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Just to address a few of LS points: 1. Why do Birr need a warm up area? To the best of my knowledge teams are well able to warm up on the pitch. It's actually only in OCP where this is an issue as they literally lock teams off the pitch until 15 minutes before throw in. Pretty low respect levels fo...

Any indication if the county final will become a regular thing in Birr or not ? You’d imagine if there is a good crowd and cracking atmosphere the county board will have to give it serious consideration You can't measure atmosphere, so that's moot, but you can measure the crowd, and I've no doubt t...

I've no doubt that Fitzgerald would get an immediate bounce out of players, his track record on hitting the ground running is incredible. However that then has to be balanced by the fact that his best year is usually year one, and if not, then year two. He will make the best of young players that ar...

The problem for Coolderry is that even if Ballinamere beat Belmont, that's no use to them unless another team joins those two on four points, otherwise Belmont takes them on head to head. What they actually need is to beat Shinrone and Clareen, then have Belmont also beat (or draw with) Shinrone. An...

I don't think it's as simple as drawing a line in the sand and saying that you have to cross that point, or else it's failure. For example, if we had lost by a point to Kerry, and then hurled well and got the win against Carlow, we'd still have been in the same position, but the narrative would be v...

Was in Tullamore for the Rynaghs vs Clodiagh game myself, albeit not intentionally. Was working at a camogie match that started at 3.30pm and finished at 6, so it was throw in by the time I had stuff written up! Very poor stuff, and while I appreciate that Rynaghs ran up a big tally last time, their...

Just wondering has the Minor Football/Hurling Double ever been done in the one year. K-K are pretty much nailed on in the hurling and I see they’ve beaten Rhode and Edenderry in the football. So could go close in that. Not since Rynaghs in 1961. Prior to that, Clara once (1957) and Tullamore eight ...

Hi Lads & Lassies, Can someone here who knows more than me regarding the rules confirm whether reckless use of the hurl during the Cathal Robinson goal chance incident constitutes a penalty or did the referee call it correctly and just award a free? Cheers On that, the referee called it correct...

Was it not raining in Lusmagh? Holy jesus there was a case to be made for the match in rath to be called off. Not sure how many scores came from play but at times it felt like a free contest. Felt sorry for the players from both sides hard to read much from the game. Difficult conditions certainly,...

It's also going to lead to a bananas rush to get in early which is not ideal either. I've heard anecdotally of people planning to be in the ground up to 90 minutes before throw in to get the good seats and get their kids in the middle. But then that becomes an arms race, as everyone tries to beat th...

To be fair, it's not exactly ideal for this Roscommon resident, but Nowlan Park should really be the venue, it's ideal for a game like this. The capacity in OMP would be stretched to the limit, and as BnaM man mentioned, they didn't cover themselves in glory the night of the Leinster final. The surf...

Galway play Clare in the All-Ireland round robin this Saturday in Athenry (Richie Fitz is refereeing). Laois play the loser on Saturday 28th May, and the other one on Saturday 4th June. The All-Ireland Minor semi-finals are on weekend 18th/19th June, the same weekend as the All-Ireland Senior quart...

I think "worrying" about promotion is getting ahead of ourselves a bit, I'd make the Kerry game a toss up at best, and whoever wins that will be big outsiders against an Antrim side that's going well. Having said that, I'd say the "ideal" for this team at this stage of their deve...

I had a GAA-free weekend and only saw the incident on the news, so I basically haven't had a proper look at it. Part of it is that the unwritten rule is that the referee is supposed to blow for full-time when the sides are level, and is supposed to give a free to make a draw of it in the event ther...

Contrast that to the report in the midland tribune dated Saturday 9th April, another GAA reporter (name escapes me honestly) reported on Offalys Ladies Division 4 league final win over Limerick. The team were struggling at half time, and brought on a star player, whom management did not start as sh...