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I wouldn't read much into the O'Byrne Cup. Dublin beat Wexford 5-17 to 1-11 last weekend sure. Longford only made 2 substitutions in normal time yesterday, which shows they were putting a big emphasis on winning instead of trying lads out. If Offaly had taken the same approach as Longford did, they...

Charlie Mitchell went well tonight for NUIG.

Are we a bit light this year with sigerson/fitzgibbon involvement in comparison to recent years?

If we played either of those two counties in a game of consequence, they would win by 20 + points. Galway beat the brakes off Offaly playing in pea soup fog in a pre season friendly with half a panel. A strong Carlow team got hockeyed by Kilkenny (missing half a panel) last week, we are a million mi...

Ah here. Don’t be kidding yourself on. I don’t think anyone is saying the quality of hurler we have is at the same level as whats in those two counties. How can you compare a county that can’t get out of the Mcdonagh cup with a county who are getting non stop exposure to liam mccarthy level teams ov...

Down and Sligo to go up, Wicklow and Clare to go down for me. Clare have lost far too many good players to be able to keep things on an even keel. Interested to hear the rationale behind Sligo?? hem Doesn't sound like an altogether dissimilar scenario to the one Offaly found themselves in after the...

Lone Shark wrote: ↑Thu Jan 11, 2024 9:25 pm Down and Sligo to go up, Wicklow and Clare to go down for me. Clare have lost far too many good players to be able to keep things on an even keel.

Interested to hear the rationale behind Sligo??

From what I could make out, we seemed to be miles off it again. Fog probably played a part. Looked a bit more like what we might expect as the starting 15 this year but I noted the abscence of the ravenhills and brian duignan still

All valid points above but the prevailing wind seems to be that we shouldn’t be losing to that level of opposition regardless of context Physically undercooked which there is no short term fix for. Indeed it could be the next manager after kelly that reaps that harvest, if we believe that that work ...

Not sure what their is to say about that

Seems hard to believe we could lose to a 3rd string dublin team

Didn’t see the game but the team looked fairly experimental so I wouldn’t read too much into the result, the bigger worry would be your point about the physical condition of the team… It was more a comment on physique/size. Laois had bulls of men all over the field, think leon fox was the only one ...

Forwards not giving our backs any relief at all Physically, look miles off where laois are Contested well, its the first week of jan nothing won or lost this time of the year Great to see few new lads get game time Could do with getting some of the senior lads from last year back involved to add som...

Solid win last night, only caught the second half Laois had a massive physicality advantage. They’re probably nothing spectacular in respect to whats out their nationally but it was striking how much bigger a lot of their men were. How much that will be a factor I don’t know but if the league is aro...

Shane Tierney moved to Australia a couple months ago, don’t know what the timeline would have been like but he could possibly have left the country by the time the squad was being pulled together.

I would imagine the expectancy would be that it would be a similiar budget as last years plus the €60k, as opposed to the county board making some sort of saving. Only way the hurlers can improve on last year is to get promoted up, couldn’t have got much closer last year. Think the comment about the...

This is gas

Have read two articles in national newspapers this morning about the makeup of next years limerick hurling and dublin football squads

Yet no one here has heard anything about who may or may not be in either offaly panel

Lol