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- Fri Sep 22, 2023 12:46 pm
- Forum: Offaly GAA
- Topic: Offaly Senior A Hurling Championship 2023
- Replies: 435
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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 ...
- Thu Sep 14, 2023 12:18 pm
- Forum: Offaly GAA
- Topic: Offaly Senior A Hurling Championship 2023
- Replies: 435
- Views: 3184698
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...
- Sun Sep 10, 2023 7:02 pm
- Forum: Offaly GAA
- Topic: Offaly Senior A Hurling Championship 2023
- Replies: 435
- Views: 3184698
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...
- Wed Aug 30, 2023 11:29 am
- Forum: Offaly GAA
- Topic: Election 2020 laois offaly
- Replies: 26
- Views: 72577
- Wed Aug 30, 2023 10:42 am
- Forum: Offaly GAA
- Topic: Election 2020 laois offaly
- Replies: 26
- Views: 72577
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...
- Wed Aug 30, 2023 10:28 am
- Forum: Offaly GAA
- Topic: Offaly U20 footballers 2023
- Replies: 67
- Views: 258471
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...
- Tue Aug 22, 2023 1:28 pm
- Forum: Offaly GAA
- Topic: Offaly Senior A Hurling Championship 2023
- Replies: 435
- Views: 3184698
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...
- Sun Aug 20, 2023 11:06 pm
- Forum: Offaly GAA
- Topic: Best hurling pitch in the county
- Replies: 23
- Views: 33082
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!
- Sun Aug 13, 2023 4:25 pm
- Forum: Offaly GAA
- Topic: Best hurling pitch in the county
- Replies: 23
- Views: 33082
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...
- Sat Jul 01, 2023 2:11 pm
- Forum: Offaly GAA
- Topic: Offaly Senior Hurlers 2023
- Replies: 564
- Views: 811086
Re: Offaly Senior Hurlers 2023
Tempted to lock this thread because of repeated instances of West Offaly erasure.
Behave, people.
Behave, people.
- Wed Jun 14, 2023 1:58 pm
- Forum: Offaly GAA
- Topic: Offaly Senior Football Team - Championship 2023
- Replies: 392
- Views: 753382
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...
- Sat Jun 10, 2023 8:26 pm
- Forum: Offaly GAA
- Topic: Offaly Senior Football Team - Championship 2023
- Replies: 392
- Views: 753382
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...
- Sat Jun 10, 2023 6:42 pm
- Forum: Offaly GAA
- Topic: Offaly Senior Football Team - Championship 2023
- Replies: 392
- Views: 753382
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 ...
- Thu Jun 08, 2023 1:42 pm
- Forum: Offaly GAA
- Topic: U20 hurlers 23
- Replies: 388
- Views: 989513
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...
- Sat May 27, 2023 11:02 pm
- Forum: Offaly GAA
- Topic: Offaly Senior Hurlers 2023
- Replies: 564
- Views: 811086
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, ...