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I agree, a number of good managers got a raw deal because of our county board down through the years. O' Kelly, Fahey, Kilmurray. As for Pat Flanagan. Yes it is fair to say he probably was working with limited resources and did give it a good go to be fair to him. My own view is 3 years in, Offaly w...

I see the hoganstand has quoted the following; “We can't get 30 lads in to play a full practice game. If a lad won't commit to come into you on a Sunday morning for a training session, it is hard to get them to commit for a full year. There are some genuine reasons why lads can't commit, but there a...

Well done to Kinnitty. By all accounts, a club that has come a long way in the last couple of years. Arguably the standard of club hurling is not as strong in the county as it was 10 years ago and Coolderry are a team in decline with most of their best hurlers nearing retirement and their focus has ...

Let's be clear on something, Offaly weren't as bad as the Armagh defeat indicated, we've been more than competitive in every game in the league, but the comments made by the 2 club officials had nothing to do with the defeat to Armagh, it was just an attack on Pat Flanagan that was clearly preplann...

Timber, read the development squad thread and you will see how the kids are being looked after and what is happening to quality coaches in Offaly. Had a quick read of your comments on that thread alright Cmon Offaly. By all accounts seems like the board have a lot of question to answer. seems like ...

Jaysus Timber thanks for the vote of confidence, sadly I'm not actually in the country this year as I'm over working with me mate Trump making America great again, once we've that done, I'll see if we can do something to make Offaly Hurling great again too, Donald said we should start by put up a w...

It hardly takes a genius to point out that we are where we are, Offaly hurling has been on a massive spiral downwards since we took a massive beating in the All Ireland final to Kilkenny back in 2000, in the time since, we've never once appointed a high profile manager who could come in and bring a...

Yesterday was a good game to measure exactly where this Offaly squad and management team are at and the progress made since Flanagan took over. Unfortunately it looks like they are no further on. Still losing out without any real fight to a Longford team. The team looks soft and plays without any re...

Bit of a mixed bag performance. The good, the bad and the awful. Typical of meath clubs in leinster, simonstown were poor. Big and ignorant would sum them up about right with no real quality. Apparently the loss of their key man Nash at midfield was a big disadvantage to them. Nash is signed up to H...

Rynaghs were shocking poor today. Some of their striking was junior standard. The short game they play is both frustrating and horrible to watch. Tthought a few of the players heads was not in it today and didnt go full blooded at oulart who are pretty flakey when its put to them. Its another sign o...

Awful awful game. Standard was dreadful. Take Niall and Alan McNamee out of it and quality was very poor. I was sitting beside a Rhode man who said to me Ferbane was the worst team he has seen in a senior county final. It was hard argue with that after viewing it. He was saying the current Rhode tea...

Any progress on this?

Ger was a very honest Offaly servant down through the years. Super fit and athletic. He was the fittest on county panel and extremely strong also. Wouldn't claim to have the silkiest hurling skills or great hurling wrists but he gave everything on the field. Sound chap to younger lads that came on t...

Will Tipp ever manage to beat a full strength Kilkenny team.

Fennelly a massive loss in fairness even if Kilkenny have been very poor by their standards this year. lucky to get over Waterford.

When I meant 'modern' game, really what I meant was a 'heads up' 'give the ball carrier an option' type game, as opposed to what Klare and Waterford practice currently. Brosna Gaels came from nowhere (literally) with an intelligent game where they worked for each other and ran off the shoulder. The...