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- Fri Jan 12, 2024 11:09 am
- Forum: Offaly GAA
- Topic: Offaly Senior Footballers 2024
- Replies: 567
- Views: 1814304
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...
- Fri Jan 12, 2024 10:47 am
- Forum: Offaly GAA
- Topic: Offaly Senior Footballers 2024
- Replies: 567
- Views: 1814304
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...
- Thu Jan 11, 2024 9:25 pm
- Forum: Offaly GAA
- Topic: Offaly Senior Footballers 2024
- Replies: 567
- Views: 1814304
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.
- Sun Dec 17, 2023 12:09 am
- Forum: Offaly GAA
- Topic: JP McManus donation
- Replies: 15
- Views: 228313
Re: JP McManus donation
I don't think anyone is complaining, though I would be one of those who would be in the camp of not lauding a tax exile for picking and choosing where his money goes, as opposed to the rest of us who get no such choice in the matter. Aside from that issue however, which is not really one for Offaly ...
- Thu Dec 14, 2023 10:50 pm
- Forum: Offaly GAA
- Topic: End of year hurling standings
- Replies: 9
- Views: 109204
- Thu Dec 14, 2023 9:34 pm
- Forum: Offaly GAA
- Topic: End of year hurling standings
- Replies: 9
- Views: 109204
Re: End of year hurling standings
Coolderry have some nice players coming through over the next 3 to 4 years and have plenty of young lads currently on the panel. They will be fine. I agree. This notion that Coolderry were going to be relagated was nonsense. They are a long way off winning a county title but never in danger of goin...
- Thu Dec 14, 2023 9:27 pm
- Forum: Offaly GAA
- Topic: End of year hurling standings
- Replies: 9
- Views: 109204
Re: End of year hurling standings
Colm Mulrooney with real potential to kick on for Birr, at 31 years of age :D . Can't agree with any suggestion that Clareen responded well to Barry Whelahan. By all accounts it wasn't a happy marriage. Also it is hard to see how Clodiagh Gaels can be considered 'well coached' and 'greater than the...
- Thu Dec 07, 2023 3:07 am
- Forum: Offaly GAA
- Topic: Offaly Senior Footballers 2024
- Replies: 567
- Views: 1814304
Re: Offaly Senior Footballers 2024
Jan 28th Offaly vs Westmeath Feb 4th Antrim vs Offaly Feb 18th Offaly vs Clare Feb 24th Down vs Offaly March 3rd Offaly vs Wicklow March 17th Sligo vs Offaly March 24th Offaly vs Limerick It's a very competitive division and absolutely, Offaly are entitled to consider themselves in the promotion mi...
- Thu Dec 07, 2023 1:18 am
- Forum: Offaly GAA
- Topic: Offaly Senior A Hurling Championship 2023
- Replies: 435
- Views: 3192002
Re: Offaly Senior A Hurling Championship 2023
The reality of life for panels that are on the younger side is that out of the 20-something players that played senior A hurling for Kilcormac-Killoughey this year, there will probably be three or four that are in Dubai, or Australia, or somewhere else, by the time next year rolls around. They'll ge...
- Wed Dec 06, 2023 4:16 pm
- Forum: Offaly GAA
- Topic: Club football and hurling managers 2033
- Replies: 29
- Views: 370644
Re: Club football and hurling managers 2033
Not having appreciation for the dual culture is interesting, especially coming from a mainly football county in Roscommon. How does that work in Four Roads? As I presume lads are coming from multiple football clubs to hurl with them? Is it that those lads hurling with them anyway are mainly hurling...
- Tue Dec 05, 2023 12:49 am
- Forum: Offaly GAA
- Topic: Club football and hurling managers 2033
- Replies: 29
- Views: 370644
Re: Club football and hurling managers 2033
Coaching I believe. It's an interesting appointment, in that he's a good coach, but wouldn't be well known in my part of the world for his love and appreciation of a dual culture. And he's gone to as "dual" a parish as you will find anywhere in Ireland, where both clubs are utterly depende...
- Sat Dec 02, 2023 1:52 pm
- Forum: Offaly GAA
- Topic: Offaly Senior Footballers 2024
- Replies: 567
- Views: 1814304
Re: Offaly Senior Footballers 2024
Cathal was listed at number 29 for the Ryan Cup final, didn't appear. If he is fit, that's a backward step after starting for the team for the last couple of seasons.
- Sat Nov 18, 2023 2:57 pm
- Forum: Offaly GAA
- Topic: New club football format
- Replies: 21
- Views: 269300
Re: New club football format
I haven't spoken to a single person who thinks this is a good idea and that includes 5 players so far. Totally devalues the championships. What were they thinking dreaming up such a concept and then even crazier the clubs voted for it! I wonder will any club think of taking the piss on a grand scal...
- Tue Nov 14, 2023 4:14 pm
- Forum: Offaly GAA
- Topic: Changing of Underage grades and Separation from adult
- Replies: 12
- Views: 96472
Re: Changing of Underage grades and Separation from adult
As an underage secretary of a football club in a dual parish here in Roscommon, I cannot advise strongly enough AGAINST going back to U-18, where lads in their last year of minor are eligible to play adult. Or if you do, then fine, but it means that those U-18s play minor and U-20 (or U-21, whicheve...
- Sat Nov 04, 2023 2:48 pm
- Forum: Offaly GAA
- Topic: Offaly U20 footballers 2023
- Replies: 67
- Views: 260628
Re: Offaly U20 footballers 2023
There's a lot of good stuff in that post from Jimbob, much of it inarguable. There's no doubt that an U-20 competition run through the summer is an advantage to standalone clubs, for all the reasons mentioned there. However the nature of U-20 competitions in hurling and football are such that there ...