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The only thing consistent with modern hurling success is hard work, talent and perseverance. Before 2006 Danesfort in Kilkenny hadn't won anything since 1931. They now have the current Hurler of the Year among their ranks. Kilkenny don't rule out players because their clubs don't produce players tr...

Tradition is something that is built. It's not in the air, it's not in the water and it's not in the soil. These are all things we imagine. Birr doesn't have any more of a hurling lustre than Tullamore. Some people just imagine that it does. The same tradition can be built in Tullamore if people fr...

it's fantastic to have 4 pitches for county teams to train on. but its not a centre of excellence. As a friend of mine once said your training pitch should be "your centre of excellence, you don't need a fancy dressing room to improve as a player" its not what facilities you have its how ...

Can people stop giving credit to the CB for this appointment. These are the very people who put 3 managers in a row with no experince over our seniors, and have Offaly hurling in the worst state it has ever been. A good appointment and thank god Sheedy and co were picking the manager and not Boland...

Apologies "On the fence", reply should have been directed at "Sharp Eye"! Indeed, lazy reading on my part. Our existing coaching regime has been in place for 12 years. Our senior hurling team was beaten by Laois and Clare. Our defeat by 20 points by Clare looks even more serious...

I'm reminded of the sky sports ad that's running at the moment for F1 Reporter to Lewis Hamilton: "Lewis not the way you wanted to finish the race (after coming second to teammate Nico Rosberg) what do you do now"? Lewis Hamilton: "Win the next one" (he did) If the team can take ...

I think this was coming for years and it really shows where we are at as a county.Daithi Regan predicted it a number of years ago and most of us laughed at him. For me and I think anyone who has any sort of an understanding about GAA can see where the problem is. The County Board 100% have to take ...

no we wouldn't have done any better than longford today, go back to the last day longford played offaly off the field for the last 20 minutes, even their best player again offaly Smyth the half back who scored 2 points again us was took off but to be fair as Colm O'Rourke said the likes of longford...

I think its important that we keep everything in perspective, while the defeat was a downer its important to remember how far the team has come in such a short space of time from where we were last year there have been signs of encouragement. We know the team is capable of playing high quality footb...

Sorry, Meant Choked, God spell check has me ruined

WHAT THE HELL JUST HAPPENED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 7 points up with 15 minutes to go and we lose by 3. There's a line running through my head from that film cool running's where the coach is giving the team a talk after a bad qualifying run where he says: "You had it and you chocked, You were ready an...

Can I just say it's frightening how far we are off the pace at underage level. 4th year in a row we have been beaten by Laois am I right in saying that?This is when people say "there is great work been done in Laois" but yer that haven't won a leinster title or even got to a final it's ab...

Ok you know the drill by now, Send in your Good Luck messages ahead of the Longford Game on Saturday

Friday evening is the deadline

Lets get this first round Monkey of our backs and make a real impact in the championships this year

Getting back to the game for a second, even though they lost out by a point i would be very positive about this years batch, its only a few years ago when we met Kildare around this stage at minor level and they beat us by a good six or seven points so obviously the gap has closed and the standard o...

Wasn't at the game but think I know who you may be talking about LS. No place in the game for it, and especially stuff that can be seen by the crowd. Verbals will happen from time to time, but it is something that should be discouraged, and gesturing like that should warrant a yellow card, (think y...