The whole structure of Offaly GAA seems to be rotten. Haven't their footballers been relegated two years in a row?
GAA 2014
- Thread starter Stuff the Goat
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Feel sorry for poor aul' Rex Hamilton having to witness that first hand.
I've the blessed candle lit for him here.
I've the blessed candle lit for him here.
great coverage by the sky team.
Finished up..
Kilkenny 5-32 : 1-18 Offaly
So after a week of what the fck is wrong with Galway or the Galway hurling enigma (on the back of the Laois match or last 27 years) we'll now have a week of Kilkenny are back in town and are as strong as they ever were to look forward too. Any lad with sense shouldn't get to excited about todays result but a lot of them will after.
22nd of June though, Leinster Semi-final - It's all lined up for the Galway lads to hurl out of their skins out pace, out skill Kilkenny and upset the whole apple tart again.
Kilkenny 5-32 : 1-18 Offaly
So after a week of what the fck is wrong with Galway or the Galway hurling enigma (on the back of the Laois match or last 27 years) we'll now have a week of Kilkenny are back in town and are as strong as they ever were to look forward too. Any lad with sense shouldn't get to excited about todays result but a lot of them will after.
22nd of June though, Leinster Semi-final - It's all lined up for the Galway lads to hurl out of their skins out pace, out skill Kilkenny and upset the whole apple tart again.
galway are galway. they are like arsenal. they can deliver and then disappear and then deliver. no consistency.
Nope. We were promoted from Div 4 and then relegated back down.
Well it was just atrocious. What's worse than being worse hurlers than Kilkenny is that we were less committed, less driven and showed less fight. We have up after 10 minutes. Them Kilkenny boys will get up in the morning and feel grand. No one is going to have a sore shoulder or a pain in their head. You never woke up after a game against Michael Duignan, Martin Hanamy, Hubert Rigney and Kevin Kinahan without knowing you'd been in a game. I'm not advocating foul play, but we didn't put in a hit. Those lads I named were some of the best backs in the country at the time but they put the hits in too.
James Dempsey in the goal was our only bright spot. A true class act and it's not often you can say that about a goalie who conceded give goals.
Tommy Walsh has been a phenomenal hurler. One of the best to ever play the game but I've been saying for years, he ruins all that by being a cnut. He's been pushing and pulling lads helmets while going to catch a ball for years and is guaranteed a dirty stroke every game. He made an awful pull across Brian Carroll's chest late in the second half, but because he is Tommy Walsh, it's a free and nothing else is said. Dempsey made a high tackle, which was made look worse by the forward ducking into him and gets a yellow. Now Dempsey was rightly booked, but it's annoying when he sees yellow and and Walsh doesn't for what is a more dangerous and blatant pull.
Carney understands the technology. The thinking is that he works the machines while someone else does the analysis. SSN had repeated showings of the game but it was very stiff.
Shocking score to concede. Kilkenny scored 7-31 in 1982 against Westmeath, so it's not the highest ever championship score, but it wouldn;t be far off it.
Ah shure I know Rex. I was above in the hill for that famous 94' All-Ireland final comeback. First cousin of mine Ronan Farrell was on the winning Galway minor team prior to it.
I was actually doing a line with the daughter of a famous St. Rynaghs hurler at the time, things didn't work out, met too young she told me there lately. If it was now or later on in life when we had a bit lived and scene she said it would have been a different story.
Offaly were some machine back then though, lovely hurlers and to think they all came from within a 20 or so mile radius of one another. St Rynaghs, Lusmagh, Birr all around that neck of the woods.
Long gone are the days of the famous
When the ball's in the sky....
in croke park in july ...
it's Joe Dooley....
it's Joe Dooley....
chant!
Is the Cork v Waterford game being shown anywhere today?
Doesn't look like it. Network Two are showing bastardin' football. If they showed that match they'd be doing something right.
RTE are streaming it online
Laois v Dublin, I get, but to show Connacht football over this is ridiculous. There will be no competitive match in Connacht this year.
Mayo beat New York by 22.
Roscommon beat Leitrim by 8.
Galway beat London by 19.
The Galway-Mayo final might come close to 6 points, but the rest are shite.
Roscommon are better than Galway
Good man.
pure muck.
connacht football.
connacht football.
That's the worst half of gaelic football I've ever seen
It would be nice if they had the score in the corner.
Or a commentator that didn't sound like he was describing a funeral. Or actual noise from the stadium. Or a co-commentator. Or half-time analysis.
ffs Dublin
yea i agree. Absolute joke.
Two bad hurling games in a row then. Is hurling in terminal decline?
To be fair we've seen a few very good games so far this year, the Kilkenny vs. Offaly game was always going to be a training session and there was questions whether Waterford's young players could keep up the intensity they showed in the first game against Cork.
The Kilkenny vs. Galway game later this month should be a great game, along with the Munster final, whether it be Cork or Clare that face Tipp.
I was joking
Nice of Dublin to turn up in the 2nd half
Dubs have so much talent they seem to sleepwalk through most first halves
There isn't a worse shower of cnuts to lose to. F*ck em and whatever HMS whatever they sailed here on.
Listening to Daithi Regan there on Newstalk and he was saying the hurlers have to head over to north Tipp to train their facilities are so bad and there were times the footballers didn't know what part of the county they were training in until an hour before training was supposed to start. He agreed with a texter that claimed their county board was back in the stone age and just stopped short of naming 2/3 Offaly hurlers that in his opinon just didn't give a shit and shouldn't be let near the set up. I'm not to sure who they are but he said everyone in Offaly would have known who he was on about. Not nice seeing Offaly in such a state either in fairness, by the looks of things it's going to take a bit of work and time to sort things out too.
When it comes to scorelines like that and the gulf in quality between one or two counties and the rest Connacht as a province isn't alone. You could throw in Leinster and Munster as well. In fact just give Dublin the Sam Maguire now to hell and save us all a bore fest.
There are many grounds and pitches adequate for training in Offaly. Clara have two full size pitches and two training pitches. One of the full size pitches is the same size as the Croke Park field and perfect for hurling. But the hurlers won't travel to Clara to train. The county board are at fault too, of course. The compensation to a club like Clara means it's not worth their while to allow Offaly to train there. But while I have no time for the county board in Offaly at the minute, I don't like the way all the blame is automatically put at their door. The players need to take responsibility. In both codes we went out of the Leinster championships with a whimper. We showed no fight in either game. No amount of training is good enough if a player isn't willing to put himself on the line and burst his bollox for 70 minutes of championship hurling or football. That's part of managements responsibility too. There are many reasons why Offaly GAA is in the state it's in, and the county board and previous boards are a large factor, but that shouldn't absolve the players from their responsibility to put up a fight and play like they have some pride in the jersey. A jersey that in the not too distant past was a force to be reckoned with in both codes.
Out of interest why won't the hurlers travel to Clara to train? Surely it's not distance/time. Clara is less than an hour or so over the road from Banagher and Birr.
It's very easy too particularly these days for some reason (players in the past couldn't give a fiddlers about county boards or what not, once they put the county jersey on their backs they got tunnel vision, not flying fck did they give for what was going on around them outside of the county team) to upset players or make them not give a shit and if things aren't right on county board well then it can have a terrible effect on the team as a whole. By the sounds of things Offaly could do with sorting out whatever it is that's going wrong on the county board first and take it from there.
If it helps, I won't make you look like an even bigger twat by pointing out Limerick knocked out TippI look like bit of a twat now! I offer sincerest of apologies!
Just announced there a while ago Kilkenny and Galway will be tearing into one another in Tullamore Sunday fortnight at 4 o'clock and I can't feckin' wait! The womans parents are coming over from Brazil for a few weeks holidays and I badly wanted to show them a game of hurling as well, this one as well as a Junior B match that I'll be playing in myself should do I'd say!
A few great weeks of hurling to look forward to now with a repeat of last years epic final on the cards as well. Weather supposed to pick up too.
A few great weeks of hurling to look forward to now with a repeat of last years epic final on the cards as well. Weather supposed to pick up too.
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I'm stretching here, but any chance you met your fair lady in Gort?
And why would her parents leave a Brazilian World Cup party for the hurling championship? Is it all your talk of Big Joe?
Be god I did alright Gee Male, be god I did. Met her in the pork hall of Duffy Meats. I was the forklift operator there at the time (used to drive a Mitsubishi 25, mighty little yoke too) and Seán Óg asked me to go down to the Pork hall one day for a pallet of pork steaks and load them up onto the Norfolk line truck, went down anyways and be jaysus didn't I spot this fine bit of stuff below in the corner packing the pork chops for the Tesco order. Drove down towards her, done a doughnut and entered the pallet perfectly at full speed (not many in the country that can do that now) gave her a bit of an aul' wink and the rest is history. Ten years married there last January. And you're spot on they're over to see Joe alright. Shure they travel from the four corners of the globe to see that man. I got talking to a man at the county semi finals from Roscommon and he was telling me how he never missed a Portumna or Galway match in the last 9 years, he told be he travels the length and breath of the country to see him in action.
Haven't posted here in a while.........I suppose was just gutted after our disappointing season in the premiership.
Anyway, thank God we have the GAA (Sky & all) for the Summer!
Well Tyrone Heads, what do ye think about Sunday. I reckon will be a cracker, confident us Farney boys might just sneak it!
ps; a draw on Sunday could be worth a few €/£.
Anyway, thank God we have the GAA (Sky & all) for the Summer!
Well Tyrone Heads, what do ye think about Sunday. I reckon will be a cracker, confident us Farney boys might just sneak it!
ps; a draw on Sunday could be worth a few €/£.