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Offaly Vs Kildare on Wednesday.
Team named.

1. Eoghan Cahill Birr.
2. Craig Taylor Birr, 3.David O’Toole Greene (Capt) Shamrocks, 4 Paddy Delaney Kinnitty,
5. Dan Doughan Shinrone, 6. Ben Conneely St Rynaghs, 7 James Hardiman Kinnitty,
8. Darragh Wyer Ballinamere, 9 Padraic Guinan Drumcullen,
10. Johnny O’Toole Greene Shamrocks, 11. Emmet Nolan Birr, 12. Ronan Hughes St Rynaghs,
13. Adrian Cleary Shinrone, 14. Oisin Kelly Belmont, 15. Dylan Murray Kilcormac Killoughey,


Subs
16 Oisin Mahon Kilcormac Killoughey
17 Cillian Kiely Kilcormac Killoughey
18 Darren Healy Lusmagh
19 Liam Langton Clodiagh Gaels
20 Eoghan Parlon Coolderry
21 Conor Freeman Carrig & Riverstown
22 David Kelly Belmont
23 Cathal O’Brien Shamrocks
24 Ciaran Cleary Shinrone


Extended Panel
JP Cleary Shinrone
Jack Wyer Ballinamere
John Murray Drumcullen
Alan Spain Kilcormac Killoughey
Graham Lynch Lusmagh
Eoin Carroll Shinrone
Conor Doughan Shinrone
Conor Molloy Coolderry
Michael Gilligan Seir Kieran
Cormac Kenny Birr
Shane Healy Lusmagh

What is the reason for Kiely and Langton not starting.

Also Graham Lynch wa intermediate hurler of the year last year and cant make the first 24? Madness!!

Our county sub goalie...is sub goalie also

fake team anyone?

We'll bamboozle the opposition when our county seniors actually start on the Under 21 side. they'll never see that one coming!

I assume Kiely isn't starting due to being suspended after the red card against Wexford last year?! And realistcly Langton and Mahon aren't good enough for the U21 team nevermind the senior panel!

The u21 this year we play the winners of Carlow/ Laois so are on a good side of the draw. kk play westmeath and the winners play Dublin/ Galway on the other side.

Looking at the extended panel both C Doughan and M Gilligan are injured otherwise they would both be on the starting 15 in my view . Conor Molloy and Graham Lynch only name on the extended panel seems strange , are the both injured too??

Conor Molloy broke his ankle the week prior to the first round of the senior hurling championship hardly be right yet!

Superstar wrote:Conor Molloy broke his ankle the week prior to the first round of the senior hurling championship hardly be right yet!

Thats a pity 3 good hurlers with injuries . bad luck.

Superstar wrote:I assume Kiely isn't starting due to being suspended after the red card against Wexford last year?! And realistcly Langton and Mahon aren't good enough for the U21 team nevermind the senior panel!

Liam Langton came on as a sub v Kerry last Sunday, and vLaois in the league. In both games he scored, a match winning goal v Laois, and a point last Sunday.. He is a player with potential, as acknowledged by Eamonn Kelly in today's Tullamore Tribune. If he was not good enough he would have been dropped. He did stick with the panel, not like some of his colleagues who walked away after the Westmeath game.
I can see Liam having a future with Offaly hurlers, and he has a brother Conor, on the minor team beaten by Wexford.

Good win tonight 5_22 to 1 _12 .always nice to hammer kildare .big shocks also with carlow beating laous and westmeath beating kilkenny ,carlow up next for us in the semi final !

This will be a very interesting championship with the shock results tonight. Fair play to Westmeath beating Kilkenny and Carlow beating Laois (altho it will be a big setback to Laois.) Wexford can't be as strong this year after 3 in a row altho McDonald is still underage. Dublin are probably favourites to win it out but really it is a wide open. There is a real opportunity here for Offaly - really important to try to seize it - must leave no stone unturned to qualify for final-could be our most important hurling team this year.Is it 2007 since our last under 21 final appearance?defeated by Dublin in Parnell Park? Is McDonald manager again this year?

we also lost the 08 final to the cats in tullamore, well done tonight and keep the heads down theres a leinster there for the taking.

Well done to players and Management. A superb result in Newbridge and all to play for now against Carlow with a Leinster Final spot on the line. Some great performances all over the field. Hopefully the Mgt will get the players to focus now and make them realise that there is a great opportunity of making our first provincial final in a number of years.

A number of players injured and to return can only improve our hand.

Best of luck and looking forward to the semi final already.

Well done to all the squad and management.
Results for senior hurlers and footballers, minor footballers and now tonight the u21 hurlers.
One step at a time will get you there- but there is definitely a lift that goes from team to team when each start winning.
Opportunities for each team to move another step or two, and hopefully that will be the case.
Recovery and rehabilitation will be a slow process, but hopefully the results from the last couple of weeks are the start of that process...