Shamrocks in Leinster - 2014

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Latest odds from Paddy Power

Shamrocks 9/2 Bennettsbridge 1/8

Serious gap in price from the bookies. Not giving shamrocks a chance in a 2 horse race. Bennettsbridge must be a serious outfit on those odds!!!!!

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Is Darrell O Dwyer fit for this.He could be the difference between the two teams

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The rocks will probably go and win the thing now and everyone will be rolling in the money

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Not going well. 1-10 to 0-1. The bridge turning over some amount of ball in the forwards line and shamrock help them by trying to run the ball out of there defence.
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Final score Bennettsbridge 1-20 Shamrocks 0-3

Serious performance from Bennettsbridge. Shamrocks were very poor. Bennettsbridge completely controlled the game. Doesnt look good for offaly hurling if our intermediate champions are taking a beating like that against the kilkenny junior champions. Is that how far back we've fallen?

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kilkenny junior teams are after beating a few offaly intermediate teams the last few years John Lockes gave Drumcullen a bad beating a few years ago to. i have seen a good few games in kilkenny and the level is years ahead than offaly. i hope this isn't a first of two bad beatings from kilkenny teams this weekend.

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Tomorrow is another day.

COME ON K/K !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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'Junior' would be a misnomer in Kilkenny.

A pity for Shamrocks. However, is there anything illogical about the 25th best team in a county of Kilkenny's population beating the 13th best hurling team of a county with a smaller population where hurling is the favoured code in little more than a third of the county? I don't think so, and so I don't think it's fair to say this is a measure of how far Offaly hurling has fallen.

In recent years, I've witnessed each Offaly v KIlkenny match in this grade (with the exception of Belmont v Galmoy). The Kilkenny winners generally tend to have been in Junior ranks for quite a few years and are led by a number of young players (who are generally U21).

Ballyragget were probably the most impressive of those Kilkenny Junior champions I say. With the high standard of Kilkenny Junior winners, I really think Offaly clubs would be well served by playing challenge matches against Kilkenny Junior clubs. There are quite a number of them within an hours drive from Offaly.

The ironic thing is that, while Kilkenny Junior clubs nearly always win the Leinster club competition (Ballinamere beating Lisdowney last year a notable and rare exception), the same cannot be said for the Kilkenny Intermediate champions. Mullinavat were beaten today, while Clonkill and MLR have gone on to win Keinster and All-Ireland titles and I think Celbridge have won Leinster too (?).
Mr X wrote:Final score Bennettsbridge 1-20 Shamrocks 0-3

Serious performance from Bennettsbridge. Shamrocks were very poor. Bennettsbridge completely controlled the game. Doesnt look good for offaly hurling if our intermediate champions are taking a beating like that against the kilkenny junior champions. Is that how far back we've fallen?
Pat Donegan. Signed out of respect for players and all involved with Offaly.

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townman wrote: i hope this isn't a first of two bad beatings from kilkenny teams this weekend.
sure isnt gettin bad batins from kilkenny teams one of a biffos greatest pleasures, townman? :(

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how did the great paudie maher and lar get on with Thurles o i forgot they were beaten again at least it wasn't a kilkenny team this time :lol:

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I tink dey got more than an average of wan score every 20 mins townman :D

or woz it a soccer match? :mrgreen:

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townman wrote:how did the great paudie maher and lar get on with Thurles o i forgot they were beaten again at least it wasn't a kilkenny team this time :lol:
as someone here once said, townman, 'arent we all the same now ye won nawtin like us'....... :D
but sars had the excuse of playin the whole game with 14 men

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fifitrixiebelle

would have thought that their were enough hurlers in Thurles for them to have at least 15 and a sub or two

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How did Daryl Dwyer hurl? Any chance calls him in this year?
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How did Daryl Dwyer hurl? Any chance Sid calls him in this year?
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