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by Lone Shark
Wed Dec 06, 2023 4:16 pm
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: Club football and hurling managers 2033
Replies: 29
Views: 185381

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...
by Lone Shark
Tue Dec 05, 2023 12:49 am
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: Club football and hurling managers 2033
Replies: 29
Views: 185381

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...
by Lone Shark
Sat Dec 02, 2023 1:52 pm
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: Offaly Senior Footballers 2024
Replies: 363
Views: 895707

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.
by Lone Shark
Sat Nov 18, 2023 2:57 pm
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: New club football format
Replies: 21
Views: 131396

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...
by Lone Shark
Tue Nov 14, 2023 4:14 pm
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: Changing of Underage grades and Separation from adult
Replies: 12
Views: 47889

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...
by Lone Shark
Sat Nov 04, 2023 2:48 pm
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: Offaly U20 footballers 2023
Replies: 67
Views: 139809

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 ...
by Lone Shark
Sun Oct 22, 2023 2:08 pm
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: Club football championship 2023
Replies: 195
Views: 704058

Re: Club football championship 2023

Gracefield (1970), Walsh Island (1978 & 1979) and Ferbane (1986) have all won Leinsters, none of them got to the All-Ireland final though.
by Lone Shark
Fri Oct 20, 2023 1:24 pm
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: Club football championship 2023
Replies: 195
Views: 704058

Re: Club football championship 2023

I have to say I'm genuinely curious as to why Tullamore aren't slight favourites for this. Not overwhelming favourites obviously, but if you take the standard of the Offaly and Meath county teams to be broadly along similar lines, as I would do, then a team like Tullamore - with a pretty heavy conce...
by Lone Shark
Sat Sep 23, 2023 8:39 pm
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: Offaly Senior A Hurling Championship 2023
Replies: 435
Views: 1689027

Re: Offaly Senior A Hurling Championship 2023

Little bit of a tangent, but it's an interesting phrasing - only those who play in finals shall be graded up. So if someone from Kilcormac-Killoughey played every minute of the senior B championship so far, but missed the final, they would stay as a "Senior B" player, while the guy who cam...
by Lone Shark
Fri Sep 22, 2023 12:46 pm
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: Offaly Senior A Hurling Championship 2023
Replies: 435
Views: 1689027

Re: Offaly Senior A Hurling Championship 2023

I could be wrong, but I've a vague recollection of when Rhode and Tullamore won intermediate football titles with their second team (2004 for Tullamore, was it 2010 for Rhode? Not sure....), that when that happens, all those footballers immediately got regraded as "senior" so the club had ...
by Lone Shark
Thu Sep 14, 2023 12:18 pm
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: Offaly Senior A Hurling Championship 2023
Replies: 435
Views: 1689027

Re: Offaly Senior A Hurling Championship 2023

Is that a thing, that we alternate between chairpersons from football and hurling clubs? Never noticed it if so. To be honest, the majority of chairs have probably had a dual background. Certainly in recent years, you couldn't say that Pádraig Boland, Tommy Byrne or Michael Duignan would have had an...
by Lone Shark
Sun Sep 10, 2023 7:02 pm
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: Offaly Senior A Hurling Championship 2023
Replies: 435
Views: 1689027

Re: Offaly Senior A Hurling Championship 2023

I’m probably over thinking this but could Ferbane’s win yesterday vs Rhode and possible championship success expedite the decline of Belmont hurling? Players might view football success as far more attainable in the short to medium term and decide to focus much more on that than hurling. I’m not pr...
by Lone Shark
Wed Aug 30, 2023 11:29 am
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: Election 2020 laois offaly
Replies: 26
Views: 44186

Re: Election 2020 laois offaly

Dodge83 wrote: Wed Aug 30, 2023 11:16 am Away somewhere else ta fuk with this election shite 🙄😂
Out of curiosity, what did you think you were going to find when you clicked onto a thread with the title "Election 2020 Laois Offaly"? :D
by Lone Shark
Wed Aug 30, 2023 10:42 am
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: Election 2020 laois offaly
Replies: 26
Views: 44186

Re: Election 2020 laois offaly

From this morning's electoral commission report: The Commission recommends that the constituency of Offaly should align with the Co. Offaly boundary. While some of the submissions called for the retention of the breach of county boundaries in and around the town of Portarlington, the Commission cons...
by Lone Shark
Wed Aug 30, 2023 10:28 am
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: Offaly U20 footballers 2023
Replies: 67
Views: 139809

Re: Offaly U20 footballers 2023

Historically, St. Michael's was always Rhode, St. Brigid's and Clonmore Harps - I can't see there being any change to that. It's a bit of a glitch, in that this age bracket is a bit of a down year for Rhode, while a full strength Tullamore team at this age is incredibly strong - you have three or fo...