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I know that playing 7 forwards is not sensible, but neither is leaving the opposition with their own "sweeper" if he is managing to clean up loads of easy possession. Thinking back to the Kilkenny game, we left Paul Murphy on his own in the Kilkenny rear-guard. After he had made his easy t...

A long drive but well worth it. Not the greatest game of hurling you ever see but a win is a win. .... The Sweeper system that was a big problem this year has been got rid off. thank god. we still have problem with the sweeper system been played against us. mainly we don't know how to use the spare...

I was following a car (a Maroon Golf I think, Dublin reg) from Baltinglass on, nice big Offaly Supporter Club sticker on the back window. He stuck to the main street in Hacketstown (heading to Tinahely), I followed my SatNav and turned off left, not realising it was sending me on the narrow mountain...

I listened to the Draw "Live". Michael Duignan picked the teams for each match-up, placing them into a separate bowl. But it was Tony O'Keefe (the CCCC Chairman) who did the next pick for Home/Away in each tie. Anyone know where Mr. O'Keefe is from? It's certainly a bit surprising/suspicio...

The GAA.ie website has a lot of stuff available online. Have a look here http://learning.gaa.ie/node/177610 When I was coaching kids Hurling, I had the "Fun-Do" pack and DVD's and found them great at giving ideas for different drills. I think most of them would suit adults too. See if anyo...

Lads - anyone been to Aughrim recently? I've never been there. Planning my route on Google Maps and checking the Street View (I'm an IT head so I love those tools), a lot of those roads look very narrow and I don't want to get stuck behind a tractor, or worse a slow banger from Ballycumber. What's t...

Great discussion all. Offaly's Future - never lose that passion or faith. Use it in the rest of your life activities too. Buck Face - as someone who has been prepared to be "on the inside", I give you serious credit for getting involved. I had a little experience at some Bord na nOg County...

Good to see some sensible posts. I agree with the last few. Offaly are down at the moment, but we're not out. Loughnane is probably worse than Dunphy in that I think Eamon D knows that he there to be cranky and narky and everything that the pundits on other channels are not. I have little time for h...

Would that be Football, Hurling, Camogie, Rounders, Pubs, Take-Aways, B&B's, Musicians, varieties of Potatoes, Tidy-Towns, sellers of Burger Bites, Priests for a good Sunday Mass, UF.com posters best ignored, ........

Just give us a clue, a little clue, anything at all ........

p.s. Lone Shark - was that you with a nice shiny red laptop in the main "Stand"? You're a brave man bringing that among the Land of the Slashers. And was that BnMm doing bodyguard for you? Hmmmm. Maybe I should have said Hello. I was thinking that fella wearing the 'Siamsa Cois Laoi 1986'...

I feel I'm getting too used to displays like that. The sense of inevitability about it. Below are random thoughts, as disjointed as I usually am (I don't do good match summaries). Most matches, we seem to have a "purple patch" where we do dominate play for a while. So at least we do have s...

It's great that most of the build-up is about King "will he play or not" Henry, and of course the Sky-debut. We can slip under the radar and pounce like a coiled rattlesnake.

Myself and Junior will be heading up to this. Really looking forward to it as the "better half" is from Longford and would probably be coming too except she has to work on Sunday. Glad I don't get stuck at that racket myself. First - forget about the lads who have had their chance in the p...

The over-reaction to this is ridiculous. Go back 20 years and how many Live matches were being broadcast? Damn few. I reckon most of the complaints now are coming from people who would very rarely bother to go to any of these matches anyway, who are probably not paid-up members of their local GAA cl...