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Plenty of room in colleges for birr and a combined team -IF all the remaining schools/players fully supported it. Hasnt been the case of recent years. Schools will cite their own workload, chances in b/c etc. Didnt hamper them in dungarvan/waterford a few years back. Schools have the lads for 167 da...

The same county board that asked john to haul ice baths to the senior footballers in the evening time, in my time in offaly are now reviewing his role?? The same johns/ciaran mac sessions with a county u16 team that were interrupted by 2 ex county hurlers to do a ground hurling drill?? (U16s circa 1...

http://www.thescoops.ie/ This is a great service down here in carlow from 2 lads. They use the mixlr app to broadcast from the games off their phone. Its a free app and it just uses wifi/3g to broadcast. They are getting a grest listenership and its a fantastic service for the club scene. Its well w...

I m going to make a suggestion for a manager - Tom mullally. Trained Mlr to All ireland club intermediate title, then to the senior final. Utterly professional and thorough. worked with both shelmaliers and clara in kk as a coach while managing mlr - both won county championships. Worked with kk int...

I rem having a debate in dooleys hotel about 12 years agoabout styles of hurling in offaly. It was a hurling dev meeting. I rem saying that sometimes you suit your style to the players you have and this changes. I rem cork in the early 90s. Big big forwards and they played a game to suit. Direct and...

Thanks doon exile. Same boat so. Hard on the lads on both sides playing matches so close. May the best team.win!

Can any of ye good offaly football men tell me if any gallen cs players lined out for offaly today in the leinster minor league? I m not looking for player info, just seeing if our lads - carlow cbs playing gallen in leinster semi on tue, were treated the same as your lads.

Dont forget your u15 hurlers too who play us, carlow, in ferns on saturday in our competition.

I m just talking about hurling is all..

What are realistic goals for county teams? Provincial semi finalists? Like for us in carlow, thrse are the extent of our ambition based on realism. Its good to have long term plans but realistic goals need to be set. So what would ye see as your goals in the next five years for each grade? I just go...

Ps kildare were supposedly to have parted with several hundred thousand over the 6 years of their last football managers reign in "expenses". No wonder they had to get players to help decorate the gym!!

Obviously you dont know the money is only for hurling not football as you mentioned.. Its 45 grand - i got that bit wrong. Setting up a gym is unlikely to improve us substantially but it can help obviously. It shows the new mind set of where we see things going in the gaa - look after the county set...

I ve been a part of a committee that met the president and a few more from part of the 6 "emerging" counties. The dont really care. Its great to be listened to, but we - and probably offaly and a few more, are not their priority. We ll get 50 grand from their new prog. What will that do?? ...

Dale, you re telling it like it is! Theres the haves and have nots now in the gaa more than ever. The days of the smaller county competing for titles in a realistic sense is over. People talk about the 5 million debt on o connor park. Clare spent over 1 million last year on intercounty teams.

I have to agree with you. Us smaller counties are only going one way in relation to Dublin and some other counties - down! Money now more than ever is a key factor in counties success. Dublin are the perfect storm - money and numbers. Let's face facts, some Dublin clubs - several in fact, would have...