Yes, Brendan Kenny gave Offaly a lot of problems last year in the Leinster final and will be a key man again this time.
I'd say if David Purcell is any way approaching fitness, he'll feature against Offaly.
Dublin were well ahead against Antrim but must have lost their way in the closing stages. I ...

Looking ahead to Saturday, was it such a big underperformance from Galway at the weekend? I think Kilkenny are well ahead of them and may prove to be well ahead of the rest of Leinster too.
Galway will be highly motivated to bounce back this Saturday, but they are short on quality.

Offaly need to ...

A couple of follow on points from Saturday.
Offaly puckouts started to falter in the closing stages once Dublin twigged that Oisin Kelly was the primary target and made sure to bottle him up. As mentioned a few posts back, taking Mitchell off had some downsides.

Dublin's 3 or 4 man handpassing ...

Dublin support was non existent until they got the goal , standing in the terrace they were very quiet

They did plenty of shouting about the ref though. Offaly got a couple of questionable ones at stages but they were howling at even the most blatant of fouls being pinged.
Parnell Park would ...

Massively encouraging display today.
Offaly did a huge amount well. Our first Leinster game in 7 years and it could have gone either way.
Dublin were hard to put away. Offaly had periods on top, but didn't to pull ahead enough.
A lot of Dublin's gameplan didn't work for them, but they stuck with ...

Any idea of if many are going? Any buses or groups on the train?

Few pubs there in Killester a 10 min walk from the ground for a bit of grub and a few pints and to watch Kilkenny Galway at 3:45.

Just watch out that the Darts aren't running today. There is a bus transfer, but it may take more ...

Some folks might be over estimating how much any real, or imagined skill difference will be a factor.
This contest isn't being played against the wall of a handball alley. And bear in mind that Offaly plummeted down the tiers with many lovely, skilful hurlers in our ranks.

Being able to catch ...