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- Sat Nov 18, 2023 2:57 pm
- Forum: Offaly GAA
- Topic: New club football format
- Replies: 21
- Views: 270838
Re: New club football format
I haven't spoken to a single person who thinks this is a good idea and that includes 5 players so far. Totally devalues the championships. What were they thinking dreaming up such a concept and then even crazier the clubs voted for it! I wonder will any club think of taking the piss on a grand scal...
- Tue Nov 14, 2023 4:14 pm
- Forum: Offaly GAA
- Topic: Changing of Underage grades and Separation from adult
- Replies: 12
- Views: 97210
Re: Changing of Underage grades and Separation from adult
As an underage secretary of a football club in a dual parish here in Roscommon, I cannot advise strongly enough AGAINST going back to U-18, where lads in their last year of minor are eligible to play adult. Or if you do, then fine, but it means that those U-18s play minor and U-20 (or U-21, whicheve...
- Sat Nov 04, 2023 2:48 pm
- Forum: Offaly GAA
- Topic: Offaly U20 footballers 2023
- Replies: 67
- Views: 263009
Re: Offaly U20 footballers 2023
There's a lot of good stuff in that post from Jimbob, much of it inarguable. There's no doubt that an U-20 competition run through the summer is an advantage to standalone clubs, for all the reasons mentioned there. However the nature of U-20 competitions in hurling and football are such that there ...
- Sun Oct 22, 2023 2:08 pm
- Forum: Offaly GAA
- Topic: Club football championship 2023
- Replies: 195
- Views: 1234039
Re: Club football championship 2023
Gracefield (1970), Walsh Island (1978 & 1979) and Ferbane (1986) have all won Leinsters, none of them got to the All-Ireland final though.
- Fri Oct 20, 2023 1:24 pm
- Forum: Offaly GAA
- Topic: Club football championship 2023
- Replies: 195
- Views: 1234039
Re: Club football championship 2023
I have to say I'm genuinely curious as to why Tullamore aren't slight favourites for this. Not overwhelming favourites obviously, but if you take the standard of the Offaly and Meath county teams to be broadly along similar lines, as I would do, then a team like Tullamore - with a pretty heavy conce...
- Sat Sep 23, 2023 8:39 pm
- Forum: Offaly GAA
- Topic: Offaly Senior A Hurling Championship 2023
- Replies: 435
- Views: 3203546
Re: Offaly Senior A Hurling Championship 2023
Little bit of a tangent, but it's an interesting phrasing - only those who play in finals shall be graded up. So if someone from Kilcormac-Killoughey played every minute of the senior B championship so far, but missed the final, they would stay as a "Senior B" player, while the guy who cam...
- Fri Sep 22, 2023 12:46 pm
- Forum: Offaly GAA
- Topic: Offaly Senior A Hurling Championship 2023
- Replies: 435
- Views: 3203546
Re: Offaly Senior A Hurling Championship 2023
I could be wrong, but I've a vague recollection of when Rhode and Tullamore won intermediate football titles with their second team (2004 for Tullamore, was it 2010 for Rhode? Not sure....), that when that happens, all those footballers immediately got regraded as "senior" so the club had ...
- Thu Sep 14, 2023 12:18 pm
- Forum: Offaly GAA
- Topic: Offaly Senior A Hurling Championship 2023
- Replies: 435
- Views: 3203546
Re: Offaly Senior A Hurling Championship 2023
Is that a thing, that we alternate between chairpersons from football and hurling clubs? Never noticed it if so. To be honest, the majority of chairs have probably had a dual background. Certainly in recent years, you couldn't say that Pádraig Boland, Tommy Byrne or Michael Duignan would have had an...
- Sun Sep 10, 2023 7:02 pm
- Forum: Offaly GAA
- Topic: Offaly Senior A Hurling Championship 2023
- Replies: 435
- Views: 3203546
Re: Offaly Senior A Hurling Championship 2023
I’m probably over thinking this but could Ferbane’s win yesterday vs Rhode and possible championship success expedite the decline of Belmont hurling? Players might view football success as far more attainable in the short to medium term and decide to focus much more on that than hurling. I’m not pr...
- Wed Aug 30, 2023 11:29 am
- Forum: Offaly GAA
- Topic: Election 2020 laois offaly
- Replies: 26
- Views: 74404
- Wed Aug 30, 2023 10:42 am
- Forum: Offaly GAA
- Topic: Election 2020 laois offaly
- Replies: 26
- Views: 74404
Re: Election 2020 laois offaly
From this morning's electoral commission report: The Commission recommends that the constituency of Offaly should align with the Co. Offaly boundary. While some of the submissions called for the retention of the breach of county boundaries in and around the town of Portarlington, the Commission cons...
- Wed Aug 30, 2023 10:28 am
- Forum: Offaly GAA
- Topic: Offaly U20 footballers 2023
- Replies: 67
- Views: 263009
Re: Offaly U20 footballers 2023
Historically, St. Michael's was always Rhode, St. Brigid's and Clonmore Harps - I can't see there being any change to that. It's a bit of a glitch, in that this age bracket is a bit of a down year for Rhode, while a full strength Tullamore team at this age is incredibly strong - you have three or fo...
- Tue Aug 22, 2023 1:28 pm
- Forum: Offaly GAA
- Topic: Offaly Senior A Hurling Championship 2023
- Replies: 435
- Views: 3203546
Re: Offaly Senior A Hurling Championship 2023
I think the standard of offaly club hurling has dropped dramatically and continues to drop every year. Some of these senior A teams wouldn't keep it pucked out to the Rynaghs ,Birr , clareen or coolderry County championship teams of years gone by. Obviously in the mid 1990s, Offaly had as much tale...
- Sun Aug 20, 2023 11:06 pm
- Forum: Offaly GAA
- Topic: Best hurling pitch in the county
- Replies: 23
- Views: 34709
Re: Best hurling pitch in the county
I assumed it had gone that way all right - I haven't been there in 15 years or so, so I was guessing it had been let decline a bit. Or possibly my memory was flawed!
- Sun Aug 13, 2023 4:25 pm
- Forum: Offaly GAA
- Topic: Best hurling pitch in the county
- Replies: 23
- Views: 34709
Re: Best hurling pitch in the county
Haven't been there this year and I might be biased since my last few visits were on gorgeous summer days, but Coolderry would edge it for me. As an aside, I've a vague recollection of Mountbolus being a great pitch back when it was used for games. I presume with the amount of teams K-K field these d...