biffinbanner wrote:what the fuck have p boland and tommy byrne to do with getting beaten by 26 points? a common theme on this site has been the constant blaming of administrators for the failure of teams to win games.
Ahem, about 2 or 3 posters do this. The ones who must have been holed in Bin Laden's compound this past 20 years and never noticed Offaly's underage progress.
Yep, Kevin Ryan sounded shell shocked in his post match interview. You could see that Offaly were attempting to play to a pattern at certain times. For most of the first half Offaly held their own in the contests around the middle off the park. Unfortunately if Galway ever got past the 45 there was inevitably a score and all too often a goal. Once Offaly shipped a few the will to fight on evaporated.
Therein lies the rub, so long as Offaly can't prevent being fleeced for half a dozen majors against decent attacks, anything useful they do out the field is moot.