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by Lone Shark
Tue May 14, 2024 1:36 pm
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: Offaly Under 20s hurling 2024
Replies: 213
Views: 34880

Re: Offaly Under 20s hurling 2024

Greatest 1st post in the history of Uibhfhaili.com. Up there with the best of them, absolutely. I remember Silken Thomas coming storming out of the blocks too (https://www.uibhfhaili.com/phpbb3/viewtopic.php?p=12485#p12485) but the uibhfhaili.com underage system seems to have thrown up a potential ...
by Lone Shark
Tue May 14, 2024 1:32 pm
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: Offaly Senior Hurlers 2024
Replies: 518
Views: 1370191

Re: Offaly Senior Hurlers 2024

I know that, but I was referring to the Limerick contingent on the Kerry senior hurling panel, and the wider issue of non-native players being drafted into counties that are down the pecking order.
by Lone Shark
Tue May 14, 2024 1:31 pm
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: Offaly Senior Footballers 2024
Replies: 547
Views: 1804382

Re: Offaly Senior Footballers 2024

I know that in my younger years I would have been baying for blood after a result like this, and there's still something deep down within me that's telling me that you can do all the nuanced analysis that you like, but you can't lose to London by 14 points and think that things are okay, clearly the...
by Lone Shark
Tue May 14, 2024 12:58 pm
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: Offaly Senior Hurlers 2024
Replies: 518
Views: 1370191

Re: Offaly Senior Hurlers 2024

As you go down the pecking order, this gets more and more common. James Hardiman (Kinnitty) is hurling with Roscommon this year, who have about five or six Galway club men on the panel as well, and Conor Clancy (Rynagh's) is hurling in goal for Louth. I'm sure there are more, but those come to mind....
by Lone Shark
Fri May 03, 2024 9:02 pm
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: Offaly Senior Hurlers 2024
Replies: 518
Views: 1370191

Re: Offaly Senior Hurlers 2024

Very disappointed but not surprised considering the manager with our team selection for the game tomorrow. Absolutely no need to start Cathal King, Donal Shirley and Dan Bourke with an U20 knockout game on Wednesday night. Particularly in the case of King and Bourke who have been exposed to a very ...
by Lone Shark
Thu Apr 04, 2024 10:54 am
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: U20 footballers 2024
Replies: 95
Views: 24920

Re: U20 footballers 2024

Afraid so. Score Difference Leinster Championship In the event of teams finishing on equal points in the Group, the tie shall be decided by the following means and in the order specified below. Where two Teams only are involved – the outcome of the meeting of the two Teams in the previous game in th...
by Lone Shark
Thu Mar 14, 2024 10:37 pm
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: Offaly Senior Hurlers 2024
Replies: 518
Views: 1370191

Re: Offaly Senior Hurlers 2024

2pm Saturdays. Where Inter County hurling went to die. This is a bit of a tangent to the main theme of the thread, but this is absolutely an issue. It's a dreadful time for a game, and one of the "controversies" you're sure to hear about every year is the weekend where the All-Ireland hur...
by Lone Shark
Tue Mar 12, 2024 11:46 pm
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: Offaly Senior Hurlers 2024
Replies: 518
Views: 1370191

Re: Offaly Senior Hurlers 2024

Fair dues i admire your confidence. Id say at this point that westmeath are joe mc favourites, give their arguably better performances against a similar level of opposition that we’ve faced. Westmeath will be favourites for the Joe McDonagh, and Offaly have made significant progress this year. Thos...
by Lone Shark
Thu Mar 07, 2024 3:32 pm
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: Offaly Senior Hurlers 2024
Replies: 518
Views: 1370191

Re: Offaly Senior Hurlers 2024

I think the fact that there's no relegation mitigates the absence of another "tier two" county from our side of the draw. Barring a huge set of shock results, Offaly were always going to land in the remade Division 1B next year, so this Spring was always going to be a series of challenge g...
by Lone Shark
Tue Mar 05, 2024 11:00 pm
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: Offaly Senior Footballers 2024
Replies: 547
Views: 1804382

Re: Offaly Senior Footballers 2024

Honestly, going into the weekend, I still reckoned they had a promotion chance. They fecked up a good position against Clare to lose by a point (where have we heard that story before :roll: ) and then went on to win the games I expected them to win with something to spare. That left them going to Ne...
by Lone Shark
Sun Mar 03, 2024 12:14 am
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: Offaly Senior Footballers 2024
Replies: 547
Views: 1804382

Re: Offaly Senior Footballers 2024

Interesting to see Hogan at 7. There might be bit of reshuffle with either Furlong or Dempsey as Hogan would be more used to playing in full back line, though regularly played at 6 for Tullamore also. I'd be stunned if Declan Hogan doesn't just go straight to full/corner back to pick up Kevin Quinn...
by Lone Shark
Sat Feb 17, 2024 5:57 pm
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: Offaly Senior Hurlers 2024
Replies: 518
Views: 1370191

Re: Offaly Senior Hurlers 2024

Totally accept that as a valid argument. But how about some outside the box thinking. Offaly play Clare in the hurling league on St Patrick’s Day. If OCP wasn’t up for a double header how about the football in OCP at 12.45pm and the hurling in SBP at 3.15pm. Stand alone tickets for each game could ...
by Lone Shark
Fri Jan 12, 2024 11:09 am
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: Offaly Senior Footballers 2024
Replies: 547
Views: 1804382

Re: Offaly Senior Footballers 2024

Slightly different. I would say that Sligo's very best footballers are at a higher level than our very best lads are - as in, if Kerry went to Sligo and could pick three or four players, I think they'd happily use the services of Niall Murphy, Darragh Cummins, and maybe Seán Carrabine and Luke Towey...
by Lone Shark
Fri Jan 12, 2024 10:47 am
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: Offaly Senior Footballers 2024
Replies: 547
Views: 1804382

Re: Offaly Senior Footballers 2024

Down and Sligo to go up, Wicklow and Clare to go down for me. Clare have lost far too many good players to be able to keep things on an even keel. Interested to hear the rationale behind Sligo?? Some serious individuals on that U-20 team last year, and guys that are ready to make an impact straight...
by Lone Shark
Thu Jan 11, 2024 9:25 pm
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: Offaly Senior Footballers 2024
Replies: 547
Views: 1804382

Re: Offaly Senior Footballers 2024

Down and Sligo to go up, Wicklow and Clare to go down for me. Clare have lost far too many good players to be able to keep things on an even keel.