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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Green Devil Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 07 Nov 2016 at 11:36pm
Originally posted by deise316 deise316 wrote:

Eamonn Kelly (ex Kerry & Offaly) appointed to the Laois job too. Ya wouldn't know from looking at it from afar, but I would be wondering what Laois have that Offaly don't, seeing as he resigned from that job when they exited the championship. 2 teams broadly in much the same place. 





Expectation might be a factor, given Offaly's pedigree in comparison to that of Laois perhaps?

There is super work being in Laois in regard to hurling at the moment, a lot of Gaelic strongholds completely neglected hurling are now entertaining teams in Junior Championships.

It feels weird for someone like me who plays senior football, but then plays Junior C hurling but it's great craic like LOL

Delighted for Aussie Gleeson btw Clap It would have been nice for Seamie to have won it, but you can't deny the year Gleeson had in every grade and match he played! He was outrageous and seems a lovely humble lad off the field too which is always nice to see. 
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Hopefully Eamon Kelly brings something different in that the players buy into. He has Conor Gleeson with him who is very familair with the Laois set up haveing managed Rathdowney back in 2014. According to Kelly it was Gleeson who convinced him to take on the job.
There's no douth that Laois has some great talent and Cheddar brought in a very professional set up which was missing for years. Crowds also started going back to support the hurlers.
Kelly seems to have a decent track record even though his year at Offaly was so so. His first task would be to get players like Keenan and Hyland to commit to another year and talk to a couple of the retirees to see if they will come back for one more year to help the younger players. The hurling player of the year in Laois 'retired' from intercounty in 2015. Seems to be a feature in Laois where the players of the year are not with the county which is a pity.
All in all, for a county like Laois Kelly is probably as good a manager as they could have got and hopefully he can get the lads motivated and competing well in 1B. It's a dangerous division at the moment with Antrim lurking just below so no team will want to get them in a playoff.
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Originally posted by reddladd reddladd wrote:

Hopefully Eamon Kelly brings something different in that the players buy into. He has Conor Gleeson with him who is very familair with the Laois set up haveing managed Rathdowney back in 2014. According to Kelly it was Gleeson who convinced him to take on the job.
There's no douth that Laois has some great talent and Cheddar brought in a very professional set up which was missing for years. Crowds also started going back to support the hurlers.
Kelly seems to have a decent track record even though his year at Offaly was so so. His first task would be to get players like Keenan and Hyland to commit to another year and talk to a couple of the retirees to see if they will come back for one more year to help the younger players. The hurling player of the year in Laois 'retired' from intercounty in 2015. Seems to be a feature in Laois where the players of the year are not with the county which is a pity.
All in all, for a county like Laois Kelly is probably as good a manager as they could have got and hopefully he can get the lads motivated and competing well in 1B. It's a dangerous division at the moment with Antrim lurking just below so no team will want to get them in a playoff.

Appreciate the comment but given our performances over the past 2 years, I can't imagine anyone being that bothered about the prospect.
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Cody reappointed in KK for the 19th year, to nobody's great surprise. Hearing rumours that McGarry & Mick Dempsey standing down as selectors though (even though they too were ratified by the KK CB tonight). 

Great GAA word, 'ratified' . Can't think of another context whatsoever that the word is used as frequently, or even at all. 


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Originally posted by deise316 deise316 wrote:

Cody reappointed in KK for the 19th year, to nobody's great surprise. Hearing rumours that McGarry & Mick Dempsey standing down as selectors though (even though they too were ratified by the KK CB tonight). 

Great GAA word, 'ratified' . Can't think of another context whatsoever that the word is used as frequently, or even at all. 



A Great GAA word. Also, Parallelogram. I fear its use is in decline all the same.
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Would that be the large parallelogram, or the small parallelogram ??


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Originally posted by deise316 deise316 wrote:

Would that be the large parallelogram, or the small parallelogram ??



It would be the larger of those two geometric shapes for me now. Smaller would be the square in my eyes ( despite obviously not being square)

Though maybe the partial demise of the Square ball rule in that other auld game will herald a glorious return for the parallelogram.
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Nothing like having a bit of a schemozzle in the parallelogram
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I love hearing lads still shouting 'that's a 70' at games. Hard to beat the yardage!
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Absolutely, and ya still hear how (for example, Joe Canning) ''Canning's best position is on the 40''.

I'm going to try use the word 'ratified' more often though, and see if it can be applied to non GAA stuff without looking out of context in a sentence,  wouldn't like to see it die out altogether. LOL

Where's Eire32 these days ? Seemingly a bit of a debate about Skin Ryan's , ahem, ratification in Offaly, where some lads proposed an alternative manager. That's rarely a good start, because it means certain factions have the knives out from the off, a few bad results & the campaign to undermine the manager begins. 








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Talking to a Laois Gaa woman in recent days and she doesn't give our new manager much hope.
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Originally posted by reddladd reddladd wrote:

Talking to a Laois Gaa woman in recent days and she doesn't give our new manager much hope.

would that be your brother? LOL
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Talk of Galway moving to the Munster Championship in 2018
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Originally posted by Denis Irwin Denis Irwin wrote:

Talk of Galway moving to the Munster Championship in 2018

Galway should absolutely do this and either way withdraw from Leinster straight away.

Not being allowed enter their minor or u21 teams into the Leinster championship is a joke and being a far greater reason than them not getting home games. Being in Leinster (senior team with away games only) hasn't benefitted Galway at all really yet they have immeasurably benefitted Leinster.

With Kilkenny, imo, starting to look less invincible in general (I'm reluctant to say starting to wane) Dublin not progressing at all and Offaly and Wexford in perpetual states of mediocracy the Munster Championship looks far more enticing particularly with the Galway - Limerick mororway making travel easier and especially if underage sides are allowed compete. If I were the Galway County board I'd sacrifice having home games again in favour of underage.
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Originally posted by eire77 eire77 wrote:

Originally posted by Denis Irwin Denis Irwin wrote:

Talk of Galway moving to the Munster Championship in 2018

Galway should absolutely do this and either way withdraw from Leinster straight away.

Not being allowed enter their minor or u21 teams into the Leinster championship is a joke and being a far greater reason than them not getting home games. Being in Leinster (senior team with away games only) hasn't benefitted Galway at all really yet they have immeasurably benefitted Leinster.

With Kilkenny, imo, starting to look less invincible in general (I'm reluctant to say starting to wane) Dublin not progressing at all and Offaly and Wexford in perpetual states of mediocracy the Munster Championship looks far more enticing particularly with the Galway - Limerick mororway making travel easier and especially if underage sides are allowed compete. If I were the Galway County board I'd sacrifice having home games again in favour of underage.

Agree entirely with this. It should have been a mutually beneficial arrangement but Leinster Council have approached it farcically. Munster should grasp the opportunity here, do what Leinster should have done. 
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Sabre rattling is all this is (and Galway are fully entitled to do so, and feel aggrieved at their treatment in Leinster) - but beyond the 'Galway for Munster' headlines, have a look at what Paraic Duffy said in this Examiner interview. 


Reading between the lines, it looks like Duffy saying if Leinster can't accommodate Galway, the GAA/CP will do it for them. I wouldn't be so sure Munster would be too keen to accept Galway either, it is a hard enough competition to win as it is already, putting another (at least as we speak) top 4 team into it would only make it more difficult. 


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Originally posted by reddladd reddladd wrote:

Talking to a Laois Gaa woman in recent days and she doesn't give our new manager much hope.


Yerself, herself & the new manager could have done without Willie Hyland retiring too. Sad to see a fella pack it in at 28 due to injury, very good player for Laois. 



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Originally posted by deise316 deise316 wrote:

Sabre rattling is all this is (and Galway are fully entitled to do so, and feel aggrieved at their treatment in Leinster) - but beyond the 'Galway for Munster' headlines, have a look at what Paraic Duffy said in this Examiner interview. 


Reading between the lines, it looks like Duffy saying if Leinster can't accommodate Galway, the GAA/CP will do it for them. I wouldn't be so sure Munster would be too keen to accept Galway either, it is a hard enough competition to win as it is already, putting another (at least as we speak) top 4 team into it would only make it more difficult. 



Yes I am inclined to agree that Galway need only walk away from Leinster to improve their situation in that the GAA would be compelled to sort it then (I said as much previously in either this or the 2016 thread).

Munster is preferable to the current Leinster situation on the assumption the status quo regarding provincial structures remain.
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