Well done to John Allen, I certainly questioned his coaching a few times, but this is a significant win and performance
Offaly v Waterford
Dublin v Antrim (or Wexford v Antrim, but we wont lose)
London v Westmeath
Carlow get a bye.
the round after that then;
The winners of the Antrim clash v Carlow
London/Wmeath v Offaly/Waterford
What a cunt of a draw for Offaly, regardless I expect them to timber the fuck out of Waterford. and advance.
Tough draw for Offaly alright, they have had very little luck in the qualifiers draw in recent times.
Suppose it will be Laois, Tipp, Cork and Dublin in the next pot. With Waterford and Wexford progressing to meet whoever comes through the fraw above
Who the fuck told you he’s the best keeper in the country? He’s not even the best keeper in Glenmore for Jaysus sake
How is it a cunt of a draw. Apparently they frightened and indeed bullied KK yesterday, they should be beating the day sha doing handstands
Mixer was rattled yesterday by the Bifffos, Tipp handed ther arses by Limerick, and Clare set to fell Cork.
The revolution years are back 
If Offaly cut out the needless fouling then they will beat Waterford imo. Waterford have being having problems against big full forward lines for a few years and Offaly have two huge fuckers inside.
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would he not usually take off the helmet to eat the snackbox. They could at least have brought that man a tissue for that ketchup
offaly in tullamore will suit waterford as they are a big strong side themselves. offaly could pull it off but there will be pressure on them to deliver which they are not used to recently
Ollie Baker believes the inter-county hurling scene would be better served by splitting up the game’s traditional three giants Kilkenny, Cork and Tipperary.
His proposal is sure to cause controversy given that it involves dividing the top counties up and fielding separate teams.
But that’s the best way of giving others a fighting chance Baker claimed in the Irish Mail on Sunday.
"What I would like to see is hurling being more spread out. Being completely radical about it, divide Tipperary north and south and have two teams. Divide Cork city and county and have two teams. Divide Kilkenny north and south and have two teams. Now we’re introducing three new teams.
"The big discussion they’re having about the league in hurling is that you have too many teams for one division and too few then for the second division.
“It’s radical but if you want to get away from that, that’s what you’d do.”
Baker is adamant that the game needs more teams to survive and prosper, pointing to the traditional imbalances of the existing county structure. The very notion of tinkering with that format though is taboo in the GAA with a proposal to split Dublin north and south for county purposes being shot down in a blaze of controversy over a decade ago.
But Baker believes Dublin has to be looked at too in addition to the three counties who have dominated the game since the GAA was founded.
"Not a notion would Tipp divide north and south or north, mid and south. But if you want to have a serious look at how to promote the game and spread the game out, that’s one area you could work on.
"There are the same amount of senior clubs in Offaly as there is in north Tipp. They have the same amount of players, probably more, than we have. The amount of players then who don’t even get a look-in at a county team and who would be every bit as good.
“You could certainly divide Dublin north and south. All of a sudden you’re introducing a whole new team. If you wanted to be really radical, that’s what you’d do. But I think it may take 100 years for an idea like that to happen.”
Did you actually see the Waterford forward line that played Clare?
Dividing Tipp into North and South would make fuck all difference considering the vast majority of the panel are from North Tipp. Cork are as weak as they have been in my lifetime so why try to weaken them further? Start implementing the rules properly and that should be enough to weaken Kilkenny.
Has Ollie Baker not seen the Cork Hurlers play for the past five years?
A Cork City team would struggle to win the Christy Ring Cup ffs.
Ollie Baker is talking some scutter there.
He’s off his game alright. If he had suggested splitting Limerick in 4 that would have made more sense.
Divide Tipp into north & south?
A combination of both couldn’t beat a division 1B team at the weekend
That’s starting to get a bit old now chief. 2 of our best players maimed during matches last year, no appropriate action taken. At least one Offaly player deserved to see red yesterday, again no appropriate action. Refs giving every 50/50 ball against KK. I could go on but there’s no point. Fact is KK hurl a tough game, within the rules. Other teams haven’t been able to match them for skill/ heart / determination for a long time now an I’m sure that must be galling for supporters like yourself but don’t go grabbing the ball and run home when ye can’t get the better of us.
Spot on.