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I was away all day, was Belmont Shinrone a good game, i was following it on twitter, Belmont had a nice lead halfway through second half...Shinrone finished well by looks of it or did Belmont blow up..again..

Belmont seniors lost a senior championship game last year i think it was a group game, scoring 1-15 and all were frees etc..so Edenderry needn't feel all that bad..

I do this with all All Ireland finals every year, and I am never far out with prediction and scores...interestingly Limerick have scored LESS points so far than they conceded total points only scored over 6 games is 135, with total points only conceded 138 - is that a first I wonder. Having played 6...

Personally I hope Limerick win, the last thing Leinster hurling needs is Kilkenny to win this and maybe add 2 or 3 to it..and no "maybe Galway mught challenge them" either as that wont do anything for Leinster hurling..Offaly and Laois nor even allowed play in it is a laugh..people will sa...

I am going with the following predictions this weekend:

KK 3-20 - Kinnitty 0-12
Birr 2-20 - Tullamore 0-16
Coolderry 1-17 - Ballinamere 0-17
Shinrone 2-18 - Seir Kieran 0-14

wouldnt be massive on championships outside senior A in both codes, but i assume the different grades commence the same time is to prevent senior A going first then the players that would have lined out senior A couldn't go back intermediate or junior thereafter that season..i hope i explained that ...

That game i always have labelled was the real beginning of Kilkennys re claiming back of Leinster from Offaly after the 1980s and mid 1990s (i know we beat them in 1998 All Ireland after) but that game set the tone for some heavy defeats in the Championship in the following years..some players caree...

absolutely no disrespect to these dual clubs or their players, but all very well having dual players at club level, but are they good enough for county standard..thats another debate..someone mentioned above our catching etc..I add in our ability to lift the ball too under pressure (or even not unde...

we all hear about Offaly clubs beating such and such a big club in a challenge such and such a night etc...the key here is a the word challenge..thats all it is...yes it is beating a big club but thats only a challenge and it doesnt happen too often that we beat these big clubs, its always "onl...

To be honest I've sad it before, what so called bigger counties are doing preparation wise, we are surely doing similar, i do wonder what exactly it is these bigger counties are doing that had them so far ahead of Offaly, the underage is apparently now sorted in Offaly with set up etc.so whats stall...

I said it last weekend after Tipp hammered us, people in Offaly and in Tipp I was speaking to were considering Tipp as All Ireland contenders after the big win which i didn't think was accurate after beating a poor Offaly side when compared to the likes of Tipp..it was the worst thing could have hap...

Kilcormac deserved to win, from memory Birr had a few who never got into the game on the day (or werent let call it as you see it from what side your on) but once Birr made changes, probably too late in the game, they did come back into the game and KK were under a bit of pressure but had enough of ...

without gettinng into detail, one has other stuff ongoing outside of sport and apparently opted out himself (or maybe management asked them to maybe step aside until things are sorted out etc., we simply dont know) We have to respect that they stepped away/were asked to step away for their own inter...

every team needs the experienced player in one or two of the central forward positions, and rest assured KK are wise enough to know that too, Currams being out of action as such a while, has he still the skillset on a consistent level to warrant a starting postion? time will tell, there is no guaran...

look, no one iis wrong here, just even the amount of U20's on the panel that arent featuring is fairly high, lets hope they get the game time during the next Division 3 campaign, big calls need to be made ahead of a new campaign, otherwise alot of these lads will drift, we cannot afford that to happ...