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by Bord na Mona man
Tue Nov 28, 2023 12:47 pm
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: Offaly Senior A Hurling Championship 2023
Replies: 435
Views: 1695235

Re: Offaly Senior A Hurling Championship 2023

Glass half full. K-K will regret getting off to a bad start and will take comfort from how they regathered themselves to launch a fightback. If they're ambitious enough, they'll want to bounce back next year and have another tilt at Leinster. However, no one should assume they'll keep getting out of...
by Bord na Mona man
Mon Nov 13, 2023 4:01 pm
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: Offaly Senior A Hurling Championship 2023
Replies: 435
Views: 1695235

Re: Offaly Senior A Hurling Championship 2023

This was an impressive win for K-K. The Wexford county final a while back was a typical Wexford mullockfest, where Gorey looked very dogged when they outfought and outlasted Oylegate. With home advantage, a heavy pitch, Sean Cleere reffing it, an Offaly team in any way soft, would have been in bothe...
by Bord na Mona man
Mon Oct 30, 2023 7:29 pm
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: Offaly Senior Footballers 2024
Replies: 363
Views: 899455

Re: Offaly Senior Footballers 2024

Fully agree with Jimbob. There have been lots of years in the last 15 years where Offaly have been in the top 3 or 4 teams in Leinster at minor and U20/21. Dublin are the only county significantly better than us in that time. Kildare and Meath a fraction better, but always beatable by a strong Offal...
by Bord na Mona man
Mon Oct 23, 2023 3:41 pm
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: Club football championship 2023
Replies: 195
Views: 706106

Re: Club football championship 2023

Hopefully the incident with the referee is swiftly dealt with and an appropriate sanction handed out. No need for a pile-on against the person who will today be regretting his actions. As an aside, as much as we may howl about decisions during a game, once the final whistle goes, remonstrating with ...
by Bord na Mona man
Mon Oct 23, 2023 3:33 pm
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: Club football championship 2023
Replies: 195
Views: 706106

Re: Club football championship 2023

If true, that is actually shocking. Drew a game years ago but lost the replay. There hurlers got to a leinster final I’m open to correction, but I think Tullamore’s only Leinster SF win was over the Longford champions a few years back. Correct. I once suggested they had never won a game outside of ...
by Bord na Mona man
Wed Aug 30, 2023 12:01 pm
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: Offaly U20 footballers 2023
Replies: 67
Views: 140239

Re: Offaly U20 footballers 2023

Changed times. 11 years ago St Michaels were miles ahead.
https://sites.google.com/a/gaa.ie/offal ... tleinstyle
by Bord na Mona man
Tue Aug 29, 2023 10:53 pm
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: Offaly U20 footballers 2023
Replies: 67
Views: 140239

Re: Offaly U20 footballers 2023

GreatDayForTheParish wrote: Tue Aug 29, 2023 10:22 pm Eye catching result tonight in the U-20 football championship. Tullamore 4-15 St Michael’s 0-01.
What clubs are in the St Michael's amalgam these days?
by Bord na Mona man
Fri Aug 18, 2023 9:22 pm
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: Offaly Senior Football Team - Championship 2023
Replies: 392
Views: 430160

Re: Offaly Senior Football Team - Championship 2023

The appointment makes sense. Declan won't need to spend the same time learning the scene the way an outside manager would. This helps in the compressed county season calendar. On top of that, there are several players out there who can potentially return to the panel, and Kelly will also have a goo...
by Bord na Mona man
Thu Aug 17, 2023 10:02 pm
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: Offaly Senior Football Team - Championship 2023
Replies: 392
Views: 430160

Re: Offaly Senior Football Team - Championship 2023

The appointment makes sense. Declan won't need to spend the same time learning the scene the way an outside manager would. This helps in the compressed county season calendar. On top of that, there are several players out there who can potentially return to the panel, and Kelly will also have a good...
by Bord na Mona man
Tue Jul 18, 2023 7:18 pm
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: hurling all Ireland 2023
Replies: 20
Views: 20740

Re: hurling all Ireland 2023

It's Limerick's to lose, they've more match winners and can still win if a couple of them are quiet. Kilkenny have no such luxury, everyone will need to play the game of their lives to have a chance. Limerick's only black mark in the last 5 years was surprisingly losing to Kilkenny in 2019. They'll ...
by Bord na Mona man
Thu Jul 06, 2023 2:24 pm
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: On this day 25 years ago
Replies: 14
Views: 10178

Re: On this day 25 years ago

The problems boiled down to Keating not being fully tuned in to the role, disowning problems and pinning it on the players, public denouncements instead of keeping it in the dressing room and the style of hurling he wanted not suiting Offaly. A few weeks previously he was on the brink of resigning w...
by Bord na Mona man
Wed Jul 05, 2023 9:25 pm
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: On this day 25 years ago
Replies: 14
Views: 10178

Re: On this day 25 years ago

SearingDrive wrote: Wed Jul 05, 2023 5:23 pm Big Pete was made to look stupid when Offaly claimed Liam McC in September.
A year later, he was decked out in a full clown outfit when he gave Brian Corcoran MOTM instead of Brian Whelahan.
by Bord na Mona man
Wed Jul 05, 2023 9:23 pm
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: On this day 25 years ago
Replies: 14
Views: 10178

Re: On this day 25 years ago

Yes, I had forgotten that about Antrim quip. If Keating had remained in charge, they would have had serious motivation to tear into Offaly. Antrim's preparations were disrupted by the Drumcree situation so their hurling still wouldn’t have been up to mark. But the kind of slashing that Jackie Carson...
by Bord na Mona man
Wed Jul 05, 2023 4:10 pm
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: On this day 25 years ago
Replies: 14
Views: 10178

On this day 25 years ago

July 5 1998 Leinster hurling Final Kilkenny 3-10 – Offaly 1-11 The defeat propelled Offaly firstly, into a mini-crisis but ultimately changed the course of the year. The match was widely slated as being of poor quality but maybe excessively so. Although there were 32,000 in Croke Park, the atmosphe...
by Bord na Mona man
Wed Jun 21, 2023 9:52 am
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: Offaly Senior Hurlers 2023
Replies: 564
Views: 476847

Re: Offaly Senior Hurlers 2023

Thankfully the debate has moved on and the discussion is now about how we get our county players fit for purpose. A while back, people would have been chewing about, not playing enough games in Birr, not playing ground hurling, not hitting the ball away quick enough, not sticking to a 6-2-6 formati...