by Lone Shark » Fri Oct 13, 2017 1:56 pm
Call it defeatist talk if you like, but you'd have to say that this is pretty much what you would have hoped for. There's a world of difference between playing Antrim up there and at home, and when you consider that the chances of Offaly hitting the ground running in the early stages are diminishing fast, it's probably best that the "bonus territory" games are played first up. Most of all, Limerick are famous for underestimating Offaly, so of the three "big" teams, one could argue that they are the low-hanging fruit, the ones that we might turn over.
I don't know that home advantage means a lot in games against Laois, in that there aren't too many Offaly players who don't know O'Moore Park that well, and likewise Laois won't be too afraid of going to Tullamore. Still, I fully expect that to be the game that sends one team into a relegation final and the other into a knockout quarter final, so far better to have it on home turf.
All of that will be moot if there isn't some movement on the managerial front soon though.
Kevin Egan. Signed out of respect for players and all involved with Offaly.