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by Plain of the Herbs
Thu Nov 29, 2007 8:17 pm
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: Birr vs Ballyboden St. Enda's
Replies: 25
Views: 13967

My thoughts on Sunday's Leinster Club Final

I We’ve been down this road already this year. An Offaly team beat the hosts in Nowlan Park to qualify to meet a Dublin side in the final. This time it’s the respective Offaly and Dublin county champions going head to head. Birr are aiming to go into the outright lead in the Leinster club hurling ro...
by Plain of the Herbs
Wed Nov 28, 2007 7:50 pm
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: Ye won't like this
Replies: 9
Views: 5470

Re: Ye won't like this

If that Kilkennyman's short attention span had allowed, he would have heard the rest of the quote which was something like (I'm paraphrasing) - I showed how to beat Kilkenny - hit them hard and keep the ball moving . . ." Earlier that week 'The Clareman' was appointed Offaly manager which was g...
by Plain of the Herbs
Wed Nov 28, 2007 7:44 pm
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: Birr vs Ballyboden St. Enda's
Replies: 25
Views: 13967

Pitch lengths

Best way to estimate the lenght of a GAA pitch is the see how far apart the two 65 metre lines are. It's difficult to estimate the width. The minimum length of a GAA pitch is 130 metres (where there is one 65m line which doubles as the halfway line). The maximum is 150 metres, where there is twenty ...
by Plain of the Herbs
Wed Nov 28, 2007 7:28 pm
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: Club Hurling - Team of the Year
Replies: 4
Views: 4319

My team of the club hurling year

I don’t normally pick teams of the year or all-Stars but I was thinking of this as I drove along recently. I saw where John O’Callaghan picked his team of the year in the paper, picking something like six from each of Birr and Kilcormac along with Odhran Kealey, Brian Carroll and Damien Murray. I’ve...
by Plain of the Herbs
Wed Nov 28, 2007 2:50 pm
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: Birr vs Ballyboden St. Enda's
Replies: 25
Views: 13967

Re: Birr vs Ballyboden St. Enda's

I want to pick up on this, as it’s an interesting point. The issue I have with OCP is its length rather than the width, but anyways. Logic would suggest that the shorter/narrower pitch would keep the scoreline down, as it would aid packed defences. I hadn’t thought of it seriously until I saw the wi...
by Plain of the Herbs
Tue Nov 27, 2007 7:46 pm
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: Birr vs Ballyboden St. Enda's
Replies: 25
Views: 13967

PATHS TO THE FINAL

BIRR Group games Birr 3-12 Kinnitty 0-8 Birr 0-11 Seir Kieran 0-9 Birr 0-18 Shinrone 1-12 Birr 1-19 Tullamore 0-10 (quarter final) Birr 2-9 Coolderry 0-12 (semi final) Birr 0-15 Kilcormac Killoughey 0-10 (final) Birr 1-13 Ballyhale Shamrocks 1-10 (Leinster semi final) BALLYBODEN ST. ENDA’S Group gam...
by Plain of the Herbs
Wed Nov 21, 2007 2:36 pm
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: Old Programme
Replies: 3
Views: 3168

Re: Old Programme

BEINGFAITHFUL, I sent you a PM re this.
BEINGFAITHFUL wrote:Re: Missing programmes


Not sure what is in the collection (loads of various Offaly club and county match programmes) but I'm looking to off load them to a good home. More than fifty of them anyways if your interested :)
by Plain of the Herbs
Mon Nov 19, 2007 6:29 pm
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: Birr vs. that KK crowd
Replies: 46
Views: 26606

Birr 1-13 Shamrocks 1-10

A superb performance by Birr yesterday who did what they had to do to win and made it count on the scoreboard. Like Bogman, I spent the game talking to the television, particularly the last fifteen minutes. Birr did what they do best, the tips, the flicks, the hooks and the blocks. However, while th...
by Plain of the Herbs
Thu Nov 15, 2007 6:44 pm
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: Birr vs. that KK crowd
Replies: 46
Views: 26606

A few thoughts on Birr v Ballyhale.

A few thoughts on Birr v Ballyhale. At full strength Ballyhale are probably the best club team in the country. The fact that they retained their county title without the two injured superstars is a measure of their strength. That said it’s difficult to see them retain their All Ireland crown without...
by Plain of the Herbs
Wed Nov 07, 2007 6:45 pm
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: 109 players called up for fooballers 2007/08 season
Replies: 27
Views: 15552

Re: 109 players called up for fooballers 2007/08 season

Full panel, from OffalyToday.ie The full list sent out is as follows: Birr: Stephan Lonergan, Brian Lonergan, Sean Ryan, Michael Verney Ballyfore: Conor Evans Ballycommon: Mathew Brazill Clonbullogue: Willie Crampton, Greg Quinn Clara: John O'Hara, John Reynolds, Thomas Deehan, Kevin Meehan, Joe Qui...
by Plain of the Herbs
Wed Oct 24, 2007 9:49 pm
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: Hurling final
Replies: 7
Views: 5454

Damien Martin played on the winning team in twelve finals. He retired after the 1986 final defeat but was sub when they won in 1987 (his thirteenth). Joe Dooley would also have twelve medals. I’m not sure if he played in all twelve though – perhaps he did. Eight ’Rynagh’s men who are in the photo fo...
by Plain of the Herbs
Mon Oct 22, 2007 7:04 pm
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: Tipsters Competition - Final Results
Replies: 4
Views: 3336

Congrats and well done to Fullback. Tne tiara is yours for the next twlve months :)
by Plain of the Herbs
Mon Oct 22, 2007 7:00 pm
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: Hurling final
Replies: 7
Views: 5454

Sometimes the old ways are the best. So it was at O’Connor Park yesterday where Birr, with their tried and trusted method of direct hurling, overcame a game but ultimately limited Kilcormac Killoughey side. When the match is broken down to its most basic, Birr beat them on their greater craft and cu...
by Plain of the Herbs
Mon Oct 22, 2007 8:31 am
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: Leinster Junior
Replies: 15
Views: 10720

The Offaly intermediate champions (or representatives, if the champions have a senior team) compete in the Leinster junior club championship. Therefore the junior winners do not qualify for the club championship. As far as I am aware, Ballinamere will be the Offaly representatives in the Leinster ju...
by Plain of the Herbs
Sat Oct 20, 2007 9:00 am
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: Tipsters Competition - Final Round
Replies: 22
Views: 14555

SHL Final Coolderry (F) vs Seir Kieran (U) Coolderry MFC Final Edenderry vs Clara Edenderry SHC Final Birr (F) vs Kilcormac/Killoughey (U) Kilcormac SHC Final Top Scorer from play Stephen Brown SHC Final First Goalscorer Ciarán Slevin SHC Final Total Goals 2 SHC Final Number of times Birr score befo...