As Such Ger wrote:but only did so because the management was treating the games like glorified challenge matches.
Incorrect again. Sometimes it's best to quit when you are behind. Well behind.
I have to hand it to you, you have a great ability to talk with authority on issues that you know very little about.
Case in point - having the balls to write a review of the hurling final, when you didn't even make it to one of the semi-finals.
Look, I'm not going to be goaded out into naming names. No offence was intended, and I'm sorry if it was caused, just as I'm sorry for the fact that every word I utter about Tullamore seems to rub someone up the wrong way. I'm actually at a loss as to how to get around this at this stage.
As for the preview bit, well that's kind of the problem with being contracted to do a job. You have to do it, even when circumstances conspire to make it less than ideal. Of course I would have loved to be at Tullamore vs Birr - how do you think I feel that I've been at any God's amount of poor quality games since 2004 when I left PP, and yet I managed to miss perhaps the most momentous one of them all in that time? I don't like not making every match, but until I get that omnipresence thing down, then there's not a lot I can do. I won't be in Newbridge this weekend either - perhaps I should draft a letter of apology, or put a postscript on any articles subsequent to that referring to Clara?
Jesus H Christ, I'm paid feck all to write one article a week for that paper, and I do my best. I have to cover both football and hurling, which none of the other journos in the county do (in previews I mean) and I get harangued for putting the slightest opinion down in print, while in the meantime the others get equally criticised for putting no opinion whatsoever down. Would you mind me asking - what the hell would make you happy??? I'm at the point now where I'd happily sacrifice all credibility and tip Tullamore to win the All Ireland Club beating Portumna by twenty points in the final if it would get all this off my case.
Kevin Egan. Signed out of respect for players and all involved with Offaly.