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as long as rynaghs as poor offaly will struggle for hardy hurlers. offalys hard men always used to come from banagher. damien martin, hanamy, hubie, horan, duignan, these were all tough lads. you can have all the flash lads you want from birr, but without these youre at nothing. im thinking we need ...

i thought wed struggle but i never expected anything like that. the cats just kept pounding us long after the boys werent interested any more. tis a pity we wont have claffey back for the next day either. i though kevin brady was very poor as well as the two corners.

you can talk about it till the cows come home but the fact is kilkenny are full of big hardy hurlers. we only have the bradys who will really get stuck in and give it to them. danny hoctor might to a lesser extent. kilkenny wont outhurl us but they will outfight us.

i think its between birr and clareen somewhere. ive seen a few addresses which are fortal, birr anyway.

limerick beat waterford two weeks before they played tipp. they got all excited as well.

clara
draw
draw
rhode
ballycumber
shannonbridge

wouldnt suit the hurlers at all. theyve to play at at least five games if they have a bad year. that would be very tricky to fit with this.

i think peter healion should still be in with a shout. he played well at the weekend, hes big, he guards the square and you dont get around him easy at all. always seems to get his clearance away as well.

hes a better fullback than oakley anyways.

the lads did well all right, but i wouldnt say we were that good. byrne made a few saves, one from the free early on, and we were well beat at midfield. grogan was very quiet for a lad that should be on the under 21s later in the year.

did enough to win though. saturday will tell a lot.

Clara (U) v Shinrone (F) - shinrone
Killavilla (U) v Belmont (F) - belmont
Birr (F) v Kilcormac/Killoughey (U) - k/k
Ballyskenagh v St. Rynaghs - draw
Kinnitty (U) v Coolderry (F) - draw

i was sure id be the only guy tipping our lads this week.

ye are some feckin eejits to be standing on the terrace with a bitter wind like that blowing. its not as if the stand was crowded.

about time we had some hurling to sort ye bies out. Fri, 7.30 - Birr (F) vs Drumcullen (U) - birr Sat, 7.30 - Kinnitty vs Seir Kieran - clareen Sat 7.30 - Belmont vs Shamrocks - belmont Sun 2.00 - Lusmagh (F) vs Killavilla (U) - draw Sun 3.30 - Coolderry (F) vs Shinrone (U) - coolderry Sun 6.00 - Ba...

hickey handled big dan fine last year. hard to see brady causing him any more trouble then.

at least they have cassidy back in the half back line. that was awful foolish putting him in the corner before. what chance young bergin will be on the senior team before the year is out? i know hes suspended now, but it could be worth giving him a go. hes going to be there next year anyway. the onl...

its an awful pity they didnt put this on with the louth game, but not to worry. hard to know what to make of this. realistically if carlow arent good enough to win in derry we should be beating them handy, but then the same could have been said in carlow the first day. does anyone else think agreein...