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by Lone Shark
Tue Aug 22, 2023 1:28 pm
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: Offaly Senior A Hurling Championship 2023
Replies: 435
Views: 1682474

Re: Offaly Senior A Hurling Championship 2023

I think the standard of offaly club hurling has dropped dramatically and continues to drop every year. Some of these senior A teams wouldn't keep it pucked out to the Rynaghs ,Birr , clareen or coolderry County championship teams of years gone by. Obviously in the mid 1990s, Offaly had as much tale...
by Lone Shark
Sun Aug 20, 2023 11:06 pm
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: Best hurling pitch in the county
Replies: 23
Views: 17189

Re: Best hurling pitch in the county

I assumed it had gone that way all right - I haven't been there in 15 years or so, so I was guessing it had been let decline a bit. Or possibly my memory was flawed!
by Lone Shark
Sun Aug 13, 2023 4:25 pm
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: Best hurling pitch in the county
Replies: 23
Views: 17189

Re: Best hurling pitch in the county

Haven't been there this year and I might be biased since my last few visits were on gorgeous summer days, but Coolderry would edge it for me. As an aside, I've a vague recollection of Mountbolus being a great pitch back when it was used for games. I presume with the amount of teams K-K field these d...
by Lone Shark
Sat Jul 01, 2023 2:11 pm
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: Offaly Senior Hurlers 2023
Replies: 564
Views: 474090

Re: Offaly Senior Hurlers 2023

Tempted to lock this thread because of repeated instances of West Offaly erasure.

Behave, people.
by Lone Shark
Wed Jun 14, 2023 1:58 pm
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: Offaly Senior Football Team - Championship 2023
Replies: 392
Views: 427636

Re: Offaly Senior Football Team - Championship 2023

This debate is bizarre. Here's the team from the final against Roscommon two years ago. OFFALY: Sean O'Toole; Lee Pearson, Tom Hyland, Aaron Brazil; Fionn Dempsey, John Furlong, Rory Egan; Ed Cullen, Morgan Tynan; Cathal Flynn, Cathal Donoghue, Oisin Keenan Martin; Cormac Egan, Jack Bryant, Aaron Ke...
by Lone Shark
Sat Jun 10, 2023 8:26 pm
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: Offaly Senior Football Team - Championship 2023
Replies: 392
Views: 427636

Re: Offaly Senior Football Team - Championship 2023

I am absolutely, emphatically, not saying that there is no value to the Tailteann Cup. Westmeath clearly took a lot from winning it last year, albeit that hasn't manifested itself on the field of play so far in 2023. I would say that it's very early to tell. Maybe the competition will take off. Mayb...
by Lone Shark
Sat Jun 10, 2023 6:42 pm
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: Offaly Senior Football Team - Championship 2023
Replies: 392
Views: 427636

Re: Offaly Senior Football Team - Championship 2023

I'm still here in OCP and it's a strange paradox - I've never seen an Offaly performance that was so lethargic, and yet been so sympathetic to the players afterwards. Simply put, these lads just ran through too many big emotional and physical hurdles all year, and trying to get up for the Tailteann ...
by Lone Shark
Thu Jun 08, 2023 1:42 pm
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: U20 hurlers 23
Replies: 388
Views: 553246

Re: U20 hurlers 23

I don't know if I'm feeling what other Offaly people are feeling, or if it's just me, but there are serious mixed emotions going on right now with regard to Sunday. I do feel very angry at Cork's tactics, but not because I think it swung the result. If they were down a man, they still would have bee...
by Lone Shark
Sat May 27, 2023 11:02 pm
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: Offaly Senior Hurlers 2023
Replies: 564
Views: 474090

Re: Offaly Senior Hurlers 2023

The closer it came to this game, the worse I felt about it. I couldn't get away from the fact that in 2022, Offaly played Carlow in a must-win game in Tullamore, and Carlow were full value for their win - and while I cannot but praise the way Offaly have made a habit of winning tight games in 2023, ...
by Lone Shark
Sat May 27, 2023 10:37 pm
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: Offaly Minor Football and Hurling 2023
Replies: 175
Views: 607703

Re: Offaly Minor Football and Hurling 2023

I'm still a bit emotional as I sit here in the Croke Park press box, finally finished the assorted reports for tomorrow's papers, so I've decided I may as well wade in here, just to really wind myself up even more...... The two posts side-by-side below, but particularly the one from Anonymous1, stri...
by Lone Shark
Mon May 22, 2023 12:09 am
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: Offaly Senior Hurlers 2023
Replies: 564
Views: 474090

Re: Offaly Senior Hurlers 2023

Carlow have had a fair degree of success against Offaly in recent years and will come to Croke Park quietly confident. It started in 2005 in the league when they beat Offaly in the league, 3-12 to 1-13. The usual shouts of 'new low' and 'rock bottom' rang out. When the sides met again in the league...
by Lone Shark
Sun May 21, 2023 11:55 pm
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: Offaly Senior Hurlers 2023
Replies: 564
Views: 474090

Re: Offaly Senior Hurlers 2023

I think if there was still five teams in Leinster, as was the case up to and including 2020, this would be the moment when the clamour would come out to make it six. The fact that it would be unworkable from a fixtures point of view to extend it to seven means that they won't be able to make any rea...
by Lone Shark
Fri May 19, 2023 3:45 pm
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: Offaly Senior Hurlers 2023
Replies: 564
Views: 474090

Re: Offaly Senior Hurlers 2023

The fact that the game is live on TV would have been a factor in the throw in time as well.
by Lone Shark
Mon May 15, 2023 2:03 pm
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: Offaly Senior Football Team - Championship 2023
Replies: 392
Views: 427636

Re: Offaly Senior Football Team - Championship 2023

Lone Shark mentioned Friday night game v Laois would be great, and he's right. As a one off game for both counties it should have been considered, give Portlaoise town a boost and with lights 8pm would give ample time for most to make it. As it happens, there's not a lot up against it this week, bu...
by Lone Shark
Mon May 15, 2023 2:02 pm
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: Offaly Senior Football Team - Championship 2023
Replies: 392
Views: 427636

Re: Offaly Senior Football Team - Championship 2023

I wasn't there yesterday so I'm not going to judge too much, but all I'll say is that I'm certainly not going to get unduly worried with the team not running up a big score against a poor opponent that conceded the first seven points in a row. Yeah, tuning out with 15 to play is not ideal, but there...