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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.

I don't think anyone is complaining, though I would be one of those who would be in the camp of not lauding a tax exile for picking and choosing where his money goes, as opposed to the rest of us who get no such choice in the matter. Aside from that issue however, which is not really one for Offaly ...

Coolderry have some nice players coming through over the next 3 to 4 years and have plenty of young lads currently on the panel. They will be fine. I agree. This notion that Coolderry were going to be relagated was nonsense. They are a long way off winning a county title but never in danger of goin...

Colm Mulrooney with real potential to kick on for Birr, at 31 years of age :D . Can't agree with any suggestion that Clareen responded well to Barry Whelahan. By all accounts it wasn't a happy marriage. Also it is hard to see how Clodiagh Gaels can be considered 'well coached' and 'greater than the...

Jan 28th Offaly vs Westmeath Feb 4th Antrim vs Offaly Feb 18th Offaly vs Clare Feb 24th Down vs Offaly March 3rd Offaly vs Wicklow March 17th Sligo vs Offaly March 24th Offaly vs Limerick It's a very competitive division and absolutely, Offaly are entitled to consider themselves in the promotion mi...

The reality of life for panels that are on the younger side is that out of the 20-something players that played senior A hurling for Kilcormac-Killoughey this year, there will probably be three or four that are in Dubai, or Australia, or somewhere else, by the time next year rolls around. They'll ge...

Not having appreciation for the dual culture is interesting, especially coming from a mainly football county in Roscommon. How does that work in Four Roads? As I presume lads are coming from multiple football clubs to hurl with them? Is it that those lads hurling with them anyway are mainly hurling...

Coaching I believe. It's an interesting appointment, in that he's a good coach, but wouldn't be well known in my part of the world for his love and appreciation of a dual culture. And he's gone to as "dual" a parish as you will find anywhere in Ireland, where both clubs are utterly depende...

Cathal was listed at number 29 for the Ryan Cup final, didn't appear. If he is fit, that's a backward step after starting for the team for the last couple of seasons.

I haven't spoken to a single person who thinks this is a good idea and that includes 5 players so far. Totally devalues the championships. What were they thinking dreaming up such a concept and then even crazier the clubs voted for it! I wonder will any club think of taking the piss on a grand scal...

As an underage secretary of a football club in a dual parish here in Roscommon, I cannot advise strongly enough AGAINST going back to U-18, where lads in their last year of minor are eligible to play adult. Or if you do, then fine, but it means that those U-18s play minor and U-20 (or U-21, whicheve...

There's a lot of good stuff in that post from Jimbob, much of it inarguable. There's no doubt that an U-20 competition run through the summer is an advantage to standalone clubs, for all the reasons mentioned there. However the nature of U-20 competitions in hurling and football are such that there ...

Gracefield (1970), Walsh Island (1978 & 1979) and Ferbane (1986) have all won Leinsters, none of them got to the All-Ireland final though.

I have to say I'm genuinely curious as to why Tullamore aren't slight favourites for this. Not overwhelming favourites obviously, but if you take the standard of the Offaly and Meath county teams to be broadly along similar lines, as I would do, then a team like Tullamore - with a pretty heavy conce...