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(Usual story, it'll give ye the jump by two days I suppose! :D ) A win over Galway in a challenge match the previous Saturday established this panel of footballers as the most likely of all the Offaly intercounty teams in either code to garner some championship success for the county in 2005. With a...

Most assuredly learned nothing - Kilkenny were utterly inept. Without doubt the worst adult intercounty team I've ever seen by along chalk. To be honest it defeats the purpose of them entering in this competition if they're not going to prepare properly, and these lads were unfit and unable to play ...

Hard luck with that MFF. :( The main thing now is to blame it on a pro-Rhode bias and store up that resentment for the summer! I wasn't sure if I was going to make the trip to Urlingford, but I got a request to go for the local rag, so it seems I'm heading down. (You're welcome to a lift if you want...

The two vocational schools finals this weekend, with Rynaghs playing Johnstown in Birr (Neutral?? :D ) @ 1pm Saturday, and our lads (Gallen CS) playing against Ballymahon in Athlone on Sunday, same time. I don't know a lot about the hurling, except to say that Rynagh's have been very good so far thi...

To be honest I'd have little or no expectation for this team at all. Only Richie Dalton around the diamond is really good enough, and although there's a few nice peripheral players that might develop, they will get overpowered this summer. In terms of who else is to come in, I'm not sure what the st...

That's very decent form. Time to go get my betting shovel again.....

I believe these lads had a challenge match on Saturday morning - I didn't hear anything about it though. Anyone go, or hear anything?

(Once again apologies for the local-esque spiel, but I'm damned if I'm re-writing it!!) Kildare 1-12 Offaly 1-8 With no wins and only one point from two games coming into this Minor League match against Kildare, Offaly needed a win against their neighbours to the east on Saturday in Walsh Island to ...

It's certainly a possibility. If he has the drive and motivation to push himself then he certainly has the talent. It certainly isn't something I would dismiss, I just think he's too far back in the queue with only five league games to go. On that note, I would like to see some experimentation in th...

Marginally I'd say. I'd imagine there's not much between himself and Keane to be honest, but Keane being more the long term bet I'd say he could get the judgement calls. Plus James Keane so far at least is hugely committed to his football. Damien is much more laid back in general, which although it ...

I don't agree with them on this at all - I think the new pick up rule is working perfectly. I hated the way the old rule wasn't enforced, and my mantra was that it still had to be obeyed even if you didn't like it, but the new system is much better. The sideline cut things is hard to quantify - it i...

That John Kenny is not a summer solution for the eleven shirt is without doubt - and that Damien is a tidy footballer and a good marker who reads the game very well is not in question either - but I could neither see him as a centre forward or really county standard to be honest. When you think that...

Quinn takes over from Paschal at centre forward, and Kiely is beginning to push Neville Coughlan in a big way, but still only the one material change for now. Revising this for the first time, and obviously considerable deference has to be given to a good display yesterday. So as of now..... 1 McNam...

The forthcoming merger of both LSU and the Tech should result in a fine hurling team. You would hope, but I don't know if they have the numbers in those schools really. They have a good vintage at the moment, and would make a fine amalgamation, but you're still expecting them to compete against muc...

There's a thread on the U-21 footballers suggesting just that. Neville, Reynolds and Rafferty certainly aren't - I wouldn't be sure with Grennan and Sullivan - another regular poster here will tell you. Certainly I think we should be in with a decent shout. Ladbrokes have offered 14/1 to win Leinste...